@Teri_Kanefield@mastodon.social
Post #2643346
2026-05-11 16:22 UTC
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@Teri_Kanefield@mastodon.social 2026-05-11 16:23
Iran is empowered and, because a school was hit, has an argument that it is entitled to reparations. The political situation is lose-lose as well. If Congress steps in, the war can be framed as "thwarted success." Trump. blames Congress for not letting him finish and “win.” If Congress ties Trump’s hands, it owns the resulting mess. If Congress refuses to step in, the war continues and the power of the Executive Branch continues to expand at the expense of the Legislative Branch. 2/
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@BenHM3@saint-paul.us 2026-05-11 16:26
@Teri_Kanefield@mastodon.social Thanks to the success of the libertarian revolution*, congress can’t do anything. We have no article 1 branch of gov’t. *if they couldn’t have small or non-existent gov’t, then broken gov’t is the next best thing.
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@alienghic@timeloop.cafe 2026-05-11 16:32
@Teri_Kanefield@mastodon.social As far as my global warming worrying self is concerned the best option is to electrify the global economy sufficiently to replace at least the 20% of global oil use (the amount that had been being shipped from the middle east.) If the blockade doesn't matter, there's much less reason to bother maintaining it.
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@vervain@sunny.garden 2026-05-11 17:33
@Teri_Kanefield@mastodon.social (I'm saying this softly and with some trepidation.) I think at this point we maybe have to not think about winning and instead try to collectively (those of us who can, I mean) find a moral center and move from there. I personally try to use human rights as my center. In this case, it seems to me that congress needs to assert their power to move us back towards the ideal of balance of power, so that's the thing that should be done. But we're so far past when we all should have screamed STOP. I do think at least part of it is that we all accepted the framework of politics as a horse race. In that framework, winning is the only thing. After you win, then you govern. But that takes power away from the people, and we, imo should have agency at every step of the process. (We have been denied that.)
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@Lynnkelly@mastodon.social 2026-05-11 17:42
@Teri_Kanefield@mastodon.social They could have ended it (Past tense) it's too late now. There is a "Watergate" scale scandal every week now and they are doing nothing
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@lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org 2026-05-11 18:16
@Teri_Kanefield@mastodon.social The War Powers Act has been toothless and useless since Day One. A waste of time even talking about it.
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@KeithWM@mastodon.social 2026-05-11 20:14
@Teri_Kanefield@mastodon.social Noone expects any one to "win". There are only losers. I think it was a lame 80s movie that featured some computer coming to the conclusion "war is a curious game, the best move is not to play", or something like that. The movie might have been called War Games, or it might not have been called that.