The House Foreign Affairs Comm.responds to trump's demented tweet.

[dixiegrrrrl]

Link to tweet

[elleng]

1. Eliot Engel, New York, Chair.

How strong minded/willed is he?

[dixiegrrrrl]

19. I don't know much about him.

What has been clear is that the Dems. are very united, and I am sure Pelosi is working hard to address the issues.

Maybe we will luck out and Putin will give him a tea set.

[erronis]

23. The nice tea set with polonium sugar cubes?

[SeattleVet]

27. An extra $80 million might come in handy for Putin...

to pay for FB trolls and other types of interference in this year's election to benefit his lapdog.

That's the amount that the Iranians are currently offering as a bounty for the head of the Orange Horror.

[louis-t]

43. Or a polonium sandwich.

[MontanaMama]

46. Thank would make the "special sauce"

On his Big Mac very special indeed!

[Takket]

2. i would like a subpeona to the white house to ask exactly which 52 "cultural sites"

we are targeting

[Mr.Bill]

4. Why,

so the Supreme Court can make a decision on that nine months from now?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

33. Oh those with little imagination. It's not just the SC.

It gets it on the record. It gets it in the news.

More importantly, it increases awareness in the military that it is a war crime and it is unlawful to obey a war crime order.

[Mr.Bill]

35. A subpoena for a list of targets

is a far cry from identifying a war crime. Especially when such a list will never be revealed and probably doesn't even exist.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

39. If military are informed that cultural sites are war crimes, THEY see the list. THEY will have to de

They will have to decide. But they must know the parameters and keeping it in the news helps educate them.

tRump's list is imaginary. Pentagon has said there are fewer than 52 on the real list.

We don't have to know the list, though it would help. And military targets on the list would be secret. But the military must know or become informed of their legal liabilities.

[TommyCelt]

3. Gods....

".... perhaps in a disproportionate manner."

My country is dying.

[kentuck]

6. Why doesnt the Congressional Leaders ask him what he means by that?

I hope the Joint Chief of Staff knows?

[orangecrush]

41. I think

He resigned.

[Evolve Dammit]

11. I feel the same way. What has the GOP unleashed and enabled? Feels like total tyranny.

[BigmanPigman]

5. Good!

"...and you're not a dictator".

[jpak]

7. Fuck Yeah!

[mac2766]

8. I love my country. It has given me so much, but

I am embarrassed to see that we have been reduced to THIS.

My greatest hope is that someone step in and mediate an end to this particular madness.

[Ingersollman]

37. My

thoughts exactly. I have been in a state of unreality since that bozo came down that escalator. I thought our country was better than this. I was wrong.

[SergeStorms]

9. Constitution?

Trump don't need no stinking constitution!

Trump doesn't recognize Congress or The Constitution. He actually believes he's the be-all and end-all of the United States Government. And who's to tell him he isn't? Republicans in Congress? They've pretty much told him they'll do absolutely nothing to stand in his way, no matter what he does. If no one is going to stop the orange turd, then he is everything he says he is, right?

Our country is in serious trouble.

[erronis]

24. Succinct encapsulation of this situation. Thx.

[Karadeniz]

10. The founders never imagined that we could have so many in the govt who wouldn't defend it.

[Sherman A1]

12. As all spending bills must start in the House

perhaps they could cut off funding for some of this nonsense.

[louis-t]

44. Right, but then the disgusting repukes will start with the

"why do you hate our troops" nonsense.

[Sherman A1]

45. I understand, but there are work arounds

perhaps cutting off funding for the White House might be a start.

[captain jack]

13. Why is our government not protecting us from this threat? That being the current U.S. Dictator. n/t

[elleng]

17. MANY of them protect THEMSELVES, want to keep their DAMNED JOBS.

[captain jack]

20. That looks a lot like taxation without representation to me. Not to go all Tea Party. n/t

[paleotn]

14. Another article of impeachment.

Keep it up, you orange shit ass.

[bucolic_frolic]

15. Trump is thumbing his nose at Congress

This is serious. Time for GOP Senators to start facing reality.

[elleng]

18. YES

[ooky]

22. And getting away with it. Which effectively makes him a dictator.

Or a king, however preferred.

[Beartracks]

32. Will GOP Congressfolks realize he thumbs his nose at THEM, too?

[calimary]

47. Probably not. Denial runs DEEP.

Don’t forget all the “good Germans” who stayed by Hitler until long after it made a difference or prevented any deaths.

[WheelWalker]

16. Damn straight Skippy.

[EveHammond13]

21. extraordinary

[whttevrr]

25. Oh, Poor Canada...

Link to tweet

And, for those without the twittersphere enabled:

House Foreign Affairs Committee
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@HouseForeign
· 3h
This Media Post will serve as a reminder that war powers reside in the Congress under the United States Constitution. And that you should read the War Powers Act. And that you’re not a dictator.

Donald J. Trump
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@realDonaldTrump
These Media Posts will serve as notification to the United States Congress that should Iran strike any U.S. person or target, the United States will quickly & fully strike back, & perhaps in a disproportionate manner. Such legal notice is not required, but is given nevertheless!

K Jackson
@KJackottawa
Everything OK down there?

[58Sunliner]

26. +1,000.

[LiberalLovinLug]

42. That's about right lol

[Pepsidog]

28. But a Dictator he is.

[Ingersollman]

38. I

prefer dick-tater.

[Pepsidog]

40. Very appropriate.

[George II]

29. Eliot Engel is the Representative against whom Justice Democrats put up an inexperienced....

..."politician" to primary him.

New York voters aren't going to fall for it this time.

[DinahMoeHum]

30. NY-CD16 is not like AOC's district. Different demographics.

I live in NY-CD16 and I can tell you that among people I talk to, they see no compelling reason to replace our current Congressman.

The so-called "Justice Democrat" candidate does not have a snowball's chance in hell in this primary.

Eliot Engel will swat him like a fly, just as he did in his last primary in 2018.

[George II]

31. Glad to hear that, thanks!

[wryter2000]

34. Justice Democrats

Need to remember they’re Democrats

[Ingersollman]

36. Decree

by tweet.

Twitler Indeed.