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LetMyPeopleVote

(174,270 posts)
Sat Jun 21, 2025, 08:36 PM Jun 2025

Hakeem Jeffries Statement on Donald Trump's unilateral military action in Iran.

Hakeem Jeffries: "The Trump administration bears the heavy burden of explaining to the American people why this military action was undertaken."

Joshua J. Friedman (@joshuajfriedman.com) 2025-06-22T01:35:55.594Z


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Hakeem Jeffries Statement on Donald Trump's unilateral military action in Iran. (Original Post) LetMyPeopleVote Jun 2025 OP
Donald Trump shall be known as Netanyahu's little bitch dalton99a Jun 2025 #1
He's spreading himself pretty thin. Harker Jun 2025 #3
Cude but accurate MustLoveBeagles Jun 2025 #4
Bibi's Bitch BonnieJW Jun 2025 #42
+1 dalton99a Jun 2025 #43
See post 45 niyad Jun 2025 #56
Sighhhh. .could we please refrain from using sexual slurs against women niyad Jun 2025 #45
I have been calling him, Putinfluffer. Bohunk68 Jun 2025 #50
yes niyad Jun 2025 #57
Rec. MontanaMama Jun 2025 #54
Thank you! niyad Jun 2025 #58
In a nut shell, the orange asshole was pissed at being called TACO nt Javaman Jun 2025 #2
And the dissasterous parade MustLoveBeagles Jun 2025 #6
And the Super Successful Cha Jun 2025 #26
I bet that stuck in his craw! MustLoveBeagles Jun 2025 #27
Oh yeah.. Another one coming up Cha Jun 2025 #29
I'm leaning towards no MustLoveBeagles Jun 2025 #30
That's what I read.. that Putin & Cha Jun 2025 #38
Maybe Putin is playing him? srobertss Jun 2025 #55
OT: What's the meaning of the littlemissmartypants Jun 2025 #33
Oh Yeah! It should be a Strike Cha Jun 2025 #39
YW. Love you, Cha. ❤️ littlemissmartypants Jun 2025 #40
Love you back, pants💙 Cha Jun 2025 #52
drumpf is a madman. greatauntoftriplets Jun 2025 #5
"President Trump misled the country about his intentions," to bring peace to the region in the wake of a strike on Iran LetMyPeopleVote Jun 2025 #7
Seriously. littlemissmartypants Jun 2025 #35
Another Republican president, another illegal war in the ME. J_William_Ryan Jun 2025 #8
This. That's all there is to it and everyone fucking knows it. Karasu Jun 2025 #14
We've suspected for decades that aka-chmeee Jun 2025 #48
Trump's own intelligence agencies videohead5 Jun 2025 #9
He doesn't even attend most of his intelligence briefings since he finds them boring, and Karasu Jun 2025 #15
This is all about hurting brown people.... lastlib Jun 2025 #49
Impeach the motherfucker Joinfortmill Jun 2025 #10
25th Amendment is more like it. Fucking NOW. Karasu Jun 2025 #13
Well said flamingdem Jun 2025 #11
Strongly worded. Scrivener7 Jun 2025 #12
Note the lack of next steps from Jeffries Bobstandard Jun 2025 #17
No, that would apply to an Independent, not a Democrat. betsuni Jun 2025 #20
Speech speech speech Hornedfrog2000 Jun 2025 #22
He has already declared war on America... sheshe2 Jun 2025 #16
Call me naive but ... is this another one of those "gentleman's agreement" -type deals? Alice B. Jun 2025 #18
Laws don't apply when you're... littlemissmartypants Jun 2025 #36
I would hope he notified the Speaker of the House and the Senate Majority Leader prior to giving the order. patphil Jun 2025 #19
Are you serious right now? Hornedfrog2000 Jun 2025 #23
Woah! For a moment I had a vision of an alternate reality, where this president is a leader, not a dictator. patphil Jun 2025 #25
Hope springs eternal. littlemissmartypants Jun 2025 #37
K & R Everything is Chump's fault from now on FakeNoose Jun 2025 #21
Pathetic. That the best they can do? Grins Jun 2025 #24
Yeah MorbidButterflyTat Jun 2025 #59
No! Leader Hakeem is NOT "pathetic".. and Cha Jun 2025 #60
Any War will be TACO's Responsibility MissouriDem47 Jun 2025 #28
Hannity was already making those talking points on his special show tonight. TexasTowelie Jun 2025 #32
Well stated, Rep. Jeffries red dog 1 Jun 2025 #31
He thinks this will get him a Nobel Peace Prize. LastLiberal in PalmSprings Jun 2025 #34
Glad Jeffries pinned all the potential ugly Deminpenn Jun 2025 #41
a mentally ill president has gone rogue solara Jun 2025 #44
News Flash... joewicker_TX Jun 2025 #46
Quick summary of Obama's bypassing of Congress for strikes Dreamer Tatum Jun 2025 #47
That's a whole lot more like it! Jilly_in_VA Jun 2025 #51
Good luck with arranging a classified meeting! IzzaNuDay Jun 2025 #53

niyad

(129,333 posts)
45. Sighhhh. .could we please refrain from using sexual slurs against women
Sun Jun 22, 2025, 11:20 AM
Jun 2025

as insults to men?

Cha

(316,437 posts)
29. Oh yeah.. Another one coming up
Sat Jun 21, 2025, 10:59 PM
Jun 2025

July 17th..

My question is.. Is this what Putin wanted?


Cha

(316,437 posts)
38. That's what I read.. that Putin &
Sat Jun 21, 2025, 11:57 PM
Jun 2025

the honchos in Iran are buds.

I'm holding onto that until I hear otherwise .. Traitor going Off the Putin playbook.

srobertss

(273 posts)
55. Maybe Putin is playing him?
Sun Jun 22, 2025, 03:50 PM
Jun 2025

If it's true that alot of their nuclear facilities were relocated
( https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/images-show-unusual-activity-at-iran-nuclear-site-before-strikes/ar-AA1HbAqv ) then Putin might have played Trump into attacking just to get us in another middle east mess. Otherwise, Russia stood to lose alot and it seems like Putin would have tried to stall him. But I don't know much about this, just speculating.

littlemissmartypants

(31,428 posts)
33. OT: What's the meaning of the
Sat Jun 21, 2025, 11:47 PM
Jun 2025

Strikethrough over "no" and "kings" isn't that creating an ambiguous message?

The striking of words usually means negation at least when editing. So, wouldn't that mean a double negative?

Subsequently, it's reversing the "no kings" opinion, changing the meaning to "no kings" is not ok, and kings are cool.

It's very confusing.



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LetMyPeopleVote

(174,270 posts)
7. "President Trump misled the country about his intentions," to bring peace to the region in the wake of a strike on Iran
Sat Jun 21, 2025, 08:55 PM
Jun 2025

J_William_Ryan

(3,280 posts)
8. Another Republican president, another illegal war in the ME.
Sat Jun 21, 2025, 08:55 PM
Jun 2025

Trump attempts to deflect attention from his failed, unpopular, lawless regime.

aka-chmeee

(1,221 posts)
48. We've suspected for decades that
Sun Jun 22, 2025, 12:37 PM
Jun 2025

they have only two synapses which respond to unfavorable polls. One evokes the TAX CUT response, the other the BOMB SOMEONE response. It seems to work for them.

videohead5

(2,860 posts)
9. Trump's own intelligence agencies
Sat Jun 21, 2025, 09:15 PM
Jun 2025

Have been saying for months that Iran has not even decided to build a nuclear weapon. They were nowhere near having a nuclear weapon. Trump rejected his own intelligence agencies findings.

Karasu

(2,003 posts)
15. He doesn't even attend most of his intelligence briefings since he finds them boring, and
Sat Jun 21, 2025, 09:31 PM
Jun 2025

as a result, they've been working on turning them into Fox News-style video presentations to keep his attention. Yes, really.

It's fucking pathetic.

lastlib

(27,418 posts)
49. This is all about hurting brown people....
Sun Jun 22, 2025, 01:25 PM
Jun 2025

and "Moozlims" in particular. TheFelon wants to wants to burnish his white supremacy/Xtian nationalist creds with having bombed an "inferior race" into submission.

Bobstandard

(2,163 posts)
17. Note the lack of next steps from Jeffries
Sat Jun 21, 2025, 09:36 PM
Jun 2025

We get a lot of strongly worded missives from Democratic leaders. Looking forwarded to a well organized, highly promoted, dramatically rendered public spectacle where he proclaims his opposition to Trumps illegal and immoral actions.

sheshe2

(95,568 posts)
16. He has already declared war on America...
Sat Jun 21, 2025, 09:34 PM
Jun 2025

Perhaps he can explain the War on America and the one on Iran at the same time.

Alice B.

(688 posts)
18. Call me naive but ... is this another one of those "gentleman's agreement" -type deals?
Sat Jun 21, 2025, 09:38 PM
Jun 2025

... why isn't there some kind of mechanism to prevent military action without Congressional authorization? In these instances?

Like the second key to a safety deposit box?

How does this work? TSF can order bombs be dropped like he's ordering a pizza?

littlemissmartypants

(31,428 posts)
36. Laws don't apply when you're...
Sat Jun 21, 2025, 11:53 PM
Jun 2025

President Psychopath.

Characteristics of Psychopaths

1. Aggressive, callous, and cunning
2. Complete absence of conscience and empathy
3. Very adept at manipulating others
4. Willingness to engage in immoral, criminal conduct
5. Willingness to take what they want and do as they please, regardless of who is hurt or wronged
6. Deceptive ability to appear outwardly benevolent
7. Deceptive ability to behave in superficially charming ways to hide purely selfish motives
8. Willingness to use intimidation and violence to control others in order to satisfy their own needs
9. Willingness to intentionally violate the basic inherent human rights of others
10. Complete absence of any sense of guilt or remorse for the harm their actions have caused to others
11. Rationalization of their own immoral behavior
12. Will attempt to lay blame upon someone else for their own conduct
13. Denial, will deny their own wrongdoing outright
14. Utter contemptuousness toward the feelings and desires of their fellow beings
15. Pathological lying, will say anything without any concern for truth to advance their own hidden agendas
16. Ablity to feign [fake] normal human emotions and empathy
17. Distorted sense of the consequences of their actions
18. Total failure to accept any responsibility for their own socially irresponsible ways
19. Strong bellef that they will never be brought to justice for their criminal behavior

patphil

(8,670 posts)
19. I would hope he notified the Speaker of the House and the Senate Majority Leader prior to giving the order.
Sat Jun 21, 2025, 09:42 PM
Jun 2025

A provocative action like this could lead to war. Even though it's a Republican Congress, they should have had a chance to make their voices heard prior to an action that could suck us into the middle east quicksand.
Yes, I know that Congress doesn't have the courage to oppose Trump, but they should have been given a chance to at least say, "whatever you say master".

patphil

(8,670 posts)
25. Woah! For a moment I had a vision of an alternate reality, where this president is a leader, not a dictator.
Sat Jun 21, 2025, 10:29 PM
Jun 2025

Thank you.
Actually, it looks like he told the Republican leadership, but not the Democrats.

MorbidButterflyTat

(4,102 posts)
59. Yeah
Sun Jun 22, 2025, 05:24 PM
Jun 2025

"Pathetic" democrats screaming would have definitely dissuaded the psychopathic narcissistic criminal from his destructive asinine actions.

MissouriDem47

(391 posts)
28. Any War will be TACO's Responsibility
Sat Jun 21, 2025, 10:52 PM
Jun 2025

How will TACO and Republicans try to blame President Biden and the Democrats?

TexasTowelie

(125,139 posts)
32. Hannity was already making those talking points on his special show tonight.
Sat Jun 21, 2025, 11:44 PM
Jun 2025

I don't remember what they were, but my brother had Fox News on the TV earlier in the evening.

red dog 1

(32,346 posts)
31. Well stated, Rep. Jeffries
Sat Jun 21, 2025, 11:42 PM
Jun 2025

With VonShitzInPantz's GOP enablers controlling both houses of Congress and SCOTUS, we are all doomed!



34. He thinks this will get him a Nobel Peace Prize.
Sat Jun 21, 2025, 11:49 PM
Jun 2025

Given the antipathy he has toward non-whites -- especially ones in positions of authority -- Obama's award has been eating at him since early in his first term.

The Nobel Peace Prize isn’t something you apply for—it’s something you’re nominated for, and only by a select group of people:

Members of national governments and parliaments,
University professors in fields like history, law, philosophy and theology,
Directors of peace research institutes,
Past Nobel Peace Prize laureates,
Members of the International Court of Justice and similar bodies, and
Current and former members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee.


Sorry TACO, unlike the presidency, the Peace Prize can't be bought.

solara

(3,894 posts)
44. a mentally ill president has gone rogue
Sun Jun 22, 2025, 10:26 AM
Jun 2025

If left un-checked, trump is a menace to the U.S. and to the world.

joewicker_TX

(87 posts)
46. News Flash...
Sun Jun 22, 2025, 12:32 PM
Jun 2025

He won't explain anything and the cult will applaud him for starting WWIII because he owned the libs 🙄

Dreamer Tatum

(10,985 posts)
47. Quick summary of Obama's bypassing of Congress for strikes
Sun Jun 22, 2025, 12:34 PM
Jun 2025

President Barack Obama authorized several military actions during his presidency that raised questions about bypassing Congress. Here are the most notable instances:

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### **1. Libya (2011)**
Obama launched airstrikes in Libya as part of a NATO-led intervention to prevent a humanitarian crisis during the Libyan civil war. He did **not seek congressional authorization**, instead citing a United Nations Security Council resolution and humanitarian concerns. Critics argued this violated the **War Powers Resolution**, which requires congressional approval for sustained military action beyond 60 days.

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### **2. Iraq and Syria (2014–2016)**
In response to the rise of ISIS, Obama ordered airstrikes in Iraq and later expanded them into Syria. He **relied on the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF)**—originally passed to target al-Qaeda after 9/11—as legal justification. Many lawmakers and legal scholars argued this was a stretch, since ISIS did not exist in 2001 and had split from al-Qaeda.

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### **3. Yemen and Somalia (Drone Strikes)**
Obama significantly expanded the use of **drone strikes** in countries like Yemen and Somalia, targeting suspected terrorists. These operations were often conducted **without specific congressional approval**, under the broader umbrella of counterterrorism and the 2001 AUMF. The lack of transparency and oversight drew criticism from both human rights groups and members of Congress.

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### **4. Iraq (2014 Airstrikes Against ISIS)**
In 2014, Obama authorized airstrikes in Iraq to protect U.S. personnel and humanitarian missions. He again **did not seek new congressional authorization**, instead citing his constitutional powers as Commander in Chief and the 2001 AUMF.

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These actions reflect a broader trend in U.S. foreign policy where presidents—both Democratic and Republican—have increasingly relied on **executive authority and outdated AUMFs** to conduct military operations without new congressional approval.


Jilly_in_VA

(13,783 posts)
51. That's a whole lot more like it!
Sun Jun 22, 2025, 02:07 PM
Jun 2025

If we didn't need him so much where he is, I'd say Hakeem for President. But we do! Right smack dab where he is!

IzzaNuDay

(1,224 posts)
53. Good luck with arranging a classified meeting!
Sun Jun 22, 2025, 02:37 PM
Jun 2025

After the Signal breaches, I would be surprised if the government can hold anything secure.

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