President Trump announced the military action against three Iranian nuclear sites in a post on Saturday.

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a New York Democrat, ripped Donald Trump for his military attack against Iran on Saturday, saying the move is “absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.”

Ocasio-Cortez ripped the president’s action on X, formerly Twitter, and wrote, “The President’s disastrous decision to bomb Iran without authorization is a grave violation of the Constitution and Congressional War Powers. He has impulsively risked launching a war that may ensnare us for generations. It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.”

On the other hand, Senator John Fetterman, a Pennsylvania Democrat, came to Trump’s side and wrote on X, “As I’ve long maintained, this was the correct move by @POTUS. Iran is the world’s leading sponsor of terrorism and cannot have nuclear capabilities. I’m grateful for and salute the finest military in the world.”

  • mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 days ago

    Cool. So since she’s a member of the house of representatives, she must have initiated proceedings for impeachment, right?

      • mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de
        21·
        2 days ago

        Can you elaborate on why? Genuine question. It seems like if the alternative is also not getting what you want, then there isn’t much to lose?

        • burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world
          2·
          2 days ago

          im not an expert on congressional procedure but considering that the Republicans have a majority in both the house and Senate, an impeachment vote would always fail because they would never go against trump. also, its not a great look if a representative is always introducing bills that are rejected by a vote, die in committee, or are never even put on the schedule. just think about how Bernie Sanders was dragged for not introducing enough legislation that actually passed into law during his long career.

  • bobthened@feddit.ukEnglish
    3·
    2 days ago

    They tried this before multiple times and it achieved nothing, you’d think they’d come up with a new idea.

  • peteyestee@feddit.orgEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    Does it even matter, American government and business is soaked deep in soggy dogshit.

    It’s not getting fixed by political discourse. If you’re trying to do it that way than you aren’t even playing the same game as the entity leading right now. Understand the game like mob boss and gang leaders. These politicians appear naive… We don’t live in that world anymore and probably haven’t for the past 30 years. It’s the same feeling as seeing mainstream big religious people living in a dream world.

    That’s not a call for action or anything… It’s just realistic observation.

  • PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.socialEnglish
    13·
    3 days ago

    Mussolini got dragged through the streets and him and his gf’s lifeless corpses were hung upside down for all of Rome to see.

    Weird fact. Not sure why I’m thinking of it

  • pixxelkick@lemmy.world
    6·
    3 days ago

    If literally anyone thinks “it’s okay that Trump bombed Iran, it was the right move”…

    Then couldnt you just argue that “if it was such an obviously right move, wouldn’t it have been easy to get congress to approve it?”

    It’s illogical to on one hand say it was the right thing to do, while ignoring the fact he did it without approval.

    If it was so right, then approval would’ve been easy to get…?

  • Tilgare@lemmy.world
    3·
    3 days ago

    Only a rag would quote Fetterman and credit him as a Democrat. He doesn’t act or believe what he did when he was elected as a Democrat, his perspective is irrelevant.

    • InFerNo@lemmy.ml
      2·
      3 days ago

      I’ve watched Fetterman’s 180 from across the pond. Don’t really understand what happened and what made him flip.

      • normalexit@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 days ago

        They took him into a room and said “hey, do you want a mountain of legal bribes? If not, we will primary you with that same mountain”

        • WarmSoda@lemmy.world
          2·
          2 days ago

          Stop spreading that. It’s not true.
          Fetterman was a shitty mayor before his current office. He chased after a blackman with a shotgun because the guy was simply jogging in his neighborhood. He vandalized local business in the middle of the night that he didn’t like.

          He firmly stated he was not progressive during his run for office. The Republicans labeled him a progressive librel to try and smear him. He was never progressive, ever. The stroke did not change his views. He is and always was a slimy politician .

        • wpb@lemmy.worldEnglish
          0·
          3 days ago

          So, I like this idea, and the recent expose indicates that the stroke has essentially rendered him non compis mentis, but do you really think the brain damage turned him conservative? Were there no red flags before? I genuinely don’t know enough about the guy.

          • Impound4017@sh.itjust.works
            1·
            3 days ago

            There were definitely red flags before, it’s just that people ignored them because he was better than Dr. Oz. There’s a good Some More News video that goes into it.

  • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    3 days ago

    clearly grounds for impeachment

    …add it to the pile, I guess.

    But considering that impeachment is a legal process and that the current administration has zero respect for or inclination to follow the law, it’s not like it’ll accomplish shit. Dude needs to be deposed by those who have sworn to defend the constitution from domestic threats (the military) not run through some formal process.

    • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 days ago

      Impeachment is specifically NOT a legal process but a political one. Trump’s second impeachment acquittal was based on impeachment being a political process, and that the criminal justice system was the correct venue for J6.

      That’s also why the Justice department policy on not charging a sitting president and the SCOTUS ruling that Presidents are immune from prosecution are bullshit.

  • flandish@lemmy.world
    3·
    3 days ago

    he’s been impeached. what’s another one gonna do except distract everyone while he continues to war?

  • Suavevillain@lemmy.world
    1·
    3 days ago

    Kendrick Lamar “It’s not enough.” I want him removed and charged for all the harm and civil rights violations and war crimes. No President has ever been held accountable, So you can start with him.

      • wpb@lemmy.world
        0·
        3 days ago

        They could have impeached Clinton for Bosnia

        Why? Forgive my ignorance, balkan history is hard.

        • Maeve@midwest.social
          1·
          3 days ago

          He violated both UN and NATO charters, iirc. Imo, intervention was necessary, because the Serbs were ethnically cleansing the Croats and Muslims, and Western Europe was dragging feet, but he violated the law and badly mishandled the intervention.

          • wpb@lemmy.world
            1·
            3 days ago

            I don’t know for certain, but I think you might be mixing up Kosovo and Bosnia. Because I know he illegally (by international law) bombed Yugoslavia for the Kossovar Albanians (which some argue hastened and exacerbated the ethnic cleansing of the Albanians, which aligns quite well with the timeline, especially considering there was a concrete diplomatic alternatice proposed by both sides), but he got approval for this. Famously, Bernie Sanders voted in favor. So while it should earn him a trip to the Hague, he didn’t violate any domestic laws that I’m aware of.

            But again, Yugoslavia in the 90s is crazy complicated, and there’s so much I don’t know, so maybe I’m just completely wrong here.

  • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world
    1·
    3 days ago

    Every day the Criminal in Chief commits impeachable crimes. Every. Day.

    This is just the latest. But Congress is currently packed with illegitimate, undemocratically placed criminal cronies who face no accountability while shielding their criminal collaborators from accountability. So here we are.