THE TRUTH ABOUT WAR POWERS -- DECLARING WAR, MAKING WAR, THE CONSTITUTION, AND THE WAR POWERS ACT FACT:  No president, of either party, has accepted the constitutionality of the 1973 War Powers Act.  Every president has viewed it as a violation of separation of powers -- the president's Article II plenary power to run foreign policy and his authority as the commander-in-chief. FACT: The Supreme Court has never ruled on the Act's constitutionality and likely never will.  Indeed, Congress itself is split on the issue, with Democrats supporting Democrat presidents and Republicans supporting Republican presidents.  The War Powers Act is nothing but a political tool used by members of Congress typically against a president of the opposite party -- and their arguments mostly switch from one side to the other depending on who is president.   FACT: The first draft of the Constitution provided that Congress would have the power to MAKE war.  The delegates at the Constitutional Convention rejected that language and changed it to DECLARE war, intentionally watering it down because they did not believe a body with numerous members was institutionally capable of making such decisions. FACT: To declare war does not result in making war, e.g., if Congress were to declare war and a president refused to accept such a declaration, Congress cannot force the commander-in-chief to execute such a war.  Congress declaring war, which it has done a mere 11 times (mostly during World War II) since the nation's founding, is essentially the highest means by which it can proclaim its support for a war.  It is not a condition precedent to making war and never has been. FACT: The only power Congress has to prevent a military operation is the power of the purse.  That said, a president who, as commander-in-chief, has authorized military action will not sign such a bill for it is intended to prevent what he has already commanded.  Therefore, Congress would need a two-thirds majority of both Houses to override his veto.  In other words, a president has broad power to take military action. FACT: Other than the vice president, the president is the only federal official elected by the entirety of the people.  In addition to the institutional impossibility of war powers and decisions in the hands of a multi-member body like Congress, the president is the only official who was elected to, among other things, serve as commander-in-chief.

UH-OH: WA Senate Dems appear to have inadvertently sent their internal plans for new taxes out to ALL state senators. It includes talking points about how to paint the wealthy as “villains” and urges caucus members to “spread that tax policy love around”! Tons of news in here 🧵

TURN OFF the dumb computer generated lines. It’s making the Steeler jerseys disappear. SMH #PITvsCLE

Turn off the fake yard marker lines. Let us see what they see. #PITvsCLE

I don’t care if you’re Democrat or Republican, a foreign govt threatening a president or president-elect should unify the country.

🚨 NEW: Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson says there is a “NATIONWIDE ISSUE with Dominion Voter Access Terminals,” preventing voters from making certain selections. Of course there is 🙄 According to her office, this “programming issue” CANNOT be fixed, and voters are being forced to deal with it. Why was this “issue” not caught during the testing period? And why can’t we just use paper ballots?!

What’s going on with the broadcast? #TENNvsOU

The right wing cope for what's happening in Britain is to go on about Keir Starmer. The left wing cope for what's happening is to blame the "far right". The reality is much, much worse. This has nothing to do with the current government and a few racist idiots kicking off are the least of our worries. Yes, the violent criminals should be prosecuted and given harsh sentences. And yes, Starmer and senior police officers have handled this badly. But the fundamentals of this situation are inescapable. Britain has a stagnant economy that relies on cheap foreign labour and a population that is utterly fed up of mass immigration. We have an open border. No that's not an exaggeration. When I came to Britain in 1996, net *legal* immigration was around 55k a year. That's the number of people who come here *illegally* every year now. We have a Muslim population, which like any large group is made up of all sorts of people. Most of them are decent and law abiding. But as a population the Muslim community has not integrated: more British Muslims joined ISIS and Al Nusra than the British army, per the Guardian and the New York Times. Google it. The Equalities Act introduced "protected characteristics" which effectively made members of certain racial, ethnic and religious groups entitled to special treatment. Partly as a result of this and partly due to the broader introduction of the idea of "diversity and inclusion", the police, social workers and all manner of government officials turned a blind eye to crimes committed by particular racial and ethnic groups. A good example would be so-called "grooming gangs" which are groups comprised of predominantly Pakistani and Bangladeshi men who targeted white and Sikh girls for gang rape. According to estimates there were several hundred thousand victims. These crimes have gone on for over 40 and continue to happen today. The white British population is in demographic decline. They are not having enough children, while immigrants and ethnic minorities have lots of children. Combined with mass immigration of 600,000-700,000 a year, most British cities now look unrecognisable. White Britons are already a minority in London and other major cities and will become a minority in the country itself within our lifetimes. It's important to understand that Britain isn't like America. Until very, very recently (2001) white British people made up nearly 90% of the population. Britain is not and has never been a "nation of immigrants". But it will be soon. Despite the fact that the British people voted against this at every opportunity. They voted against it in 2010, 2015, 2016 (Brexit), 2017 and 2019 when the people they elected promised to stop mass immigration and end illegal immigration. At the last election, they gave up on voting for the Conservatives and either voted for Nigel Farage's anti-immigration Reform Party or didn't vote at all, hence the lowest turnout for a century. This is one of the reasons you see increasing levels of censorship and thought policing in the UK. As people begin to express dissent against what is happening, maintaining this state of affairs requires more and more suppression. This is one of the reasons they are going after @elonmusk - he has created a platform where we can see that the Emperor is naked with our own eyes. The riots you are seeing have many underlying causes. Many of the people who are burning things down and looting shops are just violent thugs looking for a cheap thrill. The authorities will throw the book at them which they have to do. But what they won't do is address the cause of the tensions which are bubbling away under the surface. They will give the can another big kick down the road. I hope this particular flare up of violence can be calmed but you're kidding yourself if you think that will be the end of it. P.S. There were many brave people who warned us this would happen. They were all demonised and ignored.

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#PITvsBUF can someone get that screamer next to the studio to shut up????

Gaza’s sky is black but Qatar is always sunny.

.@5thAveTheatre might as well put up a sign that says NO WHITES. Keep dividing our communities under the guise of inclusion. Great work.

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The film will be available for free on Twitter the rest of the weekend! Enjoy.

Every parent should watch this