The Senate has refused to do literally anything to rein Donald Trump in on Iran, despite how comprehensively moronic and damaging this stupid, stupid war of his has been so far. But okay, we're already in the war. I guess it's hard to stop him when the bombs are already dropping. [00:00:15] But okay, maybe we can get out in front of the next one, so we don't have another go round on the stupid war cycle. So Cuba. He's been talking about Cuba, maybe we could do something. Maybe the Senate could exert its constitutional authority over the question of war in a war [00:00:31] that we haven't actually started now. No, they're choosing not to do that. That would be too much for them because Republicans combined with one Democrat, can you guess who? John Fetterman have decided to block any effort to rein Donald Trump in on Cuba ahead of time. [00:00:51] It was a 51-47 vote on a procedural motion to block further debate. This is Tim Kaine's uh SJ resolution 124, a quote, joint resolution to direct the removal of US armed forces from hostilities within or against the Republic of Cuba that have not been authorized by Congress. [00:01:07] Which isn't even saying you can't do it, it's just saying Congress has to authorize it. And I don't even know why you need to say that considering that's what the Constitution says. It's just saying, hey, senators, Maybe we should have power. Wouldn't that be cool if [00:01:22] we had power, if we did our responsibility? And 51 senators are like, no, I don't wanna do that. I don't wanna do my job. That's tough, I might get criticized. I would rather just uh lay down, let down Trump, walk all over me and pretend that that's what the Constitution [00:01:39] says. And so, it's just, we had Susan Collins and Rand Paul. two Republicans that voted on the right side of this. So that's good, they get their limited credit before they betray us once again. And John Feteman voted with the GOP, which is awesome, just awesome. And to [00:01:57] be clear, by the way, we are already at war with Cuba. I'm being loosey goosey with the language because a blockade of a country which is an act of war in 2026 is one of the freebies that you could just do and it doesn't count for some reason. Even people like me slip up and pretend that we're not at war, but we are at war. right now. And if you're not sure [00:02:17] about why that would be an act of war, imagine if Russia did it to us. Imagine if Russia blockaded the LA port and didn't let any container ships get through. Do you think we might be mildly peeved about that? Yeah, I think that we would be, but for some reason we get to [00:02:32] do it to other countries. And if you're counting, by the way, Trump has attacked seven countries since returning to uh office and 10 since the start of his first term. More than any other president, I don't even think that's a full count. I'm pretty sure he bombed eight or nine countries last year. But whatever, we'll say seven. And this is the peace president. Sharon, [00:02:51] the Senate is such garbage. What do you think? Yeah, they're garbage and Federman and his sweatshirt make me so sick. He's the new Kirsten Sinema and the other guy from West Virginia, though I forget his name. Manchin. Yeah, Manchin. Remember those two, what a pair. And now it's Federman. He's belligerent, he's obstinate, he's- not a Democrat, so let's just state [00:03:12] that for the record, okay? And he's not even do the right thing then, just leave. Just go to the other party or do whatever, people stood by you and you are messed up, dude. This is what we're doing. But it all goes to show this uh privilege, hierarchy, superiority that we [00:03:29] display over the rest of the world when we have no moral standing here. We don't have any real standing, it's hypocritical, it's embarrassing. I mean, I am not leaving this country. I have a right to be here. I still believe there's great things about this country. But at the [00:03:44] end of the day, if I have an extra $20 to escape and go across the border for a few minutes, I'm embarrassed to say I'm an American right now. I'm actually embarrassed because people would say to me, how come these clowns got in? They were saying stuff like that when it was [00:04:01] George W. Bush and looking back. He's a decent guy who gets candy from Michelle Obama and we don't mind him so much after everything. Remember how he felt about what he was doing? Now this guy's here. It's crazy. I feel confident that that same progression is not going to [00:04:19] happen with Donald Trump. I feel confident. I hate him just as much in 20 years, but yeah, no, it's utterly frustrating. The Senate is supposed to be the greatest deliberative body in world history. And there's not a leader there, basically. Bernie's good. There's a couple of people. Merkley's okay, whatever. And then we got John Fetterman. By the way, I don't [00:04:35] have enough shells to do 86 Fetterman, but it desperately needs to happen. Can we just make that happen, please?