If people really find this to be such an easy conclusion, then Congressional authority should be easy to get. So why don’t they insist on a vote? They know this isn’t “progressive” resistance. They want to marginalize it as such because on top of this war being ILLEGAL, it’s also deeply unpopular.
Progressives get steamrolled all the time in Congress. We are an outnumbered bloc, especially on matters of defense. Shouldn’t be hard. They know this isn’t “lefty” opposition. It is BROAD opposition from the American people across the board. The numbers show that. That’s why they’re pushing it.
Our senile President is a disaster. He is lawless. A criminal. An impotent and laughable buffoon. #convictedfelon #tacotrump
There is going to be a huge push of legitimizing from Republicans. Dems have to unite to smash their bullcrap. Why label your point of view? It’s the sane point of view. Pull together.
"journalists should get on board with lies"
Yesssss! Get their asses! This is WILDLY unpopular. It needs a vote in congress so history bear witness.
CNN has zero credibility remaining.
You mean they used to have some?
They had a lot of layoffs recently so I think the survivors are just trying to say whatever bullshit will help them keep their jobs. It's pretty rough being a former "tv personality".
Trump doesn't seem to think the law applies to him even international law, pretty sure if the ICC can indict Putin they can indict Trump
The biggest issue is the additional powers Trump gets while we are at war. This was all strategized to gain more control. More deportations and illegal actions are going to come.
We bombed a country that doesn’t pose a direct or imminent threat to us. Blatantly illegal.
Same thing with climate and the silent majority. risingtidespolitics.substack.com/p/the-silent...
Same with healthcare. www.commondreams.org/news/univers... People want peace and wellbeing. These things are fundamental. The U.S. has arrived at the opposite of democracy.
Progressives are to liberals what MAGA are to conservatives - those who want to impose their far end policies regardless of what the people actually want. Americans the Freedom of choice, not just with abortions, but with firearms and other beliefs. THAT'S why progressives are an outnumbered bloc.
The United States is not a normal country.
Thank you for your comments. I really applaud your rallies opposing trump policies. Now is the time to start offering policies that are opposite to the division and strongman approach of trump. Policies that will improve people's lives and increase a kind community
Sounds a whole lot like yall should defect to a new party. LIKE A WHOLE FUCKING LOT
Both parties are puppets to billionaires. Progressives & maybe a few R's & D's truly serve. Everything that's happening was planned way in advance. The actors put in place would have just went about it differently. Trump's just a horrible actor full of hate & is why it was rigged for him to win.
Harry Truman went to war in Korea calling it a "police action" and Congress has acquiesced without exception to every illegal war since, all against countries who without exception had never attacked the United States. Nothing will be different with your cowardly colleagues this time.
Are American & allied interests around the globe ready for drone warfare? Iran does not need nukes to cause significant damage.
Trump is decreasing the surplus population.
Agree! Let them stop following the law & just bomb the sht out of any country that doesn't look "normal" to those in power, Constitution/laws be damned? This is the most Trump-level-stupid argument. While they're at it, let them also start detaining all people who don't think the same as next step?
I'm done with corp. dems & 💯 support David Hogg. Challenge Schumers Senate seat 🙏
It should not be easier to build a case for war than to build a case for impeachment.
This all day long
Thank you for standing up for all of us. You are someone that gives me strength to believe that there is something better to work for.
Typical responses from the “deep dish” left all AM long. Just more fodder for the MAGGOTS to use to paint Democrats as (fill in the blanks). We need a message, a coalition of Democrats, Independents & former GOP’ers to counter all of this, without waiting for a co-opted Congress to do anything.
So Iran is not a "normal" country and that gives Trump the right to violate its sovereignty and bomb the shit out of it? Guess that justifies Putin bombing Ukraine since Russia deemed Ukraine not "normal", right?
Your party needs to stop condoning the President and the GOP. I’m serious when I say that the impression for years is that the DNC is sort of OK with oligarchy, and if they can be just a little less bad they can rule the Hunger Games.
Step 1: Get Schumer to resign. Step 2: That’s it, just get him out of Congress.
Van Jones is an enabler masquerading as an intellectual. He’s said some stupid shit before, always in service of power.
Fuck Van Jones.
The once great CNN, has become Fox light.
I will absofuckinglutely not get on board with bombing Iran. This is an illegal war, under international and US law, and will make everything worse in the region and the world. If liberals want unity, they need to get on board with fighting fascism.
I think they know they’d get the votes. Of course they would. But the chaos and the precedent is the point. They can do this without authorization and then point to it the next time they do something illegal that’s less popular.
BECAUSE YOUR IDIOTS?
We need to be laser focused on the why of this. Succinct questions need to asked about who is profiting from this. A self dealing administration doesn’t do anything that isn’t self dealing.
Isn’t it all the armory and provision suppliers? All the privateers supplying the needs of the military and LE in the US, who are always driving the profiteering? They pay off the GOP (and sometimes Dem - hey Chuck!!) “lawmakers”. There’s a chain of corruption, like a chain of command. Tradition 😉
The good American people must take to the streets... The evil of humanity is represented by MAGA and Donald Trump
there was a million people in the streets last weekend and not a peep from the media. do you understand who’s in charge yet?
Meanwhile democrats are also nutting themselves to nuke Iran. This shit is bipartisan baby. Foreign policy is uniparty.
@aoc.bsky.social I expect quite a few Democrats in both the House and Senate to *support* the attack on Iran because "we have to support Israel". Make sure you get all their names and make sure David Hogg gets a copy of the list.
A vote would sure help for the primaries next spring/summer. Would be clarifying and inform insurgent campaigns against the dead wood
Van Jones: Useful Idiot or Just an Idiot?
Both
Inconsequential waste of air.
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Just.
He's a careerist like AOC who left behind all his values for status and wealth.
Awwww dinkums. Look who's the purest little boy!
Grow up
Derp
Everyone is a “careerist” in some way, shape, or form. Difference is Jones is a clown, AOC has stayed consistent.
The only true thing you just typed is "Jones is a clown."
You have a right to your OPINION. 🤷🏻♂️
And my opinion is right. Sorry 🤷
You’re a troll.
🤣 If it helps you sleep. 👍🏼
It's 9:44 in the morning.
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Lmao.
Both
Yeah, he’s a huge disappointment. Perfect cnn “liberal”.
Does it matter??
Worse, he's a liar.
And a hypocrite!!!
Useful to a few but just an idiot to most, kind of like POTUS
Whatever suits him… on a time and space referential!
I don’t know if the short attention spans of much of the citizenry need this daily news horror show, but I honestly miss the days when Biden challenges were trying to deliver an infrastructure bill and forgive student debt.
My close friends were hardcore GOP for most of their adult lives. A month ago they invited me to join them to hear @aoc.bsky.social and Bernie Sanders in Folsom. Even committed Right, w/ common sense, a BS in biology, and basic Christian Faith, Love and Charity--are listening. Keep preaching.
What are you going to do about it?
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idk what the fuck Van Jones' major malfunction is, but I'm so deeply over it. "Yang Gang" inDEED. also I went to one of his weird "love" meetups & he didn't show but one of his assistants kept insisting we take his stupid book. idk what the point was. it was weird.
People like Van Jones need to ask what people, that were enlistment age for the Bush wars, think. A fair number of people I went to HS with went to Afghanistan and Iraq and either didn't come home or were missing limbs when they did. All their sacrifice gave our country was their lives or limbs.
And trump is stealing their VA benefits, Medicaid/care, SNAP, EVERYTHING that they were promised when they signed up to risk their lives for their country!!! 🖕🤬
Oh yeah, and some Arabs got hurt too.
And now VA doctors can legally refuse to provide care for them if they don't like their politics or marital status.
What you "progressives" stand for is so completely opposite of what is best for the country it is good you get steam rolled all the time. What polling does show is that the more informed on the Iranian situation the more likely the polled individual supported action. As usual you are uninformed.
Van Jones was always a pill, I remember in college, I have receipts 🙄
Van sold out. Dude is clownin now.
I’m an independent; I’m with you on this one
I’m looking online for Democratic outrage, but I only see yours. I’m discouraged by the Dems’ lack of unity. I guess that’s why so many helped vote him in, they didn’t feel that Dems have a united message - still don’t. Right or wrong (and it is wrong) Republicans are united in their messaging. 🤷🏻♀️
Spot on.
Thank you for standing up for the American people. We know that you and others resisting this regime are fighting an uphill battle in Congress, but the mid-terms are coming, and believe me, YOU are appreciated more than you know!! 💕
I’ve figured out a way we could move forward with both political extremes and be more functional and adaptive - if anyone cares to take a look. In my links ✌🏻
Progressives are a boogeyman. No real political representation, not even among the democratic elite, and yet the specter of "progressivism" is brought up as if progressives are a coherent and powerful coalition.
Any policy that might help the working class is too "extreme", and therefore, too progressive. There are two conservative parties; there are no progressive parties with any real power. If you don't believe me, look at the politicians from both parties supporting bills like KOSA.
The dems pay lip service to being opposition while passing bills that give tyrants more power. AOC and Bernie shouldn't carry the entire progressive sentiment of the nation on their backs, and yet they do. Progressivism has been historically suppressed in this country; see the "red scare".
It's time for progressives to be represented; it is the "progressive" policies that the dems and repubs suppress that we need more than ever. Given this screwed up system, someone like Trump was inevitable.
The only thing missing here is “today is the day Trump became president.” Ignore Jones.
Thank you for fighting for us, from a GWOT vet.
Our particular version of congress was designed hundreds of years ago and is now so outdated that it no longer functions as a voice of the people.
Less social media more doing shit to stop this
🍵😶 ... there's been broad opposition from the american people to a lot of important things esp of late, but that hasn't stopped any of you from being complicit in our widespread harm - so your point is?,, 🤷🏼👀
Comment on the article, I am very independent in my electoral choices and over the years I've come to suspect both parties choose who they think they can market best rather than who is best for the job. Don't mean to put you on the spot but your opinion means a lot to a lot of people. Thank you
Van Jones is, and always has been, a clout opportunist.
I'd been presuming he at least did work for prison reform and is it environmentalism? just basic good faith but idk. as a pundit he sucks ass. ditto as a kingmaker. "Yang Gang." bitch PLEASE
Today is the day Van Jones did not become President. Every day is the day Van Jones did not become President. Every day is now also apparently the day when Van Jones beclowned himself.
Another narcissist
Can’t stand him.
Nobody in USA wants Iran to have an atomic bomb. But an unprovoked attack is not the way to handle this. We do not know how Iran will respond. I do not feel safer today.
I don't think Iran having a bomb is any more dangerous than the US having a bomb at this point.
Why shouldn't Iran have nukes? They would be stupid not to have them with rogue terrorist states like Israel and US constantly provoking them.
I don't want US to have a nuclear bomb at this point, let alone fucking all of them, but here we are. at least afaik, religious fanatics that they may be, I'm not aware of any of the mullahs thinking you can nuke a hurricane.
Would be real great if we’d just not pulled out of the agreement where Iran wasn’t doing anything with nukes, just because of trump’s petty vendetta against Obama.
OR not elected a blatant warmonger. That would also have been a good move.
I think he’s a blatant “anything to make a buck” pig.
(Or both, I mean, *none* of this mess happens if we rewind to 2016 and elect Hillary Clinton instead. Sure, she’s an obnoxious centrist who solves very little. It’s better if things stay moderately lousy than if they actively get worse.)
oh yeah and we have SCOTUS too. I mean Mitch can't hold the seats open FOREVER. ...probably. I suppose if she's POTUS when Covid lands we probably get Trump next anyway. I know! Let's go back to 2000 and NOT vote for fucking Nader! or let Brooks Brothers Rioters steal the fucking thing!
I remain convinced that if Hillary is POTUS 2016-2020, covid never becomes pandemic. Trump fired the whole pandemic response team that Obama set up, whose job was to identify and help contain possible pandemic viruses, in 2018. If Hillary’s prez, odds are, covid stays in the box.
Agreed, she’d have controlled it. Since she actually has a brain.
Yep. If covid DID break containment with Hillary as prez, despite the pandemic response team still being in place in China, she definitely wouldn’t have suppressed awareness until it was too late to get it BACK in the box. With early enough response, brief area-based lockdowns would’ve been enough.
And we’d have been able to get fucking tests instead of it circulating widely in the US in December/January while everyone pretended it was only a few isolated cases and nooo that awful cold you have is really just a cold! Nvm you’ve literally never been that sick in your life before!
And probably nothing particularly atrocious happens, so trump has a harder time propagandizing all the terrible things she’d supposedly cause. She probably wins a second term in 2020.
She also hasn’t stacked the courts with conservatives, so Roe stays. She’s probably less good on trans rights than Biden but not actively making shit worse for trans folks either. Presidential powers remain limited, because again, courts not stacked with conservative judges.
Israel probably still attacks Palestine, and she’s probably not better than Biden on that, BUT when Harris runs in 2024 she’s not weighed down by being part of the administration folks are mad about that for, and she’s not hamstrung by being unable to criticize it too hard.
Impeachment NOW
They dropped bombs for same reason Bibi is dropping bombs- they are both LOSING the narrative at home. “Wars” are no longer won, but Narrative sure as hell are( authoritarianism). Same old rump playbook DISTRACT&DIVIDE=power - Putin is very very happy today. 1 up side: They are extremely afraid.
Trump isn’t confused or delusional - that’s the media delusion giving him benefit of doubt over and over. He is all about total POWER. Zero policy. DO NOT BE FOOLED, that IS the strategy EVERYTIME. Not impulsive, they had bombs in back pocket all along to tapper domestic unrest. Putin gave go ahead
Iran is Putin collateral damage and HIS DISTRACT&DIVIDE usa from devastating lose to Ukraine while dividing G7 NATO us and her allies. Thus regime continues to make Putin happy over and over again …. Far fetched ? You decide.
It could be the beginning of Make America Progressive Again, if democrat leadership doesn’t get in the way.
Please read this and tell me what you think. open.substack.com/pub/levremem...
Kamala won. thecommoncoalition.com/report/
Anything they don’t like is always lunatic Dems being paid by George Soros. They never can admit we don’t have to be paid to oppose Shitler/Krasnov/whatever that orange thing is.
Remember this? "President Obama’s 8 Years of Bombing the Middle East" Source: www.independentsentinel.com/president-ob...
Just so you know, this old Flower Child thanks every extraordinary goddess for YOU.
ALL Dem members of Congress - Reps & Senators - should be on the Capitol steps Monday morning demand g the impeachment in one voice.
Van Jones is a shill clown.
We are with you to demand a vote. War powers act give stop the power to have a vote. Each member can did so. @kaine.senate.gov might also do so this week. TRUMP is acting like a KING foreign and domestic. ☮️💙🙏
Please primary Schumer
How can he be stopped if Congress won't do it? He gets away with every illegal thing he pulls!
We must GET LOUD - STAY LOUD - SHOW UP - over and over and over until we win.
JON STEWART FOR PRESIDENT AOC FOR VICE PRESIDENT 2028 CROCKETT FOR SPEAKER 2028 #jonstewart2028 #AOC4VP2028 #SpeakerCrockett2028
Dear Van, This American is tired of war. Bombing Iran will not be a one and done. Wake the hell up and face reality.
Fool has no idea what he's talking about.
It’s highly unfortunate we see Progressives as an “enemy” within our national politics, when in reality, progressivism and subsequent policy making is what helped make America a better nation. It’s the reason for the FDA, national parks systems, and much more! We need to bring it back!
"Pro Democracy Pro Protester Anti Oligarch" @aoc.bsky.social voted with MAGA against Georgians protesting for Democracy 211 days against Oligarchs. Just like she voted for Russian Oligarchs against Ukraine in 2022. Does she love Oligarchs or hate Georgians and Ukrainians? bsky.app/profile/mari...
We are all neocons! Lol
Are we cooked?
AOC, please watch this video and learn: youtu.be/619skIzagaM?...
Yeah, but MAGA pretends that they ARE the whole country. That's why the 'Massive mandate' lies, the 'Voice of America', bs, etc. They are the loudest minority there is, and they pretend they are the massive majority at all times.
AOC's intern, when is Congress meeting on this one?
CNN & corporate media learned nothing from the forever wars in the Middle East & jones just lit his career on fire with the stupidest false dichotomy possible. Anyone who trusts a dictator with waging war is in favor of losing their democracy entirely to a klan the world sees as the next axis power
I guess Van advocating for America getting its own Shah is going to endear him to his bosses who want that network to be the next Fox, to go for that same base that falls for Klan propaganda.
Maybe just go with “To a President With a Midnight Hammer, Everything Is a Nail”
Question for people like Van Jones: Where and why did FDR give this speech? youtu.be/ubigv4Jl4Wg?...
You don’t BOMB a country to ask them to negotiate (DAF) You BOMB a country as an Act Of War!!!!
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Progressives are the easy target… the politically expedient target.
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Trump has dementia. He needs to get an evaluation. I am a neurologist. He is making impulsive decisions due to medical condition. #dementia
Thank you for being one of a small handfull of good ones. I wish we had more AOCs representing us...
The argument against them needs to be "Oh so you DON'T want better for everyone's generational needs, so you'd rather stand in the way of progress where needed?" If the answer is yes, they are as progressive as every other American. All that has been done is mislabeling the smart truth folks need.
Dems need to stop being so passive and immediately bring charges fir the unauthorized attack. they have sidestepped congress too many times. I've never been so disappointed in the party. it's absurd. this is the biggest constitutional crisis this country has ever seen. can we act like it please?
“Iran is not a normal country.” So is the US. Are we going to start bombing ourselves
Congress doesn't care what the people want.
Van Jones is a performative punk.
I don't have a television and people like Scott Jennings and Van Jones are part of the reason why. Jones has no foreign policy gravitas, I want to hear from experts.
Get everyone on record.
I wish the country was in a place that that would elect someone like you for president. Intelligent, compassionate, actually strong not just pretending to be.
The numbers show impeachment has broad approval, but you helped talk Thanedar out of forcing a vote on it. Why? How many people will have died so Dems can earn a few desperation votes by the midterms? What will the body count be by then? How long are you going to be a minion?
This isn't a bar room with nonchalant stupid discussions. President Trump owes you no explanation for our national security.
Progressives are going to have to earn the trust of over half the Democratic party & Independents before they will be taken seriously on a lot of issues.
People, like you, who actually run for office to DO SOMETHING for PEOPLE, not CORPORATIONS, are always silenced.
They paint it as a "lefty" position in order to scare moderates and conservatives away from it.
The one thing that Republicans are good at is picking off the low hanging fruit to reduce the weight that the DEMs can put into helping achieve the best outcome for the American People! They understand the reasoning behind the motto, Divide and Conquer!
It's wrong to attack a sovereign nation no matter the reasons if that nation is not being aggressive to you... Iran had a nuclear deal and followed it until Trump killed it his first term and they were willing to negotiate til Israel attacked
Our “allies” aren’t always the good guys. Love of money is the source of much evil!!
Thank you for sharing this.
It has to be hard being steamrolled but we appreciate your fight. Don’t ever stop. You are on the right side.
Drown out the opposition and claim they're anti-American. It's the only way the establishment knows how to stay in power since WW2. Claiming anyone who didn't conform during the Cold War was a communist has shifted to claiming anyone who isn't supporting them is a terrorist. Different words, same /
Playbook. Don't let mainstream media and the political establishment keep trying to memory hole the past 80 years. Opposing the state of the government IS what america was founded on, dont let them fool you into thinking otherwise.
It's the problem with making a 2.5 trillion dollar war machine, every president wants to use it like a play toy.
Damn straight! We are pissed
That's how it's supposed to work- congress must authorize the US going to war Then for a POTUS they liked: here, we'll give you this authorization, but it's only for emergencies that wasn't an emergency, but just don't use it too often we'd like you to stop now hey, why won't you stop using it?
We need good people fighting for the good things as hard as the assholes fight for the evil things. Fuck uniting this country, fuck diplomacy or bipartisanship. Fight dirty and get this county back in control of good people.
y'all never miss an opportunity to lose, even when you have the chance to win.
IT'S THE END OF THE END. I HAVE AN INVITE TO TUCKER AND LISTEN TO WHAT I SAY. I WILL GO BACK TO THE PAST ME AND SHARE SOME STORIES THAT YOU AND I EXPERIENCED SANDY.
Yep. I am not progressive and dead set against this war.
So sick of people accepting and then trying to justify what our criminal president does. Fight tooth and nail over every illegal and unethical thing he does!
Congress wants this war, the people don’t. Congress doesn’t want to have to explain to their people why they voted up on this. So they, yet again, give power to the Taco King. This Congress will be historically seen as one of the weakest most pathetic in US history.
It’s the WMD Fake War phase of a failed Republican Administration. We know the #Artofthedeal routine. Been here. Seen this! 😡🇺🇸 No CFPB = youtu.be/vgqG3ITMv1Q #MA2008A #ConsumerFinancialProtectionBureau was created after the last manufactured/profiteer wars.
Van Jones is almost as disingenuous as people like Ted Cruz.
IMPEACH THE FCKER. High crimes and misdemeanors in full effect. Do it!!! #ImpeachTrumpNow
Sooner or later progressives need to start their own party and stop being part of something that doesn’t want them or share their values.
It is called the Green Party. Great values and principles though structural problems we can’t move beyond. #GreenParty
NO ONE should ever listen to Van Jones. His opinions are meaningless and depend on what direction he feels the political winds are blowing on any given day.
I think Van Jones underestimates how dangerous Trump's unilateral action at Netanyahu's direction is. This is not a normal US President.
…and, the gop can go to war w/o ever having to cast a vote….& go on record. We have the Big Lie Election narrative, and now, the Big Lie WMD narrative - Part ll? Why does it feel like we’ve seen this before? And which party was in power? Maybe big lies and falsified data are dangerous for na sec?
Scott Jennings=the Rick Santorum of Newt Gingriches.
Well, he said: That if elected, he would "Stop the wars on Day 1" In fact, running his shadow gov meeting with Russia and Israel before the elections he said those wars "never would have gotten started if he were in office. Strengthen Dems messaging.
I disagree that it’s the reason why. For the reasons? Nobody showed up to his sad bday party. Everyone could see how alone, disliked, and unwanted he is. Tampered voting machines bring investigated. Epstein files haven’t been released. His mental & physical decline is becoming even more apparent
And distracting also from the monstrous Billionaire’s Big Bullshit Bill.
Cutting Medicare & Medicaid & social security, and selling the national parks
It’s unreal. Billionaires will do more for a buck than any poor person ever would be willing to do.
Yes. Like, literally taking food out of poor children’s mouths!
I think other people’s suffering isn’t real to them. Why they need to be in prison, so they can have the direct experience. One way they might acquire some empathy! They need some character-building suffering of their own 😉
Turning US troops against Americans
I wouldn't bet a penny on "BROAD" I guarantee every Republican voter will support this( if they already aren't) That's close to 45% And 20% of this country gives 2 shits because they are so poor and busy surviving. 15% of Dems support this. Jones represents that bloc.
Every Republican voter except… Tucker Carlson. Such a progressive that guy.
I mean it was a pretty big deal that several right wing pundits criticized the idea of an Iran War. Where’ve you been?
Those pundits would never say that if they thought it would cost them their audience. My first post was sarcastic.
Bernie Bros make up about 8% of the entire population ( may be / hardly) who also side with Hamas terrorists wouldn't be considered "BROAD". Bernie Bros need to get out of their own heads and play it smarter.
Thank you for mentioning impeachment. We all want him gone. Please join Representative Al Green on impeachment. @jessicadenson07.bsky.social
#IranNoWar ⚡️🙏⚡️🇺🇸⚡️🌍⚡️ #Indivisible
Colonial bigots hate math A Reagan 'Democrat' is someone that suppressed our primary votes instead of MAGA primary votes 1 Brown Underpants vote in Democratic primaries = 1 Brown Shirt vote by absentia in Republican primaries Vanity Voter Suppression. The Brown Underpants. Blue MAGA.
I'm so tired of you guys doing nothing but flap your jaws
OK, so Van Jones is a dickweed. Condition noted.
ICE is a bigger threat to the United States than Iran ever could be.
As is Trump
Thank you for supporting impeachment!
Our senile President is a disaster. He is lawless. A criminal. An impotent and laughable buffoon. #convictedfelon #tacotrump
Jones doesn’t say anything about Israel having nuclear arms.
Does he think MTG is a progressive now?
All you need to know is when things are going wrong for an American president, they bomb brown people to change the subject of their incompetence.
Our POTUS is more threatening to US citizens than Iran
Why wait?! Stand up, gather the resistance, all rules are out the window! It’s obvious that the Democrats are not being led by someone capable. Be the voice that’s needed now. Do it without consent. That’s the only way forward.
Fuck that guy! And that one over there too! And every sycophantic boot licker that has hard on for bombing Iran. This shameful! We the people don’t want it.
Americans don't want war & Donald just put a target on the backs of every single American interest abroad, at home & in the Middle East. Iran will engage in asymmetrical warfare. Propaganda through cyberwar. Religious extremism. All that will see upticks. youtu.be/Sy6kR_MuIAQ
They say “How can you support a country that wants you dead?” Easy. Republicans want us dead too. I’ll focus on my country, not the one that’s thousands of miles away.
Congress doesn't vote on anything until they know what the result will be. They don't know what the result will be because they haven't had sufficient time to manufacture consent. While I appreciate your efforts in defending the separation of powers, within 30 days MAGA will be lockstep pro war.
Ban Van!!!! Break Jake!!!! Let’s make the CNN goon squad obsolete by boycotting ignoring and not give them the time of day. They are democracy killers for hire.
VJ the 💩
They broke the fucking law!!!! I am sick of this son of a bitch doing anything he chooses with no FUCKING CONSEQUENCES! NO MATTER WHAT IT IS! LOCK.HIM.UP!
He is a fucking Oreo!
Please announce for potus. Do it before 2026. Bust them wide open.
Van Jones always available for the worst takes. F em.
Does Van Jones also think progressives make up 70% of the party? What a dumbass
This is when corporate media gives the assist. They know that war drives engagement for a couple of quarters. Small price to pay for viewership and advertisers. Van Jones is a paid tool of the trade.
CNN is part of the MAGA machine. They are absolutely complicit in everything Trump has done since the election campaigns began last year.
Van Jones is afraid of Trump
something like 85% opposed this right now. in contrast i remember it being the other way around for iraq. we were a very lonely opposition at the start
CNN feedback page: help.cnn.com/us/feedback
Then why can the similar North Korean dictatorship have nuclear weapons? Why can the failed state of Pakistan have it? Why should we trust the words of a pathological liar Trump contradicting the director of his intelligence after we already know that the US government lied about Iraq?
Call them all out @aoc.bsky.social! This is bullshit!
I will vote for you for President. Please run in 2028.
Van Jones is a joke. His goal is to slander progressives wherever and whenever possible. American media is awful. Watch BBC instead
The gop would all fall in line....
The cost of the operation seems super hard to find, if there was someone that could find a way to find this out, that would be ace! Bombs in a bottle guess: 56,000,000 3.5 × 14 + 6 + 1 pilot bonus. Did cut costs on lawmakers and politicians though.
Van Jones is an ass
The world is lurching towards WWIII led by a clueless psychopath in the White House. This scares the shit out of me.
Van Jones is a made up name.
Push for impeachment. Demand a vote.
Not Van Jones acting stoooopid again.
Request uranium after blast measurements, So far, reports are ZERO!
Not a normal state ? Let’s see, Israel, US, Iran, Russia, France? What is a normal state?
When I tell that only progressives truly care about this country and its well being, this is a prime example.
The other conclusions one can draw is that, according to this goon, progressives are incapable of determining how dangerous Iran is, being, as they are bereft of critical thinking skills. 😐
Well... Let me know when the new NYC DA is in place... Whole lot of October 7th data NATO/NSA approved and ready to ship back... I bet you will never figure out who is in the logs either. Regular full Epstein list of A list comedians.
There are extremely easy ways to facilitate regime change without destroying critical services to civilians. Not that I am advocating that... But I would suggest the bombing campaign is not geared at helping anyone in Iran nor protecting anyone outside it.
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Agree 100%.
Van Jones: we are not in the business of dictating who is in control of other countries! They are terrorist to their own people but it’s not up to USA to change that!
If only there was an opposition party....
Even seemingly rational people have just lost their GD minds.
Hey Van North Korea is a rogue terrorist state that possesses nuclear weapons and is developing intercontinental delivery systems. Do they get a free pass because they write beautiful letters?
They get a free pass because they already have the nuclear weapons.
In my opinion NEITHER country is a normal country. They both have no problem taking a sledge hammer to a china cup and wondering why it caused so much damage. The vast majority in congress are indebted to the oligarchs and that's who tells them what to support.
And… Jonathon Karl on ThisWeek quoted a tweet by @adamkinzinger.substack.com !?! “The US attack on the nuclear facilities is in my opinion the right call. We will see what the results are..to service missile fire, and then negotiate, and the fight with Iran. Good call by the President.”
Real Christians would never bomb Muslims for Israel. Jesus is revered in the Quran as a divine prophet sent by God as a teacher, a healer and one who fed and clothed the poor. We have a paid Israel lobby brainwashing hateful evangelicals to protect Israel. They won't even mention Jesus or his love.
Apartheid? 😂😂😂 there are two million Muslims living in israel with full civil liberties. Sandy..... stop. You sound stupid.
This is so depressing. Thank you for supporting the Constitution and the rule of law.
AOC, I'm sorry...But I already gave up on congress doing anything thanks to Schumer & His old Guard and Jeffries surrendering all power to Johnson's cult I already gave up on the Former US because I've been Proven right time and again that their denizens are too stupid to do anything right (1/3)
And I completely given up on my faith in humanity because, like the denizens of the former US, they're too stupid to do anything right (2/3)
So until something changes; I see nothing will happen and I consider every single person in DC a Useless Traitor for not doing anything to prevent all this because they're all Fed. Society & Heritage Foundation plants under marching orders of people like Theil, M&#*, the Kochs, and their ilk (3/3)
War crimes by war pigs. We can never accept this!
Why is anyone still listening to Van Jones about anything?
because the truth is, trump went all vance boelter on iran..?
Simple. Follow the rules of war. Checks and balances for a reason in politics. Listen to intelligence agency, council. Hard work to get great intelligence. Better decisions when leaders are collaborating not posturing, positioning. Will elected officials put their own loved ones on the frontline?
Okay then Van we should be bombing Russia too, right? They are also a dangerous country.
The Republican Congress ceded it's Constitutional Authority to the Executive Branch. No more checks on the Executive, besides the Judiciary. We will keep resisting. We know Dems have no power right now.
There’s only one explanation for Van Jones having a job at CNN in the year of our lord 2025. He’s a convenient face for them to center establishment bullshit on behalf of a status quo voting agenda.
This is something that goes across political lines. The vast majority of Americans don’t want anything to do with this action. Pushing it as anything but unpopular and reckless is malpractice.
Van Jones likes to play both sides. He's one of many reasons why I don't watch CNN.
And I say Jones can kiss my progressive ass
I feel sad for our world. Why is it so hard to be compassionate? The regular people in Iran don't want war with us either. Rich assholes ruin everything
So, the rule of law is preeminent, except when it isn’t. Is that what he’s telling us? Fuck that shit.
Van Jones is sooo in the club. How sad
Maybe for a lack of better understanding, I have to ask why does he get away with all this illegal shit? I’m obviously questioning our democracy and if it still exists.
Come on @Van Jones. Get things right!
Which is why I can't stomach network news any longer. This is a serious world with serious consequences. These are not serious people. #RESIST
I would like to point out, the US is not a normal country.
Van jones can stop condescending. Plenty of progressive veterans like me know full well what Iran has done to us, my friends who didn’t come home. But unlawful military action against them because Israel said so is NOT justified and is anathema to what we’re supposed to stand for. Trump betrayed us.
This is the consent manufacturing machine kicking into high gear. This is Iraq and the W.M.D. scare all over again. I am deeply disappointed in my fellow Americans who have such collective amnesia that they would eat the same propaganda all over again, hook line and sinker.
Only white people still listen to Van Jones- look at fucking Jennings nodding his head- that’s who’s still listening to Jones. No one w melanin should be falling for this fool anymore.
Congress should demand full transparency about Israel's nuclear weapons program...now that they are "secure". Stop giving them billions in foreign assistance. End Israeli access to US govt contracts because they have vanquished their enemies. Bill them for our military services like Thaad&refueling.
Decades after the US was royally f'ing up Iran, they'd probably be warmer to us if we weren't so dang attached to Israel. We've got better relations with Vietnam, who are still communist. Can you believe it? Why? Israel.
Vietnam is communist the way the US is classless. They tried a state-owned economy and called the Japanese in to help go the other direction, then some years later did a course correction to return to national health care.
Van Jones citing internal Iranian practices that we dont like as justification. Then should we also not bomb half the countries on earth, Including Israel?
Good Grief Mr Jones, you are missing the point. 1st Priority should be the Law! Trump has no legal authority to bomb Iran. (nor to invade LA) This act of War is unConstitutional. The Supremes must rescind Trump's immunity card today, before he destroys us all. Protect the Constitution and no nukes
Not wanting to defend Stable G by any means, but by your standard, Obama should have been impeached www.theguardian.com/world/2011/m...
“Iran is not a normal country”? Wtf? Look to yourself first America.
Depends on your scale. Many things are crazy in USA. But compared to Iran, USA is a normal country.
“Normal” is very subjective, considering the fact that the majority of countries are not as privileged. We need to think about what the definition of “normal” means and how the rest of the world is dealing with it.
Sure, “normal” is subjective. For me a normal country has democracy and freedom of speech. A not normal country jails and torture opposition and hang people from cranes, such as Iran and Russia.
I really hate to break it to you, but the US has been acting just as you described the past 6 months. There are thousands of articles at this point to prove how we have definitely taken that direction and that the US is no longer a “normal” country under context. Normal is Canada, or even Mexico now
I agree that USA has become less normal with Trumps presidency. But his regime will not last for 40 years, fortunately
Hmm, sure about that? I see a lot of Americans on here thinking all this mess started with Reagan - when was that again? I don’t see any “sane” Republicans in the wings waiting to restore human rights to women or treat immigrants or refugees any better than 47.
I mean true lol but what can I say, the dinner in front of us smells more than the ones from the past
Absolutely!! What the hell is wrong? Are people asleep? Don’t they see what is coming?
Why was Mahmoud Khalil jailed? Why was Rumeysa Ozturk jailed? This is not a normal country right now.
Because Trump usually makes stupid decisions
Trump is making the US less “privileged” every day - and weaker, and sicker and more vulnerable to attack…Part of his Revenge Tour!
I thought the same thing. And what does that even mean? Normal?
Van Jones is right
Hey, what's RICO? Do you still think it's a category? 😂
It all made for tv bs at this point CNN needs the ratings.
Articles of Impeachment or stfu
Jones was in the Obama WH for half a minute and was hounded out (unfairly) because he wasn't good at the politics. News media shouldn't platform this guy's "analysis."
The 'proof' where is it !!!!!!!!!!! That's all we ask like with WMDs- where is the proof
哦不，范琼斯疯了！🤯
Van Jones continues to disappoint.
Next up piss off North Korea then bomb them. Trump is a toddler playing with a gun.
And what’s going to happen to American Iranians? Reopen Manzanar?
The warmongers voices get louder and media stays relatively silent on president’s constitutional overreach.
I have just lost all respect for Van Jones. Israel and the US are still engaged in a genocidal orgy of slaughter - tell me again who is dangerous. Israel has the bomb the US has the bomb, But Iran cant have the bomb because we are the good guyd BULL SHIT
I lost respect for that idiot a long time ago; when he said that bumbling idiot was presendential. Yeah van can go suck a big one!!!
Van Jones got mad at my first wedding because the band played a few square dances. Last night at a concert, Riannon Giddens played 3 square dances and said it was a Black tradition.
Bad takes are his brand.
Isn't he forgetting that we actually had a deal with Iran where they *stopped* all their nuclear enrichment? The one that trump tore up in his first term. So his logical fallacy is assuming it has to be bombs. He needs to go back and try again.
This mfker has been Uncle Tom-ing for years now. The only difference between him and Jennings is cocoa butter.
Van Jones is an absolute piece of shit
Jesus Fucking Van Aya-no-lah Jones Christ
Van Jones is such a waste
You’re right that “progressive” is often used to marginalize opposition. It’s also used to flip the positions of those who would agree with a policy or action if it were deemed “centrist.” Apart from that, I’m glad to see you citing Drop Site as a news source.
It's a non-normal country that has now been incentivized to get a bomb ASAP at all costs and to disperse and hide its nuclear material.
Wonder why folks DONT watch @cnn.com 🤔🤔🤔
Normal countries don’t demonize & target immigrants Normal countries undermine the rule of law Normal countries don’t attack women’s & LGBTQA rights Normal countries don’t deploy the military against their own citizens. Normal countries don’t elect a felon as their president
Correction: That should be normal countries don’t undermine the rule of law.
I know it will appear daunting, given your limited intelligence and comprehension, but why don’t you try, just try to read Article II, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution.
If Scott Jennings is nodding in agreement with you, you’re doing something wrong.
Van can just step off !
This is one doodle that can't be undid, home skillet.
Van Jones has some very problematic opinions.
But Iran isn't a good country, is it? Look at its record of human rights abuses, its state sponsorship of terrorism and its treatment of women. Just because a mendacious orange moron bombed them they're not suddenly the good guys of the piece.
Never did like this guy now. I know why
Obama was the worst traitor to the left in my lifetime, but you come close. You think we didn't hear you when you jumped on the "Israel has a right to defend itself" train? We know who you are. #ComplicitInGenocide
Like 67 percent of america doesnt want war on iran cnn is just owned by genocidal warmongerers
War is not the answer. Jones has testosterone poisoning. When Iran strikes back and innocent Americans die, Jones will regret his stupid words.
feliz sundae Mrs!!!
who will Trump bomb illegally next Mexico? Greenland? US killing Iraqis and Afghans for 20 years did zip. no repercussions? its only human to resent bully boys
this is about them being able to say, “see? EVERYONE agreed to this so it wasn’t a bad decision so history should not judge us harshly.” by not agreeing, that narrative is destroyed.
Those are very much bipartisan lies
The Dems that go along with these lies need to be voted out, too. Going to be a hellava mid-term.
If we get a fair midterm. The way things are proceeding, it looks like we won’t.
I mean our elections aren't fair now, so I am not sure why we are so worried about midterms suddenly.
I completely agree. The evidence is out there and we’re not doing a damn thing about it! open.substack.com/pub/thiswill...
Hi this is insane nonsense thanks
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“Judge Rachel Tanguay of the New York Supreme Court ruled in open court in May that the allegations were serious enough for discovery to proceed.”
🚨BlueMAGA. BlueANON.🚨
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The New York Supreme Court seems to think it’s worth moving the case forward.
I hope something comes from it, but Trump has plot armor
Yes, it is out there, and no - we are doing f-all!
We’re really just gonna pull out the same dumb conspiracy theories that the right wingers had in 2020? We lost. We need to fix it by being better. Anything else is a distraction (whether it’s false or not, and it’s almost certainly false)
Tell that to the New York Supreme Court .”Judge Rachel Tanguay of the New York Supreme Court ruled in open court in May that the allegations were serious enough for discovery to proceed.” article posted below.
What’s the best case scenario here? No matter the evidence, 50%+ will think it is a political witch hunt, the election won’t be overturned, and we sound like crybaby’s just like the right did in 2020. How does any of this help us win or get better?
The only way this can help us is by not allowing the interference to happen again. That’s all that matters now. What do we need to do to make sure the next election is fair?
These are not the same conspiracy theories. The New York Supreme Court has already okayed further investigation. There are democratic districts where Harris received zero votes. Google Rockland voter fraud.
No- it’s not a dumb conspiracy. This is real. Are you a bot?
Let's not get ahead of ourselves, we don't have the full picture yet. If we are ever going to fix this mess, we need to bring the objective truth back. So, they shouldn't call this a distraction, but intellectual laziness is exactly what gave us Trump in the first place.
Well said!
The mental load damage of this administration is gigantic
It’s hard to call anything a distraction really, when there are so many major things going on at the same time. But we have to focus. Never thought I’d need project management skills just to keep track of what letter or call I’m aiming at Congress and what event is going on where.
While I am inclined to agree that even if it was stolen, absolutely nothing will come from challenges. But I do think that attacking any genuine attempt to fight back as a distraction is problematic. Remember when dems were saying Kilmar Abrego Garcia was a distraction? Fight on all fronts.
We need to stop being concerned over distinguishing "distractions" from real problems. When an arsonist sets fires throughout a building, the firefighters don't stand there arguing about which fires are "distractions" and which are worth fighting while the whole building burns down.
yup
Absolutely. Until then they need to be reminded that they serve us and not the other way around. They are not royalty.
That might take a lot of convincing…👊🏻
I'm for the use of methods that maximize convincing
And... 6) This WAR is Joe Biden's fault!
lapdogs of the empire at it again
How dangerous Iran is….what about Netanyahu?
So disappointed in Van Jones.
I thought Van Jones was better (and smarter!) than that….
Van is one of the Tappers. CNN totally suspect.
Don't need socialist/communist input. Trump did right thing.
He also didn’t say if he still thinks the US is a “normal” country.
Not an apartheid state and also there‘s no genocide
Why don’t they insist on a vote? Because they don’t want to force congress members to go on record and be held accountable
I hope you are right about it. But when speaking to people I still, to this day, feel like most of them are proud of what I consider an utter disaster that has been commited in Iraq and Afghanistan. Did people really learn the lesson from that? Enough not to repeat it right now?
Has Van Jones been right about anything? Nope.
I just checked and Van Jones didn’t spend one day in Iraq or Afghanistan, and he won’t spend one day in Iran either. This country has not learned anything in the last 25 years. The elites like Van Jones just want to watch war on TV.
Van Jones. He started out seeming like such a good guy, but it feels like now he’s just looking for attention.
Americas; "Can we have an order of Universal Healthcare with a side of Affordable housing please?" Trump "A Bomb buffet coming right up!"
His comments are so vile and contemptible that it's beyond full comprehension without uttering a litany of insults and wanting the deep need to talk to his mother to simply ask "wtf?!"
The US is not a normal country either.
one should never say anything that Jennings agrees with
Wow! Pathetic and disappointing 👎🏽
I wouldn't call the US a normal country at this point
Van Jones has a tiny brain. He’s the King of Bad Takes.
We aren’t a “normal” country now either!
We haven't been a normal country since occupying half of Mexico. Only two Congressmen voted against that war: Abraham Lincoln because it was immoral and John C. Calhoun because it would bring too many non-slave brown people into the US.
Someone watches CNN?
This is why I quit watching CNN years ago. They’ve propped up and supported Trump for years because it brings in good ratings.
I'm so tired of Dems insisting they can't do this. Guess what? They are. You have a tool in the toolbox. Don't tell me you don't have the votes. You keep introducing articles of impeachment until you do. Nothing else should get through. You look like you are doing nothing because you really aren't.
Except for AOC BERNIE ERIC S CHRIS MURPHY MAXWELL FROST ELIZABETH WARREN JAMIE R. JASMINE
ROTFL at Van.
If you have Scott Jennings nodding in agreement, you’re just flat out wrong.
But the USA, where masked goons disappear people, words are outlawed, government services are curtailed, the legislature has no power, the opposition party is demonized and their leaders arrested, and adversary countries are bombed in the middle of the night, IS A NORMAL COUNTRY. Okay, got it
I can't stand him.
I agree
Van is a con man....
Why don't you go after him with the 25th Amendment??
CNN has lost its way. Iran wasn’t a problem until trump made it one. Trump always has to do something that no one else has done. It doesn’t matter whether it’s good or bad.
Van Jones thinks I’m underestimating how dangerous Iran is. Actually, I think Van Jones vastly overrates his own intelligence, the arrogant prick. I’m not “getting on board,” Van. Fuck you. If this comes to a ground war (which it won’t; even Trump isn’t that stupid), I expect you to volunteer.
they do it because they can. any hypocrisy or harm is the point. daring literally anyone to make them face literally one consequence, comfortable knowing it'll never happen.
Let me explain the progressive position on this because it has been the left position for literally DECADES GET OFF OIL NO MORE WARS Why is this such a problem to understand???
If Scott Jennings is nodding in agreement, it’s a pretty safe bet you’re wrong.
Normal countries do not deport people without due process. Hey Jerk have you looked at the destruction of the United States of America
Secession now. They can’t misuse the military without taxes and resources from our states.
lol you act like we, the people, can act of our own accord. everything is by proxy, and just because you’re awesome doesn’t mean the others aren’t spineless cowards
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Currently the USA is not a normal country FGS.
"Iran is not a normal country" and this country is???? Reproductive rights getting ripped away, rapist president, suicide hotlines getting taken down, parents being threatened with jail for supporting their trans kids, people rounded up by men in masks, military being used against own citizens...
WE are not a normal country!
Van Jones is a person who gets paid for declaring that things need to happen, are happening, or have happened.
I do not bother to watch @CNN-dishonest “media”.
Then insist on impeachment and removal. Do something. More than post on social media.
The way this operation was waged should make any further discussions of it merits moot and a non-starter. I’m DISGUSTED by center and right commentary in the media. I asked a very smart ex-military JAG officer his take. His reply was one word: Israel. Everyone is choosing politics over values.
Get their asses, AOC!
War is just not the answer.
"He became President of the United States in that moment, period"
Yes, but, it’s CNN so boots must be licked.
The question is not when progressives are going to get on the Trump train, it's when is the MAGA Cult going to get off! 😡🍊
Van jones is a total fucking lightweight.
we cannot have a nuclear armed krasnov/gop, impeach them
Jones has lost his brain.
i think some of us progressives ought to get together and pitch Van over the wall into the maga miasma. maybe straighten him out as to what a country is, say, compared to a regime.
Why would anyone "get on board" with policies they disagree with?
This talking head culture in the US has got to go. So sickeningly destructive to have a truly informed conversation about matters at hand. These folks are paid puppets, pushing agendas, and infighting for clicks and views. They do not have the best interest in the people at heart.
Let’s stay focused on what this is really about. The US is the largest weapon manufacturer on earth, netting 111 billion dollars in profits in 2020 alone. www.cfr.org/podcasts/cos...
Exactly. “Congressional authority should be easy to get” if it were easy to conclude this was the right thing to do. It’s not the right thing to do. Easier to apologize than ask permission? Presidential authority needs to be reigned in
How is something illegal if nobody ever gets punished for it?
Drop Site News is a great outlet. Ryan Grimm is one of the best investigative journalists and news commentators today.
Criticizing any country of not being normal while living in a country that is so mentally unstable
Goodbye, Van Jones. I'll never support *you* again. And I know I'm not alone.
