Posted on 07/21/2026 11:43:19 AM PDT by Miami Rebel
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) was asked during a Capitol Hill press conference on Tuesday at what point he will move to use Congressional power to check President Donald Trump’s war in Iran. Johnson pointedly ended his reply by saying “we’ve got to wrap it up” in Iran, which many pundits and political insiders have warned is an additional threat to the GOP keeping its majorities in Congress.
Johnson’s answer appeared to be at odds with Trump, who vowed earlier in the day to continue bombing Iran until they come to the negotiating table in good faith.
“You repeatedly said that you trust the administration to handle the war with Iran. We’re now five months in, and the U.S. troop toll has surpassed that of the withdrawal from Afghanistan. Given that, at what point are you willing to put an AUMF on the floor, or vote for a War Powers Act resolution to try and remove it?” asked an off-camera reporter.
“The administration is working very hard — the commander-in-chief and the whole Department of War — they’re working very hard to bring this to a resolution. There’s a lot of discussion about how that will be done. We’re all closely watching those developments, of course. I don’t think an AUMF is in order right now. I think we need to bring it to a resolution,” Johnson replied, adding:
"Look, I think it’s important — in my personal view — for all of our international partners to have a role in this. I mean, we’ve got all of our allied nations, NATO, we’ve had the Arab countries over there, the Gulf states that are in closest proximity to Iran. Iran has now fired on all of its neighbors, and they’re turning everybody in the world into an enemy. So I think this is an important moment in history for the entire world community to decide how they want to handle this. It shouldn’t just be America’s obligation — my view is that everybody needs to play a role. So we’ll see how that develops. I think we have to allow the space to do that.
"And I know this administration is working around the clock to resolve that in a way so they don’t suffer any more troop losses. This is a great tragedy — it shouldn’t happen. But it is a very important objective, one that I believe we’ve achieved, to ensure that the largest state sponsor of terrorism does not have a nuclear weapon. That would be a disaster for everybody, and everybody around the world understands that.
"Now we’ve got to wrap it up."
“Democrats are in a dead heat with syphilis.”
True. lmao
What it shows is that most people are more concerned with practical matters that actually impact their daily lives, as opposed to what tinpot dictator does or doesn't get to rule various Third World countries a hemisphere away. And rightly so.
50 years ago I was in high school. Gas was about 65 cents a gallon. With inflation factored in that would be just over 4 bucks. The same as I am paying today.
During the Obammy Biden days I recall often paying 4 bucks. That would be $5.40 today.
Math is hard for many.
In other words, according to you things are great today because they aren't quite as bad as they were under the two worst presidents of the past half century. You obviously have very low standards for economic performance.
Moreover, you also seem to forget that before the Iran war, gas was under $3 per gallon. Short term memory is hard for many.
Some people have never heard of Pearl Harbor and 9/11. Relying on tin pot dictators a world away to stay in their lane when their announced intentions are otherwise is just keeping your head up your ass.
You remind me of the neocon hysterics who expected everyone to cower in fear over Saddam's non-existent "WMDs" about a quarter century ago.
Gas prices go up and down. I am able to work through it.
I survived the great egg debacle. I will survive this tragedy also.
I don’t require medication and psychiatric help to deal with lifes changes.
So? Trump plays all sorts of games with his enemies
Ah, yes. The old "Trump is playing 4-D chess while everyone else is playing checkers" excuse.
Japan and Al Qaeda book end Iran pretty well. If a terrorist organization can pull off an attack of that scale Iran certainly could.
Kind of ironic you take that position given how many Americans have been killed by Iran over the last fifty years. Even disregarding nukes, Iran was steadily improving their ballistic missile game.
Worth mentioning too that as much as you like to crap on the Iraq war, Iraq hasn’t caused any real trouble in a long time.
Don’t turn shy now! I need the Deep Thinker to spell out his WW3 scenario. So after Iran invites certain nuclear retaliation in Tehran by Israel after nuking Tel Aviv, what does Europe do?
What does China do?
What does Russia do?
Do you think the new British PM is going to order a nuclear launch? Against who?! Is Russia going to nuke the Israelis?
Putin genuinely doesn’t seem interested.
Putin says he considers Israel a Russian-speaking country
Israel is home to almost 2 million migrants from former Soviet states, Russian leader says, so countries share a ‘common family’
Putin made the statement during a speech Tuesday in Moscow at an event organized by the United Israel Appeal, a Zionist organization responsible for collecting funds.
“Citizens of Russia and Israel are connected by ties of family, kinship and friendship. This is a real network, a common family, I say without exaggeration. Israel has almost 2 million Russian-speaking citizens. We consider Israel a Russian-speaking state,” he said.
So is it China that is going to nuke somebody? Who and why?
Spell it out, Deep Thinker.
Best work they've ever done.
If you say so. The best work the CIA ever did was climbing into bed with the Fadayan-e Islam/Shiites, to unlawfully overthrow a government on behalf of the oil companies. I was not aware you were so big on the Fadayan-e Islam/Shiites. Someone had to kickstart their movement and who better to do it than the CIA.
https://www.declassifieduk.org/iran-1953-mi6-plots-with-islamists-to-overthrow-democracy/
In order to trigger a wider uprising, the CIA turned to the clergy and made contact with Kashani via the Rashidian brothers. Footing the bill for this joint Anglo–American operation, the US gave Kashani $10,000 to organise massive demonstrations in central Tehran, together with other ayatollahs who also brought their supporters out onto the streets.Amidst these demonstrations, the Shah appointed General Zahidi as prime minister and appealed to the military to come out in support of him.
Wider protests developed in which anti-Shah activists were beaten up and pro-Shah forces, including elements in the military, seized the radio station, army headquarters and Mossadeq’s home, forcing the latter to surrender to Zahidi.
The CIA also helped to mobilise militants of the Fadayan-e-Islam in these demonstrations; it is not known if Britain also did.
The Fadayan’s founder and leader, Navab Safavi, is believed to have had associations at the time with Ruhollah Khomeini, a Shia cleric and scholar based at the shrine city of Qom in Iran. According to Iranian officials, Khomeini, then a follower of Kashani, was among the MI6/CIA-sponsored crowd protesting against Mossadeq in 1953.
DEAR D,
THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT HE DOES, AND SOMETIMES HE SAYS TO A REPORTER...:I’M NOT GOING TO TELL YOU WHAT I AM GOING TO DO
He could have said that as ‘fact”...OR HE COULD HAVE SAID IT AS MISDIRECTION
THANK HEAVEN HE DOES N.O.T THINK LIKE A JOURNALIST.
He could have said that as ‘fact”...OR HE COULD HAVE SAID IT AS MISDIRECTION
So, you can't believe a word he says.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/05/trump-iran-war-nuclear-reason-why.html
Trump Just Admitted There’s No Good Reason to Continue His War With IranBy Fred Kaplan
May 18, 2026[excerpt]
On a Fox News show on Friday, host Bret Baier asked Trump whether it might be feasible to retrieve Iran’s enriched uranium. Trump replied that it would be very hard for either the Iranians or U.S. troops to get at the material because his attack last June—a bomber raid on three sites encased inside a mountain—left the “nuclear dust” (as Trump called it) buried under heavy granite rubble.
“It was hit so hard,” Trump said, “the mountain literally collapsed on it.”
This seemed to startle Baier. “Why isn’t that good enough?” the host asked. “If your goal was to set back …”
“It is good enough,” Trump replied, “but you know what, it isn’t good enough public-relations-wise.”
This wasn’t a one-time gaffe. In a separate Fox interview, aired on Thursday, Trump said, “We have nine cameras on that site, on those three sites, 24 hours a day. We know exactly what’s happening. Nobody’s even gotten close to it.” If the Iranians did try to dig out the material, Trump could bomb the sites again.
So, you see it is like this: President Trump only wants the nuclear material for public relations purposes. But that is two whole months ago, and now it is worth waging war and expending lives.
I was thinking more along the lines of the "old razzle dazzle."
Europe will bitch. Cut off trade with Israel. Start abusing Jews in Europe. Threaten to arrest Netanyahu.
What does China do?
Sell nukes to people who will use them against US and Israel.
What does Russia do?
Same thing.
But hell, the bible says "Gog and Megog" will march down to Israel and be destroyed in the valley of Armageddon, so maybe that's what they do.
And I notice your focus is not on the millions of people killed in Tel Aviv and Tehran. No tears for them?
Where will the fallout go? Will it drift over India? China? Europe?
You think a nuclear exchange is no big deal? That preventing it is *NOT* in the best interests of the United States?
And of course *WE* are the "Great Satan", so i'm pretty sure Iran will send a couple our way. Probably DC and New York. (All the Jews, you know.)
You think letting the nuclear genie out of the bottle will not have a seriously bad impact on *THIS COUNTRY*?
"Unlawful"? It is to laugh.
You aren't so naive that you think there should exist some international court that punishes nations for meddling in the affairs of other nations, are you?
I advocate us doing what is in *OUR* best interests, and unless *WE* make laws forbidding our people from meddling in the affairs of other nations, I see nothing "unlawful" about it.
The Shah was a far better outcome than we could have ever expected from the religious nutjobs.
He does both, and he has always done both. I don't understand how people don't grasp this yet.
The lives so far have been few compared to most wars, and the necessity has been greater than most wars.
Whether it is a gaffe or not is irrelevant. It may very well be that he has been advised that the Iranians can dig that stuff up and start processing it again, so the longer term elimination of the threat requires it's seizure, because the next Democrat president will absolutely let Iran make nukes.
The jews saw to the importation of 50 million muslims into Europe in the last 25 years. They guaranteed a future of abuse for jews in Europe.
But sternly worded letters and trade sanctions are not WW3.
Strike one.
Threaten to arrest Netanyahu.
You’re not keeping up with current events. That already happened. And yet no one calls it WW3.
The International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on November 21, 2024, citing alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza. The warrant specifies charges including starvation as a method of warfare
“What does China do?”
Sell nukes to people who will use them against US and Israel.
Nonsense. Large powers don’t proliferate because it undermines their power. If China sold nukes we’d sell nukes to Vietnam, Philippines, etc. and box China 1000x worse. This is your theory for how an Israel-Iran exchange would lead to WW3? Embarrassing.
Strike two.
“What does Russia do?”
Same thing.
Same thing indeed. There is a reason the Soviet Union and Russia didn’t sell nukes to the Sandinistas, or even the Cubans or Venezuelans
Do you think they want to help someone nuke their kin in Israel? What’s the rationale for that?! Do you think they want to help someone nuke Iran, their ally and source weapons used against Ukraine? What’s the rationale for that?!
Strike three!
Spell out the scenario to make it at least make some sort of sense, because if this is the best you’ve got this is the most stupid war we’ve ever started.
But hell, the bible says "Gog and Megog" will march down to Israel and be destroyed in the valley of Armageddon, so maybe that's what they do.
If it’s god’s plan, do you think Trump can thwart it? This is your flimsiest excuse yet.
And I notice your focus is not on the millions of people killed in Tel Aviv and Tehran. No tears for them?
Should I care about them more or less than Tutsis? What about Rohingyas?
When the Saudi blockade on Yemen killed hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians how many tears did you weep?
I simply wanted to not be part of conducting it or paying for it, but I put on no charade that I genuinely care about these people to the point I’d spill the blood and waste the treasure of this nation to ‘save’ them with regime change and its consequences.
I understand you care more about foreigners than Americans. It is what distinguishes Foreigner Firsters from Americans.
Where will the fallout go? Will it drift over India? China? Europe?
A nuke over Tehran would result in fallout over Pakistan and Afghanistan. How much does that prospect make you cry?
A nuke over Tel Aviv would result in fallout over Syria and Jordan. The ISIS caliphate and the Hashemite kingdom. How much does that prospect make you cry?
You think a nuclear exchange is no big deal? That preventing it is *NOT* in the best interests of the United States?
It’s a strawman question, but I realize it’s in our best interests to not start wars we won’t see through and that the public and Congress doesn’t support. You do realize there have been approximately 100 above ground nuclear tests conducted in the CONUS. What do you think two in the Middle East will do? End the planet?
And of course *WE* are the "Great Satan", so i'm pretty sure Iran will send a couple our way. Probably DC and New York. (All the Jews, you know.)
You think letting the nuclear genie out of the bottle will not have a seriously bad impact on *THIS COUNTRY*?
I don’t think you’ve constructed a plausible scenario where that happens. Iran and Israel could dump dozens of nukes on each other and you’ll only know about it because of the news, not because of any impact on your life. Unless you’re not really an American in America…
That it will not have horrible consequences for us, no matter where it happens.
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