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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsScared yet? Ted Lieu sends a red alert on Trump and nuclear first strikes
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Scared yet? If so, support HR 669 / S 200 by Sen @EdMarkey and me. The bipartisan legislation prevents @POTUS from launching a nuclear first strike without Congressional authorization.
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"Thursday's decision by Jim Mattis to leave the stifling, rapidly collapsing confines of Trumps insane clown posse administration was always inevitable, but that hardly makes the psychological impact of his departure any less traumatic." - @TheRickWilson
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Scared yet? Ted Lieu sends a red alert on Trump and nuclear first strikes (Original Post)
Celerity
Dec 2018
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CaliforniaPeggy
(149,308 posts)1. You can bet your bottom dollar that I am, finally, scared.
This is a hell of a way to face, well, anything. The new year, the holidays, anything.
Not to mention what the road ahead looks like. Right now, I'm putting a lot of hope on Robert Mueller and the incoming Democratic House to stop this insane creature from completely driving us over the cliff.
ooky
(8,886 posts)2. Please get this bill through as quickly as possible.
tclambert
(11,080 posts)3. You know Donald Trump would issue orders for a nuclear strike via Twitter.
Pluvious
(4,278 posts)7. Ordering the deaths of millions might actually violate Twitter's TOS
Just saying.
tclambert
(11,080 posts)9. Is violation of Twitter's terms of service an impeachable offence?
If so, we should lay in a supply of peaches.
shenmue
(38,503 posts)4. BRB need new pants
I was going to say new undies... great mind.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,041 posts)8. overload McConnell's phone