control. And as a result, 167 people, you know, died in a plane crash. Now people are trying to blame President Trump for that and I think that's ridiculous. You know, Iran's responsible for their own actions. So they fired off a missile they're using antiquated Russian technology and instead of targeting the military bases where where it was meant for it fixed itself onto a civilian airliner and blew it out of the sky. Tragic but you know, maybe if you were a good global partner and a good neighbor, you know, you we wouldn't be in this situation and people wouldn't be you know, attacking you and you wouldn't have to attack back and there wouldn't have to be revenge. But, you know, I often think of that, that argument where, where people say, Revenge is one of those things that hurts you more than the person you want to exact revenge on and this is Just a classic example of that, I think. And the other part of that is that when you act like a bully or when you act aggressively, you can't be shocked when people fight back. And that's, I mean, that's going to be the topic of the show. First of all, we're gonna talk about the War Powers Resolution that was just passed in Congress, which is, which is a joke, but more importantly, is, is the, the general in question. General soleimani. You know, it's not like he was a choirboy. You know, he, I mean, he killed his own people. He killed Americans, and over the last week prior to his death, you know, he had been involved in that in seven or eight violent attacks that culminated with the Revolutionary Guard attacking our embassy there. Luckily, our Marines got there in time and, you know, they quickly fled into the night.

So today's show I want to talk about specifically the the power that is vested in the president by by the Constitution. And then we could talk a little bit about the war resolution that was passed on Thursday. First of all the war resolution that was passed on Thursday, most people may or may not know this is a non binding. And I'll say that again. It is a non binding resolution, right? This is cowardly. This is all political theater. They're not doing anything, they have no power. So they're going to pass this non binding resolution that says that that's basically said like a policeman saying stop, or I'll say stop again. You know, there's no, there's no teeth to it. So they so the non binding resolution, the War Powers Resolution that was just passed was basically geared to do one thing to embarrass the president. That's it. It doesn't bind him in any way, shape or form legally. It is not supported by the Constitution by Article two of the Constitution. It is nothing. So why did they do it? That's the question simply to embarrass the president so that this do-nothing Congress, mainly the house can say that they're doing something because they don't like him.

- 05:26

Actually sound pretty likely.

- 05:28

Yeah. So it criticizes the president for not consulting quote, unquote, those I'm doing air quotes right now, those that can't see with Congress in receiving its authorization before ordering the killing of of the of Iranian General soleimani. And the resolution also orders Trump to stop using military force against Iran until he gets congressional approval. Here's the deal. He doesn't need permission from the Congress to protect the United States. He needs permission from the Congress to declare War. Yep. Right? So this is just, it is ridiculous. And it's amazing to me how a lot of people are rallying around this and saying this is going to, you know, put a leash on him or put a collar on him or