Valuetainment - May 22, 2026


“A BIG F-You to Trump” - Senate War Powers Vote 50-47 AGAINST Trump


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Rob and Pat discuss the Iran War Resolution and why Bill Cassidy flipped his vote in favor of it. They also talk about why a sore loser vote could be the key to the mid-term elections and why we have to be careful about who we vote for.

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00:01:00.160 Last night, while this is going on, guess what Senate voted for?
00:01:04.060 We can say pro-war all we want.
00:01:05.860 Trump didn't win the Senate last night because there was a Senate war resolution last night.
00:01:12.560 Let me see what page this is on.
00:01:14.140 If you tell me, Rob, what page that is on.
00:01:15.700 Seven times they voted no.
00:01:17.300 Last night, number eight, they voted yes.
00:01:19.360 This is massive.
00:01:20.200 Put the president in handcuffs.
00:01:21.580 This is massive because yesterday the people who got voted to become senators voted to not allow the president to do what he wants to do with the war.
00:01:31.220 So I don't think America is a pro-war.
00:01:34.900 I don't think that's the argument that was made.
00:01:37.520 So yesterday, U.S. Senate advances Iran war power resolution, historic first.
00:01:43.740 The Senate voted 50 to 47 on Tuesday to advance war power resolution requiring Trump to end military operation in Iran and obtain congressional authorization.
00:01:52.620 This was the eighth attempt since the war began February 28th and the first to succeed.
00:01:58.100 And a decisive flip, Bill Cassidy, Republican Louisiana, who recently lost, who had voted on all prior time, switched after Louisiana primary, lost remote political leverage over him.
00:02:09.960 The war has now run 81 days, 21 days past the 60-day War Powers Act of Legal Deadlines.
00:02:16.000 So, Tom, why is this so important?
00:02:18.260 What are they saying?
00:02:19.420 Because, you know, it's very interesting here.
00:02:22.140 There are sore loser laws that people are going to see subheads on today.
00:02:26.180 And what the sore loser laws are, you remember when Lieberman ran as an independent in Connecticut in 2006?
00:02:33.100 Yes.
00:02:33.380 The Democrats blew him up in the primary.
00:02:35.580 They were pissed at him.
00:02:36.280 And then he ran as independent and the people of Connecticut said, no, we still want you.
00:02:40.860 OK, well, guess what?
00:02:43.280 Massey is in a state that has what's called sore loser laws.
00:02:46.100 You may not run in a special election or the general election and flip party and try to play games.
00:02:52.020 Make sense, Pat?
00:02:52.840 Well, guess what you have a Bill Cassidy?
00:02:54.740 That is a B.S. sore loser vote. 0.98
00:02:57.960 Seven times you voted. 0.99
00:02:59.780 And remember, war powers is really misnamed.
00:03:02.020 It's war limit powers resolution because you're limiting the powers of the president.
00:03:07.740 And so if you vote in favor of war powers, you're voting in favor of limiting the power of the president.
00:03:13.820 So Cassidy, seven times he votes yes.
00:03:16.740 Give the man the power to complete the action that we've started.
00:03:20.420 Don't hold him up.
00:03:21.660 Give him the power to do that. 0.99
00:03:23.000 And you freaking lose your primary, and it's like a sore loser. 0.99
00:03:26.840 You come out, well, I lost, you lose. 0.96
00:03:29.680 I'm flipping over, so I'm going to vote in favor of war powers, which is war, no power to Trump past a certain window of activity, 60 days or whatever it is.
00:03:40.480 And that's why it's big.
00:03:41.680 You know what it shows, Pat?
00:03:42.820 It shows that Cassidy does not have a defined position in that vote.
00:03:47.780 If you have a defined position on everything from oil exploration in the Gulf to the plight of a small fish in a stream where there's going to be a hydro plant, you don't see people moving.
00:04:01.800 You see people take a position and generally hold up.
00:04:05.000 Budgets, you see people move votes.
00:04:07.080 Why?
00:04:07.600 Different things could be in the budget.
00:04:09.000 We make a different agreement.
00:04:10.180 We have different banking controls.
00:04:12.140 Okay, I'll switch my vote.
00:04:13.260 But on a decided topic like this, you rarely see people switch.
00:04:18.320 And this guy lost his primary and flipped his vote with a big F-you to the president.
00:04:23.240 And by the way, guess who sat out yesterday as well?
00:04:26.660 Cornyn.
00:04:27.800 The three Republicans didn't even vote.
00:04:30.280 Cornyn is one of them.
00:04:31.720 Who was Cornyn going up against?
00:04:34.160 Paxton.
00:04:35.060 Who got an endorsement yesterday?
00:04:37.900 Paxton got an endorsement yesterday from who?
00:04:39.840 The president.
00:04:40.840 So there's a lot of moving parts.
00:04:42.320 So for me, like, you know, to say, well, the neocons are back in power again, and they're the ones in charge, and we're going back to the Republican Party being a war party and all this other stuff, that messaging, you better believe it's going to be during the 27, 28, when the, what do you call it, presidential election comes around, as well as the midterms.
00:05:01.000 I think that is going to come up.
00:05:02.780 I do think the president's going to take yesterday as a victory, but this Iran thing with the Senate, Iran war power resolution, that kind of puts him a little bit in the gridlock.
00:05:11.800 It's an interesting dichotomy, right?
00:05:13.000 Because, yeah, 37-0 and at the same time taking powers away on the Iranians. 0.78
00:05:16.460 I like that, though. 0.83
00:05:17.300 But you know what I like about that?
00:05:18.260 Yeah, that's how it's supposed to work a little bit, right?
00:05:19.660 That's why I love America.
00:05:20.600 That's why I love America.
00:05:21.640 You know, it's kind of like a, you know, it gives you the safety protection where it's like, well, listen, you may have won here, but you lost here.
00:05:29.280 You may have lost here, but you win here, so it's okay.
00:05:31.680 Trump may have lost 2020, but he's flipped three Supreme Court seats.
00:05:34.940 If he doesn't flip those three Supreme Court seats, what happens when he was gone 2020?
00:05:38.880 A lot of things could have changed.
00:05:39.920 And so as much as people are worried about what's going on, what I'm watching for is more the sport of politics.
00:05:46.980 Luke is, and I'll come to you, what I'm watching for is what will be the main three to five issues in 2028 when people run for president.
00:05:56.860 And I'm so curious to see what's going to resonate with who, Richard.
00:06:00.500 I think it is the issue that Trump, as you mentioned earlier, won on, which is no foreign wars and where he flipped, it seems.
00:06:11.520 And I think, you know, I'm really with Luke on this.
00:06:15.740 I think, you know, this was at the background, of course, of the of this primary with Massey and others.
00:06:24.380 And and this Senate vote is really I mean, that's a process.
00:06:28.460 it's not a final result, it's not passed. But even if it was passed, it would give,
00:06:34.360 it would just require to get a Congress vote. But presently, you know, would Congress actually
00:06:40.100 turn down this proposal to make it a proper official war? You know, a lot of them are
00:06:46.820 receiving funding. Massey was one of the few who was not receiving funding from Israel and APEC,
00:06:53.440 you know. So actually, does that really make such a big difference? But I think the
00:06:58.000 You know, the voter is watching this and I think quite a lot have been disappointed by this, you know, Trump flipping on one of his fundamental messages that they loved, you know, tackling the establishment, the warmongers, the military industrial complex and stopping this use of tax money for these foreign wars that don't really benefit the U.S.
00:07:20.940 I think this is going to come back.
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00:07:52.140 Yeah, and again, it's going to be, do you worry more about AIPAC and Israel and Bibi's really running Trump, or do you worry more about Iran having a nuclear weapon controlling the Strait of Hormuz, controlling the cables that go through the Strait of Hormuz?
00:08:10.120 You have to make a decision for yourself.
00:08:11.520 Who's going to be selling the story better?
00:08:13.040 But I do think there's going to be winners and losers, and America's going to say that was not really an issue that we really cared a lot about. 0.80
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00:08:24.300 I think that's going to be a position that's going to hurt them long term.
00:08:27.240 If you're still a Democrat saying, no, transgender is still, we should allow them to have puberty blockers, that's going to hurt you.
00:08:33.480 So we'll see. 0.93
00:08:34.300 Maybe Thomas Massey wins 2028 and, you know, and the audience that is saying is right is right.
00:08:39.600 Maybe he lost Kentucky, but he's going to win long term.
00:08:43.560 Maybe there's more people.
00:08:44.440 or maybe the Republicans view Trump as the president.
00:08:49.660 Everybody else is just a mouthpiece with opinions that they have
00:08:52.520 and it's going to filter itself out.
00:08:54.120 We'll see what happened there.
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