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Trump Pushes Us to the Brink of Iran War—Without a Single Vote from Congress

T.J. Johnson Apr 15, 25

💣 One Man, One Crony, One War

The world stood paralyzed this weekend, watching to see if Trump’s personal real estate crony-turned-“envoy,” Steve Witkoff, could stop us from plummeting into a full-blown war with Iran—or if his backroom diplomacy would blow up in our faces and trigger the largest U.S. war since World War II.

Let that sink in: One unelected billionaire bagman huddling with Iran’s foreign minister might be the only thing standing between us and regional annihilation. This isn’t diplomacy. It’s dictatorship dressed up as dealmaking.

🧨 Founders Warned Us—And We Ignored Them

This is exactly why the Founders explicitly took war powers away from the executive branch. They weren’t clairvoyant—they just lived through the tyranny of a monarchy and knew damn well what happens when one man holds the power of life and death over a nation. And now, here we are, back under the golden boot of an American strongman.

War—real, bloody, multi-trillion-dollar war—was never supposed to be decided by one man and his golf course buddy. It was supposed to be debated, agonized over, and voted on by Congress—the body that’s supposed to represent us, the people who die in these wars, the people who pay for them, and the people who are left cleaning up the wreckage.

🪑 Where the Hell Is Congress?

But Congress? Silent. Gutless. Missing in action. Again.

And while they twiddle their thumbs, Donald Trump has already started another illegal war—this time in Yemen. He launched it last month, sold it as a mission to “protect Israeli shipping,” and like every imperialist fairy tale, it’s spiraling into a civilian bloodbath. U.S. bombs just wiped out water systems serving 50,000 people. Another strike obliterated a tribal gathering—gone in an instant, with zero accountability.

🧠 “Peace Through Strength” = Propaganda Through Carnage

What next? Iran?

Starting a war with Iran was never on the ballot last November. Not even close. Trump voters were duped—again—by hollow promises of “ending endless wars.” But what we got was the same old neo-fascist playbook: saber-rattling, chest-thumping, and endless “peace through strength” propaganda that’s just code for murder with a flag on it.

And let’s be clear: This isn’t just reckless. This is strategic. The Trump-Musk regime doesn’t want peace—they want perpetual war. They want chaos, fear, distraction. Every bomb that drops, every foreign crisis they provoke, is another excuse to consolidate power, muzzle dissent, and steamroll what’s left of our democracy.

🚨 This Is the Moment to Fight Back

Congress has the power to stop this madness. But instead of defending the Constitution, they’re cowering behind it.

This is how democracies fall—not with a bang, but with cowardice. And unless we rise up, unless we scream, protest, and demand that our so-called representatives grow a damn spine, we are heading straight off the war cliff, blindfolded and gagged.