M. Xavier Carrigan  🌹Verified account

we now have another sovereign nation who felt pressured by their own people to respond to the assassination of one of their own leaders. We must reflect on this matter: how would we respond had another sovereign country done the same to us? This question resonates along... 4/9

the same lines as: how would we feel if another sovereign country built up military bases on our land, or built up in our neighboring countries? How uneasy, or reactive, would the American public become? Do unto others seems to be lost in this hazy fog. Regardless, we... 5/9

must come to grips with our actions, repair our relationships with Iran, and find a way to avoid an escalating conflict that will be anything but a "cake walk". I personally condemn the actions of @realDonaldTrump and his office for not following protocol of... 6/9

the War Powers Resolution of 1973. Moreover, I further condemn the complicit behavior of our own elected official, @boblatta, for not having the spine to speak up on behalf of a disenfranchised public. He, like so many other politicians who tow the party line, are... 7/9

culpable in their craven and cowardly rhetoric, blindly throwing their support behind an administration that runs roughshod over our Congress. We deserve so much better. We deserve representatives who will hold other branches of our government accountable, unafraid of... 8/9