Amid reports that Vice President JD Vance is very seriously questioning the White House's Iran War narrative along with the Pentagon's rosy and overly positive updates on how things are going, over in Congress there's growing alarm as Trump's Operation Epic Fury is set to hit the 60-day mark on Friday.
Republicans no doubt want to wrap things up fast, however, the latest reports say the White House is preparing for an extended Hormuz blockade of at least 'months' longer, per fresh WSJ reporting. There now appears to be a significant shift among Republicans underway, given that the 1973 War Powers Resolution requires that a US president must terminate unauthorized military operations within 60 days of initiating them.
The stickers have started to appear: from a gas station in Texas, submitted by a ZH reader.Congress must then certify a need for continued military force in the instance that the nation faces an imminent threat. Already several war power initiatives have been effectively blocked on the House and Senate sides.
But amid the ongoing Hormuz Strait blockade, Americans - and thus their representatives in Congress, are increasingly wary of the coming economic blowback. As we featured earlier on Wednesday, the average price for a gallon of gasoline hit its highest level in four years on Tuesday as the cost of a barrel of oil remains elevated amid Trump's war of choice in the Middle East.
This has triggered talk among GOP leaders of the need to go ahead and vote on formal war authorization, even among the hawks. Below is a quick round-up of Congressional member quotes via Semafor:
Sen. Curtis: "It’s a big deal… There are a number of us having discussions about what that day means, what our response should be."
Sen. Collins: "Sixty days is a trigger that requires Congress to act."
Rep. Don Bacon: "We haven’t been doing combat over the last two weeks. I think it merits good discussion. In the end, I want us to finish the job."
Sen. Hawley: Rubio’s "been pretty careful to comply with the statute. My hope is they’ll notify us that they’re drawing down offensive operations."
Sen. Murkowski: "You’ve got to talk to us.” She warned that if that doesn’t happen, “you may see a change in the situation” in Congress.
Sen. Tillis: “This is going to be weeks or months away from resolution, and more likely the latter. So why not send a very clear signal to Iran" and authorize war for a 1 year?
And an unnamed GOP Senator is cited in the report as saying: "People cross some sort of threshold and start to be very uncomfortable with it. I am sensing restlessness among many of my colleagues."
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— John Hudson (@John_Hudson) April 29, 2026The White House has been steadily hailing the "successful" US naval blockade of Iranian reports. Still, as Reuters spells out Tuesday, "High oil prices are a risk for Trump's fellow Republicans ahead of the midterm congressional elections in November." Brent crude hit briefly reached $119/barrel on Wednesday amid signs of escalation, poised to overtake prior Iran war highs.
Tyler Durden Wed, 04/29/2026 - 13:30The rhetoric and predictions behind climate change "science" change so haphazardly, it's a sure sign that the entire field of study is fraudulent. If the manufactured hysteria is not enough to clue people in, the failed predictions of Al Gore should do the trick.
Former Vice President Al Gore warned a Hollywood audience this week that a "Gulf Stream collapse" could occur within 25 years, leading to an abrupt and devastating new Ice Age.
Mr. Gore, now 78, appeared at the inaugural Sustainability in Entertainment Honors event, co-hosted by The Hollywood Reporter and the Sustainable Entertainment Alliance at Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles. He participated in a keynote conversation with actor Bradley Whitford of “The West Wing,” timed to the 20th anniversary of “An Inconvenient Truth.”
Gore invoked the scenario depicted in the 2004 disaster film “The Day After Tomorrow”, saying a shutdown of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, commonly called the Gulf Stream, is “a very real threat within the next 25 years.”
“That movie that I mentioned, ‘The Day After’ about the Gulf Stream shutting down, well, this morning in one of the English newspapers is a whole big article summarizing the recent dire warnings of the scientists who found yet more confirmatory information..."
The claim is related to Gore's assertion that ice cap melt will disrupt global oceans volumes and salinity, leading to a a change in the gulf stream and the distribution of heat to higher latitudes. However, Gore's predictions (and the predictions of the scientists he cites) on ice melt have been widely debunked.
In a 2009 speech at the Copenhagen Climate Conference, Mr. Gore cited researchers who he said projected a 75% chance the Arctic could be nearly ice-free during some summer months within five to seven years — a forecast that did not materialize. The researcher he cited, Naval Postgraduate School professor Wieslaw Maslowski, said afterward that he did not know how the 75% figure had been arrived at.
In reality, the kind of ice melt Al Gore warns about is projected to take centuries or even thousands of years, causing millimeters per year of ocean rise which is barely noticeable and not catastrophic. It is interesting, though, that Gore has jumped on the idea of a new Ice Age, given the numerous doomsday prediction by climate scientists over the decades are now proving frivolous.
The truth is, the Earth has been far warmer (and rarely colder) than temperatures are today. Global warming science relies on a rigged data window: The temperature history that "experts" use only goes back to the 1880s. This is a tiny sliver of the Earths atmospheric history that is completely inadequate to understanding climate change, which is a natural process, not man-made.
There is also no concrete evidence supporting the claim of correlation or causation of carbon emissions to global warming. The data over millions of years simply does not match.
The climate change grift is a creation of the Club of Rome from the 1970s to the 1990s. It was a UN associated group of prominent elites which sought to fabricate a rationale for global governance. What they came up with was "global environmental disaster" as a way to motivate the populace to accept more centralized control of industry, trade and energy.
Al Gore is a long time member of the Club of Rome, according to the groups own documentation. He often cites the Club of Rome's 1972 report "Limits Of Growth" as a basis for his ideological beliefs.
Tyler Durden Wed, 04/29/2026 - 13:10