Operation Epic Quagmire / gas and diesel still rising --
my live fuel clock showing Americans now have spent $70 billion more on filling up with gasoline since March 1 (vs same period a yr ago) and $44 billion more on diesel (same dates) for a total of ~$114.2 billion spent over this time.
— Patrick De Haan (@gasbuddyguy.bsky.social) September 19, 2026 at 8:03 PM
Diesel hit lucky 13 (days in a row higher)
— Tom Hearden (@followtheh.bsky.social) September 21, 2026 at 8:30 AM
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Trump and Xi / you have to have cognition to have cognitive dissonance --
U.S. President Donald Trump is making communism a midterm attack line against Democrats. But this week, he's rolling out the red carpet for Chinese President Xi Jinping, the leader of the world's most powerful communist country.
— The Associated Press (@apnews.com) September 21, 2026 at 5:00 AM
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I mean honestly, Xi is friggin’ Napoleon, Churchill, and Alexander the Great all rolled into one compared to the Orange Excrescence. 🙄
— TED 🇺🇸 (@epicureandealmaker.bsky.social) September 21, 2026 at 8:28 AM
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ICE thugs out of control (continued) --
Wilber Rafael Garces Perez traveled from Venezuela to the USA on a work permit. On Sunday, September 20, he was delivering a DoorDash meal in Austin, TX, when an ICE agent shot him. (www.texastribune.org/2026/09/20/a...) #USDemocracy #MomSky #ICE #TX
— Cat Alyst 🏳️⚧️🇨🇦 (they/them) (@catalystmeow.bsky.social) September 21, 2026 at 1:34 AM
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“Briefly detained” = beat half to death
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social) September 20, 2026 at 10:39 PM
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CNN, MS NOW, Politico sue Trump over Harp-provoked media bans/ media pushback --
NEW: Politico, CNN and MSNOW are jointly suing to demand immediate restoration of White House press passes. They’re asking a judge to declare Trump’s ban a flagrant violation of First and Fifth Amendment rights. w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney.bsky.social) September 21, 2026 at 6:27 AM
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Major television networks will halt coverage of presidential events, according to a memo obtained by The Post, over the White House’s ban on CNN, which was barred alongside MS NOW and Politico in recent days. Read more: https://wapo.st/4xDwVxf
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost.com) September 21, 2026 at 10:15 AM
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Trump's Triumphal Arch/ sniper tower --
How do you feel about the prospect of crossing this Arlington #Memorial Bridge bridge and advancing toward a drone and sniper structure? #Urbanismsky #sculpture #WashingtonDC
— Michele Bogart (@urbaninsideout.bsky.social) September 21, 2026 at 7:33 AM
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Nothing screams “peaceful transfer of power” quite like a giant murder arch in the middle of Washington, D.C.
— The Liberal BoJack (@thelibbojack.bsky.social) September 21, 2026 at 2:09 AM
I feel like one of the few genuine takeaways of the past decade is that there are apparently no circumstances that would actually warrant the invocation of the 25th amendment
— Jason Bailey (@jasondashbailey.com) September 20, 2026 at 8:08 PM
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A knowable tragedy --
We’re being run by an unhinged, corrupt egomaniac who thinks he’s a king and has no use for the constitution. And most of the media still just covers it like it’s normal.
— The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) September 20, 2026 at 5:43 PM
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The tragedy has been so knowable. This from seven years ago — and we’re still paying for so many Americans letting it happen.
— Steven Beschloss (@stevenbeschloss.bsky.social) September 20, 2026 at 10:07 PM
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The 25th amendment is fatally flawed. It assumes that the cabinet is staffed with sane, patriotic people because the nomination and confirmation process ensures that outcome. But this time around it hasn't worked and the cabinet is staffed with qualified party-firsters. Congress could have passed a law to have another body assume the role of the cabinet but hasn't to date and it's too late for it do so now. Even then the problem is that the president can inform the Congress that in fact no disability warranting removal exists; in that case the Congress has to assert that the disability does exist with a 2/3 vote in both houses. Impeaching and removing the president is much easier since it requires a simple majority in the House to impeach and a 2/3 majority in the Senate; no cabinet involvement is required and the House has a lower threshold.
ReplyDeleteSo, yes the 25th will not be invoked, now or ever.
Anon - exactly so.
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