Interesting on “coequal branches” and the US Constitution. by Richard Bishirjian riffing on David Siemers. theimaginativeconservative.org/2019/10/myth...

“we apologize as we are busy assisting other constituents” (from the message when you hit voicemail at Senator Rick Scott’s office)

Suppose you think USAID is more about official cover for intelligence work than aid. I think that’s exaggerated, untrue, but OK. Then it is *more* outrageous its classified docs shld be compromised. Agents in the field don’t determine US intelligence policy but it is they whom these leaks may kill.

for whatever it’s worth, i just called my (MAGA) Congresswoman’s office to demand Elon Musk’s arrest and imprisonment for the flagrant lawbreaking this weekend with respect to USAID.

suppose there is, and there’s a court order or injunction. who enforces it?

“Screwing around with Treasury payments and tariff walls is not just outrageous—it is like mixing a nice bleach-and-Drano cocktail. You wouldn’t describe that as ‘breaking mixology norms’, unless you were doing a goof.” ~Paul Musgrave musgrave.substack.com/p/shredding-...

i’m always talking about thick scary tails i’m worried about but say the base case, the modal outcome, is we muddle through largely as we have. i’m not sure that’s right any more.

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i hope you are right! but i think it remains the best explanation of Trump’s choices, he’s going after Canada and Mexico because that’s where the money is and where he thinks he can get away with it.

of course they will try. but they don’t have much leverage, in the way that China or the EU might. they are big trade partners but small economies, small powers geopolitically.

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“One must be careful not to reify the clichés: just because everyone says it’s real doesn’t make it real. Or rather, it does, and that’s the problem.” @lioneltrolling.bsky.social www.unpopularfront.news/p/vibes-cartel

“i will abuse you until you consent to marry me” may not be the flex they think.

besides maybe a handful of billionaires on an inauguration stage, is there anyone more pathetic than Congressional Republicans, who are watching their guy burn down the country but do nothing because what? they might have to face a competitive primary? oh the poor poor dears.

somewhere in an attic there is a portrait of a head of lettuce rotting most floridly.

lots of talk about how Ds should shut down the Senate, and i get it. but are there no Rs concerned about the vandalizing of the Federal govt by an unelected megadouche and some 14-year-olds? is there no chance of the legislative branch asserting itself as the legislative branch to say woah wtf?

but even on TV, the Canadian border?