Suppose that Congress resolved, by a simple majority, that Trump engaged in insurrection and is therefore ineligible for any office of the United States?

Such a resolution shouldn’t be necessary, under the Constitution’s plain language, but after Trump v Anderson, that would do it, right?

the choice has always been social democracy or catastrophe.

we've been dilatory.

at some level i think this whole thing is just a well-executed plan to make members of the United States’ leadership class have to work as taxi drivers like Vladimir Putin did.

“One million children will not be treated for severe acute malnutrition. Up to 166,000 people will die from malaria. New cases of tuberculosis will go up by 30%. Two hundred thousand more children will be paralyzed by polio over the next decade.” https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doge-rubio-usaid-musk-death-toll-malaria-polio-tuberculosis

they finally took away our avocado toast. it is for our own good.

all crypto is now $TRUMP.

i never strangled you. i simply effectuated a pause on your breathing. if you chose not to restart after the pause, that’s on you.

didn't they campaign on bringing back the romance, that sense of surprise, when, um, the tornado demolished your home? https://m.ai6yr.org/@ai6yr/114100647524431078

"The murderous insanity of all this is scarcely possible to describe." @ryanlcooper speaks plainly about what one is doing when one purposefully shatters the global public health system with no transition or replacement. https://prospect.org/world/2025-03-03-musk-doge-pepfar-hiv-tuberculosis/

"A week ago, Atlanta Fed’s nowcast of consumption was 2.2% q/q annualized; now it’s zero… In the 11 or so years of nowcasted consumption growth, there have been no instances of negative values (or zero values) outside of 2020…this is a somewhat remarkable occurrence." #MenzieChinn https://econbrowser.com/archives/2025/03/nowcasted-consumption-falls-to-stall-speed

#economics

impeach. convict. remove. rinse. repeat.
impeach. convict. remove. rinse. repeat.
impeach. convict. remove. rinse. repeat.

@artcollisions yes! though i've not watched the film yet.

it's remarkable the term gaslighting was invented prior to this administration.

cf @ddayen on Schroedinger's CFPB. https://prospect.org/economy/2025-03-03-cfpb-we-didnt-mean-stop-work-russell-vought/

@ewisniowski @marick @SteveRoth @mpjgregoire @swart it’s interesting timing to read the Heath piece. the immovable object of American suspicion of executive power has finally been overcome by the irresistible force of a DGAF administration. the result is likely to be catastrophe.

executive power has thick tails. you really want to pair it with institutions of good judgment that would bias towards the rightward tail.

in policy, you can never get it just right. you should try to get close, but perhaps more importantly, you have to choose in which direction it will be less costly to err, then condition your choices so they will err — hopefully not too much but inevitably — in that direction. going for symmetrical optimality is foolish hubris.

maybe we could have a strategic sportsbets reserve too.

drain the swamp.

screenshot from thread beginning https://xcancel.com/ustreasury/status/1896348155522039985

[new draft post] Meeting Starter https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/03/02/meeting-starter/index.html

so any progress in, you know, the US Congress, the branch that controls the money, on funding a US Crypto Reserve?

(genuinely asking! it certainly wouldn't surprise me if this craven caucus included it in a budget in deference to dear leader.)

@john you are a generous man.