I was about to complain yet again “that’s not how it works”, but then I looked up the text again and this is explicitly allowed. Congress can set up a commission that basically takes the place of the Cabinet for 25th Amendment purposes. So now all this talk of the 25th amendment makes a bit more sense to me.

They still need a 2/3 margin in both houses even after the commission makes their determination, because the idiot is guaranteed to contest it. But maybe there is some truth to the idea that Republicans won’t vote to impeach but would vote to declare him incompetent, based on his dumb tweets

Maybe Trump will fire him

Preferably out of a cannon

It’s not his worst week, he hasn’t killed a pope yet

I would start with Duck Soup.

Which Marx Brother is your favorite?

The folks who wrote that book of the Bible probably has Nero in mind when they wrote it. But there have been narcissistic assholes since the beginning of time, and it’s no accident that many of the descriptions of Nero from 2000 years ago also fit Trump.

I know it’s kind of sexist, but I keep thinking they are talking about the “Strait of Hormones” and that all these fat old men are just having Irritable Male Syndrome, just with more missiles and death than if women were in charge.

There are backup plans, they are just more costly. Big Gas companies will just pass that cost down the line. Trust me, those companies were never in danger of losing money.

No, you won’t have to pay taxes on that cash when importing it. But you can bet that CBP will ask nosy questions about where you got it. And unless you can satisfy them that you got it by legitimate means, they will assume you got it by illegal means and confiscate it. It’s called “civil asset forfeiture”. Look it up.

However, as a US citizen you still technically owe income taxes on all your worldwide income. But you would settle that with the IRS regardless of whether or not the money ever makes it back to the US.

Now, this situation is one of the few legitimate use cases for crypto. Find someone locally who will sell you a few hundred BTC with that cash, and now CBP has nothing to find at the airport. Then cash it out once you are in the States. The IRS would still be interested in where you got the money, because they monitor all the ways to get cash out of the Crypto ecosystem into the US. But, as long as you have documentation of your lottery win (and crypto transfers) and file it all it shouldn’t be an issue. I would prefer to take my chances as a documemted rich person by the IRS than as a rando who shows up at Newark with a briefcase of foreign currency.

Stephen Miller as a young man:

The toilet handled solid and liquid waste differently. Solid waste was stored for disposal on earth, liquid waste was stored in a smaller container and intended to be periodically vented out into the void. But the mechanism for that froze, and the container they had to store it in was too small for the whole trip, so they had to use a backup supply of pee bags for pee instead of the toilet.

I wonder if we were saved from an even worse fate, and if the toilet had worked as planned we would be destroyed at some point in the future by a race of aliens who we accidentally peed on when we threw our pee overboard in space

The issue, though, is that when only Conservatives have kids, the next generation grows up even more Conservative.

Hard to say who’s better between the two. They both suck. But the advantage he has is that the party is gonna tip the scales for him, because it’s his turn.

She knows it requires her to hoover up a bunch of votes, then back out before Super Tuesday to endorse Gavin

Oh shit, all the times I’ve seen that photo and never noticed that detail…

That may not work the way you think it will, but that’s a spoiler for the second movie, IIRC.

Just get a carrot nose, you can be the snowman. His schtick is that he can’t wait for Summer, because he doesn’t realize he’ll melt.

(Yeah, that’s a spoiler, but if you haven’t seen the movie yet you don’t care)

Where’s the link?

“Once the email arrives and Iran completes its assessment, vessels are given a few seconds to pay in bitcoin, ensuring they can’t be traced or confiscated due to sanctions,” Hosseini told the newspaper.

Oh shit, it’s one thing to be on the wrong side of the US Army. But the Iranians are about to be on the wrong side of Monero shills, who will loudly proclaim “Bitcoin isn’t untraceable, they should use Monero instead” from the comfort of their parents’ basement…

Actually, this one has some facts behind it. To the extent that Trump has any faith, it was shaped by Norman Vincent Peale, as the Trump family attended his church in Manhattan. Peale’s theology isn’t quite as “fuck poor people” as Prosperity Theology, but is just as narcissistic.