Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino marches through Minneapolis surrounded by federal agents, shouting at American citizens.
— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) January 17, 2026
This isn’t about deporting “the worst of the worst.” It’s about deliberately sowing fear and chaos in cities that oppose the Trump regime pic.twitter.com/zxP10HVsll
Clearly the Marines are needed to quell this violence…?Reporter: Francisco Longoria was stopped in his car with his teenage son in the passenger seat. One of the Border Patrol agents smashes the glass, and then Longoria drives away. It's very clear that there were no federal agents or vehicles in front of Longoria's vehicle, and yet… pic.twitter.com/BlQGYcPpPh
— FactPost (@factpostnews) January 16, 2026
JFC, this perennial again? You read it, dipshit:Lars is perfectly right:
— Anders Åslund (@anders_aslund) January 18, 2026
1. Trump is obviously mentally ill.
2. Any sany democratic nation would have removed this mentally ill person from power,
3. But the US is too useless to do that.
The US, get your act together!
Read the 25th amendment! https://t.co/JCol0Rvv6i
Section 3Sections 1 and 2 concern succession, not removal. Nor does this remove the President from office. And read it carefully: it can only be implemented AGAINST the POTUS by the VPOTUS and a majority of the Cabinet. And then it becomes a fight between those parties to keep the POTUS out of power. At best, VPOTUS is only Acting President; and the POTUS can challenge that, and even throw it into Congress.
Whenever the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that he is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, and until he transmits to them a written declaration to the contrary, such powers and duties shall be discharged by the Vice President as Acting President.
Section 4
Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President. Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.
Much more sensible.Congress can stop ICE. Congress can block the use of force in Greenland. In other words, in this crisis, Congress can act to support civil liberties at home and free nations abroad. To fail to act would be to be complicit in a dreadful outcome.
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) January 18, 2026
Hmmmmm.....Debts canceled by pardons pic.twitter.com/9AfPsrRmx7
— Boston Smalls (@smalls2672) January 18, 2026
Will the EO will also designate which broadcaster carries the game (Trump is unaware of streaming)?Trump Says He Will Sign Executive Order Giving Army-Navy Football Game an Exclusive TV Window https://t.co/GhtSKgBjTB
— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) January 18, 2026
RMJ, I have owed you an update on my seminary studies. I was overwhelmed over the holidays with the good and challenging (became a grandfather, yeah!, finished the fall semester, an early Christmas with all our children and their special plus ones, and moved my parents from 7 hours away into assisted living close by we can help them more easily.
ReplyDeleteThis semester I am taking a preaching class, and today I preached the sermon (and children's sermon) at my home church. The reading was Matthew 5:1-12, the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount containing the Beatitudes. I tried to have the sermon speak to the moment, showing imperial Rome manifested in today's world and the blessing of the peacemakers among others.
Children sermon at 11:15, introduction to the text at 21:00, folled by a group reading of Matthew and the sermon proper.
https://youtu.be/u_1uyoSmPJI?feature=shared
YouTube link, so iy should be less problematic. Hopefully this will serve as where I am in my studies until I can post something more complete.
As I mention, if you are sad and mourn the broken state of our world, you blessed.
Peace be with you.
I haven’t watched the YouTube (yet), but what a lovely message and exegesis in your comment.
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