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Guess I have to buy another paper tomorrow.

Unfortunately, they can only create that commission if the president signs it, or they have a veto-proof majority, or they send it to JD while Trump has executed Section 3 of the 25th.

Impeachment action is limited to “Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors”.

Impeachment is not permitted for simple incompetence.

Congress is only empowered to remove the president by convicting him of a criminal act. Congress does not have the power to remove the president for dementia. Dementia is not a “high crime” or “misdemeanor”.

To remove the president for dementia (or simple incompetence or other non-criminal disqualification) requires the 25th amendment. The VP needs the support of either the majority of the cabinet, or a majority of “some other body” that Congress has established for the purpose.

Flux. Flux. Flux. Flux. Flux.

Your joints look like mine when I don’t have any flux.

Get yourself a couple liquid flux pens, some paste flux, solder braid, and a squirt bottle of rubbing alcohol to clean up.

Flux is about 75% of a clean, perfect solder joint. Get the flux right and everything else gets easy.

Learn what “wetting” means. Compare a drop of water falling on waxed paper vs on a paper towel. The water drop does not “wet” the waxed paper; it just beads up on the surface. Solder does exactly the same thing.

If the substrate is not hot, or if it is dirty, or has an oxide layer on it, the solder will not “wet” the substrate. Flux cleans the surface and removes the oxide layer, so that solder will wet the hot substrate.

You want to look at the shape the solder pool takes at the very edges. If the solder beads up, forming a convex, ball shape, it didn’t wet the surface; it’s a “cold” joint that may fail. If it forms a concave, “dished” shape, it wetted the surfaces, and has formed a strong joint.

The trick is to get all parts of the joint hot at the same time, without overheating anything. Flux and a well tinned (“wetted”) iron make that easier.

The problem comes when a public school’s IT department is deciding whether to go with a FOSS option, or a commercial OS. As the IT team has full control over the FOSS OS, the school will be held liable as the OS provider. They will select a commercial OS to avoid liability under these idiot laws.

IIRC, a few swing states have signed on. I’d count them as red for these purposes. But yeah, to make this work, they’re going to need several red states that they aren’t going to get.

Nothing in here about a commission.

There certainly is, you’re just not understanding what role that commission will perform. The commission is the “some other body” that Congress may provide to serve in lieu of the heads of the executive department.

A Congressional majority could just announce the President unfit and kick power over to the VP immediately.

No, actually, they can’t. Incompetence is not an impeachable offense. They would have to hold what is effectively a criminal trial in the Senate. They would have to find him guilty of something beyond a reasonable doubt. That’s the evidentiary standard they would have to meet.

With the 25th, they merely have to indicate they have lost faith in his ability to perform the job. That’s it.

His tweets threatening nuclear war with Iran are not enough to impeach him. He technically has the authority to make those threats. He can’t be impeached for those threats.

Those same tweets are a perfectly valid justification for removing him under the 25th.

Very clear?

Wisconsin law explicitly allows 16-18 year olds to carry rifles and shotguns, without supervision, so long as they aren’t violating hunting laws. Want to know the easiest way not to violate a hunting law? Don’t hunt! If you aren’t hunting, you aren’t violating a hunting law and can carry a rifle at 16.

Why does this matter? This is why Kyle Rittenhouse is not in prison for carrying a rifle to a protest. The judge ruled that 17-year-old Rittenhouse could only be charged for carrying that rifle if he were using it to poach game. When he dropped the underage weapon charge, everything else Rittenhouse did in Kenosha became legal.

Very clear? No. It’s complete horseshit, derived from convoluted legislative revision and does not actually reflect the intent of any of the writers. But it is the law.

Don’t get me started on presidential term limits or birthright citizenship.

Every appellate court reversal; every supreme court decision is the direct result of unclear law.

Yeah, the only way the compact survives is if it would not have affected the outcome of an election. If it will have an effect, every red state in the compact will have legislation on the governor’s desk by election day, calling for the immediate withdrawal from the compact, before the EC meets. That legislation will be wildly popular among the voters of those states.

The compact presumes that the individual states officially publish their popular vote count prior to the EC vote count. An unaffiliated state (or multiple states) can unilaterally declare that they will not officially publish their popular vote count until after the EC meets. The members of the compact cannot provably know the popular vote count; they cannot provably know that they will be casting their votes for the winner of the national popular vote, as required by the compact.

That theoretical possibility is sufficient justification to overturn the whole compact.

Further, if there is every a scenario where the compact actually changes the outcome of an election, any state that would be forced to switch its EC vote will see their populace pushing for immediate withdrawal from the compact, before the EC can even meet. They will have legislation drawn up and ready to sign on election day, releasing their electors from the requirements of the compact.

As a theoretical exercise, the compact is interesting. As a practical alternative to the EC, it utterly fails.

Much less.

Nobody likes Vance. He was tapped for VP because he posed no apparent threat to 47. He can’t hold the MAGAt personality cult together.

And why he doesn’t. And since he needs to be involved in any 25th amendment action, he gets to decide whether to do it before or after January 20th.

Impeachment is a claim of malfeasance. 25th is a claim of simple incompetence. The standards of evidence in an impeachment are effectively similar to that of a criminal trial: guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.

The standards of evidence in a 25th amendment action are “reasonable belief”.

To impeach him for, say, threatening nuclear annihilation, prosecutors would have to prove that threat was illegally beyond his authority to issue that threat. Which would be difficult, because the president does, indeed, have the power to use nuclear weapons. Congress is free to refuse to act, or to drag their feet for months before acting.

To invoke the 25th amendment, Vance merely has to say that the president is not acting reasonably.

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.

This “other body” is the commission they are talking about.

That is not completely accurate:

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.

Congress can, indeed, create a commission that serves as a substitute to the cabinet for 25th amendment purposes.

A red state refuses to publish their voter tally.

Every blue state in the compact chooses to ignore that state.

Since they can’t know the true popular vote count, every red state in the compact has cover to refuse to cast blue EC votes as required by the compact.

If you and your state overwhelmingly votes for candidate A, yet your state’s EC votes are cast for Trump’s third term, you (or people like you) are going to demand your state withdraw from the compact.

If the compact ever actually affects an election, it will be scrapped in a hot minute.

A person presumed to possess the legal capacity for consent cannot have sex with a person presumed to lack that legal capacity. The teenager is not restricted; the adult is restricted.

When a camera is added, the law becomes inconsistent. The minor lacks the capacity to legally engage in sex, but is now (potentially) culpable in their own exploitation if they video themselves.

Are we talking Chihuahua or English Mastiff?

They aren’t rising. There is no shortage. The benefits to normal people far outweigh even your imagined harm.

He burned down a warehouse, not a factory.