And bipartisan! Surely this will send a message

There are (half) dozens of us!

I sure hope it was strongly worded.

beat me to it

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"He learned his lesson"...

Did she furrow her brow yet? Clutch any pearls?

In 2025, distillate (or diesel) fuel consumption (excluding biodiesel and renewable diesel) by the U.S. transportation sector was about 2.94 million barrels per day, or about 123 million gallons per day.

123,000,000 gallons per day. Diesel weighs 7 pounds per gallon so 861,000,000 pounds or 430,500 tons per day.

This first shipment will not cover 1 days fuel cost. But what it will do is give a big pile of money to Putin.

But it's enough for them to blame the Dems when things aren't magically fixed after they win in the Midterms. The idiots eat that shit up because they have absolutely no idea how a national economy works. Republican economic policies are consistently bad for everyone that's not in the 1% and yet they vote for them all the time because they're told told policies are good for them, regardless of the reality they deal with daily.

I feel like that's the worst part of this: he's undermined what had been a reasonably unified international campaign for what, like 2 days of diesel?

Even if they had it loaded it would be 3 weeks away.

Even if that deal works out and everything gets delivered on time, the price would go down cents after Iran war raised the price a few dollars.

94 senators in favor of or indifferent towards heavily sponsoring the war crimes of a geopolitical adversary.

94? Dems hold 47 seats and their actions have been carte blanche in favor of Ukraine. So, their position is well known. Its 49 Republican senators that act indifferent.

I mean, if we knew he was doing it, it wouldn't be so quiet. Too much of his cabinet (which would need to vote for it) are unwavering Trump sycophants, but maybe there are enough not-Pete-Hegseths that he could pull it off.

But for Vance's own sake, he may be best off waiting until after midterms/inauguration in case he needs to cut any deals with the next Congress.

Probably because Vance has to be one of the most unpopular people ever. Seriously, they're hanging on because of the cult like devotion to trump. Nix him and go to Vance? Their support drops from high 20s to sub 10s

Wouldn't doing that with less than half a term left mean that he could then only be elected for one term? So to maximize his own (and Thiel's) potential power, he'd want to do it right after January 20th. IANAL and obviously IADNACL.

If Vance was plotting this, the 25th is not the way to go. He would need to get half the Cabinet on board, and then when Trump inevitably challenges it it would take 2/3 vote in both houses to toss Trump out.

It would be much better if Vance simply built up support for an impeachment vote. Trump is doing a ton of things that would have gotten anyone else booted by now. And then all that's needed of a simple majority in the House with no Cabinet input. Still 2/3 of the Senate, but that might end up being only about 15 Republicans after the elections.

What?