Reich is spot on about this. The Supreme Court's opinion is far broader than the press has picked up on.
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Saturday, February 21, 2026
Friday, February 20, 2026
Lex Anteinternet: Supreme Court strikes down tariffs
Lex Anteinternet: Supreme Court strikes down tariffs: Supreme Court strikes down tariffs It's patently obvious that the tariffs in question were illegal. What wasn't obvious is that t...
So, a few things.
The Supreme Court ruling eliminates the 10% baseline tariff, the drug trafficking tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China, and the 145% effective rate on most Chinese goods.
Pretty predictable.
Trump of course is having a petty fit, running around calling people names, and the like.
Truth be known, while this is the right decision, and it is a blow to Trump, it probably saves him from being blamed for a tariff caused disaster.
Supreme Court strikes down tariffs
Supreme Court strikes down tariffs
It's patently obvious that the tariffs in question were illegal. What wasn't obvious is that the Supreme Court would uphold the law.
Left unanswered, does the U.S. have to pay the money back? It would seem that the answer should be yes.
Wednesday, February 18, 2026
Monday, February 18, 1946 The Royal Indian Navy Mutiny breaks out.
The Royal Indian Navy Mutiny began at the port of Colaba. It was the first mutiny in British India since 1857.
The mutiny started over inadequate food. It would rapidly spread.
Pope Pius XII announced the appointment of 32 new cardinals. The Rocky Mountain News had an article about it.
A California Federal Court held that segregation of schools in California was unconstitutional.
President Truman signed the Rescission Act of 1946 reducing (rescinding) the amounts of certain funds already designated for specific government programs, much of it for the U.S. military.
$200 million previously appropriated to the U.S. Army for ordnance service and supplies was transferred to the Army of the Philippines by way of the act.
Eisenhower was in Denver.
Last edition:
Saturday, February 16, 1946. Potato consumption. Frozen food. Helicopters.
Sunday, February 15, 2026
Monday, February 15, 1876. Texas adopts its current constitution.
Texas adopted its current state constitution.
FWIW, most states change constitutions fairly frequently.
Last edition.
Thursday, February 10, 1876. Terry ordered to take action against Sioux.
The 2026 Wyoming Legislature, Part 3. The Confederate Legislature Edition.
February 9, 2026.
The 2026 Wyoming legislature commences today.
It'll be the first one controlled by the Confederate Carpetbagger Caucus and therefore the first Wyoming legislature ever that doesn't have a strong element of moderation built into it. The carpetbaggers of the WFC captured it, backed in no small part by riding the Trump wave, the collapse of the stability of the oil and gas industry (which was never all that stable) and oddly enough a series of warm winters that would have sent a lot of these people back to where they were from. Instead, they stayed and brought their Dixiecrat disgruntlement into the state.
It seems that people are actually starting to wake up to them in numbers for the first time. They're gutting UW, education, and local governments, as people living in 1930s Alabama don't need none o' that stuff. They've brought in with them a certain American sort of far right Evangelical view as well, something extremely foreign to the state. And they're backed by money from out of state, one of which sends around Instagram messages as "Honor Wyoming" but which does anything but.
Wyomingites who thought the WFC were just conservative have been shocked to find that ain't so.
The thing is, it might be too late. Or it might not be. They have the numbers not to do a lot of things, but they don't have the numbers to override vetoes.
This is a budget session, so it should only have 20 working days. That hasn't stopped legislators from trying to introduce all sorts of things in the past, and it won't this year. Here' are the prefiled bills:
There are a lot of weird laws in this pack, but I'm just going to start off with this WFC one. HB 01119 would ban the use of "foreign law" in Wyoming, and under its own terms, accidentally wipe out the complete body of civil law in the state, which specifically was adopted as being English Common Law.
This is an example of the sort of ignorant paranoia on the far right that preserved abortion in Wyoming.
Cont:
The Governor and Chief Justice spoke.
Senate File 51, allowing for transferable landowner tags, a terrible wildlife privatization concept, died on introduction.
The Confederate Caucus revealed its agenda.
Prohibiting infanticide, I'd note, is something I agree with, but it's the far right's fault that it was preserved in Wyoming, which they need to wake up to.
Footnotes:
*In past years I ran the table of bills and much of the text of various bills on the trailing thread for that year's legislature. It made for lots of threads that grew really long.
That's hard to slog through, so this year I'm trying something different and putting that stuff on a seperate page. It's up as a link now, but it'll likely go down as a link, although still be possible to bring up from the threads, when the 2026 Legislature is thankfully over.
February 10, 2025
The Confederate Caucus isn't starting off with much success. Wyoming voters apparently have awakened about them and their representation is taking note.
School funding bill dies in Wyoming House: The Legislature is constitutionally required to undergo so-called ‘recalibration.’ The bill, drafted in the legislative off season, was unpopular among educators.
The Confederates went to their playbook and blamed "liberal Republicans", which really don't exist in Wyoming's legislature.
Some other stupid bills died as well, including the paranoid geoengineering bill and a constitutional amendment on property tax valuation.
The Business Council seems to have survived.
It's a budget session, we need to keep in mind, so 2/3s of a body is needed to introduce a bill.
Lawmakers kill dozens of bills on budget session’s first day
More data here:
February 11, 2026
Gordon: It's Refreshing To See So Many Bills Die Because It's A Budget Session, After All
It is, although it does point out the need to end the WFC's chapter in Wyoming politics, as next year may well be different.
Wyoming Freedom Caucus calls foul on committee bill decimation: In a blow to the Republican group’s majority bloc, 21 committee bills failed introduction on Monday in the House— more than twice the number the caucus killed in the last budget session, when it was in the minority.
Funny, the Confederate Caucus was just beginning to make a stumbling effort to counter the growing "you're batshit crazy" movement countering them with "it's democracy", dragging out Cassie Cravens to with some potted meat, when now they're crying foul about how democracy works.
Amongst the WFC's members, a fellow in the news a lot recently had a bad result.
Allemand-sponsored nuclear waste bill fails Wyoming House introduction
And this:
Wyoming House Kills Bill To Make Counties Pay Costs For Self-Defense Acquittals
And this is interesting:
Guest Column: The Hidden Price of Tax Relief — What Every Wyoming Citizen Should Know
It's interesting in part as Steinmetz, the author, is an "ally" of the WFC, and she's breaking ranks.
I will say the "hidden" aspect of this is complete crap. Anyone who paid attention, including anyone in the WFC who was following, knew that this would gut local entities like a fish. For the most part, they simply didn't care.
Indeed, the carpetbagger element of this is really strong here. WFC supporters include a fair amount of carpetbaggers who moved in here from other state, bought property at inflated values, and don't want to be taxed. They really don't care if towns and cities don't have services or if kids aren't educated. They raised their kids elsewhere and, American style, abandoned them somewhere else. They're happy to sit i in their McMansions in a town with no local services as they're old and they aren't going to use them.
But now legislators are hearing from people who are from here, and who want a police department, a fire department, decent towns, and to educate their kids.
February 13, 2026
Wyoming lawmakers will investigate checks activist gave to legislators on House floor: The incident in question occurred Monday night when Rebecca Bextel of Jackson handed out campaign donation checks. The House voted unanimously in support of the investigation.
Change to Wyoming law to recognize legality of corner crossing clears early hurdles: Although it’s been smooth sailing so far, the measure still has “98 yards to go” in the legislative process and faces opposition from influential parties.
Bill to put abortion-related question to voters fails Senate introduction: The measure would have asked voters to amend the Wyoming Constitution so the Legislature can define health care. It comes on the heels of a Wyoming Supreme Court decision striking down state abortion bans.
On the last item, the ghost of the constitutional amendment regarding "health care" now appears in the legislature, which provided the reason that some Republicans voted against the bill.
February 14, 2026, Valentine's Day.
Wyoming Freedom Caucus in Cheyenne.
Well, the first week of the legislature is over and it proved to be an interesting, and surprising, one.
The Confederate Carpetbagger Caucus went into the session with its orders from out of state interests and extreme right wing agenda and ran right into, well, Wyomingites.
It also ran into its own ignorance.
Full of piss and vinegar, the collection of carpetbaggers and carpetbagger drones simply figured it had the numbers and it was going to return the state to November 11, 1620. It forgot, apparently, that in a budget session it needs a supermajority to introduce legislation, and while it may have the majority, it doesn't have that.
It was also taken off guard by a sudden rise in attention to it by regular people from the state, which now that they are more informed, are starting to organize against it. They haven't been able to get back on their feet from that, with perhaps the most pathetic response being Cassie Craven's "but don't you still love us?".
We never did.
All this is bad news for the WFC as it may have shot its bolt. Candidates are starting to come out to take them on, as evidenced by the Mayor of Bar Nunn coming out against Freedom Caucuser Bill Allemand.
And the exposing of their money supply hasn't been a good thing for any of them, even though those who were watching them carefully knew about it all along. Likewise, that they were fed canned legislation was well known, but it was not known that they were basically fed instructions on what to do.
Amongst those whom its not good news for is Chuck Gray, who turned the state's voters roles over to his beloved, Donald Trump, because Donny asked for them. Gray adores Trump like a teenage bride adores her husband and is making that the gist of his campaign, Trump Love, but he's responsible for a bunch of WFC voting bills that went down in flames. He's running for the House against Jillian Balow, Reid Ransner and David Giralt. I suspect that this sort of thing really starts to boost Balow. Gray is really detested by a lot of people to start with, and Giralt to unknown. Rasner is a gadfly. Gray's term as Secretary of State end in January, 2027 and if he doesn't secure the House his political career in the state is at an end.
Amongst the bill casualties so far has been the bill on abortion. This also signifies, fwie, a return of Wyoming politics to the middle. I'm opposed to abortion so I would like to have seen that bill advance, but it's the case that for eons Wyoming Republicans opposed abortion more or less, but wouldn't act to make it illegal. The first time that the legislature ever passed anything doing that was right after Dodds, and that's the statute, or statutes, that died in court. It was killed there by an amendment to the constitution that was designed to protect individual health care decisions from the fantasy of AHCA death panes, and it became a death panel itself. So effectively the state returns to the status quo ante on abortion, thanks to the GOP in the first place.
So we'll see what next week brings.
February 15, 2026
And, finishing up this past week:
Laramie County sheriff launches criminal investigation into Wyoming Legislature check controversy: The inquiry will examine whether campaign donation checks distributed to lawmakers amount to bribery.
Sheriff Investigating Check Passing Scandal In Wyoming Legislature
I suppose it shouldn't surprise anyone too much to learn that Bextel, the check giver, is from Alabama, although she lived in Guatemala as a Protestant missionary, that part of the world having Protestant missions that seek to convert people who are already Christians. She's been in Wyoming about twenty years.
It'll probably turn out not to be criminal, but the act of giving out checks on the floor was monumentally dumb, as was the act of receiving them that way.
Cheyenne Roundup 2026: Episode 2 | Checkgate, dead bills and the start of the session: Bills are flying and dying in the Wyoming Legislature’s budget session. And lawmakers haven’t even touched the budget itself yet.
Related threads:
In Full Debate On University of Wyoming Budget Cuts, Lawmakers Ask If It's Retaliation The Wyoming House and Senate debated a $40 million cut to the University of Wyoming on Thursday, with the budget committee co-chair John Bear confirming the number was meant to "get their attention." He said legislative directives on DEI were ignored.
Last edition:
The 2026 Wyoming Legislature, Part 2. Pre Legislative Committee Edition.
Wednesday, February 11, 2026
Pam Bondi on Epstein.
A person who will be regarded as a complete stooge.
Of course it starts with White Flash Jordan, a man who doesn't know how to wear a sports coat.
Sunday, February 8, 2026
Playing stupid games on health care and winning stupid prizes on abortion.
Exactly what backers of Art 1 § 38 should have known would occur. Lampoon posted under fair use exception as I couldn't think of a more applicable illustration.
Wyoming Constitution Art. 1, § 38. Right of health care access
(a) Each competent adult shall have the right to make his or her own health care decisions. The parent, guardian or legal representative of any other natural person shall have the right to make health care decisions for that person.
(b) Any person may pay, and a health care provider may accept, direct payment for health care without imposition of penalties or fines for doing so.
(c) The legislature may determine reasonable and necessary restrictions on the rights granted under this section to protect the health and general welfare of the people or to accomplish the other purposes set forth in the Wyoming Constitution.
(d) The state of Wyoming shall act to preserve these rights from undue governmental infringement.
Jonathan Lange: The Supreme Court Owes Us An Explanation
Hmm, depends a bit on how he voted on the dumbass Art. 1, § 38..
'Lange has a point, as much as I hate to admit it. But the party that really owes the state an explanation is the paranoid sots who backed the Constitutional amendment set out above from 2024, and those who voted for it, about a right to make your own medical decisions, which you already had, as they feared AHCA meant death panels.
That was freakin' absurd.
Lange, did you vote for it?
This was really predictable. That set it up. It was obvious.
Nobody is more opposed to abortion, which I regard as infanticide, than me. Indeed, my views in this general area are probably far more "conservative" than most peoples.
And to extend it, I'm not in favor of the death penalty either.
And, no, I don't think abortion is health care by a long measure, but if this hadn't been passed, the question would never have come up.
But to set this in the constitution of the state, what the crap did you think would happen? It puts the court in the place of making an existential decision.
A really easy one to make, in my view, but if you take my view, on natural rights, a lot of right wingers wouldn't be very comfortable, very soon.
Thursday, January 29, 2026
Wars and Rumors of War, 2026. Part 1. The Return of the Neo Con Edition.
You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.
Matthew, Chapter 24.
No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
James Madison
January 2, 2026.
The United States v. Iran
We start off this year with the no more forever wars president threatening to intervene in Iran.
Iran is a bad actor, without a doubt, but what we'd particularly note here is that Trump's policy of intervention is beginning to look a lot like the Neo Con policy. A person can like that, or not, but it's not what he was promising at all. I'd heard various Trump supporters cite the "no more forever wars" line as (one of) their reasons for supporting him.
January 3, 2026
United States v. Venezuela
The United States hit Venezuela with a “large-scale strike” early Saturday and took Maduro and his wife prisoner.
No Declaration of War exists, of course, and there's no Congressional authorization for the use of force. This is, therefore, an illegal operation.
The news is too early to really make any definitive predictions about how this will turn out. Wars, however, tend to end when the attacked party decides they are over. Maybe this will tip the scales in Venezuela and things will change. Or maybe his followers dig in and carry on, in which case we are now committed to a wider conventional war, and perhaps a following guerilla war.
U.S. Delta Force seizes Venezuelan leader, sources say
US military captures Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro after striking military sites
The US Is Attempting Regime Change In Venezuela
Cont:
Trump's comments on the raid on Maduro:
As usual, when he reads a prepared statement, he sounds awful. While called to address the illegal attack in Venezuela, it meandered into the usual Trump mental mush addressing various Trump favorite topics and fantasies. Use of the National Guard in various states ended up being addressed by the clearly senile illegal occupant of the Oval Office.1
Trump has made it clear the U.S. intends to occupy Venezuela, apparently forgetting that simply seizing the head of state doesn't amount to a full surrender of anyone opposing a U.S. presence. This will require thousands of U.S. troops on a continent in which we've never had boots on the ground. People aligned with Maduro have no reason to cooperate with the US at all, and have plenty of reason not to.
Inside Venezuela there were protests over the U.S. action. Outside of the country Venezuelan expats celebrated the news.
Trump also made it clear that he intends to reverse the fifty year old nationalization of Venezuelan oil. Either Trump, or more likely somebody in his regime, has a real pre World War One view of the world, as this example of imperialism and gunboat diplomacy makes clear. Trump actually cited the Monroe Doctrine and his new security priorities.
Trump justified the action on the basis of ending Venezuelan drug exports to the U.S.
By way of a set of predictions, and knowing more about the use of military force that Donald Trump does, if the U.S. isn't in complete control of the country within thirty days, this will evolve into a guerilla war requiring no less than 100,000 U.S. troops. If the U.S. hasn't turned the country over to Venezuelans within one year, it'll evolve into a low grade guerilla war requiring no less than 50,000 boots on the ground.
January 4, 2026
United States v. Venezuela
So where are we now?
Yesterday it looked like, for awhile, that effectively what the US had done was to have mounted a coup of the Venezuelan government with the silent complicency of Venezuelan VP Delcy Rodríguez, sidestepping Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado Parisca.
Then came Trump's babbling senile statement about the operation.
Delcy Rodríguez was sworn in as the country's President. She's just as left wing and Maduro, and she immediately indicated that she regard Maduro as the President and that she's not cooperating with the US.
So, what was achieved? We don't know, but unless we're going to do a full scale invasion of Venezuela, all we may have done is replace one left wing leader with another.
A bit closer to home, sort of:
Well, of course they did. Was there any doubt?
January 5, 2026
Yemeni Civil War
Saudi backed forces retook Mukalla.
Nigeria
Gunmen killed 30 in Kasuwan-Daji.
Syria
Britain and France carried out a joint airstrike late Saturday on an underground facility where members of the ISIL were located.
United States v. Venezuela
Pope Leo XIV commented on Venezuelan independence yesterday, stating:
The good of the beloved Venezuelan people must prevail over every other consideration and lead us to overcome violence and to undertake paths of justice and peace, safeguarding the country’s sovereignty, ensuring the rule of law enshrined in the Constitution, respecting the human and civil rights of each person and of all, and working to build together a serene future of collaboration, stability, and concord, with special attention to the poorest who suffer because of the difficult economic situation.
Columbian guerilla groups Unión Camilista Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN) and FARC (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia) issued a warning to the US about the US having a presence in Venezuela.
FARC is a Communist guerilla movement while the ELN is a "Catholic Communist" or Liberation Theology guerilla movement. Columbia is their main focus, but they operate in Venezuela.
While the raid has been portrayed as lacking casualties on the U.S. side, U.S. troops were in fact wounded and have been air evacuated to the U.S.
Something being reported this morning:
January 6, 2022
United States v. Venezuela
Wyoming’s Barrasso, Lummis back Trump’s Venezuelan invasion, Hageman silent: Rep. Hageman, who’s running to replace Lummis, has been mum on the military strikes and Maduro’s capture.
Hageman's failure to say anything is really interesting. MAGA boosted the platform of "no more forever wars" but the US has been fighting everywhere, and is threatening to attack a NATO ally, Denmark, over Greenland, an act that would be deeply immoral and flat out insane. Indeed, the fact that the country is being lead by a mad man is increasingly clear, with most Republicans doing nothing about it.
Wyoming has had a strong commitment to the military. Indeed, an overly strong one as not only do an unusually large number of Wyomingites volunteer for military service, which is admirable, the state had nearly supported a military against the government attitude in recent years. Now, with it appearing that the US might send Wyoming's sons and daughters to die in Venezuelan jungles while doing something that will gut the state's oil industry, some may be having second thoughts. Hageman may be hedging her bets for her Senate run, or she may actually be among those who are horrified by the insane neo colonialism of the Trump interregnum.
January 6, 2026
Venezuela and Greenland.
There's a lot of weird war related news circulating today.
Trump claims that the government of Venezuela is going to, well, here:
Frankly, I don't believe that this will occur. Much of what Trump has been saying about Venezuela is a lie and I suspect this is too.
If it isn't a lie, Wyomingites are going to get another dope slap from the demented fool they voted for. It'll take the price of oil in the state for years. It's at $46.37, below profitability, right now.
Of course, the goal would be to depress the price of oil, which consumers in most locations want depressed, even though we ought to be weaning ourselves off of oil. But closer to home, this is another example of why Wyomingites are absolute idiots to vote for the GOP.
The Nobel Peace Prize winning Venezuelan woman who probably ought to be running the country is headed home. Hopefully she takes over the government, although there's every sign that the Venezuelan socialist party will continue to do so and not much will really change.
Trump, who is demented, is now threatening Greenland.
If we lived in a sane time they'd be taking him out of the Oval Office in a straight jacket, but the Republican Party is now largely bat shit crazy so there's a real chance we'll do this, even while, for the first time, some Republican leaders are dismissing it.
Trump needs to be removed via the 25th Amendment, and like yesterday.
January 8, 2026
United States v. Venezuela
It looks like Il Duce Don's intervention in Venezuela is receiving the same treatment the outbreak of the Second World War did in Nazi Germany
Does The US Public Have A Different Idea Of What Makes America "Great"?
Public Reaction to the Venezuela intervention Is Surprising
Readers of the epic The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich will recall that while many Germans were enthusiastic about Hitler coming to power, the public was not thrilled at all with the outbreak of World War Two. Quite the opposite, in fact.
The difference, maybe, is that democracy had already fled in Germany by 1939, whereas its trying to hold on in the United States.
cont:
Rubio Details Plan to Sell Venezuela’s Oil and Guide the Country’s Post-Maduro Future
This is being hailed in some quarters as a rational plan, fitting into sort of a trend line to express relief when Marco Rubio says something as opposed to Donald Trump.
Well, at least it's a plan.
The problem with it is that it really requires Venezuela's cooperation and there's no reason to believe that will be forthcoming. In this sense, it's likely to be like the 1954 Geneva plan for Vietnam, which everyone agreed was a nifty plan, and never stood a chance.
The main goal of the Socialist in Venezuela right now is no doubt to stay in power, which the Trump administration seems content to let them do. That may be because Rubio knows that removing them would involve a large-scale war.
So, we're going to sell some oil. We'll probably invest in their petroleum infrastructure. The whole thing will depress the price of oil, to the detriment of US producers, and most of the people we were complaining about in Venezuela keep their jobs.
cont:
The Senate voted to have a vote on a War Powers Resolution that would prohibit further military action in Venezuela.
Contrary to some reporting, this does not have an immediate effect of prohibiting further action in Venezuela, but there may very well be the votes to do that, in which case there are definitely enough to prohibit actions against Denmark in an insane effort to seize Greenland.
Trump is, of course, upset. This may very well take the wheels off of the Venezuelan go cart.
Also, in related news, the administration is proposing a $1.5T budget, that's trillion, for defense next year, which is also insane. The country doesn't have that kind of money. Frankly a person has to wonder if that is just some sort of bribe to the military, which may not be all that happy about some current events.
Some in the traditional conservative camp, on the other hand, are very enthusiastic over Marco Rubio and Venezuela, although no element of realism seems to have sunk into the facts that in reality, the country is run by the same political groups that were running it last week and there's very little that can be done about that other than a war of economic attrition.
January 9, 2026
Russo Ukrainian War
The US has issued a warning to U.S. citizens in Ukraine to expect a significant Russian areas attack within the next few days.
United States v. Mexico
Trump threatened in a recent interview to hit drug cartel sites in Mexico, something the Mexican government will not welcome, and will likely resist.
This was something he asked about doing in his legitimate term, and was held back by the sane people in his first administration.
Iran
Iran is experiencing such widespread civil strife it appears to becoming unglued.
Misc:
Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth,and Homeland Security advisor Stephen Miller have all moved on to military bases out of security concerns.
Iran
Iran appears to be headed towards outright revolution.
January 11, 2026
United States v. ISIL
The US hit targets in Syria again yesterday.
January 16, 2026
United States v. Denmark
European countries, members of NATO, have sent troops to Greenland because of the insane threats by the demented clown in the White House.
January 18, 2026.
United States v. ISIL
More airstrikes in Syria.
January 21, 2026
Israel v. Gaza
Donald Trump rolled out his Bored of Peas at Davos that's supposed to keep the peace in Gaza. It's impossible to take seriously given its makeup.
And we'll conclude this edition with that pathetic action by the would be demented caudillo.
January 29, 2026
United States v. Iran
Trump is weighing a major new strike on Iran after preliminary discussions between Washington and Tehran over limiting the country’s nuclear program and ballistic missile production failed to make progress.
Wait, you're thinking, we were going to war against Iran over the government killing protestors? That's the Iranian government killing Iranian protestors, not the U.S. government killing American protestors. . . that's different.
Nope, it's missiles and the nuclear program.
Wait, you're thinking, we wiped out their nuclear program.
Um. . . .
United States v. Venezuela
PAUL: So I would ask you, if a foreign country bombed our air defense missiles, captured and removed our president, and blockaded our country, would that be considered an act of war?RUBIO; We just don't believe that this operation comes anywhere close to the constitutional definition of war.PAUL: Well, would it be an act of war if someone did it to us? Nobody dies, a few casualties, they're in and out, boom, it's a perfect military operation. Would that be an act of war? Of course it would be an act of war.
And with that quite correct observation, we'll close out this edition.
Footnotes:
1. A real irony is present here in that Maduro was not the legitimate head of state, at this point, of Venezuela, and Donald Trump is not the legitimate head of state of the United States.
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