That is exactly the point of what's going on: it's playing to the audience to set them up for radicalization. Whether that's electoral, intimidation of Democrats, terrorism, or whatever-the-frick-else, that's what's happening. obvs a true coup wound't happen w/o mil support.
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Replying to @steel_elk @Pinboard and
Anyone who’s seen a fight break out at a bar is familiar with this dynamic: this is the part where the drunk guy keeps escalating until he’s convinced himself that it’s time to throw a punch.
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Replying to @Dr_Memory @steel_elk and
Except the "drunk guy" controls the presidency, the Senate, SCOTUS is 6-3, majority of just-elected representatives are signing on to "stolen election" and whatever silent dissent there is within GOP is for mind-readers mostly.
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Replying to @zeynep @Dr_Memory and
I'll sign on to the coup if they promise to ban people from saying "SCOTUS"
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Replying to @Pinboard @Dr_Memory and
zeynep tufekci Retweeted Jonathan Oosting
I'll spell it out if you can tell me how all this is just political theater, just like every other election.https://twitter.com/jonathanoosting/status/1337505338124333057 …
zeynep tufekci added,
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Replying to @zeynep @Dr_Memory and
It's performative considering you and I and the Republican politicians and everyone else understands that it is not going to affect Monday's Electoral College vote, or the acceptance of that vote by the new Congress, or the subsequent peaceful transfer of power in January
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Unless I badly miss my law, faithless electors have the force of law.
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Replying to @steel_elk @Pinboard and
Only if Congress agrees to count that state’s slate.
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Replying to @TynanPants @steel_elk and
Yeah, we can tell ourselves scary ghost stories in the dark about all of this, just like the Post Office was going to hide ballots and so on. But I propose we check back in in January and test my claim that none of it happened
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Replying to @Pinboard @TynanPants and
“None of it happened” is back to “yes I pulled the trigger but my aim is bad” defense.
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I understand that the fallback position to "we are watching the fall of constitutional democracy!" will be "we came within a hair of losing our constitutional democracy!" after a completely vanilla series of procedural votes affirms this astonishingly smoothly conducted election
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I’m not finding “actually this is just Trump salting the earth and insuring that his successor will face four years of domestic terrorism and legislative impasse” to be reassuring? In any case let’s wait for the Supreme Court to deny cert to the TX suit before getting cocky.
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Replying to @Dr_Memory @Pinboard and
I find that “taking people at their word when they tell you in plain English what their goals are” to be an underrated method of political analysis and right now half of congress is saying that they want the Supreme Court to toss the election. Seems bad!
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