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 …
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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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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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“None of it happened” is back to “yes I pulled the trigger but my aim is bad” defense.
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Replying to @zeynep @TynanPants and
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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Your vote count is way off there. This is why we lose elections!
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