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“It is 2020. 250k are dead from a raging pandemic; a private space company is launching crewed missions NASA can’t. A mad president is live-tweeting a painfully slow psychotic break, refusing to leave office. The planet boils.” —Blurb from “2020” obscure sci-fi book from 2007.
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No one leaves till next one is inaugurated. He's just throwing red meat during lame duck. Did you not see the video of Hillary saying Joe should never concede? Both sides had this game plan from getgo.
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“throwing red meat during lame duck” is something no President in living memory has done. Any contestation from Biden would not have looked anything like this circus. You may not care about the real asymmetric elements here but that doesn’t mean they don’t exist or don’t matter.
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Institutions are 70% myth and ceremony sustained by observing little niceties that signal consensus faith in them. 2000 was an actual contested election that half the country had serious justification to believe was stolen. Yet niceties were observed. Institutions not undermined.