It's not "political theater" to convince 70+ million people that their electoral victory was stolen, their votes nullified, through outright fraud, led by the guy about to be sworn in with the cooperation even of some Republicans.
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Or you have a very strange definition of "political theater."
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I contend that that's the very essence of political theater. It has no chance of achieving its ostensible aim, but is a orchestrated performance in front of the 45% or whatever it is of American voters who will now believe this in perpetuity, and vote accordingly next time.
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It's not good, or healthy, or Christmas come early to see a big chunk of Congress decide to participate in the 2021 version of birtherism. But let's not treat a cynical political performance as a bona fide attempt to steal an election. That's offensive to real election stealers!
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You're making the presumption that this isn't giving the militia types who've dreamed of civil war and overturning the rule by hippies and the NWO some real juice to try and push their agenda. When enough of a nation believes something, it changes history.
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I think in that sense it is quite terrible, and the incitement to political violence (whether overt like Trump, or implicit) is real and inexcusable
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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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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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I'll sign on to the coup if they promise to ban people from saying "SCOTUS"
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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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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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Is it still performative if someone is killed due to violence instigated by "the fuss" in the interim?
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