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Robert Black
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Constitutional scholar, general law nerd, Izzet mage, bear lover, Mets fan.
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Yeah but like, what's he gonna do, announce that he's taking Trump's orders actually??

*crumples my poster about the benevolent democratic dictatorship of Chairman Milley, throws it in trash*

I also did not know this

Technically he's the least necessary of the three

Hawley? Hawley specifically??

I mean there was that one time

Plausibly gets everyone accustomed to the idea that Trump is disqualified, in a way that maybe preempts Trump v. Anderson?

It would've been a hell of a lot more defensible than what they actually did!

A fun thing about this is that you don't have to ask Mitch McConnell's permission

Here's a line of play no one's talking about:

Instead of doing their secret coup, Pence and Pelosi and Milley stand up on January 7th and say that, in their view, Trump is now disqualified from office under the Fourteenth Amendment, and Pence is president for two weeks

Mike Pence waffled for years on the topic of "hang Mike Pence: y/n?"

No

Which like, I get it!

Broad agreement to just pretend it wasn't happening/didn't happen lol

I mean, unless Trump/his supporters split the party

I personally do want y'all to stop eating hamburgers, actually

Yeah but he might well still think what he thought in 2021, that his choices were this or Dem hegemony

Well the theory would be that he missed his chance and he knows it

My really scorching hot take is that I don't think you get a conviction in the Senate even if some number of congresscritters get murdered on the 6th

Maybe not even if Pence does!

Maybe!

But idk, the idea that Trump would destroy the party keeps not being true

I mean the Pelosi/Pence/Milley coup lol

They also kind of did it!

Why do we think he's not basically happy

His party won! He loves it when that happens

For the record I don't think either of these points was different in February than on January 7th

If we could have Christmas Caroled him and shown him our future, would he have done different? I really don't know

Yeah I agree with this. McConnell probably could have made it happen, and I don't think there's anything we could have done to make him want to do it

Getting an actual factual vote to convict in the Senate? Yeah no that was a foregone conclusion

Fairly sure I thought that at the time, too

WHERE'S NANCY

"Oh I'm right here! What do you want?"

Mob wouldn't have been using fists, for one thing

Like I broadly agree with his critique of her attitude toward impeachment! She's said stuff about how she doesn't really like impeachment in public interviews etc., that I disagree with a lot!

But no, there wasn't a way to make the Republicans convict (and disqualify!) after J6