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Michael Tae Sweeney@mtsw.bsky.social |
Back in late 2020 I advocated for expelling all the members of Congress who voted against certifying, then using the rump majorities you'd gain after to pass court reform (who'd ratify the legality of this maneuver). Radical proposal! but the alternatives of doing nothing were more radical
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Andy Pearlman
@apearlma.bsky.social
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Really, they had to arrest people in 2021, charge some of them with treason, and let things work themselves from there.
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Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
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The Book of the Void
@eddyrobinson.bsky.social
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The urge of most Dems to hit the brakes rather than get confrontational has been Trump & the GOP's biggest asset.
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Adam Gurri
@adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com
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Doesn’t expelling a member require two thirds of the chamber
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Squire Boone
@isomorphism.net
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At the very least people should have to accept the results of the election *in their own goddamn election*
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Arash Mohebbi
@thatoldbear.bsky.social
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My alternative is founded upon presidential droite de seigneur where the insurrectionist are rounded up for a ten year kink Olympics in a secure facility down a mineshaft
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Flakey Foont
@flakyfoont.bsky.social
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Treason was traditionally punished by death, but we're more advanced now. We just lie about it.
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En Buen Ora
@enbuenora.bsky.social
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instead we talked about unity and pledged to work together in bipartisan fashion and I'm assuming that fixed things
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Alan Johnson
@acjay.com
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I agree. But I think there's a significant subtext of trying to avoid armed rebellion. Even though Heritage openly stated that we're in a rebellion, anyway.
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Alex Cruikshanks
@alexsaysstuff.bsky.social
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Though I'd be willing to use it as leverage though. e.g. you can get your name off the to-be-expelled list if you explicitly endorse and vote for impeachment and conviction.
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@cmerlin.bsky.social
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I think this could have been argued and well accepted. It would have made a difference. Not sure though the votes were there for expelling all traitors.
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