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Pwnallthethings@pwnallthethings.bsky.social |
The founders would have understood it as treason, and would resort to war against someone who attempted it, and punish it with hanging. Other countries would prosecute it as treason. That is what it is. Folks should be clear eyed on it.
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Tim
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It sure would be nice if federal law enforcement had decided to take the coup attempt seriously, but here we are 4 years later and all the people who planned and carried it out are still walking around free.
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@jennifervestal.bsky.social
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There’s being a lawyer looking for a new legal angle and there is brazenly breaking the law. America needs to remember the difference.
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Buddha Ferret
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Yep.
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Jared Dunn
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I mean, maybe. Most of the Founders didn't trust popular democracy at all, which is why they inserted all of these little veto points for elites to have the chance to "correct" its assumed excesses. I'm sure they'd be like "but not like this!" about a figure like Trump, but the fact remains.
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IndyAnna
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See, here’s the thing. The founding father’s choked on it as well. Aaron Burr shot and killed Alexander Hamilton in the same year he tried a coup d’état. Acquittal because not engaged in ‘overt act’. Marshaling an army wasn’t overt enough for them.
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Janet Linde
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Seeing it and being able to counter it are two different things. They're building a legal defense that adheres to the laws *as they are written*. It didn't work in 2020, but armies of anti-democratic attorneys like Eastman and Chesebro have been working to sharpen the attack in the four years since.
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The future producer of “Himbo Heist”
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The Founders would have understood it to say whatever Clarence Thomas and Sam Alito invent. Just ask their Ouija boards.
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David
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this kind of 'original intent' and 'what would teh founding fathers say' is just <chef_kiss.gif>
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@benhosp.bsky.social
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I think the founders would have expected the Electoral College to take the situation into consideration during their “deliberations” and thus prevent whatever scoundrel is behind the scheme from becoming President. Those guys would be more likely to consider stealing a House seat “treason”.
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Alan Fisher
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I think one side tends to underestimate the willingness of the other side to go into the streets under arms.
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@randomprecision.bsky.social
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Meanwhile Pelosi sent everyone home for the weekend instead
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Andrew Bloomberg
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To be fair, we did have a massive war in this country to deal with treason on a colossal scale. We punished it with…political rehabilitation and a bunch of statues, and engaged in a unifying project of murderous imperial expansion. Not a great precedent!
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