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21 Dec, 6 tweets, 2 min read
Election-denying lunatics join forces Voltron-style
whoa
The confederacy of dunces that is urging the man with the nuclear codes to overturn the election. What could go wrong?
Normal stuff
Time for a getting the gang together montage theringer.com/2017/5/3/16039…

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21 Dec
Hilarious to hear him list all the absurd claims they are forced to disavow under legal threat. Never thought I'd see a single conspiracy theory that somehow involves Hugo Chavez and Diane Feinstein. What a time to be alive.
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20 Dec
Seems pretty important to understand this before you tweet about why the CDC is wrong to 3.6M followers. Image
The issue of how to prioritize vaccines is genuinely complicated and one where science doesn't provide definitive answers - lots of ethical and logistical concerns as well.
the problems with the above are captured perfectly here
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20 Dec
The President and his totally insane advisers are discussing seizing voting machines and declaring martial law cnn.com/2020/12/19/pol… nytimes.com/2020/12/19/us/…

Doesn't matter that it won't happen. These are grounds for removal from office. Full stop.
The President is having meetings in the White House about whether to mount a coup. We cannot be silent.
The Wall Street Journal editorial board mocked me for warning of the threat Donald Trump posed to American democracy back in 2017. People were still suggesting that the threat had been overblown just a few weeks ago. And here we are.
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16 Dec
Faculty life at Dartmouth: A deer just ran by my office window.
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11 Dec
64% is a staggering number. Consider: Who runs for office and who retires in the coming years? Who ascends into leadership or moves to higher office? Easy to imagine pro-democracy folks opting out and anti-democracy folks opting in to an extent that people are not grasping.
And how many of these are only mounting federalism objections? Not all 70 actually oppose contesting the election; some are just objecting to the means by which the suit attempts to do so
Only 25% of retirees are signing compared to 69% of those staying.

Put another way, 21% of the House Republicans who haven't signed on are retiring. Now compound that over a few cycles if this continues.
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9 Dec
Most Republican states are calling on a R-dominated Supreme Court to overturn the result of the election despite the outcome being obvious and the legal arguments being laughable. Imagine a Bush/Gore situation where legal issues are less clear and the margin is closer. What then?
Not a drill
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