Thread by @soncharm

FROM HERE: Biden should nominate a generic D-style replacement to sit on the Supreme Court, & then Rs should have an absolute hissy-fit, look up that person's high school yearbook, team up with some DoJ employees to gin up a false 35-year-old accusation based on someone's memoir,

have loud protests where they occupy the steps of the Supreme Court building and climb statuary and pound on the front doors, say in large numbers that the person nominated 'looks like' someone they disliked or who bothered them in high school, say that the FBI should 'investigat

e' a drinking party some now-upper middle class types say that they had with the nominee in college, spend hours of research and 9000-word Atlantic pieces decoding some slang they say was used in the aforementioned high school yearbook,

get a shady grifter-lawyer to recruit someone with a history of mental issues to sign an affidavit vaguely accusing the person of various decades-old unsubstantiable sex crimes,

have gushing media articles refer to the person, whom they don’t really look into, but because they had a job with the government or whatever, as ‘decorated’ and by implication just really really trustworthy,

have their entire pundit class, immediately upon the release of this vague ‘affidavit’ accusation, write chin-stroking head shaking tweet threads and op-eds insisting that the nominee had better just drop out now for the sake of appearances and the nation,

lawyer up the accuser with the faked 35-year-old other guy’s-memoir-based story with a very well connected lawyer in DC R circles and a PR firm, insist that a new hearing take place so this accuser can be heard, say that the accuser is afraid to fly to delay that hearing,

have the DoJ employee phone around to others who knew the nominee and the accuser in high school and try to coach them to say only things that don’t conflict with the accusation even though she doesn’t remember or substantiate it at all,

insist that the accusation be perfunctorily treated as true even though there are zero witnesses and no identifiable details and the accuser cannot give a remotely coherent account of how it happened or even where it could have happened,

except of course for the one geographically-plausible place it actually could’ve happened at, but which, if it did indeed happen there, because of whose house that was, would tend to undermine other details in and unwind the plausibility of the accuser’s story,

and then, when the vote takes place to confirm the nominee, treat it as the most important and pressure-filled moment in the history of the republic, and the death of the republic when that vote doesn’t go their way and the person is confirmed anyway.

You know, the standard Constitutional process.