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Cake day: July 10th, 2023

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  • This should take the form of a continuous, publicly accessible investigation that only continues rather than is summarised when they retake the House.

    But it isn’t and won’t be.

    It will be a well put, tightly and succinctly presented, work of art of an argument for an additional impeachment and unrealised conviction in the Senate. Just like the Jan 6 Committee.

    They should instead be throwing themselves into the gears of govt., but they will take the long term, conventionally optimal strategy of letting the Republicans make their mistakes.

    America is so, so frustrating in the face of obvious corruption and incipient fascism.










  • Exactly. Many were historians and Christians.

    They already had the previous example of the sale of indulgences within the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages. Even American colonial revolutionaries were offered pardons by King George III to stop fighting.

    Commenter below cites the fact that the expectation was that the congress would step in if popular sentiment was outraged by this sort of thing, but this state of affairs was foreseeable.

    They ended up with a powerful executive even though they believed previous kings had too much power. e.g. “His Excellency” George Washington refused the title of King.

    Also of note is that there were relatively few voters and they were privileged and generally well educated and informed members of the public. White men with land.