Fools.

"You can do _everything_ _except_ _this_" seems like a dare more than anything.

In case the 1/6 beer hall putsch didn’t make the historical analogies clear enough, Roberts has volunteered to play the role of Von papen

Those are the famous last words in a monster movie, right before the mad scientists get ripped to shreds by their unholy abomination.

Taney ass logic.

It's particularly hard to do without ever explicitly saying no.

“We can do business with this guy.” -Kendall Roy

They really thought they were making themselves kings in the Trump immunity case too. Dumb bastards.

When has that plan ever failed

This is Levitsky and Ziblatt’s How Democracies Die. It’s literally the first few pages.

Four years ago Levitsky interview (my emphasis)

Along with Mitch McConnell, Kevin McCarthy, and every other political leader!

This might push them to start trying to close doors now rather than wait another 3 years to give Trump maximum time do destroy the things they hate. But it's likely already too late for that.

Probably a failure of imagination on my part, but I think they don't give immunity to someone they think they need to control. Surely Roberts can't be that stupid? Right? Like, that's like buying your teenager a car and then thinking they won't want to drive.

John Roberts, the Illusive Man of the US government

One wonders how that’s feeling right in this moment. How well the Chief will sleep tonight, etc.

His wife makes tons of money, he’ll be fine

Like a baby

Oh perhaps, perhaps. But certainly not what he had in mind here.

too late now

This is only the beginning of them being eaten by the Tiger they were riding

in a nutshell:

I hope they're having an *excellent* night deciding which of "trump screams bloody murder about them and calls for their firing" and "let trump crash the economy into a brick wall at 70 mph" they want to choose

I’m not sure they all thought that. Thomas rules how he is paid to, and I think Alito is as batshit insane as the average senior citizen with Fox brain worms. Comey Barrett clearly believes that certain religious goals must be met, HS constitution be damned.

I don’t mean to suggest that the removability of a fed governor is the same level of thing, but like so much of mainstream conservatives in the past decade, it really does have Von Pappen/Hindenburg vibes.

Franz von Papen ahhh hubris