For some reason, I'm really disliking "is this a coup or not?" twitter -- either side of it. It feels like everyone is rushing into this debate to justify their posting history or whatever. Enough, guys. Whatever this was, it is still not over. We ain't yet done.

I feel like I'm trying to watch a movie and understand what's going on, and people are talking about the last scene and it's annoying because the current scene is also important and none of us know yet what the plot is.

I am just a dude on the internet, but to be honest I'm not convinced Trump is still really president. Is he? Pence sure did a lot of ordering of the NG & such, & there are weird comms from SecDef. Maybe Pence is de facto POTUS, or even de jure. I dunno! Fog of war.

We are undeniably in the midst of a disorderly transition of power of the kind that's pretty unprecedented in our lifetimes. I don't really think we have to call it a coup or not-a-coup. It is a fraught transition w/ wild legislative chamber scenes & at least 1 corpse.

There will be another chapter to this. And there will be more blood spilled -- somewhere, somehow -- before the definitive account of it is written. All that, to me, is enough to have some humility about what is going on and what I feel the urge to call it.

In sum, we are watching something remarkable that is still unfolding, and I just really find it hard to care if you have been long or short "Trump coup" up until now. I just don't. This is an historic moment, and anyone who thinks they know what's going on is kidding themselves.

Yeah we're really in a process of some kind here, & the biggest twists & turns are in the (probably very near) future. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/01/after-a-day-of-violence-and-25th-amendment-chatter-trumps-allies-jumping-ship