Keep in mind that heavily armed right-wing militia loons were responsible for the worst terrorist attacks ever committed on American soil prior to 9/11. I don’t think they’ll have any trouble finding targets if they become convinced their rightful messiah was just ousted in an illegal coup. If nothing else I expect them to attack individuals and groups associated with the Democratic party.
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And rage on the internet, don’t forget that. It’s the asymmetric attacks I would worry about. Timothy McVeigh kinda stuff, you know? That would be more their speed.
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juggled by a series of petards
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Yes, the CRAY factor. Some lone angry white dude doing something unspeakable. The left tends not to do that…
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impelled to run the gauntlet
I’d also like to go on record clarifying that this statement of weariness does not pertain to the Black Lives Matter protests, because it makes me extraordinarily hopeful that maybe this time at long last the needle will be moved. I will take that kind of unprecedented disruption all day long. Just from the reactions I see from people I’m connected to on social media, the conversation is reaching places it hasn’t before.
Just in case: https://www.protecttheresults.com/
Yes, I noticed that “MAGA night” never happened, and I haven’t been seeing throngs of “All Lives Matter” pro-fascism counter-protestors out in the streets.
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No, they’ve just been driving into protesters instead, and sometimes shooting them.
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Hopefully Trump will board Marine One on schedule for Mar-a-Lago or points unknown, and any sets of contingency plans for keeping Donald in power will destroyed in the illegal shred party before he goes.
But only if people are watching and he thinks that he’d never get away with them.
He is already refusing to go in advance by accusing dems/liberals of voter fraud as republicans continue to commit that very act in states like Georgia right now.
I say its unavoidable, so let’s kick (vote) his ass out of office and have the fight.
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Everything is fine. Nothing to see here.
Trump would never lie.
/s
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Though the president has never given any serious indication that he might not leave office if he were to lose reelection,
Because all those odd remarks were “just joking”.
Trump regularly trolls his critics on the issue, joking at campaign rallies and on various occasions about extending his presidency past the constitutional limit of two terms. In addition to the president’s vocal accusations of widespread voter fraud and claims of “rigged” American elections, of which there is no evidence, Trump has sometimes suggested that his supporters might “demand” he remain in office past his second term.
That’s not driving trollies. That’s testing the waters, polling his base, running it up the flag pole and seeing who salutes. Donald sprays feelers in all directions, but he keeps on coming back to that one, which shouldn’t be a joking matter,
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Trump loves his fucking trial balloons.
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“Certainly, if I don’t win, I don’t win,” he told Fox News’ Harris Faulkner in an interview that aired Friday. If he doesn’t win the election, Trump continued, “you go on, do other things.”
Fresh opportunities await in the license plate manufacturing and rock breaking industries!
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Okay, I understand what you were saying. I don’t think that’s how McConnell would look at it, though. In your mind (and mine) it makes sense that undermining elections is undermining the power of US senators. But there’s another way to look at it, and that’s being able to undermine elections means they have the power. I thinks any reasonable person should fear a might-makes-right scenario because you never know if you will be the mightiest in any situation. The GOP are a fascist party, and the premise of fascism is that you can exert your might over other people.
So ignoring, rigging, overriding an election undermines the foundation of their power by making who has power a contest of who can better rig an election. But as long as they are the ones who rigged the election, that suits them fine. I remember someone saying that the problem with arguing with a fascist is that their counterargument is to string you up in the square. That’s where I think the Republican party is right now, and the only question is whether they currently have the might to string their enemies up in the square or not (at this point, metaphorically, I think Mitch McConnell might balk at actually killing Democratic senators to get more judges appointed, but I’m only like 85% on that).
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