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SoonerPride

(12,286 posts)
Fri Aug 14, 2020, 11:13 PM Aug 2020

So if trump steals the election by theft then what ?

It should be a massive blue wave.

But it might not be counted that way.

Ballots may disappear. Or never be delivered.

Voting machines may miraculously not work in democratic precincts. Voting tallies May literally be changed by hackers from Russia.

So if polling shows a massive trump defeat but we can’t prove it then what?

I know what I’ll do. But what will you do?

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So if trump steals the election by theft then what ? (Original Post) SoonerPride Aug 2020 OP
revolt handmade34 Aug 2020 #1
Revolt I_UndergroundPanther Aug 2020 #2
I remember when they stole the 2000 election by refusing to count votes. kskiska Aug 2020 #3
So this is the plan, if Trump steals the election: kentuck Aug 2020 #4
Or, if the election results remain unknown, Mme. Defarge Aug 2020 #7
I think we'd also lose there, wouldn't we? soothsayer Aug 2020 #9
If they were in control of the Senate. kentuck Aug 2020 #16
There wouldn't be a Democratic senate with Trump still president Awsi Dooger Aug 2020 #17
If Trump & the Rethugs steal it the way I think they will try to, we may well no longer hold Celerity Aug 2020 #18
You know what you will you do? Then you go first. Please share. ancianita Aug 2020 #5
I will move to Canada 🇨🇦 SoonerPride Aug 2020 #28
You do realize that Canada isn't accepting American entry, right? Our passports are worthless. ancianita Aug 2020 #29
Americans will settle into docility, as always DavidDvorkin Aug 2020 #6
I've got a feeling we'll be taking to the streets. Jeebo Aug 2020 #8
Secession. roamer65 Aug 2020 #10
And Trump will call out the military to "put down the uprising"... regnaD kciN Aug 2020 #12
The military will fragment. roamer65 Aug 2020 #15
This message was self-deleted by its author ALBliberal Aug 2020 #19
Add New Mexico ALBliberal Aug 2020 #20
Let's not hope it comes to it, but Dump stealing the election WILL open a Pandora's box. roamer65 Aug 2020 #25
Yes sad but true. Doesn't give a damn about the country or it's people. ALBliberal Aug 2020 #26
A country with more guns than people Jarqui Aug 2020 #11
Except that the vast majority of the guns... regnaD kciN Aug 2020 #14
Right now, all we can do is contribute, talk to folks, and vote. Hoyt Aug 2020 #13
Agree. I think many people sat out in 2016. Costly costly mistake. onetexan Aug 2020 #21
Just don't tell em what train we're on and they won't know what route we gone struggle4progress Aug 2020 #22
I was only speaking with my brother last night about what he would OnDoutside Aug 2020 #23
i will literally march on Washington and stay there/protest until he is ousted SiliconValley_Dem Aug 2020 #24
This at the very least. diva77 Aug 2020 #27

I_UndergroundPanther

(12,480 posts)
2. Revolt
Fri Aug 14, 2020, 11:24 PM
Aug 2020

Burn the republican party to the ground and depose and prosecute the entire party for every crime they've done against America..then remove the corrupted republican judges and arrest thier donors the "thinktanks" qanon nuts corrupted churches,purge the right-wing cancer from top to bottom from our country.

Sadly that may be the only way we may have left to stop thier thievery,lies and tyranny.

kskiska

(27,045 posts)
3. I remember when they stole the 2000 election by refusing to count votes.
Fri Aug 14, 2020, 11:26 PM
Aug 2020

I couldn't believe there was no revolution. No one did anything.

kentuck

(111,104 posts)
4. So this is the plan, if Trump steals the election:
Fri Aug 14, 2020, 11:26 PM
Aug 2020

We will assume the Democrats win the House and Senate.

The House holds hearings to impeach him again immediately after the election. Once the present Republicans have left town, the House passes Articles of Impeachment and sends them over to the new Democratic Senate to hear the evidence. All witnesses will be heard, unlike before. The American people will know everything before a vote to convict is called for.

Hopefully, they will dispose of him immediately after he begins his second term.

Mme. Defarge

(8,034 posts)
7. Or, if the election results remain unknown,
Fri Aug 14, 2020, 11:35 PM
Aug 2020

his term will end on January 20th and President Pelosi will be sworn in.

soothsayer

(38,601 posts)
9. I think we'd also lose there, wouldn't we?
Fri Aug 14, 2020, 11:39 PM
Aug 2020

I mean, they’re not going along with this just so drumpf can have a job. They want to control it all.

kentuck

(111,104 posts)
16. If they were in control of the Senate.
Fri Aug 14, 2020, 11:51 PM
Aug 2020

They could bring forth all the evidence they wanted. Republicans would want to crawl under a rock and hide but there will be no hiding place for them until the truth is given to the American people. Then, they can vote however they wish.

Celerity

(43,422 posts)
18. If Trump & the Rethugs steal it the way I think they will try to, we may well no longer hold
Sat Aug 15, 2020, 12:05 AM
Aug 2020

the House, nor take back the Senate.

They are going for the jugular with the mail-in ballots. If 70% of Dems versus only 30% of Rethugs (very rough numbers) vote by mail, and the vast majority of live, same day voters are Rethug voters, then it will be a disaster if they (Trump and Rethugs) take out (via a multiplicity of stratagems) a good chunk of the mail-in votes. It will boil down to basic maths. We already know they have, are, and will be purging millions from the roles, plus they already have their illegal gerrymanders in place as well to further aid the systemic coup d'état attempt.

Either way, it is going to be a massive shitstorm.

SoonerPride

(12,286 posts)
28. I will move to Canada 🇨🇦
Sat Aug 15, 2020, 07:30 AM
Aug 2020

I will leave this country and never look back.

If I have to wait tables or scrub floors in Canada and give up my life here so be it.

I refuse to live in a fascist country.

I will pack Up my shit and get on the road north.

ancianita

(36,108 posts)
29. You do realize that Canada isn't accepting American entry, right? Our passports are worthless.
Sat Aug 15, 2020, 10:40 PM
Aug 2020

We're 'no entry' in most Western countries.

I'm going to stay and cope with what happens.

DavidDvorkin

(19,480 posts)
6. Americans will settle into docility, as always
Fri Aug 14, 2020, 11:33 PM
Aug 2020

And the country will slide further -- perhaps all the way -- into tyranny.

Jeebo

(2,025 posts)
8. I've got a feeling we'll be taking to the streets.
Fri Aug 14, 2020, 11:39 PM
Aug 2020

I've got a feeling it will make the George Floyd protests look like a Sunday picnic. Especially if the theft is brazen, blatant, obvious. Which I suspect it will be.

-- Ron

roamer65

(36,745 posts)
10. Secession.
Fri Aug 14, 2020, 11:42 PM
Aug 2020

California, Washington, Oregon, New York and the New England states will leave if Dump takes that oath.

Election night those states are going to be the deepest blue you have ever seen.

regnaD kciN

(26,044 posts)
12. And Trump will call out the military to "put down the uprising"...
Fri Aug 14, 2020, 11:46 PM
Aug 2020

Bottom line: Hundreds of thousands, maybe millions, will die. And Trump will remain in power.


roamer65

(36,745 posts)
15. The military will fragment.
Fri Aug 14, 2020, 11:50 PM
Aug 2020

The evidence for this is all of the retired generals speaking out. We may also see a military coup d’etat.

A stolen election would be grounds for the military stepping in to defend the Constitution.

Response to roamer65 (Reply #10)

Jarqui

(10,126 posts)
11. A country with more guns than people
Fri Aug 14, 2020, 11:45 PM
Aug 2020

sees the votes their forefathers gave their lives for obstructed or stolen?

Could get very ugly quickly. Maybe that is what he wants.

What a nightmare.

regnaD kciN

(26,044 posts)
14. Except that the vast majority of the guns...
Fri Aug 14, 2020, 11:47 PM
Aug 2020

…will be owned by people who will be just fine with that outcome.

 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
13. Right now, all we can do is contribute, talk to folks, and vote.
Fri Aug 14, 2020, 11:46 PM
Aug 2020

I’m not going to worry about what COULD happen, unless it does.

It didn’t happen in 2018, 2012, and 2008. And I’d argue the less than 100,000 we lost by in 2016 were self inflicted.

OnDoutside

(19,962 posts)
23. I was only speaking with my brother last night about what he would
Sat Aug 15, 2020, 01:34 AM
Aug 2020

do, and he said that he's already said to his wife that he wants to move back home to Ireland. They've only just discovered that a friend of his wife is great friends with a woman who has a nursing agency 5 miles from where I live, and she sure she can get her plenty of work ! So at least they have an escape plan.

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