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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWill the FBI's Marred Lardo action lead to violence by TFG's supporters?
Reports are that social media is en fuego.
Ohio Joe
(21,760 posts)It could be that a few may become violent, that is true. Should they so choose, they will be scooped up and charged appropriately. Their continued violence will only harm them even further for the mid-terms.
Repugs are very near to having to dump tfg and turn on him completely. The longer they wait, the worse it will be for them.
doc03
(35,349 posts)protest.
WiVoter
(909 posts)our countrys security, democracy & future are at stake.
Novara
(5,844 posts)They already fucked around and found out. I think they talk a big talk but they're too cowardly to riot based on a search warrant.
yankee87
(2,173 posts)Maybe another boats for trump disaster?
brush
(53,792 posts)in a few days once they realize they don't want to go to jail or get killed out in the field wearing camo, toting an AR-15 and getting exhausted and starved after a week.
MarineCombatEngineer
(12,416 posts)but of the 30% who are hard core MAGAt's, a very small portion will pick up weapons against the American people, IE: the Govt and fight, of that very small percentage, most will either be killed/wounded/arrested or crap their pants and run home to mama's basement and cower in fear once the shooting starts and rounds start coming their way.
Most are wanna be warriors who were raised on video games such as Call of Duty, Medal of Honor, etc, and think that's the real deal and have never experience actual combat, while those that actually have will be put down PDQ.
IOW, most Trump supporters are all hat and no cattle other than taking to the internet and expressing their faux outrage.
Jade Fox
(10,030 posts)Kaleva
(36,312 posts)LakeArenal
(28,823 posts)0rganism
(23,957 posts)30% of 350,000,000 people is still, IMHO, a large number of people. (105,000,000)
let's say 1% of them are serious enough to take up arms. That's still over a million fanatical psychopathic domestic terrorists roaming the countryside.
disruptive. problematic.
MarineCombatEngineer
(12,416 posts)but for an insurgency to be successful, you have to have the majority of the population on your side, which the MAGAt's do not have, once the disruptions to delivery of goods start to impact the American people, once innocent people and law enforcement start being murdered, then its lights out for those MAGAt's that decided they can overthrow the American Govt by force of arms and violence.
C_U_L8R
(45,003 posts)Those clowns can fuck around and find out, once again
Comfortably_Numb
(3,809 posts)give about the squealing Orange Merd a Lardo puke and his koolaide klansman followers.
Johnny2X2X
(19,069 posts)I've been one of those here saying that he will never get arrested, yesterday changed my mind. He will be indicted and arrested, I think that is certain now. And his arrest won't be like a normal arrest though, he'll just have to show up and sign some papers and leave.
griffi94
(3,733 posts)With the number of convictions of MAGAts from Jan. 6 still fresh in their memories.
The Gravy Seals would love to go on a rampage but they want permission first so they don't get in trouble.
Right-wing sights were telling their readers to call their local sheriffs and get deputized.
If I were going to bet, I'd bet on a huge surge in AR-15/ammo sales. Maybe camo gear. But I don't expect
they do much more than gather online and screech like howler monkies.
Their revenge fantasies and Rambo roleplaying notwithstanding, they're very much "personal risk" averse.
FarPoint
(12,409 posts)Let the cards fall as they may..... for the past 6 months, many democrats were whining about Garland and the DOJ doing nothing....Now you get action and then address in panic fashion, some hypothetical retaliation result due to DOJ action....
Just forget about it....
Stinky The Clown
(67,808 posts)dameatball
(7,398 posts)Hekate
(90,714 posts)Effete Snob
(8,387 posts)What doesnt trigger those snowflakes?
Sky Jewels
(7,113 posts)Government officials in DC, and the FBI and DOJ buildings, yes, but they've got loads of security and are undoubtedly on high alert for the foreseeable future.
The Trump Nazis could target other government buildings or statehouses, but it's hard to see how they could sustain an ongoing "civil war" in the classic sense of one armed side shooting at another armed side.
Chainfire
(17,553 posts)They think that a civil war will only involve killing. Once they see some of their own dying, many will have a change of heart. The militia types are very consistent; they are overwhelmingly stupid.
Hotler
(11,428 posts)H2O Man
(73,559 posts)I don't expect it will result in a major, coordinated violence. But it could result in individuals acting out. I think that you raise an important point, in that this may be viewed as preparing the rabid-right on what is to come. Introducing it slowly, over time, has distinct advantages.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)"Oh no! If the former guy is held to account for his crimes, his followers will take up arms, organize a rascal parade, and start squirting lead. We shouldn't do anything because of the possibility of violence by the former guy's fanboiz."
So the majority of us have to go along with that nonsense because some nervous nellies are all panicked that the American people are too childish to hold a criminal to account.