2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumTrump Supporters Are Threatening To Overthrow The Government If Hillary Clinton Wins
With less than a month to go before election day, Donald Trump supporters are already threatening to overthrow the government if Hillary Clinton wins the election.
(video at link)
A woman named Rhonda stood up at the town hall and told Mike Pence that she is on social media all day, every day pushing Trump, but Rhonda has some issues, One of the things that I can tell you that a lot of us are scared of is this voter fraud. Theres a lot of out here saying that when we vote, were going to wear red. Our lives depend on this election. Our kids futures depend on this election. For me personally, if Hillary Clinton gets in, I myself am ready for a revolution.
Pence tried to talk the woman off of the revolution ledge, but judging from the applause in the crowd as she spoke, Rhonda is not alone among Trump supporters.
Democrats have heard this kind of talk before, but the difference in 2016 is that the Republican Party has a presidential nominee who is encouraging violence and revolution.
http://www.politicususa.com/2016/10/11/trump-supporters-threatening-overthrow-government-hillary-clinton-wins.html
It's long past time to bring those Trumpanzees up on sedition charges--for the sake of the country!
Doctor Jack
(3,072 posts)They are tough when they are at a political rally but their rascal scooters and oxygen tanks hold them back.
Sparkly
(24,149 posts)Let them try.
Runningdawg
(4,526 posts)to kill 168 people. The only reason he was caught was because he didn't have a tag on his car. Who honestly believes he pulled it off with only 2 accomplices? The others are still out there along with a new generation who believes that MF tree of liberty needs water and they are willing to provide it. Its not only jihadist that dream of martyrdom.
cliffordu
(30,994 posts)to protect the Republic from all enemies, foreign and domestic. They will be terrorists and will be treated as such.
I have absolutely no problem with this. Fuck them.
barbiegeek
(1,140 posts)Siwsan
(26,305 posts)uponit7771
(90,367 posts)BlueProgressive
(229 posts)LOL
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)and general wellbeing further, and they'll calm down. Populist movements break apart and dissolve with prosperity, kind of like pools of grease do with soap. Just not overnight.
Also, it's looking as if Trump's armchair lynch mob is finally, finally going to go too far for more principled and more moderate conservatives. Trump's mob is even promising to make what would be an inevitably fatal mistake of breaking away from conservatives not loyal to Trump, not realizing that all their successes have depended on the (unfortunate) loyalty of moderates to their fellow conservatives.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)JustAnotherGen
(31,932 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,291 posts)Because the last civil war worked out so well
meow2u3
(24,774 posts)Their AR-15s are no match for some strategically deployed bunker busters and predator drones!
uponit7771
(90,367 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Talk a mean game on the internets.
tinrobot
(10,926 posts)Didn't turn out so well.
oasis
(49,426 posts)doorstep before she's halfway done with her first tweet.
BSdetect
(8,999 posts)Probably lead
Cresent City Kid
(1,621 posts)Everything they are afraid of happening in a Hillary Clinton presidency is mostly already happening under Obama.
Blue Idaho
(5,060 posts)But you can institutionalize it.
dubyadiprecession
(5,725 posts)Third Doctor
(1,574 posts)GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)What is she going to do? Microwave hot pockets for the revolutionaries? She could not run 100 yards. They love to talk but are too attached to their creature comforts to do anything to threaten them.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)IKR? LOL
whatthehey
(3,660 posts)As long as somebody's fingers are not too fat to get inside a trigger guard or assemble explosives, they can be lethal. Was every Iraqi who planted an IED a whip-lithe triathlete? You don't think the few of the Massed Internet Brigade who would actually do anything are planning a 25-mile forced overland night march to establish a fort on Pikes Peak do you? Terrorism and civilian insurgency don't require much in the way of physical fitness.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)That's their politics. Protect and expand their wealth from the unwashed masses.
IOW these people have something to lose. IMO they will never get off their collective fat asses and put all they own on the line for a right wing dictatorship in America, they have too much to lose.
Now the lone crazed true believer striking out...yes beware. Timothy McVeigh comes to mind among others. But did the average Fox news/Rush zombie rush out to participate in McVeigh's right wing revolution or Bundy's?
Of course not.
whatthehey
(3,660 posts)Any isolated bits of mayhem the Trumpenreich cause will not be in ways that require athleticism. The few who will carry out these blustery threats could be of any body shape, and it will not affect their temporary and limited danger in any way.
adigal
(7,581 posts)Unfortunately, since they are mostly trashy people who don't even pay any taxes, their 3rd world country the United States would come running back in 2 minutes.
DeminPennswoods
(15,290 posts)they can be the first colonists!
killbotfactory
(13,566 posts)Call the results fraudulent, and ask his army of well-armed bigoted assholes to stage protests in Washington DC.
BobbyDrake
(2,542 posts)I was not surprised at all. She most likely funds that lifestyle through some form of government benefit.
HipChick
(25,485 posts)Teabaggers?
TheBlackAdder
(28,227 posts)Grassy Knoll
(10,118 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)They'll likely fail, but innocent people will be hurt.
barbiegeek
(1,140 posts)saltpoint
(50,986 posts)double up the security on bird sanctuaries.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)saltpoint
(50,986 posts)kysrsoze
(6,023 posts)Yeah, wake me up when they get off their lazy, inbred asses and it actually starts.
underthematrix
(5,811 posts)in African American areas in Philadelphia.
POTUS has encouraged everyone to vote EARLY. I assume it's to reduce the risk of challenges to voter eligibility of individual African Americans. While this is not an issue in my area because we all vote by mail in my small town.
If you vote by mail. take a picture of ballot number, your name and your completed save it and then print and store.
As POTUS said this is about ensuring the survival of our democracy. Trump has already said he doesn't believe the Constitution is a legal document and he has said many things to indicate he will violate every rule of law that provides the foundation of our democracy.
Today, Trump just said if he's elected, Ryan who is House Speaker will not hold that position if he's elected. This demonstrates that this man has not regard for our system government.
stopbush
(24,397 posts)I wonder how many of them will show up, amazed at their power to keep everybody away from the polls that day.
DeminPennswoods
(15,290 posts)Absentee ballot voting must be justified by either physical disability (signed by a doctor) or being out of town.
I laugh at these threats to go to heavily A-A polling places in Philadelphia. I can assure you no white Trump supporter would dream of venturing into most of those neighborhoods. And it will be dark starting around 4:30 in the afternoon on election day, too. Heck, the little town where I live is about 20% minority, has the occassional murder and its share of the ubiquitous drug sellers/users and white people who live nearby and graduated from its high school are afraid to go into town in the day time despite it being perfectly safe!
underthematrix
(5,811 posts)will be federal marshalls and others watching the election. I assume this will be true for PA because Trump has mentioned it by name. I think the other state may be North Carolina.
DeminPennswoods
(15,290 posts)Trust me, white folks from anywhere aren't going to the heavily A-A polls in Philadelphia. Honestly, white people from the remaining white, ethnic parts of Philadelphia wouldn't even go, especially after it gets dark.
underthematrix
(5,811 posts)there had to be a 1000 peeps
I hope you're right
DeminPennswoods
(15,290 posts)There are plenty of white people living in and around Center City. It's very vibrant even after dark. But the polling places Trump is alluding to are in some of the roughest, most segregated Philly neighborhoods. Any out of towner who came to "poll watch" would likely high tail it home as soon as he/she realized just how surrounded by "the enemy" they were.
meow2u3
(24,774 posts)And I used to live in a predominantly black neighborhood in Philly for a couple of years. Mark my word, no white supremacist would dare venture into where I used to live after dark, even armed. They see a big black guy outside the polling places protecting the voters and they'll scurry for cover with their tails between their legs like the cowards they are.
DeminPennswoods
(15,290 posts)meow2u3
(24,774 posts)I've actually seen white so-called "tough guys" trying to venture into my old neighborhood to try to intimidate little old black ladies and not only did the big guys come to their defense, the oldsters themselves wouldn't take any shit!
Which lead me to LMAO!
BTW, I used to live in Frankford 12 years ago.
Doodley
(9,143 posts)and he has been building a base for his Trump media empire. However, I also think that Trump's reputation is going to be in the gutter after the many law suits about his scams, and the narrative against him will not be so even handed by the MSM or Republican politicians who are currently concerned about the election. The floodgates will open after the election and his core support will be reduced to the fringes.
barbiegeek
(1,140 posts)Roger Ailes is in on it.
C_U_L8R
(45,025 posts)Add in Brietbart and maybe the Infowars crazies....
who all have a bone to pick with the GOP and you'll
see them building a hybrid media network / political party /
money making (sucker soaking) machine
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)advocating a rebellion lose all there govt checks with a lifetime ban...including social security, medicaid, medicare, food stamps....the "rebellion" wont last too long.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)There are groups like Oath Keepers and another one that a lot of police -- the Joe Arpaio types -- belong to that say they won't enforce certain laws against white wing types.
I'm sorry, I don't think you realize the type of white wing terrorists we have living in this country.
Capt. Obvious
(9,002 posts)grossproffit
(5,591 posts)Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Uben
(7,719 posts)...by the U.S. military. The coward traitors won't stand a chance! We all know they are all talk anyway.
SHRED
(28,136 posts)We'll see how their pop guns do against trained infantry.
rumdude
(448 posts)Bring it on.
bulloney
(4,113 posts)It's scary how people can be indoctrinated into believing anything...and they put it out there in public and on social media.
I have a neighbor who I thought was rational until I read a recent rant from her on Facebook in which she stated that Hillary will MANDATE abortions and we will be subjected to the Muslim faith if she's elected.
Where do you begin addressing this?
This neighbor received some sarcastic, mocking replies along with some sympathetic ones.
The insanity is off the charts in rural NW Ohio!
I have a feeling that my neighbor and this Rhonda character have spent a lot of time listening to some RW hate radio and TV shows and are drinking their Kool-Aid by the bucket!