Here’s the scary thing that ensures this rhetoric will only escalate: By labeling his multiple indictments “election interference” (the very crime of which he is charged by both federal and state prosecutors), Trump has now made his “rigged election” claim for 2024 well over a year in advance. If and when he loses the general election, he won’t have to contrive allegations of voting by noncitizens (as he did in 2016 in order to argue he actually won the popular vote) or demonize voting by mail (as he did in 2020 before, during and after his Election Night victory declaration), or seize on fabricated anecdotes of fraudulent conduct by election officials (another 2020 hardy perennial). In the view from the MAGA fever swamps, it’s now impossible for Trump to have a fair shot at regaining the presidency. If he wins despite the massive “election interference” he faces, he is fully justified in unleashing the vengeance that is so prominent a part of his 2024 message. If he seems to lose … it’s clearly grounds for whatever extra-constitutional redress he and his supporters choose.

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    If he wins despite the massive “election interference” he faces, he is fully justified in unleashing the vengeance that is so prominent a part of his 2024 message. If he seems to lose … it’s clearly grounds for whatever extra-constitutional redress he and his supporters choose.

    This was all true before she opened her mouth. He’s been laying the foundation for that for 3 years. He continues to, despite his indictments for doing so.

  • @BillTheTailor@lemmy.ml
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    I don’t think any of the gravy seals have it in them to actually take on the government. Soon as they see their buddies torn in half by a 50cal it’s going to blow the fight right out of them. Sure, sure, it’s all “I’ll die for my country!” but you put a gun to their head and say, “America needs your life now”, not one in ten will have the courage of their conviction.

    I used to doom-scroll to see what bullshit embarrassment Trump was going to put our country through on any given day. Now I’m doom scroll hoping to read his obituary.

  • DontMakeMoreBabies
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    This dumb bitch with DV perp son just need to get the fuck out of the national spotlight.

    Also, do the losers from the civil war really need a refresher course?

    • spaceghotiOP
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      Also, do the losers from the civil war really need a refresher course?

      Apparently, yes. This time will be different because…reasons?

    • @hitmyspot@aussie.zone
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      No need to use sexist mysogenistic language to describe her. She dumb, sure. She should get out of the spotlight, sure.

      Calling females opponents a bitch is more belittling and aggressive that calling men dicks or assholes or similar.

      • Derin
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        Correct. It also distracts from your message, so it’s not just unnecessary: it actively works against what you’re trying to say.

        • Bo7a
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          Counterpoint - Palin actually is a bitch

      • @McNasty@sh.itjust.works
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        It’s not misogyny to hate one particular woman.

        Or to label one particular woman a bitch.

        Please explain how using gender specific insults is more damaging to women.

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    It’s probably an unpopular opinion but I’m going to say it anyway. Trump needs brought to justice and this country needs a “come to jesus moment.” As shitty as it sounds, I don’t see a way forward WITHOUT violence. Trump is a symptom, not a cause. He just managed to push things harder and faster than those before. Something is going to come to a head, and it’s not going to be pretty, but I don’t think we as a country can truly heal until that happens.

    Consider that my $0.02 after drinking on a Friday night, lol.

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      Agreed. And if they try to pull a J6 in 2025, they’re going to find out what the government does to insurrectionists when they don’t have an idiot in the whitehouse putting their thumb on the scale.

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        We hope. There are a frightening number of Trump supporters still in positions in our government that could end up backing a second insurrection. Look at all (literally all) of the Secret Service messages from on or about January-6. Oh wait, you can’t because every single agent erased their phones and the servers on which those messages were stored. An that was after they were told to retain those messages. How many people still in positions of power would, either discretely or overtly, support a second insurrection?

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      I’m not worried in the slightest. I really don’t mind if some idiots want to take themselves out of circulation. Like the guy who shot an FBI office in Ohio for Trump and was shot dead by police. One less Convicted Sex Offender Treason Trump voter.

      • spaceghotiOP
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        So I guess we don’t need to be concerned with the people they hurt along the way. Great reasoning there.

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          They usually just get themselves killed by law enforcement professionals which takes them out of circulation. I’m just saying nobody needs to be scared of these idiots. There are dozens of things more likely to kill you than a Crybaby Trump idiot. So be “concerned” if you wish to, but be more concerned about heart disease killing you. Looking at facts and statistics is indeed great reasoning.

  • M68040 [they/them]
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    Shit, bring it. I want to see some jet ski salesmen get domed and this country sucks shit anyhow

  • @Staccato@lemmy.world
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    The Trumpist wing of the GOP evidently just wants to burn their own country to the ground at this point.

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      Well it’s a good strategy for them. Look at all the middle eastern countries that have had their governments undermined and destroyed through US military might. Who fills the power vacuum in those countries now? Religious zealots.

      • Derin
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        Russia’s waiting for you with open arms, Товарищ Tankie.

  • @argv_minus_one@beehaw.org
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    MAGA cultists attempting terrorist attacks is the least of our worries. They have already demonstrated their abject incompetence in armed combat.

    More worrying is what will happen if Trump wins the election. He has a pretty good chance of doing so, because the election is rigged in his favor. He only barely lost in 2020, it’s a miracle that he did, and relying on repeated miracles is a very poor survival strategy…

  • @reverendsteveii@beehaw.org
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    Let’s get it the fuck over with then. This thing where they just keep throwing a giant fit and threatening a civil war needs to end, and they’ve been extraordinarily clear that they won’t let it end peacefully unless we let them dismantle our democracy and that’s not an option.