Mike Huckabee: if Trump doesn't win, 2024 will be last election "decided by ballots rather than bullets" | Boing Boing

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Mike Huckabee jumped on the GQP bandwagon, warning of bloody violence if King Trump doesn’t get his way in 2024. “Do you know how political opponents to those in power are dealt with in…

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“If conservatives become convinced that they cannot win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism, they will abandon democracy.” - David Frum
We are here, folks. They are planning civil war if they don’t win an election already rigged in their favor.
- That's been clear for a while IMHO. They are just starting to say it louder for the benefit of the dumber counterparts among them (aka the greater majority of trumps non 1% base).
- They can try. Were it to come to that, they are badly outgunned and outnumbered.
  
  They seem to think they’re the only ones with guns or are the only ones who know how to use them.
  
  Only if the police and military don't side with them... and there is a rage against the machine song that comes to mind about that.
  
  Watching "Shiny Happy People" gave me an idea how frighteningly organized conservatives are. Not Trump and his lackeys, but the larger christian right.
- We are here, folks. They are planning civil war if they don’t win an election already rigged in their favor.
  Fuck 'em.
- You said it so well. No sarcasm
- Civil war, smedley butler, we come here about every hundred years or so.

That's a coup. An election decided by bullets is a coup.
- When people tell you who they are, believe them the first time.

why does Mike want to be shot so badly?
- It's always these old fucking pricks whose hands would be shaking because they're fucking ancient. He's fucking nearly 70. He really thinks he has the reaction times as a 70 year old to deal with a guerilla warfare situation? Or is he just hoping everyone else is gonna do the fighting for him?
  Jesus Christ I'm in my 40's and I feel like a fucking shaky, woozy mess who could easily be taken down by someone half my age. It's stupid as living fuck.
  
  Rich people don't fight. Peons fight.
  Huckabee is just doing your garden variety, stochastic terrorism aka inciting violence type of thing.

Cool I’m looking forward to seeing more magtards getting 20+ years. I bet letting bullets fly will really get ya some quality time. Maybe it’ll finally get some poor people caught with a bag of weed out of prison and get the real criminals locked up. Drain those maga swamps!

removed please, Qultists would get fucking wrecked if a civil war popped off.
- Undoubtedly. But they will stir a whole lot of shit while they're going down. If you think mass shooting are bad now, imagine if every single MAGAt becomes convinced they're going to be persecuted to "David Koresh"-levels and decides to kill a bunch of people on their way out.... I shudder to think the level of societal chaos this could cause.
  
  They don't have that much power. It takes a lot (and a lack of sanity) for someone to "kill a bunch of people on their way out".
  The most they can do is something like Jan 6th with more competence. Something like that requires organization, and the FBI is pretty good at infiltrating organizations who are trying to grow enough to make a difference. January 6th wasn't stopped primarily because it was done by the President, and the office (for better or worse) gets more leeway with laws.
- I doubt anything organized and large scale will ever happen. The thing to watch for is more isolated* terrorist acts against minority groups like we've seen over the last several years.
  
  Seems likely, their stupidity functions as a safety mechanism. It's just like why elaborate government conspiracies fail: People are eventually stupid and untrustworthy, the more people involved, the greater the likelihood somebody fucks up hard. When you take a group that's already very poorly educated and lacks critical thinking, they're probably not going to do too hot in any form of sustained warfare.
  Doesn't help that they think people who aren't far right are unarmed soy boys: There are plenty of moderates and liberals who are armed and can fight just fine.

This just in: Mike Hucking Fuckabee goes fashy all over too.

We can only hope that they try. America needs to get rid of some of these animals to start functioning.
Rebuild the senate and stop basing the seats on random map lines. Make voting mandatory so there's no incentive to disenfranchise voters. Replace FPTP and stop letting corporations sponsor politicians.

Given that their best shot at something like that was while Trump was still in office and had the full force of the Federal govt & the Military backing him up, I’d like to see them try. If they can’t manage a coup when they had a wannabe dictator running the show, they sure as shit couldn’t pull it off now.

Get armed if you aren't already. You know they'll come after the "libs" in their community.

Do it or shut up you cowardly fucking blowhards. No one is afraid of you.

Fuck around & find out you #fascist piece of shit.
- treason is the word

Wait, Boing Boing is still around?
Neat.
- It's a bit of a shell of what it once was, and I think Doctorow doesn't post there anymore. Don't know about anyone else from the original team. Sort of ad infested now. (Or at least that's what my adblockers tell me, and I see a lot of blank space.)

Didn't they say that just before the last election too?

Welp, is this not a clear sign to load up on guns?

Huckabee quoting Malcom X? Damn, Mike. Good luck making a reddit account.

Don't wish for it Mike, it won't turn out how you think it will turn out...

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