Trump floats sending military after US citizens on election day

Is it the current one, or the originalist one, or the supreme court interpretation one, or the cherry picked and misunderstood one, or?

This is the correct answer.

I am altering the deal. Pray I don’t alter it further.

Killing people is the reason why some of them joined in the first place.

looks at his mom

...yeah it's both. 😒

The fact that anyone in America politics is being called a radical leftist is funny.

Let Trump round them up then. Problem solved.

Trump being a lunatic doesn't automatically make the Democratic party the good guys. We don't live in a Marvel movie.

I don't see that often.

What I see a lot of is accounts that say Kamala has to be "conservative" on some issues to get votes, but can't give a valid reason why Kamala sticks with unpopular policy like pro-genocide or pro-fracking.

But she doesn't take the threat of trump seriously enough to make her want to aide with the platform of her own goddamn party. She like genocide and fracking too much apparently, and it would be cynical to imply it was the donations and not her genuine feelings on the issues

Still counts

Been in their churches, you hear the chorus loud and clear when he talks about 'taking the country back from the powers of satan and other elitists'. He doesn't mean Olympic athletes.

And the problem is that a county of 1000 dipshit rednecks like that have as much voting power as a major metropolitan area.

We need to find those churches then and report them to the IRS no?

Ughh you described my dad, except he's still watching shit like that and skinwalker ranch... And yes he's a full blown Magoo. :(

Are the polls landline calls? If so you are going to get mostly boomers that still have a landline

Trump has had multiple assassination attempts on him this year, and each time it happens Trump blames Democratic rhetoric as the motivating force.

Of course, anybody who took even a cursory look into the motives of each would-be assassin (and let's be frank, it's a big stretch to call some of these guys assassins - getting caught with a loaded weapon near where Trump is located is apparently enough to be considered an assassination attempt, even if Trump was never in any danger) they are often Republicans who absolutely hate the Democrats, so they wouldn't be listening to their political rhetoric anyway which has been nothing short of "Political violence is not the solution, let's win at the ballot box in November."

Meanwhile, Trump is promising to be a dictator on day one, promoting eugenics, deploying the armed forces to deport legal residents, threatening to prosecute and jail his political opponents and revoke the 1st amendment rights of his critics, but refuses to answer calls to "turn the temperature down".

the media line was that democrats were being to mean to trump.

I don't know, some republicans think Democrats have something to do with this?

When you're fighting against fascism survival isn't the most important thing.

If survival was your goal, I'd agree being armed probably wouldn't help much.

That type of comment may have gone over well back on reddit but, sir, we are not idiots here. UTTER BULLSHIT, LEFTISTS DO NOT WANT TO TAKE AWAY YOUR RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS. We want that right too. We just don't want mentally ill people having access to assault weapons with which they can kill many, many people with significantly reduced effort. Someone going on a rampage with a pistol or a shotgun is far less deadly than someone with a long rifle of any type, especially automatic rifles. BULL-FUCKING-SHIT LEFTIST DO NOT WANT TO TAKE THAT RIGHT AWAY.

Democrats are not leftists.

The old saying is; if you go far enough left, you get your guns back.

Military weapons? Yeah. They should be.

Pistols? Shotguns? Not really. And yes, you can point to more extreme cases of 'liberals' who do want to amend the constitution, which is about the same thing as calling anyone even slightly conservative on one issue a fascist.

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Can't imagine why.

Well liberals certainly are, I don't know if I'd say leftists are.

Wasn't he their boss last time?

There’s no such thing as living without being bothered in an autocratic regime, doesn’t matter who you are. You could be the most ardent supporter and you’d still be shit out of luck for any reason. Stalin used to have his own cabinet members routinely disposed of

Sane Americans better go out and vote.

Interesting. It's definitely not viewed positively anywhere I've ever heard the term.

If the soldiers down the chain don't get the order because the big guy ignored the fascist, then their feelings don't matter.

Really depends. In general officers tend to be mixed bag while enlisted soldiers tend to lean Trump.

But it also depends the branch. In my experience most Marines tend to support Trump while the Navy and Airforce is more mixed.

I’m sure you can get some statistics if you look it up. But it’s pretty certain the military leans more conservative than the general population on average.

They lean conservative but not Trump. They voted blue in 2020 because the conservatives didn't really come out to vote for him. They also have very complicated feelings about the Constitution and targeting Americans. So they probably would refrain from getting involved in anything but the most egregious conduct, like the Jan 6th insurrection, until we're so far down the hole they can't maintain unit integrity between left and right. At that point you'd probably see about a 60/40 split.

Our two party system has been in a civil war over control of us slaves for decades. .

The officers already told Trump no. And when the National Guard was deployed for BLM protests they actually stuck to their ROE and didn't deploy force recklessly like the police. Even when the police tried to get the NG in trouble with the people by dressing like them and then telling the NG they might as well.

If the NG was ordered to show up at the polls they would most likely sit in a position a couple hundred meters away where most people won't see them but they'd be able to respond rapidly. They'd force the governor to be more and more explicit in their orders until they got to an actually illegal one. For example if the NG has been called for law and order they would be under the same restrictions as the police in regards to polling places. (In many states police aren't allowed to hang out there, they have to vote and leave unless someone specifically calls them and faking a call to get them there could count as election interference.)

I know it's hard to understand the military mindset from the outside looking in, but I guarantee you it's not the robotic machine that Hollywood portrays. They are very conscious of their responsibility to the people.

Its not as simple as that though, e.g. that electro shock experiment was rather shaky and subsiquent attempts to replicate it have all but falsified its results.

What you have to do is cherry pick the small group of people that are willing to do awful things, you then get them to do those things in presence of the saner people who then feel guilty by association. After that you can use their lack of action to stop this awful thing as blackmail/guilttrip to get them to do some small awful thing of their own, and then repeat that process to get them to do increasingly awful things until everyone is just as bad as what was originally just a very small subset of that group. Importantly even though they're doing awful things they still feel bad about it but they're in too deep, this makes them even more effective than your original psychopaths because they know how they're likely to be punished should your side loose which makes them fanatical in order to avoid punishment.

Its a tried and tested process but not quite as simple as people just following orders.

I'd be happy with a fatal slip and fall accident

lmao, great comment

I mean, it's just fair. An eye for an eye.

useful? hardly. more of an impediment to progress than any president since taft

Yeah that's fair then, 99.99999+% of leftist don't support assassination. Trump is blowing it out of proportion.

But there are violent radicals inside the homeland, that are Americans. So he has a point somewhat.