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Scenario: Trump Wins The Election. Democracy Hangs By A Thread. What Should We Do?

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by Contra, Jul 11, 2024.

Trump Wins The Election. Democracy Hangs In The Balance. What is the best response?

  1. People who care about their country should form an armed resistance to save democracy.

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  2. Democratic states should secede from the union to preserve democracy in blue states.

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  3. Biden or whoever it is that runs the country should declare martial law to save democracy.

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  4. Challenge the election results to save democracy.

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  5. Accept the election results, and wait until the 2028 elections to save democracy.

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  6. Accept the election results because there is no threat to democracy.

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  1. ursidman

    ursidman VIP Member

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    If you meant to say that thousands of angry armed tourists should stroll through the Capital and beat up LE and steal the furniture, as tourists are wont to do, then yeah.
     
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  2. cocodrilo

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    Buy a seat on a Blue Origin or Space X space flight and then hijack the spacecraft. "Just head for the nearest habitable planet."
     
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  3. cocodrilo

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    Authoritarians and dictators have taken power by force, but how many were elected in a democracy, with the voters knowing what they were?
     
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  4. archigator_96

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    Not sure how he could get past the 22nd amendment without some serious tinfoil hat thinking.
     
  5. citygator

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    Ha ha ha ha. This thread is hilarious. As if George Soros and AOC will let Trump win. It’s already been decided.
    • I helped pack the bamboo ballots in briefcases all week.
    • The mules have been lined up through TikTok.
    • Ballot counting machines made internet accessible so we can download election stealing software.
    • 8M illegals are ready to vote twice each.
    • Millions of dead people are being dug up now.
    The jig is up. Trump wont win.
     
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  6. swampbabe

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    I see your reading skills are still below par. Representative democracy = constitutional republic.
     
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  7. cocodrilo

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    He could just take a magic marker and write "except for Donald Trump" in the amendment.
     
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  8. 92gator

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    Damn....am I really the only one who voted for the dems should secede from the union (again!) in order to preserve their (Chicom vision of) *democracy *?

    :p:D:p
     
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  9. 92gator

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    He'll be an octogenarian by then.

    I think we'll be ok.

    :rolleyes::ninja2::rolleyes::ninja2::rolleyes:

    :monkey:
     
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  10. channingcrowderhungry

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    The guy literally tried to overthrow the previous election. So I don't think it's very tinfoil to think he wouldn't try and pull whatever nonsense he could to stay in power. All he has to do at this point would be make it an "official" act and get it sent to courts and delayed for 4 years.
     
  11. 92gator

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    Seems to me, you and yourn would be far better situated to spell that out for *us*, seeing as how yall are the ones shitting your collective britches over that very prospect on a daily basis.
     
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  12. 92gator

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    He tried to slow the process down in order to have the results reviewed, due to a substantial amount of smoke.

    What would be done if his concerns had been vindicated?

    "...oh well, golly gee, I guess duh election were stole fair n square...guess thems da breaks...".
     
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  13. G8tas

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    ¿Cómo?
     
  14. archigator_96

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    Meh, don't think he would be able to but it's Ok if others think differently. Bookmark this post and if it comes to it and he bypasses the constitution, then I owe you a Coke.
     
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  15. jhenderson251

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    "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."
    - H.L. Mencken
     
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  17. channingcrowderhungry

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    ""All I want to do is this: I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have," Trump says, according to audio of the call. "There's nothing wrong with saying, you know, that you've recalculated."

    Sorry, that bullshit doesn't play here.
     
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  18. archigator_96

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    And to be clear, I don't want him and won't vote for him. I wanted Haley and still might just write her in anyway come November so I feel better about myself.
     
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  19. 92gator

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    NB: "I want to *FIND*..." means to locate something already in existence, not manufacture or fabricate or create, something not in existence.

    Try again counselor....your indictment fails on its face. Doesn't even state a prima facie case to support the desire that a criminal act be perpetrated.
     
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