The former president made multiple chilling warnings during an interview with Time magazine.
Donald Trump hasn’t quite let go of the possibility of utilizing mob violence if he loses the next election.
In a sprawling interview for Time magazine, Trump hinted that leveraging political violence to achieve his end goals was still on the table.
“If we don’t win, you know, it depends,” he told Time. “It always depends on the fairness of the election.”
And from Trump’s perspective, that’s winning rhetoric. According to him, his incendiary comments supporting a mob mentality, his early warnings of forthcoming abuses of power, and his threats to be a dictator on “day one” are only inching him closer to the White House. “I think a lot of people like it,” Trump told Time.
Yea… we know. Really trying hard to not live in FL before November.
The only reason it happened the first time is because he was able to allow it to happen… but he ain’t the one in the oval office now.
Right. Biden would have immediately deployed the national guard in response to a march on the Capitol. Trump intentionally did not, he encouraged the mob and then watched the whole thing unfold on television and didn’t lift a finger.
The next group of MAGA idiots who show up to pull a Jan 6 2.0 will get turned away by authorities actually equipped to handle them.
The next group of MAGA idiots who show up to pull a Jan 6 2.0 will get turned away by authorities actually equipped to handle them.
i wonder if they’ll get smarter w 2.0 and go after unguarded but key pieces of infrastructure like some did in the 2022 elections with power stations.
Question is what exactly does he mean? That MAGA republicans from around USA will visit the capitol city and go to see congress, all completely peacefully. we just have to hope the LGTB people don’t make a mess of it.
Because isn’t that what he claimed happened?
Trump is such a malignant idiot, and so is everybody who supports him.
Question is what exactly does he mean?
Terrorism.
But the little bitches in the government are too afraid to call a spade a spade.
“hE jUsT teLLs iT liKe It iS”
He is their license to act like an asshole, because everything is changing and they don’t like it
I was referring to Trump’s rhetoric that nothing happened, it was mostly a garden party where everybody from MAGA were nice and didn’t do anything wrong. Despite all the evidence of violence and even policemen/security people dying and threats of executing politicians. But hey, that’s just another day of being American I guess.
Nothing bad happened on Jan6… It was AntiFa and BLM… But the people in jail are patriot MAGA hostages?
These people will say those three things together and not see a problem with it
Can’t upset conservatives or they won’t vote for me. And my entire election strategy hinges on winning over as many moderate conservatives as possible.
God I hate those dirty Trumpsters.
Yikes, forgive me if this is a naive question but how are these kinds of veiled threats against American democracy okay with Homeland Security?
Our positions of authority are infested with conservatives.
Makes sense. But conservativism pre-dates Trump and realistically will soon outlive him.
It seems odd to me that they are happy to have someone random dismantle bedrock US political system? Or are conservatives less keen on democracy?
Also I get the impression he doesn’t have a conservative ideology himself, he seems like more of an opportunist than a believer.
The “conservative” part of right-wing republiQan ideology was largely a lie from the start. The true goals of preserving power in the hands of rich white men were neatly folded into every “deregulation”, “fiscally conservative”, “tough-on-crime” and “trickle-down” talking point for forty years.
See “The Southern Strategy” for more on how important those ideals were to the GOP.
Trump’s success revealed the people who voted for those things don’t care a single bit about them because they could have enacted policies that would follow those supposed ideals, but instead they either did nothing or in some cases did the opposite.
“Barry Goldwater conservative” voices which had a claim to environmental protections were subsumed almost as a first act of the modern era starting with Nixon’s downfall.
Thanks, hadn’t heard of that and it’s interesting. I think the stumbling block for me is I always forget how many non-rich people want to facilitate the rich. Kind of like Salacious Crumb on the shoulder of Jabba.
Historically, unchecked conservatism leads to oppressive regimes. The conservatives here have been getting worse and worse since the civil war. When Reagan sold their party to the Christians, they basically cut the brake lines. Conservatism has been unchecked ever since.
The severity of this infection gets worse here every year. Unfortunately, if history is our guide, treating a disease like this is not a peaceful process. Maybe this time it will be different.
Thanks.
I always forget/underestimate the religious element in the US.
Conservatives are lot just less keen on democracy; many of them are actively and openly opposed to it. For example.
Oh it’s because “homeland security” is a false flag term used to spy and control their population.
Kind of like how “weapons of mass destruction” was used to fuel an entire war.
Once you’re rich enough and have enough corporate power you can do whatever you want at the expense to greater population.
I was going to say CIA at first but then I remembered my parents telling me that is its own country.
Idk I feel like as citizens we need some kind of organization that protects our political systems. There’s a weird assault on democracy in my country at the moment too (not coups just unconstitutional legislation) and it really highlights the dangers now that disaster capitalists are on the rise.
I agree but rich people will break up any attempt to create such a thing.
Yeah. I really doubt congress is going to fuck around next time. They’ll be deploying the national guard and shooting on sight. Even other GOP members were pissed about the insurrection and were targeted by insurrectionists.
Even other GOP members were pissed about the insurrection and were targeted by insurrectionists.
and then turned around and acted like it was nbd
This time, they might actually treat it as if they were “antifa” or BLM, even.
Another Jan. 6? Like the chaos that is currently unfolding from the baker’s dozen of MAGA protestors outside the courthouse?
I haven’t read about any chaos, though I don’t doubt it. What have you heard about?
I think it’s a joke about how donnie is butthurt because hardly anyone showed up for his court cases to protest how unfair it all is.
Ah, now that I HAD heard early on.
And it could go the same as last time.
Well maybe he should tell his supporters not to do that again….
LOL, “hints”.
I hope your avatar remains relevant after this year.
Writers are running out of ideas for this season of jackass
Hey, maybe we could put Trump in a shopping cart and roll him off the roof of an abandoned casino!
I mean it seems dangerous, but let’s try it. We may need a couple of takes, y’know, one for safety and that.
If the FEC had any fucking teeth they’d jail and disqualify him for that statement alone.
They have teeth. But half of the people who decide whether or not they pursue charges against someone are republican appointees.
So, you know… teeth, but corrupted leadership.
They’re the same picture
I don’t really disagree in present circumstances.
But I feel it’s necessary to characterize it correctly. Characterizing the FEC as a whole to be deficient when it’s a few bad actors temporarily at the head of the FEC could be used as justification by other bad actors or well-intentioned but misled people to undermine the FEC - which would make it deficient should the leadership issues be corrected.Sort of the game that conservatives play with government services. Cut the funding until the service is flagging, then use that as justification to either further cut the budget or reduce the scope of the service until the service is no longer a real government service.
Can’t let ourselves buy into that.Yes and no. I can’t speak to the particulars of this situation but differences in means matter even if they currently produce the same outcome. A toothless dog and a dog in a muzzle are different in important ways.
That’s a great and succinct way to describe that.
These Trumpsters are getting out of hand, huh fellas?
Getting?
What’s wrong with a Tourist Visit? Or was January 6th NOT a Tourist Visit?
This time we’ll be ready for his sorry ass.
If he tries it might cost him more than money
