Trumpistas talking about revolution if Trump loses.
Look: Revolutions don’t happen because someone loses an election. Revolutions happen when people have nothing to lose. The Trumpistas still have lots to lose. They’re still housed and clothed and well fed (maybe too well fed, if you look at the obesity numbers for states where Trumpistas are the majority). Oh sure, a few young bucks will toss a molotov cocktail through the front window of a Democratic Party office or fire a few bullets through the front window of their local Democratic organizer, but that’s all that’s going to happen, and the local cops are going to handle that, or if not, the FBI will move in as they did with the Bundy clan. They aren’t going to organize, the macho young turks who do stuff like that aren’t into organizing anything more sophisticated than a beer bash in the woods with their best buddies from high school. They aren’t going to arm themselves with military weapons (not military-STYLE weapons, but actual military weapons), a) they wouldn’t know where to get their hands on actual military weapons, and b) they wouldn’t spend the money on such a thing anyhow, that would buy a lot of beer.
So the Trumpistas are going to grumble and complain and make a nuisance of themselves, but revolution? Puh-LEEZE. It ain’t happening. There just isn’t any “there” there.
– Badtux the History Penguin
Their “revolution” is a joke just like they and their “leader” are jokes, all hot air and little dicks.
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Yeah, there will be some deaths because of donny’s ego, but not much else.
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Every Trumpeteer who gets jailed or shot fullalead when he (it’s almost never a “she”) goes full Rambo against a Democratic Party HQ or a TV news crew or a Post Office — gubbermint agents who are mucking with our mail!!!! — is one more moron who’s removed from the gene or voting pool. The unfortunate innocents who are ventilated by these misguided madmen are the REAL blood that waters the “tree of Liberty” so often praised by reich-wing glibertariassholes.
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But the keyboardrages will be thunderous! Tweets will be Screamin’ Meme-ies (sic) and the Fakebook-boom-bah will be deafening. With the Trumpclownshow safely out of the way, the lamescream meeja will feel like it’s safe to amplify these howls of bullshit into something more meaningful than they really are. And thus does the shitshow circus continue. Ratings!
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Unfortunately, I think what will happen is the same thing that has happened for the past 8 years and what happened under Clinton 42’s terms; the GOP will obstruct, obstruct, obstruct. “Gridlock” will be the order of the day, and you’ll hear endless versions of “Why doesn’t government work?” and “Why can’t Clinton just compromise with (i.e. capitulate to) the Republicans?”
But…I’m not sure that the end result might not be some sort of “rebellion”. I think at some point this obstruction will get so toxic that a significant portion of the American public will lose patience with the trappings of a republic. We the People won’t be perceptive or smart enough (and the GOP propaganda machine will be blowing smoke all the time) to recognize the obstruction for what it is; we’ll blame “both sides”.
And then, the Man on Horseback.
That’ll show the Corrupt Duopoly!
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Didn’t Dostoyevsky say something like “A full belly is incompatible with revolution”?
I’m not scared, but if I lived somewhere else I might feel a little nervous about walking in the dark.
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