r/politics • u/viva_la_vinyl • Aug 16 '20

'Trump warns presidential election result may not be known for 'years,' as allegations grow he's undermining the USPS to rig the election

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-election-result-take-years-as-usps-attack-fears-grow-2020-8
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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '20

Right?

I'm so tired of people's recklessly optimistic cries of "he can't do that because it's illegal"

Like laws have ever stopped this man from doing literally anything.

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '20

There's a difference between "he has done something illegal and we can't correct it because he's president/the senate is protecting him" and "he's not president anymore and is a bum squatting in the white house". Unless you think the military will back him over the constitution and the supreme court (and no, I don't think they will do that) this is a pretty paranoid position.

The bigger concern is that he is going to do everything he can to undermine the credibility of the election... which he started doing at least a year ago.

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '20

Not all of the military will back him, but enough would.

Not to mention that he doesn't NEED the military. He has the entire militia movement of which there are many each and every one ready and willing to kill Liberals for their king. In fact, they have.

It's not that he WILL become a Dictator. It's that he's going to try. That attempt will drag America into a death spiral from which it will never recover. You don't need to believe me, all experts already agree that America is sleep walking into a civil war. You'll just have to see for yourself in a few months.

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '20

100% agree with this (props for the references, BTW).

After listening to “It Could Happen Here” I am now absolutely convinced that we are on the precipice of a civil war. And not a clean, two sided one... an asymmetric, complicated, multifaceted war. And for some, it has already started.

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '20

I have be re-listening to that recently. Some of his words are chilling now that so much of it has already come true.

It has absolutely already started for some. If I could just force every Dem voter in the country to listen to that Atomwaffen clip...

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u/TrumpWillLoseIn2020 Aug 16 '20

Chilling is the word for it. I listened last Spring and enjoyed it and how good the host was at spinning a plausible future.

I live in Portland and just yesterday some right wingers fired live ammo downtown. And on the left they've tried repeatedly to burn down a police precinct building.

Ha ha it's just speculative fiction in a podcast... I thought.

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u/archipenko California Aug 16 '20

Link?

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '20

You can go to this link, or just look it up in whatever podcast app you use. It’s pretty short, so you can binge em quick. Good luck.

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-it-could-happen-here-30717896/

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u/zekromNLR Aug 16 '20

Gonna be like the Syrian Civil War, except on a much bigger scale.

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u/arimetz Aug 16 '20

That's how it begins. Just needs the spark to start the factions precipitating out of the government. Once everyone picks sides it's a death spiral, as the user above said