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meow2u3

(24,774 posts)
Tue Oct 11, 2016, 10:58 PM Oct 2016

Trump Supporters Are Threatening To Overthrow The Government If Hillary Clinton Wins

With less than a month to go before election day, Donald Trump supporters are already threatening to overthrow the government if Hillary Clinton wins the election.

(video at link)

A woman named Rhonda stood up at the town hall and told Mike Pence that she is on social media all day, every day pushing Trump, but Rhonda has some issues, “One of the things that I can tell you that a lot of us are scared of is this voter fraud. There’s a lot of out here saying that when we vote, we’re going to wear red. Our lives depend on this election. Our kids’ futures depend on this election. For me personally, if Hillary Clinton gets in, I myself am ready for a revolution.”

Pence tried to talk the woman off of the revolution ledge, but judging from the applause in the crowd as she spoke, Rhonda is not alone among Trump supporters.

Democrats have heard this kind of talk before, but the difference in 2016 is that the Republican Party has a presidential nominee who is encouraging violence and revolution.

http://www.politicususa.com/2016/10/11/trump-supporters-threatening-overthrow-government-hillary-clinton-wins.html

It's long past time to bring those Trumpanzees up on sedition charges--for the sake of the country!

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Trump Supporters Are Threatening To Overthrow The Government If Hillary Clinton Wins (Original Post) meow2u3 Oct 2016 OP
They say that every 4 years Doctor Jack Oct 2016 #1
They want to be terrorists. Sparkly Oct 2016 #2
Tim McVeigh managed Runningdawg Oct 2016 #17
Then they can die at the hands of those who have taken the oath cliffordu Oct 2016 #25
I agree 100% barbiegeek Oct 2016 #43
Perhaps some strategically placed kegs of beer and platters of donuts might distract them Siwsan Oct 2016 #3
OMG sarae Oct 2016 #8
You're bad. Cha Oct 2016 #19
+1, The Baskets are lil too fluffy to be threatening to anyone uponit7771 Oct 2016 #30
"The Revolution is cancelled, because--- Tim Horton's!" BlueProgressive Oct 2016 #39
Bad but true. Next 4 years will improve the economy Hortensis Oct 2016 #44
They always forget to pack snacks. LOL. Coyotl Oct 2016 #51
You are the best! JustAnotherGen Oct 2016 #53
Sure Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2016 #4
How are they going to pull that off? meow2u3 Oct 2016 #5
... and bacon... don't forget they can't resist bacon uponit7771 Oct 2016 #31
Rich old white racists workinclasszero Oct 2016 #6
The Bundys tried the "revolution" thing in Oregon tinrobot Oct 2016 #7
Her entire life is spent on social media. The FBI will be at her oasis Oct 2016 #9
Was that a tin hat she wore? BSdetect Oct 2016 #10
They are thinking election fraud but have the term "voter fraud" burned into their brains Cresent City Kid Oct 2016 #11
You can't fix that kind of crazy... Blue Idaho Oct 2016 #12
Yes, they should all show the military what they're made of. dubyadiprecession Oct 2016 #13
And they will be put down. Third Doctor Oct 2016 #14
Did you see her? GulfCoast66 Oct 2016 #15
"She could not run 100 yards." workinclasszero Oct 2016 #47
This isn't the middle ages. There is little need for a massed infantry charge. whatthehey Oct 2016 #55
Conservatives are people that have/own a lot of wealth workinclasszero Oct 2016 #61
Of course, but adiposity figures into that not at all. whatthehey Oct 2016 #65
I wish Trump would take the crazies and secede adigal Oct 2016 #16
there's always Mars DeminPennswoods Oct 2016 #32
I expect him to try to summon something like the Maiden protests in Ukraine killbotfactory Oct 2016 #18
Notice when Rhonda mentioned "I'm on social media, all day, every day?" BobbyDrake Oct 2016 #20
Yawn...Please proceed.....aren't these the same folks who used to be HipChick Oct 2016 #21
Trump Supporters: Just shut the fuck up and try it! Talk is cheap. What are you, cowards? TheBlackAdder Oct 2016 #22
Trump Supporter Cocaine, Now With Bleach.... Grassy Knoll Oct 2016 #23
Why do you think white wing racists have been arming up with support of NRA and other gunners? Hoyt Oct 2016 #24
Their kids college fund is in guns instead barbiegeek Oct 2016 #45
Just to be on the safe side, we'd better saltpoint Oct 2016 #26
We'll get to recycle our memes. Coyotl Oct 2016 #54
LOL! Wonderful. eom saltpoint Oct 2016 #57
The Rant Brigade. Yawn. kysrsoze Oct 2016 #27
The danger is real. Trump has asked his fans interfere with the voting underthematrix Oct 2016 #28
But he also told them the election is on Nov 28. stopbush Oct 2016 #29
no "early" voting in PA DeminPennswoods Oct 2016 #33
i don't think they're going to be from the area. However, I think there underthematrix Oct 2016 #34
Have you ever been to Philly? DeminPennswoods Oct 2016 #36
I attended a meeting there for about 4 days. And I think I saw 10 white folks even though underthematrix Oct 2016 #37
Don't get me wrong, Center City is vibrant DeminPennswoods Oct 2016 #60
Yes, I have meow2u3 Oct 2016 #42
Indeed they would DeminPennswoods Oct 2016 #59
I've seen it myself meow2u3 Oct 2016 #63
I think it is obvious now that Trump has played us all for fools Doodley Oct 2016 #35
Roger Ailes & Trump are going to make a media network barbiegeek Oct 2016 #46
Ailes certainly wants his vengeance against Fox too C_U_L8R Oct 2016 #62
I'll take the odds on the government prevailing .... beachbum bob Oct 2016 #38
Maybe, but we might end up like Syria, or government might look like Trumpsters or Bundy Ranchers. Hoyt Oct 2016 #49
I highly doubt it....DOJ needs to start enforcing the sedition laws....have all citizens who are beachbum bob Oct 2016 #67
Well, I'll bet my ass more than half of military and police are Trump supporter and white wingers Hoyt Oct 2016 #68
They better start charging up their mobility scooters. Capt. Obvious Oct 2016 #40
Many of us have been preparing for this very moment. Game on! grossproffit Oct 2016 #41
They'll need a little help from the Aliens. Coyotl Oct 2016 #50
What few there would be would be put down immediately...... Uben Oct 2016 #56
Bring it on! SHRED Oct 2016 #58
Oh Rhonda, oh oh Rhonda rumdude Oct 2016 #64
...but Rhonda has some issues. In more ways than one! bulloney Oct 2016 #66

Doctor Jack

(3,072 posts)
1. They say that every 4 years
Tue Oct 11, 2016, 11:00 PM
Oct 2016

They are tough when they are at a political rally but their rascal scooters and oxygen tanks hold them back.

Runningdawg

(4,522 posts)
17. Tim McVeigh managed
Tue Oct 11, 2016, 11:37 PM
Oct 2016

to kill 168 people. The only reason he was caught was because he didn't have a tag on his car. Who honestly believes he pulled it off with only 2 accomplices? The others are still out there along with a new generation who believes that MF tree of liberty needs water and they are willing to provide it. Its not only jihadist that dream of martyrdom.

cliffordu

(30,994 posts)
25. Then they can die at the hands of those who have taken the oath
Wed Oct 12, 2016, 01:21 AM
Oct 2016

to protect the Republic from all enemies, foreign and domestic. They will be terrorists and will be treated as such.

I have absolutely no problem with this. Fuck them.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
44. Bad but true. Next 4 years will improve the economy
Wed Oct 12, 2016, 08:56 AM
Oct 2016

and general wellbeing further, and they'll calm down. Populist movements break apart and dissolve with prosperity, kind of like pools of grease do with soap. Just not overnight.

Also, it's looking as if Trump's armchair lynch mob is finally, finally going to go too far for more principled and more moderate conservatives. Trump's mob is even promising to make what would be an inevitably fatal mistake of breaking away from conservatives not loyal to Trump, not realizing that all their successes have depended on the (unfortunate) loyalty of moderates to their fellow conservatives.

meow2u3

(24,774 posts)
5. How are they going to pull that off?
Tue Oct 11, 2016, 11:04 PM
Oct 2016

Their AR-15s are no match for some strategically deployed bunker busters and predator drones!

oasis

(49,414 posts)
9. Her entire life is spent on social media. The FBI will be at her
Tue Oct 11, 2016, 11:10 PM
Oct 2016

doorstep before she's halfway done with her first tweet.

Cresent City Kid

(1,621 posts)
11. They are thinking election fraud but have the term "voter fraud" burned into their brains
Tue Oct 11, 2016, 11:12 PM
Oct 2016

Everything they are afraid of happening in a Hillary Clinton presidency is mostly already happening under Obama.

GulfCoast66

(11,949 posts)
15. Did you see her?
Tue Oct 11, 2016, 11:26 PM
Oct 2016

What is she going to do? Microwave hot pockets for the revolutionaries? She could not run 100 yards. They love to talk but are too attached to their creature comforts to do anything to threaten them.

whatthehey

(3,660 posts)
55. This isn't the middle ages. There is little need for a massed infantry charge.
Wed Oct 12, 2016, 09:45 AM
Oct 2016

As long as somebody's fingers are not too fat to get inside a trigger guard or assemble explosives, they can be lethal. Was every Iraqi who planted an IED a whip-lithe triathlete? You don't think the few of the Massed Internet Brigade who would actually do anything are planning a 25-mile forced overland night march to establish a fort on Pikes Peak do you? Terrorism and civilian insurgency don't require much in the way of physical fitness.

 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
61. Conservatives are people that have/own a lot of wealth
Wed Oct 12, 2016, 10:01 AM
Oct 2016

That's their politics. Protect and expand their wealth from the unwashed masses.

IOW these people have something to lose. IMO they will never get off their collective fat asses and put all they own on the line for a right wing dictatorship in America, they have too much to lose.

Now the lone crazed true believer striking out...yes beware. Timothy McVeigh comes to mind among others. But did the average Fox news/Rush zombie rush out to participate in McVeigh's right wing revolution or Bundy's?

Of course not.

whatthehey

(3,660 posts)
65. Of course, but adiposity figures into that not at all.
Wed Oct 12, 2016, 10:21 AM
Oct 2016

Any isolated bits of mayhem the Trumpenreich cause will not be in ways that require athleticism. The few who will carry out these blustery threats could be of any body shape, and it will not affect their temporary and limited danger in any way.

 

adigal

(7,581 posts)
16. I wish Trump would take the crazies and secede
Tue Oct 11, 2016, 11:28 PM
Oct 2016

Unfortunately, since they are mostly trashy people who don't even pay any taxes, their 3rd world country the United States would come running back in 2 minutes.

killbotfactory

(13,566 posts)
18. I expect him to try to summon something like the Maiden protests in Ukraine
Tue Oct 11, 2016, 11:56 PM
Oct 2016

Call the results fraudulent, and ask his army of well-armed bigoted assholes to stage protests in Washington DC.

 

BobbyDrake

(2,542 posts)
20. Notice when Rhonda mentioned "I'm on social media, all day, every day?"
Wed Oct 12, 2016, 12:26 AM
Oct 2016

I was not surprised at all. She most likely funds that lifestyle through some form of government benefit.

 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
24. Why do you think white wing racists have been arming up with support of NRA and other gunners?
Wed Oct 12, 2016, 01:15 AM
Oct 2016

They'll likely fail, but innocent people will be hurt.

kysrsoze

(6,023 posts)
27. The Rant Brigade. Yawn.
Wed Oct 12, 2016, 01:50 AM
Oct 2016

Yeah, wake me up when they get off their lazy, inbred asses and it actually starts.

underthematrix

(5,811 posts)
28. The danger is real. Trump has asked his fans interfere with the voting
Wed Oct 12, 2016, 02:12 AM
Oct 2016

in African American areas in Philadelphia.

POTUS has encouraged everyone to vote EARLY. I assume it's to reduce the risk of challenges to voter eligibility of individual African Americans. While this is not an issue in my area because we all vote by mail in my small town.

If you vote by mail. take a picture of ballot number, your name and your completed save it and then print and store.

As POTUS said this is about ensuring the survival of our democracy. Trump has already said he doesn't believe the Constitution is a legal document and he has said many things to indicate he will violate every rule of law that provides the foundation of our democracy.

Today, Trump just said if he's elected, Ryan who is House Speaker will not hold that position if he's elected. This demonstrates that this man has not regard for our system government.

stopbush

(24,396 posts)
29. But he also told them the election is on Nov 28.
Wed Oct 12, 2016, 02:28 AM
Oct 2016

I wonder how many of them will show up, amazed at their power to keep everybody away from the polls that day.

DeminPennswoods

(15,290 posts)
33. no "early" voting in PA
Wed Oct 12, 2016, 03:24 AM
Oct 2016

Absentee ballot voting must be justified by either physical disability (signed by a doctor) or being out of town.

I laugh at these threats to go to heavily A-A polling places in Philadelphia. I can assure you no white Trump supporter would dream of venturing into most of those neighborhoods. And it will be dark starting around 4:30 in the afternoon on election day, too. Heck, the little town where I live is about 20% minority, has the occassional murder and its share of the ubiquitous drug sellers/users and white people who live nearby and graduated from its high school are afraid to go into town in the day time despite it being perfectly safe!

underthematrix

(5,811 posts)
34. i don't think they're going to be from the area. However, I think there
Wed Oct 12, 2016, 03:29 AM
Oct 2016

will be federal marshalls and others watching the election. I assume this will be true for PA because Trump has mentioned it by name. I think the other state may be North Carolina.

DeminPennswoods

(15,290 posts)
36. Have you ever been to Philly?
Wed Oct 12, 2016, 03:47 AM
Oct 2016

Trust me, white folks from anywhere aren't going to the heavily A-A polls in Philadelphia. Honestly, white people from the remaining white, ethnic parts of Philadelphia wouldn't even go, especially after it gets dark.

underthematrix

(5,811 posts)
37. I attended a meeting there for about 4 days. And I think I saw 10 white folks even though
Wed Oct 12, 2016, 03:50 AM
Oct 2016

there had to be a 1000 peeps

I hope you're right

DeminPennswoods

(15,290 posts)
60. Don't get me wrong, Center City is vibrant
Wed Oct 12, 2016, 10:00 AM
Oct 2016

There are plenty of white people living in and around Center City. It's very vibrant even after dark. But the polling places Trump is alluding to are in some of the roughest, most segregated Philly neighborhoods. Any out of towner who came to "poll watch" would likely high tail it home as soon as he/she realized just how surrounded by "the enemy" they were.

meow2u3

(24,774 posts)
42. Yes, I have
Wed Oct 12, 2016, 08:47 AM
Oct 2016

And I used to live in a predominantly black neighborhood in Philly for a couple of years. Mark my word, no white supremacist would dare venture into where I used to live after dark, even armed. They see a big black guy outside the polling places protecting the voters and they'll scurry for cover with their tails between their legs like the cowards they are.

meow2u3

(24,774 posts)
63. I've seen it myself
Wed Oct 12, 2016, 10:02 AM
Oct 2016

I've actually seen white so-called "tough guys" trying to venture into my old neighborhood to try to intimidate little old black ladies and not only did the big guys come to their defense, the oldsters themselves wouldn't take any shit!

Which lead me to LMAO!

BTW, I used to live in Frankford 12 years ago.

Doodley

(9,139 posts)
35. I think it is obvious now that Trump has played us all for fools
Wed Oct 12, 2016, 03:32 AM
Oct 2016

and he has been building a base for his Trump media empire. However, I also think that Trump's reputation is going to be in the gutter after the many law suits about his scams, and the narrative against him will not be so even handed by the MSM or Republican politicians who are currently concerned about the election. The floodgates will open after the election and his core support will be reduced to the fringes.

C_U_L8R

(45,021 posts)
62. Ailes certainly wants his vengeance against Fox too
Wed Oct 12, 2016, 10:02 AM
Oct 2016

Add in Brietbart and maybe the Infowars crazies....
who all have a bone to pick with the GOP and you'll
see them building a hybrid media network / political party /
money making (sucker soaking) machine

 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
49. Maybe, but we might end up like Syria, or government might look like Trumpsters or Bundy Ranchers.
Wed Oct 12, 2016, 09:32 AM
Oct 2016
 

beachbum bob

(10,437 posts)
67. I highly doubt it....DOJ needs to start enforcing the sedition laws....have all citizens who are
Wed Oct 12, 2016, 03:53 PM
Oct 2016

advocating a rebellion lose all there govt checks with a lifetime ban...including social security, medicaid, medicare, food stamps....the "rebellion" wont last too long.

 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
68. Well, I'll bet my ass more than half of military and police are Trump supporter and white wingers
Wed Oct 12, 2016, 04:56 PM
Oct 2016

There are groups like Oath Keepers and another one that a lot of police -- the Joe Arpaio types -- belong to that say they won't enforce certain laws against white wing types.

I'm sorry, I don't think you realize the type of white wing terrorists we have living in this country.

Uben

(7,719 posts)
56. What few there would be would be put down immediately......
Wed Oct 12, 2016, 09:46 AM
Oct 2016

...by the U.S. military. The coward traitors won't stand a chance! We all know they are all talk anyway.

bulloney

(4,113 posts)
66. ...but Rhonda has some issues. In more ways than one!
Wed Oct 12, 2016, 10:29 AM
Oct 2016

It's scary how people can be indoctrinated into believing anything...and they put it out there in public and on social media.

I have a neighbor who I thought was rational until I read a recent rant from her on Facebook in which she stated that Hillary will MANDATE abortions and we will be subjected to the Muslim faith if she's elected.

Where do you begin addressing this?

This neighbor received some sarcastic, mocking replies along with some sympathetic ones.

The insanity is off the charts in rural NW Ohio!

I have a feeling that my neighbor and this Rhonda character have spent a lot of time listening to some RW hate radio and TV shows and are drinking their Kool-Aid by the bucket!

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