A Republican state senator has called for “civil war” if Donald Trump loses the presidential election in November.
George Lang, an Ohio politician, made the comment as he introduced JD Vance at his first solo campaign event since becoming Trump’s running mate.
After taking to the stage fist-raised and shouting Trump’s post-shooting battle cry “Fight! Fight!”, Mr Lang warned of an existential threat facing Americans. He declared in front of a large, heated crowd in Ohio: “We are in the fight for the soul of our nation… for our kids, for our grandkids, it is a fight we can never imagine.
“I believe wholeheartedly, Donald Trump and Butler County’s JD Vance are the last chance to save our country. Politically, I’m afraid if we lose this one, it’s going to take a civil war to save the country.”
Let em. Most of them are probably too geriatric and stupid to know how to fight a war.
Republicans immediately after trump was shot at:
Political violence is never okay.
Republicans 1 week after trump was shot at:
If trump loses we’ll start killing people!
This is why they get shot
Honestly, at this point I’m getting tired of them saying it all the time.
Do it.
It would not go the way they think it would go, and the confederate/nazi/MAGA party would be swiftly defeated within days/hours. They do not have the support they think they have, most Americans don’t let politics run their lives and Fox poison their brains and a civil war would actually wake those Americans up to the seriousness of what’s going on right now.
At the end of the day, starting a whole-ass war because some people get to have a better life than the bible says they should just isn’t a good cause. It sucks that a lot of people think otherwise.
Agreed. Do it.
but you lost the last one
So for them it’s trump or violence? Why are these people allowed in civil society
Oh no! What will do if morbidly obese 70 year-old slobs who are so afraid of cities that they think they need a gun to visit San Francisco start a civil war? How will we ever defeat the sandy vagina brigade that thinks a reality TV host is a big a strong man?
San Fran? I live in rural America and I see twits like this at the grocery store. They are too scared to go buy a gallon of milk without being strapped.
What say we start a list of the posts saying this and after Trump loses to that black lady we spam the posts back onto their feeds?
Name and shame these cunts, if they can’t play fair eliminate their voting rights. If that isn’t enough send them to prison. If that’s not enough, I’m sure you can extrapolate. There is no room for bad faith actors in our country.
Plenty of room for bad faith actors in the country. No room for them in the government.
But the US didn’t have tanks and planes back then. Surely our muskets will be even more effective against those.
The US would win without ever firing a single shot. Cut off electricity, the countless food products we import, imported fuel, cheap products from China, USPS/FedEx/Amazon Prime/etc, and so on. A week of eating gruel in the dark and they’ll be begging to rejoin the US.
We wouldn’t wait the week though, some of those states have oil.
One hurricane season without FEMA and I suspect their constituents would realize their mistake.
Keep a close eye. These motherfuckers are riding the edge of subversive/seditious acts: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_Act
If any organization makes “civil war” an official position then they’re fucked.
Do you see Biden’s AG charging them with treason?
They didn’t capitalize on Jan 6th to purge everyone involved, just gave a few car dealership owners a slap on the wrist.
Not with a supreme court that’s willing to say Unicorns exist for the sake of a legal argument. Law means nothing in this land for republicans right now.
It should be noted that a large swath of that act has been overturned by the supreme court in the decades since the 40s.
It’s where we get the distinction between “advocating for revolution” and “telling people to revolt, now”.
One is protected because “violent revolution” in an abstract sense is a protected political policy position.
The law was originally used to target unionists and socialists who said we needed to tear the system down and rebuild it, by force if necessary.What isn’t protected is an imminent call to action or direct incitement to lawlessness.
Advocating for the ability to do something that violates the current law is the only way to advocate for changing a law.
If these red states wanna become third world countries overnight be my guest.
Dude, I live in one and very left.
I don’t want that… wait, would that mean my taxes would go down?
Unless you’re wealthy, you probably not. If anything, they’ll probably go up for all the money they’re not taking from the wealthy
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Civil War against who? Super PACs?
Bullfuckingshit. I said it when Trump was shot at, and I’ll keep saying it: only ONE party has been ramping up the rhetoric for violence, and it sure as fuck isn’t coming from Democrats. These morons obviously don’t care if they get shot at again, because it’s not in their minds that they are causing the problem.
This is their M.O. though:
- Identify a target to rant about
- Call for violence
- Say you’re TOTALLY FUCKING SERIOUS THIS TIME
- Apologize and act like that’s enough, knowing what you said will stick with the crowd, but the Democrats aren’t going to call bullshit.
Here’s a thought: Biden uses his last 6 months of King Powers granted by the SC to put everyone of these fuckers in jail by Executive Order on sedition and treason charges, backing it up by making it an “Official Act” since Trump was shot at, and these assholes are trying to get more people shot at. That’ll shut them the fuck up.
I was saying that after Jan 6.
Historically speaking, not purging your opposition after an attempted coup or change of power is one of the dumbest decisions you can make, second only to putting/leaving the opposition in positions of power and also making them your successor.
In American history, we saw it with Lincoln, resulting in his assassination and the end of reconstruction, and less dramatically, we saw it when Obama (and more recently Biden) left like half of Bush’s appointees in power, who immediately use their power to sabotage the administration.
One minor, but important distinction:
Yes, the alt right and Republicans generally have been ramping up violent rhetoric. They broke the social contract and thus are no longer covered by it.
They are now valid targets of violence.
It’s a subtle distinction but important one and one we on the left must be careful to employ because the Alt-right will use any violence against them and will respond in kind.
Call your Senators and Representatives and give them an earful about this. If they shrug you off or they are on the side of those calling for civil war, then let other gov’t officials know.
We collectively need to stop allowing these shit lords from getting away with putting the idea of war against each other into the minds of those that otherwise know it’s wrong but just follow groupthink
Executive orders not needed, there are actually crimes they can be charged with but for the federalist society plant running DOJ
I see people constantly saying that democracy will end, there wont be elections again, they will do all kinds of evil things, etc. How is that not ramping up rhetoric for violence?
Trump has specifically said these things. The Project 2025 psychos have said these things. Those are threats. Therefore, that is a threat to democracy, and democracy ending. So again, it’s only coming from one side, the MAGA clowns.
So how then how does your team claiming democracy will end if they win not ramp up rhetoric for violence?
I have no idea what this even means…
If Trump is orange Hitler then it would be good stop him by any means necessary. If your claim is “If Trump takes power that will end democracy” how is that not rhetoric for violence?
Because the Democrats aren’t out there saying “HEY, WE NEED A FUCKING CIVIL WAR AND TO START KILLING PEOPLE WHO ARENT ON BOARD WITH OUR NAZI V2 BULLSHIT!”, those are Trump’s cronies saying this shit.
The Democrats are out there saying to show up and vote.
Big fucking difference, and the pedantry of your question says you’re trying to troll, or completely ignorant at best if you can’t tell the difference on your own. WTF.
So the rhetoric does not increase violence just as long as you agree with it?
I mean, you’re totally right until the last paragraph. I don’t think Biden locking them up by executive order would shut them up. I think it’s more likely that would spark the civil war they’re so desperate to have. They’re like Kyle Rittenhouse, just waiting for an excuse to shoot a leftist.
Sorry, it doesn’t read with inflection properly I guess. I guess just every time some random trying to curry favor with Trump calls for violence or a Civil War, that there should be punishment. Seems Biden can do that now milli-vanilli, and he should use it for some good.
That and the Supreme Court gets to decide what king powers are legal, and who gets to exercise it. And its not Biden
Kyle Gass makes an edgy joke and he gets canceled. This fucker calls for literal civil war and it’s considered business as usual. Got it.
But Kyle Gass is much more influential, he decides policies and laws and swore an oath to serve the people while George Lang is just a musician.
From the prologue, we can infer they’ll be shooting at each other.