US President Joe Biden has said he is not confident there will be a peaceful transition of power if Donald Trump loses the presidential election in November.
"[Trump] means what he says, we don’t take him seriously. He means it, all this stuff about ‘if we lose it will be a bloodbath’.”
Mr Trump’s comment that it would “be a bloodbath for the country” if he loses the election, made as he was talking about the auto industry in March, triggered a wave of criticism.
The Trump campaign, however, said the comment was specifically about the auto industry and had been deliberately taken out of context. It sent a fundraising email which said Trump’s political opponents and others had been “viciously” misquoting him.
You and me both, Joe.
Biden can literally guarantee the peaceful transition of power to Harris. Whatever he chooses to do is an official act, right? So do whatever it takes to put down any bullshit, Joe.
I think this is ultimately the difference between now and 2020. The fox isn’t guarding the hen house.
He’s saying there’s a chance a third party tries to make it violent.
What third party are you fucking talking about? Republicans are the only ones making overt threat of violence.
Well if Harris wins it’s her and Biden in the official transfer of power. Anyone else is a third party to that.
How on earth can Biden guarantee that Trump supporters won’t get violent? The one best suited to do that is Trump, and we know from past experience that he is going to do the exact opposite.
I never once said he could guarantee they won’t get violent. Does anyone read on this instance?
Does anyone read on this instance?
Maybe read what Biden said? And then you can be among those who read on this instance.
I am among them. It’s okay, I understand that comprehension is hard.
I noticed how you didn’t actually address the fact you didn’t read what he said. It’s okay, I understand that as hard as comprehension is, admitting you are wrong makes that look like a walk in the park.
But there’s been so many.
“Dictator on day one”
“You won’t have to vote anymore”
Those are just the two off the top of my head as I’m heading back into work on my lunch break.
Everything bad Trump ever says is either “a joke” or “out of context.”
Weird how often he says things that everyone things he means and then he doesn’t mean them. I sure wouldn’t vote for a guy like that. He’s weird.
What’s even in context for him? He jumps around so much there is no context.
This is his one strength. He can dog whistle as much as he wants because he always carefully chooses his words to add some sort of plausible deniability or innocent interpretation. So his base hears what he can’t fully say out loud yet and the media has to carefully tiptoe around interpreting it or lose credibility to his base
There’s nothing carefully chosen about it. He just vomits so many words it overwhelms the brain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop
Trump said he doesn’t need the votes which is far scarier. They need to fear the consequences of trying to steal democracy from us.
None of use are, Joe. None of us.
This is the entire quote:
“No, we’re going to put a 100% tariff on every single car that comes across the line, and you’re not going to be able to sell those cars if I get elected. Now, if I don’t get elected, it’s going to be a bloodbath for the whole — that’s going to be the least of it, it’s going to be a bloodbath for the country, that’ll be the least of it. But they’re not going to sell those cars, they’re building massive factories.”
The context is talking about Chinese cars, but the bit where he says “it’s going to be a bloodbath for the country, that’ll be the least of it.” really looks to me like he’s saying there will be a bloodbath in general if he doesn’t get elected, the one in the car industry being small compared to it.
I don’t know why I’m spending time and energy examining the idiotic ramblings of the orange gibbon.
That’s the problem isn’t it? He’s not mentally there enough to realize a presidential candidate can’t talk about a bloodbath without it being taken that way. I learned that you have to think about how your message is received in grade school. And that was just to avoid detention.
I understand he is talking about cars… but that’s not how anyone has taken it…
As a left centrist in a deep deep red state. I’ve got yet another firearm on order currently.
My politics boil down to
I want my state sponsored medically insured gay married neighbors and their adopted freely educated children to be able to protect their legally grown pot plants with fully automatic ak47s.
Lol
Hilariously those beliefs are sins in the face of my neighbor’s… Which blows my mind.
Conservativism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: there is a group that the law should protect but not bind, and a group that the law should bind but not protect.
And the thing is, while there are some people who just go along with this for the benefit of their own grift, the vast majority of these people actually believe that an order like this is absolutely necessary, and if we don’t have it civilization itself will collapse. In their view there must be a strict hierarchy and everyone must ‘know their place’ in it, or we are all doomed.
Because of this, they spend their time primarily in two pursuits:
- Trying to force everyone to live this way, because it is the One Right Way To Live
- Proving to themselves and others that they deserve to be in the In Group and at a certain level in that hierarchy, usually by trying to assign people to the Out Group and then put them in a lower position.
You’re just someone they’re trying to stuff in the Out Group, is all.
It’s also why they don’t like the idea of minorities in power; one, in their eyes minorities belong in the lower tiers of the Out Group and therefore their presence will destroy the fabric of society, and two, they think that if minorities are let into the In Group, then they will be forced into the Out Group.
The context is great! Its exactly like his other interjections - usually uncorrelated and exactly what’s really go in his mind
His bigot blurts are about the only truth he speaks
Hey, leave the orange gibbons alone – they’re considerably smarter than the orange wannabe Hitler.
It’s better in fact because there won’t be much of a transition. All you’re doing is giving the vice president your presidency dumbass. These old people, bro.
If the domestic terrorists attack again just put them in the ground this time. Easy peasy.
I see a lot of handwringing about this, like "Oh, even if Harris wins they’ll just attempt a coup again!"and it’s like OK, and? Your solution to them stealing an election is to let them win it legitimately instead?
Yeah, voting isn’t a magic pill that solves everything. You still gotta wake up the next day and do the work.
"Oh, even if Harris wins they’ll just attempt a coup again!"and it’s like OK, and? Your solution to them stealing an election is to let them win it legitimately instead?
My solution would have been to lock them up for trying to steal the last one.
People fear that the person who incited a mass riot the last time they lost an election will incite a mass riot if he loses this election?
Everything will happen at the election stations this time
“Taken out of context” MFers when they actually read the primary sources of the Confederacy (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻
“Read.”
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LOL!
Translation: There will be enough military force there to snuff out any bullshit Dementia Don the weird racist rapist with 34 felonies brings.
What’s there to transition if he loses?
Of course he’s gonna try it again, you took it far too lightly last time. Maybe Kamala will enforce the law
There’s a chance he drops the hammer if they try to storm the capitol again. He has the legal power to deploy the federal military to protect D.C.
She is a former prosecutor and former AG. If anyone would, it’s her.
It’s also a bit of a delicate matter though. No matter what the government attacking a group of people is a bad look.
Typically, the crowds don’t fight back, or half the police force switches sides, or who knows what may happen.
Rolling over and capitulating to murderous treason is a bad look too.
It sent a fundraising email
Trump’s response to everything, good, bad, indifferent, or wildly spun
Granted, I’m not president of anything at all, but I’m very confident that there will NOT be a peaceful transition if Trump loses.
Do you anticipate any violence if he wins?
If he wins, it’s open season on any and all political opponents, and any critics, really. So yes.
If he loses, it’ll be “rigged,” and they’ll try another 1/6. My prediction is they’ll try State Capitols this time around…
So, looks like violence is back on the menu, boys.
Yes, are you familiar with the fascist playbook? It’s not the first, second, or even third time this has happened in history and you can bet the people in charge know their history. First it’s the disabled, mentally ill, and queer people. Then the out crowd just keeps expanding until the whole thing collapses but a lot of people die along the way.
I am unapologetically anti-authoritarian in every way. I fear Democrats almost as much as I fear Republicans. Yes I know the playbook. Everybody has somebody they want to disenfranchise.
Another amnesia issue I’m having: can you remind me which “vermin” the Democratic nominee has vowed to “exterminate”? And also I forgot about the times she called for the use of violence. Can you jog my memory on that as well?
For sure both sides are exactly the same. I suffer from amnesia can you help me by reminding me of all those Democrat-run violent insurrections?
Yeah that’s what I said. Tool.
US is a broken system, if it isn’t this time it’s next.
GOP wants ‘make america great again’, but there was no space free for the 2nd line ‘for us rich a$$holes’
Can’t it be fixed?
There is no coming back from one part of a duopoly embracing fascism. The path either leads to a complete electoral wipeout, a fascist coup, or a civil war. Or all three.
