Will there be mass protests / violence post-election day?

Odds a thread is already created?

Kudo's for not making yet another Trump thread.

 

Wtf?

That's a psychotic f'ing moment. I was waiting for him to smile/laugh and say he's joking, and realize it was a tasteless joke.

omg. That's serious. He is in meltdown mode and people like these don't take well to losing especially with the power of radical fundamentalists in their pocket.

Honestly I can't believe he said that. That's not just Trump level f'ed up. It's historically f'ed up.

 

Trump is on tilt.

 

This is, unfortunately, an election of precedents. We now know a dangerous demagogue can rise to power. This on is unqualified and incompetent. The next one may not be and may actually manage a winning campaign.

The responses to Trump are unprecedented and require a lot of people to step outside political norms for the sake of the republic. But even then, new precedents are being set and we can bet the right wing outrage machine will try to manufacture moments like these against future candidates from the other team.

I just hope our civil society can recover. But that really depends on the wing it bubble led by radio and FoxNews.

 

There's definitely going to be violence at some of the polling locations.

 

Wishful fantasies. Nothing of significance will happen, but I am sure you will scouring the internet all night ready to post anything, even if its a peaceful protest.

Where was your outrage when BLM was burning down their neighborhoods?

 

The type of people who obviously support Trump that might pose the most danger are these faux militia groups that have already shown to POINT LOADED WEAPONS AT FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES. So why is it a stretch that some of these nut jobs with their 'gear queer' sapi plate carriers, and tricked out AR15s with peq15s, acog sights, suppressors etc who have explicitly shown to use these weapons as a 'show of force' agaisnt our government will mingle around polling stations? Why is that a reach for you?

 

In addition to knuckleheads like these r****ds posting up outside campaign officies with guns, you've got elected officials openly egging them on. Don't act like it's such a stretch

 

Nothing, Trump is a response to perceived racial and cultural changes in the socioeconomic order, not actual ones. They may say more things that make the people who actually do riot under certain circumstances feel more alienated. Their may be more subconscious discrimination since that's actually infeasible to litigate against as an individual minority.

 

Are you suggesting these extremists are going to start shooting innocent victims at polling stations? When have they ever targeted the general population?

Let me remind you of two protected liberal groups who do this; Extremist Jihadists and violent BLM protesters.

 

I'm sorry, but to say that extremist jihadists are part of the 'protected group' for liberals is disgusting. How can one have a rational discussion with someone with such a different alternate reality?

 

538 has an article back in March I believe where they show that the avg Trump supporter made well above national avg. 73k. Don't know if that still stand today, but those were early Trump supporter so I think it would. So I was serious when I said they will just return to their good lives (or at least economically...).

Of course there will be some pockets of crazy that temp violence, but on a mass scale - doubtful.

 

Extremists jihadists are a protected group? Seriously, what planet do you live on dude?

 

http://www.azcentral.com/story/opin...-republic-endorsement-clinton-trump/92058964/

 

I'm scared my mother is going to riot. She's gone completely crazy. My parents never owned guns growing up, yet now she is convinced she needs to by one to protect herself from that "murderous b****" Hillary.

 

I won't be shocked by a bit of violence, but I don't think it'll be huge. But, with the arson attack on a Trump office, the plot to blow up a Somali apartment building, the occupation of Malheur, and the racially-motivated cop-killing, I think we see we have some miscreants who want to use violence to make political statements. I don't see why it'd be at a polling station, per se, but election day or immediately following would be a good calendrical marking for some kind of 'stand' by the losing side. This election really is that ugly.