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I think there is an actual chance he will refuse to vacate and call on his fanatical base to take up arms if he loses. Most of them are all hot air, but all you need is like 0.5% of all the Nazis and Q wackos actually doing it to start some shit.

There has never been a president before him that I would have said or even suspected that about.

That being said I don’t think he has much chance of success. The military doesn’t seem to like him, and you cannot execute a coup without the support of some large fraction of the military. When people like Mattis came out against him I knew a stunt like this would probably fail hard.

Damn would it ever get a lot of people killed though, not to mention crashing the economy and deeply eroding global confidence in the US. Make America great again indeed.

Yeah this is getting creepy. Turns out they wanted to keep the guns to usher in a dictator, not stop one.
The obvious call out to his radical base to “stand by” blew my mind. Made me start to actually believe this is a legit possibility.

I very much hope it’s paranoid bullshit. It would be nothing but a disaster.

> Center for Strategic and International Studies found that anti-fascist groups have not been involved in a single murder in the United States in the past 25 years.

Of course. When Micah Xavier Johnson killed five police officers because he was angry over police shootings of black men, and stated that he wanted to kill white people, especially white police officers [1], that wasn't antifa, that was a lone individual, unconnected to any group or ideology.

“Let black people go with our own land and reparations, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Mitch McConnell.” said Kori Muhammad at his trial after killing four people [2]. This was also unconnected to any ideology or group.

When Nelson was arrested for a probation violation, he was put in a cell with Hatchett, who, according to court testimony, wanted to kill white people after watching videos of police brutality. Nelson didn't make it out of that cell alive [3]. This murder was also completely random and rightly wasn't connected to any ideology.

When 24-year-old Jessica Doty Whitaker was killed after argument with BLM supporters, leaving her 3-year-old son without a mother [4], it was another completely random act.

We can plainly see that any murders that happened were clearly not connected to any ideas espoused by anti-fascist groups, or the mass media, so the Center for Strategic and International Studies is absolutely correct in placing their count of murders at zero.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_shooting_of_Dallas_police...

[2] https://fox40.com/news/california-connection/im-glad-that-it...

[3] https://www.wltz.com/2020/09/07/mom-demands-answers-after-so...

[4] https://www.foxnews.com/us/indiana-woman-shot-killed-argumen...