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Mike Huckabee: if Trump doesn't win, 2024 will be last election "decided by ballots rather than bullets" | Boing Boing (boingboing.net)
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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (13 children)

They can try. Were it to come to that, they are badly outgunned and outnumbered.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Only if the police and military don't side with them... and there is a rage against the machine song that comes to mind about that.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The police are bastards but the military will side with whatever side doesn't insight violence. That's not the Republicans.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

There were definitely a lot of military people amongst the Jan 6 insurrection. Plus we have footage of law enforcement letting them in.

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