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LongTomH

(8,636 posts)
Fri Aug 12, 2016, 07:41 PM Aug 2016

Sorry gang, but it won't be over even when tRump loses!!!!

From Robert Reich's Facebook page:

It's becoming clear that Trump’s demagoguery will not end when he loses the election in November. Since his poll numbers began tanking, he’s been trying to preemptively disqualify the results of the presidential election by alleging it’s already rigged against him.

Speaking this afternoon to a crowd of supporters in Abington, Virginia, he suggested he might lose the election through voting fraud. “Make sure they don’t lose your ballot,” he told his supporters. “Make sure they don’t lose your vote … You know, and I just left a great place, North Carolina. And they just had a tremendous loss. Voter ID. Voter ID. They lost voter ID [a federal court found the North Carolina voter ID law to be unconstitutional]. You mean, you don’t have to show identification?” Trump continued: “I‘ve been talking about the rigged system for a long time. And I get hammered in the press … And then in the meantime, voter ID you don’t have to do. And I’m sure none of those folks would be voting ten times during one day. Right? I’m sure a thing like that.”

Translated: “Now that the federal courts have thrown out state requirements that voters show an ID, poor African-Americans, Latinos, and undocumented immigrants will be voting ten times a day against me. Which is the only way Hillary is going to win. And if she does, my people are going to …”

What do you think?

I think Professor Reich is right!!!! He's going to keep demagoguing and whipping up his most rabid followers. Expect violence!!!
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Sorry gang, but it won't be over even when tRump loses!!!! (Original Post) LongTomH Aug 2016 OP
Who in Congress will have his back on that? bluestateguy Aug 2016 #1
It's not Congressional Repubs I fear, it's Trump's crazy ass followers. LongTomH Aug 2016 #2
^ ^ ^THIS! ^ ^ ^ lastlib Aug 2016 #15
There will be many, but it'll be on the hush. SummerSnow Aug 2016 #6
It never really is. forest444 Aug 2016 #3
This has been Republican speak for last few elections.. HipChick Aug 2016 #4
He just referenced the New Black Panther (non) story claiming Hillary has to cheat to win PA underpants Aug 2016 #5
Got news for Donnie ad his chicken shit gun toters. We aren't the least bit afraid of ya. tonyt53 Aug 2016 #7
The press needs to ignore him Ilsa Aug 2016 #8
He will probably continue to do TV and public speeches long after the election. Kablooie Aug 2016 #9
He may not go away, but I think that after the election, there will be less of an audience for politicaljunkie41910 Aug 2016 #11
The rabid followers are cowards in the end....especially when trump beachbumbob Aug 2016 #10
I worry that they'll revolt or something ailsagirl Aug 2016 #13
He still mutters about Obama's birth certificate ailsagirl Aug 2016 #12
The really scary thing is that it only takes one. Stonepounder Aug 2016 #14
Good. As long as he remains ... Whiskeytide Aug 2016 #16
When Forrest Trump torches the election, he'll lose business dollars from both Dems and Reps. TheBlackAdder Aug 2016 #17
That's what I fear too Ken_Jones21 Aug 2016 #18
Message auto-removed Name removed Aug 2016 #19
Hey, hi! You missed the world "shills". uppityperson Aug 2016 #20

lastlib

(23,237 posts)
15. ^ ^ ^THIS! ^ ^ ^
Fri Aug 12, 2016, 09:37 PM
Aug 2016

They won't let it go. HE will NEVER let it go. I predict he will never concede the election, even when every vote is counted and confirmed. His f*cking ego is TOO BIG to ever concede defeat. I won't be surprised to see bloodshed in the streets CAUSED by his "second amendment people". He won't go away nicely.

forest444

(5,902 posts)
3. It never really is.
Fri Aug 12, 2016, 07:48 PM
Aug 2016

Fascism is the zombie of world politics: just when you think you've put it down for good, it consumes a few more brains and just keeps going.

HipChick

(25,485 posts)
4. This has been Republican speak for last few elections..
Fri Aug 12, 2016, 07:49 PM
Aug 2016

He won't be able to dispute a landslide though..

underpants

(182,807 posts)
5. He just referenced the New Black Panther (non) story claiming Hillary has to cheat to win PA
Fri Aug 12, 2016, 07:50 PM
Aug 2016

Just now in Altoona.

Ilsa

(61,695 posts)
8. The press needs to ignore him
Fri Aug 12, 2016, 07:58 PM
Aug 2016

And his insane pleas for attention. His kids need to take him to Scotland on vacation. Let him research his genealogy.

Kablooie

(18,634 posts)
9. He will probably continue to do TV and public speeches long after the election.
Fri Aug 12, 2016, 07:59 PM
Aug 2016

And saying the same inflammatory things.

Most presidential candidates fade away after they lose but I don't expect that from him.
He's not in this to win, he's in it for attention and adulation.
He delights in the shocking, controversial statements because it keeps him out in front of everyone's eyes.

This is not a guy who's going away.
He will be out there hogging the airwaves and tearing down everything anyone is doing long after we have a new president.
He will be the new permanent voice of conservatives in the US even if the GOP someday rejects him.
If horrific violence is done in his name it won't matter as long as it doesn't happen to him.
He'll just blame it on someone else and continue on, spewing the same toxic waste.




politicaljunkie41910

(3,335 posts)
11. He may not go away, but I think that after the election, there will be less of an audience for
Fri Aug 12, 2016, 09:03 PM
Aug 2016

his rhetoric. Crowds seem to be thinning out as it is. He probably thinks he can become the next Glen Beck and make millions of dollars on a daily radio show he runs out of Trump Towers for subscribers. As long as one has to pay or subscribe to hear his rhetoric, it doesn't bother me since I won't do either. But I have to imagine that even the Glen Beck-like audiences of the world have their limit. At least Beck can complete a sentence in his web of deceit and conspiracies. Trump just strings words along changing direction every few words and never completing a thought, making it more difficult for those non-college graduates to follow the story line.

ailsagirl

(22,897 posts)
13. I worry that they'll revolt or something
Fri Aug 12, 2016, 09:07 PM
Aug 2016

They're rabid, they're angry, they're armed

They yell things like, "Kill her" at drumpf rallies.

Maybe I'm paranoid but nothing seems quite right-- these are strange times

Stonepounder

(4,033 posts)
14. The really scary thing is that it only takes one.
Fri Aug 12, 2016, 09:35 PM
Aug 2016

One lone, not quite sane, paranoid guy with a gun, who decides that he is going to go out in a blaze of glory. That's why the Secret Service hates rope-lines. It is much easier to kill someone if you don't care if you live through it or not. Oswald, Ruby, Ray, Sirhan, Hinkley.

Whiskeytide

(4,461 posts)
16. Good. As long as he remains ...
Fri Aug 12, 2016, 10:04 PM
Aug 2016

... On the national stage, in any form, it will remain nearly impossible for the Republican Party to unify/reconstitute. He has fractured them, and I hope they stay fractured as they consume each other.

 

Ken_Jones21

(8 posts)
18. That's what I fear too
Sat Aug 13, 2016, 01:01 PM
Aug 2016

Let's face it, Trump, despite running such an awful campaign, still has the support of MILLIONS in this country. These people have been greatly empowered by Trump's rhetoric, and the idea that the system is rigged against him and his base. When he loses in November, his supporters will go berserk over their defeat, and will turn their anger towards Clinton. That is truly a frightening prospect.

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