President Biden said he is “not confident at all” that there will be a peaceful transfer of power in January 2025 if former President Donald Trump is defeated.
“He means what he says. We don’t take him seriously. He means it. All the stuff about 'If we lose, there’ll be a bloodbath, it’ll have been a stolen [election],'” Mr. Biden told CBS News chief election and campaign correspondent Robert Costa in his first sit-down interview since announcing he was dropping out of the 2024 presidential race and endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris for the Democratic nomination. The interview will air on “CBS News Sunday Morning” on Sunday, Aug. 11.
“Look what they’re trying to do now in the local election districts where people count the votes,” said Mr. Biden. Repeating a familiar maxim about elections and democracy, the president said, “You can’t love your country only when you win.”
Maybe we should have given harsher punishments to the people who tried doing that the first time around?
Why are you trying to make elections political?
I don’t know, I think it’s pretty unreasonable to assume Trump will attempt another coup. What, does he have a coup for one special? /s
I’m glad Biden’s calling this shit out now, and hope they’ve got a plan when a few dozen Arizona counties refuse to certify the results.
One saving grace is this time, it ain’t the diaper in Chief calling the shots. Biden won’t hesitate to call the national guard if need be.
That being said, i think the violence is gonna happen at State capitals this time… I hope I’m wrong.
I think you’re right. I honestly think Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, etc should probably have the national guard in place the night before.
“Average American president attempts 0.004 coups per year” factoid actually just a statistical error. Average American president attempts 0 coups per year. Traitors Donal, who dyes face orange & attempts over 0.25 coups each year, is an outlier adn should not have been counted.
The transfer of power from Biden to Harris should be peaceful because Trump isn’t involved in it.
2021 wasn’t peaceful only because Trump still had power. If he has no power, you shut that shit down and it’s peaceful.
“I want a permit to protest the counting of votes!”
(Checks history) “Yeah, permit denied.”
Idk, Dump has a rabid cult fan base that collects guns
I live in Baltimore. That shit doesn’t scare me. I’d like to see them try.
Trumpers who advertise as such on their vehicles and try starting shit have been known to leave with a couple extra “vent holes” on their vehicles.
I thought those were speed holes.
as is anyone who was alive and voting in the last election. You would have to be brain dead to not worry about what that clown may do.
This is probably in prep for shutting shit down. If you start warning people now, it’ll be “I told you they were gonna wild out, and we’re handling it” not “release the rabid dogs on the opposing party”.
We all know Trump won’t accept the results. He didn’t in 2020, and in 2016 he claimed it was still rigged against him even when he won.
It’s really weird when you think about it.
i believe what Biden says not because he said it but because Trump is desperate to pull that get out of jail free card.
Hell, i’m not confident there’d be a peaceful transfer of power if he wins
Well, yeah. If he had said anything else I would be shaking my head at how out-of-touch he was. They will absolutely try January 6th again, only this time I hope the Capitol and DC police are ready for them. Not to mention Congress, maybe they will put a stop to Republican reps helping rioters plan their insurrection.
I love all the closet right wingers thinking some fat ass country loving civilians with guns is going to overtake a country by itself.
The only reason anything happened last time is that agent orange was facilitating the insurrection from the inside. Now its just a bunch of idiots who maybe have guns.
So… America?
Whatever, just get the military ready in case they try.
I appreciate the nonchalance but the help agent orange offered from the inside was calling off some guards for a little bit and mostly just not making a speech telling his fans to calm down. The fact is that January 6th was a pretty disorganized protest that turned into a riot due to a handful of instigators and what we discovered is that the capitol building is not routinely well protected and only avoided riots like this because they hadn’t happened.
Which is a good thing. Public institutions should be kept safe because they serve the people well enough that no one wants to take them over. Not because they employ an overwhelming police force to keep the public out. (The original intent was that citizens would be able to just walk around most of these buildings if they wanted to see the government functioning, imagine that eh?)
Now, obviously, DC is going to be on lockdown during inauguration day (as it should be) with a lot more military/police presence. But my point is that if an actually semi-organized militia had been there on Jan 6th with just a few more pistols and some designated leaders and organizers, they would have easily made it into the capitol even if trump had actually done everything to stop them. They would have been massacred in the resulting conflict as the US military sent its full force at them ofc but it would have been a much more consequential day.
This isn’t me going to bat for anyone, the right wing militias are pitiful both in numbers and training. It’s just that I think the potential for danger and bloodshed when these guys finally snap and make their desperate bid for attention will be a little more violent than I see people seem to think.
You know, during the Baltimore riot, the rioters who were destroying shit, killed a few people, etc all were content to riot. Up until the APC’s and the military showed up, it stopped within minutes. Source: I saw it happen.
Once you see what a Humvee and APC tank squadron looks like looks like, your shitty AR15 isn’t going to make you feel strong. What are you going to do, randomly shoot into a crowd of other Trump idiots? Rush the whitehouse with guns? Who will be in there this time?
What if they got inside and it was just the army standing inside? What then? Are they randomly going to shoot at the army? Whats the game plan, because that would be a first.
You have to think that this time we know, and with preparation it won’t be an issue. Just be smart about it, because we already know about the last coup attempt.
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i’m reminded of the old reddit days, where i saw way more people complaining about reposts in every single thread than i saw actual reposts
The real reposts were the people complaining about reposts the whole time.
I think the problem you would have is calling the bot a bot. Calling out bots is uncivil, and the bot that looks for the word bot will let you know that you used the word bot.
I swear to god, I’m going to pistol whip the next guy who says “bot.”
Non-human autonomous online programmed agent…
Hey Farva. What’s that gross type of fly that lays eggs in your skin?
Jesus, could everyone please stop using the B-word?
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Of course he says that. He doesn’t even know what year this is. lol
I wonder if someone in power could perhaps do something about that, Joe? Maybe the president or someone like that?
I’m sure he will, this is more to prepare public when they will need to shut them down.
