Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee ® on Wednesday said 2024 will be the last election “decided by ballots rather than bullets” if former President Trump doesn’t win the presidential race because of his various legal battles.
In the latest episode of his show on TBN, Huckabee argued the legal woes now facing Trump are part of a politically motivated scheme from the Biden administration, an argument touted by many in the former president’s orbit.
“If these tactics end up working to keep Trump from winning or even running in 2024, it is going to be the last American election that will be decided by ballots rather than bullets,” Huckabee warned in his opening monologue.
Huckabee accused President Biden and his team of trying “to make sure that Donald Trump is not his opponent in 2024″ and “to destroy Trump in the courthouse rather than at the ballot box.” He also alleged the Justice Department, the IRS and the FBI are “conspiring to hide the Biden family crimes, while all the time being obsessed with charging Donald Trump with crimes.”
Arrest him for fomenting insurrection.
Seriously. They’re just gonna keep doing this dancing on the edges bullshit until someone comes down on them fucking hard.
The Prison Boys leader who just got 22 years in prison admitted he knew all along that Convicted Sex Offender Treason Trump did not win the election. The media needs to point out the obvious. That the Prison Boys and Oathbreakers are Tory militia groups who were trying to destroy the Founding Father’s government and reestablish a dictatorship/monarchy.
Or a bunch of idiots kill a bunch of people.
No, that’s what they’re counting on. That certainly wouldn’t stop them since that’s the point of the entire exercise. Although this particular example comes dangerously close to dancing over the line into incitement if it doesn’t already.
Hasn’t fucking stopped them so far
*gestures broadly*
Feels like pretty strong linkages to obstruction of justice if you’re trying to brazenly influence the outcome of a trial under the threat of violence.
He also alleged the Justice Department, the IRS and the FBI are “conspiring to hide the Biden family crimes, while all the time being obsessed with charging Donald Trump with crimes.”
Did all those supposed Biden crimes occur since 2020? No? Then why did the Trump administration let these supposed crimes go uninvestigated?
Buttery males?
That explains their fascination with LGBTQai+2
Anyone who says “Biden crime family” or a similar variant / transposition unironically, I have to ignore.
For my own sanity.
Not to mention Hunter Biden is getting his in court? It’s just boring tax fraud and a gun charge and he’s taking his punishments without much fuss and working to rectify his transgressions, tho, so nobody cares. Also he never worked for the government in any capacity ever.
sound of goalposts scraping against the floor
Well it would be the perfect Trump response to know of Biden’s crimes (not that there’s any evidence of the current President commiting any) and then ask (edit: blackmail…again messed up, extort) Ukraine to help him rather than asking why the legal system is not taking action. Like what you’d expect the D student in class thinking is the correct response to a situation.
Of course then you have to forget that there were some people intelligent enough in the administration to figure it out.
let us win or we’ll kill you
👍
Luckily most Trumpers wouldn’t last more than a few minutes in a firefight before they run out of breath.
The amount of Republicans that have no idea how strapped Democrats are is too damn high lol. While I’d love c/liberalgunowners to be as high as Republicans but, it’s not THAT much of a numbers difference. 6/10 of Republicans live in a gun household vs 1/4 Democrats. Republicans usually sit at 40% of the pop vs Democrats at 50%.
Then they’ll be fighting against the damn US Military with only the really full on bat shit Republicans. Jan 6th already showed us how many actually wanted to nut up. Hey, turns out not that many! There’s a reason why there was a whopping 2, 3-star generals, RETIRED, that came out in favor of Trump. People think the military is filled nothing but Republicans too, but Joe Biden beat Trump by 4 points in the military in 2020 lol.
The crazy fucks had their chance on January 6th already lol. Sorry people, it’s not going to be a civil war. It’s going to be increasing amounts of Republican extremism like it already has been for the last decade and more.
In the United States in 2022, 48 percent of Republicans reported that they owned at least one gun, and 66 percent said that they lived in a household with a gun. In comparison, only 20 percent of Democrats owned at least one gun, and 31 percent lived a gun household.
https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2017/06/22/the-demographics-of-gun-ownership/
The military is also really split along certain lines when it comes to D vs R. Higher ranks tend to have more education and some vote along their education lines. More junior people seem to follow point of entry political lines (which for many is admittedly the south but not all).
There’s the observation that younger people are much more likely to be liberal. Which explains why the military voted Democratic. And the more educated wing of the military are more Democratic. Essentially, the military is arguably increasingly liberal over time.
Liberals/democrats have better trigger discipline and training. I’d guarantee it. They could outnumber 10-1 but they also kill one another and themselves too often to not be a statistic to consider in this.
His daughter is governor of a state. He was governor of a state. These are the kinds of people republicans are voting for office- do not let republicans get away with bastardizing the meaning of patriot. They are traitors at worst or traitor sympathizers at best.
Yep. I will die of old age before there is any chance of a Republican ever deserving my vote, or of the Republican party convincing me that they have moved on from fascism.
It would be like science fiction.
Did Huckabees just threaten another insurrection?
An extremely violent one at that. Now, let’s watch how quickly nothing continues to happen as a result of it.
Long-term, I very much doubt (and very much hope) you’re right.
Lets play a game. How many elected republican officials can threaten civil war before they are barred from office?
Tommy Tuberville is singlehandedly ratfucking the entire military through inaction and still gets to collect his 6-figure check.
Doubt anything will happen.
Dude should be thrown out of his chair. If I was one of those military personnel he fucked over I would not have that much chill.
Is it zero? Cause I fully expect the answer to be zero unfortunately.
I’m just waiting, if the has-beens are feeling brave these same thoughts are floating in the elected ones.
Well for one we could try the 14th amendment on people like Marjorie Taylor Greene and all these:
Time to start doing something
Projection and threats, that’s all they know how to do
Give them some credit, they also know how to smash
windowspolice officers and wipe poop on wallsHey now if you can’t smear shit on the capitol and try to hang the VP then according to sarah palin ‘What’s The Use In Being A Good Guy?’
Sounds like a terroristic threat…
“If Democracy doesn’t give me the result I want, I’ll turn to Fascism!”
That’s exactly what is happening.
Now if that isn’t stochastic terrorism, I don’t know what is.
That seems like a vanilla terrorist threat. Not stochastic.
Can’t be. They are white.
Let them try. Trump & his fellow republicans already attempted to violently overthrow our democracy once. Surrendering and allowing them their fever dream of a fascist dictator for life (however much time he’s got left) will not improve our situation.
Republicans, particularly of the Gravy Seals bent, always seem to think they’re the only ones that can own guns or know how to use them. Just because everyone else is sane enough not to be waiving them around or so insecure about themselves that they need to show them off like they’re some kind of security blanket doesn’t mean nobody else is armed. I think if they ever pluck up the courage to try a full scale civil war they’ll quickly realize the tables aren’t going to be anywhere near as one sided as they seem to think.
You have that option I think, yes. Why do y’all always assume you’re going to win though? You had a chance on January 6th, you had a chance every time Trump calls for a big rally at some courthouse proceeding, Trump had his chance not to surrender and to hole up with all his brave warriors and dare the deep state to come and dig him out.
I’m not saying there’s not something very dangerous in these statements, because there is. But I can also confidently guarantee that just like with Ashli Babbit, as soon as bullets start coming back at Huckabee and a lot of these other extremely soft John “I-don’t-do-all-that-well-when-my-plumbing-has-an-issue-let-alone-on-a-goddamned-battlefield” Eastman types, they’re going to start all kinds of aggrieved moaning about how someone needs to enforce the laws against political violence, because this is crazy.
Political violence for thee not for me.
They had the President of the United States on their side, pulling every string he could, and STILL couldn’t pull it off.
I’m not worried at all about a few neofascists doing suicide by cop when we have the most powerful country in the world.
So that’s why the next really dangerous step is when the law enforcement apparatus (federal and local) starts to buy into the “all Republicans are patriots, all Democrats are the enemy” mindset in a big way. On Tyranny has a really great explanation of how this happens, backed up with some really extensive research on places where it did happen and exactly how it progresses. We’re showing a lot of resilience against it in the US, but also, it’s not at all impossible.
Remember, the Nazis were a bunch of weirdos and incompetent losers too, until all of a sudden they weren’t.
I’m just not worried about that because it only applies to countries with small military/police. We have a gigantic military and police apparatus, combined with a longstanding democratic culture. There is not going to be any “civil war” in the most powerful and successful country in the world.
What these assholes will do if Trump loses (or assuming we’re not in fact still in the absolute worst timeline, rots in prison) isn’t really what worries me, so much as what these same assholes will do if Trump wins. History has some insights and they’re very worrying. Something about shirts and the color brown. While there would be a certain poetic justice for these tools to end up the same way, I rather not have to deal with the fallout of the rest of that situation. Further the implications for the rest of the world should the US go down that route are very troubling.
I think this is how urban legends like Bigfoot and the Loch Ness monster start. He’s been crying deep state for so long, archaeologists are gonna think it was a real thing.
Look, another unindicted co-conspirator!
So… trying to make sure a traitor to America pays for his crimes is somehow wrong?
Wasn’t the Conservative Party in favor or patriotism?
The Republican idea of patriotism is just another flavor of Christianity - blind faith in a power you believe to be bigger than yourself. It used to be faith in America as a concept, unerring and omnipotent - under God, but when things started shifting leftward with the civil rights movement, it became faith in a president to bring things back to their halcyon days. It started with Reagan, and now it’s Trump, who gave them new hope with his slogan of making America great again.
The Republican idea of patriotism was never about making your country great, it was about believing your country is already great despite all evidence to the contrary - essentially just another religion.
They’re the Law and Order Party - as long as the law is imposing their order on people that they don’t like.
Just like they’re the Personal Responsibility Party - as long as it’s other people who need to be personally responsible.
Law and order= “we make the laws and give the orders”
Do it! DO IT!! Shut up talking about it, and let’s get the civil war started!! Because I suspect it will be over before supper time.
In reality all they’re going to do is talk about it, because they’re small weak little people. Look at the big bad Proud Boys. When faced with the consequences of jail, they cried like little girls and begged the judges to take pity on them. Only one defiantly yelled “TRUMP WON” on his way out is the courtroom, but that was even after he cried and groveled.
Right? I look forward to showing them how many of us “libtards” own guns and know how to use them. I’m glad their side is so inept that they blindly regurgitate a lie that will almost certainly end in a surprise version of the “find out” part of “fuck around and find out.” Man I hate a good portion of the population here.
Sometimes I wonder whether a civil war is what the US needs. The American society is so fucked up that a great, painful reset seems the only option sometimes
