(August 12, 2024 at 3:36 pm)Fireball Wrote: ^ Also, the people who would have been inclined to do so then have seen those perps fed into the courts and thence to prison. Anyone with any sense should expect the same, if they tried it next February.

Fair point. Dear Leader did nothing to help them - Trump’s only got your back so he can stab you in it.

Boru

... and I'm willing to lay a large wager that the National Guard will be out in force.

I think there's a good chance Trump won't stick around if he loses. There's a good possibility he could end up in jail if he does. Emigration is a sure thing, fighting it out in court is less so.

(August 12, 2024 at 4:54 pm)Angrboda Wrote: I think there's a good chance Trump won't stick around if he loses.  There's a good possibility he could end up in jail if he does.  Emigration is a sure thing, fighting it out in court is less so.

Pull his passport before the count?

(August 12, 2024 at 4:54 pm)Angrboda Wrote: I think there's a good chance Trump won't stick around if he loses.  There's a good possibility he could end up in jail if he does.  Emigration is a sure thing, fighting it out in court is less so.

If he were a normal man, I’d agree. But given his narcissism and megalomania, I don’t think he’d do a runner. He needs the adulation of his gaggle of useful idiots (which he isn’t going to get in some non-extradition country) and he really, truly believes he can beat all the charges against him.

Boru

(August 12, 2024 at 4:32 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: ... and I'm willing to lay a large wager that the National Guard will be out in force.

Ayup, that’s another factor. It wouldn't surprise me to Guardsmen and local cops ringing the Capitol and other potential targets well in advance of the election certification.

Boru

If there's going to be a second Civil War, it's going to be an asymmetrical one. And at least, unlike a lot of asymmetrical wars, I can't imagine that the rebels are going to gain the hearts and minds of the populace at large.

(August 12, 2024 at 6:01 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: If there's going to be a second Civil War, it's going to be an asymmetrical one. And at least, unlike a lot of asymmetrical wars, I can't imagine that the rebels are going to gain the hearts and minds of the populace at large.

Yup, Simon Bolivar he ain’t.

Boru

(August 12, 2024 at 3:36 pm)Fireball Wrote: ^ Also, the people who would have been inclined to do so then have seen those perps fed into the courts and thence to prison. Anyone with any sense should expect the same, if they tried it next February.

They ought to also recall what the fate of Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols was.

(August 12, 2024 at 8:37 pm)Jackalope Wrote:

(August 12, 2024 at 3:36 pm)Fireball Wrote: ^ Also, the people who would have been inclined to do so then have seen those perps fed into the courts and thence to prison. Anyone with any sense should expect the same, if they tried it next February.

They ought to also recall what the fate of Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols was.

... and this time the needle is 5.56 mm in diameter.