I am actually not, and have never been, particularly concerned about violence either near or after Election Day. Yes, I agree Trump’s rhetoric is dangerous, but I just don’t see anyone, even his most rabid supporters, DOING anything about it, especially not if it involves putting their own necks on the line. I think they’re just like their hero: a big talker, but not so much a doer.
From now on, I’ll think of this song as “Tiny Hands Sir”.
I can see certain of his followers showing up outside polling places in Philly and harassing voters: “Are you registered?” “I saw you at another polling place, you’d better leave or I’ll call the police!” etc.
This could lead to some people, especially minorities, leaving rather risking a confrontation with the police. It could also lead to some less than civil confrontations between voters and harassers.
I was watching the Tur-Trump interview just now.
The PiperCub wandered by and watched for a bit, then he said: "Is he going to hurt her?’’
Out of the mouths of babes…
Yeah – when I read that, I pictured Trump playing the piano, his tiny hands dancing over the keys.
Not that I could imagine for a second Trump doing anything so self-disciplined as learning the piano.
He’s played a few million Republicans. How hard could the piano be?
The problem is that even if 99.99% of Trump supporters react in a peaceful way, the remainder can cause disruption, and damage to our democracy, out of proportion to their numbers.
You just made my day. Thanks.
There are some who truly believe that large numbers of Democrats are somehow cheating at the polls. (Any meaningful cheating would have to be either an inside job or some sort of computer hack and not people standing in line, but we’re not talking about people who think things through.)
Some small percentage of them could decide on a so-called “second amendment solution”.
The piano is intelligent enough not to be played.
Yes, but with millions of Republicans, you’re only dealing with one note.
An article in Vanity Fair is claiming that there is no way to cancel recurring donations to Trump’s campaign.
I’m sure that you could tell your bank or CC company to cancel any further payments to the campaign, but that’s an extra step; an extra obstacle that may dissuade some from bothering to cancel if it’s a small amount.
And you can darn well be sure it’s not one of the black keys.
The piano has a wider tonal range than your average Trump voter, too.
It’s ridiculous how often i see this phrase in articles about Trump and his campaign.
You make it sound like they’re Moooslims, or somethin’.
This has already been mentioned in another thread. The solution is call your bank and do a chargeback after you notify the campaign in writing (email is ok) that you withdraw permission to take donations from your account. Each chargeback will cost the campaign around $25 in penalty fees and if enough people do it Visa / MasterCard will suspend their merchant account.
Thanks!
Now he knows more about PoliSci than the political scientists! This is awesome. 
I can easily imagine that in open carry states there could end up being groups of Trump supporters with long guns hanging ouy near polling places on election day. Even if they don’t actually confront people and just stand there peacefully with Trump signs that could be enough to intimidate a lot of minorities from voting. How many swing states are open carry?
It looks like all of them except Florida.