If Trump is Charged and Arrested, and He Calls for Insurrection, What Do You Think Will Happen?

Umm … you must have missed that Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger stood up to Trump and did not find 11,000 votes for him. Democrat Warnock won his senate seat by less than 100,000 votes and that Democrat Ossoff won by less than 55,000 votes. How does that fit with your theory?

Umm … that was before new election laws came out in Georgia, the one with sweeping changes to absentee and in-person voting, and that thing about giving food and water to people waiting in super long lines.

They’ll portray themselves as martyrs no matter what happens, so might as well make it count.

After the leaders of the Freedumb Convoy here in Ottawa were finally arrested (not even beat up, just arrested!), they immediately started talking about being “political prisoners” and the like. Any law enforcement applied against them will have the same effect, so why hold back out of concerns like thins?

I thought that LSLGuy was implying the Pubs would participate in Election Fraud / Miscounting votes. That’s what I was replying to.

Saw a quote:

The difference between Jim Jones and Donald Trump is that Trump would charge for the Koolaid

And yes, it was really Flavor Aid.

Truth Social was rejected, again, from appearing in Google’s Play Store about an hour ago, so the current crop of Truthers are pretty much the Civil War candidate pool.

ETA: Clarified action taken by Google.

Also, this is new:

It really sounds like Truth Social is interfering with Truth Social pretty well. Not sure if anyone would even notice an outside influence.

I think that this would backfire. Incitement to riot is a hell of a charge to prove. There is no law against stochastic terrorism, and the people you mentioned are smart enough to know this. Any calls to violence will be "predictions "of violence like Lindsey Graham’s, or “some people are saying” or “it is understandable how people might feel that” all with a quick caveat that “violence isn’t the answer” and “we should all obey law enforcement” wink wink. So Garland’s warning will be empty.

Meanwhile if they got such a letter they would publish it as proof that the DOJ is acting in a partisan manner by threatening Biden’s critics with jail time if exercise their first amendment rights to speak truth to power.

I believe he was, and I don’t think that you have refuted his point.

You have pointed out that there were, in the past, some republicans who stood up to Trump. What you have not acknowledged that most of these Republicans have been replaced with those who will be more inclined to go along with election shenanigans in order to get their prefered candidates elected.

Who exactly? Brad Raffensperger is still Sec’y of State.

One hundred percent. The proposal is baffling.

Considering all the childish ranting they’re always doing, I’d be astonished to learn that they don’t already.

You really seem to be missing the point here, and I’m not sure how to make it any clearer. Yes, this one person is still SOS for Georgia, but that doesn’t mean that our elections are safe and sound.

For one, that’s just one state, for two, Georgia, even with your sainted Raffensperger in as SOS, passed laws making it harder to vote, with Georgia even passing a bill replacing the non-partisan board of elections for the largest (and left leaning) counties.

So, you are correct that Raffensberger stood up and refused to break the law for Trump. What you are ignoring is that he then went on to change those laws so that next time he wants to interfere with an election, he won’t have to break any laws.

You could learn a lot from reading this:

This is what I think the main point was – the laws are being changed so they won’t have to break the law to install Republicans, throw out votes, or do whatever they need.

Wow, just like fascists!

Exactly.

This.

And this.

Then what are struggling to preserve?

We almost had them convinced the pens didn’t work. Thanks a lot for blabbing about it. :frowning:

But no where back to square one. I thought that LSLGuy was accusing Pubs of future election fraud. RitterSport pointed out the new laws so OK, yeah that may change things so I concede that point. But you and LSLGuy are pointing out that there is a nebulous they that will overturn the elections without saying who or how. Like if you said Whitey Oldman just got appointed to the Georgia Supreme Court and now it is 5 to 4 Pubs in the majority, I’d remember back to Bush v. Gore and say, “Now I get your point.” If you said that county election boards can now be overturned by a state board that is 8 Pubs and 5 Dems I’d say “Now I get your point.”

So who are the Pub election officials that will participate in election fraud?