# Trump: In 4 years we’ll have it fixed. You won’t have to vote **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [July 27, 2024, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-in-4-years-we-ll-have-it-fixed-you-won-t-have-to-vote/1004870 "2024-07-27T23:27:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2024, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-in-4-years-we-ll-have-it-fixed-you-won-t-have-to-vote/1004870/181 "2024-07-30T00:09:51Z")
> [@Stratocaster](#): > > It’s because that’s how you prevent a coup. Well, yes. A coup is an attempt to seize power via force, so you use force to prevent it. You don’t use traffic cones or leaflets. ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2024, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-in-4-years-we-ll-have-it-fixed-you-won-t-have-to-vote/1004870/182 "2024-07-30T00:44:52Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > A coup is an attempt to seize power via force A coup is a successful seizure of power by force. An unsuccessful attempt is a mutiny. Coups are disturbingly commonplace in countries operating with the US governance model. Constitutional monarchies, not so much. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2024, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-in-4-years-we-ll-have-it-fixed-you-won-t-have-to-vote/1004870/183 "2024-07-30T00:48:50Z")
> [@Stratocaster](#): > > I hope there are a thousand of them, surrounding the Capitol and with automatic weapons. And unfraid to use them if there is an attack. > > I say that not with any bloodthirsty motives. It’s because that’s how you prevent a coup. This time the occupant of the White House won’t be behind the attempted coup and would not gleefully watch for hours before lifting a finger. Tanks, machine guns, napalm, whatever it takes. ---
**Author:** ![dolphinboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dolphinboy/32/330_2.png) [@dolphinboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dolphinboy)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2024, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-in-4-years-we-ll-have-it-fixed-you-won-t-have-to-vote/1004870/184 "2024-07-30T01:00:19Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > Trump being pissed and telling his minions to run down and kick the doors in of your local capitol building wouldn’t really accomplish a lot, would it? at least in terms of a transfer of power. I agree that attacking and taking over state capitols wouldn’t prevent Kamala from becoming president, but it would lead to wide-spread panic and chaos. With state governments effectively shutdown in mulitple states, even just temporarily, the MAGAs might think they have a bargaining chip they can use to illegally put Trump in office. It may sound crazy, but remember who we’re dealing with here. Having said that, I don’t see how this could ever work. The state militias would retake the capitols, unless there was a long-term standoff, in which case it would be resolved by Harris declaring a state of emergency and deploying federal troops to quell the state insurrections. End of story. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2024, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-in-4-years-we-ll-have-it-fixed-you-won-t-have-to-vote/1004870/185 "2024-07-30T01:03:43Z")
Trump supporters aren’t some kind of fearsome superheros. Trump back in the Oval Office is fearsome. ---
**Author:** ![EddyTeddyFreddy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eddyteddyfreddy/32/18796_2.png) [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2024, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-in-4-years-we-ll-have-it-fixed-you-won-t-have-to-vote/1004870/186 "2024-07-30T01:04:37Z")
> [@BobLibDem](#): > > Tanks, machine guns, napalm, whatever it takes. At the very least, fire hoses. In fact, doesn’t the military have some sort of mobile waterjet thing? [Googling] Oh, yes, there are [anti-riot water cannon](https://www.interarmored.com/products/armored-water-cannon-truck/) behemoths out there. ---
**Author:** ![GulfTiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e79b87/32.png) [@GulfTiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GulfTiger)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2024, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-in-4-years-we-ll-have-it-fixed-you-won-t-have-to-vote/1004870/187 "2024-07-30T01:14:32Z")
Like everyone else, I’m not a mind reader but I’m agreeing with your guess. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2024, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-in-4-years-we-ll-have-it-fixed-you-won-t-have-to-vote/1004870/188 "2024-07-30T02:20:53Z")
Laura Ingraham: What did you mean when you told Christians that in four years they won’t have to vote anymore? Trump: JEWS ARE CRAZY IF THEY DON’T VOTE FOR ME > ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2024, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-in-4-years-we-ll-have-it-fixed-you-won-t-have-to-vote/1004870/189 "2024-07-30T02:30:54Z")
_Catholics_ are persecuted by Joe Biden? Boy he dodges the question a lot. In person voting? But he votes by mail. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2024, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-in-4-years-we-ll-have-it-fixed-you-won-t-have-to-vote/1004870/190 "2024-07-30T02:38:10Z")
Yeah, that guy has a plan to end voting. He doesn’t even bother to listen to what he says out loud. ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2024, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-in-4-years-we-ll-have-it-fixed-you-won-t-have-to-vote/1004870/191 "2024-07-30T03:08:28Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > Yeah, that guy has a plan to end voting. > [@Trump](#): > > The country will be fixed and we won’t even need your vote anymore because frankly, we will have such love, if you don’t want to vote anymore, that’s ok. Voting will be meaningless and Dear Leader will be beloved. Sounds a lot like a dictatorship to me. ---
**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2024, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-in-4-years-we-ll-have-it-fixed-you-won-t-have-to-vote/1004870/192 "2024-07-30T03:08:48Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > Given their sentiment seems best embodied by this famous bit of agitprop, > _So, as we set out this year to defeat the divisive forces that would take freedom away, I want to say those fighting words for everyone within the sound of my voice to hear and to heed ‘From my cold, dead hands’!_ > The correct answer to that is, of course, ‘As you wish.’ Or, “[Your proposal is acceptable.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpuPN3bT3Xw)” 👽 ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2024, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-in-4-years-we-ll-have-it-fixed-you-won-t-have-to-vote/1004870/193 "2024-07-30T04:21:18Z")
Talk about an absolute shit-show of a response, even with Ingraham coaching him. He tried to “yadda yadda” over his response about Jewish folks, and also ended up mangling everything else. He should’ve yadda yaddad the entire interview. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2024, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-in-4-years-we-ll-have-it-fixed-you-won-t-have-to-vote/1004870/194 "2024-07-30T04:22:16Z")
“Christians never vote.” I can’t even imagine… If xtians didn’t vote, there’d be no GOP for the last 40 years. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2024, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-in-4-years-we-ll-have-it-fixed-you-won-t-have-to-vote/1004870/195 "2024-07-30T04:54:32Z")
> [@dolphinboy](#): > > The state militias would retake the capitols, unless there was a long-term standoff, Even in this case, there’s nothing special about the capitol buildings themselves. The legislature could meet anywhere to conduct its business, while the national guard makes sure none of the idiots escapes from them capitol. Just starve them out, make them look entirely ineffectual and weak. ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2024, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-in-4-years-we-ll-have-it-fixed-you-won-t-have-to-vote/1004870/196 "2024-07-30T04:57:19Z")
Did he really say, “they’re destroying Israel, et cetera et cetera”? Like, he actually said “et cetera et cetera” out loud, just expecting us to fill in the blanks? ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2024, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-in-4-years-we-ll-have-it-fixed-you-won-t-have-to-vote/1004870/197 "2024-07-30T05:00:52Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > Like, he actually said “et cetera et cetera” out loud, just expecting us to fill in the blanks? It worked for Yul Brynner. 😉 [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Sn-TdC5gctk/maxresdefault.jpg "The King And I - No One's Head Should be Higher than Mine! Etcetera, Etcetera, Etcetera!") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sn-TdC5gctk) ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2024, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-in-4-years-we-ll-have-it-fixed-you-won-t-have-to-vote/1004870/198 "2024-07-30T05:04:04Z")
> [@Locrian](#): > > “Christians never vote.” I can’t even imagine… If xtians didn’t vote, there’d be no GOP for the last 40 years. Not to mention those [notoriously apolitical gun owners](https://www.factcheck.org/2024/05/trumps-wrong-gun-owners-more-likely-to-vote/). > “Since 1996, the gap between gun owners’ and nonowners’ reported vote is about 11 percent,” Joslyn wrote in his book, which covers federal elections up to 2016. “Turnout among gun owners has increased since 1972 and peaked in 2004 and 2008 at 79 percent. In contrast, turnout declined among nonowners from a high in 1972 of 70 percent to a low of 64 percent in 1996 and 2016.” He’s lying to them _about their own behaviors_. How can they not see how full of shit he is?!? ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2024, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-in-4-years-we-ll-have-it-fixed-you-won-t-have-to-vote/1004870/199 "2024-07-30T05:05:45Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > It worked for Yul Brynner. Nah, he went for the far more manly _third_ et cetera. That makes all the difference! ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2024, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-in-4-years-we-ll-have-it-fixed-you-won-t-have-to-vote/1004870/200 "2024-07-30T05:22:00Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > Talk about an absolute shit-show of a response, even with Ingraham coaching him. He and his goons seem to be having trouble even answering softball questions these days. You put them on Newsmax and ask them how a Trump administration will help small businesses and they respond “KAMALA HARRIS IS A BLACK!” It’s like the switch in candidates completely fried their brains and they have absolutely no idea how to campaign anymore. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-in-4-years-we-ll-have-it-fixed-you-won-t-have-to-vote/1004870.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-in-4-years-we-ll-have-it-fixed-you-won-t-have-to-vote/1004870.md?page=11)