• octopus_ink@lemmy.ml
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    1 month ago

    or he’s going to win (or be handed the win by the Supreme Court Rubber-stamping Service),

    I agree with your comment in general and apologize for what may sound like a bit of a flippant reply, but I actually think what would worry me the most is if it it goes to SCOTUS and they somehow do NOT install Trump. I think the super-faithful deep-state-believers would lose their effing minds at that turn of events - this is where I would expect to see the violence ramping up the fastest.

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      1 month ago

      Unfortunately, there’s likely some truth to that. In spite of the SC fairly consistently destroying the rule of law to rule on Trump’s behalf, if even one time they rule against him, even on just one ruling that’s so vividly obvious that the otherwise wholly corrupt and compromised SC can’t possibly cobble together an excuse to rule in Trump’s favor, that really is likely to touch off more violence quicker than just about anything else.

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      1 month ago

      No. That’s a way better option than a fascist dictator actually gaining power.

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        1 month ago

        Oh for sure, and I wasn’t suggesting otherwise.

        I expect a more immediate and flagrant violent event in that case vs the other two though.