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Context: Trump's lawyers are in front of the Supreme Court arguing that presidents cannot be prosecuted for any crimes they commit while in office.

Who knows how the Calvinball refs will decide this one, but if they go Trump's way, Biden has literally no excuse not to assassinate his political rivals.

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[-] edge@hexbear.net 30 points 5 months ago

Killing him might lead to a backlash worse than him getting elected again.

I think I'm only exaggerating a little bit in saying it might cause a civil war.

[-] nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net 44 points 5 months ago

If they believe he will become a dictator (the trick here is I don't think they do) then there would need to be some kind of resistance and civil war in response, right? So kill the future dictator and deal with the possible civil war while you're officially in charge of the nation.

this is all just sophistry, the ones in power don't think he'll be a dictator they just think that's what the rubes need to hear

[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 26 points 5 months ago

Imagine how funny it'd be tho

[-] Aquilae@hexbear.net 17 points 5 months ago

it might cause a civil war

sicko-wistful

[-] Sons_of_Ferrix@hexbear.net 13 points 5 months ago

Oh now Jan 6th on a slightly bigger scale? How will we survive the hordes of guys dressed as Vikings and car dealership owners tasing themselves in the balls??? How can a modern military with automatic weapons and drones handle such a elite fighting force!?!?

[-] Pentacat@hexbear.net 4 points 5 months ago

Don’t forget all the meth induced heart attacks.

[-] StalinStan@hexbear.net 11 points 5 months ago

All the car dealships might form a break away auto based autonomous network?

[-] BigHaas@hexbear.net 10 points 5 months ago

What would that even look like, rural areas attacking urban? The military would remain loyal to the Dems

[-] barrbaric@hexbear.net 14 points 5 months ago

A huge spike in stochastic terrorism including reprisal assassinations of local dems, random mass shootings, and lynchings.

[-] Sons_of_Ferrix@hexbear.net 9 points 5 months ago

They already tried something like this once and it was such a pathetic joke that a neurotic podcaster and a ballerina made a mediocre board game out of it.

[-] StalinStan@hexbear.net 8 points 5 months ago

So acaresly doffrent from now and still not as bad as things were in like the 70s

[-] edge@hexbear.net 5 points 5 months ago

The military would remain loyal to the Dems

lmao half the military are Trump loving chuds.

[-] Sons_of_Ferrix@hexbear.net 9 points 5 months ago
[-] edge@hexbear.net 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Even 37% of active duty soldiers isn’t nothing. They’d be at a disadvantage, but it’s still possible they’d try. Also the guns per capita among civilian Trump supporters would be a factor. And police especially. They’re basically small militaries at this point anyway.

But I guess the biggest factor to whether a civil war would happen is the reaction of the state governments. Good chance Abbott would be pretty pissed and kind of feel threatened. And probably other Southern state governments.

We’re talking about assassination of a major political rival who is the lead figure of the Republican Party and has a rabid support base, they wouldn’t take that lying down.

Edit: those numbers are also from 2020. In general Biden is down and Trump is up from then, I wouldn’t be surprised if the same was true in the military. Plus a good chunk of neutral troops would probably have loyalty to their state.

[-] Sons_of_Ferrix@hexbear.net 1 points 5 months ago

Also the guns per capita among civilian Trump supporters would be a factor.

Jan 6 made me way less concerned about that.

Red State govs going rogue and the police with them is more of a legit concern.

[-] DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 5 months ago

It's the leadership that matters, not the rank and file soldiers. The leadership will side with whomever signs their paychecks.

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