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In an interview with NBC News’s Tom Llamas on Wednesday, President Donald Trump indicated that it’s possible he won’t accept the outcome of the 2026 midterms. Asked whether he’d respect the results of the elections that will be held later this year, Trump said he would only do so if he deemed the outcomes to be legitimate. “I will [accept the midterm outcomes] if the elections are honest…

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[–] unmagical@lemmy.ml 12 points 4 days ago

So only if MAGAts sweep everything.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

Fuck what he deems

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

We've been playing this game every two years since at least 2008.

[–] danekrae@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

America got lucky, they didn't succeed on jan 6. No good will come from just brushing it off.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Are you kidding? The funniest thing in the world would have been J6ers getting into the Senate and lynching Mike Pence.

FFS, imagine a world in which these goobers had caught up with Henry Cuellar or Bob Menendez or Mike Johnson or Mitt Romney or Chuck Grassley? I argue it would be a fundamentally better place.

And, by the time the dust settled, Biden's incoming administration might have taken the threat of a domestic insurgency a bit more seriously. Perhaps he'd have actually prosecuted the ringleaders of the organization, rather than sending a bunch of middle-management dipshits to iPad Timeout for a couple of years.

[–] danekrae@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The funniest thing in the world would have been J6ers getting into the Senate and lynching Mike Pence.

Biden’s incoming administration

Biden wouldn't have had an administration...

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Because Mike Pence wasn't around to give him permission?

[–] danekrae@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Was Mike Pence alone in the Senate? Do you believe the insurrectionists would let everybody else go peacefully?

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Do you believe the insurrectionists would let everybody else go peacefully?

I don't believe the rest of the executive branch bureaucracy would honor the whims of an angry, badly organized mob.

I do think a lot more of them would have been killed when the police retook the building.

[–] danekrae@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

I don’t believe the rest of the executive branch bureaucracy would honor the whims of an angry, badly organized mob.

It's an insurrection. It doesn't matter, when everybody is killed.

I do think a lot more of them would have been killed when the police retook the building.

Unless every single MAGA was there, I don't see how that is relevant.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 4 days ago

does he think he will make it elss obvious if he dint rig the voting machines again? isnt thats why you told TULSI to rig some of the machines recently.