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Letting him run will result in him being president or him attempting a coup.

There is no other option if we let him run. There will be carnage one way or another. He has made this abundantly clear.

If we throw his ass in jail, we can easily quell the MAGA crowd’s attempt at some kind of response to that.

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To even question this is fucking stupid. He didn’t even agree with the results of the election he won!

Are people this amnesiac? Are microplastics destroying our brains?

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Yes and yes

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He can still run for president from prison. It has been done before.

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Run? Sure, but can he be inaugurated and serve from prison!? That would be a first…

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Attempting a coup is much harder with an opponent on the executive branch. The only reason the last one was close was because Trump was sandbagging the response. The only way one succeeds now is if the military facilitates the coup, aggressively, IMO.

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Tbf, that was the case when he’s president, too.

Our commanding officers protect the constitution, not the president or any person.

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True. Sadly, no chance of that.

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Since the excerpt here is cut off,

In an interview with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the former president said he would accept the results of the November election showing he lost “if everything’s honest.”

“If everything’s honest, I’d gladly accept the results,” Trump said in an interview Wednesday. "If it’s not, you have to fight for the right of the country.

“But if everything’s honest, which we anticipate it will be — a lot of changes have been made over the last few years — but if everything’s honest, I will absolutely accept the results,” he said.

So in trump terms, honest = he wins, dishonest means he didn’t.

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Same as it was in 2016 and 2020. This isn’t really news anymore.

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Yeah, it’s exactly what he said last time.

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What if he wins through dishonesty? Is he going to concede if he finds out his base was cheating?

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He’d be disappointed if he found out they hadn’t cheated.

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This loser is beyond pathetic. He’s the fakest fuck I’ve ever seen in my life. And it’s so glaringly obvious. How could anyone look at this deteriorated weak delusional coward and see a strong truthful leader?

The manchild has never once admitted his fuckups, failings, losses, or shortcomings. That’s a major red flag. Real men do. This emotionally stunted toddler can’t and isn’t. He’s a silver spoon terrified child trapped in a bloated dying brain scrambled corpse.

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The manchild has never once admitted his fuckups, failings, losses, or shortcomings. That’s a major red flag. Real men do. This emotionally stunted toddler can’t and isn’t.

They’re voting for a reflection of themselves.

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7 points

Preach.

When this fucker’s diet finally catches up with him, Satan himself will make a personal trip up from Hell to collect him. A bigger catch than John Constantine.

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5 points

Dad says he doesn’t want him, someone else can take him

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An 8 minute old account has replied 4 times, all slightly provocative pro-trump stuff.

Often fight-picking.

You could be better than this.

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What does that mean, owner of new account? What do you expect people to do? What do you expect people to do if he loses?

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LOL, I guess all the postings of this particular poster are vaporized. :) I suppose they’ll be back with another sockpuppet at some point, who knows…

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How did it ever become relevant whether the loser accepts the result?
The result should obviously be decided by a non corrupt competent body, oh… never mind.

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It is relevant in that the loser is the elected nominee for his party and has many people who look up to him and follow his lead. If the loser accepts his defeat gracefully, the people who look up to him are more likely to accept the results and less likely to cause trouble. It doesn’t matter who decides the results and how non-corrupt they are if a corrupt loser sows doubt in the results and makes his followers think they have been cheated, particularly when the majority of his party joins in instead of ostracizing him for being a liar.

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Exactly, Republicans are all in on the violence, or they wouldn’t nominate him. They know what he is, and they like it.

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Has there ever been a democrat presidential candidate who ever said he/she wouldn’t accept not winning?

This insanity is exclusively something the Republicans say.

But yes I would, reluctantly yes, and I would be sad and pissed that so many would vote for a criminal corrupt malignant narcissist. But I would accept it unless there was clear evidence as in proof of cheating. Not just accusations mind you, proof.

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Fuck Trump

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