14% of Republicans would ‘take action to overturn’ the election if Trump loses, study finds

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/09/17/half-republicans-wont-accept-trump-loss-2024/75142477007/

31 Comments

  1. Thats a fairly low percentage if that 14 is all gravy seals. Just a heads up maga cultists; it’s not insurrection on Friday and back to business on Monday. You wont get afternoon naps. You wont have access to your insulin or time to charge your mobility scooter either.

  2. I’d believe that when I see it.

    Lots of the cultists “think” they want violence and to overthrow their government and are not truly cognizant of what that means.

    Instability in their daily lives is something they may think they are prepared for and are actually not.

    Watching REAL people get REALLY HURT is not something most Americans understand. I’m speaking as a veteran who has been deployed to the Middle East many times thinking about the preponderance of violence and what I would do to protect my sailors and marines and make sure to lead them to victory and safety. I would lay in my rack at night constantly thinking about that and how scared I may be and more important how scared my sailors would be if things went kinetic.

    Violence sucks. I’m not ready to handle civil unrest that some of these people think they want.

    Jan 6th was a lot to watch and I never want to see anything close to that again. We deserve better.

  3. AngryBlackSquare on

    Liars. LARPing liars.

    I said it. I don’t believe this for a millisecond. They whine and rant and rave but then when the chips are down the vast majority of them sit back down and keep doomscrolling.

    They’ve been brainwashed not just into fear and tacit support of fascism but also *inaction.* ‘Sit back and relax, we’ll handle it’ they’ve been told for decades. And now suddenly they’re saying they’ll take to the streets like it’s 2020?

    Sure, klandma. Put your boots where your bitching is.

  4. BarbieTheeStallion on

    We already saw that with January 6th once. Anyone espousing these views needs to be on all the lists including the watchlist and the no fly list.

  5. They won’t, however these Y’all Qaeda wannabes really should read up on how well that course of action went for Ashli Babbitt.

  6. SlipperyFitzwilliam on

    Let them try. Last time the cowards had doors held open for them and even then scurried away with their tails between their legs as soon as that garbage woman took a bullet to the neck.

  7. Considering the publicized upgrade in security for the election certification this time around, I don’t think a pile of dumbasses is going to have a good time trying to fight through military-backed riot control that will be protecting the capitol.

    Enjoy the tear gas and bean bag shots, assholes.

  8. Unlikely-Collar4088 on

    To clarify, 14% of republicans said in a poll they would take action.

    Related, but ~14% of everyone online claim they’ll dox me and beat me up, but so far, only crickets.

  9. ChrisChrisBangBang on

    So the deep state is real & run by dems (weird how they keep allowing republicans to run the government) and it’s super powerful to the point it can steal elections, but not immediately get rid of their political opponents in any number of ways. The deep state is simultaneously all powerful and really easy to overcome

  10. Why even have an election in the first place if they will accept only one specific outcome? Why not just have their little coup right now and get it over with instead of waiting until January? It obviously doesn’t matter to them anyway what other people might want, or that they disagree with their political opinion. They are so emotionally unequipped that they have *never* learned to deal with rejection and will cry and thump the floor if they don’t get their way. They are very much like their cult leader in that regard. How pathetically weak do you have to be to say you would rather see democracy die than being governed by the party you didn’t vote for?

    We’ve just had 14 long years of Conservative government here in the UK and I hated every single moment of it. At no point ever would the thought have even crossed my mind to bring down the elected government of my country because I didn’t want them. The sheer arrogance of putting their own desires over that of tens of millions of their fellow countrymen is breathtaking.

  11. I really don’t think people are ready for whatever comes after election day. There is no scenario with a peaceful transfer of power.

  12. thissomeotherplace on

    Nazis, every single one of them who attacks the free and fair decision of the American public to install an unelected dictator

  13. People in this therad being like “lol they’re too cowardly to do anything”. You don’t get it. Action won’t mean getting face to face the National Guard. It will mean targeting Democratic officials, their voters, abortion clinics, gay night-clubs, schools… These people will feel like they’re saving the country the day they gun down a liberal school board member our burn an refugee housing center. Are your ready for that? I certainly am not.