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Originally Posted by KootenayFlamesFan
That audio is insane, threatening those guys for doing their jobs and having a secure election. You always think there’s a rock bottom but there isn’t. Still 3 weeks to go.
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Originally Posted by direwolf
Trump and a significant portion of the GOP are completely off the rails. I have a bad feeling that all of this insanity might result in some major violence taking place between now and Jan. 20th. I hope I'm wrong, but it certainly looks like things are headed in that direction.
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This audio is entirely consistent with Trump's mafia-like way of speaking and demanding loyalty via vague threats and promises, just like Comey and Cohen (and I'm sure others) have testified to. Just imagine what the audio of other calls he's made to foreign leaders and Republican Senators/Congressfolk sound like.
He is clearly going to put the pedal to the floor hoping for tangible actions to be taken on his behalf, starting with the Proud Boys et al. rallies set for DC on the 6th, and continuing on until Biden is ultimately sworn in. How bad it will get during that window is largely out of his hands, and dependent upon what his minions do and how their civilian opponents (and the police) deal with it. But he's out there again planting the seeds of a coup or civil war and, as much as I don't think either of those things will happen, the odds that someone gets killed in connection with all of this is pretty high.
And that's to say nothing of the continuing impact on US democracy, which is already looking pretty damned ragged.