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14% of Republicans would 'take action to overturn' the election if Trump loses, study finds (www.usatoday.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Nearly half of Republicans say they won't accept the results of the presidential election if their candidate loses, and some of them say they would "take action to overturn" the results, according to data released Tuesday.

About a quarter of Democrats said they wouldn't accept the results if their candidate loses, and fewer Democrats than Republicans said they would "take action to overturn" the results.

The nonpartisan World Justice Project, which keeps an index of how strong the rule of law is in more than 100 countries, gathered the data as part of a larger study. The poll was conducted through online interviews with 1,046 American households between June 10 and June 18.

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago

For sure for sure. This study was conducted on a thousand republican and democratic households and means fuck all.

Not even worth considering. The only thing this study is good for is allowing someone to make an article with an outrageously misleading headline to bait polarized keyboard warriors to further waste their life.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

It’ll be a LOT more when she wins in November. Bets.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

Shrinking the GOP voting base by 14% sounds fantastic. Let them find out.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (2 children)

So 14% of America is un-American?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

14% admit it.

Closer to 40%, probably more.

The south started the Civil War because they lost an election, they're not that far different now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I think the difference now a days compared to back then is rich and powerful people (plantation owners) wanted the war to maintain their wealth and power. Right now I don't think really any powerful companies actually want a civil war. They're happy to fan the flames and play both sides to get the attention off of them and the insane power and wealth they have but I think they all know a civil war would be bad for profits. So because of this I doubt it would ever fully become a civil war, closest it would be is violent protests or things like January 6th which would be put down by the states or federal government before it got far enough to become something like a civil war.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

The thing about fanning the flames is that one day it may those flames can burn out of control.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

It won't become a civil war.

But what it absolutely will become is a bargaining chip: 'yes we lost but give us this or we provoke actual violence', etc, ad nauseum.

We'll need 'demonstrations' for this to reach maximum effectiveness, so they'll arrange them.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No no no you misunderstand. They're so American that we can't understand how American it is to overthrow a democracy... wait ... yeah no they're just assholes.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

I mean, that's pretty damn American 🫡🫡🫡🇺🇲

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh if I lose my family will be blocking me lol

Four years of bullshit with zero evidence, every day. Just for revenge.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wait...if you lose? Are you running?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Found Harris' lemmy account

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The military needs to put their heads on spikes outside the white house for assaulting America on a level that even osama bin laden could only have dreamt of.

And, in fact, was trying to provoke. He didn't give a rat's ass about two buildings. He wanted this 14% of republicans to be doing stuff like this.

When two cheneys go "well hold on a minute now", maybe you rethink your shit.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

When two cheneys go “well hold on a minute now”, maybe you rethink your shit.

And one of the most vile shrieking twats in current politics is actually altering her stance.
The current figurehead claiming to want to put in Christian values yet is currently banging a 31 yr old piece of plastic while his 3rd wife is held up elsewhere in the country...the same 3rd wife he cheated on with a porn star...
When you scream the 2nd Amendment is there to keep tyrants and potential tyrants in check, yet has had 2 assassination attempts in as many months
When several of your talking heads have been revealed to be literally and genuinely funded by foreign governments most of the first world is at odds with
When you've claimed to have had irrefutable proof of widespread election fraud for 3 years against the Dems, yet your side is being convicted of legitimate election fraud for the same election.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That statue has some damn fine titties.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Which one?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

[https://lemmy.world/comment/12411646]

Sorry, meant to reply to original poster above. I'm a lemmy illiterate 🤪

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

That's actually much lower than I would have assumed.

It's still a big number, and 1046 interviews isn't a great view of the American public, but hell, it's at least an attempt.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago (2 children)

14% of Republicans admit they would...

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Nah, saying you'll do something to a pollster is different than actually doing anything.

Stochastic Terrorism means that out of 1000 people, 100 of them hate an ethnic group, 10 of them hate so much it rises to the level of violent rhetoric, but only 1 actually does violence. The good news is that MAGA is becoming deflated because Trump still doesn't know what to do about Harris when his entire plan was about Biden. They'll still vote for him, but being energized enough to do violence in his name is a different matter.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'd like to think you're right but they're more of a cult than a political party.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Cults work exactly like that. Not all members are going to be equally devoted.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

If their candidate loses - not even if they think the election was manipulated. It's likely underreported but that's the chunk just itching for a fucking civil war.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

luckily we have seen for a long time that republicans say a lot of things but due few things. They are great at bamboozling people and then leaving them high and dry on consequences.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

14% of Republicans deserve to be hanged

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Little low, don't ya think?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Yes

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago (2 children)

You don't get to choose to accept it or not, it's not an opinion

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Taking action works, as we saw in 2000 with president Gore.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

Ooh I think 2020 showed you absolutely can with zero consequences.

Or near zero consequences.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Bring it the fuck on. The response on Jan 6 was restrained in part because the terrorists were acting on Presidential orders. Try that treasonous shit when your guy isn't in the White House, and Biden has one foot in the retirement home.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Molon Labe!

(Instructions unclear, am I using that right?)

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

"Action" = heading to the local Wendy's and repeatedly using slurs while demanding free food and blaming the girl at the counter for their dog vanishing 15 years ago, followed by dumping an "American Girl" doll with a noose and on fire on the drive thru.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago

"Action" as a verb is about as vague as you can get. Does that mean an angry Facebook post, contacting representatives, staging an event, or violently overthrowing the government?

I'm guessing it'll mostly be Facebook posts with a handful of people actually gathering in real life doing something stupid.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

Oh God, I can imagine all the mobility scooters clogging up the Walmarts now.

Pure chaos.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

I think it's safe to say everyone will be ready for this. It won't be a surprise, and it won't be another January 6th.

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