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‘I think the bigger problem are the people from within, we have some very bad people, sick people, radical left lunatics,’ Republican candidate tells Fox’s Maria Bartiromo

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"And it should be easily handled by, if necessary, by National Guard, or if really necessary, by the military," he said.

"I think the bigger problem is the enemy from within. Not even the people who have come in, who are destroying our country."

It isn't clear under what circumstances Trump would view it justifiable to call in US troops against his own countrymen.

But his comments mark a baseless attack and a particularly hollow one coming from someone whose supporters violently attacked the US Capitol in an attempt to stop him from being thrown out of office three years ago.


🗳️ Register to vote: https://vote.gov/

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

idiot has to know he cant do that. the ones that can had better not if they want to keep their stations

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 2 days ago

“I think the bigger problem are the people from within, we have some very bad people, sick people, radical ~~left~~ lunatics."

Yeah Don, we know. They even wear a red hat to help identify themselves.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (17 children)

Soldiers are not obligated to follow unlawful orders....the brass will say "no".

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 days ago

So that's how he plans to make the economy better, to force his opposition to leave the country and appropriate their wealth and property. Who did Nazi that coming?

[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This rhetoric is meant for voter intimidation because they know Republicans always lose when Democrats turn out to vote.

The polls are meaningless because they could be manipulated or manufactured, we don’t know who’s being polled. People just need to cast their vote and not let this be a close election.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I will never express my opinions in places where I can be easily identified unless I am among people I know and trust. I will vote and keep my leftist ideology to myself amongst strangers irl. I rather like living without being bothered.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There’s no such thing as living without being bothered in an autocratic regime, doesn’t matter who you are. You could be the most ardent supporter and you’d still be shit out of luck for any reason. Stalin used to have his own cabinet members routinely disposed of

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I meant being bothered as in strangers harassing me for my beliefs lol. I live in a grossly red part of my state and I keep a low profile out of what I feel is necessity

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Oh hey, treason man is yet again announcing publicly that he's a treasonous piece of shit and that he plans to continue committing treason? Wow, what shocking news. /s

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

He rambled on about immigrants at a rally and said election day will be our Liberation Day. Sounds like mass deportation and mass killing of liberals to me.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

I should have been doing it regardless, but this past weekend I started hitting the shooting range again.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 days ago (3 children)

This is EXACTLY what the Founders Intended! George Washington LITERALLY said that the US Military should be used on US Citizens and that Children should be Gunned Down in School!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

Yup, I was there! I remember it well!

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[–] [email protected] 98 points 2 days ago (4 children)

And polls continue to call the race a tie.

At some point we have to acknowledge that roughly 30% of our population are just evil, fascist monsters. Having lived in those states, this isn't a surprise.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Some of them are just country bumpkins who vote for whoever their pastor says

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (3 children)

And the problem is that a county of 1000 dipshit rednecks like that have as much voting power as a major metropolitan area.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Still counts more in fact. Our system is broken.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The system in question:

https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-10-02-0065

There was one difficulty however of a serious nature attending an immediate choice by the people. The right of suffrage was much more diffusive in the Northern than the Southern States; and the latter could have no influence in the election on the score of the Negroes. The substitution of electors obviated this difficulty and seemed on the whole to be liable to fewest objections.

The south has a massive advantage in the electoral college because they demanded to be able to launder slave votes.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 days ago

Been in their churches, you hear the chorus loud and clear when he talks about 'taking the country back from the powers of satan and other elitists'. He doesn't mean Olympic athletes.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 days ago

Looks like the U.S. is going to vote in an oppressive dictatorship to own the libs.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago

He tried to get a crowd to attack someone who interrupted him.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Didn't he try to use the military the last time and he was told no? What a psycho.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

He might not be told "no" this time, though. He would be CiC, he would be their boss.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Wasn't he their boss last time?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago

After being told "no", he started purging officers that take their constitutional duty seriously.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago

And this is exactly why I registered as an independent once Trump hit the scene and I still don't feel safe with just that. I'm not some big brain smarty-pants, but I could see this piece of shit going full Nazi from a mile away, not to mention the frothing rage Fox news has kept The Base in with regard to anyone on "the left."

It's kinda sad to know that there really were only 2 people in our entire country who really would have tried to kill Hitler and one was a damn kid.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 3 days ago (3 children)

He's crying.

He's falling apart and going more batshit as his last-ditch attempt to grab power before crashing permanently.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And yet he has a 50/50 chance of becoming president again.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

Sane Americans better go out and vote.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago

More that he's trying to stay out of jail.

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