Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee ® on Wednesday said 2024 will be the last election “decided by ballots rather than bullets” if former President Trump doesn’t win the presidential race because of his various legal battles.
In the latest episode of his show on TBN, Huckabee argued the legal woes now facing Trump are part of a politically motivated scheme from the Biden administration, an argument touted by many in the former president’s orbit.
“If these tactics end up working to keep Trump from winning or even running in 2024, it is going to be the last American election that will be decided by ballots rather than bullets,” Huckabee warned in his opening monologue.
Huckabee accused President Biden and his team of trying “to make sure that Donald Trump is not his opponent in 2024″ and “to destroy Trump in the courthouse rather than at the ballot box.” He also alleged the Justice Department, the IRS and the FBI are “conspiring to hide the Biden family crimes, while all the time being obsessed with charging Donald Trump with crimes.”
Y’know, this sort of rhetoric seems less about making a prediction (there will be violence) than it is about cueing his audience to prepare to be violent, or at least to accept that there will be violence.
Yeah, it looks like an innocent prediction from the guy that can see the writing on the wall, and that’s why this kind of talk takes this form and not the form of explicitly calling for political violence from particular people- this way it’s all deniable and stochastic enough that nobody’s (hint, hint) actually breaking the law out in the open.
Yeah but if he wins there is going to be violence. I’d rather take my chances with the violence that happens because he lost than because he’s ordering people that disagree with him off into camps.
Dear Liberals,
Buy guns now. You are severely outgunned and the police support the other side. There is no credible deterrence preventing fascist militias from waltzing into major metropolitan areas and doing pretty much the same thing the Khmer Rouge did in Cambodia (murdering everyone that disagreed with them). Being “outraged” is not enough. Putting “In this house we believe…” signs on your lawn is not enough. Reassuring yourself with op-eds in the New York Times is not enough. Buy guns now.
I find blanket statements encouraging people to buy guns to be disingenuous. They rarely if ever include any advice for how to store, maintain, or safely use a firearm.
Stuff like this: https://www.leatherman.com/blogeveryday7-tips-for-properly-maintaining-your-gun
People have easy access to guns, such as a Walmart, and I think a lot of people have inclinations to get armed if gun sales are anything to go by. But everyone running to buy guns and then cowering in their homes or apartments isn’t going to do any good. We need people everywhere to get organized. Then people can make decisions together that reflect the circumstances that they live in. I’m not convinced I would be making my neighborhood safer by independently buying a firearm.
I’ve had two people show up, multiple times, on my family’s property to do something with a small box, we aren’t sure what. We solved that by putting a gate on the driveway they were using. Adding a gun to whatever those situations are wouldn’t make them better.
If a fascist death squad rolls up to my house, I’m dead. Getting to shoot back with a rifle is a nice thought, but it’s not going to stop them from killing me. An organized neighborhood that took steps to prevent violence, whether that’s firearms or some other method, is always going to be more effective than anything I can do individually.
Also, even if most people did decide to buy guns, they probably wouldn’t being carrying them at the places where domestic terrorist attacks happen. People usually don’t take their guns to schools, work, places of worship, fairs, etc. I live in a liberal democracy. I do not want to have to take a rifle with me every time I go on a grocery run or shop at local stores.
Even if everyone did bring guns to every public or private space I have played and watched social deduction games. People are really bad at managing an unknown shooter situation. We make random guesses at best that lead to everyone getting killed. If I’m at the grocery store and people start shooting at each other, I have no way of knowing which person started it, which one is the fascist, who is acting in self defense or if the people standing where I can see them with a gun are actually the shooter. Everyone’s best survival strategy is to runaway and that’s something we can do without guns.
It’s not enough or desirable for everyone to buy guns with no organization whatsoever. We need organized militias to combat domestic terrorists if we can’t trust police to do it. Everyone walking around with a firearm is just cover for mass shooters if the majority of us do not know and trust the other people holding a gun.
I agree that organized militias are the way to go, probably with all the guns in an armory. My comment lacked nuance. But I still believe that the real power imbalance between the left and the right is a recipe for volatility. The perception of a credible defense would preclude the fascist death squad from showing up in the first place.
Yes, if there’s one thing the US needs it’s more guns.
PLEASE! I’ve been saying this since 2016 and have been kicked out of so many left-leaning circles. Buy a gun now! Before they make it illegal for you to. You don’t even have to use it.
You don’t even have to use it.
That’s a terrible idea. You need regular practice at the range in order to be effective with it.
They really do want violence.
I hope, when the smoke clears, they serve the remainder of their days in prison.
Because They. Won’t. Win.
Because They. Won’t. Win.
They’ve won in way too many places for you to be that confident.
Boy, Republicans are the biggest scam artists of all time. What fucking crimes did Biden commit? There are receipts for the crimes Trump broke. Destroy Trump in the courthouse rather than the ballot box? Are you fucking high? You don’t debate criminals on policy, you prosecute criminals.
They pick and choose from rule of law daily.
“Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?” 2023 edition.
I thought he called him “quarrelsome,” but I’m probably conflating something
I always thought it was “meddlesome”, tbf.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_no_one_rid_me_of_this_turbulent_priest%3F
He could have said anything. It was nearly a thousand years ago, only a handful of people were paying attention and they were all murderers. And he could very well have said it in French considering he was both French and in France at the time.
Huckabee has nothing left but Trump. Once Trump is gone Huckabee goes to the old folks home. He did nothing for Arkansas and nothing for America.
“If Democracy doesn’t give me the result I want, I’ll turn to Fascism!”
That’s exactly what is happening.
So… trying to make sure a traitor to America pays for his crimes is somehow wrong?
Wasn’t the Conservative Party in favor or patriotism?
The Republican idea of patriotism is just another flavor of Christianity - blind faith in a power you believe to be bigger than yourself. It used to be faith in America as a concept, unerring and omnipotent - under God, but when things started shifting leftward with the civil rights movement, it became faith in a president to bring things back to their halcyon days. It started with Reagan, and now it’s Trump, who gave them new hope with his slogan of making America great again.
The Republican idea of patriotism was never about making your country great, it was about believing your country is already great despite all evidence to the contrary - essentially just another religion.
Now if that isn’t stochastic terrorism, I don’t know what is.
Projection and threats, that’s all they know how to do
Give them some credit, they also know how to smash
windowspolice officers and wipe poop on walls
Look, another unindicted co-conspirator!
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The problem is that even if this is empty bluster on Huckabee’s part, some jackass is going to decide that “deciding an election by bullets” means murdering a dozen random people at his local Wal-Mart.
That’s the goal. “Give us what we want or you and yours might get shot up at the local store.”
Just like we don’t let a nuclear dictator take what they want because “omg hed nuke us” we don’t let some sister fucker redneck asshole have what he wants because he might shoot us. Either pull the trigger or fuck off.
So they’ve decided to be terrorists.
