President Biden said he is “not confident at all” that there will be a peaceful transfer of power in January 2025 if former President Donald Trump is defeated.
“He means what he says. We don’t take him seriously. He means it. All the stuff about 'If we lose, there’ll be a bloodbath, it’ll have been a stolen [election],'” Mr. Biden told CBS News chief election and campaign correspondent Robert Costa in his first sit-down interview since announcing he was dropping out of the 2024 presidential race and endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris for the Democratic nomination. The interview will air on “CBS News Sunday Morning” on Sunday, Aug. 11.
“Look what they’re trying to do now in the local election districts where people count the votes,” said Mr. Biden. Repeating a familiar maxim about elections and democracy, the president said, “You can’t love your country only when you win.”
Maybe we should have given harsher punishments to the people who tried doing that the first time around?
Why are you trying to make elections political?
I mean, look at Germany. Not punishing the Nazis harder the first time worked out so well [in hindsight]
Luckily we can learn from their mistakes and…
Wait…
Shit.
That’s pretty difficult if the fucking supreme court is literally by people who support the MAGA rioters
I don’t know, I think it’s pretty unreasonable to assume Trump will attempt another coup. What, does he have a coup for one special? /s
I’m glad Biden’s calling this shit out now, and hope they’ve got a plan when a few dozen Arizona counties refuse to certify the results.
One saving grace is this time, it ain’t the diaper in Chief calling the shots. Biden won’t hesitate to call the national guard if need be.
That being said, i think the violence is gonna happen at State capitals this time… I hope I’m wrong.
I think you’re right. I honestly think Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, etc should probably have the national guard in place the night before.
What, does he have a coup for one special?
Take a lap.
What, does he have a coup for one special?
Maybe he has a… coupon…?
“Average American president attempts 0.004 coups per year” factoid actually just a statistical error. Average American president attempts 0 coups per year. Traitors Donal, who dyes face orange & attempts over 0.25 coups each year, is an outlier adn should not have been counted.
Hell, i’m not confident there’d be a peaceful transfer of power if he wins
Chances are high it will not be peaceful for anyone on his stupid enemies list AFTER the transfer of power.
Wait, you mean Diaper Don wants to attempt political prosecution? I always thought he was opposed to that kinda stuff…
The transfer of power from Biden to Harris should be peaceful because Trump isn’t involved in it.
2021 wasn’t peaceful only because Trump still had power. If he has no power, you shut that shit down and it’s peaceful.
“I want a permit to protest the counting of votes!”
(Checks history) “Yeah, permit denied.”
Idk, Dump has a rabid cult fan base that collects guns
I live in Baltimore. That shit doesn’t scare me. I’d like to see them try.
Trumpers who advertise as such on their vehicles and try starting shit have been known to leave with a couple extra “vent holes” on their vehicles.
I have been watching The Wire again so I feel like I also live in Baltimore (I live in Ireland)
Ireland is the Baltimore of Europe, England is the Backersfield, and Scotland is Portland. I will not elaborate.
I thought those were speed holes.
We all know Trump won’t accept the results. He didn’t in 2020, and in 2016 he claimed it was still rigged against him even when he won.
It’s really weird when you think about it.
If only he had access to the largest police and surveillance apparatus in the history of ever. Maybe he could, y’know, prevent the inevitable bullshit and bloodletting.
Trumps lies about 2020 were such outrageous bullshit anyway, there wasn’t a single solitary shred of a molecule of truth in any of it. ZERO TOLERANCE, ZERO PATIENCE for that fucking guy and his inevitable bullshit parade.
Fool me once . . . shame on . . . shame on you . . fool me twice . . Y- . . Y’can’t get fooled again.
largest police and surveillance apparatus
Who do you think the people who want to use violence to overthrow the election are?
Maybe if we had an Attorney-General who did things other than try to ensure he gets into nice country clubs we’d do something about this.
Too bad.
See, this is how smart it was Biden not running again.
I completely forgot he existed, and has just been chugging along doing president things.
not to mention he flubbed even this question. he said if he wins first, then corrected himself to say loses. I’m so glad he’s not on the ticket anymore.
Well, you’re the boss. Prepare for what you expect, and lock the rioters up.
as is anyone who was alive and voting in the last election. You would have to be brain dead to not worry about what that clown may do.
This is probably in prep for shutting shit down. If you start warning people now, it’ll be “I told you they were gonna wild out, and we’re handling it” not “release the rabid dogs on the opposing party”.
The headline makes it sound like he’s not gonna let Kamala take his place… 🤔
As for his actual words, Joe’s right, Trump’s not going down easy. The good news is that Donnie isn’t in power now, and won’t be in charge of the Federal response to whatever unfolds.
It actually gets really complicated if the damage he does is at the state or local level. A “coup” in the US capital is probably no longer a possibility, but he could cause a lot of chaos if he got a couple dozen scattered enclaves of lawless resistance to lawful voting procedures, and they didn’t back down. Are we gonna send national troops to half a dozen different states to make them obey? Is that even constitutionally feasible?
Anywhere we have the slightest doubt about that, we have to act now–Biden has to act now–to guarantee good-faith election management and fallbacks in case it doesn’t happen.
Right. If dementia donnie’s right-wing chuds want to try some shit, I hope Biden does some Dark Brandoning on their dumb asses. And then Kamala needs to put someone in charge who will not dither one bit when it comes to going after them legally after that.
While I agree, I would prefer them not giving it air time. Or better making fun of those suggesting violence and making them look foolish.
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It doesn’t matter. The vp has the ability to arbitrarily change the election outcome. RIGHT DONNIE?
Well of course not. We’ve already seen them practice.
