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Just over a week after an assassination attempt against Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump resulted in the killing of one bystander and left two people critically injured, a GOP state senator from Ohio was condemned for saying a Democratic victory in November would result in a "civil war."

"I believe wholeheartedly Donald Trump and Butler County's JD Vance are the last chance to save our country, politically," state SEn. George Lang (R-4) said  at a rally for Vance, the first-term U.S. senator from Ohio whom Trump selected as his running mate last week. "I'm afraid if we lose this one, it's going to take a civil war to save the country, and it will be saved."

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 4 months ago

Sedition noun : incitement of resistance to or insurrection against lawful authority

Also from https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title18/part1/chapter115&edition=prelim

§2385. Advocating overthrow of Government

Whoever knowingly or willfully advocates, abets, advises, or teaches the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying the government of the United States... Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both, and shall be ineligible for employment by the United States or any department or agency thereof, for the five years next following his conviction

LOCK HIM UP.

[–] xmunk 50 points 4 months ago (2 children)

This person should be arrested, this is just openly anti-democratic.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 4 months ago (1 children)

People suggest that that the fight against Trump is existential precisely because his side has promised to end democracy rather than accept defeat now or ever. Neither Harris nor Biden has promised anything more revolutionary than incremental progress towards issues like reducing drug prices and rebuilding infrastructure. If they think the boring normal shit is somehow the wrong direction they could simply try running a candidate who isn't a traitor rapist felon in 2028 and NOT promising to build concentration camps or end democracy and see how that plays.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

That just doesn't track with their viewers + stakeholders

[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Keep going - you're doing great.

Every time the Republicans say the quiet part out loud, we move that much closer to the day when that walking drain clog in a suit gets his flabby ass handed to him at the polls.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago

walking drain clog in a suit

JFC man! that is amazing

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

walking drain clog in a suit

Don't you mean sewer clog?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 months ago (2 children)

What the ever living fuck. How can these asshats just openly state this and not have some kind of repercussions for it?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago

Republican.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Calls for political violence are out of line! Now lets have a civil war!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

And if anyone calls these people Nazis, un-American, etc....then out comes the tone police, lecturing about unity and norms. I saw O'Lielly on Daily Show, acting as if calling Nazis, uh, Nazis is somehow related to a Republican nutjob trying to shoot their orange god-emperor.

The fucking gall of these people, I swear. That is what pisses me off so much.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Good luck with that. Just remember that the military answers to the President and that they own all the tanks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Drones>tanks

Edit: by this I mean government still wins, but will use drones

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

Do you think the yokels on mobility scooters are intelligent enough to operate a drone?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

No the government will have hundreds of thousands of drones and can basically take out anyone they want if there was a civil war

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Give it another shot. Our military will follow the Constitution.

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

And we have the most powerful military in the world.

[–] agentshags 1 points 4 months ago

Let's hope so

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Ah yes, Ohio, the land of sovereign citizens, home meth labs and civil war larpers.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I love it when the "sovereign citizens" go quoting things like the Constitution, by the way. You mean, from the country you are not part of? It'd be funny if people started deporting them...

[–] Jax 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm still of the opinion sovcits should have their money confiscated

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

Fair point.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

As an Ohioan, this jackoff does not speak for all of us. If he truly did, he'd be missing six more teeth, and drinking the fourth of his state-mandated six tall boys per day.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

Yawn, they tried that last time.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

I'd rather KILL than admit my unpopular ideology is being propped up by elections rigged in my own favor yet we still lose.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

if it comes to that point, this time around the police and the army will be ready, so this guy's idiocy will prove fatal to himself.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There won't be a civil war either way. Tech companies could easily tell you who has given violent rhetoric, who has followed it, and who is susceptible to it. If there was open conflict the ring leaders and prospective ring leaders could be known within the week.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

Problem is there are far too many fascist sympathizers in our government.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

all right, fine. let's kill the rebel scum all over again. this time, we won't stop. we're going to make Sherman look like a sparkler. there will be nothing left of the south except ashes and regret.

hyperbolic jokes aside, I'm not even PART of "we"; none of my ancestors came here until the 20th century. none of my bloodline was present for the American Civil War.

if that has to change, though, I'm gonna be PISSED, and I'm going to take it out on enemy combatants.

[–] mindbleach 1 points 4 months ago

Do unto others as they would do unto you.