https://forums.d2jsp.org/topic.php?t=83447524&f=119&o=0The thread was made by dro94 in June of 2020, the title was What Will Trump Do If He Loses The Election?, and the poll was What will Trump do if he loses the election?
The results were:
Contest the result and refuse to vacate the presidency
(6 Votes)28.57%
Begrudgingly vacate the presidency; complain on twitter
(15 Votes)71.43%
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Goom had a humdinger that Trumpists loved:
Quote (Goomshill @ Jun 22 2020 04:35pm)
He will completely disappear from public view for over a year and refrain from social media, but his supporters will violently riot in the streets and burn down businesses and commit mass shootings and racist mob attacks. His supporters will declare the elections illegitimate and use conspiracy theories and propaganda to insist that Joe Biden rigged the election, they'll demand he be impeached and use their media outlets to undermine him with constant witch hunts pretending to be investigations all based on spurious rumormongering, dirty election tricks funded by Trump and illegal prosecutorial/FBI misconduct by Trump administration officials. Even years into the Biden presidency they'd still search for excuses to riot and torch whole neighborhoods as Republican local officials not only turn a blind eye to the violence and permit it, but even go out onto the streets to join in. Then Trump will emerge from the woods to heckle Biden in the media and denounce him as a fake president and prop up the agitators against him.
I had a different view:
Quote (IceMage @ Jun 22 2020 05:26pm)
He'll act like an evil scumbag until the day he dies. Hoping he doesn't officially contest the results because I'm honestly not confident that Republicans wouldn't go along with it.
To state the obvious, Goom's post conflates race rioters with Clinton supporters, as if the people burning things down in cities were carrying Clinton flags or wearing Clinton shirts, like they were on January 6th for Trump. Also, it pretends that legitimate FBI investigation of Trump and his campaign was simply the evil work of Clinton supporters, when it was absolutely valid, as has been confirmed in the oversight investigations of Crossfire Hurricane.
But I think the overall message from the thread is enlightening. The idea that Trump would seriously try to hold onto power, and violence would result from it, was seen as completely ridiculous by cultists in 2020.
My post matched reality. Trump acted like the evil scumbag he is, and unfortunately, Republicans did go along with it. They tried to overturn the election in Congress, but failed. The most popular show on the most popular news network in America is still devoting his airtime to defending the insurrection.
And "normie" right-wingers are still willing to support Trump.
This post was edited by IceMage on Mar 12 2023 12:10pm