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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.”

  • Rapidcreek@lemmy.world
    701·
    4 months ago

    So Republicans are now on record for calling for civil war if they lose a democratic election. I think the American public will appreciate that knowledge in voting in November.

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      27·
      4 months ago

      They’ve been saying it for a while, with almost no blowback. They are only going to get more and more brazen until they are either put into their place, or they get what they want. They had an insurrection on J6 AND an adjacent coup attempt. And really, not one of them has paid the price in FULL for that treason. Not one of them.

    • hddsx@lemmy.ca
      22·
      4 months ago

      Yeah, but this is legal because of Branderburg v Ohio. =\

  • massacre@lemmy.worldEnglish
    46·
    3 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.

  • michaelmrose@lemmy.worldEnglish
    35·
    4 months ago

    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.

  • WatDabney@sopuli.xyz
    29·
    4 months ago

    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.

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    4 months ago

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

  • Etterra@lemmy.world
    15·
    3 months ago

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

        • normanwall@lemmy.world
          31·
          3 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

  • rayyy@lemmy.world
    6·
    3 months ago

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

  • A_A@lemmy.world
    6·
    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.

  • michaelmrose@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    4 months ago

    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.

  • Cyrus Draegur@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    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.