Huckabee: 2024 will be last election ‘decided by ballots rather than bullets’ if Trump loses over legal cases

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.”

FlyingSquid,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

Arrest him for fomenting insurrection.

Taleya,

Seriously. They’re just gonna keep doing this dancing on the edges bullshit until someone comes down on them fucking hard.

mjhelto,

Or a bunch of idiots kill a bunch of people.

Taleya,

Hasn’t fucking stopped them so far

PunnyName,

gestures broadly

orclev,

No, that’s what they’re counting on. That certainly wouldn’t stop them since that’s the point of the entire exercise. Although this particular example comes dangerously close to dancing over the line into incitement if it doesn’t already.

btaf45,

The Prison Boys leader who just got 22 years in prison admitted he knew all along that Convicted Sex Offender Treason Trump did not win the election. The media needs to point out the obvious. That the Prison Boys and Oathbreakers are Tory militia groups who were trying to destroy the Founding Father’s government and reestablish a dictatorship/monarchy.

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The Prison Boys

😂😂😂

mustardman,

Feels like pretty strong linkages to obstruction of justice if you’re trying to brazenly influence the outcome of a trial under the threat of violence.

PunnyName,

Sounds like a terroristic threat…

PostmodernPythia, (edited )

Since Trump has made clear that if he wins, he’ll use the power of the state to persecute his political enemies, sounds to me like this is the last free (I won’t pretend our elections are fair) election for a while, regardless of who wins.

empireOfLove,

Soooo threatening more treason are we?

Sanctus,
@Sanctus@lemmy.world avatar

Lets play a game. How many elected republican officials can threaten civil war before they are barred from office?

0110010001100010,
@0110010001100010@lemmy.world avatar

Is it zero? Cause I fully expect the answer to be zero unfortunately.

Sanctus,
@Sanctus@lemmy.world avatar

I’m just waiting, if the has-beens are feeling brave these same thoughts are floating in the elected ones.

TurboDiesel,
@TurboDiesel@lemmy.world avatar

Tommy Tuberville is singlehandedly ratfucking the entire military through inaction and still gets to collect his 6-figure check.

Doubt anything will happen.

Sanctus,
@Sanctus@lemmy.world avatar

Dude should be thrown out of his chair. If I was one of those military personnel he fucked over I would not have that much chill.

TwoGems,
@TwoGems@lemmy.world avatar

Well for one we could try the 14th amendment on people like Marjorie Taylor Greene and all these:

themessenger.com/…/these-16-republican-congressme…

Time to start doing something

Ertebolle,

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.

GreenMario,

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.

Fades,

let us win or we’ll kill you

👍

stigmata,

Luckily most Trumpers wouldn’t last more than a few minutes in a firefight before they run out of breath.

AngryCommieKender,

Most Trumpers won’t pick up their guns, except to go to the range and show them off. They barely shoot. They won’t fight.

blanketswithsmallpox, (edited )

The amount of Republicans that have no idea how strapped Democrats are is too damn high lol. While I’d love c/liberalgunowners to be as high as Republicans but, it’s not THAT much of a numbers difference. 6/10 of Republicans live in a gun household vs 1/4 Democrats. Republicans usually sit at 40% of the pop vs Democrats at 50%.

Then they’ll be fighting against the damn US Military with only the really full on bat shit Republicans. Jan 6th already showed us how many actually wanted to nut up. Hey, turns out not that many! There’s a reason why there was a whopping 2, 3-star generals, RETIRED, that came out in favor of Trump. People think the military is filled with nothing but Republicans too, but Joe Biden beat Trump by 4 points in the military in 2020 lol.

The crazy fucks had their chance on January 6th already lol. Sorry people, it’s not going to be a civil war. It’s going to be increasing amounts of Republican extremism like it already has been for the last decade and more.

In the United States in 2022, 48 percent of Republicans reported that they owned at least one gun, and 66 percent said that they lived in a household with a gun. In comparison, only 20 percent of Democrats owned at least one gun, and 31 percent lived a gun household.

statista.com/…/percentage-of-population-in-the-us…

Pew Graph

pewresearch.org/…/the-demographics-of-gun-ownersh…

BottleOfAlkahest,

The military is also really split along certain lines when it comes to D vs R. Higher ranks tend to have more education and some vote along their education lines. More junior people seem to follow point of entry political lines (which for many is admittedly the south but not all).

Reptorian,

There’s the observation that younger people are much more likely to be liberal. Which explains why the military voted Democratic. And the more educated wing of the military are more Democratic. Essentially, the military is arguably increasingly liberal over time.

AngryCommieKender,

Veterans are also more likely to learn left. I’m not sure if that’s cause of what we saw, or because half the wannabe Rambo types got themselves killed, but the majority of people who survived tend to go left.

BigNote,

The senior officer corps of the US military despises Trump, for obvious reasons.

Pratai,

Liberals/democrats have better trigger discipline and training. I’d guarantee it. They could outnumber 10-1 but they also kill one another and themselves too often to not be a statistic to consider in this.

RaoulDook,

Statistics based on… some shit you pulled out of your ass I guess?

Pratai,

Conservatives are a bunch of uneducated Cletuses. It’s not a stretch.

postmateDumbass,

Campaign Slogan 101

Veraxus,
Veraxus avatar

We have laws against making terrorist threats, but this one was made by a rich white Republican, so it’ll be overlooked.

roguetrick,

Mask off, Huckabee.

donuts,
donuts avatar

Be my guest, assholes... Just like on January 6th, all of these fascist talking heads will be nowhere to be found when shit starts going bad or getting violent. They want to foment insurrection and pit Americans against other Americans, but then they very casually wipe the blood from their hands and sit back in the comfort of their mansions. It'll be their dumbest and most gullible supporters, the useful idiots, that end up committing crimes on their behalf and suffering the legal consequences.

Trump committed crimes and, despite being rich and despite being a former president, he is not above the law.

Nusm,

Do it! DO IT!! Shut up talking about it, and let’s get the civil war started!! Because I suspect it will be over before supper time.

In reality all they’re going to do is talk about it, because they’re small weak little people. Look at the big bad Proud Boys. When faced with the consequences of jail, they cried like little girls and begged the judges to take pity on them. Only one defiantly yelled “TRUMP WON” on his way out is the courtroom, but that was even after he cried and groveled.

ominouslemon,

Sometimes I wonder whether a civil war is what the US needs. The American society is so fucked up that a great, painful reset seems the only option sometimes

PRUSSIA_x86,

Please just wait until after I’ve moved my family somewhere else, being born in Trump country™️ sucks.

mjhelto,

Right? I look forward to showing them how many of us “libtards” own guns and know how to use them. I’m glad their side is so inept that they blindly regurgitate a lie that will almost certainly end in a surprise version of the “find out” part of “fuck around and find out.” Man I hate a good portion of the population here.

TheJims,

Reminder: Mike Huckabee is Wrong About Everything!!! Always

mustardman,

But what about th-

Always

blazera,
blazera avatar

If this shit just passes by without consequence, we have no DoJ

ForestOrca,
ForestOrca avatar

DOJ should def. have a chat with Mr. Huck. I mean really, like today. Tomorrow would be too late.

Cobrachickenwing,

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.

wwaxwork,

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.

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