Discussion: Is Trump Urging His Gun-Toting Supporters To Break Voter Intimidation Laws?

My wife normally takes our daughter with her when she votes. Last night she said she wants to make arrangements for a sitter while she votes because she fears for her safety. At first I thought that was a lttle paranoid, but when I went to speak no words came out. She had a point after all.

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Hypocrisy is banal, but isn’t so farfetched a thought experiment to ask what would happen if the armed hothead wasn’t a white male.

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I voted early here in Maine for one reason: our town has a ton of NRA and Trump supporters and I wanted to avoid our ONE polling station. We are a small town with a small police force - totally outnumbered and out gunned by the Trump crazies.

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Word for word, even.

Down to the last semicolon and em-dash.

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So which poll will have George Zimmerman outside flashing his iron pee pee?

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Excellent!!! Imma gonna steal this! :smile:

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TPM has learned well the art of implication and "What If " from Fox News.

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I like the spiffy new avatar :smiley:

And something everyone should have with them, just in case you run into a crazy at the polls.

http://www.snopes.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/pollwatchermeme.jpg

The FBI has indicated they will be staffing up to deal with these type of issues during the election.

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As should everyone else , even where there are open carry laws . Just SWAT them . Crazy person brandishing a rifle!!! Come quick!!!
Guns have no place in the election process

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You should watch this calm dissection with Bill Maher (serious , not funny ) long but worth it

Bill Maher: A Losing Trump Is Going to Have an Army of Well-Armed ‘Knuckle-Draggers’ at His Disposal

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There should be huge posters of these hanging in front of every damned polling station…

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I would think that if, FSM forbid, any voter were shot, Donnie could be tried for conspiracy, because you just know the dim-witted ammosexual RWNJ will claim “I did it for Donnie and Murika!”.

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Soylent Green is Voters!!!

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I hope his supporters realize that he’s using their loyalty to inflate his ego They do the HIS crime and they do the time.

And if any harm comes to anyone because of something Donald Trump has encouraged, he should be held responsible.

Donald Trump is a threat to our country. Put the SOB behind bars for try to insight a riot.

I am a peach loving citizen of my country and I am sick and tired of feeling threatened by this raging fool. Sit HIM down and tell him to shut the F up. If the SOB doesn’t like our country he can get the HELL out of here. He needs to be in his place, NOW,

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I think the polling locations should look like they do every election. There is no need to overreact to the flailings of an orange colored loser. We can get this information out there to the people that need/want it without showing fear.

Its election time, people! Be happy about what we get to do!

I've been crying for the last 3 hours live tweeting #OHVotesEarly. We're really doing this, guys. We're electing the first female president. pic.twitter.com/Ur3LC8dwFn

— Kendally Brown 🌴 (@kendallybrown) October 12, 2016
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Is Donald Trump threatening Hillary Clinton and her family??? With each passing day and the way he acts…especially after how he was acting around Hillary at the last debates, I feel he is a threat to her safety. He’s crazy.

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Well lets not over do it folks. A few thousand men show up at poll with guns…no biggie. But there best not be any baseball bats across the street.

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Yes! Get the word out!!!

I hear you, and in principle agree with you. However, I don’t think we have had, in recent history, such a threat of lock-and-load self-styled “monitors” in such numbers. Unless we put these in everyone’s mailbox, I am not sure how we will get it out to those who need to feel that they have a way to react to a (however, impliciet) show of force.

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