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A Republican state senator has called for “civil war” if Donald Trump loses the presidential election in November.

George Lang, an Ohio politician, made the comment as he introduced JD Vance at his first solo campaign event since becoming Trump’s running mate.

After taking to the stage fist-raised and shouting Trump’s post-shooting battle cry “Fight! Fight!”, Mr Lang warned of an existential threat facing Americans. He declared in front of a large, heated crowd in Ohio: “We are in the fight for the soul of our nation… for our kids, for our grandkids, it is a fight we can never imagine.

“I believe wholeheartedly, Donald Trump and Butler County’s JD Vance are the last chance to save our country. Politically, I’m afraid if we lose this one, it’s going to take a civil war to save the country.”

Video of the speech

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[–] banshee@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

Civil War against who? Super PACs?

[–] Nommer@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 months ago

Let em. Most of them are probably too geriatric and stupid to know how to fight a war.

[–] YeetPics@mander.xyz 8 points 3 months ago (3 children)

What say we start a list of the posts saying this and after Trump loses to that black lady we spam the posts back onto their feeds?

Name and shame these cunts, if they can't play fair eliminate their voting rights. If that isn't enough send them to prison. If that's not enough, I'm sure you can extrapolate. There is no room for bad faith actors in our country.

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[–] SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

"...it is a fight we can never imagine."

What does that even mean?

[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 months ago

The extremes of both parties appear to believe that their opponent's victory would end American democracy. I don't mean to equate the two parties (I think only the red one is actually a threat). I'm just worried that we'll be seeing much more violence than we're used to.

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 months ago

From the prologue, we can infer they'll be shooting at each other.

[–] LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

We do not negotiate with…..what was that again?

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[–] uebquauntbez@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Oh? It isn't the pen is mightier than the sword?

[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

These people are still using crayons

[–] Juice@midwest.social 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

They would, but they ate the whole box and now are crying they were taken by immigrants

[–] PhAzE@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago

The penis mightier

[–] Freefall@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Why would they want to lose immediately after losing...I mean, I don't want to kink-shame, but I don't see the logic....

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 months ago

but you lost the last one

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