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2016 Postmortem

Crunchy Frog

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13. Blood in the streets. Serious threats of civil war.

Reply to Stuart G (Original post)

Fri Dec 30, 2016, 04:52 AM

Dec 2016

I question whether Hillary would ever actually be inaugurated. It would be treated as a Constitutional crisis. There would certainly be a constitutional ammendment to get rid of the EC soon after, and the Dems would likely support it.

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A Thought, "What if situation reversed, Trump majority votes, Hillary electoral college? [View all] Stuart G Dec 2016 OP

He's white and male so of course he would've been "cheated" uponit7771 Dec 2016 #1

Message auto-removed Name removed Dec 2016 #2

The media wouldn't let it go because Republicans would convert it into an unprecedented crisis. LonePirate Dec 2016 #3

Right. pressbox69 Dec 2016 #4

The R's and the MSM would NEVER let it go, up to and through 2020. COLGATE4 Dec 2016 #5

There would've erupted massively organized, violent demonstration across the country, culminating FreeStateDemocrat Dec 2016 #6

Yeah there probably would be violence. Willie Pep Dec 2016 #12

A large number of Democrats in government would knuckle under and give the pukes their way. NBachers Dec 2016 #7

On that one, I honestly beg to disagree. Stuart G Dec 2016 #8

Trump would be having boo boos in his diaper in perpetuity. n/t Lil Missy Dec 2016 #9

Back in 2000 George W. Bush was getting ready to challenge the election results if he had won StevieM Dec 2016 #10

Hillary could offer to make it up to them... Ken Burch Dec 2016 #11

Blood in the streets. Serious threats of civil war. Crunchy Frog Dec 2016 #13

So, What if Putin conspired to help Hillary win, and it was thought... that this happend, Stuart G Jan 2017 #14

As I said before, blood in the streets and threats of civil war. Crunchy Frog Jan 2017 #15