In an interview with NBC News’s Tom Llamas on Wednesday, President Donald Trump indicated that it’s possible he won’t accept the outcome of the 2026 midterms. Asked whether he’d respect the results of the elections that will be held later this year, Trump said he would only do so if he deemed the outcomes to be legitimate. “I will [accept the midterm outcomes] if the elections are honest…

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    America got lucky, they didn’t succeed on jan 6. No good will come from just brushing it off.

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      Are you kidding? The funniest thing in the world would have been J6ers getting into the Senate and lynching Mike Pence.

      FFS, imagine a world in which these goobers had caught up with Henry Cuellar or Bob Menendez or Mike Johnson or Mitt Romney or Chuck Grassley? I argue it would be a fundamentally better place.

      And, by the time the dust settled, Biden’s incoming administration might have taken the threat of a domestic insurgency a bit more seriously. Perhaps he’d have actually prosecuted the ringleaders of the organization, rather than sending a bunch of middle-management dipshits to iPad Timeout for a couple of years.

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        The funniest thing in the world would have been J6ers getting into the Senate and lynching Mike Pence.

        Biden’s incoming administration

        Biden wouldn’t have had an administration…

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            Was Mike Pence alone in the Senate? Do you believe the insurrectionists would let everybody else go peacefully?

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              Do you believe the insurrectionists would let everybody else go peacefully?

              I don’t believe the rest of the executive branch bureaucracy would honor the whims of an angry, badly organized mob.

              I do think a lot more of them would have been killed when the police retook the building.

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                I don’t believe the rest of the executive branch bureaucracy would honor the whims of an angry, badly organized mob.

                It’s an insurrection. It doesn’t matter, when everybody is killed.

                I do think a lot more of them would have been killed when the police retook the building.

                Unless every single MAGA was there, I don’t see how that is relevant.