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13. I'm still not getting it people. Why is Biden saying the military might get involved?
Fri Aug 28, 2020, 06:32 PM
Aug 2020

while my fellow DUers are all (4-0) assuredly telling me the Secret Service will do it?

Above edited from 3-0 to 4-0. But with no links or anything about who it is up to. Just 4 guesses, and no answer to why Biden suggested the military would get involved, according to the excerpt in the OP:

Some have speculated that the military might be called upon to get involved, either by Trump trying to use it to help his re-election prospects or as, Democratic challenger Joe Biden has suggested, to remove Trump from the White House if he refuses to accept defeat. ,


Is Biden dumb and hasn't heard of the Secret Service, despite having been vice president for 8 years (and is under SS protection now as the Democratic nominee if not before). Or is he kinda lumping the SS and the military together in his mind? Or did whatever reporter who reported this piece get it wrong?

And what IF it is contested, the election isn't clear-cut, the Supreme Court says "stop the vote count" like they did in 2000 ...

People seem SO sure. I'm not. I wish I could be, but that's not the world I live in, and it hasn't been the world I lived in since November 2000. Just like I wasn't buying the consensus here in 2016 that the election of HRC was a sure thing. Living in a deep blue state (Minnesota) as far as presidential elections, that stayed blue only by a 1.5 point margin and living next door to another almost-always-blue state (Wisconsin) that went red.

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It's so sad that he would even have to buy such a comment... ashredux Aug 2020 #1
Is this Gen. Millley separating himself from Trump? ProudMNDemocrat Aug 2020 #2
I think this is good but.. honest.abe Aug 2020 #3
Rednecks will end up as "bloodynecks"...simple as that ashredux Aug 2020 #5
They won't be making it home. nt Progressive Jones Aug 2020 #25
Yes....he is saying we will not help you! ashredux Aug 2020 #4
I'll believe it when trump exits the WH llashram Aug 2020 #6
Reading the comments, I'm obviously missing something. I don't see this as good news progree Aug 2020 #7
Secret service drmeow Aug 2020 #9
K&R!! onetexan Aug 2020 #21
They won't say the same thing because that is the role of law enforcement. jorgevlorgan Aug 2020 #10
I suspect Trump will be boarding a flight for Moscow (maybe with Mitch) and his family cstanleytech Aug 2020 #11
yes i think that's this mob family's plan B - asylum in Russia onetexan Aug 2020 #22
I think its actually plan A as even if a Presidential pardon to himself and his family to protect cstanleytech Aug 2020 #23
Trump Bc804 Aug 2020 #12
I'm still not getting it people. Why is Biden saying the military might get involved? progree Aug 2020 #13
Can you provide a link to where VP Biden actually said (or suggested) that? And I don' mean faux niyad Aug 2020 #18
#17 below /nt progree Aug 2020 #19
The only people Biden needs to call after he wins is a cleaner to try and get the cstanleytech Aug 2020 #24
It isn't their job to do so rpannier Aug 2020 #15
It should be musclecar6 Aug 2020 #8
He would be removed by either the Secret Service, dware Aug 2020 #14
Once the new president has been sworn in, kskiska Aug 2020 #16
Biden says military would intervene if Trump loses election but refuses to leave (Reuters June 11) progree Aug 2020 #17
He could have started by refusing to allow marines to be used for the fake convention .nt. drray23 Aug 2020 #20
How Bad Is This? louzke9 Aug 2020 #26
Methinks you vastly underestimate the will of the American people. dware Aug 2020 #28
Even AG Barr has said he will be submitting his resignation on January 19 should Trump lose. Calista241 Aug 2020 #32
Something to consider EndlessWire Aug 2020 #33
I am 100% opposed to NATO troops enforcing the peace, dware Aug 2020 #34
One more point to make, dware Aug 2020 #30
Oh, that's nice Yeehah Aug 2020 #27
You said it, dware Aug 2020 #29
Keeping it legal Cosmo Blues Aug 2020 #31
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