NBC News reports a familiar pattern to the latest round of threats – when Trump has a legal setback, officials face threats.

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    “If they’re able to successfully remove Donald Trump from the ballot, for example, or they’re successfully able to keep engaging in some of the blatant election-fraud type behavior that they’ve done, then, pretty soon you’re not going to be able to resolve your differences through the ballot box,” said Colorado GOP Chair Dave Williams on the Liberty Roundtable Podcast. “It will be done, you know, in a civil war, and we don’t want that, no one wants a civil war. I think most of us are capable of figuring out ways to avoid those things, but there’s only so much you can do if those who are in power, keep undermining free and fair elections.”

    Fuck around and find out, fash. We’ll stomp you right back down into the gutters you sprang from.

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      blatant election-fraud type behavior that they’ve done

      Or, translated into fascist-speak, if we constantly accuse you of shit we can never prove, even in a court of law.

      pretty soon you’re not going to be able to resolve your differences through the ballot box

      We DID that, you chucklefuck. Your mob of troglodytes stormed the goddamned Capitol to interfere with that process, too. So maybe sit this one out?

      we don’t want that, no one wants a civil war.

      Oh Dave. Have you seen the people who come to these rallies? Or protest at local school board meetings? Have you heard what they say in online discussion forums? Have you seen the transcripts of their conversations leading up to the insurrection? Your supporters are practically salivating over the prospect.

      but there’s only so much you can do if those who are in power, keep undermining free and fair elections.

      Which is exactly why SCOTUS is now involved. Because a mob of Republicans undermined a free and fair election. The lack of self-awareness in these dolts is absolutely astounding.

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        Your supporters are practically salivating over the prospect [of a civil war].

        I think there’s a lot of talk, but not a lot of will. To be clear, I think there’s still a real threat, but it’s probably more in escalating stochastic terrorism rather than a full-out armed conflict.

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          I think we are equally close to actual civil war as we are to actually eating the rich. Lots of talk, lots of wanting someone else to do it.

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      Colorado GOP Chair Dave Williams on the Liberty Roundtable Podcast. “It will be done, you know, in a civil war, and we don’t want that, no one wants a civil war.”

      I call absolute bullshit fucking shit. Those fucking gop fascists have been calling for a civil war since Obama was in office.

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      Colorado GOP Chair Dave Williams on the Liberty Roundtable Podcast. “It will be done, you know, in a civil war, and we don’t want that, no one wants a civil war.”

      Looking at the rhetoric, this could be a cue to get ready for political violence, or it could be a prediction that sadly there will be violence- and that’s a textbook example of plausibly-deniable stochastic terrorism