Assassination: Trump/Hillary...how would America react?

So someone posed this question. If someone got lucky enough to kill one of these individuals when they make it into office...how do you think America would react? Would there be an outpouring of sadness like with JFK? The scariest thing about this election to me? I think about half the nation would barely care, the other half would mutter under their breath, "big deal."

What do you think?


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Casper said:

I think we would be on our way to another civil war, one that would makes the deaths in the first one look like a minor skirmish.

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No we're not. No one is committed to such an act. We like to gnash our teeth and puff out our chests, but push comes to shove, ain't no one taking up arms.

blackjack50 said:

What do you think?

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Worse than just talking about this, I suspect the nation would show our divisiveness after such an event.

Casper said:

I think we would be on our way to another civil war, one that would makes the deaths in the first one look like a minor skirmish.

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:lol: Half of the population is not even expected to vote and a little less than half of the population that is expected to vote is expected to vote for the winner. The people that do vote for the winner a good percentage of those will be hold your nose votes. The likability of both of these candidates is terrible, so regardless of who wins chances are the people that vote for them won't like them all that much. Exactly why would a civil war break out if the winner was killed again?

Casper said:

If you say so, then it must be true. Think of it this way, let's say Trump won, but in January he is assassinated, how do you think the Trump fans would react, how about Hillary supporters if she were murdered before taking or right after taking office? People will take sides and who knows what happens next. We are due for a bloodletting, maybe sooner would be better than later and then maybe people will wake up to how our government has become subverted and no longer does the work of the People.

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Not by starting a civil war, that's for sure. But if you want to think so, have at it. If you say so, it must be true. lol

blackjack50 said:

So someone posed this question. If someone got lucky enough to kill one of these individuals when they make it into office...how do you think America would react? Would there be an outpouring of sadness like with JFK? The scariest thing about this election to me? I think about half the nation would barely care, the other half would mutter under their breath, "big deal."

What do you think?


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If Trump is assassinated liberals will dance in the streets: the same way Muslims danced in the streets in the middle east after 9-11.

It would a tragedy for either to be assassinated though.

I hope everyone treads rather lightly when discussing this topic. It can cause you some serious problems if you say the wrong thing.

Just a helpful reminder!

blackjack50 said:

So someone posed this question. If someone got lucky enough to kill one of these individuals when they make it into office...how do you think America would react? Would there be an outpouring of sadness like with JFK? The scariest thing about this election to me? I think about half the nation would barely care, the other half would mutter under their breath, "big deal."
What do you think?

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I suspect there would be anger and sadness. Some would be indifferent and a few glad.

reinoe said:

If Trump is assassinated liberals will dance in the streets: the same way Muslims danced in the streets in the middle east after 9-11.

It would a tragedy for either to be assassinated though.

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simply not true and the main ones that have been joking about Hillary dying or going up in front of a firing squad have been Trump speakers.

joG said:

I suspect there would be anger and sadness. Some would be indifferent and a few glad.

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Glad? Would you say that they would get gay? Why there'd be a whole lot of ####ing going on!

Half the Country would hurrah and be jumping around.

blackjack50 said:

So someone posed this question. If someone got lucky enough to kill one of these individuals when they make it into office...how do you think America would react? Would there be an outpouring of sadness like with JFK? The scariest thing about this election to me? I think about half the nation would barely care, the other half would mutter under their breath, "big deal."

What do you think?


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One half would be blasé. The other half would shake their heads in disgust. And both halves would be mad their regularly scheduled programs were interrupted for days.

And on DP? We wouldn't stop disagreeing about it for years.

Just thought I'd throw this out here, seeing as it's already been claimed that Clinton supporters would be the ones dancing in the streets.

Sen. Richard Burr privately mused over the weekend that gun owners may want to put a "bullseye" on Hillary Clinton, according to audio obtained by CNN.

The North Carolina Republican, locked in a tight race for reelection, quipped that as he walked into a gun shop "nothing made me feel better" than seeing a magazine about rifles "with a picture of Hillary Clinton on the front of it."

"I was a little bit shocked at that -- it didn't have a bullseye on it," he said Saturday to GOP volunteers, prompting laughter from the crowd in Mooresville, North Carolina. "But on the bottom right (of the magazine), it had everybody for federal office in this particular state that they should vote for. So let me assure you, there's an army of support out there right now for our candidates."

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Richard Burr quips about gun owners shooting Hillary Clinton - CNNPolitics.com

So now the tally is one Presidential candidate and one Senator publicly musing about assassinating Hillary Clinton.

Since no one assassinated Obama after all of the hate and vitriol that has been directed at him, it seems unlikely that either Trump or Clinton would be assassinated either.

Should one or the other be assassinated, then the opposite side would be certain, absent any sort of evidence, that the other was behind it. They would solidify their position that the other side is the spawn of Satan, and the political division that plague the nation would get worse.

Cardinal said:

Just thought I'd throw this out here, seeing as it's already been claimed that Clinton supporters would be the ones dancing in the streets.

So now the tally is one Presidential candidate and one Senator publicly musing about assassinating Hillary Clinton.

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I think there's a big difference between public figures speaking rhetorically and the kind of beat up bystanders, shoot cops, burn down stores, loot the neighborhood, flip over cars outbursts you see from protesters at Trump rallies or BLM mobs.

If there was going to be any kind of "popular" violence following a presidential assassination it would almost certainly be at a "grass roots" level, rather than something deliberately instigated by leaders of either party.

Just based on the track record of the kind of outbursts we see when things go against them I'd expect to see far and away more violence from "likely" Clinton supporters than from "likely" Trump supporters.

(Note that I do say "likely", because while it's impossible to know for sure that all inner-city Chicago, Milwaukee, or Charlotte rioters are Clinton supporters, I think you'd have to be a retard to think that they have any real love in their heart for Trump. They may not be Clinton voters, but they're almost certainly social-welfare-gravy-train liberals).

reinoe said:

If Trump is assassinated liberals will dance in the streets: the same way Muslims danced in the streets in the middle east after 9-11.

It would a tragedy for either to be assassinated though.

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And that would only be exceeded, and by a HUGE lot, by the celebrations from the right if it were Clinton, and you KNOW that, even if you refuse to admit it.

reinoe said:

If Trump is assassinated liberals will dance in the streets: the same way Muslims danced in the streets in the middle east after 9-11.

It would a tragedy for either to be assassinated though.

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Whatta crock.
For one thing, if Trump is assassinated it'll be a toss-up whether the shooter is liberal or conservative. He's more liberal than Clinton, that's for sure, and more of a threat to conservatism than he is to liberals.

Grand Mal said:

Whatta crock.
For one thing, if Trump is assassinated it'll be a toss-up whether the shooter is liberal or conservative. He's more liberal than Clinton, that's for sure, and more of a threat to conservatism than he is to liberals.

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Liberals would dance no matter who shot him.

Liberals made the movie about the assassination of Bush and heralded it.

blackjack50 said:

So someone posed this question. If someone got lucky enough to kill one of these individuals when they make it into office...how do you think America would react? Would there be an outpouring of sadness like with JFK? The scariest thing about this election to me? I think about half the nation would barely care, the other half would mutter under their breath, "big deal."

What do you think?


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Different times. There wasn't the polarization of politics back in 1963. There wasn't the hate one party had for the other's candidate back in 1960 that there is for Trump and Hillary today. Believe it or not, Nixon was a well respected Eisenhower VP and JFK was respected Senator in 1960. There were no favorable/unfavorable ratings back then, things like that weren't kept track of. Also Nixon and JFK were friends. Both became Representatives the same year, then senators and Nixon VP for IKE in 1952.

Politics and the mood of the country was completely different. I highly doubt there would be the outpouring of sadness, shock, the unbelieveability of JFK's assassination. Things like that didn't happen here, at least that was how we thought and felt.

I actually believe if someone were to assassinate either Trump or Hillary, that would make quite a lot of Americans happy. I doubt there would be the shock and a lot of the sadness and remorse would be just for show. Political campaigns back then, 1940's, 50's, 1960 didn't make enemies of the other candidate or their party. They were based on substance and not negative personal attacks. Today, everything is based on personal negative attacks, the idea today is to get the voter to hate the other guy more than they hate you.

60% of America, give or take dislike both these candidates. The majority of Americans don't want Trump to be their next president and the same is true for Clinton. The majority don't want her as president either. The feeling back in 1960 was regardless of who won, the nation would be well served. Today the feeling is regardless of who wins, this nation will be very ill served.

The answer to question is a resounding no. There was only one JFK and believe me, Trump and Hillary Clinton aren't JFK. The country would react totally different, but its like I said, different eras and perspectives.

Grand Mal said:

Whatta crock.
For one thing, if Trump is assassinated it'll be a toss-up whether the shooter is liberal or conservative. He's more liberal than Clinton, that's for sure, and more of a threat to conservatism than he is to liberals.

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Liberal or conservative his plan will loose jobs where as Clintons will add them.