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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI'm a bit out of the loop on the pending civil war.
Up front, I do understand that the numbers of those truly willing to attempt something is so small that they would end up holding a Civil War March.
I do have two questions that I truly dont know the answer to.
Are there really people who think they are going to take up arms or is this more of a political revolution they are talking about?
If they are talking a call to arms, who do they plan on taking by force?
I was going to buy an impeachment shirt today and decided not to. Trump and his cohorts have been fomenting violence and we will see more of it soon.
Ive gone to protests in my area and will continue to do so. Im not cowering in fear. I just think such a shirt puts me alone with a target on my back. I dont give these right wing extremists a pass but what Trump is doing to the most paranoid segment of society seems like holding a match to a gas can.
I know there wont be some civil war. I also know there will be civil war casualties. I just dont know how many or who the targets will be. Right now their general seems to be putting a target on a lot of people.
Dagstead Bumwood
(3,524 posts)until Trump loses in 2020. Then, I can easily see him calling on his minions, and thousands of well-armed zealots responding and flocking to DC, to ring the White House so he can't be removed. Then it's just a powder keg waiting for a spark.
grumpyduck
(6,197 posts)and someone died and put me in charge, I would call out a couple of Huey Cobra gunships and just have them come over and face the protestors. Nothing more, just sit there out of range of their AR-15s and hover.
And then I'd sit back and watch them drop their weapons, soil their pants, and get the hell outta there.
Now we all know nobody will put me in charge, so just let me have my fantasy, ok?
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)All kidding aside, there will be no civil war, only criminal prosecutions.
lapfog_1
(29,166 posts)to transfer my mother's ashes back to Kansas (where we are from and where my father and brother are buried).
Being from California... I am going to be extra careful this trip.
Last time my car was keyed and tires slashed in a parking lot of the local Walmart.
Rural Arizona is crazy... people shopping at the local grocery store in camo and with AR-15s slung over their sholders... and they hate liberals (I've seen numerous bumper stickers with slogans like "Open Season on Democrats, no limit" .
Armed insurrection is not out of the question.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,268 posts)trying to stir up trouble but there won't be a civil war. Most of the loudest ones are the guys who like to play soldier in the woods wearing size 48 camo pants and confederate flag t-shirts.
rockfordfile
(8,682 posts)Tipperary
(6,930 posts)It really surprises me how many on du actually think there is going to be a civil war.
captain queeg
(10,035 posts)But nothing as organized as a civil war. I believe if it does come to violence all or most of the Americans ignoring what is going on will take notice and there will be a huge backlash once actual blood is spilled.
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)So, far, what we know:
Their troops are low on supplies and have requested more Depends, denture adhesive and Metamucil. There are serious concerns about having enough defibrillators to go around and the oxygen tanks are nearly depleted.
They may be planning a surprise attack at Heart Attack Hill, if anyone can manage to make it there. Many have already fallen or simply wandered off. Morale is low right now.
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Comatose Sphagetti
(836 posts)Skittles
(152,964 posts)fuck them
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,782 posts)I thought these a little extreme so I saved them in a file.
2017:
Preach it brother. We are way past the point of talking with these leftist pukes,I would like to see the ENTIRE RAT leadership wiped out from the face of the earth. After the rats are eliminated, we can liquidate the globalist George Soros, Jean-Claude Juncker, Christine Lagarde etc.ALL OF THEM, need to be tortured and thrown into Saddam Husseins shredder machine
16 posted on 2017-08-06 by Flavious_Maximus
I prefer to think of those types as future Trumpmas decorations on the DC cherry trees...
32 posted on 2017-08-06 by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
45 posted on 2017-08-06 by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unar)
49 posted on 2017-08-06 by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unar)
55 posted on 2017-08-06 by SmokingJoe
Stochastic Terrorism:
66 posted on 2017-08-06 by Alas Babylon! (Keep fighting the Left and their Fake News!)
2019:
If your going to clean out the barn it makes no sense to do a "half way" job of it.. Liberal commies are like bedbugs, if you don't get them all, they'll be back...
120 posted on 9/30/2019 by unread (Joe McCarthy was right.......)
TomSlick
(11,032 posts)The US military can put down any insurrection very quickly. I don't care how many geriatric MAGA show up with their AR15s. They will find a battalion of tanks and infantry fighting vehicles very discouraging.