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TidalWave46

(2,061 posts)
Tue Oct 1, 2019, 08:11 PM Oct 2019

I'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 don’t 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.
I’ve gone to protests in my area and will continue to do so. I’m not cowering in fear. I just think such a shirt puts me alone with a target on my back. I don’t 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 won’t be some civil war. I also know there will be “civil war” casualties. I just don’t know how many or who the targets will be. Right now their general seems to be putting a target on a lot of people.

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I'm a bit out of the loop on the pending civil war. (Original Post) TidalWave46 Oct 2019 OP
I don't believe the deplorables will mobilize Dagstead Bumwood Oct 2019 #1
If something like this were to happen grumpyduck Oct 2019 #5
I'll dig out my great great grandfather's uniform... Dennis Donovan Oct 2019 #2
I need to travel to Arizona in the next few months lapfog_1 Oct 2019 #3
There could be isolated incidents of MAGAt militias The Velveteen Ocelot Oct 2019 #4
No they are the ones that are murdering folks in Malls rockfordfile Oct 2019 #7
I agree with you. Tipperary Oct 2019 #14
I do believe there could be armed violence captain queeg Oct 2019 #6
Our Intelligence indicates... Newest Reality Oct 2019 #8
This message was self-deleted by its author elocs Oct 2019 #9
This. nt Comatose Sphagetti Oct 2019 #11
it's a bunch of gun humping cowards Skittles Oct 2019 #10
Targets, you ask. (not for faint of heart) Bernardo de La Paz Oct 2019 #12
Not to worry. TomSlick Oct 2019 #13

Dagstead Bumwood

(3,524 posts)
1. I don't believe the deplorables will mobilize
Tue Oct 1, 2019, 08:16 PM
Oct 2019

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)
5. If something like this were to happen
Tue Oct 1, 2019, 08:25 PM
Oct 2019

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)
2. I'll dig out my great great grandfather's uniform...
Tue Oct 1, 2019, 08:17 PM
Oct 2019




All kidding aside, there will be no civil war, only criminal prosecutions.

lapfog_1

(29,166 posts)
3. I need to travel to Arizona in the next few months
Tue Oct 1, 2019, 08:17 PM
Oct 2019

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&quot .

Armed insurrection is not out of the question.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,268 posts)
4. There could be isolated incidents of MAGAt militias
Tue Oct 1, 2019, 08:23 PM
Oct 2019

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.

captain queeg

(10,035 posts)
6. I do believe there could be armed violence
Tue Oct 1, 2019, 08:25 PM
Oct 2019

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)
8. Our Intelligence indicates...
Tue Oct 1, 2019, 08:35 PM
Oct 2019

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.

Response to TidalWave46 (Original post)

Bernardo de La Paz

(48,782 posts)
12. Targets, you ask. (not for faint of heart)
Tue Oct 1, 2019, 09:51 PM
Oct 2019

I thought these a little extreme so I saved them in a file.

2017:

“Anti-American subversives involved in ANY WAY in an unconstitutional coup against our President will be run down and executed immediately ...”

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 Hussein’s shredder machine
16 posted on 2017-08-06 by Flavious_Maximus

"Those are not our countrymen - they are something decidedly and distinctly different."
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)

And every black robe that has crapped on the US Constitution should decorate the town squares first.
45 posted on 2017-08-06 by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unar)

And all old media liars that have fueled the hate for America must also go there and their remains to be used in a compost pile.
49 posted on 2017-08-06 by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unar)

There are all of 2000 transgender creeps in the army. I don't think they will be all that hard to dispose of.
55 posted on 2017-08-06 by SmokingJoe

Stochastic Terrorism:
Pick your target now. Be prepared in every way. When the balloon goes up, do your duty.
66 posted on 2017-08-06 by Alas Babylon! (Keep fighting the Left and their Fake News!)


2019:

"Civil War is when LOTS of men go after the closest bad men."
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)
13. Not to worry.
Tue Oct 1, 2019, 10:01 PM
Oct 2019

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.

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