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cilla4progress

(24,731 posts) Thu Oct 29, 2020, 09:32 PM Oct 2020

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Anyone else feel like

We're preparing for war?

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Anyone else feel like (Original Post) cilla4progress Oct 2020 OP

I feel like we've been in a war since election night 2016 at around 9 PM NRaleighLiberal Oct 2020 #1

Yes empedocles Oct 2020 #6

More like in a war already. PufPuf23 Oct 2020 #2

We hit the beach on Nov 3. Sneederbunk Oct 2020 #3

It's not looking good, no matter what happens. smirkymonkey Oct 2020 #4

. . . and November, December, January - I worry empedocles Oct 2020 #5

I wake up every morning hoping to hear that he has bit the big one. smirkymonkey Oct 2020 #7

That may not be best for the country/world. empedocles Oct 2020 #8

I think it would be the best thing that could possibly happen for the country and smirkymonkey Oct 2020 #15

I'm so stressed. mindfulNJ Oct 2020 #9

The war started when President Obama was elected. MerryBlooms Oct 2020 #10

Yep. The mostly older white guys couldn't take it that a young black guy was 42bambi Oct 2020 #14

Yep, and they have the number one most resentful of them all, representing them MerryBlooms Oct 2020 #17

This article says "no" Dem2 Oct 2020 #11

yeah, with a bunch of fucking yahoos Skittles Oct 2020 #12

To keep my mind limber coti Oct 2020 #13

Yes, I do. hamsterjill Oct 2020 #16

NRaleighLiberal

(60,014 posts)

1. I feel like we've been in a war since election night 2016 at around 9 PM

Reply to cilla4progress (Original post)

Thu Oct 29, 2020, 09:34 PM

Oct 2020

But it is definitely escalating into a anxiety-filled crescendo.

empedocles

(15,751 posts)

6. Yes

Reply to NRaleighLiberal (Reply #1)

Thu Oct 29, 2020, 10:24 PM

Oct 2020

PufPuf23

(8,776 posts)

2. More like in a war already.

Reply to cilla4progress (Original post)

Thu Oct 29, 2020, 09:39 PM

Oct 2020

Eerie several months in northern California with the virus and fires and smoke.

Have concluded that the virus is now being used in a war to make the USA a dictatorship; a eugenic tool to thin the herd of the old, infirm, disabled, poor, and people of color and concentrate wealth and power to a few. Disaster capitalism on steroids to follow.

Trump, the Trump supporting GOP, and the MAGAidiots are not shy about goals.

Sneederbunk

(14,290 posts)

3. We hit the beach on Nov 3.

Reply to cilla4progress (Original post)

Thu Oct 29, 2020, 09:45 PM

Oct 2020

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)

4. It's not looking good, no matter what happens.

Reply to cilla4progress (Original post)

Thu Oct 29, 2020, 09:46 PM

Oct 2020

I am dreading this upcoming week.

empedocles

(15,751 posts)

5. . . . and November, December, January - I worry

Reply to smirkymonkey (Reply #4)

Thu Oct 29, 2020, 10:23 PM

Oct 2020

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)

7. I wake up every morning hoping to hear that he has bit the big one.

Reply to empedocles (Reply #5)

Thu Oct 29, 2020, 10:26 PM

Oct 2020

That is our best hope at this point. Nothing would make me happier.

empedocles

(15,751 posts)

8. That may not be best for the country/world.

Reply to smirkymonkey (Reply #7)

Thu Oct 29, 2020, 10:28 PM

Oct 2020

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)

15. I think it would be the best thing that could possibly happen for the country and

Reply to empedocles (Reply #8)

Thu Oct 29, 2020, 10:57 PM

Oct 2020

the world.

mindfulNJ

(2,367 posts)

9. I'm so stressed.

Reply to cilla4progress (Original post)

Thu Oct 29, 2020, 10:29 PM

Oct 2020

I told my husband it feels like we're slowly going up a roller coaster in the dark.

MerryBlooms

(11,769 posts)

10. The war started when President Obama was elected.

Reply to cilla4progress (Original post)

Thu Oct 29, 2020, 10:30 PM

Oct 2020

42bambi

(1,753 posts)

14. Yep. The mostly older white guys couldn't take it that a young black guy was

Reply to MerryBlooms (Reply #10)

Thu Oct 29, 2020, 10:44 PM

Oct 2020

much more intelligent and educated than they were; and that Obama was loved and respected by everyone. They were afraid that they were losing their place in society, after all they were privileged doncha' know!

MerryBlooms

(11,769 posts)

17. Yep, and they have the number one most resentful of them all, representing them

Reply to 42bambi (Reply #14)

Fri Oct 30, 2020, 10:18 AM

Oct 2020

in the oval office. Pathetic.

Dem2

(8,168 posts)

11. This article says "no"

Reply to cilla4progress (Original post)

Thu Oct 29, 2020, 10:36 PM

Oct 2020

Americans hate each other. But we aren’t headed for civil war.

Research finds that a weak state and poverty predict such conflicts.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/civil-war-united-states-unlikely-violence/2020/10/29/3a143936-0f0f-11eb-8074-0e943a91bf08_story.html

Skittles

(153,160 posts)

12. yeah, with a bunch of fucking yahoos

Reply to cilla4progress (Original post)

Thu Oct 29, 2020, 10:38 PM

Oct 2020

I am not afraid of them.

coti

(4,612 posts)

13. To keep my mind limber

Reply to cilla4progress (Original post)

Thu Oct 29, 2020, 10:44 PM

Oct 2020

hamsterjill

(15,220 posts)

16. Yes, I do.

Reply to cilla4progress (Original post)

Thu Oct 29, 2020, 11:15 PM

Oct 2020

We are preparing but we have no cohesive plan. It all scares me to death. It feels like there’s been a great big, negative shift in the universe.

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