As some of us continue to rattle around in the echo chamber.
There is going to be no Civil War. There will be no arms in the streets. There will be no war. This is idiocy. And some better hope not because the U.S. would win in an instant. Putting aside the fact that a million pop guns are useless against the U.S., it is not just brute force against brute force. The Gov’t has the edge in disrupting communications, supplies ... creating disinformation. But that isn’t the point. This is not EVER going to happen. So, we can work on letting America know why Conservative governance is a good thing, or devolve into absurd conspiracy theories. Signing a bunch of online petition means, precisely, ZERO.
Good grief.
Yeah, but it’s so much fun to fantasize about it, like we did during the Klintoon reign of terror when we fantasized that he’d cancel elections and declare himself and the Missus Co-Presidents for life. Who says that history of fantasy doesn’t repeat itself?
“Fiddle-dee-dee! War, war, war; this war talk’s spoiling all the fun at every party this spring. I get so bored I could scream. Besides... there isn’t going to be any war.”
Scarlett O’hara, “Gone with the Wind”
(For the record, there was a war.)
Except there are over 200 million firearms, some, the same as the US military uses held by 90 million persons in the US.
Popguns indeed. Whistling past the graveyard.
/johnny
30.06s are popguns! I kind of like that. They will certainly make a melon pop. ;-)
For the record and for the math challenged. The US standing Army of 500,000 is not enough to occupy one state let alone a dozen states. For the militarily retarded please note: to properly occupy and enforce marshal law on say half the country would take 8-10 million troops.
PS more than half the current Army is from the red states and would defect.
I’m against a civil war, at this point, but I disagree that it will be one sided. Do you know any military folks? I assure you a full 80% of the military isn’t going to be shooting at mom and dad and uncle. Most of our military is NOT the sons and daughters of liberals.One of the fastest ways for the administration to get itself in trouble would be to threaten the populace with the military. We aren’t North Korea, (Yet, anyway)The only way this government can threaten it’s population with it’s own military is after it already has totalitarian control, over food and everything.Hopefully it doesn’t come down to that, and that is the very reason that the govt.’s power needs to be limited.
“The Gov’t has the edge in disrupting communications”
They do? They’re the ones that need massive amounts of communications just to take a dump. We don’t. We built all the communications systems, they just use it. If anyone knows how to distrupt anything it is the people that built it.
“Putting aside the fact that a million pop guns are useless against the U.S., “
They’ve got the same “popguns” that we’ve got. So, what’s your point? I mean, we’ve got over 100 times the number of popguns they got.