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Trump tweet, political divisions fuel rising discourse about new U.S. civil war
reuters.com ^ | October 29, 2019 | Julia Harte

Posted on 10/30/2019 12:42:02 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper

Sporting a Confederate flag shirt near a field clouded by cannon smoke, where blue- and gray-clad soldiers reenacted a Civil War battle from 155 years ago, Larry Caldwell Piercy, Jr. said he sees a new war looming in the United States - and a role for himself in any fighting.

“It would be all guerrilla warfare, not this open field-style kind of thing,” he said, gesturing at the reenactment of the 1864 Battle of Cedar Creek in Middletown, Virginia, earlier this month. “I would probably be an officer in that effort.”

Piercy, 62, is one of the motorcycle riders known as the “mechanized cavalry” of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, which has an estimated 30,000 members and describes itself as a “non-political heritage organization” that preserves the history and legacy of soldiers in the pro-slavery Confederacy in the 1861-1865 Civil War.

He is also a fierce supporter of President Donald Trump.

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To: Berlin_Freeper
It would be all guerrilla warfare, not this open field-style kind of thing,

Fallacy. It would be huge organised armies fighting each other. This "guerrilla" warfare meme is designed to scare us into being sheeple.

21 posted on 10/30/2019 4:48:27 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Yes, the usual MSM lies and propaganda.

The SCV is a heritage organization. It’s meetings are more like book club meetings where members discuss what good books/articles have come out lately, sometimes have a guest speaker, etc. It is not a political organization. Of course since they don’t go along with PC Revisionist dogma, rooters and others in the MSM try to portray them as political, racist, scary, etc. standard Leftist tactics.


22 posted on 10/30/2019 6:36:42 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: Berlin_Freeper
This is what's going to happen:

Trump's going to muddle through the Democrats' nullify-the-2016-Presidential-Election tantrum like he muddled through the Republican Primaries and the 2016 election--and come out a winner.

Trump will be re-elected in 2020 by a landslide.

The Democrats will screech, panic, and run for cover.

Trump will lead an investigation to expose the truth about political corruption. The corrupt politicians will be removed from power. Some will be thrown in jail.

There will be random acts of violence, but most Americans will awaken to the reality that Donald Trump is the hero America needs and the Greatest President in US History.

Trump will succeed in making America greater than ever.

Trump will grace Mt. Rushmore.


23 posted on 10/30/2019 6:40:46 AM PDT by Savage Beast (TRUTH, as clearly as we can perceive it and put it into words, is the best we can do.)
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To: Candor7

“There is no civil war. Yet. There is a ballot box nect November.Any “civil war’ would be when the leftist radicals of the Dem party refuse to accept the results of the upcoming Presidential election. Then all bets are off.”

You’re late to the dance, friend. The Dems refused to accept the results of the presidential election 3 years ago.


24 posted on 10/30/2019 6:48:44 AM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: central_va

Actually, it would be both. It was ever thus.


25 posted on 10/30/2019 6:50:50 AM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: ought-six

Yes a hybrid war. Both.


26 posted on 10/30/2019 7:43:44 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: ought-six

The model for this civil war would be Russia circa 1917.


27 posted on 10/30/2019 7:44:19 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

“The model for this civil war would be Russia circa 1917.”

Yes, and France, 1789 - 1794. Even Spain in the 1930s could be a model. Most civil wars are hybrids. Our dust-up of 1861 - 1865 was an anomaly because it was NOT, in the truest sense, a civil war. Hell, our “Revolutionary War” was more of a civil war than 1861 - 1865.


28 posted on 10/30/2019 8:19:26 AM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: irishjuggler

I liked the story in the Washington Post that used “barn’ and “barnyard” seven times talking about a Trump rally. The Rooters crapweasels are human filth. We can shoot back with our confederate cannon keyboards.


29 posted on 10/30/2019 9:28:38 AM PDT by Luke21
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To: ought-six

You’re late to the dance, friend. The Dems refused to accept the results of the presidential election 3 years ago.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Then why, according to the surveys conducted at Trump rallies by Pascale, the Presidents campaign manager, reveal that 26% to 30% of rally attendees are registered Democrats?

It is the radical left wing of the Democrat Party that did not accept the election result 3 years ago, I call them the Alinsky cadre, but they were oraganized by the community organizer president of dirty name..It is this crowd that foments the potential social disorder and a possible civil war when President Trump wins the election in 2020.

Its not quite as simple as you say.


30 posted on 10/30/2019 6:17:54 PM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obam_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: a fool in paradise

President Pelosi! HAs a nice aliterative ring to it, eh? ( Heavy sarc.)

The Alinsky cadre of the Dem party are desperate.Their “Rules for Radicals” are not working.


31 posted on 10/30/2019 6:20:06 PM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obam_the_quintessentia_1.html)
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To: SanchoP
LOL 😝 😆 😂 Would that be when You Check the “Other” Box on govt forms ?
32 posted on 10/30/2019 7:28:24 PM PDT by mabarker1 ((Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress !!!!)
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To: a fool in paradise

Damned it !!! Did they use one of those invisible mental armor incendiary hollow point kevlar chopper killer 50 caliber rounds ?


33 posted on 10/30/2019 7:34:47 PM PDT by mabarker1 ((Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress !!!!)
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To: central_va
Fallacy. It would be huge organised armies fighting each other. This "guerrilla" warfare meme is designed to scare us into being sheeple.

Say what?

34 posted on 10/31/2019 6:16:01 AM PDT by gogeo (The left prides themselves on being tolerant, but they can't even be civil.)
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To: gogeo

Yes let’s not rock the boat because there is no wining a war because it will be chaos and there will be no winners. That is how the status quo stays in place.


35 posted on 10/31/2019 7:20:32 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va
I think that because the reds and blues are mingled we'll not see a traditional battle. I believe it will be a battle of guerrilla warfare and attrition of the enemy.

I don't see why that would intimidate anyone.

36 posted on 10/31/2019 8:55:57 AM PDT by gogeo (The left prides themselves on being tolerant, but they can't even be civil.)
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To: gogeo
I believe it will be a battle of guerrilla warfare and attrition of the enemy.

That will not be the case in the vast majority of the country,

37 posted on 10/31/2019 9:28:25 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

Not in the interior, anyway.


38 posted on 10/31/2019 9:30:53 AM PDT by gogeo (The left prides themselves on being tolerant, but they can't even be civil.)
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To: gogeo

Yes in the interior that is where there will be no infighting. Whole areas and states will secede.


39 posted on 10/31/2019 9:33:36 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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