Posted on 11/03/2016 12:47:44 PM PDT by Jack Black
Over the last few weeks a growing number of people have started wondering, "Is it possible the United States is heading for a new civil war?" Granted, most of those people are writers for sites like Russia Today or the Huffington Post, and thus slightly less credible than a handful of Bazooka Joe gum wrapper comics. But Donald Trump has made a few tinpot dictator-ish statements recently.
And we did just see an anti-government militia get off scot-free for occupying a federal building
Every time I wanted to dismiss those headlines I thought about my visit to Ukraine last year, to cover their ongoing civil war. The most common sentence I heard was, "It's like a bad dream." Up to the minute the shooting started, almost no one thought civil war was a serious possibility.
So instead of waking up one day and screaming, "Holy xxxx, I can't believe I didn't take this possibility seriously," I decided to take the possibility seriously. I talked to David Kilcullen, former Chief Strategist in the State Department's Office of the Coordinator of Counterterrorism. He helped plan the successful "surge" in Iraq, and he's seen a lot of civil wars in his time. He didn't consider a new U.S. civil war likely ... but he was also pretty damn far from ruling it out: "I think what we're seeing now is, what I would describe as a proto-insurgency situation ... the ingredients are out there, if somebody knew what they were doing, [they could] pull together an effective movement."
(Excerpt) Read more at cracked.com ...
“Let’s say president Hillary outlaws guns.”
Obama was going to do that. Perhaps he will do that after the election.
Its Cracked.com - smug, self impressed children with laptops. Far more arrogance than talent.
My first thought was Bill Ayers and Eric Holder. But, like with the Wisconsin Capitol, it isn’t worthy of legalities when done by a leftist...
my grandfather fought in the Mexican civil war and the Cristero war.... he said when a man can't feed his family, he'll pick up a gun.
That's why we have welfare, football stadiums, legalized drugs and cable television.... to busy eating, f#@king, smoking, watching sports and sleeping to go to war.
I thought “Craked” was a poor runner up to Mad magazine.
There won’t be a full scale Civil War, but when Trump wins on Tuesday Obama, Clinton, the BLMs and other agitators, egged on by the media, will try to incite riots in the cities. It’s going to be a dangerous time for our police officers. The flames will be fanned by the poor losers and innocent people will suffer, because Obama will do nothing to stop it. This will make the Rodney King riots pale in comparison because you’ll see it in numerous cities.
No more nor less than the first one.
On that, I totally agree.... AND I DIDN'T DO NOTHIN..!!
:)
Part of my ancestry goes back to ‘The Principle People”...The Ani-Yun-Wiya...
Hint: I’m from East Tennessee...:^)
That one was a totalitarian government advocacy militia.
An insurgency, or a rebellion, is possible - but it’s not a civil war, not by a long shot.
To have a civil war, it would be necessary for the chain of command of our armed forces to become compromised in such a way that it became unclear to junior officers whose orders they were supposed to follow.
This is not impossible, but it’s very, very unlikely.
The impeachment exception to the pardon power is in the text of the Constitution. Stop wasting time by reading any site claiming otherwise.
My grandmother’s maiden name is Alden, of John and Priscilla fame.
I keep it on the down low though so I don’t have to pay reparations. ;)
“We would suffer through for more years of a bad economy and she would guarantee a Republican replacement. “
And Jeb! will be all tuned up and ready to go by then, too.
A pardon can not prevent an impeachment. Article II, Section 2, Clause 1 says the President has the power to grant "Pardons for Offenses against the United States, except in cases of impeachment." The Liberal Messiah can not save the Wicked Witch from the impeachment process.
That’s the one!
I used to read both Mad and Cracked.
Good times.
Thanks for the memories.
Thanks for the correction.
That’s what I get for not following through and checking it myself.
They dont have enough people that know how to fight and win a civil war.
I imagine I’ll just shoot until they shoot me.
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