Posted on 08/03/2020 7:36:37 AM PDT by Bratch
Democrats are contemplating secession and potential civil war as they game out possible scenarios for a closely contested election, according to a report by Ben Smith in a New York Times column Sunday.
The bulk of Smith’s column is devoted to the question of how the media will handle Election Night coverage, given that the result may not be known for weeks. Vote-by-mail, which many states have only recently adopted — ostensibly, to prevent the spread of coronavirus in polling places — could lead to an uncertain result.
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In one scenario, John Podesta — the former chair of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, and a leading figure in party circles — played former Vice President Joe Biden, and refused to concede the election.
The result: the threat of secession by the entire West Coast, followed by the possible intervention of the U.S. armed forces:
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Yup. That is about the size of it. We’ve been through this before.
Nationally the Republican party is as big a problem as the Democrats.
The democrats actively push for many bad, evil things.
But the Republican’s do nothing...
How many years did they have to prepare to replace Obamacare with something better. Yet when they had all 3 branches of government, they did nothing...
Nationally other than Reagan or Trump who have been worth supporting?
Obama should have never been able to win a 2nd term if he had decent opposition. (Even with the media carrying his water).
The republican party gave up on California. They tried to push Meg Whitman/Carly Fiorina (Big Business/Screw the workers) and when that didn’t work they gave up.
You are acting like a fascist. Secession could/would be peaceful and solve many many problems.
I am not a facist, I am a realist. Walk me through how that peaceful process would go. It’s a fantasy.
People in CA vote for secession. Done. The war starts when the USA starts it. How ever ther is no need for any bellicosity. The other 49 states would be so much better off without the political liability of CA. Most sane people realize that. The break up of the USSR is your model.
I used to live in CA. I am not giving up the significant military bases and the chance those idiots would place Chinese troops there, which they would. No sale.
A negotiated treaty would allow the continued presence of US troop in CA. Just like NATO. Heck, the country CA would be part of NATO from the get go. Quit acting like a barbaric idiot.
Dude, I can really do without the ad hominem attack.
Barbaric? Name a treaty that has not been broken. You do realize we fought a war over this. Texas is not going anywhere, end of conversation.
Your mouth is making assumptions that you ass can’t cash.
So, you are just doing nothing productive
Because secession does not mean civil war. Only fascists think the two are synonymous.
Oh heavens when you’re short 1.3 mbpd, you have no oil. Short more than that if the oil workers can’t get food. Then they starve and you’re short 1.5 mbpd.
If you got no oil, you can’t move this food that is supposed to be given to them for no payment, arriving at a port and unable to travel 30 miles from there to store shelves.
Oil is everything.
I don’t think treason applies to rebellion against states’ governments.
Wrong. Again. That's the mistake the rebs made in 1860 and look where it got them.
Aren’t you a bit old to be playing antifa?
Post secession, CA would be a country and not a state. So it's treason.
Oil and petroleum of all kinds are readily available via ocean terminal. Been that way for 100 years.
“Post secession, CA would be a country and not a state. So it’s treason.”
160 years ago, yes. But, remember, it is now “settled law” that secession is illegal and thus null and void. Not my view, but that has been “the law” since 1865.
Just sayin’.
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