In America, talk turns to something unspoken for 150 years: Civil war

WAPO via LMTonline ^ | March 1st, 2019 | Greg Jaffe and Jenna Johnson

[Mariner]

At a moment when the country has never seemed angrier, two political commentators from opposite sides of the divide concurred last week on one point, nearly unthinkable until recently: The country is on the verge of "civil war."

First came former U.S. attorney Joseph diGenova, a Fox News regular and ally of President Trump. "We are in a civil war," he said. "The suggestion that there's ever going to be civil discourse in this country for the foreseeable future is over. . . . It's going to be total war."

The next day, Nicolle Wallace, a former Republican operative turned MSNBC commentator and Trump critic, played a clip of diGenova's commentary on her show and agreed with him - although she placed the blame squarely on the president.

Trump, she said, "greenlit a war in this country around race. And if you think about the most dangerous thing he's done, that might be it."

With the report by special counsel Robert Mueller reportedly nearly complete, impeachment talk in the air and the 2020 presidential election ramping up, fears that once existed only in fiction or the fevered dreams of conspiracy theorists have become a regular part of the political debate. These days, there's talk of violence, mayhem and, increasingly, civil war.

A tumultuous couple of weeks in American politics seem to have raised the rhetorical flourishes to a new level and also brought a troubling question to the surface: At what point does all the alarmist talk of civil war actually increase the prospect of violence, riots or domestic terrorism?

Speaking to conservative pundit Laura Ingraham, diGenova summed up his best advice to friends: "I vote, and I buy guns. And that's what you should do."

[schurmann]

“You’re so off topic you’re blaming people for posts they didn’t post.” [ctdonath2, post 138]

“...Check #133 again. Carefully. Am awaiting your apology.” [doorgunner69, post 136]

My apologies to both addressees. But my critique stands. Might be of value if the rest of the forum paid attention.

Another mystery remains unresolved: why to people purporting to be the toughest & most capable in uniform - on the planet really - get so easily worked up, if someone fails to genuflect? If you’re really that amazingly superior, why do you care what us lesser mortals think?

Fighter pilots behave in much the same way. Long ago I realized they were a coterie of whiny, backstabbing mama’s boys. I had credited Marines with being smarter, more adaptable, more aware of their surroundings. Before this.

[ctdonath2]

You are so far from the original topic, enamored by your own thoughts, that there is nothing to discuss at this point.

[Chickensoup]

I am thinking more like Rwanda.

[Jim Noble]

“I wonder how many have thought in passing about their “target list”; - just sayin’.”

The first rule of fight club is you don’t talk about fight club.

[Chickensoup]

but President Trump has appointed one or two more originalists and Textualists to the Supreme Court.

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You act like leftist fascists would follow the law.

A couple of bullets or murders and they would be on their way to government take over.

[Chickensoup]

Rwanda.

[Kudsman]

There will be no civil war unless the left does something extremely violent en masse. The right believes in peace while the left mouthes the words. We will give them every chance until the Rubicon is crossed. Then....who knows?

[Chickensoup]

Outside the ones with Airsoft rifles, there may be a small percentage of them with actual weapons BUT they probably don’t have the training needed to be effective. Sure they may get a few shots off before they’re neutralized, but as a whole antifa will fold like a cheap suit.

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You dream.

or are misinformed.

Gun shops in our area are selling a lot of arms to leftists.

If you think the leftists wont kill and kill a lot and happily look at their history as the largest killers of the last century.

When you sit and talk with one the hate just spews.

[lurked_for_a_decade]

在美国，每一片草叶都会有一支步枪

[combat_boots]

Do tell

[lurked_for_a_decade]

Earlier in the thread someone asked how to say, "In the United States, every blade of grass has a rifle." I answered with, 在美国，每一片草叶都会有一支步枪

[lurked_for_a_decade]

Earlier in the thread someone asked how to say,

In the United States, every blade of grass has a rifle." in chinese.

I answered with,

在美国，每一片草叶都会有一支步枪

[elcid1970]

I know only a few Chinese ideograms but a generation ago in grad school, beautiful Taiwanese girls taught me to write “Mei Guo” meaning America.

If “in America there will be a rifle behind every blade of grass” is known in Chinese, then it will make even the bravest planners in Beijing hesitate.

After all, they sold us the robust, reliable SKS and AK rifles which we now proudly tote to the range.

Thank you China, for Moo Goo Gai Pan and for my rifles! See you at the Bering Strait!

[lurked_for_a_decade]

type translate into google search. You can translate from/to almost any language. I’m told that the translations are adequate.