Posted on 10/05/2022 7:15:18 AM PDT by shadowlands1960
Soon after the FBI searched Donald Trump’s home in Florida for classified documents, online researchers zeroed in on a worrying trend.
Posts on Twitter that mentioned “civil war” had soared nearly 3,000% in just a few hours as Trump’s supporters blasted the action as a provocation. Similar spikes followed, including on Facebook, Reddit, Telegram, Parler, Gab and Truth Social, Trump’s social media platform. Mentions of the phrase more than doubled on radio programs and podcasts, as measured by Critical Mention, a media-tracking firm.
Posts mentioning “civil war” jumped again a few weeks later, after President Joe Biden branded Trump and “MAGA Republicans” a threat to “the very foundations of our republic” in a speech on democracy in Philadelphia.
Now experts are bracing for renewed discussions of civil war, as the Nov. 8 midterm elections approach and political talk grows more urgent and heated.
More than a century and a half after the actual Civil War, the deadliest war in U.S. history, “civil war” references have become increasingly commonplace on the right. While in many cases the term is used only loosely — shorthand for the nation’s intensifying partisan divisions — observers note that the phrase, for some, is far more than a m
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It would be a guerilla war from the beginning. The military was brought to bear in Afghanistan and we saw how that turned out. The same military brought to bear on American citizens faces more problems than they can imagine. Them and their families are living next door to the people who they are killing, shelling and bombing. Human nature will take it’s course quickly, there would be retaliations.
The military would have to pull it’s forces and families to green zones and there you have control. You mass up and you have control of that area, when you pull out you no longer have control. There are not enough federal law enforcement or military personal to control large swathes of the US. You could control some larger cities and certain areas when you mass your forces, once you leave collaborators would be attacked and they lose control of the area.
This would be a bloody, brutal war of retaliation, race, tribe, and political factions fought in big cities and little towns. I pray they are not stupid enough to go there.
It will happen in 2025. Be ready.
>New York Times is regurgitating governement propaganda for an excuse to crack down on conservatives.
Yes. I had the misfortune of tuning antenna news today and top ‘story’ was how election workers were at risk of violence because of election ‘deniers.’
Anyone noticing the theft or the subsequent tyrannical acts is being prepped as a person against whom violence is justified.
FReepers wishing to avoid a trip through Yahooland, and all that implies, can find the original NYT article here:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/05/us/politics/civil-war-social-media-trump.html
” IFirst off it would have to be a guerilla warfare on our side and even then the military would still be able to destroy us in a second. “
Like they did in Afghanistan and Vietnam?
No mention of the 18 yr old kid murdered for being a Repub in WY................
North Dakota
California economy is the largest in the US and 5th in the world. New York is up there too
Most of the conservatives have left Twitter so the talk of civil war must be coming from leftists
Not to worry, the maniacs in DC will start WWIII before the civil war can start. After that there’ll be nothing left to have a civil war over.
yawn...
It’s only a search now like a drive by tour, ah?
The IRA (Irish Republican Army) only had like 200 members at its peak yet managed to force the Brits to the negotiating table. We have a lot more than that and are way better armed, so they might want to think twice about provoking a civil war.
Or government agents or bots.
These accusations are intended to provide justification for more DOJ crackdowns on Republicans, which will in turn create more complaining which will be used as an excuse for more crackdowns. It’s a win-win for Democrats.
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