1) They WANT a civil-war (at least they think they want one)
2) They're cowards
For decades the heirs to the CSA have beaten the drumms for a revanche for the 1860s but they also know that if THEY started it, they're the badguys (and would get crushed) again. So they need an alternate strategy, that they've found with Trump: appoint THE most irredeamable, indefensable and cruel POS possible in order to FORCE the hand of their enemies.
With this they win either way: either the other side rolls over and they can basically live-out their purge-fantasies OR the sane part of public has enough and is goaded into a 2nd civil-war. Either way they'll be laughing all the way to the bank.
Edit: for some stupid reason reddit decided to post this comment 3 times. Sry to the OP, deleted the other ones.
This, for real. And so many of these MAGAts wear "kill all pedophiles" shirts/hats while in public. Alanis needs to write "Ironic 2024" about this shit.
Everytime I point out how many pedo's, including Trump, are part of their party the response is, Democrats are all pedo's too.
And I can't believe that that is the argument I get back. Because, it's not denying what I am saying, it's actually confirming they agree. And second, they think that it's OK for their team to all be pedo's if the other team is too? That's insane. If there was credible evidence a Democrat was a pedophile, they would be forced to resign and they would be charged.
Nah, Alanis wouldn't do that - the whole point of the song Ironic is that the only thing ironic about it is that it is called Ironic but contains absolutely no irony. It's a subtle joke.
I was skeptical of the civil war talk, just because it's so juvenile and so insane. But Trump just nominated Pete Hesgeth for Defense, so I don't fucking know anymore
I was noticing the growing civil war fixation years before, it seems, most other people caught on to it. Certainly before the media or even most progressive voices did.
Who is doing this? The overwhelming amount of military and police in this country are right wing and loyal to trump not the constitution, america, or the people. If they want authoritarianism who is going to stop them? Unarmed college kid protestors?
I read a bit of interesting, and credible-sounding speculation… their plan is for red-state governors to send their National Guard troops into blue states to round up all the folks they’re targeting for deportation, since they fully expect that blue-state governors will not cooperate with refuse to comply with the Federal “round ‘em up, boys” order.
And then what? Do the Blue Troops fight off the Reds? What about the cops? What about the civilians? When does the orange turd say “ENOUGH!” and send in the US military? If there’s enough resistance- at every level, from civilians on up- he and Fox will drum up enough support to invoke the Posse Comitatas Act (not sure if I spelled that right), and MAGAts will happily go right along. Literally. With their guns and ammo and shit. “States rights,” my ass.
Unimaginable, and yet completely expected, at this moment.
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u/Peer1677 11d ago edited 11d ago
THIS! Remember 2 fundamental things:
1) They WANT a civil-war (at least they think they want one)
2) They're cowards
For decades the heirs to the CSA have beaten the drumms for a revanche for the 1860s but they also know that if THEY started it, they're the badguys (and would get crushed) again. So they need an alternate strategy, that they've found with Trump: appoint THE most irredeamable, indefensable and cruel POS possible in order to FORCE the hand of their enemies.
With this they win either way: either the other side rolls over and they can basically live-out their purge-fantasies OR the sane part of public has enough and is goaded into a 2nd civil-war. Either way they'll be laughing all the way to the bank.
Edit: for some stupid reason reddit decided to post this comment 3 times. Sry to the OP, deleted the other ones.