#JAILTOTHECHIEF- Shit Just Got Real

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Jolene Benoir

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It's already being spun as "Well, he didn't hear the White Power part of the video."

I'm fairly sure Trump hires 8 year olds to spin his press.
He, or one of his underlings, puts it up there as a tweet for his even more insane and violent users, then takes it down. He's gotten away with most of his lies, so why wouldn't he?
 

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Too imbalanced and decentralized in either case for it to resemble an actual 'civil war' imho.
The Civil War was a clear geographic division between slave-holding states and free states. Individuals who felt opposite their state alignment could and did join the other side by physically going there. Today we have a division between generally liberal metropolitan areas and generally conservative rural areas, but no area is 100% one or the other. So people are much more mixed together.
 

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The Civil War was a clear geographic division between slave-holding states and free states. Individuals who felt opposite their state alignment could and did join the other side by physically going there. Today we have a division between generally liberal metropolitan areas and generally conservative rural areas, but no area is 100% one or the other. So people are much more mixed together.
Yeah, if anything, if we were to have say, a full blown civil war, it would look much more like hand-to-hand combat and guerilla warfare. I don't even know that it would be identified as a "war", but rather would be reported as skirmishes between opposing sides, much like how we see current reporting when right wing forces and left wing forces get into violent confrontations. We'd continue to see a whole lot of biased reporting depending upon the persuasion of the broadcaster.

Outside broadcasters, say outside of the country would probably do a much better job of identifying it as war.
 

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Yeah, if anything, if we were to have say, a full blown civil war, it would look much more like hand-to-hand combat and guerilla warfare. I don't even know that it would be identified as a "war", but rather would be reported as skirmishes between opposing sides, much like how we see current reporting when right wing forces and left wing forces get into violent confrontations. We'd continue to see a whole lot of biased reporting depending upon the persuasion of the broadcaster.

Outside broadcasters, say outside of the country would probably do a much better job of identifying it as war.
Yes, it's more likely to be what the Weimar Republic went through: the Freikorp, Schwarz-Rot-Gold (federalists), Eiserne (moderate left), KPD (communists), Spartacists, etc. I would probably be DDP in orientation but too old and unfit to join the Eiserne. Leaning a bit on Wikipedia so I could be off some.
 
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And of course...



*Tim Intel, special private investigator to the President (apparently).
The Washington Post provides a helpful analysis of the whole affair, including Trump's response
 
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It's my understanding that the Greatest Generation were cohorts of my mother and father and older. That puts the youngest of the group currently at about 98 or 99 diminishing the impact of this ad.

In the US COVID impacts baby boomers the most.
I imagine the Lincoln Project know their audience, though, and which of their buttons they want to press.
 
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