brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Literally no idea.
However, Pelosi's choice of wording does suggest that she's aware of the exact grounds on which it is constitutionally possible to prevent them taking their seats.
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However, Pelosi's choice of wording does suggest that she's aware of the exact grounds on which it is constitutionally possible to prevent them taking their seats.
rubbershoes
not the only raver in the village
I'd imagine half of Parler is FBI looking for loons
alsoknownas
some bloke
The naming will be interesting.
agricola
a genuine importer of owls
"Judge Rudy"
Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
Yes, it could happen here. I'm not sure it will, at least not in the short term. In some ways, the previous civil war never ended. If you look at the south, some in the south haven't stopped fighting it yet. Only now are some states removing Confederate symbols from their flags and state houses. There is growing division over these monuments, which are a refection of the different attitudes toward a whole list of things. There's a lot of white people who seem to think that they need to assert control now, or they'll be outvoted by a growing brown and black population. While state houses are removing those symbols, you see them popping up at private homes and vehicles, some of them not even in the south. So you have that.
All of this is egged on by social media which fractions everyone into little boxes where your friends are all people who agree with you, even if those views bear no resemblance to reality. Its allowed factions to arise in ways that wouldn't have happened before the internet. You had your fringe groups then, they were just isolated nuts. Now they are nuts who hang out in little echo chambers on the internet and plot their revenge on the world. Luckily, most of these have been pretty incompetent. Its been mostly basement warriors without any real skills in explosives, or life for that matter. That's why some of the smarter groups are trying to recruit in the military. They're smart enough to know they need those skills to start their ultimate little race war. From what I've seen of my military friends, they've had some success in the lower ranks. The other thing that these groups are doing is trying to normalize themselves. They don't shave their heads any more, or tattoo swastikas on their foreheads. Instead they wear nice polo shirts and khakis and try to sound like university professors.
The election of Biden, places the possibility of a race war a little further back into the future. I think his administration will start using the FBI to go after the more violent of these groups. And as, Occupy and the Water Protectors can tell you, the government can do a lot to crush you. For instance, with the Occupy movement, the leaders of that are pretty much all in prison, or otherwise driven away from politics. With the Water Protectors, they've even hired private security firms to do counterinsurgency work. The left is used to that. I don't think the right is. We'll see.
Where I see things kicking off is if/when the dollar stops being the reserve currency. China is actively working to make that happen. It will destabilize the world political situation and certainly the US economic situation. Its also possible that the economic damage will be severe enough to cause a civil war. However, I hope once we get the virus straightened out that rebuilding the economy will go fairly quickly after that. (By "quickly" I mean a decade, rather than several decades). There's this thing called the Gini Index ( Gini coefficient - Wikipedia ). It shows the dispersion of wealth within a country. Usually, when income gets too concentrated in a few hands, then that leads to an increased chance of a civil war. The US is pushing the limit on the Gini Index.
I'm not really certain what point I'm making here. I guess, its "it can happen here", I'm just not sure it will right now. I see us cracking down on dissent, issuing some kind of welfare payment for the desperate that keeps that from happening. Our ruling class is stupid if they think people will starve indefinitely. If they don't, you'll see the pitchforks come out at some point.
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alsoknownas
some bloke
I'm thinking more that 'supreme' is fairly definitive. You'd have to go Ultimate Supreme, or Grande Royale or something.
Or you could go the 'the real' route, as in The Real IRA.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Real madrid
alsoknownas
some bloke
I likes. I'm assuming that, should he survive, then like Gandalf he'll emerge as a hyper - powered version of himself.
alsoknownas
some bloke
Real ale.
rubbershoes
not the only raver in the village
White hair dye dripping in place of the previous grey
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
The Real Deal or No Deal Apprentice....
tim
EXPLODED TIM! (Help me!!!)
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Too many tantrum tears to be able to go to his own party.
It’s his party and he’ll cry if he wants to
spring-peeper
Well-Known Member
Looks like more than a couple of dozen
bimble
floofy
Well, its explicit now.
This tweet will be one of the ones people write about if we still have history books.
Monkeygrinder's Organ
Dodgy geezer swilling vapid lager
He seems particularly fixated on Georgia doesn't he, out of all the swing states. Is there any particular reason for that?
maomao
普費斯
He thinks the senate runoff gives him leverage.
Monkeygrinder's Organ
Dodgy geezer swilling vapid lager
Yeah maybe. That's what he's about with that particular tweet for sure, but I just get the impression throughout that he's been more fixed on Georgia than the others which seems a bit odd as it hasn't got the highest number of electoral college votes of the swing states.
Maybe he feels the Deep South should naturally all be voting for him.
Kaka Tim
Half Arsed and Slapdash till I Die
maybe the fact that georgia still went to biden, despite all the hard work and progress on disenfranchising the black people living there, means it must have been a fix.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
yeh he's got georgia on his mind
Yossarian
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Georgia's got a Republican governor who Trump supported during his election campaign - in Trump's worldview, this means Brian Kemp should now do anything he wants, including doing whatever it takes to give him a win in the state. Trump can't abide disloyal subordinates so he'll be taking out some of his post-election frustration by destroying Kemp's political career.
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
Marty1 is back in the house, but will he pop his head up on here, considering the good news since he was banned?
Just to add to his pain...
Just to add to his pain...
Mitch McConnell: Top Trump ally breaks silence to congratulate Biden
Weeks after the election, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell congratulates the president-elect.
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