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A Civil War Scenario
Despite support from
the Kool-Aid guzzling party faithful/hard core fundamentalists on the far Left
who have already convicted [without due process] Pres. Trump and want his
removal for whatever crime[s] they, in their delirium, think he committed it is
apparent they’re not interested in maintaining low taxes or a healthy economy
and jobs environment.
American people [at
least the rational ones] can see through the charade:
- We know the
President didn’t commit any crimes
- We know there are
no high crimes or misdemeanors
- We have seen the
transcripts of President Trump’s phone call with the President of Ukraine,
showing no quid pro quo
We present the
following fantasy scenario for your consideration!
The year is 2023.
President Elizabeth Warren has just ordered the deployment of National Guard
forces to Syria, to join the regular
troops already fighting a widening war there.
The governor of Wyoming
is refusing to comply with the order, absent a congressional declaration of war
— something Congress hasn’t done since World War II.
Warren has dispatched
federal troops to northern Colorado, poised to sweep up Interstate 25 and enter
Wyoming at any moment to enforce the order. “America will not abide this
lawlessness,” she declares. She has the support of Wyoming’s lone Congress
member — House Speaker Liz Cheney.
The troops will meet
resistance from the Wyoming Guardsmen, joined by antiwar protesters from out of
state. Some of them are armed. Many are veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan. Many
more were chanting “Bring them home!” at Donald Trump rallies in 2020. They’re
forming human chains around Wyoming’s National Guard armories.
From time to time this
year we’ve entertained the possibility of a new American civil war. Today we present what seems a plausible scenario for how it
might break out.
As we approach year-end,
the topic has gone mainstream: As you might have seen on The Drudge Report this
morning, The Atlantic is devoting an entire issue of the
magazine to the topic.
Throughout the year, one
question has nagged at us: For all the tensions between red and blue, rural and
urban, nationalist and globalist… what would be the defining issue of
a new all-out conflict?
Supreme Court nominations
and border walls seem like weak tea compared with slavery... or independence
from Great Britain. (The historian Michael Vlahos says the Revolution was
America’s first civil war, and he has a point.)
Today, we present one
possibility. We hope, we pray, it doesn’t come to pass. We hope the
protagonists in the tale that follows can achieve their ends without setting
off a bloody backlash from this country’s power elite.
But if they can’t,
consider yourself warned...
A majority of veterans
surveyed by Pew Research believes the Iraq and Afghanistan wars weren’t worth
fighting, “considering the
costs versus the benefits to the United States.”
Sixty-four percent say
that about Iraq. Only slightly less, 58%, believe the same about Afghanistan.
Among those who served on active duty after Sept. 11, 2001 — roughly one in
five veterans — the numbers are about the same. Ditto for the public at large.
At the very least, a
separate poll of troops and veterans by Smithsonian finds 84% believe the U.S.
presence in those two countries has “been going on too long.”
The current president knows how to tap into that sentiment —
perhaps because he knows it helped him get elected.
Rolling Stone writer Matt Taibbi
recalls Donald Trump testing out applause lines at his rallies in 2015, seeing
whether war weariness would sell. It did — even in military-heavy South
Carolina, where he won a crucial early primary.
After Trump’s victory in the general election, researchers at
Boston University and the University of Minnesota took a deep dive into the
results from three key states that were “blue” in 2012 and turned “red” in
2016.
Their conclusion? Communities whose sons and daughters suffered
a disproportionate level of military dead and wounded appear to have flipped
the election to Trump. Those voters took to heart his campaign-trail rhetoric
about an end to “stupid wars.”
“There is a significant and meaningful relationship between a
community’s rate of military sacrifice and its support for Trump,” the
researchers wrote. “Our statistical model suggests that if three states key to
Trump’s victory — Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin — had suffered even a
modestly lower casualty rate, all three could have flipped from red to blue and
sent Hillary Clinton to the White House.”
Trump is again tapping into that sentiment during the 2020
campaign cycle.
Speaking at a rally in Dallas last month, he said, “American
combat troops should not be at the center of ancient sectarian conflicts all
over the world. Bring our soldiers back home. Bring our soldiers back home.”
The crowd broke out in a chant…
And that’s the message a group of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans
is bringing to Washington, D.C., this week.
They hail from 24 states, organized by a group called Bring Our
Troops Home. Its founder is a former Idaho National Guardsman who served in
Afghanistan, Dan McKnight.
McKnight quickly found support in nearby Wyoming from the
majority whip in that state’s House of Representatives — Republican Rep. Tyler
Lindholm, a Navy veteran. Lindholm reached across the aisle and found further
support from Democratic Rep. Andi Clifford.
In all, state legislators from seven states will join the
veterans for briefings and panel discussions tomorrow morning at the National
Press Club. Then in the afternoon, the group will fan out across Capitol Hill
to press their case with their home-state federal lawmakers.
They’re keen to make the point that they’re not Vietnam-era
hippies. Or as former Army Ranger James Lechner tells the Washington
Examiner, “It’s not Code Pink or any crap like that.”
"We have a simple
message,” Wyoming’s Lindholm tells
the Rawlins Times: “Support the president’s efforts to
withdraw American troops from war zones in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria,
Yemen and elsewhere, and bring our troops home.
“Then, before American
troops are sent into combat overseas in the future, return to the
constitutional standard of requiring a formal declaration of war by Congress,
as stipulated in Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution."
Lindholm’s encounter
tomorrow with Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyoming) ought to be, ummm, interesting.
Cheney shares all the
most hawkish impulses of her father, the former vice president. After Iran shot
down a U.S. drone last June, she called for Washington to bomb Iran.
“That’s insane,” said
Lindholm on a radio talk show in Casper. “We essentially lost a pickup truck.
It's folks like Rep. Liz Cheney who are keeping us at war even though she has
never been at war herself."
(And yes, the buzz in
Washington is that Cheney has her eye on becoming House speaker if the GOP
regains the majority. Unless she runs for the Senate…)
It’s one thing for the
veterans to seek redress of their grievances in Washington; we suspect they
won’t get far. But it’s their efforts back in their home states that open up
the potential for our chilling scenario.
Bring Our Troops Home has
drawn up model legislation for all 50 states. It forbids a state’s National
Guard units from being deployed to combat zones unless Congress approves a
formal declaration of war.
The imperative for such
legislation is not only constitutional… but practical.
Thanks to Dave Gonigam, editor of the 5 Minute Forecast
Yours in Freedom,
Bruce ‘the PoorMan’
PARTING THOUGHT
In 2019, Trump has attached his administration completely to the
performance of markets with endless Twitter comments, taking full credit for
the financial bubble that he once criticized. He has also now called for the
Fed to bring interest rates down to zero to artificially support the economy
once again (Obviously we have to ask the big question – If this is the
“greatest US economy ever”, then why would Trump want the Fed to introduce more
stimulus to prop it up?).
Note: From what
I read & hear it seems unlikely an impeachment hearing will make it out of
the House. If Dems are stupid enough to
proceed it highly unlikely the Senate will remove Trump from office. If they did, there will be a lot of unhappy
citizens marching in the street, or worse.
Cities are
taking over the world, so to speak. More people live in them than ever and more
of them are popping up all over the world. Learning to survive in a dense urban
environment is becoming an ever more important skill.
To help you better prepare, we have put together this civil war
preparedness series to give you a quick down and dirty overview of what
survival in a city will entail. This is the third part and it deals with your
physical security.
"The heightened importance of urban spaces results from
demographic developments, with the global population advancing toward 70
percent living in urban areas by 2050, and from recent trends in terrorism,
counterinsurgency and stabilization efforts. Both people and the fight are
converging on cities..."
More Free Resources:
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The Supplies You Need To Stockpile For TEOTWAWKI
There are a lot of
things you could stash away but what are the items that will be most in demand
in a TEOTWAWKI situation? The answer to that is pretty obvious in some ways but
there are definitely some … Continued
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Imagine a scenario
where cash has become worthless. It could be hyperinflation, where it takes a
wheelbarrow of cash to buy a loaf of bread. Or it could a devastating act of
terrorism such as a bioweapon or an EMP that sets the country back 100 years.
Whatever the cause, there could come a day when our money becomes useless.
And it won't necessarily be a
nationwide disaster that causes this to happen. In a local disaster such as a
powerful hurricane or earthquake, the power will be out which means the banks
will be closed. And if they don't reopen, there won't be enough cash to go
around.
In any of the above scenarios, people will be forced to
barter with one another until power is restored or a suitable currency emerges.
In case that ever happens, it's a good idea to have a wide assortment of barter
items. That way if someone has something you need, you're more likely to
already have something they need...
Poll: Majority expect Trump to win in 2020
The president’s reelection prospects appear to be a motivating
factor for potential voter turnout.
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3 comments:
I hope it never comes to a point where America experiences another Civil War but Dems are sure pushing it [or more accurately, the socialists] with their attempted Coup. Thank you for an excellent series this week. Your post on how Communists infiltrated Hollywood was great!
Thought provoking with plenty of useful preparedness resources & tips-outstanding!
Each day I see more dumb crap the Dems pull on America & what bothers me most is how so many are OK w/ their BS; that no matter how often they fail to prove anything against Trump [even after multiple thorough investigations] they won't let up & many mindless bozos still shout for impeachment...America has gone crazy w/ the Leftist/Socialist dimwits.
The more successful Trump policies [jobs, economy], the more unhinged the Leftist Dems get.
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