As Lucy Liu asks Uma in KILL BILL: "Did you actually think it would be easy?" Uma answers: "Yeah, for a minute there I actually did."
I have little to ease your tension the next couple of days, or weeks, fretting about possible hot civil war. I had hoped we'd be rescued by several million white women and hispanic males, two groups who could shock pollsters and tip the balance by voting for their families' future. But I was wrong and the shock went the other way. So now stores on Main Street are boarded up and National Guard units are on pre-alert, in fear of civil unrest by either side, if it loses.
True, there's a difference in what activists mean by 'resistance,' with the Union side of this civil war phase preparing to call a national General Strike, if it appears a myriad GOP cheats stymied the people's will. At minimum it's time to revive and re-invigorate the boycott of all advertisers on Fox News, until they agree to restore the Rebuttal rule that curbs sewer-lying. Rupert Murdoch laughed at our earlier attempts. But maybe this time.
Meanwhile, Trump is telegraphing that tens of thousands of brutes are 'standing by' to wreak violence, if he thinks he can get away with calling for it... and even if he doesn't. So let's dial in on that worst-fear (and Putin's final joy.)
== Seriously, guys? ==
Time for a reality check there, fellahs. Before you move or act on any of your blowhard plans, look around your basement scheme sessions. Take a guess who's wearing a wire... or just blabbing, the moment he leaves your parents' house.
Imbeciles think because they stockpiled a basement fulla guns they'd 'win.' But each jerk has just one trigger finger. Meanwhile, most of the NEW gun owners since 2001 have been liberals and minorities who are quieter about it and only buy what they might need. (It's why almost no liberals have called for an end to the 2nd amendment, only reasonable background checks.)
Given that the US military officer corps now hates the mindless-traitor GOP, where will any boogaloo bois action or Timothy McVeigh stuff lead? Maligning as "deep state" enemies the very men and women who defeated Hitler, thwarted Stalin and won the Cold War and the War on Terror, you've spewed venom at them for years, all without offering one scintilla of evidence. How was that smart?
In fact, the boogaloo/supremacist/ ranks are riddled with braggarts, informants and FBI undercover agents. And I give 30% odds we'll see massive sweeps.
Oh just one final thing, bois. These morons are fully vested into the Fox-Putin propelled meme of hate toward all fact-using professions, including not just military officers, but the doctors who save their lives and scientists saving the planet. So, let's ask: who will all the NERDS help, in this civil war you bois plan?
You may just have one trigger finger each, but the geeks you plan to war against know how to program as many robots and drones as they want. These are the folks who know cyber, genetics, bio, and nuclear stuff... and they know where your plantation lords have set up expensive apocalypse getaway mansions.
Hence. a piece of advice that confederates ignore every time they flash-start one of our 8 phases (so far) of civil war is this: Pick your enemies well. (You never do.)
== The Tale of Texas ==
And so we come to Sam Houston, hero of Texan Independence and the quintessential Texan-with-a-brain (and there are many, as we'll soon see.) Houston pleaded with his fellow Texans, both morally and pragmatically, not to follow the mad, emotional rush to treason and confederacy.
Alas, as has been the case for us - entreating our MAGA neighbors not to hate on science and fairness and factual reality and maturity - moral arguments seldom serve to quell these periodic fevers. MAGAs - as with their confed predecessors - take such appeals as signs of weakness.
But Sam Houston chided his contemporary versions of MAGAs. He told them that assuming Union folk won't fight would be a terrible mistake.
-- Sam Houston
Bois, bois... you had better hope that Biden wins and we get a period of administration by adults. Because your intent is clearly to grind the growing New America of universities and sci-tech and diversity and balance and negotiation into dust.
So let's be clear. When fully roused, WE WON'T LET YOU.
The 'given direction' we choose is the future, as you've chosen the feudal past. And if you force the issue, prepare to meet steady momentum and perseverance unseen since the Greatest Generation crushed Hitler.
== If appearances hold... ==
... and JB gets to save us by appointing 10,000 skilled and sane and honest adults to replace 10,000 crooks, lunatics and traitors, then that would make the biggest difference. But with a still-GOP Senate, not much will get passed, unless...
... there's a truth & reconciliation commission -- crossing party lines -- aiming above all to restore confidence in the existence of facts.
That is, it can begin with that innocuous purpose... but in the natural course of giving testimony immunity and all that, we might find out if I am right about DC being rife with blackmail victims who then became traitors. (Borat showed how trivial it is to lure these knuckleheads into compromising positions.) And if that proves true of a clutch of Senators, well, resignations and impeachments for major cause can change things a lot. Just saying.
It's all in Polemical Judo. A book that I hoped would be rendered obsolete by now! Partly because some folks were smart enough to actually use some of the 100+ tactics offered there (we'd not be in this mess right now!) And partly because, well, OMG OMG OMG the tension. Most of the chapters are still relevant, alas! And seem likely to remain so, for years. Alack.
This should not have been close.
== And for something completely different... ==
A tale of a train saved by a whale of a tail...
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