A skirmish being... what? Something within a state? The governor deploys the National Guard. The governor refuses to deploy the NG? The President can federalize the state's NG. The state's NG won't cooperate? The President can invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807 and deploy troops to restore order to the affected region. There would have to be multiple layers of things falling apart simultaneously for it to be remotely possible.
I have had a similar conversation and train of thought with my spouse. We have talked about relocating just about everywhere and like the idea of some certain European countries. We both keep our ears open on global news and such, and I have felt unsettled about Russia/Europe for a several years now. Every world war that happens, Europe gets absolutely fucked. You can disagree about our government all ways to Sunday but living in a real war zone is nightmare fuel and I don't want to get caught. Our world is on track for some serious shit if we don't get off this ride. Our American presidential election is going to probably be a big piece in how some of that stuff unravels. I'm content to watch it from this side of the ocean.[/QUOTE][/QUOTE]
I agree there won't be armies in the field or anything, but I could see a Northern Ireland or Italy during the Years of Lead type situation if things deteriorate further. Semi-structured paramilitary groups carrying out various terrorist acts as part of a larger campaign, but not so large and open as to provide targets that the government can destroy decisively through military action or mass arrest.
If King Charles decides to start wagging his bloated dick at us from across the pond, we can worry then. Maybe he has the authority to deploy some royal troops from Canada?
Unpremeditated fighting between two groups on opposite sides on our political spectrum. Something we haven't had under Biden, and I could absolutely see it returning with a Trump win. Think Kenosha, if less people had restraint and started firing. Cause I could see us divided further and things getting crazier, one side protesting something, the other standing by with guns to protect businesses. A Trump win angers one half, emboldens the other. How many times did we get close to skirmishing under Trump?
Zero times? Rioting in cities in response to perceived racial bias and police brutality isn't going to trigger a civil war.
So it's war or going to the US where Trump's winning is the end of democracy. You may want to look into other countries.
He’s back tracked to more serious rioting situations. Rainbow fingernail painted snipers shooting journalists and so on. Like the movie.
Eh, my first two posts on the matter were meant to be funny, but I guess I am in the wrong thread for that. My last one was not, I could see some small fighting between an angry left and the extreme right, who seem to always looking for a reason.
First we have to devolve from a Representative Republic into a Democracy, fight through some kind of Authoratarianism, maybe? That may take more than 4 years.
We are a representative democracy. I.E., our government is elected by its citizens. It will not take more than 4 years for that to end.
Yeah. There was literally an insurrection within the last presidential election cycle. The perpetrator's party didn't immediately fracture into two parties, one that wants to keep electing presidents and one that doesn't. We've already begun to degrade our form of government, however any particular person chooses to name it. Seeing as we have a rematch of the same two cocksuckers that whole clown show was about, we haven't learned a fucking thing.
But— it was a long weekend, and everybody got so shitfaced by then we forgot where we parked (because it’s DC) so we just went home.
this comes as a bit of a shocker, at least to me. Pence says he "cannot in good conscience" endorse Trump I know A LOT of people who voted for trump because of Pence