of course they want it. where do you think all these red hot revolutionaries come from? so many of the people who seem to be 'glowing' with anticipation of civil war civil war civil war?
the president isn't calling for a civil war. it is pretty clear that the president is preparing to legally challenge the election results. the radical left would much rather have civil war than an election dispute that they likely won't win.
but even more than civil war, the left wants to see us turn to violence, because it fits into their self-delusion about being the 'resistance' against the 'violent right wing extremists'.
it happened so early on that i think a lot of people forgot it, but biden stuck his foot in his mouth pretty badly on the supreme court nomination question, I was happy to see that the president did not miss hitting that one back.
here is a fine tribute article to ACB written by one of her former colleagues at the supreme court, praising all of her good qualities and top level qualifications for the position, even suggesting she could be all that scalia was, and possibly even better.
the twist?
the former colleague is a trump-hating liberal who has penned many anti-trump articles in the past, whose own positions are 180 degrees from ACB's own conservative positions, who has claimed our president to be corrupt in practically every other article he has written. and yet, even he openly admits that this President whom he hates has made an excellent pick.
quotes from article, remember this was written from a liberal point of view:
"I disagree with much of her judicial philosophy and expect to disagree with many, maybe even most of her future votes and opinions. Yet despite this disagreement, I know her to be a brilliant and conscientious lawyer who will analyze and decide cases in good faith, applying the jurisprudential principles to which she is committed. Those are the basic criteria for being a good justice. Barrett meets and exceeds them.
"I got to know Barrett more than 20 years ago when we clerked at the Supreme Court during the 1998-99 term. Of the thirty-some clerks that year, all of whom had graduated at the top of their law school classes and done prestigious appellate clerkships before coming to work at the court, Barrett stood out. Measured subjectively and unscientifically by pure legal acumen, she was one of the two strongest lawyers. The other was Jenny Martinez, now dean of the Stanford Law School.
"When assigned to work on an extremely complex, difficult case, especially one involving a hard-to-comprehend statutory scheme, I would first go to Barrett to explain it to me...
"Barrett, a textualist who was working for a textualist, Justice Antonin Scalia, had the ability to bring logic and order to disorder and complexity. You can’t be a good textualist without that, since textualism insists that the law can be understood without reference to legislative history or the aims and context of the statute."
the author goes on in this vein for a while. it really is quite nice. then we get to the part that may really break radical leftist brains, coming from their own side...
"...a Republican is president, and the Senate is Republican. Elections have consequences, and so do justices’ decisions about when or whether to retire. Trump is almost certainly going to get his pick confirmed.
"Given that reality, it is better for the republic to have a principled, brilliant lawyer on the bench than a weaker candidate. That’s Barrett.
"To add to her merits, Barrett is a sincere, lovely person. I never heard her utter a word that wasn’t thoughtful and kind — including in the heat of real disagreement about important subjects. She will be an ideal colleague. I don’t really believe in “judicial temperament,” because some of the greatest justices were irascible, difficult and mercurial. But if you do believe in an ideal judicial temperament of calm and decorum, rest assured that Barrett has it.
"This combination of smart and nice will be scary for liberals..."
professional courtesy. honest assessment of the merits of an ideological rival. a general gentility and NO use of the f-bomb even once.
this is truly a breath of fresh air. i might differ with this writer in most of his own ideas too. but after reading that, i would like to shake his hand.
i suggest we compromise with the left.
here is the compromise i suggest.
since according to the left, transgender women are also "real women", science and genetics notwithstanding,
let's pass laws restricting abortion, but exempt all transgender women from following these laws.
unrestricted abortion allowed for all transgender women.
...i would like to hear how the left would respond to that.
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so, uh, trump is, uh, a fascist. and uh.
fascism is not, uh, about uh, jack boots and strength and uh, discipline it's, uh.
emasculated young men. emasculated.
(pauses proudly because he could say 'emasculated'.)
so, uh, trump is, uh, planning a coup. which, uh, needs the backing of the military and the, uh, joint chiefs of staff, which, uh, is not going to back a coup, which is not going to back up, uh, trump, uh, unless he, uh, wins the election.
so, uh, the way trump is going to, uh, plan the coup is by, uh, making sure he wins the election.
...and of course this is all about the mail in votes. and trump's shutdown of the postal service which did not in fact shut down except where the rioters burned it up.
these people really have no idea what a coup is.
your children are not too young to die in a civil war. that is one of many ugly things about that possibility.
we have to dig in and resist the efforts of the radical left to drag us into a conflict.
and yes, i have guns and ammunition. and yes, i always keep many months reserve of food and essentials. i will do what is necessary when the time comes, but i dread what will happen to our democracy and our nation if it does, and i dread what it will mean to the innocent caught in it.
picture your child dying from an ear infection turned into sepsis because there are no doctors, the hospitals are blown out ruins, antibiotics can't be found. or imagine that you and some friends take your guns and make a hike through the ruins for some z-paks, but you come home to find your house was firebombed, and they machine-gunned everyone when they tried to escape.
this is not fiction. these are things that happen every day during a civil war.
we have to cling, cling, cling to this still functioning democracy.
i think we ought to at least last a year longer than the roman republic.
who wants a silver medal?