The home of South Carolina Circuit Court judge Diane Goodstein was set on fire after she had reportedly received death threats.
State law enforcement is investigating the house fire on Edisto Beach which began at around 11:30 a.m. E.T. on Saturday, sources told local news outlet FITSNews.
Goodstein was reportedly not at home at the time of the fire, but at least three members of her family, including her husband, former Democratic state senator Arnold Goodstein, and their son, have been hospitalized with serious injuries. According to the St. Paul’s Fire District, which responded to the scene, the occupants had to be rescued via kayak. Law enforcement have not disclosed whether the fire is being investigated as an arson attack.
We’re already in the first throes of the Second American Civil War, we just haven’t started calling it that yet
Edit: throws to throes because I’m a dumb southern hillbilly
January 6th, 2021
Election Day, 1994, when Newt Gingrich and the Republicans took control of Congress with the Contract With America, and started the polarization that led to the Tea Party, and then to MAGA.
August 3rd, 1980 when Ronald Reagan announced his candidacy for President in Philadelphia MS, near the site of the 1964 murders of Civil Rights Movement activists James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner. The day psychopathic murderous racism was incorporated as a fundamental plank in the Republican platform.
The tea party was my wakeup call, before that I was a Republican because I was Christian, my dad was Republican and I didn’t pay too much attention. The more attention I paid the further left I became. The tea party was so obviously dumb and racist it forced me to evaluate my political beliefs.
*Throes
Thank you
If this is a civil war, then what are the two sides? Where are the front lines?
Just because red states have blue cities and blue states have rural red areas doesn’t mean we won’t divide down red state / blue state lines. States and their respective sides weren’t homogenous during the first civil war either. Texas took a vote on whether or not to secede, and something like 1/3 of the state voted to stay in the union. Maryland considered seceding, so the federal government immediately occupied it so that DC wasn’t cut off from the union.
We are already seeing balkanization with states forming coalitions on climate change action and vaccination guidance. What I’m still unclear of is whether blue states will secede or whether they will attempt to root out an illegitimate regime.
It’s also worth noting that Maryland remained a slave state until the end of the war. The Emancipation Proclamation only covered states in rebellion.
Texas is sending their troops (National Guard) to Oregon to fight people in Portland.
The Oregon National Guard, State Police, and all county sheriff’s along the Oregon border should place roadblocks, and refuse entry to their state by any out-of-state armed military or law enforcement entity.
California should also close off their roadways to Oregon. Make them come in from Idaho or Nevada.
If you want in so bad, try to shoot your way in. See how well that works out for you.
The truth is the voters in states like Oregon don’t actually have command of their own police forces. The police don’t answer to elected politicians. They’re an independent occupying force that answers only to themselves. And they support the regime.
Correction, trump is trying to take the Texas troops. Texas is not involved in this dispute.
“I fully authorized the President to call up 400 members of the Texas National Guard to ensure safety for federal officials”
That’s Texas Gov Abbott giving the rubber stamp to do it. The government of Texas is completely on board with this.
That’s not how civil wars work anymore, it’ll be akin to a Balkanization where there are multiple different factions, upstart states, militias and insurgencies. The second will be nothing like the first. The Syrian civil war is a decent smaller scale modern example
Edit: if you’d like a good idea of what it will look like I HIGHLY recommend the fist season of the excellent podcast It Could Happen Here by Robert Evans. It’s from 2019 but wildly prescient
I mean… The first American civil war didn’t work like that either. Officially succession happened over the course of a couple years, but we’re baking for much longer.
I have listened to part of the It Could Happen Here vision for what could go down, but I’m on the fence. In the 2020 election and Jan 6th, I could see that version of things more: militias creating general lawlessness with a weak federal government that can’t maintain peace.
But since Trump arrived on the scene, people have been increasingly geographically sorting themselves by political affiliation. Additionally, we are seeing blue state coalitions form around vaccines and climate change. And now we are seeing folks band together at the state-level and pressure their state governments to take stands against the federal government. Additionally, we are seeing more punitive behavior between states (busing of migrants from Texas, financial punishment of blue states, trying to criminally charge ObGyns providing abortion services across state lines, red states offering Trump their national guard to punish blue states, redistricting based on the actions of another state).
Regardless of how people feel about the federal government, they seem to still see legitimacy in their local governments, and are increasingly using those local governments as vehicles for negotiation.
Those are real 20th century metrics for a war.
I’ll edit to add this article about someone in the Whitehouse thinking we’re in a civil war