Brad Sallows
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keeping the lights on
Which is why the question of "what else is needed" is not frivolous.
keeping the lights on
The Consolidated Appropriations Act 2021 holds the record as the longest bill passed by Congress at a tidy 5,593 pages.Read today the dems have a team working on immigration changes that they want to put into the bill. Schumer thinks they can pass it without the GOP. As Pelosi so famously said about a behemoth bill some time ago, "You have to pass it first, to find out what's in it."
...The book in which Walter looks at those risk factors in the US, How Civil Wars Start, will be published in January. According to the Post, she writes: âNo one wants to believe that their beloved democracy is in decline, or headed toward war.
But âif you were an analyst in a foreign country looking at events in America â the same way youâd look at events in Ukraine or Ivory Coast or Venezuela â you would go down a checklist, assessing each of the conditions that make civil war likelyâ.
âAnd what you would find is that the United States, a democracy founded more than two centuries ago, has entered very dangerous territory.â
Walter, the Post said, concludes that the US has passed through stages of âpre-insurgencyâ and âincipient conflictâ and may now be in âopen conflictâ, beginning with the Capitol riot.
US âcloser to civil warâ than most would like to believe, new book says
Academic and member of CIA advisory panel says analysis applied to other countries shows US has âentered very dangerous territoryâwww.theguardian.com
Maybe not for point 1:And the Dems should deeply fear another Civil war. I find it hard to be believe they would have much to fight with as I see the vast majority of military pers and hardware going off to the opposition. Not to mention private firearm ownership is heavily slanted to the Republicans.
In 2020, however, the militaryâs skew towards the Republican party was believed to have swayed. According to Guy Snodgrass in an article by Bloomberg, âThe militaryâs lean for the Republican Party has shifted during the Trump administration, especially for those with knowledge of the administrationâs actions regarding intelligence, military, and foreign affairs.â
The Military Times poll for this year saw a drop of 46 percent in 2017 to 38 percent in 2020, for active-duty personnel favoring a Republican candidate (Here, Trump).
Another source: Jon Soltz, who is an Army and founder of VoteVetsâa 700,000-member progressive-leaning veteransâ political advocacy organization shares âThe idea that veterans and military are heavily Republican is not true anymore.â
Many military leaders have publicly denounced Trump, who represented the Republican party during this time. This is taken as an indicator for âfewer conservativesâ or at least the decline of predominant conservative thoughts in the military by many.
The term âdenounceâ is explicitly demonstrated in a letter signed by 780 former military officers, including retired Air Force General Paul Selva, former Defense Secretaries Ash Carter and Chuck Hagel, etc.
"A very tiny group" according to Trump's take in the article?Ah, yes.
Donald Trump said he got a booster shot and his supporters booed.
versus:
Donald Trump said he got a booster shot and some supporters booed.
US âcloser to civil warâ than most would like to believe, new book says
Academic and member of CIA advisory panel says analysis applied to other countries shows US has âentered very dangerous territoryâwww.theguardian.com
Thatâs non-cops generally. Everyone has this silly idea that in dangerous situation police can just shoot people in the legs and itâll be better. Shrug itâs dumb.What is it with presidents (Biden, Trump) and wanting to shoot people in the leg?