“Hey Virgil! Where are you going dressed like that? This ain’t Saturday. No militia drills today. I could use some help with breakfast”
“No, Honey, this is it! Today! Civil War. It’s finally our time to fight!”
“Fight who? With what, with that AR? Are you telling me you’re heading out to start shooting people? Seriously? What, are you crazy or somethin’?”
“Listen Sue, I’ve been training for this for months, maybe years. Why do you think I invested in all these guns and tactical gear? This is it baby! Civil war has finally come!”
“OK, let me ask you something? Where exactly are you gonna go? Where’s the big battle gonna take place? There’s no Mason-Dixon line here. What are you gonna do? Knock on someone’s door that you think is part of the enemy and shoot them in their own home? Did you send an invite to all of your enemies, telling them to meet your crew down at the Walmart parking lot, to have it out? You have not thought this out Virgil.”
Keep reading: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/9/5/2120976/-Civil-War-A-Callin-A-Breakfast-Table-Conversation?_=2022-09-05T14:55:56.000-07:00
Former Pence adviser says she agrees with Biden: An 'extreme faction' of the Republican party 'dominated, driven and intimidated' by Trump is 'dangerous'
Olivia Troye, who served as the homeland security and counterterrorism advisor in the Trump administration, said in an interview with MSNBC that the faction of the GOP that stands for MAGA is "dangerous." As reported by Business Insider and Newsweek, "He (Biden) wasn't criticizing Republican voters, which I've seen a lot of talk about that. What he's saying is that this extreme faction...is dangerous," Troye said. “Many people within the GOP agree with and support Biden…many of us Republican voters who are not the right-wing crazy that is taking over the party that is damaging, I would say, to the party…We don't identify with that at all.”
https://www.businessinsider.com/ex-pence-aide-gop-dangerous-maga-republicans-2022-9
Shocking new lesson in Florida public school boosts Trump's Big Lie
A jaw-dropping assignment in a Florida public school district is peddling Donald Trump’s lie that the presidential election he lost was rigged. As reported by Huffington Post and others, an assignment at R. Dan Nolan Middle School in Bradenton presented sixth-grade students with a fact: “President Trump made claims that the 2020 election was stolen.” But calling his claims false — which they are — would be an example of “bias” in the media, according to the lesson... “The media is often biased and will add words that persuade you to think one way or another…The sentence stating that the former president made the election claims ‘is just giving you information, but calling the claims false leads you to believe he is wrong before you have all the facts.” The mother of a student in the School District of Manatee County told The Daily Beast on Friday that the assignment is “actually the most biased example of bias I’ve seen…it seems pretty out of place for a sixth-grade class,” she added.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-election-lie-florida-schools_n_6312eaace4b0eac9f4cd1032
Trump rally highlighted Jan. 6 rioter who posed as Adolf Hitler
Of all people to highlight at his Labor Day weekend Pennsylvania rally, Donald Trump gave stage time to a single Jan. 6 rioter from New Jersey who dressed like Adolf Hitler and told co-workers that the führer “should have finished the job,” as reported in the Verve Times, Yahoo and others. At Trump’s rally Saturday in Wilkes-Barre, convicted insurrectionist Timothy Hale-Cusanelli’s aunt “pleaded for sympathy for her nephew from the stage.” When working as a security contractor at Naval Weapons Station Earle in New Jersey before his arrest, Cusanelli often made white supremacist and anti-Semitic comments to co-workers, according to a federal court filing against him last year. He also showed up for work sporting a “Hitler mustache” and styled his short black hair to look like Hitler’s, according to the motion. Thirty-four co-workers interviewed by Navy investigators as part of an internal probe said Hale-Cusanelli held “extremist or radical views pertaining to the Jewish people, minorities and women.” Some said they were “afraid” of him. So naturally, he became a featured guest at Trump’s rally…
https://vervetimes.com/trump-rally-highlighted-jan-6-prisoner-who-posed-as-adolf-hitler/
Scientists make major breakthrough in race to save Caribbean coral
Scientists at the Florida Aquarium have made a breakthrough in the race to save Caribbean coral: For the first time, marine biologists have successfully reproduced elkhorn coral, a critical species, using aquarium technology. As reported exclusively by CNN, the discovery is “a historic step forward,” and one biologists hope could help revitalize Caribbean ecosystems, while offering extra protection from the fury of hurricanes. The Florida Aquarium's news comes after scientists reported in early August that the Great Barrier Reef was showing the largest extent of coral cover in 36 years. But the outlook for coral around the world is grim — studies have shown that the climate crisis could kill all of Earth's coral reefs by the end of the century. Yet,"there is hope for coral reefs," said Keri O'Neil, the senior scientist that oversees the Tampa aquarium's spawning lab… "This is a critical step to preventing elkhorn coral from going extinct in the state of Florid."
https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/04/us/elkhorn-coral-spawn-florida-aquarium-climate/index.html
“Why I’ve stopped fearing America is headed for civil war”
In an insightful OpEd piece in The Washington Post, author Thomas Ricks explains why fear of a new civil war in America is just that, fear — And how “events of the past few years, most notably the pandemic and some natural disasters, have reminded many Americans that there is a place for good and effective government, especially in providing the basic societal needs of public health, public safety, air and water quality, and roads and other forms of transportation. That revived appreciation is one more reason I think the danger of civil war is receding.”
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Keep em coming Richard, your perspective is right on target for reality and truth. We true patriots must push collectively to marginalize MAGA voters who reject democracy with their juvenile conspiracy theologies. Their influence is greater than is should be given their small numbers. We must marginalize them and promote ideas that most reasonable voters agree on. Your voice does that.