The poison of Trump’s “intolerant language”: Violent rhetoric is a road to civil war

by melville48

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  1. fwiw, I have come to believe that Trump’s goal is not so much just to take office and put a permanent end to the rule of law in the USA once he takes office, but (should anything get in the way of his re-election) to lay the groundwork for, and (in effect) call for the start of, a civil war.

  2. Well for at least 378 violent rhetoric spewing Jan 6 MAGA suckers who totally fell for Trump’s “intolerant language”, it was a road to jail.

  3. Violence and death are trump’s goals, he wants to see a bloodbath in the US. He wanted the Central Park 5 executed, he “joked” about being able to murder a person 5th Ave, and he’s stated repeatedly that people (Hillary Clinton, Gen Milley, and Pence, to name just a few) should be executed for “treason” against him personally.

    [Ex-Trump Aide Reveals How He Threatened To Execute His Own Staff Member](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/alyssa-farah-griffin-trump-execute_n_656ff488e4b0a10def8a8651)

    [Election official says Trump said she should be ‘potentially executed’](https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2022/05/20/jocelyn-benson-trump-2020-election-newday-vpx.cnn)

  4. As a famous domestic terrorist, Trump has been doing his best to cause a civil war for many years now.

  5. Trump is engaging in Stochastic terrorisms

    His anti Chinese rhetoric caused a surge of anti Asian racism

  6. So hard to believe the evangelicals support him. He fits the definition of ANTICHRIST. A wolf in sheep’s clothing.

  7. Trump is used to reality television, where celebrities are rewarded for saying the most controversial things.

    Hence, Trump turned our political system into a reality TV show….

  8. I feel like I’m living in early 1930’s Germany at this point, how is he polling above 5%???

  9. Remember when Rittenhouse was hailed as a hero but Michael Reinoehl was hunted down and murdered by a paramilitary squad despite having a clearer video of self defense?

    Or Dollof who eventually had his charges dismissed but not before being dragged by the right wing and being locked up despite a text book self defense from a fascist thug.

    The rules are different to set the stage for the coming violence.

  10. People seem to forget what sparked the civil war. It wasn’t a bunch of rando commando lardos in spandex and with uzis deciding that they were going to go blow up a mosque or a synagogue. It was the elected body of a number of states deciding to secede from the union and levy war against it.

    Trump speaks to his rando commando lardos. This will encourage terrorism in the name of Trump. This won’t get the Mississippi governor to condemn the Mississippi national guard to their deaths by sending wave after wave of his own men to appease the orange moron.

    We aren’t at the precipice of civil war. We are in for some rough times, sure, but we aren’t yet at the point that you’ll have to kill your brother, your sister, your uncle, your father, or anyone else in your family to preserve or tear apart the union [depending on whichever side you are on].

  11. If he’s reelected Canada will have to build a wall and send more geese.

  12. Too bad America places more value on “muh free speech” than preventing hate movements from building momentum or facing meaningful consequences.

    Very valuable thing, letting Nazis foment hate. Society really benefits from it, surely.

  13. His only motivation is to escape punishment, period. He will do anything to escape punishment. Turn it into a shooting war and he becomes likely to be a possible casualty. He won’t risk that.

  14. Trump would be ecstatic to see violence erupt if only because he was at the center of it. Evil.

  15. Putin could not have asked for a better outcome. How this country feeds into the chaos feels like a phased approach of introducing more chaos that decays stability. It’s the playbook the U.S. has been using abroad for decades, now imported.

    They placed the useful idiot in power, chaos among the population increases, continues to intensify to the flashing point, and eventually something worse will happen, and if he is placed in power again, it’ll accelerate the flashing point. The level of division seems beyond repair; we’re going to head to a dark place before we realize we’re in trouble. My only hope is that we recognize it before it’s too late.

    Scary how much has changed in the relatively short 10-20 years.

  16. There’s a phrase I’ve heard that has become more telling as of late.

    If Trump loses, there may be a civil war.

    If Trump wins, there will absolutely be a civil war.

  17. He should be jailed or deported he does not believe in America in fact sold his sole to Russia

  18. All of this is leading me to conclude Trump has the benefit of significant AI systems or military psychology experts to guide his statements and behaviour. He is somehow threading his way along committing crimes and inciting fury and outrage, while remaining a free man. It does not add up. Any other person would be in the slammer pre-trial.

    Political fear is not an adequate explanation. I see signs of gaming and sophisticated management of his communications.

  19. WHO CARES?!?!

    Meanwhile Joe *BURNS* the fucking country into the ground!….

  20. By design…

    *In the United States: Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States to fuel instability and separatism, for instance, provoke “Afro-American racists”. Russia should “introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics”.[9]*

    *-Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization*

    *Peer review on Foundations of Geopolitics©1997. Supposedly the book that Putin is using as a loose guide for USSR reunification*

  21. I’ll say it once, I’ll say it again, if (R’s) are ready to snuggle up to Putin, Book a room for two weeks in Moscow or China, Let me know the results.

  22. a civil war propagated and fueled and stoked by the MSM so they can then profit off it.

    fucking disgusting, news is a disgrace.

    Something less heinous would be geiko donating radar guns to police officers. uh huh! think about that really carefully, would you? A car insurance company, donating radar guns to whole police departments.

    Why would a car insurance company ever do that? You know exactly why.

    [Sauce](https://www.baltimoresun.com/1992/06/14/police-given-laser-gun-to-trap-speeders/)

  23. This Country is too gigantic and spread out for a “civil war.” Maybe small pockets would ignite but the whole country? Not a chance.

  24. Who in the fuck has time for a Civil Fucking War? Dumb ass fucking headline.

  25. Of
    Course it is. They are nothing but insane white evangelicals. They crave death to go to a place that doesn’t exist. Religion is poison

  26. “Trump bad Trump hitler Trump evil Trump dictator Trump Trump Trump Trump”

    Lol being a writer for Salon has got to be the easiest job ever..

  27. to the morons who think civil war is a good idea, civil war in the US won’t be a civil war for long- it’ll be WW3 hosted bu the US; every country in the world would have some kind force in the country to protect either economic interests or political ones

    any sane americans should hate this man

  28. Well if GOP voters are that stupid, take a look at what happened in Yugoslavia after people voted for Milosevic. Same bullshit.

  29. Bitcoin good but now day to many ways to earn or steal not physical property value or say weight value? Lot harder to track loses I am a paper man receipts contracts or agreements exatra. If u get nothin free from government and a misunderstanding or mistake ass a institute a man would have to starve till fixed never fixed u may be billionaired rolled in a polldunk town. Charles Anthony. MTC

  30. The U of Penn president just got fired for failing to condemn hate speech while Donald Trump not only fails to condemn hate speech but brazenly and openly spews hate.

  31. If DJT’s included on the ballot, his 1st goal is to end democracy and lead the U.S. to tyranny and dictatorship.
    That’s the depth of his ambition since he’s nothing more than a classic mid-20th-century racist and xenophobe in the old Archie Bunker mold.
    Over the course of the last eight years, DJT has created a political environment of intolerance… which leads to civil war.
    And again, if DJT’s on the ballot, hopefully millions of young people will remember his violent rhetoric and vote him out.

  32. I don’t find civil war remotely as likely as a fascist takeover and the genocide of the LGBTQ+ community and killing of political opponents and other marginalized/minority groups.

    Which is exactly what we’re sleep-walking right into.

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