Timeline of Trump's

Civil war is all too real, while the only thing real about most of our politicians is that they have serious funding for their next election, and many are all but guaranteed at least a million dollar job if they leave congress. Their average net worth from stock investments and whatnot is a million dollars. Of course, they have their own "universal healthcare" and countless other perks of the job, and almost a billion dollars spent on lobbying them with fine wine and the best food in the world.

Donald Duck's only real sin, as far as they are concerned, is that he's flat out insane and was elected against the wishes of his own party leaders and represents the lynch mob. If republicans cannot get him out of office, and sweep him under the rug, he will run them all into the dirt.

 

Somebody is bound to come along and do exactly that...

 

The single largest manufactured export of the largest exporter in the world, the US, is weapons. Dead people don't experience greed, or worry about things like the lesser of many evils. The South learned that lesson the hard way, that money can't buy me love when the north has all the guns.

 

"January 30: As part of the prosecution of Concord Management and Consulting, a court filing states that Russians leaked confidential evidence collected by the Mueller investigation."

Lolz

 

Back then the nation had geographical dividing lines and a fraction of the media we have today. If a civil war is within a span of a decade or so, geographical lines are not going to work. And like the slaves of Rome, forcing them to dress a certain way will only expose the fact there are more slaves than Romans, in Rome. One way I see this happening is entirely behind the scenes. Since we all have to occupy the same space, everything goes underground and Americans begin to spy on their neighbors as the Germans did in the late 30s, when Germany was in a 4-sided civil war of a sort.

In a factional war, attrition is not a guaranteed strategy unless you're willing to accept a LOT of collateral damage/casualties. The American civil war was one of the last conflicts that had men marching toward each other in ordered rows, ripe for mechanized slaughter. If I was to accept a current era civil war, I'd expect it to be largely a cold war with lots of unexplained bodies and suicides (similar to Arkans-cide, only they actually kill themselves).

I wonder how the manipulations of the media will be repaid.

 

Its already a civil war in the sense that Donald Duck is fully prepared to declare himself emperor for life, and never had even the support of his own party leaders, while the democrats have helped the republicans dismantle all our democratic protections for the last twenty years. If neither party can actually represent the will of the majority, chaos is the only possible result and the Pentagon may be forced to step in. All the bullshit professional wrestling smack talk cannot hide the simple fact our votes have been rigged, our constitution shredded, and the majority of people no longer feel represented by either party.

Either our political system can promote the will of the majority, or there can be no peace, and this civil war will be between entrenched wealthy interests, playing the mindless mob against each other in the mass media. For over twenty years republicans have been given free reign to do almost anything they want, and they will not back down easily now that Donald Duck has given them a false sense of hope that they can actually overthrow our government. They could easily become the largest terrorist threat the US has ever known. In a very real sense, fundamentalists are never happy without enemies, and create them if necessary, because divide and conquer is all they know how to do if they can't get everything they demand.

 

What's interesting about that is the reliance on older (but proven) technology. There's a story in the press about the bombers projected to be used up to 2040. On the list is the B1 and B-2 as you'd expect, but also the B-52! Only 12 more years to 2052 and it will be the only bomber in service for an entire century.

Let that sink in.

It represents something significant. While the US does indeed sell a lot of arms, the customers are still vulnerable to to a flying museum. So the best technology is not what's being sold. Instead it seems more like all the weapons makers colluded into making equipment that LOOKS more advanced and does more tricks, but is still basically 19th century technology, with night vision. That nut in Germany the other day seemed to be using a US Vietnam-era M-79 grenade launcher.

But the B-52 really spells out the absurdity of arms dealing if it's a threat to them, and it is. It has no stealth capabilities. Every fighter plane in the world can catch it. It gets terrible fuel economy and must be refueled in air every 8000 miles. Regardless, my real point is that the weapons being sold are fueling regional and localized conflicts that never make the news. The weapons industry is likely driving enough of these conflicts to guarantee yearly bonuses for the sales teams.

It's disgusting.

 

Pilots call themselves "bus drivers" and a B52 is a great example of a "truck" in the sky. It was designed for carpet bombing. You don't send in just one B52 usually, but many, and the ordinance doesn't even have to hit the target accurately, because its designed to level the entire neighborhood like a steam roller. Such a plane doesn't have to change, because it has a simple job to do, but it is still a plane, and air warfare is less than a century old. A revolver is similar, in that its a simple design someone came up with early that is incredibly durable, almost never jambs or misfires, and does the trick because its designed for close quarters and doesn't require a lot of accuracy. However, without the fighters jets to clear the path, the B52 is a giant target in the sky.

It normally takes two or three days for the fighters to knock out all the radar on the ground and, if they can, knock all the competition out of the sky. Once you control the air, winning on the ground is merely a question of time, especially if you use carpet bombing. WWII Dresden was the worst case of carpet bombing that i know of, and the demange was worse than Hiroshima or Nagasaki. You can spend a fortune on an atomic bomb, or use more cheap ordinance for carpet bombing, and which it is depends on the situation. Note that the US did not control the airspace over Japan, when they sent a single bomber to each city.

The drones are next, and they can even be loaded and kept flying at high altitude indefinitely using solar power. The X37 is the fastest drone I know of, and has flown in orbit for over a year at a time. Forget about launching missiles, from orbit the ground is never more than a hundred miles away, and its all downhill. Note that nuclear weapons are banned from orbital platforms by international treaty and we have the equipment to detect their radiation. The newest Russian torpedoes can travel underwater at depths subs can't reach at roughly 350mph, leap out of the water when they hit the beach, and explode a nuclear bomb in front of the Statue of Liberty if you want. The USN has plans to put 40,000 drones in the ocean soon, but that's just a rough ballpark figure for starting out, and the number could eventually be five times that many. They can extract all the power they need from the water itself, like captain Nemo.

 

I recall that a WW1 bomber was called a Gun Bus, there's a movie by that name somewhere.

But what I was really getting at was that the advanced nations are building their own advanced nations while selling old-fashioned conventional technology to everyone else. This both fuels localized conflicts that empty national treasuries and keep those nations from advancing any weapons programs of their own.

The real future of warfare is in drones, but at some point it won't be as effective since drones are still prone to collateral damage on a substantial scale. However, if the target becomes civilian populations, drones will be all over it shooting everything that moves. Assassinations will still be key for taking out some figures, I think the Kurds just got a big dose of that.

The world learned the potential of drone warfare during Obama's administration. Which is why you have these second tier nations investing in drones. I saw where one was used to drop mortar rounds as bombs and it was basically a big RC plane (lots of plastic). Really though, weaponizing cheap drones is not especially difficult. However, their radio control frequencies are not difficult to jam. Still I think we're going to see more renegade drone use in the near future. One will probably fly into Trump's face at a rally.

Then the real witch hunt will start!

 

Its what's called the "Motel Syndrome" in industry. The first motels figured out real fast that one in a hundred people would totally trash out a room if it has single scratch in the paint or whatever. They learned to inspect every room on a regular basis for different criteria, and then rip out even the plumbing fixtures if necessary and sell them to a cheaper motel franchize. It was simply cheaper to that, then to have a room totally out of commission during the tourist season or whatever. Reagan's trickle down economics is nothing more than a chicken flock hierarchy. The rooster can't eat all the food, or he'd get fat, replaced by another rooster, or his hens would die, and roosters will sometimes find food and toss it in the air and make noise to alert the hens, who then organize themselves according to which has the higher ranks.

The Pentagon's worst nightmare is that the technology takes on a life of its own and some countries exploit that to upset the apple cart. A theory of everything could mean the rise of Nazi Germany and Japan again and, unsurprisingly, they are already building up their own militaries again. What other countries might be able to do with such a theory is unpredictable, but high tech does not make you invulnerable without that theory and they know it. Forget about drones, a theory of everything includes self-organizing systems logics that can even manipulate time in a wide variety of ways.

 

I think we'll be hit with a financial attack that wipes out the last of the 401K/IRA accounts, nullifies social security and turns real estate into millstone necklaces. The last of the baby boomers will lose everything, their kids will be saddled with debt and there will be nothing for anyone younger than 50. We almost got to see it happen in real time when GW Bush suggested privatizing social security and pre-tax retirement accounts. Imagine if he had pulled it off, right ahead of the recession that drove deep into Obama's presidency (he mentioned it often). It would have wiped everybody out. Everybody below the 1% anyway.

Learn how to make soap, liquor and firewood!

 

You could destroy every fucking computer in the world today, but the US military is equal to the next six to sixteen largest combined, and the Pentagon tells the banks what our money is worth. They also have the only EMP proof chips that anybody knows of, so its hard to see how they could all be destroyed. That's what the republican idiots have counted on all this time, is the fact that we are so powerful even Donald Duck cannot stop the Pentagon.

 

I don't see anything dividing us so much that it could lead to civil war. Something completely outrageous would have to happen.

 

Not as it was in 1861 for sure.

But domestic right wing terrorism will happen if Trump is impeached or he does not win in 2020. Either of these things will be the "left wing deep state" out to get him. The military is already planning for this. It's going to be a harsh line to cross. They know that it will change how people see them. They know that many in the ranks are Trump voters. The commanders need to uphold the idea of America and that means impeachments happen and elections are lost sometimes.

If it was different and the commanders felt it was a false impeachment they would not act. They know it is and in general they are sick of the disrespect Trump gives them. Left or right the president in the past has respected them and listened. That does not happen now. They have not acted until now since he did win an election and they honor that. They don't want the average NRA member to die. They want to let him use free speech.

There is an idea the military is overly right wing. Not really just overly in support of America.

 

Conservative maybe dumb, but they ain't stupid enough to not recognize when they've shot themselves in the foot. Donald Duck doesn't have a fucking chance, while conservatives are giving themselves ulcers because half of them recognize his insanity for what it is. The republican party doesn't exist anymore, and they will attack each other like the fucking cannibals they all are. Democrats need to encourage them to eat each other alive.