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You are here: Home / Open Threads / Late Night Open Thread: Fare Thee Well, #Second Civil War… UNTIL…

Late Night Open Thread: Fare Thee Well, #Second Civil War… UNTIL…

by Anne Laurie|  July 5, 20182:13 am| 40 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, #notintendedtobeafactualstatement, Both Sides Do It!, Clown Shoes, Riveted By The Sociological Significance Of It All

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I don't know how they did it, but the Grucci family spelled out #ImpeachTrump in fireworks over Montauk. The crowd went nuts! Boats sounded their horns. On a distant astral plane, John Adams cheered. Wow! A true #IndependenceDay tribute to freedom, free of fascism. #Resist ????

— Tom Watson (@tomwatson) July 5, 2018

It could've been the Montauk summer ale. But I could've sworn!

— Tom Watson (@tomwatson) July 5, 2018

And we all had such hopes!…

Alex Jones promised me a civil war today. Last time I trust that guy.

— (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) July 4, 2018

I was able to procure the beverage of battle (an iced coffee) without incident.

I’m beginning to think Civil War II might be the Y2K of armed insurrections.

— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) July 4, 2018

Dearest Mother,
I have, as you bid me, gone to the war to become a man. The fortunes of that conflict have brought me in contact with the female of the species, as I so fondly hoped. The encounter was not the transport of masculine joy you led me to expect. #secondcivilwarletters pic.twitter.com/8JoAWo1ykj

— WeaponizedHat (@Popehat) July 3, 2018

There seem to have been multiple competing hashtags. Since I try to stay out of the fever swamps, Rick Wilson and his fellow NeverTrumpers have the nastier takes I’ve seen…

(Note: Don’t miss the kicker at the very end of this string!)

The Battle of Bullshit Run rages.

— Caleb Howe (@CalebHowe) July 4, 2018

The Ken Burns Second Civil War (aka The Incel – Kekistanian Uprising: No One Gets Laid, Everyone Gets Fucked) documentary is going to be lit.

— Space Force Admiral Hogweed (@TheGiantHogweed) July 3, 2018

I have surrounded my home with a wall made from Hillary Clinton's emails since none of the MAGAs can get over them. God willing, I won't run out of avocados and my wifi service will go uninterrupted. #SecondCivilWar

— Demetrius (@Leo_theprince) July 4, 2018


My battalion is out of fresh- squeezed organic carrot~OJ combo. We are forced to drink straight Prosecco. #poor #pour #pore #TheStruggleIsReal

— Patricia Suflita Wilson (@pilarwish) July 4, 2018

Dear Ma-

We were holding strong after the last salvo from @TeenVogue but then the dictionary came after us and our ranks have broken and we ran, as we are, to a man, afraid of the written word and pointy headed intellectuals.

Yours always,
Jethro Dull#civilwarletters https://t.co/W9e6198WaK

— Dirty Computer (@Johngcole) July 4, 2018

The deployment of the Trumpjugend forces in their technicals came as a shock. So young, yet so fierce and fit.

As we closed in on Washington these battles left my men feeling the cost of this war to our souls would be higher than any man could count.#secondcivilwarletters pic.twitter.com/SjxsOKLPPm

— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) July 4, 2018

Sooooo…

It's been moved to Tuesday, November 6th.

— lizwoolf (@lizwoolf) July 4, 2018

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  1. 1.

    Mnemosyne

    July 5, 2018 at 2:42 am

    I am so fucking sick of the whole “Nazis were socialists because it’s in their name, libtards!” I guess these people think that North Korea is really a democracy — after all, its official name is the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, so it MUST be a democracy. After all, it says so right in the name!

  2. 2.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    July 5, 2018 at 2:56 am

    @Mnemosyne: …or there’s the German Democratic Republic(DDR, aka East Germany).

  3. 3.

    Duane

    July 5, 2018 at 2:59 am

    How about Democrats are the real rascists because… Robert Byrd and something else. See? Hey put that US history book down. Fake history!

  4. 4.

    NotMax

    July 5, 2018 at 3:00 am

    @Mnemosyne

    Not to mention the green in Greenland or the great in Great Britain.

    :)

  5. 5.

    NotMax

    July 5, 2018 at 3:10 am

    9 p.m. and only a couple of dozen desultory and widely spaced booms way. way off in the distance. No firecracker sounds, none of those especially noisy and noisome 100,000 cracker coils. Never heard it so quiet on July 4, including years when it was raining. Local fire department must be in seventh heaven.

  6. 6.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    July 5, 2018 at 3:10 am

    @NotMax: Great Britain is the larger of the two British Isles.

  7. 7.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    July 5, 2018 at 3:12 am

    @NotMax: They’re still going off here, but in the distance. I’m keeping the door closed to muffle the sound, though I need to open it soon since it’s going to be hot later today.

  8. 8.

    NotMax

    July 5, 2018 at 3:13 am

    @BillinGlendaleCA

    Don’t harsh the snark!

    ;)

  9. 9.

    Bess

    July 5, 2018 at 3:13 am

    Is there anything of interest to see on Lesser Britain?

  10. 10.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    July 5, 2018 at 3:14 am

    @NotMax: The explosions have thrown off my snark detector.

  11. 11.

    NotMax

    July 5, 2018 at 3:20 am

    @BillinGlendaleCA

    Stay frosty.

    ;)

  12. 12.

    NotMax

    July 5, 2018 at 3:28 am

    Intermittently watching a German science fiction movie on Amazon Prime, Cargo Space Is Cold, which should be better than it is but will give them credit for a coherent, well structured story (not rife with technobabble, thankfully) and decent special effects.

  13. 13.

    Amir Khalid

    July 5, 2018 at 3:29 am

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:
    Wikipedia says there are quite a few more than two British Isles; and, interestingly, that not everyone living on them agrees to that name:

    The British Isles are a group of islands off the north-western coast of continental Europe that consist of the islands of Great Britain, Ireland, the Isle of Man and over six thousand smaller isles.

    … The Government of Ireland does not recognise or use the term and its embassy in London discourages its use. As a result, Britain and Ireland is used as an alternative description, and Atlantic Archipelago has had limited use among a minority in academia, while British Isles is still commonly employed. Within them, they are also sometimes referred to as these islands.

  14. 14.

    BC in Illinois

    July 5, 2018 at 3:30 am

    One skirmish.
    The 4th of July parade in Webster Groves (very suburban St Louis county) featured both the local “Moms Demand Action for common sense gun laws” group . . . and the NRA.

    The Moms group was overwhelmed by the turnout. 200-300 people showed up. The parade organizers said that they couldn’t have that many — maybe 50-100 max — so they asked the group if some of them would go to other parts of the parade. Some went to march with the Clair McCaskill group. Some came to march with the Mark Osmack for Congress group, others to Wesley Bell, Cori Bush, other local candidates.

    Withe the result . . . the Moms group was still impressive, with at least 100-150 marchers — greeted with cheers and standing ovations along the line. (No not everyone, certainly, but there was enough positive enthusiasm that all the marchers felt great. Facebook and Twitter pictures all day. All in all, a 2 1/2 mile walk in a heat advisory, and a great day.

    Oh . . . and the NRA was there. Discussion on the news in the days before the parade was about whether they would be open-carrying during the parade (totally legal in Missouri; no background checks, no nothing). They said they wouldn’t. Concealed carry? There’s no way to know. (Totally legal in Missouri; no permits, no checks, no nothing.) They showed up with a huge (military surplus?) camo-painted truck. 20 marchers –mostly riding on the truck — lots of flags, Trump/Pense shirts, and a sign that said “Guns save lives–stop the hysteria.”

    And the pictures are of people turning their backs as they rode by, anti-NRA signs and thumbs down.

    125 days to Election Day. And the local Rep — Ann Wagner (R – safe Republican vote) — needs the votes of Webster Groves in order to win. And it is true that you can’t tell everything from one parade. But for today, the skirmish went to the good guys.

  15. 15.

    Tony Jay

    July 5, 2018 at 3:34 am

    @Bess:

    The southern Less Britons have had a theme park of sorts running there since the 1920s. It had the usual issues with lack of opportunities for women and minorities but they’ve brought in new management and things are improving.

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    NotMax

    July 5, 2018 at 3:34 am

    @Amir Khalid

    The Channel Islands exist in a weird sort of limbo governmental confabulation.

  17. 17.

    Amir Khalid

    July 5, 2018 at 3:36 am

    @NotMax:
    Global warming will soon make Greenland green. Bringing greatness to Britain will be somewhat trickier, especially with a that Tory government.

  18. 18.

    NotMax

    July 5, 2018 at 3:41 am

    @Amir Khalid

    soon make Greenland green

    Mmmm. Qaqortoq peaches. Now that’ll be good eatin’.

    :)

  19. 19.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    July 5, 2018 at 3:51 am

    @Amir Khalid: I was aware of there being quite a few islands in the group and Ireland’s distaste for the term “Lesser Britain”. I’m in the position you were when you were waiting on your latest fix for your guitar addiction; I’m awaiting delivery of a new(to me) camera.

  20. 20.

    NotMax

    July 5, 2018 at 4:28 am

    @NotMax

    Correction. A Swiss science fiction movie. Credit where it is due.

  21. 21.

    SRW1

    July 5, 2018 at 5:34 am

    Somehow one can’t help the impression that Merriam-Webster was not impressed by Trump’s claim of having the best words and decided to start a counter offensive by butting in on the one true Trumpian area of expertise: the comb over.

    Sneaky bastards.

  22. 22.

    Bruce K

    July 5, 2018 at 6:02 am

    @Mnemosyne: I’ve gotten some of that, too – last year some jackass called me “ignorantly misinformed” for not “knowing” that. I replied by referencing Niemoller and linking to Amazon’s page for Shirer’s Rise and Fall, and he got shirty about my being “triggered”. I’m sorry, but my mom and dad were both around for the whole of that war, and Mom was in one of the countries the Nazis invaded, so I have zero patience for people trying to troll on that topic, especially now that the threat is becoming more obvious.

    As an aside to the gang: would it be considered offensive these days to refer to the Confederate battle flag as the Hillbilly Hakenkreuz?

  23. 23.

    SFAW

    July 5, 2018 at 6:10 am

    @Bruce K:

    last year some jackass called me “ignorantly misinformed”

    And that asshole was “well misinformed”?

    It’s as if the entire lot o’ them are Dunning-Kruger adherents.

  24. 24.

    SFAW

    July 5, 2018 at 6:14 am

    @Bruce K:

    As an aside to the gang: would it be considered offensive these days to refer to the Confederate battle flag as the Hillbilly Hakenkreuz?

    Well, you capitalized it, so it’s probably NOT uncivil of you. Lower case, on the other hand, would not give those racist, fascist assholes all the respect they deserve.

  25. 25.

    boatboy_srq

    July 5, 2018 at 6:23 am

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Also bigger than Bretagne (aka Lesser Britain).

  26. 26.

    leeleeFL

    July 5, 2018 at 6:50 am

    Aa a Long Island Girl from way back, I wish the Grucci post waa true.. Felix Grucci was a Republican, but not a nutcase, as I remember.

  27. 27.

    hueyplong

    July 5, 2018 at 7:03 am

    @Bruce K: I’m stealing Hillbilly Hakenkreuz and I’m not giving any credit.

  28. 28.

    Darrin Ziliak (formerly glocksman)

    July 5, 2018 at 7:20 am

    A letter that I found outside Golden Corral.

    Dearest Mother,

    I am ready to avenge the Bowling Green Massacre.

    My unit, the 101st Chairborne, is under the command of SS-Sturmbannführer Steve Bannon, a proven warrior in the fight against the Resistance and the Elders of Zion.

    We are eagerly awaiting the arrival of Meal Team Six, our special forces unit.

    Once they arrive, we attack and I can earn the EK in battle against the Resistance.

    I will write again soon.
    Give my love to all our quiverfull children.

    With Love,
    Private no-Class Michael Pence
    #SecondCivilWar
    #secondcivilwarletters

  29. 29.

    debbie

    July 5, 2018 at 7:26 am

    @Mnemosyne:

    Even better: Glenn Beck’s proof that Progressives are Communists is that one of Lenin’s aides told fearful Russians that everything wouldn’t change overnight; change would occur in progressive steps.

    Seriously.

  30. 30.

    zhena gogolia

    July 5, 2018 at 7:50 am

    This thing about Twitler wanting to invade Venezuela, along with recognizing Putin’s invasion of Crimea, makes me really nervous. He wants to BE Putin. That’s what strong leaders do, invade other sovereign nations!

  31. 31.

    different-church-lady

    July 5, 2018 at 8:10 am

    @NotMax: …and the United in United States.

  32. 32.

    Sloane Ranger

    July 5, 2018 at 9:41 am

    @boatboy_srq: Yep. I was always taught that we were Great Britain to distinguish us from Bretagne (Brittany). During the Brexit campaign I spent a lot of time yelling obscenities at idiots urging people to vote leave and put the Great back into Great Britain.

  33. 33.

    Tokyokie

    July 5, 2018 at 10:31 am

    @NotMax:

    Not to mention the green in Greenland or the great in Great Britain.

    On the other hand, despite all the volcanoes, I totally get the ice in Iceland.

  34. 34.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    July 5, 2018 at 10:32 am

    The Battle of Bullshit Run rages.

    Heard from the MAGA side “There stands Alex Jones like a sack of excrement”

    Dark days for the Republic. Michael Shaara is planning a new book “Gods and Grifters”

  35. 35.

    JAFD

    July 5, 2018 at 11:20 am

    @Amir Khalid: Eamon de Valera’s preferred term was ‘Isles of the North Atlantic’ – Iona for short.

  36. 36.

    ealbert

    July 5, 2018 at 11:23 am

    I always thought Great Britain (Greater Britain) referred to the multiple countries (territories) that make it up, in the same way we refer to ‘the greater (city name)’ area.

    Oh well, learn something new.

  37. 37.

    Spanky

    July 5, 2018 at 11:33 am

    @schrodingers_cat:

    What are they doing in Russia?

    Visiting their balls is all I can figure. Had the American press been there maybe they could have reported whether they (the balls) were all in a vise or not.

  38. 38.

    J R in WV

    July 5, 2018 at 3:44 pm

    @Sloane Ranger:

    “During the Brexit campaign…”

    That’s a real puzzler for me. We’ve visited Europe twice, and both times remarked on how crossing national borders was like crossing state lines in the US. If you weren’t watching you might miss it. As a child I was disappointed that going into Ohio or Virginia was so not interesting. Same with New Years and birthdays, nothing different on the other side.

    And now the English are working against everything that’s kept a continent that saw bloody constant warfare for centuries at peace now for 73 years, longer than any period of peace on the European continent in written history. And Trump is working against the other holder of the peace, NATO.

    Putin owns the brexit people and he owns Traitor-Trump, and he obviously owns a lot of the leaders of the Republican treason party.

  39. 39.

    MoxieM

    July 5, 2018 at 3:52 pm

    @Bruce K: Great idea! It’s not very “haken” visually speaking, but the verb form haken can take the meaning to be stuck. Plus it makes all kinds of sense, and it sounds great!

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