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This shouldn't surprise anyone. Predators hide in places that give them access and protection. Look at the Catholic Church. Look at Penn State. Look at our education system. Be ready for what's coming.

Yeah, that's completely inaccurate. You'll have to explain yourself. No, Joe. It's protected speech because it's protected speech, no matter who says it, prince or pauper. As to the rest, your hatred and accompanying projection is showing.

No, Joe. We don't have to tolerate people blowing things up. That's a crime, and we can investigate and prosecute. That's also not on the agenda of your typical left leaning individual or Democrat. It's no where near their agenda. They're likely horrified by it. That's on the agenda of the radicals around the fringes, as I mentioned. It's protected speech.

John McCain is a traitor to this nation who has, over the course of the last decade and longer, sacrificed American lives by intentionally guiding us into war in order to secure his seat of power and secure a fiefdom for his rule. He is the father of ISIS, and a facilitator of both false flags and actual chemical weapons attacks in Syria towards those ends. He is not a good American. He's the worst kind of American. I'm not asking you to believe me. What's coming will demonstrate exactly that. Now, to address this post: The rhetoric has changed and escalated. We're at the point where violence is being advocated. Once it begins, there is no turning back.

My sides hurt...

Appologies. I think it stems from the fact that it blew through 9-11 Truther territory and on to Zionist Flat Earth conspiracy so fast that everyone was completely caught off guard.

Worse, he's saying that he doesn't care if what he's posting is accurate, because he's completely disinterested in being correct, but instead would rather win with lies.

I understand why you'd want to intellectually minimize what I'm expressing, but I assure you the problem is real. Violence doesn't begin with the majorities. Look to the majorities for the normalization and acceptance of political violence done on their behalf. Then look to the fringes for the violence to begin.

The left is just like you. They want to live in comfort, start families, raise children, retire, and grow old with their loved ones. We all want the exact same things. The problem is that people have forgotten this, because they've been systematically encouraged to think of people who disagree politically as enemies rather than neighbors who have different opinions. No one wants blood in the streets, with the narrow exception of true radicals on the fringes, and those in power whom civil war would protect from legal retribution for their myriad of crimes. We are all people, Joe. We all bleed when cut. People need to remember our shared humanity, and then remind others.

This is where the powder lies. The ground is being made fertile for civil war by the political class who knows they are about to face reckoning. They are doing it to protect themselves. Which is why the People can't take their cues from their leaders here. If we want peace, we must seek it ourselves.

You are 100% correct that for years, at least since Newt Gingrich's days as speaker, though probably longer, rhetoric on both sides has ratcheted up. Occupying the same time, political hypocrisy (on both sides) and left-leaning media bias have been annoyances and points of frustration. However annoyances and points of frustration were all they were. They stymied real leaders who may have been able to work together to build solutions to our problems, and made partisanship advantageous, but that's all. It is, however, a progression, and since the election of President Trump, it's really progressed at a startling rate. Violence and activism which used to occur only on college campuses has spread, is spreading, and is becoming normalized as a legitimate course of action; and on campus it has actually become consistently violent. The left had convinced itself that through changing demographics it had the continuous right to rule; and it was not prepared for the notion that the country, outside of traditional coastal liberal strongholds, actually rejects it's ideas. It's reaction to this reality is staggering. Libertarians, conservatives, and Republicans are no longer individuals they simply disagree with on policy; but instead are actual Nazi's who must be battled in the public square, because actual Nazi's deserve the violence they beget. This is an important change to consider. It's not simply the normalization of political violence, but the insistence that violence is the correct answer because those on the receiving end deserve the violence, and have it coming to them. This is new, and it is incredibly dangerous.

Real, true, reciprocated love is such a difficult thing to find. I'm glad they found it, and I'm even more glad we live in a society which permits individuals to find such a love, and to act upon it, regardless of who they are, where they come from, or whom they share that love with.

We can't do jokes anymore? Shame. I like jokes. I believe in just law, Joe; and I believe in rights. I believe that people have the right to do things I don't like, and that it's my job as a responsible citizen to make arguments which convince others that freedom is the best course of human action and that, at a minimum, civil discourse is better than blood in the streets. I believe that most people are inclined to agree with that, given that chance; and I believe if rational actors are given a voice we can step away from the precipice. We live in dangerous times, Joe.

About six miles behind you.

Read your history.

Steps to prevent a civil war logically cannot include things that happen as part of a civil war, like rounding up dissenters, purging media, and ceasing to protect the First Amendment rights of political actors you disagree with. That's how to escalate, not de-escalate.

We have come to a point where the political left is engaging in Brown Shirt tactics, and is being encouraged to do so by it's leaders. Former CIA heads are comparing border detention policies, nearly uniform with those of the prior administration, to death camps. Members of Congress are advocating action just short of riots and violence. There have been Republican members of the House and Senate shot and beaten for their political views as this has escalated. We are now at a point where media members are questioning whether people who support the President should be permitted to work in their chosen profession, where conservative ideas are being no-platformed both in social media, new media, and in live speaking engagements, and condemned as bigoted not on intellectual merits, but because "we said so, shut up", and where right leaning people who dare to express any ideas running counter to the left's narratives are being literally chased from businesses, sometimes assaulted, for simply existing in those spaces. What I, and others here, are trying to explain is that the veil of civility is being shredded, and political violence is being encouraged. Tom mentioned "Bleeding Kansas", and he's spot on. People need to wake up and realize what they're doing. This isn't a Hollywood movie. This **** has real world consequences. Look at historical norms of this sort of thing, and it always leads to the same place. It's not a place anyone wants to live in.

So you're another moron who wants to have a civil war then?

No. I mean republicans and monarchists. Which is why I said republicans and monarchists.

Greg, do you have a link for this? My formatting is broken again.

"Vaginal screaming" sounds like something incredible unpleasant to be around.

I was hoping my edit from "exists" to "exits" would have landed before anyone had the chance to quote me. For great shame it did not.

He can plead the 5th all he wants. They have all the evidence they need to crush him like a bug. His best hope is to cut a massive deal and roll over on those above him in order to lessen the charges against him.

At first I cringed at this, but then after reflecting on it, it's probably the best thing that could happen. Conservatives hold the Court, and by replacing old Origionalists with what will hopefully be comparably young Origionalists, conservatives will hold the Court for at least another 20 years. If Ginsberg exits at some point in the next 5 years, that's the cherry on the Sundae.