House of South Carolina judge criticized by Trump administration set ablaze
House of South Carolina judge criticized by Trump administration set ablaze
House of South Carolina Judge Criticized by Trump Administration Burns Down
The home of South Carolina Circuit Court judge Diane Goodstein was set on fire after she had reportedly received death threats.
State law enforcement is investigating the house fire on Edisto Beach which began at around 11:30 a.m. E.T. on Saturday, sources told local news outlet FITSNews.
Goodstein was reportedly not at home at the time of the fire, but at least three members of her family, including her husband, former Democratic state senator Arnold Goodstein, and their son, have been hospitalized with serious injuries. According to the St. Paul’s Fire District, which responded to the scene, the occupants had to be rescued via kayak. Law enforcement have not disclosed whether the fire is being investigated as an arson attack.
We’re already in the first throes of the Second American Civil War, we just haven’t started calling it that yet
Edit: throws to throes because I’m a dumb southern hillbilly
January 6th, 2021
Election Day, 1994, when Newt Gingrich and the Republicans took control of Congress with the Contract With America, and started the polarization that led to the Tea Party, and then to MAGA.
*Throes
Thank you
If this is a civil war, then what are the two sides? Where are the front lines?
Texas is sending their troops (National Guard) to Oregon to fight people in Portland.
That’s not how civil wars work anymore, it’ll be akin to a Balkanization where there are multiple different factions, upstart states, militias and insurgencies. The second will be nothing like the first. The Syrian civil war is a decent smaller scale modern example
Edit: if you’d like a good idea of what it will look like I HIGHLY recommend the fist season of the excellent podcast It Could Happen Here by Robert Evans. It’s from 2019 but wildly prescient
Yeah, the 60s had more violence and tensions than now. A civil war requires actually distinct combatants engaged in combat. That doesn't exist as of now.
Just because red states have blue cities and blue states have rural red areas doesn't mean we won't divide down red state / blue state lines. States and their respective sides weren't homogenous during the first civil war either. Texas took a vote on whether or not to secede, and something like 1/3 of the state voted to stay in the union. Maryland considered seceding, so the federal government immediately occupied it so that DC wasn't cut off from the union.
We are already seeing balkanization with states forming coalitions on climate change action and vaccination guidance. What I'm still unclear of is whether blue states will secede or whether they will attempt to root out an illegitimate regime.
Modern wars lack defined front lines – just look at Ukraine and the accompanying conflict between Europe and Moscow.
While historically there has been only peace and war, nowadays cold and hybrid wars are states between peace and (hot) war that are real.
The current state of the US is not the hybrid state of the Second US Civil War, btw, it's the North American theater of the hybrid state of WWIII.
I hope WWIII will be resolved before it gets too hot.
Those are real 20th century metrics for a war.
I'll edit to add this article about someone in the Whitehouse thinking we're in a civil war