IIRC, India was splitting along religious lines, which always has the edge of violence with it.

If we wait too long the civil unrest in this country will effectively split the country anyway. It's coming.

The real question is when and how.

A civil war in this modern age would devastate much of the inner cities as cannibals with personal agin as their motivation would use the unrest to take and try for hold large pieces of real estate. The military would be thrown into the unrest and the inherent corruption in government would cause untenable disputes as to method, intention, and eventual goal.

Warlords would pop up and attempt to coalesce into para military forces which would tie up whatever local government was nominally in charge (think Nigeria) and the local population would suffer deprivation and violence unseen since the 1860's.

I don’t think we really want that. Up through 2019 the country was functioning very well despite our differences. Violence, hunger and deprivation are at an all time low given the whole history of mankind. We only imagine things are catastrophic (climate change! A new flu bug!) because all our basic needs are being met and we have to invent things to worry about.

The divide in this country has became cultural.  It is not technically about religion but it is about faith and belief as the foundation of culture. One side retains classic belief in the roots of the country (individualism, hard work, nuclear family, suspicion of government) and the other has embraced economic collectivism, identity politics, feminism and a fear of imminent doom from climate change. The divide is about the the way the country is run which affects everybody, it’s about how power should be wielded to achieve which goals.

A man and woman cannot be happily married unless they share basic values and goals.  Same with the two sides in America.  The basic most important value of the right is to be free to work and profit, and pursue happiness as they see fit.  The most important value of the typical leftist is to save the planet, because they’ve been brainwashed into believing we are on the edge of doom.  If not climate change, then a pandemic, or overpopulation. Because doom is right around the corner they look to an authority to save them: Government.  The elite in government don’t buy the doom lies but they use them to gain power over the whole country. 

The liberals in the cities don’t have a problem with this because they feel that controlling the whole country will keep their basic needs met.  The producers who are too busy providing for everyone don’t understand why the city dwellers insist on crippling their ability to produce because they don’t see evidence of this imminent doom (the sea levels haven’t risen).

The core belief about reality is different between the left and the right and like a married couple that won’t work.  We need a divorce.

But is this really true?  Or do most Americans just want to be left alone to work and enjoy life?  Whether in the city or not?  Many haven’t given it much thought but vote reflexively like their teachers or their friends or family tell them to.

We are being played!  The elite WANT us to think we have irreconcilable differences.  They want to push the right into violence so they can declare martial law, lock down the country and suspend elections (if they even have to given the cheating they’re planning in 2024].

The Biden admin etc want the right to try civil war. Don’t do it! 

They’ve (the liberal faculty) been gaslighted over several years.  Start with a false accusation, investigate it and keep it in the news cycle for a while.  When there is no evidence and nothing can be made of it, then use it to justify the next investigation based on another accusation.  Rinse repeat, and you are building an image of someone who must be guilty of something.  This is a very deliberate process of relentless character assassination.  Those who remain in the bubble of TDS aren’t even really aware of how they’ve been subconsciously manipulated.

Ignorance is bliss?

Unemployment Explined
COSTELLO:  I want to talk about the unemployment rate in America.
ABBOTT: Good Subject.  Terrible Times.  It's 5.6%.
COSTELLO:  That many people are out of work?
ABBOTT: No, that's 23%.
COSTELLO: You just said 5.6%.
ABBOTT:  5.6% Unemployed.
COSTELLO:  Right 5.6% out of work.
ABBOTT: No, that's 23%.
COSTELLO: Okay, so it's 23% unemployed.
ABBOTT: No, that's 5.6%.
COSTELLO: WAIT A MINUTE. Is it 5.6% or 23%?
ABBOTT: 5.6% are unemployed.  23% are out of work.
COSTELLO: If you are out of work you are unemployed.
ABBOTT: No, Biden said you can't count the "Out of Work" as the unemployed.  You have to look for work to be unemployed.
COSTELLO: BUT THEY ARE OUT OF WORK!!!
ABBOTT: No, you miss his point.
COSTELLO:  What point?
ABBOTT: Someone who doesn't look for work can't be counted with those who look for work.  It wouldn't be fair.
COSTELLO: To whom?
ABBOTT: The unemployed.
COSTELLO: But ALL of them are out of work.
ABBOTT: No, the unemployed are actively looking for work.
Those who are out of work gave up looking and if you give up, you are no longer in the ranks of the unemployed.
COSTELLO: So if you're off the unemployment roles that would count as less unemployment?
ABBOTT: Unemployment would go down Absolutely!
COSTELLO: The unemployment just goes down because you don't look for work?
ABBOTT: Absolutely it goes down. That's how it gets to 5.6%. Otherwise it would be 23%.
COSTELLO: Wait, I got a question for you. That means there are two ways to bring down the unemployment number?
ABBOTT: Two ways is correct.
COSTELLO: Unemployment can go down if someone gets a job?
ABBOTT: Correct.
COSTELLO: And unemployment can also go down if you stop looking for a job?
ABBOTT: Bingo.
COSTELLO: So there are two ways to bring unemployment down, and the easier of the two is to have people stop looking for work.
ABBOTT: Now you're thinking like a Democrat.
COSTELLO: I don't even know what the hell I just said..!
ABBOTT: Now you're thinking like Biden....

Just FYI, here's the warrant:
https://s.wsj.net/public/resources/documents/search-warrant-1100-S-Ocean-Blvd-08-12-2022.pdf

Note that the statutes cited as possibly violated are 18 U.S.C. §§ 793, 2071, or 1519.
Links to each of the statutes:

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/793
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2071
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1519

Except for 793 they are not lengthy reads.

I believe this is the statute that designates the President as final authority as to who is authorized to handle classified material:
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/798

Pure fishing expedition.  Everyone including the left knows the FBI is totally corrupt.  Everyone knows the left is desperate to neuter Trump.  Everyone knows the left is terrified of Trump because half the country is behind Trump with more leaving the Democrat party every day. The left’s ability to hold onto power by legitimate means is dwindling by the minute.  Their takeover with Biden puppet has been a complete disaster.  This is a desperation move by the left and likely to backfire.  Everything they’ve done to destroy Trump and the populist movement has failed and this will too.

I don’t see wasting time debating the perfesser as anything useful. 

He obviously enjoys paying the price for his avfuel, and he is probably relieved that gas prices are so high.  He’ll be overjoyed this winter when he tries to heat his home knowing these high prices are saving the environment.

Also, watching his savings evaporate must give him solace in knowing it was worth it to get that horrible man out of the WH. And knowing his tax burden is about to increase must make him smile knowing his money will go to climate change and funding foreign wars. 

 But the real joy is knowing his beloved democrat party no longer has to hide their true intent and ideology.  I’m sure the perfesser is beyond happy knowing he can now proudly proclaim his Marxism his party promotes.

Fair point.  I will amend my statement to say taking any illegal street drug is a choice.  But demonizing fentanyl is no more a solution than demonizing guns as the cause of gun deaths.  All it does is make it harder for everyone else to get it legally when they need it.  There’s nothing dangerous about fentanyl at all if you use it correctly. 

It’s just like making getting guns more difficult to get.  The criminal users still get them and use them and the law abiding are restricted.  You can’t stop the manufacture of illegal drugs any more than you can stop “ghost guns”.  But to try only brings more tyranny to the law abiding.  See my thread about how hard it was to get tramadol for my mother.

We need to solve the reason kids become addicts in the first place.  In the meantime make all drugs legal so that the manufacture is aboveboard and safe.  That’s what will stop the unintentional overdoses.

Why are kids resorting to drugs?  I think because nature intends teenagers to begin functioning as adults but our society thwarts them.  Instead of a Wisconsin boy being forced to sit in high school learning about white privilege and how he is to be blamed for all of society’s problems, a 14 year old should be apprenticing and learning a trade.  By 16 he should be earning money.  But we keep them in school til 18, all the while telling them their perfectly normal sex drive is something to be ashamed of and any overture to a girl is sexist misogyny at best and criminal harassment at worst, and then we require them to go to college for four years, never beginning to function in any self sufficient way until well into their 20s.  To boot, we tell them to major in useless crap so they graduate in debt and flipping burgers with their degree in “art theory for the gender fluid”.  This is what boys are being told to look forward to, instead of nurturing their natural drive to work with their hands, be productive and start developing their identity as future provider and protector to a nice female.  Don’t dare hope for that!  Women don’t want or need you anymore, they’ll get their own career thankyouverymuch and if you do manage to ever have sex with one and she gets pregnant and doesn’t suck it into a sink you can look forward to financial ruin, if you ever manage to get any finances to start with.

Are we really wondering why kids are hopeless these days?  Half the time they’ve already been made addicts to ADHD drugs by the time they’re in their teens.  And the girls, what girls dream about most is babies, it’s a biological urge, but THAT is squashed real fast. Don’t you dare want a man and a family.  That’s patriarchal oppression.  Men are toxic, to be avoided at all costs.  Unless of course you discover that you yourself are in fact male, and you need to search on the internet how to find a clinic that will start you on hormones and schedule the surgical removal of your budding titties. But whatever you do, do NOT imagine yourself a stay at home mom raising babies, that’s the quintessential definition of evil.

By early teen years both girls and boys are designed by nature to have these drives - for males to work and provide for, for the reward of sex, and females to be protected by someone strong, and snuggle little babies - but today’s culture COMPLETELY denies teens validation of these basic evolutionary instincts. And we wonder why they come apart at the seams and get into drugs.

Stop demonizing an inanimate substance as if it can jump into your veins without your assistance and instead address all the causes of these hopelessly confused and misguided kids resorting to escaping to street drugs.

Do t get me started on what we are doing to our boys and girls. You hit on all my points. Boys are being medicated because they are acting like boys. My brother was a Boy Scout Leader for I think 12 years, and at all times he said at least half the troops’s boys were medicated, and as scout leader HE had to administer them. Madness!  Some parents look at scouting as a weekend off from having to deal with their autistic son, so my brother then had to deal with their autistic son.

We have feminized boys almost to the point of no return. I see football and most sports disappearing in the next 20 years, because boys are either too afraid or too disinterested to participate or push themselves.

Where is the IRS getting money to buy arms, they haven't money to investigate tax fraud?  Successive GOP administrations have so badly neutered the IRS that I think you can get away with just about anything.  A pity, I've read for every dollar spent on the IRS 7$ in taxes are recovered.

So far as I know if the IRS really wants to collect taxes they call the Federal Marshals, who are most definitely and rather heavily armed.

In my 17 years as a Deputy U.S. Marshal I never once collect a tax. Did I arrest people who for years failed to pay taxes with a warrant drawn up with probable cause by a U.S. Attorney signed by a federal judge? Yes. But never did the IRS send us to collect taxes. The U.S. Marshal Service enforces court orders. If the court ordered us seize property or assests after due process in a tax matter, we did. But that is far from collecting taxes.