Is America On The Verge Of The Next Civil War

[00:00:00] Hello, hi, welcome back to the Survival and Basic Badass Podcast, Kevin and Chuck. Today, well, we're going to talk Civil War. There's been a lot of talk, I say a lot of talk, a little talk all over Twitter.

[00:00:28] I guess it's a lot on Twitter, a little bit in the rest of America. Twitter, there's all the Russian bots, so they keep it going. Yeah, you got to keep things amped up. Amped up, you got to keep things going.

[00:00:41] What happened is about a week ago, week and a half ago, New York jury convicted Donald Trump at 34 felony counts for falsification. Now, right out of the gate, let me talk about that for a second. 34 counts, but what he did is he did one thing.

[00:01:01] He lied one time and then wrote 34 checks. So they're like, well, each time he wrote a check, he made that lie bigger, I guess. To me, that's kind of ridiculous, but whatever. It's about campaign contributions. Keeping money out of politics is the biggest problem in the United States.

[00:01:26] It's the same as the whole Capone thing. Well, we got him for mail fraud every time he ... I mean, it just is like, yeah, but that's because you couldn't do it any other way.

[00:01:37] I bet if they had somebody, they were like, well, how'd we get Capone when we had no evidence? Oh, we had to think outside the box. You've got to think outside the box. People felt- You can also not break the law. I mean, that's also a possibility.

[00:01:53] This is America. America. We can do what we want. Rich people don't have to suffer consequences for breaking the law. Exactly. So I don't know. There was a bunch of stuff on Twitter, a bunch of Trump's ... I don't know.

[00:02:09] Just calling for civil war and saying, yeah, we need civil war. But I don't think people really know what that means. I don't think people understand the concept of what civil war is. Or Russian bots probably do. Exactly.

[00:02:29] We're going to talk about why Americans are pissed, because I think there's a lot of legitimate concerns that people have. There is a pretty good divide in America right now. Now, I believe that the news and social media may be making that divide bigger, amplifying it.

[00:02:52] We're not just saying, bots and everybody else pissed at us. Democrats. Yeah, I mean, everybody knows that rage bait sells. Right. AI may be trying to bring down America. I can't really be sure.

[00:03:07] I do want to say before we get too far into it, make sure you guys like and subscribe because we don't want you to miss a thing. We appreciate you being here. But here is the case I would make.

[00:03:20] And again, you may be on different sides of some of these issues. We don't all have to agree on everything. But giving tons of money that we don't have to Ukraine, all right? That has people a little bit concerned. That's a thought.

[00:03:36] The schools appear to be a little bit overrun with crazy. At least that's how it's portrayed on social media. I don't know what the reality is. I don't have little kids in school. I do know I keep hearing statistics.

[00:03:50] And again, it could be stuff to just get people hyped up or whatever. But 30% of kids in elementary school don't know what gender they are. So that would concern people. Right. That's probably California. That's right.

[00:04:03] California and the rest of the country were like, yeah, we don't know what you're talking about. It's 90% in California and everybody else is fine. But right. You know, but that's whatever. You know, people are confused. All right. But people feel like, hey, you're taking my tax dollars.

[00:04:18] I can't spend them where I want. And you'd like to pay for private. Really? All right. And I have nothing left. Right. But aside of that, you know, that's not really exactly how it works. But if you understand inflation, it kind of makes sense. All right.

[00:04:52] The endless money printing. Right. Inflation. We're all kind of noticing it. And I don't know if you guys are following the news as much, but Saudi Arabia is basically off the gold back dollar thing.

[00:05:05] So that's kind of a big deal that's going to affect things dramatically in the very near future. And I feel like we're waiting for them to make a move so they can make a move because

[00:05:16] turns out foreign governments who go away from the gold back dollar have a way of finding themselves dead. It's kind of like when you the Clintons, you know, it's the same type of thing. Right. You just wait one morning, you know. Yeah. I mean, Gaddafi. Saddam.

[00:05:36] There's a few anyway. Red flag laws. I feel like maybe other people aren't as bothered by red flag laws as I am. But to me, that's like a personal affront against like the Constitution and, you know, just everything in general is like, hey, you have no rights.

[00:05:54] I'm just going to take away your shit and then you can come up with a reason why I should give them back. To me, that's pretty big encroachment. Right. Congressional insider trading. Right. All these guys getting rid of Hunter's laptop.

[00:06:12] Now I know Hunter got convicted for some stupid gun and drug charges and whatever. And realistically, probably what would have happened to anybody. I don't think it was more lenient because of him being Biden's guy or whatever. But well, being a Biden. Right.

[00:06:28] We could put it that way. But the thing is, what about that laptop with all that kind of bigger conspiracy stuff? Nothing. You know, we lost. They said it passed through so many hands that nobody can confirm that he was involved with

[00:06:47] any of the stuff that's on there could have been put on there by anybody. And that's why it's like, because the FBI doesn't know anything about chain of custody or how to do that. Right. They could have done anything with it. Yeah. All right.

[00:07:05] So that's where I'm at on that. Now, I do want to let me see. I do wonder that people don't really know. Like they don't get motivated for things. And I think that's the biggest thing.

[00:07:21] My biggest point here is I don't think civil war will happen because people don't really react to stuff and they're a bunch of cowards. I'm not saying I'm calling out, you know, I just say I'm not encouraging civil war because I don't think it's the right answer.

[00:07:38] And I'm going to lay out a case for that in the end here. But I also I don't want to say that I think it would even happen because I think people are are slow to react on things.

[00:07:52] I guess my big one is do you guys remember Edward Snowden? Mm hmm. It turns out this guy risked everything, basically committed treason. It's kind of like our founding fathers committed treason. It's like you go all out and either you're a hero or you're a villain.

[00:08:14] And pretty much we took him as a villain because the people didn't have his back. It's all about the population. Right. Yeah. And he was as fucking on you, fucking you over and spying on you. And Americans are like, yeah, I know. That's fine. It's fine.

[00:08:31] Do I just keep electing the same asshole to Congress? That's fine. Do I play a clip? I have a two minute clip of Snowden, but is that too long? Will everyone panic on me? Nope. I want to hear it. We want to hear Snowden. All right.

[00:08:44] So here's Snowden a little bit after. The question I wanted to see is if you could give me a yes or no answer to the question, does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans? No, sir. It does not.

[00:09:05] Not wittingly. There are cases where they could inadvertently perhaps collect, but not not wittingly. So that was a lie. Wyden knew it was a lie. Clapper knew it was a lie. He actually admitted it was a lie after I came forward three months later.

[00:09:29] But he said it was the least untruthful thing he could think of to say in the context of being in the hot seat there. But what does it mean for a democracy when you can lie under oath to Congress and the

[00:09:42] congressman even knows you're lying to them, but they're afraid to correct you? And Wyden, by the way, it wasn't a surprise. Wyden gave him those questions 24 hours in advance and he wrote a letter afterwards asking

[00:09:55] for Clapper to amend his testimony, not even at a press conference but just to say this was incorrect, whatever, so he could go through the legal process and show his fellow congressman that there was a problem and that they needed to do it.

[00:10:08] But all of that was refused to us. All of it was denied to us. And here I am sitting at the NSA next to my buddies who I've talked to about these programs. I've gone, look at this and they're laughing at it. I'm laughing at it.

[00:10:24] And it's not that we go, oh, ha, ha, ha, he's getting away with it. It's like, what are you going to do? These guys are bullshitters. The system is built on lies that even many people, many experts who have studied this know are lies.

[00:10:41] But if you can't prove they are lies, how do you move beyond that? That's pretty much, I mean, he laid out the whole prism thing. You guys remember this social media? Everything you do is being recorded and put together, right?

[00:11:00] All your comments on the internet and all that stuff are compiled to build a profile of you. And this guy laid it out for everybody. And we're all like, yeah, yeah, we're good with it. He's a traitor.

[00:11:14] And that's one of the things that make me kind of more excited about Kennedy these days is Kennedy said day one he would pardon Dodd Snowden. And he's like, this guy's a hero. And then whereas it's funny because Trump is like, yeah, he's a traitor.

[00:11:35] And I'm like, oh, and everybody's kind of behind Trump. And I'm like, but how is this guy a traitor? Trump was down for red flag laws. Now obviously personally, when I look at Biden versus Trump, I think Trump looks like a lot

[00:11:52] more of the boxes are checked in what I believe versus what Biden believes. But I don't know. I find that concerning. Another thing would be you guys probably don't remember, but in 2020 we shut down all kinds

[00:12:07] of businesses and stuff for no apparent reason that were, or maybe a reason that we're not allowed to mention on YouTube. But that kind of thing, they screwed up businesses. They kind of destroyed our economy. And I believe by doing that kind of hastened inflation to come along.

[00:12:28] Well, I mean, all those checks they sent out to every single person in the United States, they just printed that stuff up. What was it? $14 trillion? Just pump it into the economy. It's fine. Easy go, easy go. And then they're like, yeah, everybody's got jobs now.

[00:12:45] We're making more jobs than ever. Well, because everybody has three jobs just to get by. But we won't talk about that. So the Patriot Act. I don't know if you guys, that one. I remember. The Patriot Act was a big hit for me.

[00:13:00] I was like, oh, this is kind of a big violation. That kind of opened up everything for PRISM and all that. It's called Patriot. Aren't you a patriot? Aren't you patriotic? It's called the Patriot Act, which must mean it's good for us.

[00:13:16] So that, I guess, is my argument of kind of why I think people are pissed off, why they're kind of divided, why they feel like... And I think they want to paint it as left and right. And I don't see it that way.

[00:13:34] I see it as a government and not government. It's the government and the people. Not very different from the Revolutionary War. When we rebelled against England, it was an oppressive government. Now I know you're saying, well, there's Democrats and there's Republicans and they hate each other.

[00:13:55] But I like to think that a lot of the people who are in line with the current government are just kind of shills for government and just do what they're told. Am I wrong on this, Kevin? Talk to me. No, no.

[00:14:09] I mean, fact of the matter is that if you think there's a civil war coming, you already lost. You already lost that civil war. You're not paying attention. You're thinking that the war is between you and other Americans. That's not really the case.

[00:14:26] You know, the war is between the government and the citizens. And you think that it's your fucking lefty tree hugger, hippie neighbor that's causing you all these problems. He doesn't have anything to do with it. He just wants to get high and mind his own business.

[00:14:43] He wants to teach his kid that, you know, gender is fluid and all that sort of bullshit and whatever, dude. That doesn't have any impact on me. What has an impact on me is my money not buying a goddamn thing anymore. They say that it's, you know, inflation.

[00:14:58] It's only going up, you know, 5 percent, 8 percent. But the cost of living is increased by 20 percent. That's not inflation. They don't count that. You know, when your groceries are more expensive, they're going a lot faster than inflation is.

[00:15:13] And your house bill is going up faster than inflation is. So you know, your day to day living expenses are skyrocketing and way past what inflation is. Yes. And then your employer's like, yeah, 3 percent raise. I got your back. And you're right. Do you?

[00:15:31] Because you're charging more than 3 percent. Yeah. Your product cost went up more than 3 percent. Yeah. Now it's a crazy world. So what this is kind of part two here. Now, what now that we're all pissed off and we all hate each other.

[00:15:48] But like I said, I kind of feel like it's just an oppressive government. I don't hate my fellow Americans. Right. I don't have a big problem. I mean, you know, there's a lot of things that Kevin just pointed out.

[00:15:59] And really, we're just talking about California where they're all crazy. Kevin, you're up in the icy New York there. Are they a little crazy up there? They're all crazy here, too. They're crazy there, too. Sorry. I'll give you those two states. Right.

[00:16:14] I was actually talking to my neighbor the other day and I was looking at him and something was off and I realized like it was the shirt he was wearing. Bro, you didn't get that in the men's section.

[00:16:27] I don't know what's going on in your life, but you and I, we might live near each other, but you and I are, you know, we don't think the same way. So I mean, it's one of those things. We can run through a list real quick.

[00:16:41] I want to run through a list real quick on causes or things that happened before civil war in the modern world and maybe not related to the United States, maybe some of them are, but this is the chief reasons for civil war in the past 50 years.

[00:17:04] Political deprivation such as colonial subordination. So there are a lot of colonies that were run by countries. You know, it was basically the same reason we had the civil war. You know, after World War Two, a lot of colonies are like, nah, we ain't into this anymore

[00:17:19] and cause civil wars. Lack of political rights. Also one of the reasons why we had the American Revolution. Low incomes. That's going on right now. Poor growth and large populations. It's happening right now. Unaccountable leaders. That's happening right now. It does happen.

[00:17:40] Some of the other main ones, ethnic dominance or large ethnic populations that are opposed to each other. That's not really happening, I don't think. Well, you could maybe talk about illegal immigration as a big upsetting factor in that. Right? Right. That makes sense.

[00:17:57] I mean, it's not in the way we traditionally think it, but people, in a way it's tied, right? I mean, there's a difference, but there's no difference in the people. It's just that, hey, there's those guys and these guys. In that aspect, we have that going on. Yeah.

[00:18:15] Yeah. And the last one I got here is actually kind of interesting. It's charismatic leaders. So charismatic leaders would be like, we all know charismatic leaders, but people that will point out things that seem mundane and make them have to be like the worst crisis

[00:18:34] in the world or the best thing that's ever happened. And if only we could go back to the old ways where everything was great, you know? And it's that sort of shit where you're just painting stuff to depict the point you're

[00:18:47] trying to make, whether it's factual or not. Right. You make it into a darker shape. And, you know, I mean, I try and be careful to not do that kind of thing on the show.

[00:18:56] You know, we're not here to escalate tensions, but we also sometimes you feel like you have to be a little theatrical or dramatic to get your point across, you know, because people are like, yeah, you know, you're just complaining about something else.

[00:19:11] And, you know, I don't want to be Alex Jones, right? Who's out there crying on the, you know, oh, come on, it's the babies and, you know, whatever. But it's Glenn Beck for that matter, right? He used to cry all the time.

[00:19:24] There's a lot of fucking crybabies on. I don't know how you get on the fucking, you know, get so popular if you're fucking breaking down and crying every five minutes. Maybe that's why we're not as popular as we should be. We need to start crying during our show.

[00:19:37] We need to start shedding tears if we're going to really step up our game, you know? But that's all right. You know, hey, that's how it is sometimes. But also it's just we are I mean, we're divided, but I feel like the news and social media and,

[00:19:57] you know, Twitter, all these things do escalate it and kind of aggravate it and make us more divided against each other. But what does civil war really look like in the United States? Like how would this even play out?

[00:20:12] Now I see about three different scenarios in my mind. One, I see people kind of trying to get a little crazy. You end up with things like we had the riots in destroying cities out, you know, out in

[00:20:29] the left coast there where they're burning things and going through and just destruction. Now that's not helping anything. You're just out there destroying your community. And that's just. That happened in 92 in L.A. It happened in, was it St. Paul? Was it St. Paul, Minnesota?

[00:20:50] A couple of years back, that was where they burned the police station down. That's the one I'm thinking of. Maybe it wasn't St. Paul. Maybe it was one of the cities near there. Then there was also issues over in Baltimore.

[00:21:00] You know, every once in a while shit gets hot and people fucking go crazy. And they go crazy. You know, sometimes the government has to take a helicopter and drop a bomb on a house to let people know their place. Sometimes yes. Sometimes they do that. Whatever.

[00:21:13] They're like, hey, you know, you guys need to check yourself. All right. So there's that. I think if those riots kind of, I don't imagine if they're smart, I don't imagine the government would play around.

[00:21:29] If that stuff, if you started having riots popping up all over the place and some kind of organized crazy and organized just by happening in a bunch of different places at the same time. Right.

[00:21:44] And I'm sure George Soros would be somewhere funding it, you know, with his creepy bloodshot eyes and you know how it is. He's still alive. I don't even understand. He's been the boogeyman for like 40 years. It's always like, oh, but that Soros guy. Yeah. He'd be sending checks.

[00:22:01] Hey, you know, if you go, go attack this place, go start a fire in the trash can out here. I imagine you'd end up with some kind of martial law and government kind of come crack down

[00:22:14] and they'd roll through with something with 50 Cal machine guns on the roof. And you know, hey, back in the house, kind of like they did in Boston. If you guys remember after the Boston Marathon, they just kind of like locked it down.

[00:22:29] That's how I imagine it playing out. And I think you'd have a little brutality right in the get go. And that had shut people right down. That's usually a couple of heads and things wrap, wrap themselves up.

[00:22:43] However, I think once you get those tightened reins from the government, I think those reins never get loosened. Right. Right. Once they're like, oh, we had to take control. You guys are crazy. You can't behave yourselves. Well, this is our opportunity to. Yeah.

[00:22:59] It's been like that baby steps for the past 200 years in this country, you know, the Patriot Act. Right. Yeah. You know, these are each like is a giant leap. Right. So first we have the Patriot Act of, hey, you know, now we could just randomly come

[00:23:14] up to you on the street and be like, hey, who are you? What are you doing here? Well, it doesn't matter who I am. I'm just a guy on the street and what I'm doing. I did. What crime did I commit? Well, that doesn't matter anymore.

[00:23:27] We're thinking of America 20 years ago. Right. This is America now. And, you know, and so we just keep getting a little bit more infringement infringement. Then you end up, you know, we hugely escalated the surveillance state.

[00:23:43] And, you know, China is really like a model example, whether, you know, we're looking at it as that or not. They're kind of, you know, people with their social credit score and their kind of thing. That to me is the most terrifying thing in the world. That is 1984.

[00:23:58] You know, if you guys read that book and you see kind of the control in police state or even there's that what the handmaid's tale or something, you know, all these warning

[00:24:08] novels from back when you were a kid in school and you were like that weird utopian, you know, crazy. But now it turns out we're like right on the cusp. And I feel like the government may just be waiting for the opportunity. Like, hey, look, they stepped up.

[00:24:25] We had to do it. We had no choice. They were crazy. They were hurting each other. Right. Right. We had to protect you. And then don't worry, they'll rewrite history to show that it was all, you know, you were crazy and they weren't.

[00:24:38] And you know, actually, we I think me and Kevin get a page in the history book like you'll see like this screenshot right here. And you'll be like, yep, those two. They were the ones. They were the ones that kept every one instigated.

[00:24:53] They were actually writing podcasts or talking about civil war and encouraging the people. And that's not what we're doing. I'm laying out reality here of, you know, one, why people are pissed, but to how it might play out.

[00:25:09] And I don't see that ending well if it goes that way. Now, I've got another scenario. I have several. All right. Well, maybe this matches up to one of yours, but this is a this is a quote from Policy Horizons Canada.

[00:25:25] This is a think tank in Canada talking about the United States. So they do think up in Canada. OK. Large scale civil collapse need not involve the concerted efforts of a critical mass of people. Purposeful militias are not required.

[00:25:41] The spiraling acts of violence by small numbers of people that may originate spontaneously, but are fueled by retribution. So basically, you know, one side does one fucked up thing and then the other side does another fucked up thing. But they're not doing it to each other.

[00:25:58] They're doing it to, you know, people in general, you know. So you you know, one bomb over here and one bomb over there. And before you know it, everybody's, you know, threatened to murder each other. Exactly. No, it just it gets crazy.

[00:26:16] I think I think, yeah, I want I see it as. You have a lot of crazy and crazy always seems to take over, right? You have the people who are like, well, I have the balls to go do something.

[00:26:32] Was that the guy, you know, your buddy who you know, who has the balls to go do something? Is that the guy you want making the decision? Right. Right. So America had had crazy. We had like Sam Adams was was all in. Right.

[00:26:48] This guy's down for like Taron and Feather and right. Whatever. He's like, you know, we're going to get those British and whatever. But then you had people like John Adams and George Washington and Jefferson who were like way reserved conservative.

[00:27:03] And somehow the people were smart enough to say, let's put the reserved conservative in charge. Right, by having George Washington and stuff in charge, and then we'll have them harness and unleash the dogs of war whenever it's appropriate. Right. Right. And that's what you need.

[00:27:24] You can't have the dogs of war in charge. Right. Because that's more never ends. The war never ends. And it's. You know, full on crazy, you need to say kind of what happened in in the French Revolution,

[00:27:38] they they first they started cutting off the heads of all the elite, the royal families and that sort of stuff. But then they just kept chopping heads, man. You know, a guy that was leader yesterday is an enemy of the state today. That's it. That's it.

[00:27:53] You know, and they just keep and that's that's the thing. So I think it escalates. But now I would also ask, do you do you still have electricity? Right. When you're having this civil war, when everybody's kind of, you know, hey,

[00:28:07] everything's going on except for where we're having battles. Do you still have Internet? Does communication and stuff like that go down? Are there still cell phones? Because to me, if I'm in a government. I'm shutting that down, right. You're not going to have cell service.

[00:28:26] You're not going to have Internet service now. Maybe Elon's hooking us up with the Starlink and, you know, like they did in Ukraine. But if I can shut down communications between everybody, then I can roll into your town and be like, look,

[00:28:41] you guys are the only ones doing this. You all are going to jail for life. Everybody else, they're already at peace and settled. And you're the only problem we're going to reign you guys in because you're the crazy rabble rousers and everyone to be like, oh, OK, I.

[00:28:56] Whoa. I you know, you're willing to pardon me if I just stop right now and just have to go to a detention camp for a couple of months. OK, well, I'll do that because, yeah, I was a little off my rocker there.

[00:29:08] Right. And then I had that in every town. You know, it's not your fault. You were caught up in the riot, dude. Everybody else was doing I was just, you know, group think, man, wasn't my fault. I could forgive you.

[00:29:20] Go into these showers we set up over here. Don't mind the big gas tanks outside. Yeah, they have not. We just trying to keep the building warm. All right. It's just about good, good heat in there. Could you want a hot shower? Right.

[00:29:35] Yeah. I wouldn't even worry about it. Just go on and get cleaned up. I'll make you I got some McDonald's in the back and we're going to take care of you. That's that's how you know, that's the smart play from the government.

[00:29:49] And then they could have the whole totalitarian. Now, obviously, when I say the smart play from the government, that implies that I believe the government just wants to control you and be in charge of everything. Let's go ahead. That that's the whole thing.

[00:30:10] That's where it gets crazy, right? You don't you know, it's only when the government wants to take control and, you know, and rule things. I don't know. That's my thought now. So. I see DHS going and rounding up all the known people.

[00:30:31] And these are people who are downloading our podcast, right? God forbid people who host podcasts like this, right. People who put it all on the line. And in a way, I think that's something we do. I think we put it on the line. You know, I it's funny.

[00:30:46] I did a show over the week or during the week a couple of days ago, I think on Monday, where, you know, I talked to a guy and he's like, well, why do you do the podcast and what about OPSEC?

[00:30:57] And somehow the two like merge together when we were talking. And I was like, well, here's the thing. There are certain people who are called to do step up and do the right thing. There's one thing if your goal is safety and security.

[00:31:15] And there's another of doing the right thing. And I feel like that's that's my goal is to do the right thing, to go out and, you know, share the truth and get as many people as I can prepared so that they, you know, end up.

[00:31:35] Really building something great and keep America awesome and you defend your rights and your freedoms, as opposed to just protecting my own butt. Obviously, I can be a sheep and hide in the corner. Now, again, that doesn't mean be stupid.

[00:31:50] Don't lay all your cards out on the table. That would be a mistake. Right. But it's a good idea to go out. And the more we keep cowing down, you know, being under the thumb of the man, the more that we're backing down to that,

[00:32:09] the more ground that they gain. And I guess that's where it comes from. You don't want to give them an inch because the more they can move forward, the more that, you know, they're going to oppress you and control you.

[00:32:23] And if we're all like, well, hey, nobody else is saying anything. I better not. That's where we get into trouble. You know, that's where I see it is, you know, if we give them too much and let them believe that they're,

[00:32:39] you know, they're setting the standard, then we're going to get crushed. We need to stand up and be strong. And that's what it's really about. You need personal protection, but you also you know, and by that, I mean, you know, OPSEC and keeping your mouth shut.

[00:32:55] But just the same, don't be afraid to be a man. I'm just saying. Mm hmm. Yeah. Well, they say that that I heard a lot of different numbers, but they're saying 41 percent of Americans believe the US will see a second civil war in the next five years.

[00:33:12] That's, you know, almost half of of everybody is saying that in the next five years, this is going to be an issue. I don't think that that's going to happen in the next five years. I think that we might see

[00:33:23] some terror attacks, you know, some homegrown terror type stuff. I think we might see, like you said, like, you know, some big riots. But I don't know how. I don't know how likely actual civil war, like the first civil war

[00:33:37] would happen or like the movie, you know, I don't think we're we're in that that range yet. Canada is worried about it, though. Canada has started preparing for their base in the Civil War. Yeah. What they're going to have to do to protect their their economy

[00:33:57] if the United States goes into civil war, which is a little bit crazy. But it says here Canadian politicians are increasingly concerned about possibility of another civil war. U.S. ideological divisions, democratic erosion and domestic unrest, unrest escalate plunging the country in a civil war.

[00:34:18] That's the think group think tank for Canada trying to get Canadians to prepare for their crazy southern neighbors. Yeah, because we don't think that the Canadians are crazy. I got to say they have a little unrest going on up there. And having their own issues, right?

[00:34:37] They have their own issues. One thing I have you seen, there's a big push with at the moment the U.N. is kind of starting to crack down and be like, hey, we need to be able to have extra powers if there's a global emergency.

[00:34:55] And of course, Biden is like, right. Yes, let's do that. Yeah. And they're like, oh, and an emergency might be the climate getting too hot. An emergency might be a pandemic of some sort. An emergency might be where if anybody has some kind of civil unrest,

[00:35:15] then all the nations, the U.N. right, would be called together to stand up together and crack down on everybody. And Biden's like, yes, that's what we need. And it's kind of scary the way things are going.

[00:35:29] But it's funny because it's not just the jerky Americans that are like, hey, we're not going to go for that. Turns out a lot of Europe is like, hey, we're not going to go for this. You guys are crazy. And France is having big issues and riots.

[00:35:46] And hey, we're not going for this crazy. A lot of people are actually starting to stand up to oppressive governments and kind of push back a little bit now. If people just stay silent and don't say anything,

[00:36:01] and I'm not trying to get everybody rounded up into a camp, but I decided early on that, you know, hey, I'm already on that list. You know, and it was I mean, just being a veteran, right? We were on that DHS list of potential terrorists.

[00:36:19] So I'm like, all right, I already checked that box. And then it's like, oh, well, oh, so you have some tax stamp NFA items, right, like suppressors and short barrel rifles and things like that. Up check, you're on that box. Oh, you were a Boy Scout.

[00:36:35] Yep. You were you're a hooligan. Check that box. That's a paramilitary group for children. That's practically the Nazi youth, right? I mean, they're out there. Who knows what they're doing? Helping old ladies across the street. Badges and knives as children.

[00:36:51] I say no, but that's how it goes sometimes. Right. And now we can't have that. So I'm just saying you need to, you know, be prepared, right? Be. Be a man and say what you need to say

[00:37:07] and tell people, hey, you know, you need to start getting ready. You need to stand up to what's right. And I'm not saying go in and fight a civil war, because also how does leadership end at the end? Right. Who gets to be in charge when you overthrow?

[00:37:26] Now, does that mean then we can have legitimate fair elections with no parties and no political whatever? That might be the outcome I want. Within the constraints of a constitution that we actually adhere to and follow the rules, yeah, that might be the rule that I want.

[00:37:44] But what about everybody else? Is everybody else on that on that bandwagon? That's what I'm afraid of. It doesn't end. It's just the next guy with money and power who's like, all right. The big government's decimated, whatever.

[00:37:59] And then China rolls in and is like, all right, you guys are all weak and pathetic now. I'll take charge. I got you. Right. And straighten this right out or Russia or North Korea could come over with their there's

[00:38:11] there's a lot of countries that would love to see us fall apart. Yeah. It doesn't end well if you don't think this through. You need a clear plan. You need leadership. You need people who are going to be in charge and you need organization.

[00:38:27] And the bottom line is we already have so much of a surveillance state that there's no way you could really coordinate something like that without Big Brother already having their hand in it. Right. Right. And it just it ends up being a mess.

[00:38:44] And I just want to point out to everybody that civil war probably doesn't end the way you want it to. No, not for for anybody. What did we have to earn? Six hundred and eighty thousand people died during the first civil war.

[00:39:00] Yeah. Six hundred and twenty thousand, I think, was the number. All right. And then the population was somewhere. What? Thirty million or 13? Yeah, about 30, 30 million. Thirty million. Two percent of the population was killed during the civil war. That's not going to end well for people. Right.

[00:39:17] And how many people had to suffer through food shortages during the meantime or, you know, dad's dead now? Good luck getting that figured out. You know, good luck dealing with that. Your entire city is burned to the ground. Well, it didn't work out well for those people either.

[00:39:33] Maybe they're not dead, but, you know, they're homeless now. Right. So and then a lot of that stuff doesn't work out as well as as some people hope that it does, you know? No, no. There's fantasies of, oh, well, it'll then end up

[00:39:48] the way I want it to. Right. It'll be the version in my head will be civil war. Yeah, it's definitely not going to end in a dictatorship. Yeah. Like I said, there's not too many Sam Adams out there

[00:40:01] and people who would go and really do battle like they used to. A couple of us old timers, but our knees hurt. So just say it, you know, who knows what you're going to get? That's all I'm saying. So that's what I got.

[00:40:16] That's the the gist of it. I just I think it's unlikely. But I also think if something like that were to play out that. It would be it's not going to end the way you want it to.

[00:40:29] And what that means to me is don't just roll over and give up. It's then something where you need to say to yourself, all right, you know what? I'm going to start getting things ready. I'm going to start standing up to my government. I'm going to start.

[00:40:45] And I don't mean in a bad way. I mean, just call them out. Right. Say things that need to be said. Don't be afraid with your neighbors. Let the government know. And then when somebody like Snowden comes out and tells the truth,

[00:40:59] maybe have their back, you know, maybe because the government saw we didn't have support for it when they rolled out. Nobody did anything about it. So they just kept doing kept breaking law. And they got worse and worse when martial law came along in Boston.

[00:41:15] We're all like, yeah, that's a good idea. We had to catch that guy hiding under that boat, you know? Yeah. The whole city, you know, shut it down. Well, it didn't happen. I was wasn't real fighting in that boat, bleeding to death.

[00:41:27] Yeah. He would have never died on his own. And and I don't mean I mean, obviously, it's an awesome thing that we caught him. And and I'm glad. And that said sends a message to the rest of the world.

[00:41:39] Hey, you know, we're not going to let you win if you're a terrorist. Right. Right. We're going to make sure you pay and don't think you can come mess with America. And and I love that attitude. But I also know that we can't give up everything

[00:41:55] we are in order to, you know, accommodate other people. Right. And, you know, to catch something or whatever, you can't lose yourself in order to win the war. All right. So be coming in. If 9-11 happened because terrorists hated our freedom.

[00:42:14] We got the Patriot Act, so I guess they won. I mean, is that America like how it works? They beat freedom because we definitely gave up a lot. Yeah, no, it's an ugly world. So you have thoughts, concerns, one. I'd love to see him in the comments.

[00:42:30] I'd love to hear what your take is on civil war and and how you think it might play out. But also, I would say that, you know, we need to. Email us your thoughts, concerns, questions, prepping bad ass at Gmail dot com like and subscribe, leave reviews,

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