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2020-09-24 Fifth Column
Democrats’ ‘War Game’ for Election Includes West Coast Secession, Possible Civil War
[Breitbart] Democrats are contemplating secession and potential civil war as they game out possible scenarios for a closely contested election, according to a report by Ben Smith in a New York Times column Sunday.

The bulk of Smith’s column is devoted to the question of how the media will handle Election Night coverage, given that the result may not be known for weeks. Vote-by-mail, which many states have only recently adopted — ostensibly, to prevent the spread of coronavirus in polling places — could lead to an uncertain result.

However, buried near the end of Smith’s column is a report that Democrats have participated in a “war game” in which they considered several possible outcomes of the election.

In one scenario, John Podesta — the former chair of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, and a leading figure in party circles — played former Vice President Joe Biden, and refused to concede the election.

The result: the threat of secession by the entire West Coast, followed by the possible intervention of the U.S. armed forces: # id) ?>
Posted by 3dc 2020-09-24 02:59|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1804 views ]  Top
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1 Talk and more last minute talk going nowhere.Media driven.
Posted by Dale 2020-09-24 04:02||   2020-09-24 04:02|| Front Page Top

2 ...This is the Democrats' way of saying, "Nice country you got there. Be a shame if something happens to it."

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2020-09-24 04:13||   2020-09-24 04:13|| Front Page Top

3 Remind me, where most of California water & electricity come from?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-09-24 04:19||   2020-09-24 04:19|| Front Page Top

4 Colorado snowmelt.
Posted by Skidmark 2020-09-24 05:28||   2020-09-24 05:28|| Front Page Top

5  I believe I can make 2 predictions about any upcoming civil war.
1. It will be a very bloody war with more than 100 million dead.
2. It will be a very short war as the left does not believe in guns.
Posted by UncleMike 2020-09-24 05:34||   2020-09-24 05:34|| Front Page Top

6 Or 3) Nobody cares if the left coast leaves so they shut up and go back to being a pain. In everyone's butt.
Posted by gorb 2020-09-24 05:57||   2020-09-24 05:57|| Front Page Top

7 The eastern counties will probably go 'West Virginia' on the coasties. Wonder if they 'wargamed' that. Not to mention the new state of Jefferson. Then we can sell Hawaii to China and get out of the Pacific entanglements.
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-09-24 07:26||   2020-09-24 07:26|| Front Page Top

8 Noise and threats, I doubt even if asked to leave nicely they could manage that. For some reason the phrase, 'Now youse can't leave' comes to mind.
Posted by Cesare 2020-09-24 07:26||   2020-09-24 07:26|| Front Page Top

9 West Coast secession? Yeah, if they keep their financial, corruption and political problems.
Posted by JohnQC 2020-09-24 09:32||   2020-09-24 09:32|| Front Page Top

10 I cannot imagine Gavin Newsom raising any kind of army to enforce a secession. He is simply not that competent and besides, who would fight for him? Camp Pendleton marines would make short work of any such insurrection and, as stupid as Newsom is, he must understand that. Now, Wilhelm is even dumber than Newsom...
Posted by Abu Uluque 2020-09-24 11:23||   2020-09-24 11:23|| Front Page Top

11 How much will Gurgle, Farcebork and Sh*ttah be worth when re-valued in Caloregonian quatloos? Just askin...
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-09-24 14:38||   2020-09-24 14:38|| Front Page Top

12 ^ without the giveaway legal protection from being treated as normal media companies, their valuation would fall by 99%
Posted by Hupolurt Bumble6546 2020-09-24 14:50||   2020-09-24 14:50|| Front Page Top

13 The left says the hate walls but they need one to keep the idiots in. They are already trying to tax those after the leave CA.
Posted by Airandee 2020-09-24 18:01||   2020-09-24 18:01|| Front Page Top

14 Eastern Washington, Oregon and California Central Valley and eastward would all leave their states if CA OR WA were to secede.

Wait a sec... will they form their own country? The COW???
Posted by Theager Borgia1057 2020-09-24 18:25||   2020-09-24 18:25|| Front Page Top

15 San Diego County has started leaning blue but would snap away from LA/SF if it came to it. I think Orange County and LA /Long Beach Ports as well
Posted by Frank G 2020-09-24 19:42||   2020-09-24 19:42|| Front Page Top

16 Nobody is going to secede. It would mean the end of federal money and grift.
Posted by SteveS 2020-09-24 20:02||   2020-09-24 20:02|| Front Page Top

17 Golden COW...may be onto something there.
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-09-24 20:18||   2020-09-24 20:18|| Front Page Top

18  2. It will be a very short war as the left does not believe in guns.

Don’t confuse the anti-gun —for the law-abiding — soft left with the very pro-gun for themselves (and bombs, Molotov cocktails, bike locks, skateboards, etc) hard left, UncleMike.

If the West Coast secedes during a Trump presidency, they will take their share of the how many trillions of dollars of national debt, but be cut off, as SteveS points out, from federal funds.
Posted by trailing wife 2020-09-24 21:58||   2020-09-24 21:58|| Front Page Top

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