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🗓️ 2 May 2024
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There is a lot of talk about deep divisions within the US these days, so we decided to ask the question...if a state did want to prepare itself for the worst…what would be the necessary steps?
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0:00.0 | All right, recently there was a movie that came out called Civil War, and it went through |
0:04.7 | kind of hypothesizing what a modern American civil war would look like. |
0:09.1 | And in true Hollywood fashion, the heroes of this show about a war were, of course, journalists. |
0:16.6 | Because that's, yeah, Hollywood. |
0:18.9 | But that was not even the most irritating part of it. |
0:22.0 | No, the most irritating part of this movie was apparently whoever wrote it decided that |
0:27.2 | a really truly like realistic scenario for how various factions of the United States could |
0:32.3 | break down and challenge the federal government's supremacy, blah, blah, blah, blah, |
0:35.1 | would result in Texas teaming |
0:37.7 | up with none other than California. Yeah, that would, that's definitely probably how that would go |
0:43.4 | down. I got a question for the writers, for the director, whatever it is. Have you ever been to America |
0:47.3 | or perhaps heard of America? Because if you had, I would have thought that you would have |
0:51.8 | thought, you know, better of this idea that |
0:54.6 | Texas and California, Governor's Abbott and Newsom, right? Those would be the two guys that would |
0:59.3 | be like, yeah, let's fight back against federal authority. Don't see that happening. But what we decided |
1:04.4 | to do was go through and look at this question because there has been a lot of discussion on |
1:08.8 | everything from open hostility to something |
1:11.1 | like national divorce, which is essentially certain states just saying, hey, this isn't working |
1:16.0 | at any more irreconcilable differences. |
1:17.8 | We don't want to fight about it. |
1:18.9 | We just want to go our separate ways. |
1:20.3 | And so we want to ask the question, what would that actually take for a state to be able to |
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