The left went too far.

That is pathetic beyond belief. Right after the shots were fired all you heard on TV was praise for the rapid response from the Secret Service and such professionalism and "working in close cooperation with local authorities", etc, etc. (You do have to give credit to the responders who shielded Trump.)

A 20-year-old kid with daddy's AR-15 who obviously hasn't the slightest familiarity with concealment gets within 150 yards or less and everyone sees him except the people who are supposed to be looking for him. That was not a hard shot, either. My son trained on a very similar M-16 at Benning and with no previous experience shooting weapons could put every shot into a target the size of a fist at 100 meters. When I told him that sounded pretty impressive he said no, other guys could do it at 300 meters. And why the hell is it that nobody who saw this kid with a rifle went after him? F'ing disgraceful.

I was joking on the registered Republican bit. Got some geniuses out there saying he voted Republican in the 2020 election... You know, as a 16 year old.

I'm certainly not concerned about their commentary, but I still post sometimes on the high school football side over there and skip over to the wacky political side strictly to be amused by it.

I believe every heterosexual man in America has at some point found an old carton of milk way in the back of the refrigerator.  And even knowing it has gone bad weeks ago, he can't help but open the top and take a sniff, and immediately regretting he did so.  Politically and socially, TOB is my old carton of curdled milk.

Bick, Crooks donated money to ActBlue a progressive super pac after the Biden inauguration. He then like many young lemmings followed those groups that encouraged liberals in closed primary states to register Republic to effect the outcome of those primaries, either voting for Trump when they thought he was beatable, or to vote for his opponents in states where it may be close.

I agree with your sentiments about the lefts commitment & ability, and as I ponder the old conversation as well as this, I think we may be using the wrong term.  We all grew up with the idea of a Civil War being two equally committed sides fighting for control of a nation.  In our current situation, maybe it would be more accurate to call it an overthrow of the government.

It would have to be at a time when the left has the presidency, is abusing power and is gaslighting the nation.  Well, that gets a checkmark right now.  The spark to start a fire was what nearly happened on Saturday, the assassination of a figure who was poised to legally & lawfully wrest control from those in power.  In that scenario, it wouldn't be two armies fighting it out on the Homeland, rather multiple groups of citizens, organized into militias, descending upon the capital to oust the current regime.

The left believes that they would then order the military to defend them.  What I believe they are missing is that like the country, the military is not a homogenous assembly of group-thinkers.  While some soldiers would follow orders and use their weapons & training to defend the existing regime, an equal or larger amount of the military would most likely refuse to take up arms against their own citizens.  Some of those would most likely confiscate military weapons & vehicles and end up on the side trying to oust those in power.

Meanwhile, much of the rest of the nation would try to go on with their lives.  Those trying to overthrow the capital have no beef with their fellow citizens and those in power gain nothing by turning more of the citizenry against them.  Even though Martial Law would most likely be instituted, the fight would be focused at the capital, with each state doing whatever it would need to do to try to stay out of it & protect its citizens.

It would be a mess like we have never seen before and we were literally inches away on Saturday from it starting.

Complete amateur hour is starting to trend....

Regardless of whether or not it's just a matter of semantics, the same reality holds true:  Conservative are willing to fight and die for the values they hold dear.  Liberals are only willing to scream, complain and insult when they are confronted.  A fight between the two, in whatever numbers, would be an embarrassing mismatch.