Did Everyone Have Fun At The ‘Second Civil War’ This Week? People On Twitter Sure Did

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If you spent any time on social media on Independence Day, you may have heard rumblings about a Second Civil War between posts about your drunk uncle’s new GoFundMe page for his emergency room bill after a fireworks-related injury and posts with blurry photoshops of a Minion wearing camouflage and punching the Eiffel Tower or whatever other nonsense that people of questionable sanity were talking about. Speaking of nonsense that people of questionable sanity are talking about, Alex Jones took a break from shirtlessly calling the grieving parents of murdered six and seven year olds “crisis actors” to put forward another dumb and potentially violence-inciting conspiracy theory.

Jones claimed liberals, the media, and the deep state were teaming up to start a civil war (and not the fun kind) on July 4th. So how’d that go? Two words: womp womp. So we didn’t have a second civil war, but sarcastic people on the internet did have fun speculating about how that would go.

Potential combatants bided their time on Twitter by writing letters home in the style of highfalutin Civil War letters in a Ken Burns documentary, often hashtagging their work with #SecondCivilWarLetters:

https://twitter.com/TrancewithMe/status/1014352779190546432

https://twitter.com/Buttockus/status/1014403113254453250
https://twitter.com/MildlyAmused/status/1014518067412512768

https://twitter.com/dantelfer/status/1014202382622904320

https://twitter.com/Tschudi_Davai/status/1013939072090497024

https://twitter.com/Cjpotter2112/status/1014166562503319552

Others were still making their last minute preparations, or perhaps drafting their excuses:

https://twitter.com/ashleyn1cole/status/1014335832864493569

https://twitter.com/travkeys/status/1014501362942423040
https://twitter.com/JRehling/status/1014391086289055746
https://twitter.com/kashanacauley/status/1014343239350931456

https://twitter.com/zachheltzel/status/1014572273020223488

But some people were so over it:

https://twitter.com/SamGrittner/status/1014648435482550274