Scott Thompson, the vice mayor of Oroville, California appearing on Fox News Friday to promote his town (pop. 19,393) declaring itself a “constitutional republic” three weeks ago, claims that this is the first step in a violent civil war that will sweep the nation.
“I believe that worldwide, but especially in California, that the very fabric of our nation is at a crossroads on how much authority we’ll let the government have,” Thompson told Fox News host (and guy trying really hard to duplicate Tucker Carlson’s Resting Idiot Face) Brian Kilmeade, “and I don’t believe that anyone wins when the government has more authority and I’ve said it before. Y’know, every time you lose freedom or a nation, y’know, gives up freedom, it usually takes bloodshed to get it back.”
Oroville is already part of a constitutional republic, called the United States of America,