Posted on 10/17/2016 11:46:20 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The people you’re talking about were at war with another country. The people in this country are near war with their own government. Totally different. A lot of it is just talk, of course, but people are really getting fed up.
And as an aside, the Germans kept fighting for 2 more years after Hamburg was firebombed. The Allies gave most German cities the same treatment over the next 2 years.
I think they know. I also think they believe they can handle the problem using industrialized methods.
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They figure they can pick up the phone and call the police or the military for protection. Then I think of the police officers executed in Dallas, and the military which is now forced to do sex change operations.
We’ve off shored way more manufacturing jobs than automated them away. Automation is good AS LONG AS THE FACTORY STAYS IN THE USA.
Might work in China or Argentina, but we’re armed.
There will be a secession of a state or group of states again. Will this lead to war? I don’t think so.
Obama has spent 8 years deconstructing and reconstructing the military and domestic security agencies for just such an eventuality. November 8 is the ballot box, after that...? A divided citizenry, no matter how massively armed with rifles and pistols will not prevail against military units and gunships. If Hillary wins, we are going to be faced with stark choices.
The article makes some good points, but the smarter elites have refuges in protected or wilderness areas. They are preppers but do not advertise it. And their preps outdo the average prepper because of their wealth.
It is always better to have the factory here but IMO having less people working is not a good thing. I am not anti automation, just noting something I think is important in the overall conversation. The Zero hedge article says more than I ever could but does incorporate much on my mind.
What is that, maybe 1% or 3% of them?
Might work in China or Argentina, but we’re armed.
for the time being
...Might work in China or Argentina, but we’re armed.
for the time being...
we are also armed with the knowledge of what WILL happen if we give our arms up.
Good article.
What force in the world would be able to go door-to-door across a continent and confiscate weapons from so many households? If somehow every soldier and policeman on Earth were instantly transported to this country it wouldn’t be nearly enough. If only 10% of the population resisted that’s 33 million armed people.
We only have ten Army and two Marine divisions left. That is nowhere near enough troops and equipment to placate a wide-spread population of 330 million people, especially armed ones. Missiles cost lots of money and there are only so many of them.
My point is that, forty years after Roe v. Wade, abortion has gone from being illegal and rare, to (supposedly) “safe, legal, and rare”, to something “one in three American women has”, which is “no big deal”. Since the Bible tells us that “God is not mocked”, we must ask...how much longer will His hand be stayed?
Well that's just it, "at war" vs "near war". Political disagreement is pretty trivial compared to bombs.
And as an aside, the Germans kept fighting for 2 more years after Hamburg was firebombed. The Allies gave most German cities the same treatment over the next 2 years.
Yes. The video I was watching was focused on the whole idea of fighting a war with bombs. It was thought that you couldn't win by bombing and the English general, or was he a civilian, in charge said "well it's never been tried before and we shall see".
Very good study for a perspective on the petty race bating and bathroom bating that occupies the populous today.
I agree. But I believe the states will have factions within them that will make it all even more deadly. The huge cities (LA, NY, etc.) will not be able to feed their populations and it will move into the suburbs and countryside. And that is when they will realize they are not prepared. Country folk are armed and more likely to kill for a cause they truly believe in.
Many on both sides will perish. But I have faith that the Alt Left will lose.
They have been insulated from the consequences of their actions by the establishment. So, time to stick a fork in the establishment, and find out whether these folks understand what the rest of us are experiencing.
I have lately come to believe that, as old as I am, I will yet live to witness the end of this country. I cannot say whether a Clinton win or a Trump win will trigger it, but I feel, more than see, the end approaching. On the other hand maybe it already has ended , but we haven’t noticed yet; little is left of the institutions and the society was born into just after WWII.
The commies and islamonazis have provoked a rage in the American people - -a rage the likes of Hillary and Obama and Kerry and pelosi and Reid will not be able to overcome or contain. Not by a long shot. Either mr. trump is able to clean the scum
Out of Washington DC or -— or I’m glad I may not be around to see the American people finally do it for themselves.
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