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The Black Swan Events That Could Determine This Election
Townhall.com ^ | 1 February A.D. 2024 | Kurt Schlichter

Posted on 02/01/2024 9:21:40 AM PST by lightman

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To: MeganC

Fair point! I didn’t account for pressure at depth, nor for mineral content.


81 posted on 02/01/2024 3:37:10 PM PST by null and void (I identify as a conspiracy theorist. My personal pronouns are told/you/so.)
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To: null and void

OK. I get that.

I just don’t see the up side for China to take out their biggest customer while their internal economy is sliding. For a country that wants to flex its economic muscle..killing us does nothing for them.

It’s not like we are threatening their resources or restricting their access to our markets?

A lot of the China talk just doesnt make sense beyond the rhetoric.


82 posted on 02/01/2024 3:37:34 PM PST by Vermont Lt (Don’t vote for anyone over 70 years old. Get rid of the geriatric politicians.)
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To: Harpotoo

I want Revolution 2


83 posted on 02/01/2024 3:38:21 PM PST by Fledermaus (Is it me, or all of a sudden have the buried trolls come out on FR like cicadas? It's all noise.)
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To: mykroar

What about the Twinkle?


84 posted on 02/01/2024 3:39:27 PM PST by Fledermaus (Is it me, or all of a sudden have the buried trolls come out on FR like cicadas? It's all noise.)
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To: roving

He’s a libtard, ignore what they say


85 posted on 02/01/2024 3:41:04 PM PST by Fledermaus (Is it me, or all of a sudden have the buried trolls come out on FR like cicadas? It's all noise.)
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To: lightman

Bttt.

5.56mm


86 posted on 02/01/2024 3:46:19 PM PST by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho have got to go. )
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To: null and void; Vermont Lt

i concur captain.

We aren’t going man to man on this or any other so called war.

It will be guerilla and their infantry is inside our wire.

Can our infrastructure be interrupted like that chimp lady from CIA said yesterday?

No

Systems are too disparate in OS, egress/ingress, firewalls, etc.

Cant they cause widespread outages and damages with guerilla warfare? Sure but, we can repair much faster than if there were conventional warfare.

The guerilla aspect is what I have prepped for. Not some joke of an all out war or cyberattack, neither of which is possible or abacus probable....


87 posted on 02/01/2024 3:48:38 PM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Vermont Lt

You make some very valid points, perhaps not China, although I note that in 1938 Germany’s #1 trade partner was France...

Thanks to the current “leadership” we have more than just military age Chinese men, we have military age men from Afghanistan, Algeria, Iraq, Iran, Somalia, Yemen, Syria, and for all I know, North Korea, not to mention Venezuela, Columbia and thereabouts, etc., etc., etc.

We’ve not been good global citizens, about the only countries we HAVEN’T invaded or been militarily involved with are Andorra, Bhutan, and Liechtenstein!

Potentially everyone else has an axe to grind...


88 posted on 02/01/2024 4:50:51 PM PST by null and void (I identify as a conspiracy theorist. My personal pronouns are told/you/so.)
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To: lightman
My prediction:

President Trump is convicted and immediately taken into custody by liberal Democratic haters.

An over-zealous jailor takes Trump to an intake room where they buzz-cut his famous hair, take a picture of him with nothing but stubble, and then leak it to the press.

This will enrage Trump's base to the point where even liberals admit that they went too far with cutting off Trump's hair to humiliate him.

-PJ

89 posted on 02/01/2024 5:09:57 PM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: Political Junkie Too

And then they’ll send in Dr. Levine do some other “cutting”.


90 posted on 02/01/2024 5:20:41 PM PST by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: Vendome
Sure but, we can repair much faster than if there were conventional warfare.

Most stuff yes, but there are a lot of one-of specific elements that are long lead time.

Bad actors have probably identified most of them.

91 posted on 02/01/2024 5:37:26 PM PST by null and void (I identify as a conspiracy theorist. My personal pronouns are told/you/so.)
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To: lightman

bump


92 posted on 02/01/2024 8:02:32 PM PST by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
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To: MeganC

Don’t forget your 400 C temp hot spring springs selfie before high tailing out of there!! 😁

J/k be safe


93 posted on 02/01/2024 10:08:53 PM PST by Redcitizen
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To: Redcitizen

Thank you!


94 posted on 02/01/2024 10:09:57 PM PST by MeganC (Ruzzians aren't people. )
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