Posted on 12/14/2020 3:33:48 PM PST by ExpatCanuck
Are we witnesses to a historic paradigm shift? Have we been conquered by complacency? Would we be the first to think ‘This can’t happen here? ‘Did most Russians think they would fall prey to control of the bolsheviks? No. Were most people in Cambodia oblivious to Pol Pot’s revolution? Yes, until they were rounded up and killed because they could read or wore glasses.. Did anyone in North Korea get a vote on how life should be?
It will start with the disappearances of the conservative voices we listen to. Eventually it will be the shaming and persecution of any of us with conservative viewpoints.
What a depressing bit of doom porn in the fashion of these snowflake, doomsday times. First of all, last I heard crops grow without electricity and a lot of crops would do well enough to still feed Americans and farmers would find a way to both plant in the spring and harvest in the fall.
I grew up in Montana but my father was a farmer's son from eastern North Dakota and all of my farmer relatives in North Dakota and my rancher friends in Montana do not throw out anything that may be useful or needed later on. Somewhere on all of those rural farms there millions of old tractors and harvesting/planing equipment that they know how to fix in the event their modern equipment gets fried by an EMP.
To further illustrate my point, in my hometown in Montana a close family friend had a hobby of restoring old farm tractors and equipment. In the detached garage in his backyard he had a collection of milling machines from the 1920s that he used to make his own replacement parts back in 1983. He had hired me to do some of the more backbreaking yard work like pulling tree stumps that is best left to the indestructible teenager. When I was getting yard tools out of his garage I saw five massive behemoth metal machines that did not belong in the typical garage. When I asked him what they were. When he told me that they were milling machines and that he used them for making replacement parts that were no longer available like pistons and gears for old tractors I was amazed. When he went on to say that they were so massive because they were from the turn of the century I was stunned. Being a child of disposable electronics and cars I asked him how they still worked. He said that they were build so well that they would run nearly forever and that all he had to do was replace the electric motors. He was but one of many of that type in my hometown. Many of my childhood friends took shop in high school and went into trades in like welding, auto mechanics, and engineering after a stint in the military. Two of my close personal friends enlisted in the Navy and served on nuclear subs as nuclear propulsion plant technicians and went on to get degrees in nuclear engineering. I would like to see the federal government try to subjugate and starve my people.
Also, even if food production falls precipitously the harvest will still be enough to feed Americans and the resulting decline of agricultural exports to the rest of the world will cause starvation worldwide and in China. Rural Americans are armed to the death and will not allow themselves to be starved while an uncaring government exports food while they eat grass and bark like the Irish in the Potato Famine of the 1840s.
Additionally, any unclear EMP attack by a foreign power will be an act of war that no government can passively accept and survive the wrath of American citizens. A people who have been attacked and then see hard times affect their loved ones in a major way will not be passive. Even the loathsome leftist Democrats would have to respond by methodically using the military to grind China down. If they do not fight they will not be free to travel out of the military fortress compounds necessary to protect them from wrathful American citizens. Even then that would only protect them for a month or two at most. It would be open season on the traitorous government reptiles.
There are far more people like me who grew up in the country and then moved to the city than the other way around. If the US military thought the Viet Cong were everywhere or that inbred muslim insurgents are an intractable problem will be in for a rude awakening it an American insurgency occurs.
The. Ruling. Class. Will. Not. Be. Safe. Anywhere.
ATF: 423M guns in America, 1.2 per person, 8.1B rounds of ammunition a year
Say we have that many does nothing.
Putting them to use speaks loudly.
Past due time to GET LOUD.
Ibbn don’t believe 20 rounds per gun, but it is still a simple proposition.
First they came for the apostrophes.
So there are a lot of ammos out there. Must be trillion of them.
You bet your ass we do. Oldest son came home tonight with a bunch of green tipped 5.56 ammo. I'm a happy camper. :-)
Hey China: remember one thing -- behind every blade of grass is an American patriot with a weapon they fully know how to use.
You'd best bring a lot of body bags for yourselves. You're gonna need 'em if you think we're the 24th province.
400,000,000 guns.
And we’re pissed off.
Let The Joker Go Wild
https://accordingtohoyt.com/2020/11/06/let-the-joker-go-wild/
I read your post with great interest. One of my favorite programs is “Alaska the Last Frontier.” It’s one of the best shows on the Discovery Channel. It shows the great innovative spirit of Americans. Your description of father’s ability to keep old equipment working describes the Kilchers in the series that has gone for 10 seasons. I watch it On Demand and zoom through the long commercials. I think those in Alaska will be vulnerable because of the great resources China wants. I think China also wants our tremendous lands for growing food. If they can use viruses and technology to take our land away from us, they will do it. It is their devious nature that will exploit a situation I’m afraid of. What they will do to take advantage of America will lie ahead. I would have been more secure with President Trump.
ur wrong. we have smart phones and insteegrams.
The man the the metal machine tools was actually one of fathers good friends. My dad, like his friend worked at the coal coal mine. My dad’s “hoody” was running an auto body shop business on the side. He broke more than a little even with his union job at the mine and made his gravy in the 70s and 80s buying somewhat beat up cars with solid engines and transmissions, putting a bit of lipstick on the pig, and then selling them for double or triple the investment. At any one time he usually had 4 to 5 running vehicles parked in our driveways on top of the family’s personal vehicles.
I would say that he pulled in about $10 - 14K a year in the early 80s and I know he did not report that income. That is roughly $35 - 45K in today’s money.
I myself bought a 74 Camero for $500, drove the hell out of it for 2 years painted it up and replaced the interior from out of a totaled vehicle,
Yes, but do they carry enough, aside from what they fired?
I have two brothers who buy cars for dirt and turn them around for money. I can relate to your father’s friend.
LOL! The commas are next. Nothing is sacred,,, anymore :-)
“...We need artillery....”
In WW2 the most popular weapon in the French Resistance was the small Browning .25 caliber pistol or belly gun. It was easily concealed and its main purpose was to kill a German Soldier to get his better weapons.
In such a situation you have all the artillery you want, you just need to acquire it from those that currently have it. The difficulty will be moving it and acquiring additional ammunition for it. Then you either acquire a supply convoy or a new piece of artillery with ammo.
I think this will be a drone conflict. Millions of them, small, cheap, armed with small explosives and designed to seek and take out one person. Made in China where we cannot get at the factories. That is just one scenario. There are a lot of ways drones can be used to disrupt an insurgency. I have to say, I am not having a good feeling about our chances.
Finding some solace in music...
Remember when we were children?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CWJNqyub3o
We hear about earthquakes and indications of low level nuclear tests in China. Such tests I suspect are perfecting a EMP weapon using a low yield nuclear device. Such can be easily delivered into orbit with smaller rockets. Physicists have testified at United States Congressional hearings that weapons with yields of 10 kilotons or less can produce a large EMP electronics killer. With numerous EMP weapons in space, the world is vulnerable with the click of a mouse.
Imagine the entire Midwest with freeways littered with cars that won’t start and clog the distribution of our vital supplies, like food.
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