Posted on 07/19/2015 6:51:01 PM PDT by Old Sarge
Sarge, THANK YOU! I’ve been telling the sheep for decades that the most dangerous words in ANY language are “WHY, THAT COULD NEVER HAPPEN HERE!”
Like HELL IT CAN’T.
Gonna splash this all over the net. Not that the sheep will read or understand it...
Oh, BTW, did you know you were a white racist?
The keyword said so.
Then we have a political class who has purposely used the productive class as the scape goats convincing the underclass we are the reason for their plight.
Currently we work until June to pay the government to transfer our money (time on this planet) as sort of extortion to prevent the cities from burning.
As soon as the money spigot gets turned off, the cities burn. If you were reading Twitter the day they tested the EBT card system shut down you'd know it won't take long. Less than 24 hours.
If you noticed, I mentioned that in the article.
Matt Bracken’s comment was dead on target.
We here at FR were monitoring the situation in realtime, as it happened.
Several of us are fans of the Fallout video games and often compare them to whats in store because of the survival aspect. The creators obviously had access to, end used, people with knowledge of crowds, psychology and the various dynamics involved in a sHTF scenario...and it shows.
The mindset of the average American cannot even begin to grasp a shtf scenario where the grid fails and the ferals come out to rape/pillage/do the voodoo that they do. It’s part of their Television mindset that ‘someone’ will ‘fix it’...but they better hurry because little Johnny has a soccer game next week!
When the grid goes down, I am convinced that millions of people will be furiously trying to contact Apple to demand their lack of internet on their iphone be addressed immediately because they need to order dinner.
There will be no police because the police will be at home taking care of their families. This government, a government on record with population control and having advisors that are on record as olanning for elimination of opposing views in the permanent sense, will not be sending military to ‘help’. The military members not abandoning their posts to go home and protect their loved ones will not be on a Hati style relief mission with stuffed animals and happy thoughts.
The best thing people can do IMO is know who they can trust. I don’t mean trust with grabbing the right flavor of Jello at the store, I mean trust to not sell you and your stuff out to the ferals. Genuine trust that your life likely WILL depend on.
Then get a few of you together to sketch out a VERY basic/rough idea of protecting your junk because A: no plan survives contact with the enemy and B: you will, depending on location, have little to almost no time once the lights go out, to do anything but break out the weaponry and prepare for the ‘Fallout’ to begin.
I was home sick the EBT day (Saturday, I believe). I couldn't even believe some of what I was reading. I would say it was very close. I think, as it was, a few Walmarts got their doors kicked in and were, small scale, looted.
If I remember correctly, it was only a few cities at that time also.
5.56mm
Great summary. Passing this post to Kartographer.
We are so screwed.
In a word...Yes.
Dam
I had just gotten done with some serious prep, and my roommate was just poo-poohing my concerns. I went to Kroger and in big neon signs all over the store windows, it said EBT DOWN, EBT NOT WORKING.
I immediately called Matt B. He was obviously alarmed. I went home and told me roommate. His face went pale.
By the way, I am more screwed than you are.
By the way, I am more screwed than you are.
Another little life skill people are going to need to quickly learn is scavenging. Ferals are going to be looking for things ferals want. Guns/ammo/food/drugs. The rest of the stuff they won’t think about until reality forces it on them. Medical supplies/clothes/repair goods/hardware/tools and such.
Then there’s the whole disease aspect. Ferals tend to leave bodies in their wake. They also attract wild animals of the non human kind. Cleanup is going to be a reality people are going to have to deal with.
It all seems sci-fi/fantasy until one really thinks it all through. Sure eventually some form of order will be restored. But it will be a long time before a semblence of normalicy returns. And then, it isn’t going to be filled with hours wiled away on Facebook posting cat pictures. Far from it.
Kartographer is so screwed.
Just till they get that AI thing worked out ;)
TADSLOS is so screwed.
Who says I’m not AI?
You’ve never met me.
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