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Rural America Is a Threat to the Totalitarian Left
American Thinker ^ | 3 Mar, 2024 | J.B. Shurk

Posted on 03/03/2024 5:21:54 AM PST by MtnClimber

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To: maddog55

“The left is definitely confused..”

The Left? Is EVIL! Arragant and Dumb but Brutal when in power.

The time is coming to determine if our nation can survive this crap. I think Texas and the Border is the first engagement.

The Border Invasion is the flag identifying a war. A globalist attack on the USA and an internal betrayal among our bought leaders.

The November elections will determine our future.

Either way, We WILL fight them to the end.


41 posted on 03/03/2024 7:13:18 AM PST by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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To: MtnClimber

“”a “journalist” and an “academic” who have written a book””

It’s so easy to get turned off reading any more of an article when it starts out with such poor grammar... I saw only one name as the author....


42 posted on 03/03/2024 7:16:34 AM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: MtnClimber

I would love to be able to find a small town in rural USA to settle in, spend my remaining years, either that, or an island in the middle of the Pacific.


43 posted on 03/03/2024 7:19:28 AM PST by ducttape45 (Proverbs 14:34, "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.")
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To: MtnClimber
“white rural rage” GFa-I4-ZSb-QAAl4kq funny...that doesnt look like white rage or anything else,., looks like American hating democrat party loving illegal alien invading army rage to me. just sayin.
44 posted on 03/03/2024 7:22:46 AM PST by cuz1961 (USCGR Vet, John Adams Descendant , deal with it.)
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To: MtnClimber

Alex Jone has been saying this for while...this is the end game. Attack those in rural areas and label them as terrorists.


45 posted on 03/03/2024 7:22:50 AM PST by DouglasKC
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To: MtnClimber

Farmers are already being demonized and under steady attack by climate change activists.

The government would like to take over all means of food production (like the Soviets) to give them even more control over the population.

I suspect leftists will try to confiscate their land in the name of “stopping climate change.”


46 posted on 03/03/2024 7:35:27 AM PST by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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To: Bon of Babble

I have heard of some efforts to get homeowners to register their gardens. I wonder why.


47 posted on 03/03/2024 7:42:39 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: AndyJackson

“”Newt is speaking outside of his area of competence here. The EMP threat is way overstated.””

I respectfully disagree; both about Newt’s area of competence and overstating EMP. He had to understand what it was about long before he wrote the Foreward to Forstchen’s book “One Second After.” Sure, it’s fiction but can anyone honestly say or believe it CAN’T HAPPEN HERE?

I believe Putin is well on his way to having an EMP weapon against the United States in light of his recent blatherings. I don’t believe anyone is prepared for such “widespread outages” as you mentioned. People went nuts a few days ago when their cell phones stopped working..imagine a larger scale of “outages” involving every aspect of our daily lives.

I can live without a cell phone and I do but I don’t want to be without Free Republic.....


48 posted on 03/03/2024 7:43:39 AM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: Thank You Rush
Sorry, but you and most people on this subject are talking way outside your level of understanding. There are genuine experts in this area. They are not the one's mouthing off demanding more public money. And the but Ruzzians line of argument to raid the very severly depleted treasury is a bit threadworn now.

And no Newt has not technical understanding of nuclear weapons and their effects.

And you show your own ignorance as well. It's not Putin is on the verge of getting.... We showed the issue 60 years ago.

49 posted on 03/03/2024 7:52:03 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: Thank You Rush
Sure, it’s fiction but can anyone honestly say or believe it CAN’T HAPPEN HERE?.

Like you said, it's fiction.

The bigger threat is the tempation to climb up the escalation ladder in Ukraine. Putin is warning where it leads. In our recent military debacles we have always been able to throw around a few more high tech weapons to stay in the losing hand we dealt ourselves by trying to fix societies in ways their culture will not accept. We are doing it against the Houthis right now. When you are defense and trying to stop the other side from hurting you, it can work. When you are tring to oeverthrow another government, it turns out it doesn't.

We haven't been in this kind of hot war directly with a nuclear armed peer over an issue he has declared as his vital national interest in a long long time, if ever.

We have lots of national security issues and lots of messes. But mutual nuclear annihilation and the possible attendence of EMP weapons is not nearly as pressing as we can't even keep up with the production of artillery shells to support an modernized version of WWI trench warfare.

None of this stuff constitutes have a genuine national secruity strategy dealign with the world as it actually is while avoiding showdowns headed towards mutual annihilation.

50 posted on 03/03/2024 8:03:53 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: MtnClimber

No, it’s their enemy, because they need an enemy, but it’s not much of a threat.


51 posted on 03/03/2024 8:12:10 AM PST by x
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To: janetjanet998

It’s not a bad thing to be feared.
It keeps things, most times polite.


52 posted on 03/03/2024 8:52:43 AM PST by bantam
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To: AndyJackson

“”We showed the issue 60 years ago.””

Explain please....about EMP 60 years ago? That’s the subject, I believe.


53 posted on 03/03/2024 9:14:54 AM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: Thank You Rush
Starfish Prime

Entire subject is well-covered in the classic text in the open literature Glasstone and Dolan, third edition 1977 first edition 1950

54 posted on 03/03/2024 9:20:45 AM PST by AndyJackson
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Well covered? How many years do I have to read it?? I don’t have that much time left. I see EMP stats and effects start at page 514 and ends at 539.. Simple, right? Can I get it in 25 words or less? It doesn’t even allow for cut and paste. I know. I tried.

As to Forstchen’s book being fiction - so was Atlas Shrugged. How many of us understood what Ayn Rand was telling us in that book? How many of us saw it happening? Wasn’t that fiction?


55 posted on 03/03/2024 9:46:30 AM PST by Thank You Rush
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I have done you google search for you. Here is a version that you can copy from. There is nothing obscure about this whole subject. It is a “classic” field. Complicated, sure. But it’s compination of nuclear physics, plasma physics and electrodynamics.

https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/6852629


56 posted on 03/03/2024 9:52:27 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: AndyJackson

“”There is nothing obscure about this whole subject.””

I’ll let you know when I finish laughing....


57 posted on 03/03/2024 10:04:46 AM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: MtnClimber

Try selling that book in a small town.


58 posted on 03/03/2024 10:16:15 AM PST by gloryblaze
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To: MtnClimber

They’ll have to take my rake out of my cold dead hand!!


59 posted on 03/03/2024 3:00:14 PM PST by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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