He ignores the high probability manifest high risk threat in the Offal Office.
Like muslim immigration...
“National resiliency” in a nation filled to the brim with people of Sheila jackson Lee’s capacity is a tall order.
Anything falling down is unlikely to be put back up. Already today, I think, the US would be unable to build much of its own infrastructure.
and look at this 2010 link in USA Today:
Our Malthusian petri dish is getting a little crowded. It is a good time to be old. We have lived the easiest existence ever experienced by homo sapiens...and listen to us bitch. We live in interesting times.
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Who needs an EMP when a country can manufacture its own demise from within? We have done this.
Story after story after story, whipping people up about this or that.
The real story is the gubbamint turning on it's citizens. EMP is the last thing I'm worried about.
Other existential threats to America, according to the CIA:
1) Sharknados.
2) Lethal strain of antibiotic-resistant Bieber Fever.
3) MLB steroid abuse.
4) Jenkem.
5) Privacy.
Where does the benefit of the doubt now lay?
This is conceptual prep-work for THEM “reminding” us about juuust how valuable they are.
Now us green-toothed slubberdegullions outside the beltway are having serious questions about the Constitutional fitness of most high-budget, electronic cloak-and-dagger programs.
They feel their pound of flesh is threatened by all these pestering civilian questions, and so they’re going to re-arrange our priorities and put us IN OUR PLACE.
If an EMP attack comes to pass I would blame OUR SIDE first; they’ll first harden up their gear to all eternity, and then they’ll banish us peasants to the stone-age.
Our betters are sharpening the blade, prepping up to PUNISH us.
Our family is prepared for such an attack. I made and executed a contingency plan after meeting with Frank Gaffney in 2005 and having him explain the threat. Google “Faraday cage” to get started.
The biggest existential threat to America was reelected last November. We still have another four more years of fundamental transformation ahead of us. May God have mercy....
BTTT!
I agree that an EMP is a risk, along with other risks like an influenza pandemic, the eruption of a supervolcano, and the start of another Ice Age.
I just lived through a flood that destroyed much of my home town. Everyone was affected somehow, but some had little damage, and some had catastrophic damage. Everyone lost something. The water level was the highest ever recorded here. My point is that an EMP will affect things in the same way - hit and miss damage, with some extreme devastation, and some folks just cleaning up. There would be death and chaos, but not on the level of “One Second After.” Furthermore, the rest of the world would remain intact, and they’d respond somehow - again, probably some friendly intervention, and probably some aggressive actions against us. In any case, we would get assistance, or intervention.
My gut feeling is that an EMP attack on the United States would initially be destructive, but then the country would rebuild and respond. Everyone would have a story of pain and hardship, and that would translate politically into revenge. It might take 10 or 20 years, but the rebuilt country would retaliate against whoever launched the attack, and then continue against those who supported the attackers. The American Empire would emerge, with the motto “We’ll Kick Your Ass” and the slogan “You F*ck With Us, We Will Kill You.” In other words, a militarized state, probably with traditional authoritarian elements, wrapped in an ideology of a republic. Then, like Rome, we would continue in one form or another for another millennium and a half.
Hey, it’s just as probable as the “we’re all going to die” scenario. All I really know is that I don’t want to be here if it happens.
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