Posted on 11/03/2015 11:21:42 AM PST by PJ-Comix
Remember when, not so long ago, much of the Mainstream Media was mocking people who stocked up on emergency supplies ("preppers") in case of a catastrophe as a bunch of "rightwing" survivalist kooks wearing tinfoil hats? Well, it now appears that Ted Koppel is wearing a tinfoil hat because he is warning about a possible apocalyptic catastrophe that could knock out the nation's power grid for up to two years and is recommending that people stock up on emergency supplies.
Such recommendations are made in his recently published book, Lights Out: A Cyberattack, A Nation Unprepared, Surviving the Aftermath. We shall get to Ted Koppel, survivalist, but first let us examine the mockery such people were subjected to in the MSM as exemplified by this March 2012 New York Times article by Neil Genzlinger:
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
Survival is still being mocked, even by those on Free Republic.
/johnny
That’s because the first rule of prepping is to pretend you don’t do it.
Ping to Kart.
I thought that was fight club?
Suicidalist? Kidding.
Especially by those a core on FR.
Even now as we watch with our own eyes a Measured SHTF event unfolding in western Europe. Sooner or later this thing is going to bust wide open and we will see what SHTF in a 1st World country looks like and it won’t be pretty.
“corpse” ???
Preppers’ PING!!
Hat tips to Old Sarge, Larry - Moe and Curly and JRandomFReeper.
You say po-tay-to, I say po-tah-to.
What is the opposite of a ‘survivalist’?
WHICH BRINGS US TO:
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First Rule of Prep Club: you do not talk about Prep Club.
Second Rule of Prep Club: you DO NOT talk about Prep Club.
Third Rule of Prep Club: If someone says SHTF, do a shot.
Fourth Rule of Prep Club: No more than two people to a retreat; one of them must be a buxom blonde co-ed for repopulating the species.
Fifth Rule of Prep Club: No tie-dye shirts, no socks with sandals, no Birkenstocks, no hipsters.
Sixth Rule of Prep Club: Prepping will go on as long as it has to.
Seventh Rule of Prep Club: Only one BOL at a time.
Eighth Rule of Prep Club: If this is your first time to Prep Club, you HAVE to buy all other preppers a shot.
“What is the opposite of a ‘survivalist’?”
Dinner.
As an aside:
“Ted Koppel is a waffle.” — Bloom County comic
Killing all those babies makes me want to cry.
/johnny
A fatalist.
(Yes, I know, you probably meant that to be rhetorical.)
To directly answer the question, a "deathist."
I just prefer to call them "blissninnies." That, or f'ing morons...but why be prejudiced against the intelligence challenged who simply want to have a good time?
2 year supply.
Five years too little.
Be sure to pack demon repellant. Lots of it.
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