Posted on 07/30/2020 5:50:42 AM PDT by Kaslin
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Remember COVID, the Chinese flu the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) deliberately infected the world with? Like all Chinese products it did not work as advertised but we locked down the economy anyway.
Well, one of the big reasons people did not starve is because truckers kept trucking. Most drivers keep a gun in their cab. When authorities confiscate that gun, deliveries to the cities will cease. It would be a matter of weeks before New York and LA started to run out of food.
How many homeowners do you think would need to be assaulted before a visit from the Local Policy Council would be met with gunfire? Council members are not trained for what they will provoke and can expect to be decimated in confrontations.
How long before people start to organize and directly attack authorities and lines of communication, in and around the cities? Keep in mind every hunter is something of a sniper. How long before some of them decide to lie in wait to pick off public officials responsible for these policies? America is also chock full of trained veterans. It does not take a brain surgeon to realize what side they will be on. Pipelines, power plants, interstate highways, railroads, and bridges will all be targets of attack.
Governors, mayors, and LEOs will start to defect, as will National Guard and any other troops who will resent being asked to kill their neighbors and relatives.
There are not enough soldiers, National Guard, and potential Local Policy Council members to protect everything or seize all weapons.
The fact is, Americans will never allow the government to take their guns, period!
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“Governors, mayors, and LEOs will start to defect,...”
Don’t be so sure about LEOs. So far they’ve been more than happy to “stand down” while businesses are looted and burned, arrest people for opening their businesses, and confiscate guns from homeowners defending themselves from angry mobs.
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The premis is wrong, the Biden person will die within days of the election.
I wonder, though, how much of their willingness to stand down is due to the realization that if they don’t, they will get no support, will likely be injured or killed or, if they survive, will possibly lose their jobs.
there will be a lot of lost firearms reported-canoe tipped over, robbery/burglary and a run on canvas and cosmoline
“I wonder, though, how much of their willingness to stand down is due to the realization that if they don’t, they will get no support, will likely be injured or killed or, if they survive, will possibly lose their jobs.”
If that’s the reason then they’re cowards who cannot be relied upon.
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> Don’t be so sure about LEOs.
Their loyalty will change when their livelihood is “defunded”. That would include the pension funds.
“That would include the pension funds.”
Can’t do that here in Illinois. Pensions are constitutionally guaranteed.
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IF Biden dies before getting inaugurated, that happens then???? He won’t have legally taken office.
...one of the big reasons people did not starve is because truckers kept trucking. Most drivers keep a gun in their cab. When authorities confiscate that gun, deliveries to the cities will cease. It would be a matter of weeks before New York and LA started to run out of food. How many homeowners do you think would need to be assaulted before a visit from the Local Policy Council would be met with gunfire? Council members are not trained for what they will provoke and can expect to be decimated in confrontations. How long before people start to organize and directly attack authorities and lines of communication, in and around the cities?
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This election is bait and switch. Old guy will be swapped for young, woke Marxist.
“and a run on canvas and cosmoline”
If you think it’s time to bury them, it’s time to start digging them up.
Yep, Joe “von Hindenburg” Biden is arranging our next real Chancellor...
In one day, LA and NYC would start running out of food.
States and court opinions vary.
A really heated controversy in my state of Michigan in the end held that the specifically constitutionally protected pensions including city and county ones are NOT protected. People already retired lost sums of money. People had paid into them and given contract concessions to keep them funded for decades.
This was to help the Dem controlled and badly run cesspool of Detroit from going under financially.
The Michigan State Constitution specifically protected the government paid pensions of citizens and said they cannot later be reduced or ended. BUT not only in Detroit but anywhere, the courts ruled they can lose them or have them cut drastically anyway.
Some retirees also lost their health coverage and had to pay huge amounts to get on individual plan Obamacare if too young for any Medicare. Some lost their house due to cuts they never planned on.
from article: Thousands of retired Detroit city workers were subjected to 4.5 percent pension cuts, the end of cost-of-living increases, and reduced insurance coverage to help the city close a $1.88 billion pension plan funding gap.
article summary: Detroit emerged from its landmark bankruptcy in December 2014. ... At one point during the bankruptcy journey, the city's general retirees were threatened with the possibility of seeing their pension checks slashed by up to 34 percent and police and fire retirees were looking at cuts of up to 10 percent.Jul 18, 2018
Even 5 years later, retirees feel the effects of Detroit's bankruptcy Susan Tompor, Detroit Free PressPublished 6:00 a.m. ET July 18, 2018 | Updated 3:34 p.m. ET July 18, 2018 A really heated controversy in my state of Michigan in he end held that the specifically constitutionally protected pensions including city and county ones are NOT protected. People already retired lost sums of money. People had paid into them and given contract concessions to keep them funded for decades.
Amount of trust to extend our governments: Same as the distance you could throw Jerry Nadler while holding Stacey Abrams in his arms.
Some of last part was repeated by mistake. Sorry.
Not if they love their families...all is fair in love and war
>Can’t do that here in Illinois. Pensions are constitutionally guaranteed.
It’s going to be easier to change the Illinois constitution than for Illinois to pay all of it’s promised pensions.
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