Lil Mike needs some knee pads and jaw ointment for the work he’s doing.

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    We need to take this VERY, VERY seriously. I gamed out how Trump gets a third term - shit like this enables it (in 2028) - this is a test run.

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      Much like how President David Jefferson Adams got the SCOTUS to disqualify all of his political opponents.

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    Its going to be real fun for Republicans when the economy is destroyed and they can’t get rid of the dictator/fascism machine they created.

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      Sucks that the ones that are against this bullshit have to suffer too. But I hope my stepmom gets everything she voted for.

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    “It just looks on its face to be fraudulent, because we didn’t win. Of course we win, we always win because we say so. Any loss is fake. There is only the Republican party. If you don’t love the one party state you don’t love freedom.”

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      1. Treat every weapon as if it were loaded.
      2. Never point a weapon at anything you do not intend to shoot.
      3. Keep your finger straight and off the trigger until you are ready to fire.
      4. Keep your weapon on safe until you intend to fire.

      1. Know your target and what is beyond it.

      Four weapons safety rules (and an extra for good measure). This is the bare minumum general knowledge needed before handling a firearm.

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        Unless you’re an ICE agent, then you don’t follow any rules, including laws.

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      and ammo, and about two to three weeks worth of fresh water and food if you possibly can. (and a lot of garbage bags in case you can’t poop in your toilet and don’t have a dirt yard.)

      If we need more than that we’re beyond fucked, but the track forward may get bumpy and there may be civil disruptions as various states, agencies and companies actually start preparing for an authoritarian takeover on US soil, it would likely come with something akin to martial-law, which people will resist and there would be large-scale violence that could disrupt power grids, water and sewage, and of course logistics routes.

      It wouldn’t last forever, we’re nowhere capable of an actual civil war on US soil unless like, half the armed-forces don’t follow the leader, but by then it’s very likely the admin will have replaced every general and military leader as they’ve been trying to do. But it could get very bad for a lot of people.

      Pray we’re not about to see history unfold, pray the “nothing ever happens” dipshits score a win on this one.

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        Honestly I think there is a non-zero chance of this happening as well. We live in an apartment and neither of us have ever been “prepper” types so we don’t have a huge hoard or anything, but I have dedicated a cabinet in our kitchen to this situation.

        I told my husband that I don’t think it’s unlikely that at some point we’re going to have to go without utilities for a couple weeks, so we needed to have stuff on-hand. After a few weeks, I feel like all bets would be off anyway and society would basically become feral so it doesn’t make sense to have a huge hoard that you can’t haul around easily. Unless you live in a house with Purge-Night style defenses, then I guess it makes sense.

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          You’re absolutely right. I grew up around real preppers, cult compounds, the whole nine yards. 90% of those people are completely deluded into thinking they will suddenly plant green beans and tomatoes and be fine if the world ends.

          They want change, they want the system to be “reset” so that they can find new advantages and new ways to live without feeling crushed by the complicated systems of a world shared with millions of people.

          But unless you’re already successfully living off acres of land with animals and greenhouses you have no chance of suddenly becoming a survivor in a worst-case scenario.

          But I don’t think it’s going to get that bad, short of something completely out of left-field like an asteroid impact or an AI driven plague, and in those cases, I think I would choose to go find a nice place for a final picnic instead of having any idea that I’ll suddenly start wearing spiked leather and drive around a charger on oddly-abandoned highways.

          Meanwhile, we’ve seen social disruptions happen all over the world, over and over, and they rarely last more than days or weeks, and you can do a massive amount of good with modest preparation. Even better if you can talk to your neighbors and have a community.

          We don’t survive alone. The worst lesson they’ve pumped into the developed world is the notion of the “rugged loner” being anything but a statistic. This is where the whole “penguin debate” started. But that’s a whole other topic.

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      Mike Johnson washes Trump’s balls with Barron’s armpit sweat. Can I prove that? No, because it happened so far upstream.

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      You have just as much proof as trump does claiming election interference by Democrats, so I definitely believe you.

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      We call people like that ‘brown ankles’ because that’s how far up Trump’s arse he is.

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      I’m sure the Democrats will have a unified and muscular response that puts the best interests of their constituents first.

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    Yep. The death throes of a nation begin and ends with a cowardly little weasel promoting fascist ideologies.

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    “It just looks on its face to be fraudulent.”

    “Can I prove that? No, because it happened so far upstream,” Johnson added.

    What a little shit

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    They are getting desperate. They know they are all going to jail when the adults are back in office. They will do ANYTHING to avoid jail, including burning the country to the ground.

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      …where have you been since he became Speaker?

      Doing or at the very least enabling blatantly illegal things isn’t just part of the job he willingly signed up for, it IS the job.

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        I’ve definitely been watching him know next to nothing about the major stories of the day, that’s for sure. I’m not sure I’ve ever seen anyone claim to know so little. You’d think the guy was Amish or something and eschewing anything electronic, to hear him tell it.

        That’s when he is asked a question that makes Republicans look bad. Usually the interview comes to an end and the Wish edition of Harry Potter scampers away.

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      I think it’s more than apparent by now that it’s only illegal if the justice department and courts are willing to deal out consequences.