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House Speaker welcomes Trump call to ‘take over’ elections, claims Dem wins appear ‘fraudulent’
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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.
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.
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.