How Do You Know When?
I started outlining a book once. I guess it followed the same pattern as most apocalyptic story’s; world blows up, the hero (a prepper) moves from modest surroundings to champion ‘his people’ through a recovery and everyone lives happily ever after in the brave new world.
My book offered something no other story had though: a completely incompetent author with terrible writing skills.
Now, despite having all of this going for me, one of the early challenges I had to have my characters address was the uncertainty of determining just when Zero Hour would occur. How would he know when the trigger was to be pulled and the fuses lit? How would he know when to hop in the truck and go?
I mean obviously he (or we) would know after the fact when the optimum time to begin executing plans should have been. Beginning to soon, especially if your plans have elements of bravado (such as storming a Walmart for canned goods and ammo) means that you’d end up in jail for a very long time if the crises does not fully materialize. Starting to late would mean that everyone in Bumfuck beat you to the goods you were counting on.
So how do you know when/if the SHTF moment is here and it’s time to start doing lion shit? This question is not rhetorical. Let me frame the same question a little differently: Does the corona virus have the potential to cause irrational responses in our communities and can those responses be disastrous enough to crash the economy/society. Can COVID-19 usher in a world wide collapse?
Before today I would have thought not. Today I found that Bernie and Biden, enabled by panicked voices across the spectrum of media organization, are doing their best to scare the holy shit out of our citizenry.
Sanders warned the coronavirus pandemic could cause deaths on par with a major war, in an address slamming Donald Trump and calling for an aggressive response by congress.
“In terms of potential deaths and in terms of the economic impact on our economy the crisis we face from the coronavirus is on a scale of a major war and we must act accordingly,”
Both CNN and MSMBC are pumping fear into the atmosphere as fast as the wide eyed hosts can manage. If there is a way to crash the country, these guys will find it.
All of this brings us back to the original question. How do you know when?
How To Reach Out And Grab An Audience
Got your attention didn’t it ! Borepatch ran this headline as a lead-in to an article on how statistics are being manipulated to disparage gun ownership. Gotta love em.
For $600 Alex
Your feel-bad story of the day
A couple of years ago I married a wonderful woman after living with her for a few years. I am a man in my 70s, and my wife is a few years older than me. She has an older sister who is on her third marriage and has a reputation in my wife’s family for being flirtatious and extremely manipulative. She has been living far away from us and visits three or four times a year.
My sister-in-law never paid any unusual attention to me until my wife and I married. But after that, every time she visited, she would single me out for compliments, saying I was “cute” and trying to find reasons to touch me. For example: “Your hair is so pretty. Let me touch it.” That progressed to putting an arm around my shoulders and then coming up to me and putting both arms around my neck while facing me. I never gave her any encouragement or positive reaction.
Now I don’t think that any of this actually happened, but if you’d like to continue reading until the absolutely unfulfilling end, the full fake story is here.
The Forth Estate
If you have any doubt that the news media is more about pacifying populations and less about distributing timely and useful information, that matter can be cleared up by the following…..
What Manipulation Looks Like
About That Mueller Report
Syria: Odd How That Works
It’s Not Oppression, It’s Delusion
The brainwashing of the left has been so successful that for many the very existence of a white male, regardless of station or stature, is to be ridiculed.
Up has become down, good now evil. Those that most loudly proclaim that others are intolerant are the most intolerant of all. What is the source of their profound indignity? Only one agency has both the reach and persistence needed to delude a society so well and for so long: the 4th estate.
The press has used their immense political and social power to manipulate our citizenry. The Trumpster has pegged them for what they are and he battles them daily to diminish the sway they wield over society. It may be a loosing battle, but one surely worth fighting.
Fake News Trashed on the Trumpster’s Feed
A Popular Category
Poor ‘Journalist’ Is Called to Task
MSNBC And Their Daily Challenge
The Chicanery Within CNN
Another CNN contributor masquerading as a “conservative”… everyone else has taken their mask off so why keep pretending?
Same Shit, Different Day
I’m not even going to try to keep up with all of the twists and turns that have exploded into the public space, other than to note two basic observations:
- It seems as if the Drudge Report has fallen to the influences of the dark side. I started noting this about a month (or so) ago: the subtle shifting of a story, the obvious exclusion of conservative viewpoints that were available on other sites, the overlooking of exculpatory information when repeating liberal accusations. Today’s page is so full of obvious errors (favoring progressive voices) and absent of conservative perspective that I fear they are lost.
- The Democrat’s have totally lost their shit; that makes them dangerous, like a cornered rat. They are so vested in the destruction of the Orange Man that they cannot turn from that task without ruining their own comfy positions on the government gravy train. They won’t win, but as they go down in flames they will seriously (and perhaps irrevocably) damage the great American experiment.
Yep, Sounds Like a Democrat
For Those of You That Are Keeping Score
Can’t Shake That Kavanaugh Jones
No Bias | When Your Savior Goes Down
Her Morals Are As Ugly As She Is
How is it that a person can lie with such ease? What rational person (assuming they’ve ever picked up an AR) could hear her speak and not become disgusted?
We’ll See | This Story is History By Tuesday
White Males ! In the Country ‘Without Authorization’
Damn NBC, at least try to appear impartial.
The Fifth Estate
Guilty as Charged
Meanwhile, Over At Yahoo
When it comes to what news we view on many web sites, including Yahoo, we know that most of the articles are aggregated from a variety of sources. The choice of which of the gazillion articles that are floating around in the MSM however is Yahoo to make. They choose to exclusively run with those stories that portray this administration in the worst possible light.
The question, for both the MSM and the news aggregators, is why are their articles (and the aggregators choices) consistently biased against the administration. I think that there is more than simple hatred against all things conservative, I think that there is a long term strategy at work: to completely destroy any faith that American’s have in their institutions. And it’s working.
As for me, only article on Yahoo provided a rational response to this overwhelming push against our institutions. I’m getting off of the train-wreck the Fifth Estate has so craftily engineered.
Against Company Policy
The Media’s Manipulation
The real outrage should not be directed at this idiot for his answer, it should be fixed on the really sneaky way the question was asked. ‘Would you be courageous enough’. So the democrat contestants had two choices: either they are courageous or they are a friggen coward.
We are being manipulated everyday by these socialist. Most of the time it goes unnoticed.
Damn CNN, Cantcha At Least Put A Modicum Of Editorial Scrutiny In Your Newscasts | Where’s Alabama?
Loosing Their Ever-Loving Minds
As conservatives quietly issued prayers for the recovery of their long-time political opponent Ginsburg, leftists broke off their raucous celebrations of the death of libertarian billionaire David Koch to issue denunciations of the sexual misconduct committed by whoever Trump appoints as Ginsburg’s replacement should Ginsburg die.
At The New York Times, a former newspaper, editor-in-chief Blithering Prevarication the Third was informed of Ginsburg’s illness and immediately called off his Koch death celebration, stopped dancing around a pentagram while dressed as a goat, and assigned his entire op-ed page to women who had been sexually mistreated themselves and were therefore convinced that whoever came forward to accuse whoever was appointed to replace Ginsburg if Ginsburg died would be telling the truth.
Angry Times editorialist Michele Angry entitled her editorial “Someone I Know Once Got Whistled At On The Street So I Believe Trump’s Supreme Court Pick Will Be Guilty of Assault When We Find Out Who It Is.”
Angry’s angry editorial read in part, “It is way past time for us to stop thinking rationally and to instead believe every woman who levels charges against anyone we disagree with. I myself was once asked out on a date by someone I didn’t find attractive, so I know what it’s like to be murdered by the sort of deranged serial killer Trump will appoint if Ginsburg should pass.”
Editors at CNN cleared the schedule there to make room for all the women who would come forward after the first accuser to create an atmosphere of credibility that CNN commentators could discuss with sanctimonious looks on their faces. CNN was immediately besieged by neurotics, floozies and prostitutes auditioning for the accuser parts. Several of them will be hosting new talk shows on the cable network this fall.
It’s Those Pesky Numbers Again
Huffpo A Short Three Years Ago
Remember, the media colludes to force the outcomes their owners desire. They expertly rig this game. They’ve done exceptional well and failed once. Now they will redouble their efforts and come at America with a vengeance.
Damn Statisticians
A good number of outlets are reporting on crime statistics this morning and how over the last several years the trends are changing dramatically . I’m a big believer that stats are made to be manipulated, and while that may be going on here, there is no doubt that the numbers reported are startling. I snatched this assessment from Breitbart this morning. I note that we have to get pretty far into the article until we learn that a very large number of these arrests were for immigration violations. I guess this goes to show that regardless of the source of the news, each of us has to assess for ourselves the biases of that source. The numbers are still staggering, but need to be understood in the context of increased federal activity in enforcing immigration law. Here’s Breitbart’s article (in part):
A report by DOJ finds that while federal arrests of U.S. citizens rose just ten percent between 1998 and 2018, federal arrests of non-U.S. citizens rose about 234 percent over the same period.
For example, in 1998, 63 percent of all federal arrests were of U.S. citizens, while non-U.S. citizens accounted for about 37 percent of all federal arrests. In 2018, about 64 percent of all federal arrests were of non-U.S. citizens — accounting for 24 percent of all federal drug arrests, 25 percent of all federal property arrests, and 28 percent of all federal fraud arrests.
U.S. citizens, on the other hand, make up a small minority of federal arrests today, accounting for only 36 percent of all federal arrests in 2018. The data is not broken down on how many of these U.S. citizens are naturalized citizens, foreign-born, and how many are native-born U.S. citizens.
Though non-U.S. citizens represent just seven percent of the total U.S. population, they accounted for 15 percent of all federal arrests and 15 percent of all prosecutions for non-immigration related crimes in 2018. This indicates that non-U.S. citizens were about 2.3 times as likely to be arrested or prosecuted for non-immigration related crimes.
Last year, about 85 percent of federal arrests of non-U.S. citizens were for immigration offenses, and another five percent of the arrests were for immigration-related offenses. For perspective, in 1998, about 19,556 non-U.S. citizens were arrested for immigration offenses. By 2018, that number has ballooned to nearly 106,000 arrests — more than five times, or a 441 percent increase, the total of just 20 years ago.
Incongruence
They’re So Fake It Shines Right Through
So Many That He’s Lost Track
Nothing to See Here Folk, Move Along
Banished To The Memory Hole
The NY Times: Serving It Up
If It’s None of My Business, Quit Trying to Influence My Vote
I Call Your Bullshit and Raise 1 Illusion
Here is what I believe is going on: these three lawyers are pawns. The purpose of challenging the results is so that when additional information comes out down the road the conspirators can ‘we’ve been down this road’ or ‘this is old news’.
There is a game being played and an illusion being created that protects powerful pedophiles. The object in this opening portion of the illusion is to have us look at the events in the prison and ignore the events that put Epstein there. Such is the world in which we find ourselves
Poor Little Ilhan
Word of the Day: Bodywash
A Casualty Of The Times
This Story Went Straight to the Memory Hole
Sebastian Makes Another Funny
This is not going to end well for Fredo. As a matter of fact we could be witnessing the end of his long and inconsequential career as monger of hate and lies. I have no sympathy for this mouthpiece of the left but I do have a request: go out in a blaze of glory Fredo, light up the whole world with a spectacular meltdown on national TV.
They Thought We Wouldn’t notice
Happens All The Time
Twisting The Public Like a Pretzel
Well, Which Is It?
The media has repeatedly, over many years, informed us that non-citizens are not a drain on our economy and that they don’t get welfare benefits. Along comes Trump and begins denying citizenship to non-citizens who use welfare and the media freaks out. Damn folks, which is it?
Like White on Rice
One thing we can all count on (in this brave new world) is that if you piss off the Trumpster he won’t go quietly away. He chooses the events o’ da day to get licks in on not only Fredo Cuomo, but big tech as well. He is on the media like white is on rice.
He’s one brash man !