I hope you have a wonderful night.
stillnotyourenemy
Do us both a favor... take a deep breath, and realize I am not your enemy.
No, I'm afraid you have mistaken my levity for ignorance. I understand and quite agree with the point being made so you can spare me any further condescension. Ipso facto I'm well acquainted 4th generation (asymmetric, guerilla, call it what you will) warfare .
And a big fat "sat cong" to you too...
Go stand outside your local federal building, Senator's or Representative's office, state legislature, etc dressed as a clown. Attract enough attention to get on the local news, tell everyone when you'll be back and invite them to join you. Make connections with the people who stop to support or join you create an organization then ally with other organizations, create political infrastructure. It may be a leftist slogan but it's still valid, "Think global ACT local".
Next they'll be digging up confederate graves and putting stakes through their hearts to guard against the threat of an army of the undead rising up to prevent the coronation... "They said the south will rise again! wE mUsT sToP tHeSe BiGoTs In ThEiR gRaVeS!" This shit's starting to read like someone fed every bad manuscript ever submitted to Soldier of Fortune magazine into a computer and had it come up with a movie plot which Nancy Pelosi then, in a drunken haze, made edits to before being published
I personally prefer some form of the reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks when Sultan Mehmed IV in 1676 demanded they submit to Ottoman rule...
Zaporozhian Cossacks to the Turkish Sultan!
O sultan, Turkish devil and damned devil's kith and kin, secretary to Lucifer himself. What the devil kind of knight are thou, that canst not slay a hedgehog with your naked arse? The devil shits, and your army eats. Thou shalt not, thou son of a whore, make subjects of Christian sons; we have no fear of your army, by land and by sea we will battle with thee, fuck thy mother.
Thou Babylonian scullion, Macedonian wheelwright, brewer of Jerusalem, goat-fucker of Alexandria, swineherd of Greater and Lesser Egypt, pig of Armenia, Podolian thief, catamite of Tartary, hangman of Kamyanets, and fool of all the world and underworld, an idiot before God, grandson of the Serpent, and the crick in our dick. Pig's snout, mare's arse, slaughterhouse cur, unchristened brow, screw thine own mother!
So the Zaporozhians declare, you lowlife. You won't even be herding pigs for the Christians. Now we'll conclude, for we don't know the date and don't own a calendar; the moon's in the sky, the year with the Lord, the day's the same over here as it is over there; for this kiss our arse!>
Precisely the reason Putin is demonized so much is the fact that he is devoutly Orthodox Christian and has done much to return the country to the faith. On several occasions he's publicly chastised both the US and Western Europe for abandoning the faith.
"Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice and moderation in defense of justice is no virtue." - Barry Goldwater
"Violence isn't the only answer, but it is the final answer" - Jack Donovan
The second quote is from an essay on the implicit role violence plays in society titled 'Violence Is Golden' which everyone on here would do well to read.
And verily verily I say unto you, it was on that day that the "Ladies Sewing Circle And Terrorist Society" meme was made flesh and dwelt among us.
Razorfist and Salty Cracker
You can start by reading "SHTF Survival Stories: Memories From The Balkan War" by Selco Begovic. It'll give you an idea of what happens when a country descends into the sort of internecine knife fight that appears to be in our future. You can follow that up with his two other books, "SHTF Survival Bootcamp" and "Dark Secrets of SHTF Survival". You can also start here https://survivalblog.com/newbies/
No problem. Also, I don't know if they sell to the general public but Botach.com carries good composite body armor at awesome prices. I bought level IV rifle plates for the price of level II or III about a year ago.
.... and since most places have a 1-2 month backlog of orders on plates here's a something's better than nothing solution for homemade armor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-FBHZ2gaXU
These guys have a good rep: https://www.ar500armor.com/ar500-armor-body-armor.html
Here's a good rundown of the protection levels: https://www.ar500armor.com/advanceddescription.html
As for gas masks, as much as I hate to say it Amazon may be the most accessible for a lot of people. I wouldn't give over $40 for one of the Israeli surplus. If you wanna go for quality, MSA and Honeywell are good quality brands. That said, any full face (or 1/2 face & goggles) respirator with P100 organic vapor filters from a hardware store will work.
Indeed. When the president leaves the continental US on AF1 this and two airborne refueling tankers assigned to it go too. It's designed to remain airborne and operational for a full week with a staff of 112. Think of it as a flying presidential battle bunker where GEOTUS can directly control the military and nothing or no one can stop him.
This begs the question where is the "Looking Glass" plane?
This is the flying national command center, a so-called doomsday plane developed and hardened to give the president the ability to continue leading the country in the event of nuclear war. The official code name is Nightwatch.
Feels awesome! Much the same story here... I'm about a decade younger. My mother led me by the hand into the voting booth to push the button for Ronald Reagan and let me feed the ballot into the tabulator.
Here's a Goldwater quote to mark the occasion, "Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the defense of justice is no virtue."
In NC unaffiliated voters can still vote in the Dead Elephant primaries... changed my affiliation online today.
To quote the late Mike Vanderboegh, God rest his collectivist fighting soul, "A socialist is a communist who has not yet found his AK-47 or the will to use it, a communist is a socialist who has found his AK-47 and would kill you with it".
No worries, it's an easy enough assumption to make. I've wrestled my share of violent patients on the side of the road and sometimes you get some leakage when you have to resort to "grab and stab" to sedate them. It's not ideal, but it beats getting your ass kicked by someone high on PCP.
Nah, just really shitty out of date technique. The idiot appears to be bunching the skin which stopped being taught to Paramedics at least fifteen years ago. My guess is she's a nurse administrator who hasn't done direct care in a long long time but couldn't resist the chance to get on TV. Reference 4:20-6:00 in the below video for both the old and current technique. To give some reference, I was taught the Z track method in 2004.
I have to respectfully disagree with you on whether or not the VP is able to choose which set of electors to count. While you are correct regarding the 1887 Congressional Statute, I submit that there's a Constitutional and historical argument to render it moot.
Constitutionally, the language of the 12th Amendment is that the VP shall open and count the votes in the presence of Congress. In my interpretation, this indicates that the VP has the power to decide which votes are valid, which are not, and that the Congress of 1887 lacked the authority to constrain future Vice Presidents in carrying out their Constitutional duty. Which brings us to the historical argument of the election of 1800 in which VP Thomas Jefferson counted the votes of Georgia for himself and Aaron Burr despite them being clearly shady and not in the form called for in the constitution.
Sauce:
The Memoirs of AAron Burr published 1836: On the 11th of February the ballots were opened ... Mr. Jefferson was the presiding officer. On opening the package [of] endorsed Georgia votes, it was discovered to be totally irregular. The statement now about to be given is derived from an honourable gentleman, a member of Congress from the state of New York during the administration of Mr. Jefferson, and yet living in this state. He says that Mr. Wells (a teller on the part of the Senate) informed him that the envelope was blank; that the return of the votes was not authenticated by the signatures of the electors, or any of them, either on the outside or the inside of the envelope, or in any other manner; that it merely stated in the inside that the votes of Georgia were, for Thomas Jefferson four; and for Aaron Burr four; without the signature of any person whatsoever. Mr. Wells added, that he was very undecided as to the proper course to be pursued by the tellers. It was, however, suggested by one of them that the paper should be handed to the presiding officer, without any statement from the tellers except that the return was informal; that he consented to this arrangement under the firm conviction that Mr. Jefferson would announce the nature of the informality from the chair; but, to his utmost surprise, he (Mr. Jefferson) rapidly declared that the votes of Georgia were four for Thomas Jefferson and four for Aaron Burr, without noticing their informality, and in a hurried manner put them aside, and then broke the seals and handed to the tellers the package from the next state. Mr. Wells observed, that as soon as Mr. Jefferson looked at the paper purporting to contain a statement of the electoral vote of the state of Georgia, his countenance changed, but that the decision and promptitude with which he acted on that occasion convinced him of that which he (a federalist) and his party had always doubted, that is to say, Mr. Jefferson's decision of character, at least when his own interest was at hazard.
A 2004 article in the Atlantic on the election of 1800... https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2004/03/how-jefferson-counted-himself-in/302888/
Marvin Heemeyer has entered the chat...
“I was always willing to be reasonable until I had to be unreasonable. Sometimes reasonable men must do unreasonable things.”