Voters are angry?!? Goddammit.

Zoar said:

Indeed I know both basic types.

The bunker kids have bunkers and 1,000 pounds of rice and 300 pounds of beans and canned water and no place to go poop.

The angry and murderous have 25,000 rounds of ammo and red in the their eyes and they cannot wait to start shooting LIBRALS.

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Arkady said:

I've got one cousin like that. I would genuinely not be surprised if someday I heard he'd been involved in a mass shooting. His survivalist mindset is driven by a sick concoction of terror and hate. But I've met a whole lot more lower-key survivalists (or just regular folks who take the Boy Scouts "Be Prepared" motto to a slightly irrational extent). Even I'm that way. I have a "bug out bag" and way more dry goods and assorted survival equipment than I'd need in any remotely likely scenario, along with a generator and an almost pathological number of flashlights, etc. Hell, I have one of those "life straws" for filtering water, just in case, along with a first aid kit that could supply a small health clinic. But for me, and I think for most, it's that club-house vibe that's probably really driving it, not anything serious. I could totally see myself buying emergency coffee supplies on a whim and then laughing at myself later.

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Zoar said:

Indeed I know both basic types.

The bunker kids have bunkers and 1,000 pounds of rice and 300 pounds of beans and canned water and no place to go poop.

The angry and murderous have 25,000 rounds of ammo and red in their eyes and they cannot wait to start shooting LIBRALS.

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marvin martian said:

By the way, wtf is "canned water"? What country do you live in?

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Spamature said:

Your post is dumb !

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marvin martian said:

By the way, wtf is "canned water"? What country do you live in?

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Charcat said:

The Mormons have ALWAYS kept "survivalist" supplies. They are by far the "majority" of survivalists.

https://jozhaus.wordpress.com/food-storage/

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Dawg said:

one far down East keeps 1,000,000 bushels of wheat stored for them........just in case__
Biggest land owners in Tyrell County are now the Mormons..............

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Charcat said:

They are supposed to keep a year's supply of food. I once asked one of them if he wasn't afraid that if there was some kind of disaster they would be invaded by non-Mormons trying to take their supplies. He said, "Nope. We're prepared for that."

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Dawg said:

they not as Passive as they look to be..............
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Dawg said:

they not as Passive as they look to be..............

but.............they are out numbered when that day happens...................

eh, if it happens......................

btw: those kids on bikes in white shirt and tie...........IMO.......being used as slaves........and the way the girls must dress............well...........same..........

my lady way back whenever, her family joined Mormon church..........they tired coming to my home after all these years to see 'Sister T'..........after 2nd uninvited visit..........I put a stop to that...........

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Arkady said:

Well, let's look at that direction. The stock market is higher today than it was at the end of last year. The most recent year's Census figures showed rising median real incomes, falling poverty rates, and a growing share of Americans covered by health insurance. The deficit fell by about $31 billion between FY 2013 and FY 2014. The rate at which Americans have been KIA has fallen by half in the last year. Preliminary FBI data suggests murder and violent crime rates have continued to fall, as they have throughout the Obama years. Housing prices continue to rise. So does worker productivity. Teen pregnancy rates just hit record lows, and abortion rates are also the lowest they've been since the data started being tracked.

So, what is not to like in the direction the country is going? I guess that from the perspective of a person who is a big fan of abortion, crime, deficits, and poverty, we're heading in a terrible direction. But, for those of us who are sane, what's not to like?

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Arkady said:

I've got a pretty good BS detector, so I immediately assumed this wasn't a real quotation. But given some of the bat-shit-crazy stuff she's actually said (like the infamous John Wayne comment, or the bit blaming the Ford-era swine flu outbreak on Carter, or the nutty bit about carbon dioxide not being harmful, or her stoking the anti-vaxxer hysteria), I can see why, when it comes to her, people could be taken in by something that silly. I don't believe Bachmann is really as stupid as her public persona. She's probably quite clever. But I think she's keenly aware that her core supporters are the idiot demographic, and she says stuff designed to appeal to them, even if that means putting her brain into cold storage. So, it's conceivable she might have said something as dumb as the dinosaur comment, if she was in front of the right audience that she cynically expected to lap it up.

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