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Fuck me, why are the sheeple so fucking docile here in the USA?
I think we're going to leapfrog protests and riots, and jump right to total chaos.
That, or free DirecTV for everyone in perpetuity.
Best two connected comments I've ever seen
subsidized fried chicken next up.
Let's be totally racist and add watermelon to the menu.
Why is this racist? Fried chicken and watermelon are great!
Hi -
"Thought Police" here - you are clear to use fried chicken AND watermelon in the same sentence.
Free Kool-aid @ Tha Ghetto Olympics:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQmyQReHOa8
This can't be where this fantastic thread ends...
Nigger is not a racist comment. It means subhuman no matter who, where or what you are from. Everyone knows what a nigger is and it's not a race or color of skin.
Perhaps my tolerance threshold for these innocent comments is artificially low. I own a small business and have been conditioned to rebuke even the slightest of comments. If I allow any intolerance in the workplace, I end up in court and lose everything. It's a gut reaction at this point.
Long,slow fuse over here...Lots of explosive powder at the end of that fuse.
Once we clear all the heart attack victims out of the streets, it ought to be interesting...
IMHO, it's most productive to laugh at, and ignore, the super-structure.
What are you going to do? The system is ridiculous. The do not govern with my consent, so I merely see them as illegitimate. They can attempt to rule with force, at which point one can respond. One can resist in proportion to the level with which one disagrees.
Civil disobedience will come to a city near you, but until then, the central planning elitests can just be the nut-jobs shouting out into the night. Why give them such power over your life?
Give? They pointed a freakin' gun at my head. I feel it each and everytime I pay taxes. Having to pay taxes is the same as being robbed at gunpoint. I guess it will hit home to most people when the government demands taxes even though they don't have enough to eat.
Robbed at gunpoint? Actually more like getting bent over and done (at gunpoint) by big ole bubba in front of the wife and kids.
To think we used to hack on the gone postal guys.
True, taxes are the one thing that's tough to avoid (because they are so good at seizing property).
However, the stakes are bigger, and it's a temporary problem: Taxes cannot support current debt service, and US sovereign default is imminent. For everything other than taxes, civil disobedience is the national pastime.
So, I agree that they can currently make you suffer. My only consolation is that you won't need to wait very long before they will be revealed as impotent.
Then, US citizens will understand why the French invented the guillotine (right about the time the checks stop showing up in the mailboxes).
Yeah, and taxes are going UP on multiple fronts in a country like ours reall soon.
Invest in anything? No.
Hoard? Yes.
Once upon a time, hoarding was called "saving."
No taxation with fuc$ed up representation.
better television programming
The rich have got their channels in the bedrooms of the poor...
Leonard Cohen
Agree wholeheartedly. I know a good many people who have been, and are going, nowhere in life. They smoke weed all day while watching sports or some other nonsense. Abject failures through and through, but armed to the core nonetheless. They may have no idea what they are fighting for, but their arms throw lead the same as any other.
The chaos will stem from this being a race war. As the economy and society come crumbling down, these barely veiled tensions will boil to the surface with such vigor as to have Little Boy and Fat Man shamed in envy.
No no no. No race war goddamnit. That's exactly what the PTB wants. If the brothers and the white boys start fucking each other up it's absolutely game over for all. Spread the word, unity is the only winning play-we can do it.
divide and conquer. thats why obama was put there.
Here, here!! Brothers......UNITE!!!!
The seeds are sown, I am afraid. Divide and conquer, and we let em do it...
" He is interconnected with everything else; independence is simply an illusion."
better here I think...
Let them do it? Arent the powers to be granted more than in reality?
Divide and conquer and we've thrived on it as I dont remember that for example racial segregation was that loathed by the white US majority. On the contrary...
Same for land grabbing. The elite did not push people to settle on indian lands. Often, the ruling elite had to take notice of land settling.
In the US, the elite has served the best interests of the white majority without compelling the white majority in any kind of scheme. Main trouble is probably that. The scheme used is running out and is no longer as satisfying as its yield is peaking.
Yes We Can
Conrad,
" Little Boy and Fat Man shamed in envy"
Statement might be a little strong. Pictures of Hiroshima and Nagasaki should be reviewed.
We still have food and basic medical care distribution. If the money that goes into drugs and lottery could be channelled in other ways it would help.
Because polyunsaturated fats clogs up the neurons in the brain and makes one feel that everythign is ok.
I think you are right. There doesn't seem to be any other way.
Because there check will still be in the box on the 3rd..And there foodstamp card will still be credited on the first..Nothing else matters..They pay $20 a month section 8 rent, life is good..Plus fuel assistance which will pay all but a very small amount of there utility payments..
Take any of that away from them and that stuff there doing will look like an afternoon pizza party at chuckie cheese...
Your exactly right, spot on. The govt. knows that too, they have to keep the "checks" coming because when they stop as all of us here know they will, people will go crazy. It's all theory when you shoot your mouth off and yell get a job to someone who is without but when it's you and you can't even get any checks to help, then it's a disaster. Remember, most Americans have been kept in a naive state of thinking they are exceptional and only the bad stuff happen to those people. When it happens to us they will be in literal shock.
We don't protest, we revolt. It takes a lot of pushing to get a 9-5er to take the gun he has collecting dust out of his closet.
By "we" I mean productive people with jobs. If you just want to see people in the streets cut off welfare payments, but be careful what yo wish for then because they'll be asking for bigger gov't.
it'd be great if we could gently push the system 'back' over a longer time-frame - ya know, like it took us to get here.
but, i don't think it's gonna happen that way, is it...?
Nevermind, that was in the good old days of duels and cane beatings in Congress.
Shhh! We're trying to watch American Idol.
Interesting. We may get to see what happens when the t.v. goes out. There appears to be a rouge t.v. satellite. No control and heading for another.
My SYFI channel is the rouge. What is really strange is how it co-opted programming from another sat. in range and is still in orbit.
What does a red (rouge) satellite have to do with anything?
I'd be more worried about a rogue satellite myself.
Oh, wait; rouge = red, red = commie. Now I get it. I'm just a little slower than most, being a product of the public education system.
From my experience over the past couple months talking with Sheeple... it's because they DON'T KNOW THEY'RE PAYING TO BAILOUT EUROPE... plus they agree with JPM that gold is too expensive at these levels and should be cheaper. Sadly it just comes down to the fact that we don't educate on finance or apparently even bill paying.
They also don't know that we are financing the Banks' bonuses with the Fed/Banks/Treasury Repo scam. When I explain it they get it, cause they ARE pissed about the bonuses.
you are bailng out europe? perhaps america exported its inflation over here and you are just getting what you deserve...keep paying suckers
People in Ireland, Greece etc, have much more economic incentive to riot relative to us in the US. They have a lot less to lose and much more to gain. We're still in the "more to lose, than have to gain" level of shitty governance.
yes exactly, at least that is the common perception, however coloured it is by generations of government schooling.
The USA will be very late to the party, but will make up for their tardiness with enthusiasm.
Time to party like it's 1859.
Because then you would be branded a "White racist tea party guy" that the media loves to hate.
+1
Fuck that, your police uses stunguns. We lack that in Europe.
Enough reason for ya, besides American Idols?
Bingo. Our cops use stunguns and worse. All I can think when I see a picture of a Greek riot cop on fire is how f**king dead that "anarchist" kid would be if he did that in an American city.
Which I hasten to add is not necessarily a good thing. Protests being as a rule important free speech and what-not.
But yeah, he'd be shot ten times before he took another step.
+ 1776
and be branded as a "WASP racist tea party member"?
I saw a 40 year old white guy take off his sweater the other day and I almost shit myself in terror.
so...uh...you missed Seattle right?
To paraphrase a comment on either ZH or NC:
"It's because the Irish are not afraid of their government."
" you can trust the American people to do the right thing - after they have tried everything else! " - Winston Churchill (attributed to)
I am American.
The deal with Americans is that we like our easy lives and empty entertainment and we bitch about our government and all the stupidity in the MSM, but really we're a violent bunch of fuckers. It's not even "violent deep down" either. We're just violent, bloody-minded, over-armed, half-crazed, dont-tread-on-me hard-ass fuckers. All the god-damned time.
And we're mighty proud of the fact. Obviously.
We also love a gun fight, and we like killing people who deserve it, and we kill them more thoroughly dead than almost anyone else on earth can do. And while we claim to be peace-loving and usually we really are, in the end we enjoy what we do because we're so fucking good at it.
We could kill every mo'fo on the planet if it made sense -- which it does not, so the rest of you got that going for you. We love you, man.
I'm not saying this because I'm a moron wanker itching for a fight. Because I'm not. I'm saying this so everyone knows the score.
When the American citizenry gets a belly full of this crap & nonsense it is likely to be one of the most memorable moments in human history. Except for the Mongol hordes crossing the Russian Steppes in a thundering line of horses stretching from one dusty horizon to the other, unsheathed steel reflecting the blood sun and ready to devour their enemies in a single fit of unalloyed pleasure -- I said pleasure -- you haven't seen anything.
If it does turn out to happen like flipping a switch, that is the worst case scenario for TPTB.
a thundering line of horses stretching from one dusty horizon to the other, unsheathed steel reflecting the blood sun and ready to devour their enemies in a single fit of unalloyed pleasure
Dude, I really fucking love yer posts ;~))
Yes, colorful. Only they wouldn't last very long against a trained squad equipped with modern weapons.
People are taking those old adventure movies too seriously.
Except...
That first they would need to get organised.
And that took Chingis Khan 20 years of bashing his own peoples heads together before he forged his Army.
probably American Idol isn't such an instrument of unifying power...
American road rage revolution won't require organization. People will just start shooting, burning, looting, and stringing up people in suits in a spontaneous fit of violence.
Actually it would be vastly more dangerous if it didn't get organized but was more, ahem, entrepreneurial.
There's something to ponder and keep you awake at night.
You've seen too many American movies.
Now that was a righteous post Cougar.
He's right though. We are the most violent society to ever grace the planet.
Thats saying a lot...
I have to disagree there. Certainly there is a violent streak in Americans, but it's more of a depraved love of bloodsport as seen during the decline of Rome, than a brutal warrior society. That title has to go to the Chinese; a few generations of being passive worker bees under their Communist regime doesn't erase 3,000 years of constant warfare, revolution, and strife.
Yes, it does. I have spent much time in China. They are now very much pussies, mostly.
We ate the British in North America. And then we ate the Germans and the Japanese.
And we weren't even especially angry either time. Just really annoyed.
We save our real anger for our internal dealings. The American Civil War was epic. Genghis Khan would totally be at home in America.
We should have never let in the Scots. Dads side of the family is from Scotland and those bastards are violent. kicked the Romans ass too...
All good points, but by the time we had a real "crack" at said Germans and Japs, the Brits, Russians, and Aussies had softened them up pretty good.
Also, many of us are thinking defensively. Piss us off and we will start to think offensively. And personally, I am more comfortable with and better at attacking....and thats years of experience speaking..
And we weren't even especially angry either time. Just really annoyed.
We save our real anger for our internal dealings.
Yep.
And we weren't even especially angry either time. Just really annoyed.
We save our real anger for our internal dealings.
Yep. Well said.
Your historical analysis is quaint but unfortunately wrong. 80% of the population may as well be considered to be labotomized as they will turn to the 10% working in big govt for protection from the 8% who are terrorizing them while the remaining 2% wonder why they can't get the 80% to simple get up off their couches and take action. The US will consume itself from within before it can wreak any serious damage abroad.
The USA isn't nearly the most violent society ever... the Aztecs and the Mongols are just two that come to mind. The Scythians weren't exactly nice either, and Rome could be rather snippy when they were pissed.
But I say this in much the same way that I note that a 20Mt bomb isn't nearly the largest H-bomb ever detonated.
This ranger agrees. Plus I would love to hate to see some of our mixes really feel unfettered. The Sioux/Norwegians of the northern planes and the Scots-Irish and the Cherokee.. There are endless varieties here with one primary aim once it is reached. Don't Tread On Me.
Scots-Irish and the Cherokee. Crap, you suddenly made it clear to me why mom and dad fought so much!
As a kid my friends would always ask, before entering the house, Is the squaw on the warpath today?
I never did respond, clueless bastards that they were...
No shit. My former wife is full on first option. I was speaking from a point of affection mixed with a healthy dose of respect. And yes I would have responded a bit more forcefully than you did. I was a real hard headed youth and I still struggle playing well with others, let alone clueless pieces of shit to this day..
LOL - because I know the feeling. I have to quarantine myself if I'm anywhere near a 1/5th of, well, anything except rubbing alcohol.
:) + that doesn't work well when chronic pain & morphine is mixed into the situation. Me/ I am just having fun watching it all fly by.
I ain't leavin', I like breathin' - Dr. DRE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqchRpH_eDM
Amazing comment from an unexpected source.
The cougar has spoken.
Farmville serfs are too busy feeding their virtual selves to care "What is real". They watch "The Matrix", but can not see "The Matrix". The hear Jimi, but they do not listen to Jimi. They hope, they do not act.
Complacency has invited a false consciousness to permeate above the muse, justifying ego with non-sequitur actions. "All through the day/I Me Mine" has become not only standard behavior, any train of linearity is forbidden. Thusly light follows light, chasing away contrast. Magnified is the simplicity of chaos; wheels spin, dirt flies, but what is moving? I see dirt and wheels only. The chariot remains static. So they say, "This is where we live. This is the promised land." They remain long fate, and duty, fighting day by day to serve. Bested seems reductio ad absurdum. It is not.
...Yours too. Have you got The Apartment Tapes so called? My favorite listening right now. What better than to hear Jimi in the process of working up A Merman on an unplugged strat. Bliss.
The Apartment Tapes....talk about gold.
I can feel his mind clicking with afterthoughts aglow; soul orbiting his guitar, it commands his body.
:Blues I have bought so many times I have lost track. Can not live without it.
Where can I find "The Apartment Tapes"?
Still raining, still dreaming.
Prozac? (Soma) Read somewhere that one third of the country is on it.
because of the modern equivalent of bread and circuses: pizza and porn
More likely everyone in the US will max out their credit cards and quit paying.
We can do that from the comfort of our couches.
TV still works, fast food still available and couch hasn't been taken by the repo-man...all is well..no reason to riot. As a last resort...mary jane will become legal.
We don't pass through the stages of grief here in the US. It will begin in the heartland, guys with guns and tractors will sieze control of their municipalities. There won't be any warning. It may never reach the coasts, but it doesn't have to to end life as we know it.
Don't forget that 3 of the PIIGS report GDP tomorrow, and it is going to be UGLY from what I hear. ZH has touched on this several times, I think Euro may sink to 1.20 tomorrow easy
Lube up the swap lines, Ben! We've got big incoming!
Wait a minute - why hasn't anyone tied this news together with the way the real world works?
Three PI(I)GS! Which one went to the market, which one stays home and which one, well, you know the rest.
nice
and what does wee wee wee all the way home mean?
or is it oui oui oui?
It's banks Vs. democracy, and democracy is loosing.
Democracy as you know it is a Illusion created by bankers.
This Battle is between Republicans and Royalists.
Heard any muffled Armalite reports coming from those underground ranges down in Cork? Sounds like opportunity knocking!
Har dee har har. I presume you haven't heard of the Provisional IRA capo who got onto the board of Bank of Scotland (Ireland).
That sounds like a nervous laugh, and rightly so. Do you believe the Eksund was an only child? I would bet there are many more like her that have graced Ireland's fair shores...free of treachery.
And by the way, friend, one Irish republican on a bank board should not equate to a restful slumber for unionists. Ever hear of a fox in the hen house?
Finally, the new British PM doesn't have nearly the balls of Thatcher without the 'roids.
I'd wager Paddy Power has pulled in the over-under on the Brits leaving due to nothing more than they are all piss poor. Something about Icesave?
If a dipshit Yank like me sees the UK's weakness, then damn sure the next Gerry Adams does, too.
Well Cork and its environs traditionally is the centre of any rebellions , Dublin being London's proxy control unit and is now Frankfurt's executive island
Ireland is now a fractured broken society poisoned by liberalism - it no longer has the capacity or cohesion for any prolonged resistance.
At the core of the most effective and dangerous of our patriots were wild geese and some radicalised Anglo Irish - we no longer have such men.
I am watching the so called storming of our Parliament now - they seem to be left wingers as usual.
Some are probably well meaning but naive and possibly directed by even greater fools.
It seemed a farcical situation where the police were trying to protect their female colleagues - the protesters got a few knocks but were not really hard diamonds.
Ireland is very lightly policed - our police do not normally carry arms and there was a very light police force at the gates of the parliament.
This is not Greece - we have a very small army and police force that is not designed to crush its own people.
I have to say I proudly own a Corcaigh Hurling jersey. They're known as The Rebels !
http://www.rebelgaa.com/index.asp
Long live the Irish Republic ! Disclosure: Great grandson of an Irish Immigrant from Ferns, Co. Wexford
Never a fan of Gaelic Football but Hurling is a different game.
think high hand - eye coordination , situational awareness and sheer bloody madness.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmzivRetelE
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiuzYvScbnY
...and here I thought I was supposed to live in a constitutional republic....silly me.
The ballot box will be tried one more time. If that doesn't get results I predict docile sheeple is not what we shall witness.
Diebold on line one....
Was at my favorite gun store today, browsing around. AR prices are back on the climb. Hope you all bought the dip. More telling, was that the ever growing collection of used Mini's and AK's that were accumulating from trade-ins on AR's, is GONE. Every last scratched up, wrung out one of them. Even the "less well armed" aren't doing so bad for themselves.
I bought my AK-47 and my 9mm stainless Beretta some 3 months ago.
I have been trying them out, learning to field strip and clean, etc. Buying 3 rounds for every 1 I shoot. A new hobby.
I chose the AK (vs. AR-15), by the way, because it is very forgiving. A tough nut, it will eat any ammo in the correct size. Load up the mag, put a round in the chamber, pull the trigger and out it goes.
Beretta 9 is good. 1911 .45 best. 9 is high power- goes through the body and does not cause enough damage -lack the capacity to stop. A .45 230 grain slug moves slower enters the body and dissipates energy more efficiently stopping - and rarely exiting the body.
M1A dude...7.62 is far superior.
Love the M1A. Now also have the RRA LAR8 A4, which I like equally well.
Mid length barrel, but still very accurate and reliable. M1A has iron sights. Holosite
on the RRA. I can't recommend holosites highly enough, especially for the aged!
Both eyes open, great situational awareness, fast target acquisition.....
ACOG, bitches!!!!!!!!!
LOL! We set up for close quarters, fast target acquisition.
Holosites bitches! fresh batteries too. Don't emp on me!
ACOG does not need batteries. If you need CR123a, for Holosites or other things like flashlights, then consider this solar charger and water purifier.
http://www.outdoorstore.com/showproduct.aspx?ProductID=661&SEName=steripen-solar-charger-for-adventurer
ACOG does not need batteries. If you need CR123a, for Holosites or other things like flashlights, then consider this solar charger and water purifier.
http://www.outdoorstore.com/showproduct.aspx?ProductID=661&SEName=steripen-solar-charger-for-adventurer
ACOG = 1 Au
Aimpoint = 30 Ag
But don't go below Aimpoint - the red dot will last for years on the factory battery! EOtech is fine. M1A is a true battle rifle - I'd almost rather have another M1A than add an ACOG; but it could save your hide in low light.
If by holosite you mean an EOTech, they are nice but not as reliable as the other top options. I don't care for Aimpoints much. I recently got an ACOG and it's just about nirvana. On the lower price scale the Vortex Strikefire is excellent quality for the buck.
So far, so good with the EOTech. target acquisition with the EOTech much faster than ACOG, even with the 3x flipper.But this is close quarter. Will definitely try out ACOG on the Barrett early next year. This years budget is blown...
Following a budget will get you everywhere. Not will get you elected.
me bad!
Just be sure to look up Bindon aiming concept and give it a try sometime. Which one works best for you depends on how your eyes work in some detail (regardless of age or 20/20 vision).
BTW I have an Eotech 552, love it but have both seen and heard of too many Eotech failures at bad times to have complete confidence in it. My complete confidence is in irons or an ACOG. Best comment I've read on the ACOG? Comparing it to other scopes, commenter noted that among other features the ACOG is "literally bombproof." And that's accurate if you look into it (depending what size bomb you care to contemplate).
Great choice of the M1A though.
+1
Aimpoint vs EOtech:
http://www.thehighroad.org/archive/index.php/t-167314.html
Just had Census people stop by to do their survey LOL it was a teenage girl from high school, yea thats the kind of job creation we need. America is screwed. She was a little hottie though, I will give her that.
lol
Tough job for a chick.
I'd let my daughter do it, but only if she open-carried a 9mm.
My census chick was a hot cougar!
And yes shes been back. ;)
The power of the house call.
You dirty stud you!
Census chicks need love too (or whatever he gave her).
REMEMBER ,REMEMBER , THE 2ND OF NOVEMBER ,
VOTE OUT ALL BIG BANK ,WALL STREET
AND "FOUNDATION" SCUM !!!!!!!!
bennet from utah didnt even have to wait that long to get his walking papers..You are going to see the largest voter turnout for any election in the history of the us..And this is just the midterms..All those that have been staying home saying screw it are now going to head to the polls saying screw them..I look for mass chaos and lots of recounts and machine/chad problems..There will be fights at the polls..I wouldnt even be suprised to see bo delay the elections because of the possiblity of unrest...
But all of these neas are being documented, and you sir have now been tagged...
Wow, check out how Bernanke protects the Euro crash open the spreads by 30 pips, freaking FX crooks
The Irish fighting? Who would have guessed?
haven't been to a pub lately have ya? :^)
remember, this isn't the french we're talking about
Agreed , this appears like some pub talk that got half organised - it seems they might have a headache in the morning - wether it is from the drink or a police baton is irrelevant.
Obama visits Ireland and hears "Tis the back of me hand you'll be afta havin, and a good lathering after that."
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Looks like central banks are lining up Nations to fall like
dominoes then the IMF will come save the day with a brand new one world currency along with a one world govt
to boot.
I see a big boot very much involved.
the Imf doesnt have any gold left to do squat with..They have sold it all...
EITHER THE REPUBLIC IS RESTORED
OR IT ALL BREAKS DOWN TO
MAD MAX BEYOND THUNDERDOME
O.P.E.
Don't forget that the Spanish parliament meets tomorrow to hear the good news about how additional austerity to be imposed upon them will help their 20% unemployment rate. So be sure to tune in early so you don't miss any bloodshed!
An inquisition!
http://blog.willamette.edu/people/klutz/journal/archives/spanish_inquisi...
I bet they weren't expecting that ...