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The Road To Somalia : Why Failed Cities and Gangster Fiefdoms are the New Norm.
Posted on August 2, 2020 by Darin

With the recent riots, and let’s call it what it is, leftist bought and paid for anarchy breaking out in our major cities. It may help some to examine the situation on the ground and make some comparisons. Between documented failed states and the current state of our major cities some similarities are starting to emerge that should give everyone living in the US some serious pause.

Watch the short video in the link, don’t read the description, then try and guess where this occurred.
View: https://youtu.be/hB6lIqYoamo


As one poster in the comments section pointed out, the only real difference between Chicago and Somalia is that they are stealing big screen TV’s and not Rice. This isn’t an uncommon occurrence, this behavior is routine and is anything but random. What you and I might mistake for chaos, actually has planning behind it. Doubt me? Then tell me how, out of a train consist of a hundred plus cars and possibly 200 shipping containers, did they manage to find the one containing TV’s, and not say a shipment of dog food or heaven forbid- school books? No, this is a criminal enterprise with intel behind it. Someone working in the rail yard, knew which container contained what, and someone on the ground tagged it so the Locusts could swarm.

We read the papers and see the slow motion train wreck happening, but parsed with PC cult language, the reality of what we are seeing doesn’t quite connected. Let me help, our inner cities, which have been under Democrat control for multiple decades, combined with leftist policies on policing, law enforcement, education and employment have established criminal fiefdoms. There is a structure to these things, foot soldiers, enforcers, middle managers, enablers and of course the local warlords. Those are the malignant cells that make up the disease.

The cancer spreads in stages-
Stage 1- Enact legislation and increase regulation to strangle or drive out industry and by extension, the middle class. This serves the purpose of destroying the tax base, and reducing the chances of a lower income employee being able to find worthwhile employment and move up the ladder.

Stage 2 Relax law enforcement and replace traditional community policing (paired officers walking a beat) with lone officers spread out over a wider patrol area. The prior is proactive and has been proven to stop crimes before they are committed. The latter is reactionary and only responds in time to take victim statements and fill out after action reports. The result of lone officers, spread over a wider area, is the police precincts and patrol cars become garrisons, with the officers billeted inside. They have reduced contact with the public, and are often forced to take violent action to bring an out of control situation under control. With traditional policing, many crimes never happened simply because of the officers being visible and having intel available to them from the citizenry.

Stage 3 Set up a mafia like protection racket. Make the remaining businesses and people understand that tribute must be paid, either in votes, or in outright bribes to keep the thugs at bay. Anytime we see a foundation being set up, or yet another “urban revitalization” scheme started, that is how the money is extorted and handed over to be distributed to the warlords. Police being told to stand down during riots isn’t just for media optics, it’s primary role is sending a message to the local community. The message is- go along with us, or we will feed you to the monsters. Gotta keep the Serfs inline after all.

Stage 4 Recruit your foot soldiers. Drugs and vice have always been the recruiting tools of choice. Alcohol, illegal gambling, prostitution and narcotics have always been the keys to controlling the troops on the ground. Everybody on the street level is in a hustle to make money and control turf. The Bosses divide territory by precincts and the precincts are ceded to the control of connected warlords. The daily crimes we see on the evening news, are in reality just the actions and counter actions of the various warlords and factions jockeying for control under the cover of seemingly random crime.

Stage 5 Take over control of key positions in local government and administration. Need to implement some unconstitutional regulation? Take over the local courts. Need some kickbacks? Start a charity or lobby for grants. Experience resistance? Embed corrupt cops in the local police force. Enforcement on the street level is much easier when LE is doing the enforcing.( See George Floyd-vs- Eric Chauvin) that interaction wasn’t racial, it was business.

Stage 6 Control the media, control the narrative. Every violent interaction between the troops in the garrison and the foot soldiers on the street is immediately spun to be racial or class driven. The bosses need to promote and stoke the attitude that it’s us against them, when in reality, the bosses are in control of both sides and the characters in the theater are just acting according to script.

Stage 7 Stage a “protest” or create a bogeyman, fear is a driver, doesn’t matter if the boogeyman is a flesh and blood criminal rioter or a virus, the Sheep need to be goaded into the chute and lined up to be sheared. If they create an endless array of things to be afraid of , then there is a fear to fit everyone. Some will fear death, some crime, some a virus, others still financial ruin. They want everyone to fear something, or at minimum, be distracted by some shiny thing, in order to take attention away from what is really happening.

Stage 8 Destroy the infrastructure. This stage actually has a needed component embedded in stage 1, destroying the tax base. You can’t have roads, utilities and public services without a tax base. No police, no fire, no public works, if none of those things are present and the area isn’t farmland, then you are living in the third world.

Stage 9 The terminal stage. This one is for all the chips, it may look like the end, like death itself, but it’s not the end, it’s the beginning of a new reality. In this stage the roads are all but impassible. Either blocked by criminal gangs of left to deteriorate and return to nature. Running water and sanitation are spotty at best and food when it can be found, either comes at a high price off the back of a truck or will get you killed trying to keep what’s yours. Law enforcement is for hire and the rule of law, is whatever the strongest boss or warlord says it is. Healthcare is rationed, those who are politically connected get treatment, those without go without. Protection is offered for a price, so long as you fall inline with the new order.

So you ask yourself why would they setup this system if the outcome is ruin? Because it is base human nature to rule over others, even if it means ruling over ruins. We see this mentality manifested in the current day. To the left the end justifies the means, they have decided that winning the argument is paramount, even if the only way they can win is by killing the person they are arguing with, a win to them is still a win. At this point nothing is out of bounds or off limits to the left. They are under the belief that America is on the razors edge and if they give it one more push, we will finally go over to anarchy, after which they can ride to the rescue and be seen as the hero, in their minds giving them total authority to fully implement their ideology.

So what is the cure? In the short term, arm up, I still believe there is a kinetic fight coming. In the long term, we must start changing things at the grass roots level. We need allies, we need to reinvest time and political will in the urban environment. Trump has started this process and his efforts are beginning to pay dividends. We need to embrace and back up Black and Latino conservative voices, we need to encourage them to run for public office in their locales. It’s the only option we have to root out the corruption that has festered for decades and get people in there that can start the turn around. It took 70 years to get to this point, fixing it will take longer than one political cycle, but it can be done by winning some key battles. It will never happen if we don’t at least try. At this point, as Trump says, what have we got to lose?
Why'd you hide this one here?
it belongs in it's own thread on main.
 

nomifyle

TB Fanatic
been thinking and dont like what I think, did china help the dems to defeat trump by giving us the china flue,? one of the biggest things Trump had going were the Rallies, those fired up people more than any politico could dream of doing, and they have taken that away, I went to one 4 years ago, I have never seen a crowd fired up like that , that MADE people go vote, everyone was excited about that election,
ya think, China would love nothing more than to sideline Trump and go back to business as usual.

God is good, all the time,

Judy
 

Dozdoats

On TB every waking moment
Why'd you hide this one here?

(Re. #83) - Avoiding thread proliferation mostly, seemed to fit here.
 

Paladin1

"In Omnia Paratus" is more than just a phrase
Russia invades Israel. Nukes are used. 5/6ths of the Russian Army is wiped out.

To prevent such a thing from ever happening again (as with League of Nations, and UN) a 10 nation Confederacy is formed. The US is a part of it.

The use of nukes in a war causes so much fear, it totally disrupts the worlds economy, and it all falls apart. What is not apart of the US government goes on a barter system, and barefoot, until something can be worked out on an international scale. Internal conflicts between communities breaks out over food. Everything else takes a back seat.

With the world in such chaos, elections are suspended, and the Senate alone elects a leader to be President.

Just saying.
So you're thinking Eze. 38 is about to kick off, or am I misreading you?
 

Dozdoats

On TB every waking moment
Remember your history ...
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Saturday, August 1, 2020
Saturday Snippet: Urban terrorism in the USA


While writing several blog articles over the past week or two about the current riots in many US cities, I was led to a book by Bryan Burrough titled "Days of Rage".




It describes the urban terrorism that flourished in this country during the 1970's. I wasn't aware that things had been that bad, as I wasn't in this country at the time (I came to America in the late 1990's).

Reading Mr. Burrough's book has been eye-opening. In a sense, the urban unrest we're seeing today is merely the 1960's and 1970's redux, although on a larger scale with more people - not surprising, as the US population is considerably larger today. The left-wing activists and extremists of that earlier period went on to become university lecturers and professors. They took advantage of their positions to drip their ideological poison into the minds of our young people. Inevitably, it's now manifest on our streets once again.

Here's a passage from the introduction to "Days of Rage".

Imagine if this happened today: Hundreds of young Americans—white, black, and Hispanic—disappear from their everyday lives and secretly form urban guerrilla groups. Dedicated to confronting the government and righting society’s wrongs, they smuggle bombs into skyscrapers and federal buildings and detonate them from coast to coast. They strike inside the Pentagon, inside the U.S. Capitol, at a courthouse in Boston, at dozens of multinational corporations, at a Wall Street restaurant packed with lunchtime diners. People die. They rob banks, dozens of them, launch raids on National Guard arsenals, and assassinate policemen, in New York, in San Francisco, in Atlanta. There are deadly shoot-outs and daring jailbreaks, illegal government break-ins and a scandal in Washington.

This was a slice of America during the tumultuous 1970s, a decade when self-styled radical “revolutionaries” formed something unique in postcolonial U.S. history: an underground resistance movement. Given little credibility by the press, all but ignored by historians, their bombings and robberies and shoot-outs stretched from Seattle to Miami, from Los Angeles to Maine. And even if the movement’s goals were patently unachievable and its members little more than onetime student leftists who clung to utopian dreams of the 1960s, this in no way diminished the intensity of the shadowy conflict that few in America understood at the time and even fewer remember clearly today.

In fact, the most startling thing about the 1970s-era underground is how thoroughly it has been forgotten. “People always ask why I did what I did, and I tell them I was a soldier in a war,” recalls a heralded black militant named Sekou Odinga, who remained underground from 1969 until his capture in 1981. “And they always say, ‘What war?’ ”

Call it war or something else, but it was real, and it was deadly. Arrayed against the government were a half-dozen significant underground groups—and many more that yearned to be—which, while notionally independent of one another, often shared members, tactics, and attorneys. Of these, only the Weather Underground, the first and by far the largest, has earned any real analysis. The Symbionese Liberation Army, a ragtag collection of California ex-cons and radicals who pulled off the underground’s most infamous action, the kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst in 1974, was widely dismissed as a pack of loonies. Many doubted that the Black Liberation Army, a murderous offspring of the Black Panthers, even existed. A Puerto Rican independence group known as the FALN, the most determined bombers in U.S. history, remains cloaked in secrecy to this day; not one of its members has ever spoken a meaningful word about its operations. The United Freedom Front, a revolutionary cell consisting of three blue-collar couples and their nine children, robbed banks and bombed buildings well into the 1980s. An interracial group of radicals called the Family did much the same, yet remained so obscure that no one even knew it existed until a fateful afternoon in 1981 when an armored-car robbery went badly awry, three people died, and America was reintroduced to a movement it had assumed dead years before.

This was strange, even at the time. Because radical violence was so deeply woven into the fabric of 1970s America that many citizens, especially in New York and other hard-hit cities, accepted it as part of daily life. As one New Yorker sniffed to the New York Post after an FALN attack in 1977, “Oh, another bombing? Who is it this time?” It’s a difficult attitude to comprehend in a post-9/11 world, when even the smallest pipe bomb draws the attention of hundreds of federal agents and journalists.

“People have completely forgotten that in 1972 we had over nineteen hundred domestic bombings in the United States,” notes a retired FBI agent, Max Noel. “People don’t want to listen to that. They can’t believe it. One bombing now and everyone gets excited. In 1972? It was every day. Buildings getting bombed, policemen getting killed. It was commonplace.”

There are crucial distinctions, however, between public attitudes toward bombings during the 1970s and those today. In the past twenty-five years terrorist bombs have claimed thousands of American lives, over three thousand on 9/11 alone. Bombings today often mean someone dies. The underground bombings of the 1970s were far more widespread and far less lethal. During an eighteen-month period in 1971 and 1972, the FBI reported more than 2,500 bombings on U.S. soil, nearly 5 a day. Yet less than 1 percent of the 1970s-era bombings led to a fatality; the single deadliest radical-underground attack of the decade killed four people. Most bombings were followed by communiqués denouncing some aspect of the American condition; bombs basically functioned as exploding press releases. The sheer number of attacks led to a grudging public resignation. Unless someone was killed, press accounts rarely carried any expression of outrage. In fact, as hard as it may be to comprehend today, there was a moment during the early 1970s when bombings were viewed by many Americans as a semilegitimate means of protest. In the minds of others, they amounted to little more than a public nuisance.

Consider what happened when an obscure Puerto Rican group, MIRA, detonated bombs in two Bronx theaters in New York on May 1, 1970. Eleven people suffered minor injuries when one device went off at the Dale Theater during a showing of Cactus Flower. The second exploded beneath a seat at the cavernous Loew’s Paradise while a rapt audience watched The Liberation of L.B. Jones; when police ordered everyone to leave, the audience angrily refused, demanding to see the rest of the movie. When the theater was forcibly cleared, an NYPD official said later, the audience “about tore the place apart.”1 Neither the bombings nor the Paradise audience’s reaction was deemed especially newsworthy; the incident drew barely six paragraphs in the New York Times.

The public, by and large, dismissed the radical underground as a lunatic fringe, and in time that’s what it became. But before that day, before so many fell victim to despair or drugs or the FBI, there was a moment when the radical underground seemed to pose a legitimate threat to national security, when its political “actions” merited the front page of the New York Times and the cover of Time magazine and drew constant attention from the White House, the FBI, and the CIA. To the extreme reaches of the radical left, to those who dared to believe that some sort of second American Revolution was actually imminent, these years constituted a brief shining moment, perhaps its last. To others, the bombings were nothing more than homegrown terrorism; the excesses of the radical left during the 1970s helped nudge America toward the right end of the political spectrum and into the arms of Ronald Reagan and the conservatives. But in the eyes of much of mainstream America, to ordinary working people in Iowa and Nevada and Arkansas who hadn’t the time or the inclination to study the communiqués of bomb-throwing Marxists, who wanted only to return to normalcy after long years of disorienting change, it was insanity.

In the end, the untold story of the underground era, stretching from 1970 until the last diehards were captured in 1985, is one of misplaced idealism, naïveté, and stunning arrogance. Depending on one’s point of view, its protagonists can be seen as either deluded dreamers or heartless terrorists, though a third possibility might be closer to the truth: young people who fatally misjudged America’s political winds and found themselves trapped in an unwinnable struggle they were too proud or stubborn to give up. This book is intended to be a straightforward narrative history of the period and its people. Any writer makes judgments, but I have tried to keep mine to a minimum, especially where politics is concerned.

It is ultimately a tragic tale, defined by one unavoidable irony: that so many idealistic young Americans, passionately committed to creating a better world for themselves and those less fortunate, believed they had to kill people to do it. The story is long and labyrinthine, alternately exciting and sad, and it all begins, in a way, with a tortured couple living in New York’s East Village in the summer of 1969. They were like so many in the faltering protest movement at that restive decade’s end: long-haired, free-spirited, and mired in gloom. The one thing that set them apart from friends who raised their fists and chanted antiwar slogans in demonstrations of the day was that late one night, after removing a carton of cottage cheese, a quart of yogurt, and some leftover salad from their refrigerator, they replaced it all with a hundred bright red sticks of dynamite.
The nation got over its earlier "Days of Rage" in due course, and went on to chart a more peaceful course into the future. One hopes we can do the same again.

Peter
 
As a former Yankee, I could always tell when I reached the “civilized” part of the US. I could go into a restaurant and ask for “sweet tea” and they knew what I wanted and had it available.
McDonalds has sweet tea in NY here at 1.39 for a large. Burger King charges 3.00.
 
I haven't seen chemtrails in months. Are those still a thing?
I wonder if the U.S. is bankrupt and can't afford to do the trails anymore, cuz i only see them now maybe one or two days a week while a few months ago it was every single day. I DO notice tho that the REAL clouds have come BACK since the trails are gone! Big white fluffy clouds and deep blue skies.
 

MinnesotaSmith

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lol...kinda like the pot calling the kettle black....ooh, wait, was that racist?
No, you obviously intended it as a cheap insult. Earsplitting screeches of "RAY- CISSSS!!!" lost their power to make me feel bad a long time ago. Anyone NOT racist now is both a cucked white and not paying attention. Good luck finding ONE nonwhite that's not "racist".
 

Trivium Pursuit

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No, you obviously intended it as a cheap insult. Earsplitting screeches of "RAY- CISSSS!!!" lost their power to make me feel bad a long time ago. Anyone NOT racist now is both a cucked white and not paying attention. Good luck finding ONE nonwhite that's not "racist".
I bet the Asians aren't buying this crap for one minute.
 

abby normal

insert appropriate adjective here
I see extended hard lockdowns combined with a bank holiday so they can implement the new money system.

I agree with the OP, the next 3 months will be historic. Get your spiritual preps in order and be prepared for anything.
 

Southside

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I haven't seen chemtrails in months. Are those still a thing?
Hi Cardinal,

Not only less of them, but they are somewhat different.
If you watch closely, they no longer spread to cloud the entire sky, but just spread out a bit. And, also, there are way fewer. For years, we rarely saw a sunny blue sky all day. This summer(and last), we've seen many here in Illannoy.
 

CaryC

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I haven't seen chemtrails in months. Are those still a thing?
Took the dog for his nightly walk, last night. Beautiful full moon. And there, just to the east of the moon, was a jet flying by. Saw their lights flashing, and the moon illuminated their .....contrail. It was actually kind of cool.
 

Dobbin

Faithful Steed
I wonder if the U.S. is bankrupt and can't afford to do the trails anymore, cuz i only see them now maybe one or two days a week while a few months ago it was every single day. I DO notice tho that the REAL clouds have come BACK since the trails are gone! Big white fluffy clouds and deep blue skies.
It might have something to do with reduced air traffic due to less flights/covid.

Just saying...

Dobbin
 

CaryC

Has No Life - Lives on TB
So you're thinking Eze. 38 is about to kick off, or am I misreading you?
Yeah, but like the OP wanted it's just thoughts as to what COULD happen in the next 90 days.

I ascribe to the older ...understanding of Scripture, so there is that. And it is obvious from the posts in this thread others don't. It is what it is. And things will happen according to the Bible and not our understanding of it.

But yeah. Here's the reason: Many think Trump is going to loose the next election. (granted that's an unknown) However Net-n-yahoo has a favorable US President for the next 90 days or so. After that, it is uncertain. So he may move ahead, and may feel the need to move ahead, with annexing the west bank, and the Golan.

What everyone just going to sit around and say, "O, that's cool, no problem." Or will it set off a local (Not Global) war, with the possibility of nukes involved (ya know they can outfit artillery shells with them now, so I've heard). For little Israel to fight off Big Russia it would take nukes.

And it would be a rolling disaster IMHO of fear, and economic doom, panic around the world (global). The fear of using nukes would be gone, because they were used.

And that is only an opinion. Just like saying in 90 days we will be watching Leave it to Beaver, with stay at home moms with their hair fixed up, and wearing dresses while baking cookies. One car for the family, and kids playing outside, trying to NOT let Eddie get you in trouble. Yeah rolled cuff blue jeans, and white t-shirts, and poodle dresses. It'll be great.
 

MinnesotaSmith

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View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=318&v=UElgIDirsJ8&feature=emb_logo

Why is the ammo gone?
RT 25:16

2020 has brought about an ammo shortage like none we have ever seen before. Stores are out of stock, online retailers depleted - quite simply, the ammo is gone. But why? What's happened to bring about this historic shortage?

So, tell us why the ammo has run out. Gov't purchases, gov't hindering the manufacturers, the manufacturers voluntarily or involuntarily cutting production, or just everyone longterm buying the s**t out of ammo? There aren't many possibilities.
 

MinnesotaSmith

Membership Revoked
I didn't see it that way and besides I could say that about a lot of posts on here but there is no need to be nasty. There are a lot of free thinkers on this board who, so far, feel they can share their thoughts...I'd like to see it stay that way.

Oh, they are totally free to share their thoughts, same as I (mostly) am. But, just as my being a poster here means I have to be prepared to defend anything I say that to a reader seems factually or logically preposterous, or violates deeply-held values, so do they.
 

SouthernBreeze

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Oh, they are totally free to share their thoughts, same as I (mostly) am. But, just as my being a poster here means I have to be prepared to defend anything I say that to a reader seems factually or logically preposterous, or violates deeply-held values, so do they.

Well, MS. That's true. Being able to defend what one says is the way it should be. Would you like to start a Bible study in the religion section, so that Cary can defend his/our beliefs (the only place it's allowed, btw)? I didn't think so. Believing in what the Bible says is our foundation that forms all of our opinions. That is what shapes our world view. Calling him nuts for his beliefs is like saying the Bible is nuts. If that is your own personal belief, I have no problem with that. To each his own. Neither of us are here to try to change anyone's minds.
 

MinnesotaSmith

Membership Revoked
Well, MS. That's true. Being able to defend what one says is the way it should be. Would you like to start a Bible study in the religion section, so that Cary can defend his/our beliefs (the only place it's allowed, btw)? I didn't think so. Believing in what the Bible says is our foundation that forms all of our opinions. That is what shapes our world view. Calling him nuts for his beliefs is like saying the Bible is nuts. If that is your own personal belief, I have no problem with that. To each his own. Neither of us are here to try to change anyone's minds.

The Bible also says no man knows the day or the hour of all the stuff that happens in the Book of Revelation, which applies as much to Cary as it does to me.
 

Dennis Olson

Chief Curmudgeon
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Well, MS. That's true. Being able to defend what one says is the way it should be. Would you like to start a Bible study in the religion section, so that Cary can defend his/our beliefs (the only place it's allowed, btw)? I didn't think so. Believing in what the Bible says is our foundation that forms all of our opinions. That is what shapes our world view. Calling him nuts for his beliefs is like saying the Bible is nuts. If that is your own personal belief, I have no problem with that. To each his own. Neither of us are here to try to change anyone's minds.
That is not true. TIO is "anything goes." You can have it out there, and don't need to be "REL SIG polite" about it.
 

Kathy in FL

Administrator
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Not to be facetious, but on a personal level I can add moving my parents down the street from us to my list of insanity over the next quarter. We did a walk-through of the house yesterday and while the lady was clean she and her kids did not exactly treat the house with gentle hands. We’re having to replace a lot of door knobs and light fixtures. And my kitchen cabinets need a lot of work as well. Which is what I’m going to be doing today. Then comes the flooring. We may be ripping up some of the older tile floor that we put in when we first bought the place I don’t know at this point everything is just insane.

If you all don’t see me on here fairly regularly for the next couple of days or even the next week it is because I am working on that house. And that’s before I start getting my mom and dad’s stuff moved into the house. Oh my Lord they’ve been married over 50 years in this place we’re moving them from they were in for 25 years. There simply are not words.
 

SouthernBreeze

Has No Life - Lives on TB
The Bible also says no man knows the day or the hour of all the stuff that happens in the Book of Revelation, which applies as much to Cary as it does to me.

No one knows the day or the hour of Christ's return. That is true. Everyone in this thread is giving their opinion/speculation of what MIGHT happen in the next 90 days. Can anyone predict accurately when the remaining prophecies will be fulfilled or how? No.
 

CaryC

Has No Life - Lives on TB
The Bible also says no man knows the day or the hour of all the stuff that happens in the Book of Revelation, which applies as much to Cary as it does to me.
LOL you might consider re-reading my posts, but a bit slower. I know when I read posts to fast I miss some stuff.

The OP was asking an opinion as to what was thought to happen in the next 90 days.

Nuts-boy gave his opinion, and when asked supported that opinion with events happening in other parts of the world which may effect the US.

Nuts-boy also knows that "no man knows the day or the hour" is a reference by Jesus to His return. I made no reference to His return only events that might happen in the next 90 days.

And the references Nuts-boy of unbalanced mind, used, were not in Revelation, but rather in Ezekiel 38-9. Just for clarity.

While you have made a lot of posts in this thread, which is fine, I also noticed you have failed to address the OP with your opinion of what might happen in the next 90 days.
 

Wildwood

Veteran Member
Oh, they are totally free to share their thoughts, same as I (mostly) am. But, just as my being a poster here means I have to be prepared to defend anything I say that to a reader seems factually or logically preposterous, or violates deeply-held values, so do they.
Name calling does not promote the type of conversation you speak of. We'll just have to agree to disagree on this one.
 
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