CHAT IT'S A MADHOUSE! A MAAAAAAADHOUSE!!!!!!!!!

Kathy in FL

Administrator
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I really can't wait for the space aliens to arrive.
I need to repair the washing machine valve box, and fix the gutters, and get some electric work done and replace the garage doors and openers and replace the pier caps on the driveway stanchions, and replace a couple of those ornamental concrete pineapples on the castle wall . . . oh yea, and clean the moat again.
A good invasion by inter dimensional EBEs should give me enough time.

Castle Wall and Moat

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Hey hey hey! No fair. Why isn't your pool overflowing. Mine sure the heck is. Grrr. Them chemicals aren't cheap. (says skinflint hen)
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raven

TB Fanatic
I really can't wait for the space aliens to arrive.
I need to repair the washing machine valve box, and fix the gutters, and get some electric work done and replace the garage doors and openers and replace the pier caps on the driveway stanchions, and replace a couple of those ornamental concrete pineapples on the castle wall . . . oh yea, and clean the moat again.
A good invasion by inter dimensional EBEs should give me enough time.

Castle Wall and Moat

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Update. Work stoppage.
Sale pending. Closing next week.
Aliens are certain to arrive by the 11th and kill the sale
 

TheSearcher

Are you sure about that?
The Covid stuff was resolving, and continues to do so. This new stuff with the riots and the Cult of Ingratiation going on with it, it's all blowing my mind. Without some major intervention that I can't even yet fathom, I don't see how we don't end up in an all-out battle in at least one location in this country, and it'll probably be several sites. I've said it before several times over the past decade at least:

The communists can't hope to win, but damn them to Hell for the carnage they'll create in trying.
 

BassMan

Veteran Member
Not to panic (I have done so much of that I seem to be numb now), but it would probably be wise to “hunker down” for some financial turmoil at some point. The economy was already about one snowflake short of an avalanche last year, before WuFlu. Personally I do not expect a “V-shaped recovery”, but I do think there is enough “centrifugal force in the economic flywheel” to keep things together for a while yet. At some point, though...
...avalanche!
 

Dobbin

Faithful Steed

Walrus

Veteran Member
C'mon up to this tiny place called Wasilla. Breathe. I wish you really could do this Dennis. Not the same world as where you live. (and I LOVE Texas....). Bless you.
I remember back (mid 90s, wasn't it?) when the city of Wasilla started up its police department. Friend of mine (Alaska state trooper) was giving me a ride out to Wasilla one day to get my pickup and asked me on the way, "Did you ever know why the city of Wasilla started advertising outside for people to apply for the new police dept jobs in town?"

And of course I said no, and he dead-pans, "They couldn't find anybody in town who could pass the drug or background checks.":chg:
 

vestige

Deceased
If there ever was a time for another global power to consider attacking the mainland FUSA... sadly, now would be the time.

Almost... just a little more violence.

We have already been attacked... just not hard.

But enjoy one anyway
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JMG91

Veteran Member
I completely understand the feeling. I'm due to have that baby this coming week, too, which isn't helping my stress levels. What a world my children will inherit--and I have so many more years to go myself. :shk:
 

MountainBiker

Veteran Member
There are so many threads upon which comments of this nature can be added and not knowing which might be most appropriate I was going to start a new one, then I remembered Dennis had already started this thread.

I am old enough to remember many national and regional crises but never have I seen anything like what is happening right now. Our society is imploding and the crazies are calling all the shots. Even being far left such as some of our major city mayors, ivory tower educators, and Hollywood elite is not good enough for the mobs, and they too get called out if they disagree on any of the mob's demands. Most of the major media and the Democrat leadership doesn't seem to think vandalism, looting, and arson constitutes violence. Worse, their sympathy is muted for the victims who are often minority small business owners and impoverished minority communities. The casualties so to speak have been deemed acceptable losses for the cause. The only acceptable response from whites is to grovel and beg for forgiveness for undefined racism and privilege, and often even that isn't good enough. Perceived or perhaps real microaggressions from decades ago are all that is needed to find oneself deemed personally guilty of whatever plagues the black community.

I live in a rural/small town bubble in one of the non-diverse parts of the country, but the crazy is creeping in here too. I don't know any black people and couldn't say when it was I last saw one, and many who live here likely can say the same in a state that is only 1% black. Yet the shire town for my county has an NAACP branch that has now demanded the local hospital fly the BLM flag, do implicit bias training, and acknowledge their racism, all w/o a single example of anything the hospital has ever done wrong. I think there is now a BLM branch here now too and my guess is that the hospital was accede to the demands rather than incur the media and white guilt wrath that will ensue if they don't. The mob's expectation is whites will automatically apologize and agree to any demand, and that's pretty much what's happening.

It feels we're living in a Matt Bracken novel.
 

Millwright

Knuckle Dragger
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I'm sure there are some very close, historical parallels out there. First hand accounts of initial stages of revolutions, written by people who were there.

We have the most ferocious tool for disseminating information that the human race has ever know.

The complexion and dynamic of this attempted communist revolution is different than anything we have witnessed in the past.

It's fascinating to watch it unfold.

One thing that jumps out at me, they aren't deviating much from the commie play-books, Rules for Radicals, etc.
 

Jubilee on Earth

Veteran Member
Not me. I didn't know exactly when it would happen, but I knew it was coming. I made the decision I would not bring kids into this world. It's cost me several relationships that were painful to end, but thank God I had enough sense to follow my gut.

Hey, I could have written that myself. Left one marriage, moved way out into the boonies, and then married a good man with like minded views and faith. I don’t regret it for a second. Some pitfalls over the last decade kept us from prepping in the way we wanted. We’re still looking for a permanent home to settle down in. But we’re doing better than most. We saw the writing on the wall as well. As horrific as all of this is, it’s not a surprise. I just wish we had more time.
 

Jubilee on Earth

Veteran Member
There are so many threads upon which comments of this nature can be added and not knowing which might be most appropriate I was going to start a new one, then I remembered Dennis had already started this thread.

I am old enough to remember many national and regional crises but never have I seen anything like what is happening right now. Our society is imploding and the crazies are calling all the shots. Even being far left such as some of our major city mayors, ivory tower educators, and Hollywood elite is not good enough for the mobs, and they too get called out if they disagree on any of the mob's demands. Most of the major media and the Democrat leadership doesn't seem to think vandalism, looting, and arson constitutes violence. Worse, their sympathy is muted for the victims who are often minority small business owners and impoverished minority communities. The casualties so to speak have been deemed acceptable losses for the cause. The only acceptable response from whites is to grovel and beg for forgiveness for undefined racism and privilege, and often even that isn't good enough. Perceived or perhaps real microaggressions from decades ago are all that is needed to find oneself deemed personally guilty of whatever plagues the black community.

I live in a rural/small town bubble in one of the non-diverse parts of the country, but the crazy is creeping in here too. I don't know any black people and couldn't say when it was I last saw one, and many who live here likely can say the same in a state that is only 1% black. Yet the shire town for my county has an NAACP branch that has now demanded the local hospital fly the BLM flag, do implicit bias training, and acknowledge their racism, all w/o a single example of anything the hospital has ever done wrong. I think there is now a BLM branch here now too and my guess is that the hospital was accede to the demands rather than incur the media and white guilt wrath that will ensue if they don't. The mob's expectation is whites will automatically apologize and agree to any demand, and that's pretty much what's happening.

It feels we're living in a Matt Bracken novel.

Awesome reply. I wasn’t sure whether to like, love, put a sad face, or an angry face. I hear you.
 

The Hammer

Has No Life - Lives on TB
Almost nothing feels normal nowadays. I keep finding myself trying to find something that feels like the old normal, but it's getting harder.

BTW, the "old normal" still consisted of Sheila Jackson Lee complaining that hurricane names were too white, so you can see just how bad it's gotten.

I only expect it to get worse...
 

BassMan

Veteran Member
I was trying to find this thread, so I could bump it...
...these times are UNBELIEVABLE.

I am worried that we are being set-up with the confusion technique. Things have gotten so NUTS that for probably the first time in my life, I am questioning my mental stability. If I am not the only one, the risk is, if enough people are confused, we are more susceptible to “The Answer(tm)” than we would normally be: whatever “The Answer(tm)” might be...
 

Millwright

Knuckle Dragger
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I was trying to find this thread, so I could bump it...
...these times are UNBELIEVABLE.

I am worried that we are being set-up with the confusion technique. Things have gotten so NUTS that for probably the first time in my life, I am questioning my mental stability. If I am not the only one, the risk is, if enough people are confused, we are more susceptible to “The Answer(tm)” than we would normally be: whatever “The Answer(tm)” might be...

I recommend some range time therapy.

It calms the nerves and focuses your perspective.
 
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