Greetings and Salutations!
A wee bit of a different note
It’s Gretchen’s Birthday!!!
OK
Under duress I’m putting that up.
“Never ask a woman her age, body count, waist size or IQ.”
Big Country’s Proverbs
Keep it that way if you want to live.
Seriously, she is only a year younger than me (me = 56), but DAAAYUM if she doesn’t look good for her age. For the celebration I had gotten us tickets to Aquatica Orlando:
It’s one of the best water parks in the country supposedly. I will say we DID have a ball! They ARE unique in that they have a set of very rare Dolphins in captivity, which I’ll go into in a few.
The tickets I got via the Waves of Honor program.
It used to be a yearly thing here in Florida back during the ‘bad old war days’ so to speak. It allowed a veteran to get 4 tickets to one of the theme parks like Busch Gardens and SeaWorld Orlando for free. They use ID.me to verify your service so the poseurs don’t take advantage. ID.me verifies through the DoD and DEERs. For a number of years they had shut the program down for whatever reason… maybe COVID? Not sure. However I get notifications via email, and this year they had turned the program back ‘on’ if you will.
OF COURSE I signed up for my 4 freebies to Busch Gardens. I still have the Busch Gardens tix, but unfortunately, they leave the window to use them pretty smol. As in we have to use them by July 6th. NORMALLY this wouldn’t be an issue, as in go next weekend, but Gretchen has eye surgery on Monday, and will be in recovery during that timeframe.
And there ain’t no way on God’s Green Erf that I’m going to try and take on the Redhead by myself at Busch Gardens. I’m offering up the tix to OtherGrans to see if they want to use them. Anyways… for whatever reason, (probably competitiveness) Aquatica offered up free tickets about two weeks later. Naturally I jumped on those as well.
So we went today.
We left at 0645 as it opened at 0900, and I wanted to make sure we got primo poolside seats as I was not shelling out $500 for a fucking ‘cabana’. We actually ended up getting GREAT seats on the far side of the pool that’s marked on the map above as “Cutback Cove” a big honking wave pool.
Literally on the farthest left side, abutting the edge of the sand on the “beach” as seen here from my seat:
And BTW: That pic was taken at like 11:30.
It got waaaaaay more crowded as the day went on.
That was a light crowd
It got like unpleasantly crowded later in the day with a LOT of blaq-water buffalo nasty fat-rolled Disgustapotamuses roaming around bellowing mating calls out at top volume or cackling. Needless to say, one of us was ‘with the gear’ on guard duty at all times.
Also FAR too many whytte McNasty Tatted Fuglysauruses also running around in WAAAAY too smol bikinis without the benefit of either a Leash or Shock Collar, all of which I think should have been mandatory. Nevermind the obligatory sampling of the wild Streetshitteraptors or the Burrito Goblins.
And tats?
FAR too many tats.
In fact at one point I saw a drop-dead gorgeous girl… probably mid-twenties, and called her out to Gretchen as being particularly attractive. When Gretchen asked why in particular, I told her “No tats… Notice she isn’t all scribbled up like a fucking piece of waste-paper? That right there makes her a 10.”
Even she had to agree on that. I still got in trouble for looking at a hawt 20-something and called a dirty old bastid.
Guilty as Charged.
But yeah, the overall vibe in the park changed around 13:00 so we bailed early after the dolphin show. I didn’t want to get potentially hemmed up as there have been ‘incidents’ in the past with the ‘Yoots’ getting “jiggy wid it” and I was unarmed.
As Divemedic poasted back about June 12th of this year (last week) a bunch of feral niggers went feral at Aquatica, so I had my head on a swivel. The story is HERE.
Thankfully we had a great day.
Me and Red at the Wave Pool
Red taking a break FWIW.
For all of .0005 picoseconds.
MAN she never slows down I swear.
Only one minor untoward incident all day really… considering the crowd? This was a ‘win’. Said incident was when I was in the wave pool taking my turn making sure Red didn’t do something stupid (like trying to go as far out as she could in the deep water with the other kids her age that she was playing with who’s ‘rents were not as cautionary). I had at one point gone to the concession stand to ‘borrow’ one of the ‘regular’ steel chairs they had there, sort of like this:
That’s pretty close to what I scored, as I needed the arms and back support. The ‘regular beach chairs’ they offered didn’t work for me, between the blow’d up left knee and my fucked up back:
Not really functional nor easy for me to get in and out of.
WAY too low to the ground.
So I ‘borrowed’ a chair from the concession.
No idea if it was allowed but some of the other ‘bigger guys’ who had the same issues were admiring my chutzpah if you will… The families around us seemed to be made up of vets like myself, so that was cool. Good times trading “/when/where were you?” stories…
What wasn’t cool was, as I said, I was in the wave pool looking back occasionally to check on Gretchen. I was keeping an eye on Red, when I saw -something- that didn’t look right.
There was a guy holding my fucking chair standing between Gretchen, who looked pissed and the sister of a fellow veteran, (who was off getting drinks at the time I found out later) a really cool Puerto Rican chick who’s son was Red’s age, and she too looked pissed AF. I told Red that we needed to get out of the water, as Papi had biddness to handle it looked like.
Red is well trained at 7… “Stay close, stay low and hit the dirt if’n I tell you”… she’s great like that.
I waded out and as I closed in and got within hearing distance, I heard three things: The PR Chicka yelling at dis fukkin guy to “…put the fucking chair down!”, and then the unmistakable accent of a Call Support Streetshitter saying to the girls “I bring back in a bit… is OK! Is no problem!!!”
This from the maybe 100 pound soaking-wet Hindu guy who apparently decided to (unknowingly) abscond with the 340 pound gorilla’s chair, and tell the lower caste women to get fucked, albeit nicely. Gretchen, who saw me and as I closed the gap, told Punjab “In about 3 seconds you’re about to have a big problem!!!”
The fucking guy must have seen Gretchen’s eyes lock on my approaching, and turned around (his back was to me) to see just what this broad was looking at, and saw me closing in.
Grinning like a fucking psycho.
He, no shit, went white as a sheet. He immediately dropped the chair and bolted for safer pastures. Like literally ran away. The whole time babbling -I think- apologies. I got no idea. I don’t speak streetshitter.
I’m just glad he didn’t poop in our A.O. out of fear.
Both ladies laughed their asses off on that one.
Fun times.
I mean I probably wouldn’t have actually done anything, as that’s beneath me, but intimidating some asshole who’s stealing the fucking chair that -I- had worked so hard to ‘reallocate’?
Fuck that guy for real.
So anyways.
As I was saying…
Dolphins: One of the ‘extras’ that I did pay for (besides the extortionist parking and meal plan) was a meet and greet with two of the only Commerson’s Dolphins in captivity. According to the trainer, there are these two and maybe six others in captivity period worldwide. This was a really cool experience and it was a bit pricey (like all things Orlando) but to make some great memories? Sure… why not? $50 per person for a total of $100.
A QUICK NEWSFLASH
Not for nothing, money just may become worthless…
Seems OrangeManFuckingRetarded just announced we dropped bombs on the Mullahs despite damned near ALL of his base NOT wanting ANYTHING to do with this particular shitshow, and Russia and china saying “Don’t fuck around, lest you find the fuck out!”.
<Le Sigh>
That’s a wrinkle I didn’t expect.
The only thing I’ll say about this ENTIRE DEBACLE is this:
This is a case where the Little Smartass Brother goes and picks a fight with the BIGGEST Bully in the neighborhood. The Little Brother has NEVER truly had his ass properly kicked because of Big Brother, despite the fact that Big Brother is sort of slow and retarded compared to Little Brother. So, in this case the Little Brother sucker punches the Bully. The Bully gets up, dusts himself off, and proceeds to utterly wreck the Little Brother, which is a first for him and scary AF. Scared to death, Little Brother screams for help. Big Brother listens to the screams for help for a few, hoping it might educate the little fucker, but after a few, goes over and starts beating on the Bully, despite knowing the Bully has a LOT of bigger frens who’re tired of BOTH the Little Brother and Big Brother throwing their weight around, and are now willing to kick BOTH their asses and curbstomp them into oblivion.
Does that sound about right?
Possibly more on that in a later poast dammit.
Well… back to the pleasantness of a good day. I’ll deal with the potential blowback later. And it WAS a pleasant day.
The dolphin interaction was cool AF. I got to sit in on the ‘briefing’ before the meet and greet. Gretchen and Red were the only ones on this particular Meet and Greet. It turns out that Commerson’s are a rare and threatened dolphin species from the extreme South Atlantic/Pacific. A full writeup is here on the Wiki. And for those who TL;DR, this is a Commerson’s Dolphin:
They look like mini-Orcas (as Red kept calling them).
The two that were there/are here? are only 2 out of 6/8? in captivity. These guys are both male, as the females were released a ways back. One of them is named Pepe and the other I can’t remember. There was a breeding program to bring them back from the brink so to speak which worked pretty well. The ‘almost extinct’ issue was surprisingly not because of humans, but that as the trainer said, “…for Dolphins, these guys are on the lower end of the brainpower side, and therefore pretty low on the food chain.”
So I didn’t say it, but I figure they must be the Somalians of the Dolphin Race so to speak, whereas Bottlenose is your average Whytte Guy? I mean a pretty good metaphor I think.
So for whatever reason, as I said Gretchen and Red were the only ones on this little meet and greet, so they got a LOT of up close and in person ‘stuff’. Gretchen found out she couldn’t take pictures during it, as they had their insanely overpriced photographer taking pictures. I mean $250 starting for the pix package???
REALLY!?! After ALREADY dropping a Cee Note and porking my wallet into stupidsville?
Why not just club me over the head like a baby seal and outright rob my ass amiright? I’m NOT going to go into a rant on how these parks are assholes for essentially pricing out ‘average folks’… I will mention that when I put the tickets in the basket online, and went to check out that the price for 3 tickets was over $500 with tax for one day. Add on parking ($40), food ($70 for the passes… which was a good thing as a shitty cheeseburger was no shit $17.99 EACH!!!!) and then the extra $100 plus tax for the Dolphin Experience? Add on the gas back and forth?
We’re talking a FUCKING GRAND almost for ONE DAY!
Sheesh.
Well anyways…
It went well.
We started by getting the photo op with Pepe and his bro:
(Like I said, for an old bag, she looks great.)
…and ended up topside with Pepe doing tricks for Red at close range:
That was the one picture Gretchen managed to get BEFORE they told her “NO PICTURES!” as they wanted to maximize the profit margin I guess.
I OTOH got a few at long range, the best being this one:
Initially Red was afraid to touch the dolphin, but after a bit of coaxing, she ended up giving belly rubs and becoming besties with Pepe.
Afterwards, we scuttled back to the car for EXFIL.
Too much sun and too many ferals.
The place at that point was utterly infested.
Better safe than sorry.
So we bailed. What I did notice was that when we got there at 0900, there was ONE Sherriff’s Deputy Vehicle ‘on duty’ when we got there.
When we left
Try six that I could see.
I’m not good at maffs, but a five-fold increase from 0900 to 14:00 in Cop Presence? In five hours, it’s a one-Cop-an-Hour addition which begs the question as to what the demographic increase in niggers to cop ratio is… Either way we got the fuck out of Dodge before there could be ANY potential real unpleasantness to be had.
So I do thank everyone who’s bought the MREs as of late… you should actually thank yourselves. As one commenter put it, a $3 +/- MRE right now is cheaper than even regular food at this point. I checked my stats with the Zon for the Financial Quarter (April to Now) and it seems I’ve sold $54k worth of MREs with my cut being about $700 and change. So that’s the numbers for those of you who were asking.
Also: Minor note: Let’s not turn the comments into a “bash the shit out of Aesop” or anyone else for that matter.
THEORETICALLY we’re all on the same side, so keep it civil, lest I get the ban hammer out, of which I’m very loathe to do. It’s only happened in extreme cases…. I even let that Hedge guy poast IF he’s not being an incendiary asshole with personal attacks. Get too far ghone, and you will not be missed ok?
Aesop and I have different opinions on MANY things… for one he thinks the red crayons taste better, and I think the green do… so fuck that guy because of that, but we still keep it cool. Y’all do the same if’n you would. I’d surely appreciate it.
And as far as why MREs are in surrender-monkey speak?
US-made MREs often include French translations due to their potential use in international contexts, particularly with NATO allies. The French language is used because it is one of the official languages of NATO and many NATO documents, including casualty cards, are written in French. Furthermore, some MREs are also intended for sale in Canada, which has a large French-speaking population, particularly in Quebec.
Seems surrender-monkey speak is one of the big NATO languages, so thus, surrender-monkey speak is printed on the MREs… which I find really worthless as the majority of surrender-monkey speak motherfuckers already know English… it’s that they don’t want to admit it.
So fuck those guys too.
So be of good cheer. I’m getting ready to start doing the new Enfield again. Got the parts… just been lacking the energy and motivation. This week there’ll be some updates, so heads up.
So your thoughts?
Especially on the BETRAYAL of OMFR of his base with this jew bullshit? Let me know in the comments.
More Later
Big Country
(no idea why this got cut off so apollygeez)
I hate to say it, but Iran has been at war with us since 1979. How many troops in Iraq died because of Iranian munitions? If Iran got a nuke tomorrow, it would be smuggled into NYC the next day.
Wait… that might be a plus right now.
Anywho, I can understand the bombing strike, but there’s no way in hell I’m going to support any boots on soil. If Iran wants to get froggy, we can bomb them back to the stone age. Call it “Operation Khobar.”
Given the fact that the US deposed the Shah back in the 50’s, and there are always knock on effects and blowback for such meddling in other people’s stuff, I’d say Iran being fucked up from the neck up today is largely a consequence of the US doing the old “you break it, you buy it” ~70 years ago. But just as with the US doing dirty deeds (but most assuredly NOT dirt cheap) and unleashing a color revolution in Ukraine in 2008 (and look where that got us) most typical Americans have no comprehension of – or just don’t care about – the underhanded shit “our” government has done that has come back to bite us in the ass later.
Of course there is the Israeli influence on this latest op as well. Don’t know about the rest of you guys, but I’m sick of being Izzy’s bitch. Seriously, what has Israel ever done for us (no mentioned the USS Liberty allowed)? This has been a one sided relationship forever and a day, with all benefits accruing to the tribalists. “Our greatest ally” is like a girlfriend with cluster B. Always stirring the shit and creating drama, alienating you from your buddies, telling lies of convenience, or just for no damned reason at all, dragging you into endless bouts of “let’s you and him fight”, costing you money and respect, and generally making you look like a chump. She hits herself in the face to get a black eye, then calls the pigs and tries to get you hemmed up on a domestic battery charge so she can appropriate your home, your vehicle and anything else she can take from you.
And the worst part is that you aren’t even getting your dick wet, because she never puts out, despite all the bullshit she causes you. In short, the US is Israel’s simp. And you know what? Fuck that noise. If they want to whack some hornets nests, they best have laid in their own supply of wasp spray, and quit coming to Uncle Sam and demanding he run cover for their antagonistic asses. Enough already.
Now we get to hold our breath and see if we get fucked with some sort of retaliatory action, be it actual missile or bomb attacks on US assets (or even the mainland itself), or random terrorist shit (which with big 4th of July celebrations replete with big crowds coming up is just perfect timing, don’t you think? Yes, I really do think.)
Sumbitch, this is all so tiresome having to witness pathologically stupid fuckups being committed over and over.
Dude, I’m using a BUNCH of this tomorrow… GREAT writeup and let me know via DM if you ever want to do your own column here… I ain’t afraid to let someone else rant and rave… this’s pure GOLD IMO
Feel free to use any/all of it. It pains me to go through life as someone who understands nuance, cause and effect, and has a memory longer than his own dick (uh, what were we discussing again?) Yet so many people in this country cannot connect the past bad acts the of the US (via it’s government and Intel agencies) to the stupid stuff being done now under contrived pretenses. And so they take a simplistic view that we just need to fuck Iran up real bad because reasons (though they do usually know enough to remember the hostage thing in ’79, and use that as justification). Let me be clear, Iran as it is presently constituted sucks. But the US bears a lot of culpability for that.
So tonight the sheeple are just cheering for their home team like it’s the Superbowl, exactly as they’ve been trained to their entire lives. (Most) Americans don’t do self reflection, or consider any detail of their own country’s shortcomings that would cause discomfort to their preconceived world view.
Meanwhile, they are sitting on their asses with fox news on the 80″ big brother telescreen doing fist pumps and yelling jingoistic rah rah “Go USA” shit (paging Mr. Lee Greenwood, please pick up the red courtesy phone) while swilling goyslop and shitty tranny fluid beer. Somewhere, Mark Levin and Ben Shapiro are sporting 4 hour erections without the need of little blue pills, and Uncle Sam is fellating their compatriots so hard their foreskins grew back. So, they believe all is right with the world.
Now excuse me while I go puke at the absolute absurdity of it all.
I think you are wrong. The US removed Mohammad Mosaddegh and installed the Shah in 1953.
The iranian people then in 1979 removed the Shah and put Ayatollah Khomeni on the throne so to speak.
They had the chance between communism and Islam and chosse Islam.
So please apologize me, but they had a western style government (ok, the secret police SAVAK was not nice to say the least) but they choose Islam? So, every Iranian complaining about the rule of the Ayatollahs should take a good hard look at his parents / grandparents and ask them what they were smoking in 1979.
It’s a damn shame that men have let themselves go like that…I don’t see one in that pic that has a healthy body fat percentage…To much goyslop I guess and high fructose corn syrup…Sad That…
Playing devil’s advocate: supposedly US intel says there are no said nuke sites. Israel insists there are. Then we’re told the US just bombed said non-existent nuke sites.
Can anyone prove that the US didn’t just drop massive bunker busters into the barren desert to get Hymie off our backs?
If Iran has two brain cells to rub together, they’ll keep their mouths shut, Russia too, because everyone knows the score with Israel.
That’s an interesting angle right there…
Sho ’nuff is, and I even considered it myself. But given past history, I’m defaulting to the position that the US is going to do the stupidest shit possible. Besides which, the MAGAtard’s copes about secret 5D chess going on during his first term were all BTFO as bullshit in the end. Which is to say that I think the idea of a deflection move to placate Israel based on pure fiction is too cute by half.
Disappointed that Trump jumped into iran. Just hoping it don’t grow.
Glad you made some bucks on the mre’s.
Years and years ago we took the disney plunge with our kids. Insanely expensive then, can’t imagine it now. BUT, the memories are worth every penny.
Dude you are a poet. I was laughing my ass off
Glad you enjoyed fren… I love coming up with new ways of describing shit like I saw today…
Apparently, our Iranian chums are tossing their old and less-effective ordinance in the general direction of juiceville…
… while occasionally aiming the good stuff at worthwhile targets.
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The ‘much-vaulted Iron Dome’ cannot discern the difference, so everything gets launched to save! the! children! of OurGreatestAlly©.
And lo and behold, everybody outside of Iran is running out of inventory.
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Who could’ve predicted that.
After shipping everything to the Ukraine, fUSA is cupboards-bare.
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Meanwhile, no friendlies patrol the chinesium sea, so folks in Taiwan are really wondering really hard about Caucasian reinforcements from Omaha and Reno and Tallahassee.
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Meanwhile, BeanieManBad (formerly OrangeManBad) seems overwhelmed.
His deal-making skills are only valuable if contestants want to participate in discussions.
He just might leave the juice hanging.
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An aside:
re : 1973 Paris Peace Accords
How many Americans did Kissinger kill while deciding on the shape of the table?
At the time, I got the impression none of the MajorPlayers© cared about little old me.
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Another aside:
Did you see the poll about bombing different nations?
Last I checked, it was:
.. bomb the chinese — 2%
.. bomb the Russian people — 3%
.. bomb israelites — 87%.
BeanieManBad…. I think I might start using that ‘un there. Many Thanks Marge!
I always preferred the black crayons myself. Wanted my teeth to match my heart.
Make no mistake that right now the phones between Tehran and Moscow and Beijing are burning up.
It’s frankly frightening how STUPID this decision is, it gained the US absolutely nothing and make no mistake by international law we just committed an act of war on Iran.
Iran is 100% justified in now counterattacking US and the whole World except maybe the British are on the Iranian side and NOT ours or the Israelis.
Trump just lost more than half his base including ALL of the America Firsters that include many of us on this board. Trump had NO legal justification to do this either nor Congressional Approval so he is in violation of the War Powers Act which is an impeachable offense.
Normally all Democrats and enough Republicans would vote and he’d be impeached ASAP.
However the Israelis are cackling in glee… they’ve wanted us in a war with Iran for 30 years. They own most Republican and most Democrat congressman and senators. Trump is doing their bidding so forget about an impeachment.
We better PRAY that Putin and Xi are urging restraint and God help us if Iran really DOES have sleeper cells in the US and if they activated them. It would be a nightmare with them taking the grid down and attacking soft targets. This is going to be a fucking MESS and if Trump thought that Iran will come negotiate with hat in hand, he’s fucking DREAMING ! Iran lost 1 million men in the Iraq – Iran War and didn’t blink an eye. This is going to suck and be prepared to pay $12/gallon for gas if Iran shuts down the Straight of Hormuz.
Ding ding ding, we have a winnah!
As I hear, WOT never got cancelled by Congress, so once again OMB is using existing legislation.
I finally figured out what 47 stands for, it’s Trump’s IQ
Nah, I figure it’s 86. If it were 47, he’d be a banjo lip spear chucking mooncricket in a loin cloth yelling at the Moon outside his dung hut. So at least he has that going for him.
Big Ruckus already said my thoughts about bombing Iran.
As far as airpower bombing Iran into the stone age and too weak to hurt us look how well the pitiful Hothi’s did against our mighty Navy. Iran is 100’s of times as large and they build their own missiles.
Time for FAFO.
Keep that head on a swivel friends. Historically the USA uses false flags and Gulf of Tonkin lies to stir up our “Patriotic Feelings” to support the Bankers new war.
Remember the fake “Patriot Front” with the U-hauls, police protection and flags so new they had packaging creases on them?
They *might* have a new job as “Sleeper Cells”. Ask Ruby Ridge if they’d shoot Americans.
I’d suspect real sleeper cells if the grid and EBT cards fail often as they get fixed again and again.
Big Country those wild critters infesting that waterpark *might* be a far more serious problem when their Free Shit EBT fails than “sleeper cells” or at least a force multiplier for them.
$54,000 sales of cases of MREs / $32 case = 1,687 cases sold. Wow.
The MREs at your link are now up to $34.98/case ($2.92/meal).
That price would be + your mandatory added on state sales tax but free delivery if you have Amazon Prime (and are in the U.S. I guess). Cheap food insurance in my opinion.
For comparison a 15 oz can of Dinty Moore Beef Stew at the local Meijer is $2.99.
(In my opinion, MREs + the 15 oz cans of Dinty Moore Beef Stew I think is a good mix for those who don’t want to eat “just MREs” every day.)
Again thanks for your initial heads up on the MREs for sale.
Re-posting your MRE link:
https://www.amazon.com/U-S-Meals-Ready-Variety-Pack/dp/B08N1NDDRS?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.cuq9cZuIc8A-GoxYhiTuJOsSV_0ur0nY-o4m0EcZskFp9U7pvvMwBmB_24wXeTfHqGrnpZWRT3rZyVHVKfk2DP07scluYiW_tR7k7Va6zUmWM_XdRX6mjzjo27dQSBijVh3W3aEWJOxjcQeWirh4ItEMis0Q6RRmvbNG3MVSI8QF9nhRnbnfkOuh9EdSniSbX6mIPmNmkb6lORXf4e_2naZTefD7f0spOmcAlUI6qfE.N6gi1SMtOW6iyz9HQPxgq_cbrFenLtEHPAGlAZYtC6c&dib_tag=se&m=A1YFCA3CE596KO&marketplaceID=ATVPDKIKX0DER&qid=1750205669&s=merchant-items&sr=1-6&linkCode=sl1&tag=theintrepidre-20&linkId=197b638bd12e5aad8b564ba8958461b6&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl
If memory serves me, we had at least one Tomahawk barrage in addition to whacking Solimani (?) during DJT’s first term. If this is a one and done, OK; prelude to boots on the ground, NFW!
The mememasters are posting “trouble’s coming, military recruitment ads with only whypeepo”. Let’s pray that’s wrong also…
@Michael
“Big Country those wild critters infesting that waterpark *might* be a far more serious problem when their Free Shit EBT fails than “sleeper cells” or at least a force multiplier for them.”
Not *might* but *will be*.
There are lots more of the domestic 2 legged low IQ animals that caused BCE & family to bail early from the waterpark running around than “sleeper cell” soldiers.
Wait until those “wild critters” are hungry and fighting over food instead of chairs…
All the more reason to have the food & water & etc. to be able to shelter in place for the initial period of any grid down craziness. Let the wild animals kill each other only & fight only if you have to defend yourself / your home.
We might get to eat all those MRE befor the 120 month / 10 year expiry dates…
a few years ago, the EBT card system went down for a day or so. they went wild.
if someone really wanted to fuck with us, all they have to do is bring down the EBT card system again.
but on a much larger scale- think across the country. last time it went down it was in one state only
and in a few larger cities/towns. the local Walmart was mobbed by them. carts overflowing with shit.
as the stores just “let them have it” rather than fight over it. funny thing happened, the card system came back on. they left carts full of “stuff” inn the store and walked out- the jig was up.
one big reason why I never go to Walmart is the fact that they take in Billions each year from SNAP
or the EBT system. now that what is was in the early 2000’s. knew a guy who worked at/for Walmart
and he told me they never put in a “super store” unless there is a large EBT card base nearby.
funny that bit, hey ? think they bad now? wait until the magic money card stops working for them.
and people wonder why I live so far from town too.
another funny fact. Iran and Russia along with China are all big into cyber warfare. hell, they already got into a lot of “our” systems. hacking the SNAP /EBT system can’t be that much harder for them to do. and think of the return it would give them as well. during the “Bozo” years, they hacked OPM.
for like 2 years ! I know this because I got “life lock” free from Sam for 5 years after the fact.
granted I would hope that Our systems are better protected these days. but what do I know ?
I am more worried about hacking our systems than terror cells acting out. although with the influx of illegals over the last 4 years they could have slip/sent in a few divisions already to act on command
and with the millions in shipping coming in every month, who knows what they brought in with them. either way, it not looking good.
Interesting viewpoint here:
https://www.arthursido.com/2025/06/how-drearily-predictable.html