2/2: π
Open calls by various state legislators and even governors for secession from the Union? π
A notable uptick in the sales of firearms, especially military-grade stuff, and ammo, not to mention survivalist stores getting cleaned out? π
MFs claiming once again they're going to move to another country because nowhere is worse than here in the US? π
Sabotage of local infrastructure? π
An uptick in church attendance and visits to therapists and shrinks? π
We made our collective bed.
1/2: With any luck, I won't be on all that much, either to read things or post, while I'm in MN. For the three days' driving to get there and back is included in that. Not much in re: politics or policy that might happen between now and November 12 will surprise me much, unless it somehow stops interstate traffic while I'm on the road.
An uptick in political violence like arson, "white powder" via post, bomb threats? π
Continued outrage over every utterance by whatever side by the other? π
1/2: It's wild, the number pretend-Christians who are so bonered for the "Prosperity Gospel" or "building generational wealth" and who quote mostly Old Testament Proverbs to support their position but argue semantics and plead "allegory" (or some other crap) when the rest of the OT and any of the NT are shared in argument against their position.
God wants them to have big houses, vacation houses, nice cars, nice clothes, and to have status? Why? To show how rewarding God is to the faithful.
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2/2: We were plenty warned over and over by Soviet and later Russian defectors and loads of intelligence officers and agencies, but folks either didn't want to hear it, leaving vasty swaths to fall for it, or they got bought.
Lots of groundwork got laid down in the 1990s, boosted in the 2000s, and... well, the rest is recent history and the present.
1/2: Do you know why the Soviet "army" and "navy" are so ill-equipped and ill-trained? I mean aside from the graft and internal corruption.
The Soviets have spent billions of dollars over the past umpteen years on international espionage and a crazy crazy amount of international assets payroll.
They've known they're weak militarily, and so they play the longer game, the destabilization game, a much easier game against the West, a.k.a. "Team Pollyanna" and "Team Conflict Avoidance".
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