my teaparty sister threatened me last week

[Jackpine Radical]

26. I think they're right about the food & water.

Only not on account of Obama. He's doing what he can to sustain an unsustainable system, but between climate change-related disasters, peak oil (think the end of oil-based fertilizer, pesticides, cheap plastic, etc.) & destruction of the aquifers via fracking, it will all come crashing down at some point. The question will then be whether the plutocrats can keep enough of an SS force (in the German Schußstaffel meaning of SS) going to suppress us.

I have a teabagger friend (yes, really; the guy I always refer to here as My Favorite Wingnut) who has a bunch of "tactical" weapons and a supply of canned food & water, plus cash money. He's ex-law enforcement, so he always buys guns on the presumption that he's going to need to be prepared to blow someone away at 20 feet or less. All his LE training told him that most gunfights with thugs occur at that range, so that's what he's prepared for. He expects an economic collapse, but not the GW disaster.

I take his whole position as evidence of the lack of imagination that pervades the Tea Party.

He stores food, we store seeds. He has a large-magazine automatic rifle, and I have a .22 pellet gun for small game. He pays $20 for 20 rounds of ammunition, and I pay $20 for 1,000 pellets.