Since 2008 the best time to buy has been when you have the money and find something appropriate. It’s no different now. Millennials have been hoping for a housing crash they could take advantage of for 16 years and it hasn’t materialized. Prices just keep going up and historical evidence suggests that will continue until another crash at an indeterminate point in the future. Trying to time that point is only going to leave you as a permanent renter.

checks camping and hunting gear in closet

Yeah I’m good.

There’s a difference between having some in government and having a government based on them.

That’s opening Pandora’s box. We could end up with a White Christian Ethnostate as easily as we could get an Oligarchy or Market Socialism.

Yeah he does good stuff

Sixteen Tons. Another day older and deeper in debt.

To be honest I’m getting tired of electing people who promise to provide those rules only to watch the Capitalists get the green light to exploit us further.

Oh look you read it, you just refuse to engage with it in good faith.

Yeah, until the danger is passed at any rate. Homeless doesn’t need to mean in the streets though.

I know, that’s why I was talking about the political consequences of doing stuff. I fully expect there will be illegally fast deportations for anyone they believe is undocumented. Citizens and green card holders need to keep their documents and copies of their documents accessible in case they get swept up in that, (It’s happened before). But actually going after citizens and green card holders as the objective, without due process, creates a lot of problems for them. And they have 13 million undocumented people to work through with a system capable of doing 2 million in a 4 year period right now. It’s entirely possible they just never get to the next part of their list.

I’m not sure at that point that they would care. Why do all that when they can just deport people and block them at the points of entry. They could deport a citizen, turn off their passport, and if they show back up detain them for fraudulent ID documents and then either deport them again or send them to the concentration camp for “hard cases”.

Burning the naturalization documents assumes they even care about courts and bring people in front of them.

That said it would be a massive risk. If they didn’t do about a hundred things right the first time they’d end up quickly removed from office by a mob, escorted by the very NG troops sent to stop them. Americans care about citizenship, but that goes both ways. Removing that without due process would lead to activism and if that’s not disrupted properly they get the bad ending. If they fail to secure the capital, it ends badly. If they fail to secure congress, it ends badly. If they fail to ensure wins in the 2026 and 2028 elections, it ends badly. (and not holding those elections also ends badly, like a civil war at best)

So they’ll most likely continue to use the path they used in Trump’s first term. They’ll challenge naturalization documents in court. The good news is courts are slow and dockets fill up fast. There’s only so much they can do with that.

If you have a union…

This isn’t the movies. They aren’t sending one person you can get into a fight with. They’ll just shoot you and ransack your house to make it look like you died in a robbery gone wrong. Just don’t be there.

Do

• Live on cash from different ATMs;
• Stay at a hotel/motel that changes weekly;
• Rent a car and change it at different rental locations every week;
• Communicate only with your lawyer;
• Record everything in an official manner as soon as possible.
• Stay offline
• Get a dumb phone, and if you must have a computer get a new laptop with no wifi or mobile data hardware;

Do Not

• Go anywhere you don’t need to go;
• Tell anyone where you are;
• Go to the middle of nowhere, this reduces your escape routes unless you’re Bear Grylls;
• Confront anyone, they can have you arrested and prison violence makes their job much easier;
• Go to the news without your lawyer;
• Use a smartphone, or any device that was yours before and is capable of connecting online;

And most of all don’t listen to the billy badasses in here. If a multi billion dollar corporation wants you dead and is willing to break the law they can afford a lot of very nasty people. You aren’t getting the tactical training to stand against them in that short amount of time, that takes years and dedication and even then you’ll be learning how to run away in a deadly manner. Your best defense is to be ghost except when you show up for court dates and depositions. That’s what the Secret Service Witness Protection Program does and it works if you have discipline.

Okay but did you fall?

Yes. So much yes.

Use them anyways.

Those countries are controlling access at the very few origin points. And they can still be foiled by tunnels, VPNs, and Encryption. The only counter is to actually cut the network at that origin point. But that still gives a country sized internet that’s very resilient. Could they start isolating cities? Depends on their infrastructure. I know the mid size town I lived in could be shut down with one cable. (Because road construction hit it at least once a year and 80,000 people lost Internet for a couple days each time)

When it was first envisioned it was supposed to be an actual web. With multiple points of contact at each place. Instead we’ve consistently done the bare minimum to bring the Internet to each place. Meaning in many places there’s only one connection. For an international look at connection points there are undersea cable maps. It becomes clear quite quickly how easy it is to isolate a single country’s web.

I said a chance. Not that it was a big one.

It’s because polio is a developing world problem now. Until it comes back to the US the only relevancy it has is as foreign aid. And that’s forbidden by these guys unless it’s guns.