Why are all the "Tough self-sufficient people" whining their

[Drahthaardogs]

Asses off?

You would think the macho tough guys with their guns and hoorah would be relishing this. Turns out they whine like a litter of puppies.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. These are the same tough guys who think they need to carry a gun

to go to the grocery store - and that was before the pandemic. They are so fearful that they think they need to be armed to the teeth all the time - or are they just compensating for a lack of something else?

[dubyadiprecession]

5. They're rebels without a clue.

Like the ones that drive down the street with both American and Confederate battle flags, waving side by side on their pickups!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. I actually saw that once - big old pickup truck with both flags.

I was just

[Nay]

9. I live in Virginia -- I've seen this a dozen times. Face palm, indeed.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

11. This was in Minnesota, which is even weirder.

[DBoon]

2. Why do they need the country "open for business"

I thought these self sufficient people could make everything they need without the big bad cities

Can't they just slaughter and kill a wild boar with their paleolithic hand-axe instead of buying breakfast at Denny's?

[dawg day]

3. You'd think the survivalists and preppers would be happy

But maybe these guys didn't bother with the part of survivalism that relates to food prepping... only stockpiling guns.

[Drahthaardogs]

4. What is really funny to me is

I, the flaming liberal, have a freezer full of beef and pork that I butchered and bags of rice, beans, and flour. I grew up poor, so you learn how to do it yourself. I bake my own bread and tortillas and make my own sausage. Even though my income grew, my way of living really didn't.

[Hotler]

6. where are their bootstraps??? nt

[JHB]

8. Because axe-grinding and outrage are their drugs of choice

They're highly addictive, wildly hallucinogenic, and very very lucrative for their purveyors.

Thus, they wind up making the "snowflake"-iest liberal arts college students look like veritable stoics.

[Cosmocat]

14. THIS

Well said ...

[htuttle]

10. They might has well get rid of all of those crates of MRE's in the basement

They can't last 2 weeks by themselves.

[MerryBlooms]

12. I don't consider them protests.

Foaming at the mouth rabid monsters, funded by trump donors to pour kerosene on a deadly wildfire. trump campaign rallies.

[maxsolomon]

13. Because they want to be at the front of the Parade, like *.

Look, the economy IS going to "re-open", sooner or later.

By demanding that it re-open, they position themselves to claim credit when it does.

It's like demanding the sun to rise in the morning.