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Showing Original Post only (View all)...he's sitting there shivering, ranting about libs while he sucks down cold beefaroni. [View all]
From this twitter thread:
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so my eldest brother, who is a moron, has been playing soldier with his moron friends in the deserts of texas for the last year preparing for the collapse of civilization if biden won (lol). they were burying food and ammo stashes out in the desert, running drills, crazy stuff
this included getting a cb license so he could be their lifeline to other groups of white idiots when the cell towers all went offline. wouldn't want to violate federal law while communicating with your resistance groups after the fall of the federal government i guess.
anyways, you would assume given that they've been prepping for the end of the world for at least a year they're well situated to ride out the rolling blackouts right?
wellll
their plan for cooking and heating during an extended power outage was natural gas, but like a lot of homes their gas service is out. the food in their freezer and fridge is already toast due to the power outrages, so they're down to canned stuff, but there's a catch.
they can get into the pull top cans just fine, but the ones that require an opener? their only can opener is electric. so a good 3/4 of his canned food store is inaccessible to him unless he goes after it with a knife, which i sincerely hope he does.
so captain survival was eating unheated ravioli out of a can yesterday because i guess he doesn't know how to start a fire? they have a fire pit but it too is gas fired.
he told my mom they're probably going to break into the survival buckets soon. i'm sure that's great food.
he told my mom that the blackout is due to texas switching everything to "wind power" but that he didn't discount that the government was doing this on purpose. if you can figure out why they'd arbitrarily freeze out a giant state hey points to you.
the saving grace in all this is he's having to ration his phone usage so he can't sit on the phone with my mom for hours crying about it. he's forced to sit there and talk to his wife, who is almost as dumb as he is.
presumably he's sitting there shivering, ranting about libs while he sucks down cold beefaroni. what a life.
he's tried contacting his best friend in his little larping group, but he's gone to ground. i sincerely hope that means he thinks this is the start of the great purge or whatever and he's disappeared to the mountains to evade fema and child support bailiffs
i'm trying to get more details from my mom but i have to play it cool. if i laugh she'll stop telling me about it, so i have to pretend this is very serious and i'm concerned for his safety while i'm imagining him hitting a can of baked beans with a screwdriver repeatedly
on the plus side they've got plenty of guns and ammo, so they can shoot the shit out of the snow.
locking two people with marital strife in a house with no supplies, no access to power, but plenty of access to guns and ammo seems like a great idea. i think this should work out great.
just to give you all some additional comfort: his wife is part of the group who helps select the textbooks texas buys every year, just in case you're wondering about the kind of people that make those decisions.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/2/19/2016904/-Abbreviated-Pundit-Roundup-No-one-likes-Ted-Cruz-blizzard-edition#comment_80314235
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...he's sitting there shivering, ranting about libs while he sucks down cold beefaroni. [View all]
kpete
Feb 2021
OP
Yeah, great, funny and insightful writing! Please do a follow up as I need a good laugh!
machoneman
Feb 2021
#37
If the "survival food" is like a military MRE, they'll need water (not necessarily potable)...
JHB
Feb 2021
#136
Ettore (Hector) Boiardi did a lot for his country feeding the troops with his products!
Prof. Toru Tanaka
Feb 2021
#109
I don't have one of those' but I have a couple of handy little multiple-use gadgets in my purse that
niyad
Feb 2021
#26
And so many of them end up with 'biscuit poisoning'. A term coined by a cardiac care nurse
GoneOffShore
Feb 2021
#81
The small end is a very effective flat-head screwdriver if you don't have one of
Aristus
Feb 2021
#108
I know! How your food gonna go bad when it's cold outside and snow on the ground?
greenjar_01
Feb 2021
#126
I know! When this mess started, we figured we would take the already frozen food
yellowdogintexas
Feb 2021
#129
I had to wait about 5 minutes to read the last two sentences 'cause I was laughing so hard with
monmouth4
Feb 2021
#16
I handed it to hubby directly while I went to get a cup of joe from the Keurig...
Hekate
Feb 2021
#93
Thank you for sharing this. Someone should tell that idiot that one uses a screwdriver and a hammer
niyad
Feb 2021
#21
The writer DID preface this missive with the disclaimer 'my brother is a moron' (nt)
mr_lebowski
Feb 2021
#52
Yeah, just like the bonehead "preppers" here in Michigan who stormed our Capitol in April
catbyte
Feb 2021
#34
Rule no. 2 for emergency food prep or any time one is relying on canned food for that matter
zeusdogmom
Feb 2021
#67
Yep. I have 2 manual can openers also and a way to cook food if power goes out.
Kaleva
Feb 2021
#120
OMG I'm Crying Laughing. This Needs to be a MOVIE!! - NO CAN OPENER is the Plot Twist nt
BlackOpz
Feb 2021
#78
Survival Planning with NO Generator? I thought being 100% OFF-GRID was the Goal
BlackOpz
Feb 2021
#79
While appealing to my gallows humour - and more than a little - this is an awful story.
BobTheSubgenius
Feb 2021
#95
OMG. I had to go into the bathroom to fix my mascara runs because I laughed so hard.
Texin
Feb 2021
#97
Your article made me wonder now much frozen or refrigerated food has now spoiled on them
LiberalLovinLug
Feb 2021
#104
I prefer to stock up on what we usually eat and then make sure to rotate the stock
Kaleva
Feb 2021
#124