But if it were this is what it would look and feel like.

Let me guess. You think this shitstorm is about American national politics, don't you?

There will always be people for whom mockery is the first recourse. I get the same reaction to my views on climate change and ecological destruction.

Quit preaching panic.

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is not panic
TOO FUNNY

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Not here, not Europe. Where? India? Canada? Africa?

Concerned parent speaking. I'm willing to fight the fight here...but my kids. I don't want them to end up as cannon fodder for this fascist regime.

They'll never find you there. When you flee, you can build your own log cabin and eat off the land. Nobody will see your smoke or hear you shooting at the deer and other animals. Nobody will ever know you're there - you and the thousands of others who have fled to the same area. They'll never find you, but if they do, you can take care of them with booby traps and punji stick pit traps.

Yes, indeed. You'll find your safe place at the end of the road somewhere. Nobody will go looking for you...

Only a desert. I can hide there. Can't I? Behind a cactus?

I'm too old to head for the hills. The cat and I will defend the home front.

It's harder to hide your log cabin and your food-growing plot in the desert. Maybe find an old abandoned mine and move in there, or dig your own cave. I really don't suggest hiding behind a cactus. Especially a cholla. I think I still have a few cholla spines somewhere, after 30 years. That's a nasty, nasty plant!

And chickens for eggs, big vegetable garden, fruit trees. And surely our local Tractor Supply will be open in times of catastrophe.

Is that your full-time address?

A burner phone will keep you safe. Nobody will hear what you say on it. Nobody will know your number. They can't trace those burner phones, see. The government doesn't know about them at all. They're secret and stuff.

Just remember to log onto the website from a VPN IP address when you redeem the minutes on that card and use one of your burner email addresses to sign up there. And don't use the same bogus screen name you use on DU. They know about all those. They'll catch you when you least expect it if you make any mistake.

They're watching you at all times, you know. The only protection is to cover yourself completely with Alcoa Aluminum Foil. Don't use the stuff from the dollar store. It all has tracking chips built into it. Only Alcoa foil is safe.

You didn't hear this from me, either...remember that, above all.

I hope those who are making fun of such preparations never have cause to regret their snide attitudes.

not a doomsday prepper by any definition but i do find that i have mentally done some of this

no hoard of cash but i do find my food stocks are larger than usual.

helpful as age starts to catch up with one.

something *might* have happened.

Living around their paranoid minds under Obama was very entertaining. I watched them building bunkers on several mountains in East TN-- People around those parts take this kind of stuff very seriously. In their minds they believe those mountains will save them from the destruction of an eventual Armageddon/doomsday event.

A small, inexpensive and portable water filter. I got a few of those to cut back on the amount of bottled water I keep around. I also have a foldable multi-gallon water jug I keep around in case I want to fill it quickly.

Also a radio/light/phone charger thingie that has a trickle solar cell and hand crack. It charges via an outlet too. I figure I can charge a phone up enough to send and receive texts with that in a pinch.

Most of the things you list are a good idea to keep updated in case of any emergency. I put a yearly recurring note on my calendar to check first aid kits and emergency supplies anyway.

With all food & water they have on hand, any blowup beds, blankets, pillows, clothes, cash, etc and head out to my place in the mountains west of DC. At least if our Criminal-In-Chief starts a nuclear war, they may have a chance. Have everyone's passport ready, and other important paperwork. .
The one thing I haven't been able to do yet is stock up on food and water. Although I have a well and a standby generator.