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[W.TN.Orange Blood]

The rally round the flag effect has given way to reality

Poll: Majority disapprove of Trump on coronavirus

Lulz.....right. Who would be better at it......O'Biden? Pelosi? Schumer? Nadler? Swallowswell?

 

[1972 Grad]

I used to go out to Redstone Arsenal and they had an EMP test site where a helicopter was suspended with wires and they would zap it and other equipment with pulses.
I always wondered if older vehicles with ignition distributors would survive an EMP. Maybe even old radios with vacuum tubes.

Have you read One Second After by William Fortschen? It is a what if on an EMP. It takes place in the author's hometown of Black Mountain N.C. It is frightening to read what could happen. In the story, the only cars running were old ones with points type distributors. He had an old Edsel that belonged to his mother-in-law.

 

[1972 Grad]

Lulz.....right. Who would be better at it......O'Biden? Pelosi? Schumer? Nadler? Swallowswell?

I would feel much better with Swallowsall in charge or Marianne Williamson.

 

[VolStrom]

I used to go out to Redstone Arsenal and they had an EMP test site where a helicopter was suspended with wires and they would zap it and other equipment with pulses.
I always wondered if older vehicles with ignition distributors would survive an EMP. Maybe even old radios with vacuum tubes.

You need to read the book "One Second After"

 

[LouderVol]

When this is over nothing will change regardless of who is in charge.

Unless it's for the worse.

 

[1972 Grad]

You need to read the book "One Second After"

Beat you to it.....by this much.

 

[VolStrom]

Beat you to it.....by this much.

I know, I'm a slow typer.

 

[CagleMtnVol]

Have you read One Second After by William Fortschen? It is a what if on an EMP. It takes place in the author's hometown of Black Mountain N.C. It is frightening to read what could happen. In the story, the only cars running were old ones with points type distributors. He had an old Edsel that belonged to his mother-in-law.

Great book but I like "Going Home" by A. American its book 1 of "The Survivalist Series" which also deals with an EMP attack.

 

[LouderVol]

I used to go out to Redstone Arsenal and they had an EMP test site where a helicopter was suspended with wires and they would zap it and other equipment with pulses.
I always wondered if older vehicles with ignition distributors would survive an EMP. Maybe even old radios with vacuum tubes.

Does having whatever turned off help?

 

[Orangeburst]

Have you read One Second After by William Fortschen? It is a what if on an EMP. It takes place in the author's hometown of Black Mountain N.C. It is frightening to read what could happen. In the story, the only cars running were old ones with points type distributors. He had an old Edsel that belonged to his mother-in-law.

Cuba would actually have a large fleet of operable Ford and Chevy vehicles. Maybe we could buy them back.

 

[Orangeburst]

Does having whatever turned off help?

I was not privy to test results. AFAIK they pretty much test everything in the military for EMP protection. For modern devices I believe they use shielding like Ferraday cages.

 

[VolStrom]

Here's a top tech tip... your oven is a Faraday cage, just don't turn it on with you electronics inside. Now what you can put inside and what use it will be after an EMP pulse is another tip.

 

[VolunteerHillbilly]

Here's a top tech tip... your oven is a Faraday cage, just don't turn it on with you electronics inside. Now what you can put inside and what use it will be after an EMP pulse is another tip.

red dot optics?

 

[hndog609]

Are we prepared for and electromagnetic pulse bomb that could knock out our electric grid? You just think this is bad.

Might not even take aggressive action to find facing that problem.

Solar storm of 1859 - Wikipedia

 

[Wireless1]

Exclusive — ‘Main Street Rescue’: Trump Admin Pushes Out Hundreds of Millions in Small Business Loans on First Day

President Donald Trump’s Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) through the Department of Treasury and Small Business Administration has already on its first day pushed out more than $620 million to small businesses nationwide mostly through community banks.

A senior Treasury Department official told Breitbart News on Friday morning that as of 10:30 a.m. eastern time, a total of 1,652 loans were given out through 239 different banks for a total of $628,371,561. Most of the big banks like JP Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo, and Citigroup did not have programs online—only Bank of America did—by this time, so this means community banks nationwide are the ones stepping up to push the money out to small businesses affected by the coronavirus crisis.

“When the unprecedented PPP loan program for America’s small businesses went live in the early morning hours of April 3, the community banks were the ones ready to go,” the senior Treasury Department official told Breitbart News. “Unlike the big banks that are coming online later in the day, the community banks were up and running and ready to serve their small businesses. America’s community banks are the real heroes.”

As community banks are the ones stepping up to help small businesses at such a rapid pace on the first day of the program, this fact counters the narrative from some on the left and in establishment media that somehow the efforts of Trump, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, and the broader administration were designed to only help big corporate cronies.

‘Main Street Rescue’: Trump Admin Loans Hundreds of Millions in 1 Day

Average $380K per loan....WOW

 

[lawgator1]

Average $380K per loan....WOW

Most banks, including BofA, require that you had a preexisting loan relationship with them, at least of 2/15, the date you have to certify you were in business and had employees. So that's great for BofA clients that they are up and running.

But if you are like the rest of us (and we bank with Wells Fargo) you can't even talk to someone much less upload an application. Its $300 + billion in the pool, but for everyone like us there is a worry that it will run out before we are even able to submit an app.

That BofA clients can do it, but only they can, is going to cause its own set of problems.

 

[evillawyer]

Second highest elected official in NYC loses mother to coronavirus.

 

[VolStrom]

Most banks, including BofA, require that you had a preexisting loan relationship with them, at least of 2/15, the date you have to certify you were in business and had employees. So that's great for BofA clients that they are up and running.

But if you are like the rest of us (and we bank with Wells Fargo) you can't even talk to someone much less upload an application. Its $300 + billion in the pool, but for everyone like us there is a worry that it will run out before we are even able to submit an app.

That BofA clients can do it, but only they can, is going to cause its own set of problems.

Sorry your business is going to go belly up LG, better luck next pandemic.

 

[Weezer]

I would feel much better with Swallowsall in charge or Marianne Williamson.

Imagine Mad Maxine in charge, lol. With AOC as her second.

 

[allvol123]

“I applaud the governor for following through with his convictions and fulfilling his duty to protect the people of Tennessee according to his best judgement," Jacobs said in a Facebook Live video. "However, I cannot applaud any government monitoring the movements of its people and mandating virtually everything we are allowed to do.

I rescind some of my complaints about Mayor Jacobs.

 

[W.TN.Orange Blood]

I would feel much better with Swallowsall in charge or Marianne Williamson.

Hell, yeah.

 

[lawgator1]

Sorry your business is going to go belly up LG, better luck next pandemic.

I would not go that far but it is not impossible we have to make some changes in 6-8 weeks if things remain on shutdown.

 

[evillawyer]

 

[VolStrom]

I would not go that far but it is not impossible we have to make some changes in 6-8 weeks if things remain on shutdown.

So what you're saying is you really don't need the money, but you're first in line for the free money hand out?

 

[evillawyer]

Discusses new drug (tocilizumab) that's being used to calm an overactive immune response to the virus