The rhetoric surrounding these survivalist items is starting to be a bit worrisome. Apparently they have decided that their customers are survivalists, therefore Trump supporters; certainly not “liberals.” I feel like I have been thrown out of the customer-base.
If this was really made in America, that means that someone was employed making it.
Some of the vendors I have occasionally done business with, appear to have decided they’re going to send me a big email every day for several days, with new “black friday” offers.
My spam-box announced “Collectible Trump Silver Coin.”
This probably isn’t a very effective survival system for a nuclear attack.
My spam-inbox is a microcosm of American fear and delusion. And tactical stuff. My spam-inbox is very, very tactical.
When you travel a lot, you get bombarded for ads for watches – big chunky expensive awkward things you can wear around your wrist to snag on machinery. Some of them look like something James Bond would wear.
The people who read and believe this stuff are the foundation of American anti-intellectualism. And they vote:
If you knew where all the nuclear bunkers were, and all the targets were, you could plan ahead and be the first to leave your bones and bloody scratch-marks on the outside of the bunker door. Good plan!