It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
originally posted by: Arizonaguy
a reply to: DeathSlayer
well , since I will be semi-retired, with 10 years to wait until I can collect Social securty, I was thinking about a more inexpensive destination. Spain and , as the other fellow suggested , New Zealand are great countries, but I will hve to make my cash last for a decade. So I was thinking Costa Rica, or maybe the Phillipines
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: Boadicea
I have a 10-year-old. Is it really wise to face a potential Civil War with a child in the house?
originally posted by: Never Despise
I can't remember ever being this scared for my country. Even 9-11 doesn't compare to the yawning abyss we are looking into.
I am going to try to keep this non-partisan (an almost impossible task these days with anything). So I think that whether you are liberal or conservative you should be able to see the entire dashboard blinking madly with "situation critical" lights.
People of opposing views don't talk to each other anymore. They don't even talk at each other like they were doing six months ago. Now they talk past each other.
The name of the game has not been to "convince" for several years at least. Until quite recently, the game was to "shout louder". Now the game is to completely shut down the other side.
The tenor of discourse is the barometer of our unravelling.
On the right you have people talking about succession from the union. On the left you have CNN trying to get Fox banned from the airwaves. How can either side stomach their own actions?
What happens next? How far over the cliff can we lean before we all go tumbling over?
We are really twisting in the wind now.
Bet you never thought a month ago you'd feel nostalgic for 2020 one week into the new year...
originally posted by: Never Despise
I can't remember ever being this scared for my country. Even 9-11 doesn't compare to the yawning abyss we are looking into.
I am going to try to keep this non-partisan (an almost impossible task these days with anything). So I think that whether you are liberal or conservative you should be able to see the entire dashboard blinking madly with "situation critical" lights.
People of opposing views don't talk to each other anymore. They don't even talk at each other like they were doing six months ago. Now they talk past each other.
The name of the game has not been to "convince" for several years at least. Until quite recently, the game was to "shout louder". Now the game is to completely shut down the other side.
The tenor of discourse is the barometer of our unravelling.
On the right you have people talking about succession from the union. On the left you have CNN trying to get Fox banned from the airwaves. How can either side stomach their own actions?
What happens next? How far over the cliff can we lean before we all go tumbling over?
We are really twisting in the wind now.
Bet you never thought a month ago you'd feel nostalgic for 2020 one week into the new year...