{"id":3226,"date":"2020-04-01T16:40:51","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T16:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/04\/01\/why-no-talk-of-the-emp-threat\/"},"modified":"2020-04-01T16:40:51","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T16:40:51","slug":"why-no-talk-of-the-emp-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/04\/01\/why-no-talk-of-the-emp-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Why No Talk of the EMP Threat?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">&#39;Sheltering at home&#39; is no big deal with a functioning grid and all that it makes possible such as working at home and ordering goods and services online.&#0160; Would it be &#39;racist&#39; of me to suggest that the Chinese might want to destroy our grid with an electromagnetic pulse attack?&#0160;&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Leftists are not very good at threat prioritization. Obama, you will recall, pointed to &#39;global warming&#39; as the <em>numero uno<\/em> threat to humanity.&#0160; I understand that this &#39;threat&#39; did not stop him from investing in beach-front property.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">And what did Obama and his bunch do about the EMP threat? Precisely nothing.&#0160; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2019\/05\/emp-executive-order-trump-administration-takes-threat-seriously\/\">Unlike Trump<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#39;Sheltering at home&#39; is no big deal with a functioning grid and all that it makes possible such as working at home and ordering goods and services online.&#0160; Would it be &#39;racist&#39; of me to suggest that the Chinese might want to destroy our grid with an electromagnetic pulse attack?&#0160;&#0160; Leftists are not very good &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/04\/01\/why-no-talk-of-the-emp-threat\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why No Talk of the EMP Threat?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}