The Glibertarian Farmer
I live back in the woods, you see
My woman and the kids and the dogs and me…
Because you can’t starve us out and you can’t make us run
‘Cause we’re them old boys raised on shotguns
-Hank Williams Jr./ A Country Boy Can Survive
I’ve been kicking this article around for years. I actually found a draft from 2018. Sometimes I think it’ll be philosophic. Or not. I’ve taken picture after picture for writing up how-to articles on building a chicken coop, building a brooder, fixing a woodshed, etc. Maybe sharing some fairly horrific farming experience. Or some hilarious moments. I can’t really decide so what I’m going to propose is a series called The Glibertarian Farmer. It’ll be randomly populated with various farming articles on all of the above.
What is a Glibertarian Farmer? My own version is a slant on the Gentleman Farmer. I don’t farm to make a living… it’s not my day job. Rather it’s a pursuit that grants me freedom and independence. Good ole Hank sums it up just about perfectly. We moved out here into the country to be free. Free from petty bureaucrats. Free from government schools indoctrinating my children. Free from reliance on grocery stores and the grid. Free to shoot in my backyard. Free to do whatever I want whenever I want.
Bullseye the Bull
I know several Glibs have none too fond memories of childhoods on farms. My father grew up on one and hated it. But it’s different when you don’t need to make a living from it. Then, unless if the bull breaks loose (again), farm chores are on your schedule. And you can hire help. It’s a completely different experience. My children are growing up remembering firepits, shooting at our backyard range (try taking a 7 year old to a public range), getting licked by their dog-friendly bull, having goats sit on their laps, loyal dogs guarding them inside and outside, and turkeys eating scratch out of their hands.
Enjoying a Siesta
Guard dog on duty
Freedom means everything to me and living back in the woods is how I obtained it. Covid was a pretty blunt warning about what could happen. We’d be fine if the grocery stores closed. I have ample breeding livestock, gardens, and water sources. Plus at least a year’s supply of non-perishable food. If Covid really was a deadly pandemic? We could lockdown the property at a moment’s notice with gated access and guard dogs. Riots like we saw in Kenosha? My neighbors, those good old boys raised on shotguns, would ensure rioting outsiders disappeared well before coming close to my homestead. No starving us out and no running.
The most expensive eggs I’ll ever have
But that’s not prepping for the sake of prepping. These are just the perks of freedom. My backyard is a stunning view of the Shenandoah where I own as far as I can see to the last treeline.I have acres of woods filled with game for hunting and hiking trails. A stocked pond for fishing. A private shooting range with no restrictions on age or firearm. I enjoy raising the livestock and look forward to eating my own grassfed/grain-finished Angus grown right here. It’s primal. It’s paradise. It’s priceless to me, but this is obtainable by anyone. Country living is not expensive.
Good old girl raised on shotguns… and rifles (DD with a carbine at age 7)
But it’s not without challenges. I’ve had to unwrap barbed wire caught around the bull’s leg without getting trampled when the sedative didn’t work all the way. It’s become necessary to have to put down animals that I’d grown very attached to and trusted me. The look of betrayal is something that I’ll never forget. Waiting all night in hiding to ambush a predator killing my livestock and then having to put in 10 hours at my day job the next day. Having to change my underwear after the tractor goes up on 2 wheels. The list goes on.
George you naughty pig
What say you? Is there interest in this continuing as a series? I can’t promise regularity or even consistency in the type of articles I would write. Are any of you interested in moving to the country? Or if already in the country, building out a homestead? Or just hearing about it?
This city boy turned country boy has made a lot of mistakes over the past decade since my wife and I made the move and started our family. But I’ve learned from each and every one. And I’m getting better. A Glibertarian Farmer can survive.
I’m very interested in your experiences on the farm.
Are you not a fan of bacon?
#metoo
Awesome. Not a fan of bacon. My kids could eat it by the ton though.
🤔
Don’t you dare say anything about his aunt-sister-daughter-wife!
Haha, oh no! It’s a line from an autistic scientist in Borderlands. I think I’ll need a new blurb now.
I look forward to this series!
Is there interest in this continuing as a series?
Yes
Are any of you interested in moving to the country?
Yes
Excellent.
I could never convince my wife, but I’ll live vicariously through you.
Please consider a series!
Yeah. I lost the battle for ‘farm land’s in KY. Not a big deal cause I’ll have land to grow my vegetables where we land.
I think mainly cause my wife had grown up on a farm and me partially on a farm.
Yup, also this:
“Country living is not expensive.”
Land prices are crazy now, at least anywhere near to me. :/
My house appraised for $415K last year.
A three bedroom ranch on a couple of acres is going to be half a million right now.
Empty land is not available.
It is. Just depends on where, and what kind of land you want. Remote as hell, off the grid, probably not particularly scenic – come West, there’s a lot of empty land still out here. Most places, water is the big challenge.
I’m good where I’m at.
A three bedroom ranch on a 1/8 acre is half a million… Not counting all the repairs you’ll need to do. Things are off the rails near me.
Sounds cool. It’s not the life for me, but I’m sure the challenges are interesting.
I want to get away from the city, but I don’t want to take up farming.
Maybe a technohermit.
technohermit
Raises hand . . . .
I’m working on it. Someone here got me thinking about HAM radio.
No UCS, nothing to do with pigs.
So, it’s turkey ham?
Do it! Do it!! Pretty please?
My dream house would be a house in a clearing in woods – not visible from the road, but with the trees far enough from the house to at least cut down on the tree debris on the roof. As for farming, maybe just a few chickens for eggs (and eventual meat?)
::sees pic of Guard Dog, adopts disgusting baby talk voice:: Ooh! You iz so fierce! I could just scritch your widdle ears!
My half-pyr is no-kidding ferocious at home. She has a definite distinction between her home territory and neutral ground.
It just boggles my mind when someone with land puts their house right next to the road.
Until you price out running utilities.
Buy once, cry once.
Or land clearing, including taxes.
(try taking a 7 year old to a public range)
Who said you could do that?
Is there interest in this continuing as a series?
Definitely. Though I’m not sure the envy would be good for my soul or health!
#metoo
Are you kidding? I love this already. Please continue the series.
I live on 1.3 acres in a subdivision on the edge of farm country. We used to have kind-of an HOA, but nobody is interested in that anymore. So some neighbors have chickens and things. Maybe I can get some ideas from you to implement small-scale on our property.
Microfarming is very efficient. Shalali runs a farm on 1.5 acres. You may not want Jerseys, but the below episode has some great ideas for small scale farming.
https://www.thesurvivalpodcast.com/episode-854-shalali-infante-on-micro-farming-livestock
We have one and a sixth acres. Enough to keep two people fed if we were forced to.
I was raised like that. Most people do not understand me, but the ones that know me are not surprised that I do things the way I do.
I guess I am a dinosaur.
I grew up in a city. My grandparents had a farm that I enjoyed visiting as a kid (maybe once every 5 years), but never imagined I would move to out the backwoods. In our mid 20s, my wife and I became increasingly disillusioned with the shackles put around us and made the jump as soon as I was able to shift my job to remote. All of our family and friends thought we were crazy.
I enjoy the livestock and fresh vegetables, but that’s secondary to the freedom. I think/hope more of the younger generations will make a similar jump with remote work becoming normal.
I dont have time to transcribe it now so, in a nutshell: Fredrick Douglas waxed nostalgic about remembering how as a slave he watched ships setting sail for parts unknown. In his mind the white sails shining in the sun as they sailed wherever they pleased was symbolic of Freedom, something he would give anything, make any sacrifice to have himself. In many ways reading those passages were reminiscent of Rand for me. Both of those authors had personal experience with tyranny and spoke of it in the same fashion.
Somewhat in the way you just did.
Just caught the tail end on TV of Biden threatening Americans if they dont knuckle under with new covid restrictions. Apparently his patience with Americans being free to make their own decisions is running out.
Looking around for a story on it now but not finding much.
Seriously? I don’t think that’s going to end well.
That’s what we the last time.
Ugh, not the angry old man who’s going to call your parents act. Again.
New clip? I haven’t seen the old man address the rumblings that they are going to try and reinstate the policies that didn’t work the last time.
Work shmurk. They were never intended to work against the cootie bugs. They worked for what they were intended for, to see how far they can go to get us to acquest to bending our knees, but this time he is patient, but patience can run out.
*sounds like an outright threat to me. Your patience run out and…..what? What is he going to do?
Sounds like old news.
What happened to “my body, my choice?”
YOUR BODY, MY CHOICE
STEVE SMITH LAUGH
BY LAUGH MEAN…
Chess World Cup update:
Carlsen-Pragg drew first match of finals.
Abasov defeated *Caruana in first match for 3rd place.
Thanks for the feedback from everyone. I’m glad to hear the idea of a series is welcomed, and I’ll start putting some more articles together.
Very much welcomed.
Just leave out that you are a freak of nature that doesn’t care for bacon.
Right?
What the hell’s wrong with you?
I think this will be a very interesting series.
I grew up on a dairy farm and part of the reason I joined the Marines was so that I wouldn’t have to be a farmer.
If I had it to do over, maybe I’d choose differently.
I haven’t had bacon in months. It’s possible to get bored with pretty much any food.
https://www.nueskes.com/applewood-smoked-bacon/
Get the good stuff!
Last time I looked at Nueskes at the fancy grocery store it was $12/12 ounces.
The stuff I make is better and cheaper.
Huh. Locally it’s $9.99/lb. Occasionally on sale for $8.99/lb.
Not around here.
Tired of the hammy bacon around here.
People definitely got annoying the last 10-15 years with how hard they declared their love of bacon. But let’s resist our contrarian urges to take up the opposite position of bacon somehow not being good. It is good.
i think it was all fake bluster push-back against the holier than thou vegan crowd. I haven’t met any real bacon fanatic–
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vnit_xL1hE
Seemed to fit here. One of the first farming books I read was the Contrary Farmer (Gene Logsdon).
Lol nevermind then, it is now your brand!
☝🏻 weirdo
Dairy farms are hard work, but my livestock don’t really take up much time. Maybe a half hour each week, if even that, for general maintenance. Just making sure they have water in the trough and putting out round bales with the tractor during winter. Other than that, periodic deworming with a syringe and spraying for flies (~1 hour/year).
Incidents happen that take more time of course. A broken fence, bull getting loose, or a stuck calf during birthing require dropping everything and freeing the afternoon.
Putting up the fence was a lot of work. The wife, my dad, and father-in-law put in somewhere between 3/4 mile and a mile of field fencing. We used a mobile auger to dig the holes and concrete the posts in place. That was quite a job doing all that by hand. Unfortunately dumb too since the concrete is eating through some of the posts and causing them to snap.
I’m redoing the fence section by section now and using my head this time. A neighbor with skidsteer has an attachment that will slam each 6” diameter wood post into the ground. No digging, no concrete.
How you handle vacations? Neighbors pitch in, have a buddy cover, or just don’t take them?
We have someone stay at the home if we’re going on an overnight trip. A retired family member or younger family friend who has time available to hang out, drink beer, and keep an eye on things. We pay them for their time but so it’s less one-sided but still a favor.
It’s really letting the indoor dogs outside and keeping both sets of dogs fed and watered (3 indoor GSDs, 2 outdoor Great Pyrenees). The livestock watering is minimal timewise. No work at all for the chickens. I set up the chicken coop with a rainbarrel waterer fed by a gutter on the roof (filtered through sand) and a feeder that holds a couple weeks of food. The ducks, turkey, and guinea hens all free range for themselves and drink out of the dogs’ water.
How does that dynamic work?
Mostly very good. We got the GPs as puppies so they integrated well with the adult GSDs. The GPs were raised outside with goats, pigs, and ducks so they still prefer as adults to be outside guarding the animals. They’re actually afraid of coming into the house.
Because our GSDs still go outside regularly, they all get along quite well. There was an issue between the two males that appears to be fixed with a snip.
My Dad and I did a couple miles of fence with a tractor mounted auger, a shovel, and 2 metal post hole bars that were flat on one end for tamping.
I was in really good shape when wrestling season started.
Learn to love T-Posts.
Oh there’s hundreds those too. Every 10 feet between the wood posts. Did each one of those by hand with a slammer.
I have a buddy who knocked himself out cold with one of those things. I laughed at him, then a few weeks later did the same thing but “only” got a bad headache.
*flashes back to placing double strand concertina by hand*
Yes! Looking forward to it.
I just moved into a place with 5+ acres within sight of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Definitely going to do some gardening and an orchard. Probably chickens eventually. My neighbor thinks we should put up a fence and raise goats too. I’ll have to decide how far to take this.
Biden: Sorry your houses burned and your kids are dead. That reminds me of a story I made up about a fire that almost burned up my house, wife, and car.
Related
(But not rage inducing)
Oh look, he’s bowing his head and closing his eyes in humble reverence for the devastation on our island.
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1693955799197073658
“appears”
There is no “appears”, that dude was out.
C’mon, man. He’s just showing his empathy. At least it wasn’t a mean tweet.
True, true. I know that if I ever lost my child in a fire, I would want somebody to tell me about the time they almost lost their ’67 Corvette due to a minor kitchen flareup.
It was a mostly peaceful wildfire.
Tomorrow (Aug 23rd) I’ll be appearing on the Kristian Garic Show on New Orleans’ WGSO, 990AM, at 2:05EDT/1:05CDT and so on. Tune in and listen here if you want.
Wow look at you! I listened to the one the other day. I appreciate someone smart like you out there speaking our language.
It’s beginning to feel like I may actually be able to make a go of this.
I thought you were wrong on your assessment of your performance. I listen to a LOT of podcasts, so I am sensitive to timing and flow and I thought you did great. I liked that you took a moment to consider your answer without creating dead air. The interviewer was all over the place and I thought you stuck with him well. All in all an excellent start.
My 2 cents.
🙂
Is there interest in this continuing as a series?
Yes, the answer is always yes.
We live on a couple of acres and would love more but I don’t think it’s going to happen. Prices have gone up absurdly and the land use chickens are coming home to roost after 50 years of “success”. My wife is getting older and concerns about workload of a SFH on acreage and not being stuck at home. Our own current place can take its toll at times and the land is on a north facing hill with increasing tree coverage. Terrible for growing most crops. Living vicariously through SSD’s series would be great. Maybe get a few ideas also.
Hell yes. This kind of knowledge may be of vital importance to a lot of us in the next few years.
Enjoyed your article, SSD and look forward to more.
I’m glad I can pick and choose my farm experiences now. I can’t think of another lifestyle more enjoyable. My wife’s early experiences were farm related as well but I was surprised she took to living in the woods so easily and so well. Sh still won’t eat venison though but that’s OK, more for me. There is a heaven on earth but it requires lakes and trees, for me.
Keep the articles coming.
Waiting at home for wife’s new sewing cabinet, and hoping the trucking company’s automated system didn’t cancel when my wife hung up on what she thought was a robocall. Stupid automation and stupider people who use it to cover broken processes and expect it will always work in ideal conditions not edge cases.
*Dalek shows up at Gustave’s door
YOU REFUSED OUR CALL! NOW WE EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!
AUTOMATE! AU-TO-MATE!
Probably just an automated message asking you to keep pets under control and to have any gates open/codes for the driver who’s expected between 30 minutes before you got the call to 24 hours later.
That’s what I’m hoping.
I’ve been hoping/waiting for this series. Can’t wait! Now I can watch a Glib do all the things I should be doing at my place.
Do you have any animals? Chickens?
Three cats and one dog.
Every winter I think about building a chicken coop come spring, but other things always take precedent. Another one of those things I just need to make time for.
We get eggs from a local ranch. I would dig getting them from my back yard!
My wife buys them locally and wanted to raise chickens, but thinks if we do that, I will have to kill the fox that runs through the yard sometimes.
Awesome. I took step by step pics building my coop and planned that for an article. So easy to build that even I couldn’t screw it up. One of the things I hate about traditional coops is that they are cramped if you go inside to collect eggs or clean it out. I built mine using a storm door and an 8′ ceiling that slants to 6′.
That sounds great. Can’t wait to read it. Maybe it’ll be the spark I need to get going.
Is it mobile?
Speaking of bacon… https://pabaconfest.com/
First weekend of November, unless we’re all dead from the “new” Covid variant.
🙂
Hoping to one day retire as a gentleman farmer. Being from the Midwest, I’m partial to farming, but I’ve found it to be true that small rural communities tend to breed good neighbors.
Or meth addicts who love living in trash.
Meth is a hell of a drug.
Ugh, I wish I had time today to participate in this thread…
I was grown and off to college before I ever ate fish that didn’t come out of our pond. Or ate vegetables at home that didn’t come out of the garden (which meant I had a pretty limited selection, but still).
We’re not quite that plain now that I’m the Dad, but we have a production garden now for most of our vegetables, and about 20 hens.
Mrs. Tree used to just freeze deer, but shifted last year to mostly canning it, so it didn’t count on power. Maybe go all canning this year.
And all that goes with that.
We’re trying to do more canning this year. Looking into hydroponics and aquaponics as well.
*raises hand
I ran away at 18, because I hated the grueling work with no pay (I guess I WAS getting room and board).
Funnily enough, I just bought a house on 7.6 acres. We started our farm with 15 chickens this spring (at least 4 of them are roosters and will be going to freezer camp soon). Next year: bees, a couple of pigs, and a few rabbits.
It is a lot more fun when it is just a hobby. Well, except for pressure canning, that is still drudgery. 14 quarts of potatoes, 16 pints of pickled beets, 4 pints of green beans, and 16 pints of dill pickles, and 2 quarts of Bloody Mary mix this past weekend.
“2 quarts of Bloody Mary mix”
Priorities.
It just so happens my SHTF provisions include 10.5 liters of vodka.
Heh.
Noiiiice
My thinking is I can either barter it, or stayed sauced for the final days before SMOD
Yep, disinfectant, barter good, or having a drink while looking over the ashes. Good prep. provision.
What will you do after the first week though?
Due to my practice of home barrel aging bourbon and rye in 5 liter barrels, I have around 4 or 5 gallons of each on hand most of the time. I may have to fire up another bourbon barrel soon to maintain par levels.
I was all gung-ho to do that when you posted your article on it…and then it didn’t happen. I need to look at doing that again.
I just recently started up an infinity bottle of whisk(e)y. Mainly to free up some shelf space, secondly to see how it works out.
Ok, I’ll bite. What’s an infinity bottle of whiskey, and why haven’t you written it up?
Long story short, an infinity bottle is a personal blend of whisk(e)ies that have passed through your house. You can either use it to kill off bottles with just a couple of ounces left, or build it with a couple of ounces of any whisk(e)y you buy.
To keep it long, here’s a guide.
For this bottle, I went with the remnants of bottles (again, to free up space), am going across the world of whisk(e)y but staying away from flavored whiskies and Islay Scotches.
Sounds like Mystery Wine, which I used to have.
Like making a “suicide” at the soda fountain.
Coq au vin for the win!
Hey, keep it clean, Mr Potty mouth!
Wife wants to get bees next year.
It is a lot more fun when it is just a hobby.
^This. It makes all of the difference.
I’ll trade you something for a jar of pickled beets. I love those things. We’ve not did too well with beets, one year the Mrs canned a bunch and they were good but the soil is missing something here. I’m still learning and may be closing in on a solution.
Deal
I’m very interested, especially in how you juggle the requirements of the farm and the day job simultaneously. Is this a family-only gig, or something in reach of a misanthropic lifetime bachelor?
Just asking for a friend?
If the farm is a hobby instead of your source of income, the requirements are minimal for regular maintenance. Maybe a few hours a week for everything routine on my 30ish acres.
Bush hogging the pasture with a tractor or maintaining a path through the woods is each a weekend project. You’re choice of hiring it out (~$15/hr for a skilled farmhand around here) or setting aside a weekend.
There’s other one-time projects that scale as needed. I built a massive chicken coop. That took a few weekends and I had some help but enjoyed the project. Some things I tackle myself. Others I hire out.
If’s even more doable as a bachelor. Each kid’s help increases the time by 100%. They help so I can teach them, but definitely not to make it easier.
“Each kid’s help increases the time by 100%”
This can be applied to most jobs, though I did find a few things my son is very competent at and will actually speed things up for me.
If he doesn’t follow in my footsteps he’ll be a very competent mechanic or similar.
I’m sure WFH has a lot to do with it. I saved myself 1.5 hours of commuting 5 days a week with my current gig. While not as big as it has been in past years, we have a sizeable garden, and our secret has been to engineer it to be easy to maintain. It’s now enclosed in chicken wire to keep out the rabbits, and we put down black plastic to stop the weeds. This time of year it needs about a half hour a day of picking. As for the animals and such, I’ll defer to the real farmers.
Farming with livestock can be tough. Especially space worms.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06mMD797xqY
I’m assuming this post is bait for yet another list, but the replies are golden.
https://twitter.com/USMarshalsFund/status/1693624442864144818
Randy Weaver’s nemesis ?
Yep, Ruby Ridge revisited
“Conducting Surveillance” sounds better than Trespassing.
Later the heroes shot 14-year-old Sammy Weaver in the back as he tried to run away.
Thanks for the reminder.
I could use a Ray o’ Sunshine right about now.
Here we go:
Convenience Store Concealed Carry Guy Takes Down Robber While Maintaining Control of His Sixpack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFhkcgdkrY8&t=1s
I hope it stays a ray of sunshine and they don’t press charges on the customer.
I don’t do X, so I don’t see the replies.
I hope they are ridiculing the monsters that fucked over the Weaver family
Yep. They’re getting torched.
Thanks. This is the one time two Glibs agree. I also do not want an X account.
I really don’t understand the hesitancy, but you guys do you.
I use you guys as a filter. If it’s worth seeing, it pops up here. Otherwise, I don’t care what’s out there.
I just hate joining different things. It is a me thing. My identity is tied to a bunch of different failed social media sites, and I am tired of that happening. Remember that conservative social media site that was killed by Biden? I joined that to talk to my father in law. Then all the data got stole by Amazon, and the whole thing was shut down. Fuck that. That was my fuck all social media moment. I am only here now.
Each kid’s help increases the time by 100%. They help so I can teach them, but definitely not to make it easier.
Nice.
“What say you? Is there interest in this continuing as a series?”
Hell, yes. I’ve been pondering moving somewhere rural. Not sure I’m up to running livestock, but a garden of some kind would likely be in the cards. Mrs. Dean is one of those who has . . . not good memories of growing up on a farm, so I suspect any gardening (or ranching) duties would fall on me. But the mo’ freedom parts are calling my name.
This is already default behavior on my Model 3. Coming soon to everyone so as to annoy as many dog owners as possible.
https://www.autonews.com/regulation-safety/nhtsa-proposal-would-require-automakers-add-more-seat-belt-warnings
Also will increase the use of “seatbelt extenders” and blank buckle tangs.
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5453532
Or just go to a junkyard and cut them out of an old car for pennies on the dollar.
Yes, interested.
Doing some urban farming now; chickens , rabbits, and a garden. Have ~4 acres in a small town (~6,000), but our property is actually in the county, so only a septic permit and no other departments of making you sad inspections. Also, buying from my father who has another ~20, mostly pasture. Planning on having cattle, sheep, and doing two sets of six hogs to sell. Scale cattle/ sheep in years ahead. Moving out there this winter, hopefully. Wife has been in hospital for last 33 days and has a few more to go, and then some inpatient rehab. But it’s time to move, these ole bones ain’t getting any younger.
I missed the news about your wife. Sorry to hear about her troubles.
Thanks. I don’t post often but have been reading globs the last 30 days.
What do you do to protect your daughters when a random guy’s car breaks down at night and he shows up at your door to ask for help?
I’ve heard enough stories to dissuade me from farming.
Oh shit, I just watched the Seinfeld episode where Newman meets the farmer’s daughter. Fucking hilarious!
I remember watching that when it first aired, I was dying.
“Where are the clubs, Elaine? I have a tee time with Ethel Kennedy this weekend.”
SO good!
BRA-Less Wonder’s Bid | Farmer’s Daughter and Newman
Did you miss the part about the 5 guard dogs?
Is the answer “Twenty dollars, same as in town?”
This would be a bad time to start a war.
This is the dumbest psy-op I’ve seen so far.
Remember early in the war when while Ukraine was being invaded the top priority of its legislature was passing gay marriage in a country where support hovered somewhere near 20%? Ukraine is deeply aware of what Westerners fly their flag. I won’t be surprised if Zelensky reframes the war as being fought over “climate change” as his position continues to worsen.
There’s already a transgender spokeswoman…err spokesman…whatever out there but I’m not sure whether that individual operates in some official capacity or not.
There is and, yes, he/she is operating under official authority.
There’s a reason why Ukraine flags are only flown in communities where everyone knows not a single person has ever served in combat.
I think she means, “Help us to figure out how we can use the military to enforce our bullshit climate change agenda.”
I keep hearing that the Maui wildfires were the worst ever in all of Hawaii’s history. This is either bullshit or extremely impressive on the part of the utility monopoly that they were able to outdo volcanoes.
Tough call. Bullshit is always very likely, but if anything can outdo volcanoes it would be a public/private partnership, like a utility, that combines the worst of both.
Potential answers. The fact sheet is interesting, people keep introducing fire-prone grasses and shrubs.
https://www.hawaiiwildfire.org/fire-resource-library-blog/wildfire-in-hawaii-factsheet
Whatsamatter, you don’t believe in water equity?