One of the things my spouse and I discussed is slowly, over the next few months, gathering some shelf-stable items and household staples that may generally have been purchased from abroad. Not in an irrational "pandemic lockdown" way, but in a "we'd probably buy these anyway, let's just buy a bit more" kind of way.
Higher prices are coming, and we have precedence to look at. Italy and Germany adopted initiatives to reduce national reliance on external food sources to further their fascist aims. There was a lot to those, and there's not currently a big reason to assume we'll go the same way, but it could turn quickly.
Another thing we can look to history for is red flags about the people taking power. Where to even start with that? The recrudescence keeps putting the most incompetent people on his team, but just because someone is incompetent it doesn't make them less dangerous. During the last cheeto administration, we saw disgruntled government employees at various institutions take to social media to continue their actual work when their institutions were taken over by proto-fascists. Assuming the actual experts are still around, and buy good burner phones, we should be seeing more of that.
But for today's action, I'm going to make my list of supplies, including housewares that I was thinking of replacing later, and find a friend with a Costco card.
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