countdown

COUNTDOWN

You know, I know, and Ross Perot knows that the Titanic is just about to go over the waterfall.  The intensity of the collapse has picked up speed.  Crap be getting real, yo.  No need to panic just yet, most of us have been born into this.  The collapse has been ongoing our whole lives and the only thing that is changing is that we are approaching exponential speed.  The fact this has been new normal for us our whole lives can be used against us to confuse and distract us, of course, but we should also view that just as business as usual.  I was born into a dysfunctional society of dog-eat-dog, no illusions like some vomit inducing extra intense propaganda  “Camelot” I have no idea why anyone fell for, some pretty boy schtuping Marilyn getting a free pass on being a sleazy politician, a proto-Clinton, and was never fooled ( I was for a second but the best thing you can do to learn your government hates you and wants to hump you is to join the military ), but I suppose some people still want to cling madly to their illusions. 

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Even if we see through the BS hype meant to sooth us, we STILL fall for the hype.  Like all good propaganda, even if we see we don’t feel.  We still ACT like the government isn’t our enemy ( oh boy, he’s got treats for me!  Where do I sign up for Social Security? ) even as we SEE plainly that it is.  The lie is repeated so often it is accepted even when the evidence is to the contrary.  Propaganda is not about believing, but about acting even without believing.  I go on my tirades about the federal government, Washington holding volunteers like conscripts or Lincoln hating both Blacks and Southerners, FDR stealing our gold days after his inauguration,  and still you cling to your grade school conditioning and either ignore me altogether or discount what I say with some excuse, having little desire to even think about how all your sacred cows would be slaughtered if you let my little nuggets of hate and discontent nest and fester.  Now, don’t get me wrong.  I hate the federals and would love it if you did too, but far more importantly I’d prefer if you just feared and loathed them.  Do you need to hate someone to fear them?

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Evidently.  You know, statistically, that more often than not your wife will come to loath you and leave you.  And you do nothing about it.  You put nothing into savings, nor do you keep some assets to yourself.  You don’t plan for a separation, nor do you believe it can actually really happen.  Survivalists are like sullen husbands unconvinced their wives, the government, will actually leave them.  They think, like a husband, hey, I’ve been good.  I’ve provided/been a good citizen.  It wouldn’t be fair for her/it to leave me.  And subconsciously, you almost can’t believe it because than your good judgment comes under question.  I won’t say you are in the denial stage, because I hate that metric used by sad sack mentally deficient dependents ( no, douche, it isn’t a disease, it is a weakness.  I was an alcoholic and I pulled myself out of that morass and kept out of it on my own.  No need for a support group or to blame my mental deficiency on a contrived medical condition ).  I’ll just say you can’t face reality because it is too painful.  So, yes, I guess if you could hate rather than deny you would see the coming danger far more clearly.  If you hate, you see what they can and will do.  If you just don’t want to believe, you wont.

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I hate every swinging cheese dingus out there both intent on screwing me out of any and all treasure and pretending that all is well even as we careen wildly towards the apocalypse.  Those were the greedy whores that set us up for failure by ensuring a systematic collapse was inevitable by putting the central bank in charge, and by wasting a once in a species energy surplus on frivolous trinkets ( tailfin v-8’s and rocketships ).  They are still lying through their teeth.  They would be the pricks who would look you in the eye and lie that an asteroid was going to hit, so as to “avoid panic”.  Do you think a systematic collapse is much different than an asteroid?  For me, hating them works to remind me that things are actually far worse than I can envision, handicapped by incomplete and hidden information.  For you, if you are not going to hate, all I can do in between sermons trying to get you to do so is to try to sway you logically.  You know, “overpopulation meets resource depletion meets Malthus”.  I don’t even see many of you really believing me over the propaganda, but I’ll valiantly keep up the fight.  What else can I do to occupy my time? 

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So, for those who see through the charade and are willing to believe that the end is indeed nigh, let’s talk about the countdown to the collapse and what you should be doing.  I would think by this time all you fence sitters see the need to bite the bullet, stop planning and “start doing” ( just like your favorite Home Despot commercial telling you to come down and buy a $175 power tool that will save you twenty minutes, then you’ll never use again ).  This isn’t rocket science.  We’ve covered it all before.  But let’s go over the time line.  First, you gather bare bones supplies.  It doesn’t matter if you sell off assets, get into debt, go delinquent on some bills or whatever.  You need to spend $400 per family member on supplies ( for a family of four, that is $100 each chipping in for a firearm, $200 each for a years worth of wheat, and everyone chipping in for ammunition, a grinder, a couple of water filters ).  The reason it doesn’t matter if you get into debt here is because you aren’t buying an Idahoan retreat, a semi arsenal, a bug out vehicle, a FLIR scope or any of the other Yuppie Scum Survivalist toys.  Just a bare bones survival kit.

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Without MRE’s, a second rural mortgage, a four wheel drive, laser sites, ninety round AR drums or freeze dried yak scrotal sacks, you don’t have so much debt that you need a third job to pay off the acquisition.  Going into debt for that is just retarded.  Sorry, guys, I’m going to have to side with your wife on this one.  You don’t need any of that crap.  But going into debt for $1,600?  Your mortgage is $160,000 and your car cost $16,000.  Why not pay another credit card for barely over what you pay in auto insurance every year, for a lifetime apocalypse insurance?   Buying gold, buying $120,000 Idaho retreats, or even getting out of debt ( if you can afford the Yuppie Scum Survivalist debt payments, you can afford to pay down your debt quickly ), all should wait for your bare bones stash of wheat and a simple firearm.  I know you want your $300 Berky stainless steel countertop water filtration system with particulate filter add-ons.  Be content with a $20 Sawyer filter.  And I understand you are under some delusion that heavily salted and heavily processed foods make up a good diet and if you can’t have those you’d rather not eat at all.  Shut up and just buy your wheat kernels.  You have extra time and money, then treat yourself with freeze dried extras.

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Being in debt is a lifestyle killer.  If you ever want to be free and be able to follow your passion rather than grub for a paycheck, you can’t have any debt.  If you even want to properly prep in depth, debt is going to get in your way.  But just as not ALL lawyers are scumbags, and not ALL wives are lying cheating money hungry lazy whores, nor is ALL debt  completely evil.  Getting into debt for a VERY cheap piece of land is fine, as that lesser evil of three years payments is far better than the greater evil of paying rent the rest of your life, or until the apocalypse, whichever comes first.  And if you owe the next ten years gross wages in debt, another one months worth is better than not having any preps at all ( again, to be clear, ANY preps doesn’t mean an expensive toy.  It means an inexpensive total system ).  I’d hate for you to get into any debt but better that than complete unpreparedness.  If you don’t have a years supply of calories, your chances of any length of survival time shrinks exponentially ( and yes, you should have far more than a years, but we speak of bare bones here ). 

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So, by hook or by crook, you need a bare bones survival stash.  That is priority because without that nothing else is possible or sensible.  So what comes next?  Getting out of debt?  Moving out to junk land?  In depth preps?  I tell you to do all three immediately, but understandably you sometimes won’t but mostly simply can’t.  You can’t do it all in a reasonable amount of time.  So you have to ask yourself what is the best course of action in the limited time we have left.  You have to prioritize according to danger, not to preference.  Since I’d say the probabilities are with you losing your job, you must make the best of your paycheck while you can.  You can eat and you can protect yourself in an emergency, so next becomes shelter one step above living in your car or under a bridge ( assuming you have a full cupboard for daily diet eating, but even that isn’t a priority because you’ll need a place to keep that during unemployment ).  Living in your car isn’t the worst strategy, except when you can’t afford gas or insurance.  So then what can you do?  You can’t park indefinitely at Wal-Mart because eventually you get kicked out. 

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You need to have a place to go where they won’t kick you out.  That can be junk land you pay off as quickly as possible or that can be spending the $400 per family member for bare bones preps for a family member you’ll go stay at ( of course, that assumes the family member won’t lose their home ).  It can be caching supplies in a public park ( assuming you can stay without detection or that cutting funds don’t see a forest fire bake your food underground ).  While I’m in love with the junk land concept, I also understand it is only viable for one phase of the collapse.  You won’t necessarily stay there indefinitely so it does have limited utility.  But it also isn’t much easier to hide on public land anymore, either.  You could buy REALLY crappy junk land and work in a really crappy city nearby ( like west Texas and El Paso-although not recommended by any stretch of the imagination ), or you could stash silver for paying off the car insurance and gas.  Or you could go WAY off the beaten path to retreat to the wild on public land.  Or just bribe friends or family that aren’t in debt to stay there ( in your trailer, so you combine strategies of car living and crashing with friends ).  Each plan has good and bad points-I just think junk land has fewer issues.  For instance, how long during the economic collapse will you be welcome to stay at a friends?  When it gets to be three years into unemployment I’d think anyone’s welcome would be worn out.  Car living presupposes no travel restrictions and no oil embargoes.  And public land squatting is a really primitive existence.  They are all doable, but not preferable.

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So say you decided on junk land and bought it with a credit card cash advance.  Very poor move, by the way, with a 25% interest rate.  Or, you bought gold on the credit card, then sold it at a coin shop and paid off the land.  Much better.  Or, just pay off the land to the original seller as quick as possible.  Just protect it against bankruptcy by hiding it as an asset.  Now you have a bare bones emergency supply and a place to go to in that emergency.  Either end-o-da-world or the unemployment an economic collapse is going to bring sooner or later.  Should you now concentrate on paying off debt or moving to the junk land?  No, not yet.  Keep working your crappy job.  Unless you are living in a terrible area.  If your city is too big and too packed with angry Black persons, you need to move regardless.  But if you don’t have that issue, just carry on.  As long as you are not too far removed from your junk land.  I can’t give a set amount of distance as you face multiple issues.  TSA goon roadblocks, gasoline shortages or rationing and the like.  Whatever is comfortable to you.  I can walk to mine in under two hours, in stealth mode if necessary ( plenty of foothills past roads or the river corridor ).  I wasn’t comfortable with it when it was 300 miles away.  But you decide. 

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If you pay off debt, you sacrifice getting more prep items.  Paying off debt makes sense for the economic collapse, but not for systematic collapse.  I’m not advocating getting into debt to prep, aside from the junk land and bare bones stash.  Far from it.  That kind of debt is not good because you are assuming an overnight collapse.  Which COULD happen.  But that is a very low probability.  Sure, a solar flare, an asteroid, a Yellowstone eruption or a nuclear was COULD happen tomorrow.  Which is why you have your bare bones supplies.  You just can’t count on it, which is what folks do when they owe a quarter million on retreats, bug out vehicles and the semi arsenals.  The most likely collapse is the current one continuing until suddenly a tripwire is triggered and the whole thing implodes once and for all.  Between now and then is the issue with staying at friends retreats, camping on public land or the like will kick you in the ass.  So you get into a little more debt for the junk land and have a safe stash and squat spot. 

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So what else do you need?  Why worry about the debt?  If you want to move out to the junk land now, and live on a casual income, bypassing a lot of issues with the economic collapse, then, yes, you must be completely out of debt for it to be viable ( although, you could stay in debt for driving if you stay on the junk land and commute to work, letting them repo it when you become unemployed.  Just be sure you can live there without the car later ).  But if you don’t believe the system will hold all that much longer, why are you even concerned about being in debt as long as it doesn’t leave you destitute?  I’ll continue tomorrow, on that note.

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