trump kills prepping

TRUMP KILLS PREPPING

Remember how Obammy single-handedly made all the ammunition disappear ( yes, even as the weapons to shoot them came down in price about twenty-five percent )?   Well, now Trump has canceled survivalism.  You know, since he is such a believable politician and not out to make himself richer, and only accidentally packed his administration with the same old players in the central bank and military industrial complex, why, sure, he’s all about the Little People.  All problems solved, ’Murica is great again, Fracking Forever, fill in the jingoistic blank.  It greatly pains me to see nice guys hurt their brains trying to think in a such a convoluted manner.  I’m not even being bombastic.  I truly am confused how this sort of conclusion could ever be reached.  First, you have to actually believe individual players can so easily overturn the imperial court.  Then you have to believe only Democrats can ruin the economy.  Then, you have to believe building a wall after our population doubled, and WHILE current immigration laws on the books are not being enforced, will actually make a damn bit of difference.

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Unnamed prepper gurus over in Tennessee are having delusions about the economy and about the importance of their industry.  Okay, so no survival gear company is putting up prizes so there are no more writing contests.  Which means the editor of said site has to do all his own writing, which is about three times a week-please don’t hurt yourself, just as the unnamed Idaho fellow didn‘t either-and based on this output folks will want to pay $99 for a year of newsletters?  I’m sorry, I really am.  But you stopped writing books long ago, and a genius in economics with a doctorate ( back when they meant something ) is charging $180 a year-in easy to stomach $15 a month increments-for a real daily publication and you are worth almost as much?  The sad truth is that no one NEEDS survivalist writers anymore.  We contribute little to the canon, the Soviet threat and the end of the petroleum industrial economy providing much better material in decades past.  The eighties were the last original survivalist publications based on the end of civilization.  From the Nineties we had, basically, just militia porn and Yuppie Scum luxurious lifeboat prepping for minor disruptions in the consumer paradigm.

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Back in the day, the US went from being the worlds leading economy to derailed in glorious fashion as we gave up gold backing to the dollar, oil quadrupled, all our factories shut down and we lost our first colonial war.  Folks were rightly alarmed and a real movement of manly men ( where sheep were nervous ) stepped up with advice that is good enough to be in print forty years later.  Today, girly men cherry pick the old data to see what fits the debt laden purchase paradigm and timidly present advice which won’t offend anyone, and help pretty much no one in the process.  PC Preppers.  Not to discount all that was wrong about the old advice, nor to paint a broad brush to completely discount everything said today, but in general close enough.  The simple fact is that you can’t find much advice that is worth all that much today, so you give it away for free and make money on ads ( you all understand most of this applies to myself, also? ).  And the economy as a whole can’t rely on advertising anymore.

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I’m not sure why this is hard to understand. Only PC Pretty Pony Preppers would preach that the End Is Nigh, and then act all shocked and butt hurt when the economy actually, you know, starts collapsing.  For many a year now, certainly not too far after the ‘09 collapse ( you do remember that, I presume? ), corporations are only making money by buying back their own stock, goosing the markets in a illusion of activity, so that earnings go up in the remaining shares.  They aren’t increasing from increased sales ( earning increases are how the big boys get paid ).  Sales are in the toilet, because no one has a job, or if they do have a job it has less hours and less take home pay, OR extra income is going to medical care ( which, at 20% of GDP is nothing but froth and fury, incompetence, death panels and banker owned insurance industry bail-outs ).  No jobs or no income, no buy-ee crap-ee.  No sales, companies start to cannibalize to survive.  And this is global, with overproduction issues!  Now, are you seriously thinking when a corporation is desperate they won’t decrease advertising?  Of course they will, and they have.  NOTHING is off the table to make money.  A company that trashes its quality and reputation has no interest in increasing its advertising.  At most, you hope, they cut it less.

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The Prepper Industry is having the same issues as everyone else with decreased sales due to decreasing disposable income.  Trump being elected had nothing to do with it.  Do you not recall the lack of Hilary panic gun buying ( on a large enough basis to make a difference )?  Folks COULDN’T afford to panic buy semi’s ( again, relatively speaking ).  Why do you think ammo prices came down?  Less sales.  Blaming Trump for the industry woes is merely transferring the cause, as most folks wallow in the bottomless stinkhole of denial.  The fact that the economy could actually be imploding rather than being a subject to increase their sales, that is not something survivalist gurus are willing to admit.  You know how I feel about this subject.  Guru’s are asswhores, just another carnie lining up to fleece the rubes.  I’m PROUD that I’m still publishing an amateur newsletter, a hobbyist publication ( albeit in electronic form ), rather than a “professional” publication.  At least I’m not following the rats and perhaps not going down with them on the ship.

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What is the future for the prepper industry?  Can you say “buggy whip manufacture”?  There will always be some demand for their products.  Those companies that can survive on niche sales will be fine and those companies that are in debt and need increased customers to service the debt will go bankrupt.  There are still leather companies out there selling custom holsters or what not, even if they only sell a few buggy whips a year.  The variety will shrink and prices will remain at cottage industry levels, but it can be done.  A good example is with “The Backwoodsman” magazine, mostly supported by mom and pop manufacturers of fur trapper/frontiersman equipment.  And even mostly filled with articles written by the fans of such equipment.  The only reason the publication survived was that those running it based their expenses and income on the ability of their home grown advertisers to pay far below industry standards.  You should check them out-if I think they are affordable, a tightwad skinflint, you should be amazed.

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Trump is certainly better than Alzheimer’s Annie, but he won’t be much of an improvement over Shrub.  If you aren’t doing anything different you are de facto accepting all previous administrations dictates and decisions and that means nothing will change.  I don’t believe the President has that kind of power, anyway ( being a mere meat puppet for the elite ), but if you subscribe to the theory that he does, still believing ‘Muricans rule the roost and will be number one forever, then you need to look at his actions rather than his lips flapping some lie you want to hear.  Trump has changed nothing, so it is business as usual.  And business as usual means the same economic policies and realities we’ve had already through the last administrations.  No wall, no draining the swamp, no leaving Afghanistan, no bringing jobs back.  Okay, granted, the reality is not the perception and the perception says no one is panicking because Trump was one big baby binky to placate the masses, so that killed prepping, right?  Well, then why, without the Soviet threat, did the prepper industry do so friggin well in past Republican administrations, eh?  Conventional wisdom says Trump killed prepping.  So, using conventional wisdom, in good times prepping does poorly.  So, why did all the guru’s do so well during the Bush administration?  Credit was flowing freely, as was the oil, people were cashing in at their home equity ATM, jobs were easy to get.  Times were, relatively speaking, economically gangbusters.  And the gurus were making serious cash.  Hell, I was doing much better, and if I of all people can get paid, especially back when my writing sucks more than it does now, you know the spending was stupendous.  My boat was lifted by the tide.  Follow the money, people, not the ideology.

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