you'all ain't preppers now

YA'ALL AIN'T PREPPERS NOW

I'm sure we've shared that moment, a gleeful You-Tube type proclaiming that “well, everyone is a prepper now!”. Ahhh, no. Sorry. When did panic buying constitute being a prepper? Was that always a thing? Perhaps it was, because I haven't been a prepper for a long time now, being a manly man survivalist ( prepping for short term emergencies, verses planning on surviving End Times ). I guess you were prepping if you panicked after Katrina and had enough for the next hurricane. But even if panic buying makes you a prepper, it won't be enough.

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The time of buying your way to safety has ended. What is there left to buy? Soon enough, who will have any money to buy all the things no longer for sale? You know, unemployment. Let us take a trip down Nationalizing Lane. The Prez just enacted the 1950 War Procurement Act ( forgive me if I have the name off slightly ). Basically that says that he can tell a company what it has to produce, and they have to listen. It probably also means they can take you from an office job and put you in a factory to work, but forget that now. Here are the immediate effects. That civilian ammunition factory just went to total military production.

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That freeze dried food company just went to FLEA ( federal law enforcement agencies ) combat ration production. The silver producers just went to National Currency Re-Stabilization Fund production. Somewhere, they might actually be making masks, the whole reason this turd was dusted off ( or so they say ). Now, don't misunderstand me. I'm not saying this will work, that the FedGov will maintain and persevere. I'm just saying if any prepper items get produced, they won't be sold to you.

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OR, let us consider both shut-downs and transportation. I'm beginning to suspect that the lock-downs have one purpose, and that ain't to protect people from the virus. It is to eliminate ALL small businesses to eliminate competition with the Big Corporations. After all, in an emergency our Dear Leaders always centralize more, even when it is counterproductive. Take as exhibit A the security agencies consolidating after 9/11. Each agency still protected its turf and refused to share, and now you had another layer of bureaucracy screwing things up even more.

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If all the mom and pop restaurants are out of business, the national chains regain lost market share. Someone has to pay off the robots they installed to beat the $15 minimum wage hikes! All these small banks shutting the lobbies and curtailing loans means the biggest bailed out banks survive as the small fish die. I'm NOT saying this will happen. I'm saying that is the plan, or expectation. My point here is that if it does happen, all the prepping supplies go above your ability to afford it. Because now there is far less competition. And that transportation sector?

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Let us say none of the above happens. Somehow the products are still manufactured, because now demand is higher than ever ( and, say, our Trump Checks are mailed. I know I'm holding my breath ). How are they getting to the stores or distribution centers? Pretend the National Guard stepped in to load supplies, instead of stealing the food for the government. All those semi trucks that survived the last culling of demand destruction, they are ALL focused on transporting food to markets to avoid food riots. Your silver, or ammo, or Prepping Whatever, it doesn't get shipping priority.

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I worry, very much, the foods don't get back on the shelves. Perhaps when the Beer Virus REALLY hits hard and people REALLY stay at home, the system has a moment to recover. Perhaps. I just cannot raise my expectations to that level of Happy Thought. I'm not saying it WON'T happen, just that I worry a lot that it will not. Perhaps the War Power Act isn't about masks at all but about food, micromanaging all aspects from fertilizer to farmer loan forgiveness to harvesting to distribution to subsidizing the retail food outlets. I still worry it can't work.

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How long does cannibalizing work on semi-trucks, from all the last years idled trucks? How soon will the spare parts NOT being shipping from China idle the semi or tractor or combine fleets? But regardless of that, you can bet your last jelly donut consumption items of a non-prioritized nature get shoved to the wayside. Groceries are rationed and nothing is coming through the mail. What can preppers even buy? Nothing. Zero. Zip and squat. The purchasing phase of prepping is pretty much done, aside from a few activities such as buying junk land. Better buy it and move to there before travel is verbotten.

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A lot of you might have already missed the boat on that one. Sorry you didn't listen sooner. It seems the governors have been given a blank check with no oversight, responding as they see fit. How long before state line roadblocks? I'm actually surprised the police and sheriff reserves haven't been expanded rapidly for much minimalist training duties as that. And of course, right now, the biggest problem with most governors is the vast majority are communists and commie lite RINO's. This surely won't end without bloodshed.

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I know I keep threatening the article, but for once in my pathetic existence I have a decent size stack of article ideas ( knock on wood! ). I'll get around to covering the states evolving to semi-autonomous regions. A peaceful handing over of power from the feds to the states and the states focusing on civilian suppression. Few of those in power are liberty minded, and I don't forecast a happy ending. But long before that, the system in place suspends your shopping options. Are you ready for this? Have you gone into Conserve And Protect mode? I might cover that tomorrow.

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