Monday, August 27, 2018

weekend prepper 1 of 2


WEEKEND PREPPER
Handed down through the ages from the birth of the splitting of the atom, wisdom was enshrined in the practice of “turn off the power to your house over a weekend and see if you are actually as prepared as you think you are”.  All well and good, way back during the Leave It To Beaver era of a strong gold backed economy ( thanks, rest of the world douches, for sending 90% of all your gold here in exchange for industrial goods, or even just food,  during the war ) and the world leading producer of steel and oil and a rather homogenous culture ( this being prior to a few twats desperately trying to buy an elixir for immortality since they were about 123 years old and having served fifty terms in Congress, selling out their race and culture and opening the floodgates to Other Colors ).
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You see, back then during the pre-Vietnam Cold War, the government teaching the citizens to hunker down in bunkers for a month and then reemerging to rebuild after a nuclear exchange wasn’t as stupid as it sounds now.  Just like the closely guarded secret now is that Chemotherapy will kill you more often than save you ( not that I blame anyone for rolling the dice-I just hate they lie to you then profit off of you, dead or alive ), back then the dangers of radiation were downplayed.  In that context, given our semi-abundant resources ( which we busily burned off during Vietnam in the last effort to goose the old Industrial Economy-the war made perfect sense in that economic situation.  As do our Tiny Wars since then ), recovery was feasible even if you didn’t have as carefree of a health risk personally as you thought.
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You weren’t preparing for the implosion of the nation, country, empire or economy, as you are now.  A minimum amount of fallout protection and stockpiling was actually realistic.  All you had to do was make sure you could survive the initial disruption, and things actually WOULD return to normal.  The infrastructure was in place for that.  Back then, rebuilding New Orleans would have been No Problem, Barely An Inconvenience.
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It used to be that to con the rubes, you generally focused on the poor or the religious ( generally the same folks ).  Number one, there were a lot of them to pick from and number two, despair and longing and faith could be the base a good confidence artist could build upon.  I don’t mean that religious people are susceptible to wishful thinking or that they have a history of abandoning logic or science.  ALL people are like that.  Even scientists are as superstitious and blind to their own irrational thoughts as anyone else.  Look no further than Gore Warming and political correctness.  The preparedness industry, on the contrary, takes middle class workers as the rubes that get conned.
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The poor might fall for buying a $5 lotto ticket ( losing your ass at the casino, your odds are still much better than state lotteries ), but the adequately salaried ( one hesitates to use the term middle class today, since it is mostly the 1% Supreme Overlords, the 9% House Negro’s and the 90% Working Poor or Benefits Poor-but back when, the preppers were actually middle class ) are conned into buying FLIR scopes, AR’s ( they will do in a pinch but really do have as many issues as they have reasons for ownership ), and $85 cases of MRE’s.  $85 for a week and a half of food with a free case of constipation thrown in.  You will also see a runaway appetite as the body is craving the fresh foods it isn’t getting. 
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Those seeking salvation from doomsday are the best folks to con, from Grandma sending in half her Social Security check to the fire and brimstone preacher on the radio to the guy stacking gold to the dweebs down at the gunshop looking through bulletproof vests and best colored tipped 5.56.  The con artists have been selling the old outdated civil defense advice that presupposes the old economic and resource conditions of 55 years ago.  And the rubes line up at the door for more, the sure sign of a great con, when the victims argue the loudest that the fleecing must continue.
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In short, my fine feathered minions, turning off the electricity to the suburban castle for the weekend teaches you Jack Sprat Crap.  Because collapse is no longer a short term event.  There won’t be a quick turnaround fix.  Being without power is great practice for exactly the kind of thing we face more and more often, an overloaded grid unable to handle more and more immigrants overloading our infrastructure, but that won’t work outside the context of the Just In Time system remaining intact to supply the equipment needed to fill in for the grid as it is down for a short period only.  These folks that brag, well, MY electric was off for THREE weeks, not your paltry one and a half, and I did just fine.
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They are bragging that they bought finite resources to temporarily fix the interruption of other temporary resources and they are counting on the first set of resources to resume delivery to replace the emergency measure resources.  It is only swapping one set of dwindling resources for another.  Now, don’t get me wrong, that is still needed.  You still need to go to work to pay the mortgage and save the meat in the freezer.  But that is not prepping for any collapse.  That is prepping to pay your mortgage regardless of natural disasters.  And if you think that is the worse that will ever happen, congratulations, you are a mark in the con by the Prepper Industry shrills, selling you half century outdated advise. 
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It might not be a waste, because sure as God made little green apples, the power is going to go out more and more often and more and more items won’t replenish in time at the groceries.  But it is so incomplete it is still dangerous.  You need to prepare for when there is no more replacements of modern luxuries.  Having a generator is great, until the gasoline is no longer delivered.  Having propane is great, until the fracking field go dry.  Bottled water is great, until even the taps don’t work anymore.  Having a mighty and righteous AR is great, until you spray through all the ammo ( I just threw that one in, but it doesn’t pertain to today.  I couldn’t help myself ).
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A weekend without power still relies 100% on the grid being up.  You are just filling the downtime gaps.  Our weekend test needs to be teaching more than how to go back shopping at Wal-Mart when the grid comes back up.  Continued tomorrow.
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27 comments:

  1. Yes. Too many candy assed preppers (not the tier 1 survivalists- a difference) are no way ready for when they have their asses handed to them. "Prepping" (shoppers and stackers of crap really) by most people is not going to be the requisite skill set or equipage necessary to stay alive any true length of time. Look to examples clearyly outlined in history such as Masada in roman era, leningrad in ww2, sarejevo in ugo war, etc. The duration of time of privations alone (not counting combat-conflict) kicked the peoples asses back then when folks were tougher. These corn syrup swigging punks ain't long for the world for what is coming. Keep at it Jim!

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    1. I'm not trying to project a "tougher than thou" attitude. I get really stressed with change. People make me nervous. I love to complain. I'm not stoic and tough. I just think most people lack a frame of reference. They worry about the pain of the needle, rather than the open heart surgery that will follow that :) True story, BTW. The NOL's sister.

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  2. Hi James,
    Just a note to let you know I enjoy your writing. I also recently purchased four books (Kindle) using your Amazon link, hope you get the money. One of the later books “White Race Betrayed” was an eye opener. Almost funny how we overlook simple math to place some truth to old stories.

    Again thanks from a long time reader, back when you were selling your CD’s for a buck!

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    1. Math? What are math? We don't need no stinkin math! Appreciate the support. See how rewarding supporting your local artist is. :)

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  3. “In short, my fine feathered minions, turning off the electricity to the suburban castle for the weekend teaches you Jack Sprat Crap”


    For many, this will come in the form of on the job training, post employment, pre-collapse (the new occupation being that of a 19th century explorer, or at least the equivalent). The learning curve will be fairly short, because there will be little other options. After a few weeks of camping, they will have settled into their new lives.

    Now normally, I would suggest that the young would fare the best in such a scenario, but I don’t think that it will play out this way after all. Because most of today’s millennials/Gen Z, are about as useful as teats on a canary, and will probably go insane without facebook, twitter, and selfies, and will completely self destruct shortly afterwards :D

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    1. "as useful as teats on a canary" Gott damn! You people are killing me today. That is priceless. Don't be surprised if I steal it.

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    2. Feel free to steal. After all, I stole it from someone else :D
      I think it was from a title to a review for one of those off-grid doctoring manuals. But a recent experience confirmed my thoughts.

      My cousin’s millennial daughter just bought a home. So it’s her, her boyfriend, and another male friend living there. Her father, who is a handyman that’s getting on in years, came over to help out with a deck, some shelves, and a variety of other stuff. So I heard the other day that he’s exhausted from digging the holes for the deck, and I’m thinking to myself, why and the F _ _ k is the 57 year old father digging the holes for the deck that he’s building for them for free, in a house full of millennials???

      Indeed, they are as useless as teats on a canary!

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    3. I remember being as lazy as original sin at the young virile age of my twenties, but that was mostly because I only wanted to read 24/7. But nobody picked up my slack. It will be centuries before the young can once again choose a life of leisure. If then.

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    4. To be honest, my work performance was nothing to write home about either. But these modern kids make even I look good by comparison! By the time that our generation came along, being a hard worker was no longer considered to be as virtuous as it was in our fathers, and grandfathers day. My father was one such type that was “defined” by his job. Even when he finally retired at age 71, he still worked one day a week. Of course, 4 months following his official retirement, he discovered that he had cancer, and that put an end to that, and to him as well.

      Personally speaking, I don’t place much virtue on hard work, and am of the thought that if you can work smart, not hard, and get the same thing accomplished, then all the power to you.

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    5. I think you hit the nail on the head. Hard work being virtuous and the ID By Job. My dad set a good example and I've always been a hard worker, but it wasn't a hands on work. It was just Brain Work. And it wasn't Job Work Or Paid Work. It was "how I want to contribute to prosperity" work. God, I guess we were more brainwashed by the Knowledge Economy propaganda than I realized. Now I feel like more of a dupe. I fell right into the Globalists net. Well, screw it. I still worked hard to get here. I still have my pride. Said the dupe. :)

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    6. "I still have my pride"

      LOL.
      Get on the bus, old man.

      Black tips for the POC blue wave is a likely response.

      Ya'll know that modern civilian vehicle body work is barely concealment against a .22lr, right?

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    7. Modern car bodies are barely survivable at a 3mph bender fender.

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  4. I completely get what you're saying here Lord Bison, but on the other hand I dont think you can completely discount the weekend "blackout" training. True, it wont mean much when the ass falls out of society, but not all disasters are end-of-time scenarios. Think of the soccer mom with 3 brats whose husband traded in for a newer model... She (and the brats) could learn a thing or two with a self-imposed blackout. Fire up the Coleman stove and boil some water for cup o noodles, learn whether or not you have enough flashlights in working order, the kids can learn to play checkers or crazy 8s instead of candy crush or what have you on their ipads... For a generation of people that have NO idea of what a non electric day looks like or how to functuon in one, a simple test such as this can be worthwhile. Then when the ass DOES fall out, the loyal minions can scoop up the few that have at least some basic knowledge of something other than the Kardashians. Would you rather take in someone that at the very least knows how to light a propane stove or someone that thinks struggle means Starbucks is closed? Just sayin'... I used to think so much of this stuff was common knowledge, then I went to CERT training. 80% of the folks there didnt know shit from shinola, and these were the folks that were at least "smart enough" to know something could go wrong and wanted to be helpful in case it did.

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    1. You make a valid point, but why would anyone do the weekend test? If they have no idea how vulnerable they are, why practice suburban camping? If they are aware, they need to be fully aware, not half-assing it. Half-assing is just lying to yourself things will get better, and then compounding the sin by being self-congratulatory. However, all that said, I think you'll appreciate the direction I take tomorrow.

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    2. Maybe Im giving the common plebe too much credit, but for me personally what may have started out half assed turned into an eye opener. If there is one thing Ive learned in life its that you dont know what you dont know. You gotta ask the questions before you can learn the answers. If you're really smart, those answers will lead to more questions...lather, rinse, repeat. Keep at it and sooner or later you'll wind up one of Lord Bison's loayal minions! Nevertheless, great work as always, looking forward to the rest of it!

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    3. I think where I'm coming from is, how many folks learn from previous problems. You hear about the panic buying every single year as the hurricane heads in, as if they didn't learn from the bare shelves last year. Same for winter storms or fires. I guess I', just too cynical, working retail through the panics. I probably am giving far too little credit to the average bear. I wouldn't be too surprised if that was the case. I am biased and not in favor of people. That can help you personally, but not in the forecasting business :) Don't take my grumbling personally-you raise valid points. Sorry if I came across as too argumentive.

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  5. Not at all Sir. I don't care much for people either, but every person that can take at least some responsibility for themselves is one less Ive got to be concerned about. My work background has made me jaded to where I view EVERYONE as either an asset or a liability in an emergency. The more assets around the easier my life is. I guess Id rather see half assed nitwits trying something rather than a bunch of fat assed nitwits screaming for help cuz they're too dumb to even consider the possibilities...and feel entitled to assistance simply cuz they exist.

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    1. I'd love to hate on those totally unaware, but human nature being what it is, it would be unfair. I think preppers are the ones who got a bit of education in the school of hard knocks, and there just aren't enough of those outside the ghetto's anymore ( who don't have the resources to be conventional preppers-they see their options as crime or gaming the system. A welfare queen is just a prepper in her environment. Not that she is aware of the system danger, just that she proactively betters herself as far as she is knowledgeable ). The system we have in place seems to invite obtuseness. I suppose that is another survival aspect from the elite. Buy off dissent. A version of giving the peasants a private lot where they can profit off of those crops. This could be a huge rabbit hole so I'll just stop. Good discussion.

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  6. Found this via Woodpile https://mydailykona.blogspot.com/2018/08/canada-retires-lee-enfield-after-114.html

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    1. You know what happened, right? They had enough spare parts to keep the guns running another fifty years, but they had to replace the retiring gunsmith/armorer with a diversity hire. Who screwed it all up. So they had to get new commercial guns.

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    2. After posting that link I read the replies and saw a reply you'd made.

      I wasn't aware about the gunsmith retiring. What a shame

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    3. Sorry, poor attempt at humor. I was making fun of unqualified folks taking over everywhere. I have no idea why they switched over.

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    4. That kind of truthiness is a good guess. I just experienced some ladies dumping valuable club assets (kareoke disks and players, bar glassware -new in box-, kitchen appliances, etc.) and anything else not secured that they couldn't understand. Nest building not-in-their-nest.

      I have had people fill dumpsters to avoid inventory or sorting. People of Color are famous for this (new items come with barcodes for automated inventory, like a the last job), but lazy bums of all types also.
      pdxr13

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  7. I consider our yearly one month off grid camping / hunting.
    To be just practice and equipment test. Not even a test of real off grid life. Yet far better than never doing it.
    Last year the hurricane hit us a couple weeks before the season opener. Dumping two feet of water where we normally would tent camping. So instead we got to practice at home without power.
    So far , the scouting looks good for this year. Dry enough to at least make an attempt...? Dragging all the equipment out this week to test...

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    1. Sailboats are designed for long-term independent operation, and are one of the finest examples of architectural strategy that turns the occupants into "crew" rather than guests. Instant responsibility, or things they want/need stop working (head, galley, heat, electricty-light-radio, fresh water, food, cooperation with rest of crew & captain). "boredom" is not a thing for "crew" as there are unlimited requirements that are not as up-to-date and redundant as possible (even though most systems are operational).

      If a bug out location were run on the same basis, it would soon run the county (upon power vacuum). A non-corrupt Captain/Dictator/King is not a bad system for people who who can't afford the waste of a democratic republic or are not suited for a republic.

      Especially, if the ladies swoon over the Great Leaders' hair.

      pdxr13

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    2. I can get behind the hair swooning part.

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