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Thur. July 8, 2021 – flyin’ by…

Hot and humid, chance of rain. Might be sunny. Yadda yadda. Well, yesterday started cool, got hotter, got sunnier, and then ended hot and sticky. Lots of mosquitos in the yard too.

We are working on housebreaking the new puppy, which means sitting outside while he sniffs the entire yard looking for the perfect spot to NOT do his business, until we give up and let him back in the house. Then within a minute, he’ll have soiled something… so I’m getting reacquainted with sitting in the sun in the yard, swatting bugs. Joy.

Spent the day mostly not getting stuff done. I did get pickups done at two different auctions. One was half household stuff, the other half stuff for my non-prepping hobby, the other was all household. Got a tiny little dog life jacket for the new little guy. Fits him, and is even a bit big. He doesn’t like it at all, but if we ever find some lake property, we’ll need it. Got some pink safety glasses for the girls in my wife’s troops. If they’re gonna do woodworking with saws, hammers, and screwguns, they need safety gear. Got some small sized gloves for them too.

I did not get daughter two signed up for a day at the rock climbing gym today, but will get her in for tomorrow. She likes the gym and they had lots of day camps there the summer before wuflu. I will try to send the puppy to day care too. That should break me loose to actually do some work. And I REALLY need to get some auction stuff ready.

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Meanwhile, I think I’m starting to see the shape of the rest of the summer. The Dems in DC are establishing offices in other states for the DC police. Federal police force expansion cued up in 3, 2, 1 …

Chicago will ask for fedgov police or troops as the murders and lawlessness continue to get worse. They already have gangbangers trying to kill each other in the street with ARs firing 3 rnd bursts from 100 rnd Beta mags in broad daylight. I watched the video with my own eyes. Cops are saying “F this noise” and leaving or retiring on the job.

If Chicago falls, NYFC will be the next to ask for help. Cops in NYC are doing the same thing as cops in Chicago and elsewhere. Ie, leaving.

Whoever DC sends will just be more targets for the ‘bangers and revolutionaries who are already targeting cops (at least 3 that I can think of off the top of my head before the triple shooting in Chicago this week.)

NYC and Chicago are already blaming legal gun owners, and the gun manufacturers for the “gun” violence. The word they should be using starts with a “g” but rhymes with “bang”, and not “fun”. They’ll try to crack down even harder on the people who traditionally have just shut up and taken it. Only I don’t think they will this time.

Which should lead to even more sportiness, which the pro agitators will be sure to take advantage of. Their cadre has been blooded now, cycled away from the ‘front’ to share their experiences, and to gear up for the next wave. They haven’t gone home to tend their gardens and make war no more. They’re waiting, organizing, and equipping for the next skirmish.

Then there is the question of outside interference. Some people are concerned that China has used the foreign exchange student programs to pre-position tens of thousands of troops here already. We have a failed narco state to our south, that can move drugs, people, and guns over our border with impunity. THEIR fifth columnists are fully emplaced, dispersed to every city and town in the US, ready to provide an organized force either directly or as harassers. They are savage and have an ideological framework based on the Reconquista, and La Raza movements. If and when they are unleashed, the streets will run with blood and cities will burn.

There are many forces at work, they sense the weakness. Some of them have worked to create the weakness for decades. They’re looking at the fat, bloated, drug- addled Elvis, and they’re ready to kill the King and divide up the kingdom. My only hope is that we’ve been getting ready too, and no matter how much family fights, they all turn on the outsider.

The economy isn’t going to survive something like that. Personal violence is going to go through the roof. The economic engine of the world will stop, and then the whole world is in a world of hurt.

The elephants are dancing. I hope all the mice have a nice little bolt hole ready to hide in. If they don’t, what’s stopping you? Get to stacking.

nick

Thur. June 17, 2021 – too much left to do, no time

Warm and wet, with possible tropical storm pushing up from the Gulf. Not that I was right about yesterday. It was hot. And it was humid. But it was also clear and sunny for almost the whole day. There were some glowering clouds in the distance late evening, and some lightning, but no rain for me. It was 80F at 1 am.

I spent the day doing some auction stuff, cleaning and organizing, and playing with the puppy. I wanted to get out of the house but couldn’t drop the kids at the pool, which ended up with me stuck at home all day.

I don’t think I can get my stuff ready for the pallet auction before I leave on the trip. I was hoping my wife could work from home today, but she’s got in-person meetings all day. I can’t even do ebay listings because I’d have to stop them in a day anyway to go out of town. It is very frustrating, and I feel like I’m falling behind.

I KNOW I’m falling behind, but I’m not willing to have my family travel without me either. Spending time with my mom is kinda important too. It’s getting closer to just calling a haul off company time…

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The world situation is changing quickly too. There should be no doubt in the G7 about where the US is, and is headed, assuming the coup plotters can keep a lid on the dissent. No one really knows when or if that will happen. What is radical islam doing? What are they plotting for us? China, Turkey, Russia, all licking their lips and rubbing their hands together about something…

Some things I’ll be watching for- our allies now know we are F’ed internally. They either know who is really running Joe, and approve, or they are realizing they will be on their own (as we turn inward). If the UK increases their military posture, brings troops and assets home, that might be a pretty good indicator which it is. Germany and France have their own internal issues but they should be positioning themselves for whatever they see coming, and soon. When was the last time we heard about bank stress tests, IMF loans, European central banks, and negative interest rates? Remember the concern over the PIIGS? Think they are in better shape after a year of wuflu lockdowns?

Estonia is probably pretty nervous right now. We moved a bunch of assets into the Baltics, iirc, what are they up to now?

Israel and the middle east is up for grabs at the moment, or will be soon.

I expect a bunch of realignment in the next year. And while I’d normally be a kind of ‘let them deal with their own issues’ if it happens because of our weakness, I am concerned that it won’t end with them.

So if you needed more reasons to stack, there you are. Stack it high. Can’t hurt. Might save your life.

nick

Sun. May 2, 2021 – [singing] Do-oo-oomsday, it’s always a day a-way! [music playing]

Moderate, rainy, with periods of clear. Like yesterday.

My wife had periods of good weather at camp too, and the timing worked well with their activities. They have been having a great time. I’ve just been dodging raindrops all day.

I spent the day mostly indoors, other than getting two pickups done. Cleaning supplies, and birthday presents, bought before need. And 8 new in box zippo lighters. Genuine made in the US zippos, for <$2 each. Yeah, I had to drive to get them. Drove to get the other stuff too, though so the marginal cost was low. Our ability to make fire separates us from the animals, right? So anything that helps with that is a good thing. (Although any wick based lighter will dry out if left alone, so they are not good for a 'stock it and leave it' bag or stash- use butane for that.) One thing I had a chance to catch up on is the last couple of essays by Sarah Hoyt. I’ve linked to her before. Her mood seems to fluctuate, and she has written about battles with depression, so there is always that to consider, but she has a way with words, and as an immigrant and naturalized citizen, she’s got a different history and perspective than most people on the right side of the blogosphere. Always worth reading. Anyway, her last two are much more specific and pessimistic than usual, and even I find myself shaking my head and saying “that can’t be right”. But it might be.

Specifically she’s writing about the Biden EO that has gotten a bit of coverage on the right, and how it sets up the ‘legal’ structure to unperson, bankrupt, and starve anyone they can pin the ‘russian agent’ tag on. American Thinker wrote about it too. It’s titled “Executive Order on Blocking Property with Respect to Specified Harmful Foreign Activities of the Government of the Russian Federation “. Consider it in light of this section describing who can be determined to be at fault- “(F) activities that undermine the peace, security, political stability, or territorial integrity of the United States, its allies, or its partners;”.

Couple that with this restriction “Sec. 2. The prohibitions in section 1 of this order include:
(a) the making of any contribution or provision of funds, goods, or services by, to, or for the benefit of any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order; and
(b) the receipt of any contribution or provision of funds, goods, or services from any such person.”

That is some pretty broad language. We know rule of law is dead, so don’t expect any meaningful challenges to this EO. The penalty for helping or taking money from the unpersoned is to have the order applied to you and your FAMILY too.

Read the whole thing at the Whitehouse . gov. It’s short.

Remember that the people who hid Anne Frank and her family were breaking the law, and the person who turned her in was following it.

Prepare yourself for what will happen when people begin to be affected by this EO. And if it could apply to you, or be MADE to apply to you, prepare for that too.

You probably don’t have enough stuff stacked, or sturdy friends. I am pretty sure I don’t. Keep stacking.

nick

(It’s always a day a-way…. until it’s not. Slowly, then all at once.)

Thur. April 22, 2021- the rules changed.

Cool and wet, possible rain. Yesterday was so nice though. So very nice and clear, moderate temps, and sunny… I don’t know how many more we’ll get like that.

I packed my day full of errands, and I did them this time. Two pickups, very near to each other, then on the way back, stops at my secondary (to unload some stuff), my rent house (to install the fridge), another auctioneer (to drop off sale items and pick up a check), and finally back home to get kid2 from school on time.

After that, I hit the grocery store for $330 worth of food security.

I don’t have quite as much on the schedule for today, nor are the times as tight, but I do hope to get a few things done.

I am getting the feeling that I might need to take some more drastic steps to clear out ‘stuff’ around the house. The plan was to start doing my own auctions, but it’s taking a long time and time is feeling short. I need to think on this a bit.

Time feels short because I think the rules have changed for how the world works. The interwebs are full of people saying that the difference between how antifa/blm and MAGA day in DC are treated, the outcome of the Chauvin trial, and a wide variety of other events show that Rule of Law or ROL is dead in the US. The corpse is still twitching, but it’s dead. People are saying that, but I don’t think they are following through and thinking about the rest of what that means. What you do and how you react to a country WROL* is going to be THE critical thing going forward.

Someone in the comments over at Sarah Hoyt’s place had this to say (minor edits for clarity)…

The rules changed.

All over the ‘net people are saying and saying and re-saying that ROL is dead in the US. Surprise! It’s been dead for a while now, and every case like this just exposes that to more Normies. So stop and think about what that means. Rule of Law is DEAD. Internalize that. REALLY internalize that. You (general ‘you’) have to start dealing with that idea. They can and will do whatever they want to us at any point that we come to their attention. No one will come to save us. No one will blow the ceiling and fast rope down to rescue us at the last minute.

What does history teach us about times like this? You must be ready to denounce the people that come to ‘their’ attention. You must expect your friends and relations to denounce YOU when they come for you. Why would you want them dragged to the gulag (real or virtual) along with you? If you want to have a chance at changing anything you have to remain free and effective. Your friends LIKEWISE have to remain free to act.

There won’t be any gofundme to replace a conservative’s burned out house. No gofundme to heal his daughter after she’s raped at school because her father is a ‘bad’ man and she deserves it. No gofundme to replace the lost job that feeds that daughter (and buys the guns and ammo and armor and radios and medical and every other needful thing.) There is no underground to move your family to safety after the mob catches you alone. There is no established safe haven for you to flee to. There is no way to start over in a new place with a new name once panopticon focuses on YOU and your family (seriously, look at any kid moved to a new school because of bullying or any other issue, the kids have the new kid doxed eight ways to Sunday within hours.)

The other thing that history teaches us is that This Too Shall Pass. You (Sarah) have even written about it here. They can’t hold it together. The Third Reich fell. The Soviet Union fell. Communist Cuba is going to fall. People SURVIVED those times and those places. They may have even acted to hasten the fall if they were able. There were lots who didn’t survive, and some of them included the principled, the committed, and ultimately the futile sacrifice.

[I don’t intend to sacrifice myself for an ideal, especially given the current legal environment.]

My daughter wants her Daddy. I want to be here to guide and protect her thru what’s coming. I can’t do that if I’m dead or destitute. It’d be cold comfort for her to know that her father loved an ideal more than her. I’d love to think she’d rally around my banner, but the more likely outcome is hating me for leaving her alone in the Brave New World, or only marginally less worse, raised by her lefty Kennedy worshiping [east coast] grandparents to hate me for leaving her alone.

The rules have changed. If we don’t survive, there won’t be anyone left to rebuild what was lost.

I intend to survive this.

Something to think about. While you’re stacking needful things.

nick

*this in no way means “without consequences”. The consequences of your actions are potentially more severe than ever.

Fri. Mar. 26, 2021 – weird used to intrigue me, not so much anymore…

Pleasant and cool, with sun and a breeze. A lot like yesterday once the overcast blew out.

Spent the whole day indoors. Kept plugging away at stuff in my office, and getting stuff ready for the auction. Ended up rescheduling my dropoff for today when I realized I had a bunch of small items that all needed me to mess with them a bit before sending them, but that the money difference made it worthwhile. So I cranked through a bunch of minor repairs, in between moving stuff around and doing my normal interweb things. And poking at my NVR… and doing the paperwork for my passport renewal… and other paperwork too. Not what I was hoping to do but progress on a number of smaller goals.

Oh yeah, and spent an hour watching the President give a short speech and then get a tongue bath from the press. Oh there were a couple of questions that sent him drifting off the rails, but OMG, one of them managed to sanctify him and damn Trump in the same breath.

I’ll admit there were a few times when he was saying stuff that sounded good, like actually providing a partial demographic breakdown of the illegals. But that was mostly when he started to drift off message, and then he would just stop mid sentence and switch gears. And there were flat out lies, misdirections, and contradictory statements following each other.

He looked less feeble than some other times, but his eyes and eyebrows are very strange, he had trouble controlling his speaking volume (considering all the practice a half century of “public service” has given him), and he needed extensive notes. It was the longest I’ve seen him go without someone hovering near his elbow or just barely close enough to catch him if he falls. Normally he’s got at least one person watching him like he was a toddler walking the top rail of a fence.

He played a couple of weird moments for laughs, and I don’t know if they were intended to be funny or if he just saved a gaffe. Some of those things are being quoted without context. I’d like to THINK he’s an affable guy, playing the fool for laughs, but I suspect that’s not what was happening.

To top it all off, he shuffles his feet like he can’t lift them normally, and he’s got a couple of weird tics that I associate with age and confusion. I wasn’t looking to be impressed, and I wasn’t. The whole business about whether or not he’d run next time was especially weird. It’s like he doesn’t expect to be around for that, so why bother? I agree with him on that.

He’s a train wreck. Called Putin names. Called other countries’ leaders thieves. Promised more gun control, more government spending on stuff the private sector does better, bragged about the crusts he tossed to the peons, forgetting that it was THEIR money to start with. Bagged on the rich, trotted out the old lines about greedy bigcorps not paying taxes, plugged the unions, all the normal playbook. On the plus side, I didn’t have to hear Kamel laugh.

It’s getting weird out there folks. Something’s gonna give. And it’s a lot easier to break than build. Get the stuff you need now, while you can, if you can. And stack it high.

nick

Sat. Mar. 20, 2021 – no rest for the wicked

Sunny, clear, and cool again. Boy it was nice yesterday, if a bit on the cool side. 50s and 60s and even 70s are great with the clear sky and sun.

I did my pickups then hurried home to meet with the electrician. He took a look at what I had and he’ll be getting back to us with a price for the install. One unfortunate discovery, I misread the data plate all those years ago. The capacity of the gennie is 1/2 of what I thought, so while it is more than my portables, and runs on natgas, and is liquid cooled, it won’t run as much of the house as I’d like. It will do, and we’ll continue with the install, but it was disappointing. (in almost every case, when a plate says 240v and 100A, that is 100A for each leg of the 240v. Not in this case. They are calling out 100A ACROSS both legs, or 50A per leg. It’s a beast of a machine to only have that capacity. Very strange. )

Today I’ve got to do my pickups, then head over to my secondary and do some more cleaning and throwing out. It’s past time that I was able to move a bunch of stuff there, and I need to get back onto that task.

On the national scene, President Biden stumbled and fell three times while climbing the stairs to Airforce One. The video looks bad. I know Presidents have stumbled on the steps before. There is very little you can do to make it look good. But holy cow it looked bad. Add that to some sort of shenanigans involving digital additions to footage, and it hasn’t been a great week for Biden the weak. Also consider last week or the week before when his strongest allies, and the people who presumably know him best, moved to take away his ability to make war, and he seemed ok with that.

Watch the videos, what few there are, and note that he’s got a ‘minder’ just a few steps away in every shot. It’s his VP in far more shots than any other President I can recall. Usually, the VP was a compromise and the POTUS keeps them much further than arm’s length away. It’s all very strange.

I might have to try and retcon my prediction that he wouldn’t make it TO March into ‘he wouldn’t make it THROUGH March’…

He’s famous for his gaffes (and what a qualification for POTUS!) but still… he’s referred to his VP as “President” Harris at least twice on camera. He even tossed off the comment that if they disagreed on policy, he’d ‘fake an illness and retire’. I watched that video with my own eyes.

Now he’s picking a fight with Putin? Putin, who issued some VERY specific and odd statements about Biden’s health, and who challenged Biden to a live debate, but it had to be ‘live with no delays and soon’.

Things are getting weird folks, seriously weird. When I don’t know what’s going on, I tend toward an over abundance of caution. And in this case that makes me want to double my food storage. And buy guns. Lots of guns and ammo. Repair kits. Spare parts. Accessories. Water treatment and filters. Meds. Wound care supplies. Canning jars and seeds. Boots. All sorts of things.

Stack all the things!

Stay frosty.

nick

Sun. Jan. 17, 2021 – working the plan

Cold and clear today, same as yesterday.

34F when I went to bed, supposed to be LOW of 36F according to the weather liars.

Did my stuff yesterday, got most of it done. The big disappointment was the sump pump battery backup. No battery. Still, I’ve got batteries and the rest is ok.

Today the family is driving 3 hours north to look at some property on a lake. I really like the looks of the property, wooded, two lots totaling 11 acres (one on the lake, one behind that lot) right up close to a national forest. The house is really odd, and the lake has some restrictions that my wife doesn’t love. The question is, bug out location or vacation lake house? Which is primary? We’ll see. Events elsewhere may push my wife more toward BOL.

I don’t know what’s happening in DC but it’s got the whole country nervous as hell. At least the half that pays attention. LOTS of people are paying a whole lot more attention now. Several people on my rounds today were watching carefully and there is a lot of head shaking once you engage with them.

And that’s just one reason why KNOWING where you can go if you have to go is essential. Currently, I don’t plan to leave, and that’s mostly because I don’t have anywhere to go. It’s also because no matter what happens, Texas is probably a good place to be. I’m thinking Chicago, Baltimore, Philly, DC, all the usual suspects are NOT going to be good places to be. If you live in a sh!thole city, you might want to consider a plan that is just “that Bayfront motel at the intersection of x and y” in a small town 3 hours away, with a storage unit and some minimal sustainment supplies. That would be a huge step in the right direction. It might not hurt to have that storage unit in a company name, prepaid for a while, either.

In fact, maybe working out a list of what I’d stash in the smallest available storage unit would be a good idea. You can fit a lot in 4 or 8 black tubs.

Get to thinkin’. Get to stackin’.

nick

Thur. Jan. 14, 2021 – time keeps on slippin’, into the future…

Cool to cold, clear, really really hope for no rain. We are supposed to continue clear for a couple of days.

Wednesday was light jacket and long pants, but nice and sunny and clear. I hit a couple of errands, mainly checking in with my gun store buddy (he’s frazzled) and doing some pulling and organizing in one storage unit. That was in preparation to taking another load to auction today, and maybe another to the other auction tomorrow.

I really want to sell as much as possible before the shooting starts.

And I don’t see any way around the shooting starting. I could outline why but I think you all know what I’d say by now. Anyone who sees a path that doesn’t rely on the right either being all mouth and no ass, or being VERY restrained (and what’s the chance of that with covid cabin fever raging) feel free to lay it out below. The left is demonstrating daily that they can’t wait to fire up the midnight raids and start running camps. Not right away of course, but it will get there. Look what they’re doing to Trump and people who have political power and money. When they’re talking casually about taking kids away from their parents so that they can be re-educated, and it’s not Ted Kazinski in a cabin in the woods but respected people in management of everyday institutions like PBS, I think that’s indicative of worldview and mindset. It’s pretty much opposite of mine, and I’m not going to meet them halfway on that. The masks are coming off and the ugliness is astonishing.

Once the shooting starts, I expect supply chains to literally blow up. The great TP shortage of 2020 is going to look like shopping at Walmart by comparison. I didn’t expect things to get started so quickly and I have revised my expectations accordingly. While there will be ebbs and flows in the pace of incidents, I expect some soon, and MUCH worse than I originally thought. I’m not thinking about the Monkey Wrench Gang so much as angry mobs tearing stuff up and burning stuff down. 100 John Lee Malvos, not one. 100 Timothy McVeighs not one. As icing on the cake, normal crime is spiking and will continue and increase while the authorities are otherwise occupied. You may never see an insurgent,but I bet you’ll see home invasions, robberies, rapes, assaults, car jackings, etc increase dramatically.

Maybe it won’t happen that way. I don’t want it to. Maybe it will be worse. Maybe it will take longer. I don’t see the emotions going away and it doesn’t take much to disrupt our world. And CV-19 is still killing people. How many of those 20K guardsmen will be infected, and bring it back to their communities when they de-mob? Wonder if they’ll call it a super spreader event and blame Trump? Nah, couldn’t happen.

Keep stacking. It isn’t gonna be ‘back to normal’ anytime soon, if ever.

nick

Wed. Jan. 13, 2021 – Friday the 13th comes on a Wednesday this month

Cold,but warming up, clear and dry.

Yesterday stayed cool after a very cold start. It was dry but so cool, stuff didn’t really dry out. Today it’s coming down no matter what. Time to get the yard decor in.

Spent most of yesterday afternoon driving around for pickups. Got a couple of gub accessories, a major piece of our ongoing bathroom project, and gallons of hand sanitizer. Some other cleaning and plumbing stuff too.

My dog is looking a bit better. We’ve been jamming food into him whenever he’ll eat. He was pretty perky when the chicken breast came out for his dinner tonight, but he is spending most of his time sleeping or just lying down. His two repaired knee joints can’t be feeling great with the cold and damp, mine certainly don’t. Pain killers seem to be in order, but my wife isn’t seeing outward signs of pain and she’s worried about drug interactions so today I hope she’ll get the reassurance she needs from the vet.

I wish there was someone I could call and get some assurance the country will even make it to the inauguration. They are moving VERY fast to tie up their ‘win’ and shut down opposition before it can really get going. They definitely don’t want Trump around as a rallying point or gadfly for the next four years. They want him tied up, locked up, or buried. The absolute perfect setup for a false flag attack is coming up and I’m very concerned. They are already laying the groundwork.

The tech companies are lining up to serve their new masters. Go Daddy should be treated like a landlord, along with all the other registrars and hosts. It should be illegal for them to discriminate, if it’s not already. AR15.com was just the first, they won’t be the last. Go Daddy is my personal registrar and host, and I need some advice on someone solid to use instead. I’ve got stuff renewing soon that I would like to move. It sucks because I’ve been a fan of theirs since they started outside of Tempe AZ all those years ago, and a customer for over a decade. I have several inactive domains, one work domain with email, one family domain with hosted WP site (that could go away if the domain stayed.) The business domain and email are the most important things to me. I would like to hang on to all the domains, but I’m getting tired of paying for privacy. Most are .com, with a couple variations to protect my name and business name. I just registered the flandrey domains as backup, and now I need to move them. FFS.

I see a real lack of contingency planning around a Trump loss on the right. Doesn’t inspire confidence. The Republican party reaction doesn’t surprise me at all though. Trump was never a party Republican. They never wanted him and can’t wait to get rid of him. He threatened a lot of rice bowls (hah, see what I did to amuse you, china! FTW!) Just how many of our congressmen and business leaders are married or shacked up with chinese women anyway?

If people do push back, and someone will, it’s going to get REALLY ugly real quick. Too many 3 letters are already corrupted and working against conservatives (remember the IRS and charitable status?). The rest will jump on the bandwagon if it gets going. That won’t be fun.

Priorities should be having the basics to cover an extended period of disruptions. In EVERY account I’ve read of war or prolonged conflict, the people end up eating grass because they’ve eaten everything else. After food, water, meds, and defense, comms are going to be an issue. Samizdat is going to be making a comeback, albeit in new forms. Beyond that, I can’t really say. Everything technological is subject to eavesdropping, well poisoning, and the equivalent of direction finding. There are a lot of clever people out there and something will rise to the surface. If you think I’m nuts, I’ve got literally a page of headlines from this week alone that suggest otherwise, so you’ll have to do more than make assertions. I was listening to NPR on the radio while driving around and even THEY can see that a civil war is imminent.

I’m continuing with my life as normal, kids’ school, house remodel, ebay sales, because going dark is just as telling as going active. I’ve always done my prepping alongside my normal life anyway. And there is no point in shutting down-the internet archives, and the three lette r s have been hoovering up data the whole time.

We’re barely two weeks into 2021 and it’s already insane. Avoid crowds. Don’t get on the bus. Stack it high and deep, and in more than one place.

nick

~800 words, right on schedule.

Sun. Jan. 10, 2021 – it continues to get worse

Cold. Supposed to be rainy.

Yesterday was cool to cold all day but was sunny and dry.

I did get my pickup done, and went by my secondary to do some more clean up and to get ready to go back over there later today.

Then I got home and looked at the news, and HOLY FREAKING HELL. The control freaks are moving FAST. EVERYONE should be condemning this. What goes around comes around, and someone once said, never ask for a power for yourself that you wouldn’t like your worst enemy have. I guess they think this is the end of history. In their mad rush to power, and you can’t really describe it as anything else, they are doing even more damage to the social norms that made this country great and they are glorying in it. Does no one see the parallels to the worst regimes in history?

We were sliding down the slope toward the cliff, but now they are running as fast as they can towards it. NO WAY does this end well. The boot is coming down. If you think I’m crazy, or overly dramatic, please make your case in the comments. NOT just assertions. An actual reasoned case. I’d LOVE some reassurance right now. Every thing they’ve done in the last few days makes it even more certain that there is no way to avoid the violence and bloodshed.

Speaking of avoiding bloodshed, where is the Elder Statesman ™ hoof in mouth Joe urging calm, praising free speech, lauding tolerance, and taking control of the party? Are you really gonna love his presidency? All 3 months of it? Was getting rid of Trump worth empowering Pelosi? Waters? Kammella? Look up Pyrrhic Victory so you’ll understand what you’ve done, when there is nothing left worth fighting over.

Anyone actually had eyes on Trump in the last day or two? Is the staff at his home gearing up? Secret Service barracks getting a good brush up? Something ain’t right. He should be spitting nails.

And are we really going to let them gaslight the nation? There was NO call for insurrection, let alone a call for ARMED insurrection. There were 10s of thousands of people at that rally that did NOTHING MORE than stand around on the grass. Where is the video of demagogue Trump calling for armed insurrection? If they had anything at all we’d be seeing it non-stop to convict him in the press.

Anyone out there who was still on the fence about whether conservative voices were being suppressed in the public square should be pretty well convinced of the truth of it now. Kinda too late though. They will come for you though eventually, given enough time. It’s what they do. What they ALWAYS do.

Anyone who couldn’t see the hypocrisy of the left should see it clearly now. A baker has to serve all customers, but twitter/facebook/amazon/go daddy don’t. They can object to words, and not even the customer’s words, but third party words their customer can’t/won’t/ and SHOULDN’T police* and deny them the same service they offer to others. Many of those others engage in much more violent rhetoric, so we know that words about violence are not the issue. No one is more filled with hate than the leadership of Iran, and yet they still have a voice. Violent leftist thugs use social media to organize rioting and crime sprees, raise funds, and spread their message of hate for others without censure from the ‘platforms.’

Remember the bit about how things change very slowly until they change all at once? People ended their work day Friday, and when they start back up tomorrow, look at the change. Consider the last year. And consider the last week. Seriously take a step back and look at it, thing about what you were doing at various points, and what you were reading about. Compare that to today, where ONE GUY has decided that he can and should control what the President of the United States gets to say and who he gets to say it to. That’s some big balls, but he’s getting away with it for now. And when the President DOES try to move in the ‘free market’ to another, friendlier platform that would welcome him? Nope. Sorry not sorry. We don’t want your kind in our place, and we don’t want your kind in any other place either.

The media blitz has been so intense, that even through the tiny little hole that I use to view it, there were a couple of times when I thought “what if this, or what if that?” and then I thought about the people involved, and thought “almost got me, but then I remembered who you were”. If it could happen to me, it’s happening to others too. Help your friends, ask them questions to lead them to it, telling them won’t help at all. * *

When I looked up this quote (I do do SOME fact checking/research/confirmations while writing) I found that Trump re-tweeted it after he was exonerated in the impeachment sham. “When you strike at the King, you must kill him.” -RWEmerson. That was February. How unfortunate and ironic then that Trump struck at King Deep State, but didn’t kill him.

I’ll have a bunch to say about prepping issues coming up. There is nothing this mouse can do now that the elephants are dancing, except to stock my bolthole and pull my head in (figuratively, and a bit literally).

Don’t forget that we are in the midst of a massive increase in sick people too. The wuflu hasn’t gone away, and while the percentage is small, when enough people get it, even that tiny percentage with bad issues will get to be a really big number.

And I discovered that the NSAID I take daily for back pain is a fever suppressor as well, so I probably shouldn’t be quite so sanguine about my lack of fever when I’m coughing and headache-y.

In the mean time, avoid crowds, figure out what you have and what you need, and get to work stacking up needful things.

nick

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** “Why on earth would the capitol cops move the barricades and let the people in if there was a riot? Why wasn’t one of the most important and secure areas of our government guarded on this day of all days? Why would someone as experience and seasoned as Pelosi leave her computer on and logged in if she was afraid the building would be overrun? How many fires were there? How many businesses were burned to the ground and looted during this ‘riot’? Why are the headlines suggesting the rioters killed 4 people when two were medical emergencies -a stroke and a heart attack- one was an unarmed woman killed by cops, and the fourth was accidentally trampled or crushed in a crowd?” Any one of these should plant a seed.