chew on this

CHEW ON THIS


Can you imagine the helpless bleating of the masses in Rome 1600 years ago? “Our mighty and just Emperor has always provided us with bread, we recent immigrants that have always been on the dole. Where, oh where is the bread now. No, no! Don’t kill me for the stewpot!!” Does any of that sound familiar? “Our mighty and righteous Obammy, King Spit Of The Muslim Immigrants, always taking care of a Brother, giving us free TV dinners and crack money. Where, oh where, is the petroleum drenched Corn Pellets now? No, no, don’t allow me to die in a dark and cold Section Eight hovel, awaiting the gangs who shall put me in the stewpot!!”. All that free welfare, biting you on the ass when Big Obammy/Caligula runs out of resources to placate you. The ghettos think they are in fat city, pulling one over on the taxpayers. You owe us, bitches. Pay mes my Food Stamps. Ah, the sweet smell of comeuppance in the morning. Hey, if that sickens you, go over to any Yuppie Survivalist website. You will still hear bleating and helpless murmuring at all times.

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Oh, the sickening reality of a lifetime of consumer debt catching up to you. What can a Carlos Cubical do, unable to afford a Glock, an AK, a FN-FAL and a years supply of freeze dried food for the entire extended family, not even with a raise and certainly not with his bitch whore of a ball and chain driving her Escalade to the mall for shoe shopping. Hell, she is probably smoking a rock with the pool boy and doing all the fun stuff with him, stuff you don’t even get on your birthday, since she can’t be going through that much cash without there being drugs involved. The Yuppie Survivalists have the same damn attitude as the worthless welfare bitches. Oh, I can’t possibly do enough, I’m doomed, verily, we shall perish after my seventy five pound bug out bag full of absolute crap like windshield glass chisel tools and digital water contaminant tester is all depleted and we still have a thousand miles to go to reach grandpas. Jesus Friggin Christ On A Pogo Stick. They can’t have ten years of freeze dried food, a mighty arsenal of every semi-auto ever made, a farm on a mountaintop, so they put together a pathetic bag of overweight consumer crap and hope they can escape the city in time. They are sitting on the largest pile of luxury crap in the entire history of mankind, so much extra that a family of five Neanderthals driving a sea of bison over the cliff into an ice pit for perpetual preservation would feel deprived in comparison, and they just whine and complain they can’t afford to buy the absolute best of everything. Who gives a crap if you can’t afford a $2,000 battle rifle, you can use a Russian bolt, comparable to our 30-06 bolt which served plenty of Doughboys competently ( baring my reservations on the design, it is still a damn cheap military arm with enough punch to kill most anything ). Who cares if you want to eat military and camping rations through the Apocalypse, cheap grain will keep you alive ( grain has rarely been this cheap historically, even after tripling in the last ten years ).

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They aren’t looking at things as they are and focusing on how they should be. The collapse picks up speed, and you worry you can’t do it all before you lose your job. So you do nothing much more than buying the cheapest semi you can find, a dozen mags, a thousand rounds of ammo and a case of MRE’s. What do they tell you about gardening? Don’t do too much at once. Start small and learn from your mistakes. If you go from zero experience to trying to plant an acre, you are overwhelmed and nothing gets done. Preps for the Apocalypse are the same way. If you go from total grid dependence, buying your food from a thousand miles away and being in debt to trying to build a concrete bunker retreat with an arsenal, feeding your clan the same food you eat now, you will be overwhelmed and nothing gets done. Even the smallest garden will help feed you, even if it can’t provide steak and grain it will give you potatoes and eggs from the chickens that provide bug control. You can expand the garden into a farm if time allows. A minimum Collapse stash will keep you alive. If it all comes apart tomorrow, and a few nukes in the Saudi main oil terminal can do it, you have a bare bones stash. It ain’t steak and fresh baked bread, but it is potatoes and eggs. Do not take your time getting the best of the best until you have first gotten the very basic rock bottom supplies. Then you don’t feel overwhelmed or panicky. ( yes, all covered many times- I just thought the gardening metaphor might actually bring the point home )

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On to another topic, does anyone have a bit of knowledge on the black powder electric ignition rifles? Again, I’d rather have a rimfire with scope than a black powder rifle, but the black powder rifle certainly has its advantages ( albeit in logistics rather than battlefield tactics ). If you could eliminate the ignition worries, then you would only have to worry about manufacturing the powder, plus it would fire in inclement weather just like a primer system ( the disadvantage of the primers is their difficulty in manufacture on a household scale ). I just saw these in the Sportsman’s Guide catalog and was intrigued. The brand is Electra, and it uses a sealed electric ignition from a 9v battery ( you could stock up on 9v rechargeable and a solar charger- the battery is good for hundreds of shots ). Are these any good? Too prone to failure? Not reliable long term? Feel free to put it all in a guest article. But a short comment will do also.

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