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Prepping is better than not prepping, but it’s not fail safe or perfect. From James Walton at askaprepper.com:

The fruits of prepping have gone mainstream. After the pandemic, the US toilet paper epidemic and the summer riots of 2020, it became clear the crazy preppers were not so crazy after all.

I talked to Business Insider and the New York Times who all wanted me to rub it in the face of the unprepared. Of course, I laughed at the idea.

As the world is navigating what could be the pretext for WWIII I find myself much less worried about the accolades of all that we preppers have achieved both for ourselves and for the nation at large. Instead, I am thinking about the ugly truths of prepping and what to expect next.

Let’s take a closer look at some of those ugly truths.

It Might All Be For Nothing

by Al Benson Jr.

Often public school officials brag loudly that “they do it all for he kids.” Some of them may honestly believe that. It’s what they have been taught to say and if they just say it long enough it becomes fact in their minds and they just parrot the line to (they hope) believing parents and they come off sounding like paragons of self-sacrificing virtue. If you have ever witnessed striking public school teachers in Chicago marching in the streets asking for more money just a few days before school starts in the Fall you know it’s a lot of horse puckey. If you have ever seen the wage scales of teachers in some cities you realize self-sacrifice has nothing whatever to do with it in many cases.

Samuel Blumenfeld, in his book “NEA–Trojan Horse in American Education” has lowered the boom on all this self-sacrifice twaddle…

As many in the Firearms Community are aware, yesterday, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) issued a somewhat vague Open Letter to all Federal Firearm Licensees (FFLs), dated March 22, 2022, declaring that it considers some – without specification – forced reset triggers (FRTs) to be machineguns. (Who didn’t see this coming given their absurd position on bumpstocks?!?!)

The Open Letter declares

These particular FRTs are being marketed as replacement triggers for AR-type firearms. Unlike traditional triggers and binary triggers (sometimes referred to generally as “FRTs”), the subject FRTs do not require shooters to pull and then subsequently release the trigger to fire a second shot. Instead, these FRTs utilize the firing cycle to eliminate the need for the shooter to release the trigger before a second shot is fired. By contrast, some after-market triggers have similar components but also incorporate a disconnector or similar feature to…

If you live in Florida, you need to memorize that name. Florida now has a three day wait for the purchase of a rifle. If you are under 21, your rights to own a gun are denied. Your firearms may be taken without due process according to legislation written and passed by Lord Simpson. Simpson is now the heir apparent to the soon to be opened Agricultural Commissioner seat. In Florida this is a very powerful position and Floridians need to say no to the man who is fighting against their gun rights.

You can contact the Wilton Simpson campaign here: https://wiltonsimpson.com/contact/

“The greatest tyrannies are always perpetrated in the name of the noblest causes.”—Thomas Paine

The government wants your money.

It will beg, steal or borrow if necessary, but it wants your money any way it can get it.

The government’s schemes to swindle, cheat, scam, and generally defraud taxpayers of their hard-earned dollars have run the gamut from wasteful pork barrel legislation, cronyism and graft to asset forfeiture, costly stimulus packages, and a national security complex that continues to undermine our freedoms while failing to making us any safer.

Americans have also been made to pay through the nose for the government’s endless wars, subsidization of foreign nations, military empire, welfare state, roads to nowhere, bloated workforce, secret agencies, fusion centers, private prisons, biometric databases, invasive technologies, arsenal of weapons, and every other budgetary line item that is contributing to the fast-growing wealth of the corporate elite at the expense…

A friend of mine sent me this video today and I thought it would be interesting to study it and see what we can learn.

This particular fight took place in Kherson, Ukraine on 24 February. The location is on the north side of the Dnepr river at the Antonovskiy bridge crossing, grid 36TVS 785 697. If you have Google earth fire it up and go to the location by copying and pasting the grid into the search bar.

Personally, the video itself could have been done better. The first time I watched it I was confused on what I was looking at, but at about 13:20 the maker gives a good description of what was going on prior to the video which helps a lot. As you watch the video it’s useful to note that north is the left side of the screen, east the…

This is a helluva speech, by Tricia Lindsay: