While it’s true that doomsday prepping is pointless, prepping for emergencies is not pointless at all.
I live in Texas. Every year since the big storm of 2021, there is a mad dash for the grocery stores and camping stores in case it happens again.
What do I do? Nothing. I’ve already prepped with non-perishables and other things in case we go through that scenario again.
I “gray person” through life, so there are no angry swarms of people who will steal my things. Instead, I’ve made friends with my neighbors, and we look out for each other.
I tell my worried relatives who live elsewhere that I will be fine—and I am.
If the world ends, there’s not much I can do. But for natural disasters and emergencies, there is a lot I can do—so that is why I prep.
Armed men belonging to the Gran Grif gang have killed at least 70 people, including three infants, and forced at least 3000 to flee as they swept through a Haitian town shooting automatic rifles at residents, the United Nations says.
“We are horrified by Thursday’s gang attacks in the town of Pont-Sonde in Haiti’s Artibonite department,” UN spokesman Thameen Al-Kheetan said in a statement.
At least another 16 people were seriously injured in the attack in the early hours of Thursday (local time), including two gang members hit during an exchange of fire with Haitian police, according to the UN.
The gang members reportedly set fire to at least 45 houses and 34 vehicles, forcing residents to flee their homes.
The killings are the latest sign of a worsening conflict in the Caribbean country, where armed gangs control most of the capital Port-au-Prince and are expanding to nearby regions, fuelling hunger and making hundreds of thousands homeless, while nearby countries continue to deport migrants back to the country.
“This odious crime against defenceless women, men and children is not only an attack against victims but against the entire Haitian nation,” Prime Minister Garry Conille said on X.
People in parts of the Carolinas, Tennessee, and other storm-stricken states are standing their ground as looting reports flood X. This dire situation highlights the harsh reality that when disaster strikes and the government is nowhere to be found, being prepared and armed will save your life.
Eight illegal aliens were arrested in the eastern part of Tennessee for looting following the tropical system that unleashed flash floods in Washington County. Maybe these migrants were searching 'for bread' to feed their families... We suspect not.
The other five men — Albin Nahun Vega-Rapalo, 24, David Bairon Rapalo-Rapalo, 37, Kevin Noe Martinez-Lopez, 25, Marvin Hernandez-Martinez, 43, and Dayln Gabriel Guillen Guillen, 37 — were charged with aggravated burglary for breaking into occupied structures, the sheriff's office said. -NYPost.
Just north of Greenville in western North Carolina, a video uploaded on TikTok, then X, of realtor Leigh Brown, who warned, "The looting has picked up major steam," adding, "I was advised by a county sheriff to make sure that anybody out and about is 'carrying' and in his words 'carrying with the safety off.'"
Brown said the people out in the storm-ravaged area might not be "awful people, they're desperate" as their homes and towns were wiped off the face of the map by 'biblical floods.'
We are also getting a taste of how a collapse will play out. As Fast has said in the past, the food zombies and gun toting gangs who will stop at nothing to take stuff away from you and your families.
It's already playing out in parts of Colorado and Chicago. Violent Venezuelan gangs have taken over neighborhoods in Aurora Colorado. They are now the landlords and demand rent money because they chased away the real landlords. The problem is, the MSM refuses to bring it to light, the police don't respond and the government says all of that isn't true, that it's being blown out of proportion.
Except it isn't because the Bidet Administration allowed these violent gang members to enter the US via the southern border and these violent gangs are spreading into major US cities run.
You illustrate many of the reasons I am not a prepper.
Some years ago I worked in an Ace hardware store and met a prepper. His list of needs pretty much tipped me off, so I asked him, and he confessed he was preparing for collapse. Like me, he was getting a bit long in the tooth, and inevitably that leads to dependency on pharmaceuticals to artificially extend our lifespans. When I asked him if he was on blood pressure medication, he responded he was, and a number of other critical meds, too. I asked him how he was going to procure these medications in a post collapse world.
This reinforces my opinion of most humans being just plain stupid.
This clown fears collapse and death... so he preps... meanwhile he is unwilling to do anything about a lifestyle that has resulted in life-threatening high blood pressure. Sheesh. I wonder if he knows how to tie his shoe laces.
I am reminded of a Pro Vaxxer moron (and former friend cuz he mocked me for not shooting the Rat Juice)... he guzzles a bottle and a half of wine every single night ... pretty much subsists on frozen meat pies.... and has a drunk's protruding belly... and was absolutely terrified of covid. You'd think if he was that fearful of dying.... he'd do something about his diet and his alcoholism. I know a number of other Pro Vaxxers who are similarly unhealthy....
F789 all of them ... let them shoot more boosters (and eat cake).
Many medications have undesirable long term side effects. Some though like blood pressure medications do help people with little downsides. What I find frustrating is we treat the symptom, not the cause.
Correct. Geoffrey's friend may live longer without the BP meds.
Anyway, the first steps for lowering blood pressure should be sunlight on the skin, potassium, magnesium, exercise--those four are the most important (and they won't lead to dizziness or falls). Possibly taurine, L-arginine, L-citrulline, and a low-carb diet. Probably also Vitamin K2 for long-term reduction of arterial calcification. Preppers should definitely stockpile potassium and magnesium, whether they have high BP or not.
From my observations ... people with high BP generally eat shit... drink too much ... and do no exercise... a disease of gluttony and sloth.
Doomsday preppers need to stockpile painkillers to deal with the cancer they will get when the toxins from the spent fuel ponds get into the water supply and veggies
Good work on putting this one up. Especially The Bronx Blackout vid.
Yeah, the redundant fuel rod pools are a big problem. I'm having to concede, most unwillingly, that you might be right.
But I also can't believe that Our Father will be happy to see one of his great treasures destroyed by such trash. This won't be (definitely isn't?) the first time the planet has been through this process, and I guess a few hundred thousand years is not so long on his timescale.
I believe (right or wrong) that there is evidence of ancient nuclear explosions in North Western Australia. Not to mention, Sodom and Gomorrah.
Yeah, prepping... All you say is true, but the "Crisis Period" may be intentionally brief (as the Bible seems to say), and allow for survivors - who will no doubt be motivated to maintain those pools of water...
Wait and See, is about all we can do. I'd like to have that honour, at least.
You said "Our Father". I have to wonder - is this not the time where Mark 13 comes into play?
"19For those will be days of tribulation unmatched from the beginning of God’s creation until now, and never to be seen again. 20If the Lord had not cut short those days, nobody would be saved. But for the sake of the elect, whom He has chosen, He has cut them short...."
God will not let His humans go extinct - He died for us.
I have no doubt this coming tribulation will be horrible - beyond horrible. Most will die. But some will survive to see His return and the execution of His wrath on these evil monster, fallen rebels and those who join them. And that I want to see.
So true. The nuclear spent fuel or actively working nuclear reactors will finish us off. When I realized this several years ago, I spent a couple years drinking more than I should. I quit doing that, but I also quit prepping. I just keep enough food and water for a couple weeks, after that, death will be welcome, but I would prefer a quiet, painless death . . . not sure how to do that.
Eddie said to get fentanyl. I don’t really know how so I have a 22 handy and I also have a garage with a car. Hopefully I will have a full tank. I don’t know how long it takes.
Doctors won't give me any sedatives. I allways hear of others getting all kinds of drugs, legally and illegally, but I couldn't even get my doctor to give me a couple pain pills for my hiking first aid kit. For real pain tylenol is useless. When I was going through a terrible period in my life, and had upstairs neighbors that were awake 24/7, showering, walking around, etc., I couldn't get a couple sleeping pills either. Do I look like a drug abuser? No, I do not!.\
You shoot your family members and neighbours who are begging at the farm gate?
What about the well-trained former military men?
Or the thousands of experienced hunters - my hunting mate in New Zealand has a rifle and scope that is so accurate that he has shot deer at over 800m.
One minute you are going about your business chopping wood or weeding the garden and the next your head will have exploded - you won't even hear the crack of the rifle cuz the bullet will reach you before the shock waves.
Then the bad guys will leisurely walk towards your doomsday encampment ... and help themselves to the food... and no doubt the women.
I have extra vittles on-hand specifically for extended family. Strangers can take a hike. I’m in a very huwhyte area of a major city, what is needed is neighborhood level defense from riff-raff visitors.
In the countryside, if 800-yd deer rifles are an issue, then you have to escalate and engage at 1,200 yards with something like a .338 Lapua.
Right tool for the job, I have tools that fit the urban context.
How will you even know the man with the high powered rifle and scope are even there... one day you walk out the door ... and from half a km away there are a group of men .. with rifles aimed in your direction ... when you step into view... BANG.
You're dead.
How far are you from the nearest nuclear power plant? They all have spent fuel ponds... you can calculate how long before you die from cancer using a complex formula involving wind.
It’s called recon. There are plenty of communities with military men who know how to detect invaders. If communities bother to work together during a crisis, they police themselves. Your version of collapse doesn’t sound like reality either.
No, I would assume you have people who are on recon duty while others are farming. You have security. I agree without that, these individualist preppers are wasting their time.
Collapse has a variety of potential meanings. It doesn’t mean all order simply disappears. It means rapid decline in power structures. It can mean sharp declines in industrial output. It would be no doubt chaotic. Nuclear plants have safeguards and I would imagine anyone living near one would have engineers who would survive to keep containment going. All this is possible while sharp declines take place.
I would agree these are all concerns but perhaps your conclusions are based on a Hollywood lens about what collapse actually looks like.
While it’s true that doomsday prepping is pointless, prepping for emergencies is not pointless at all.
I live in Texas. Every year since the big storm of 2021, there is a mad dash for the grocery stores and camping stores in case it happens again.
What do I do? Nothing. I’ve already prepped with non-perishables and other things in case we go through that scenario again.
I “gray person” through life, so there are no angry swarms of people who will steal my things. Instead, I’ve made friends with my neighbors, and we look out for each other.
I tell my worried relatives who live elsewhere that I will be fine—and I am.
If the world ends, there’s not much I can do. But for natural disasters and emergencies, there is a lot I can do—so that is why I prep.
ATTENTION DOOMSDAY PREPPERS - ATTENTION!!!
Armed men belonging to the Gran Grif gang have killed at least 70 people, including three infants, and forced at least 3000 to flee as they swept through a Haitian town shooting automatic rifles at residents, the United Nations says.
“We are horrified by Thursday’s gang attacks in the town of Pont-Sonde in Haiti’s Artibonite department,” UN spokesman Thameen Al-Kheetan said in a statement.
At least another 16 people were seriously injured in the attack in the early hours of Thursday (local time), including two gang members hit during an exchange of fire with Haitian police, according to the UN.
The gang members reportedly set fire to at least 45 houses and 34 vehicles, forcing residents to flee their homes.
The killings are the latest sign of a worsening conflict in the Caribbean country, where armed gangs control most of the capital Port-au-Prince and are expanding to nearby regions, fuelling hunger and making hundreds of thousands homeless, while nearby countries continue to deport migrants back to the country.
“This odious crime against defenceless women, men and children is not only an attack against victims but against the entire Haitian nation,” Prime Minister Garry Conille said on X.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/haiti-gang-kills-at-least-70-as-thousands-flee-says-united-nations/3EJJENX7HBC5RD4DXWSAU3VDKU/
People in parts of the Carolinas, Tennessee, and other storm-stricken states are standing their ground as looting reports flood X. This dire situation highlights the harsh reality that when disaster strikes and the government is nowhere to be found, being prepared and armed will save your life.
Eight illegal aliens were arrested in the eastern part of Tennessee for looting following the tropical system that unleashed flash floods in Washington County. Maybe these migrants were searching 'for bread' to feed their families... We suspect not.
The other five men — Albin Nahun Vega-Rapalo, 24, David Bairon Rapalo-Rapalo, 37, Kevin Noe Martinez-Lopez, 25, Marvin Hernandez-Martinez, 43, and Dayln Gabriel Guillen Guillen, 37 — were charged with aggravated burglary for breaking into occupied structures, the sheriff's office said. -NYPost.
Just north of Greenville in western North Carolina, a video uploaded on TikTok, then X, of realtor Leigh Brown, who warned, "The looting has picked up major steam," adding, "I was advised by a county sheriff to make sure that anybody out and about is 'carrying' and in his words 'carrying with the safety off.'"
Brown said the people out in the storm-ravaged area might not be "awful people, they're desperate" as their homes and towns were wiped off the face of the map by 'biblical floods.'
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/looting-erupts-after-biblical-floods-devastate-southeast-us-sheriffs-urge-residents-carry
We are also getting a taste of how a collapse will play out. As Fast has said in the past, the food zombies and gun toting gangs who will stop at nothing to take stuff away from you and your families.
It's already playing out in parts of Colorado and Chicago. Violent Venezuelan gangs have taken over neighborhoods in Aurora Colorado. They are now the landlords and demand rent money because they chased away the real landlords. The problem is, the MSM refuses to bring it to light, the police don't respond and the government says all of that isn't true, that it's being blown out of proportion.
Except it isn't because the Bidet Administration allowed these violent gang members to enter the US via the southern border and these violent gangs are spreading into major US cities run.
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2024/09/04/immigrant-invader-gangs-busy-at-work-liberating-colorado-apartment-houses/
You illustrate many of the reasons I am not a prepper.
Some years ago I worked in an Ace hardware store and met a prepper. His list of needs pretty much tipped me off, so I asked him, and he confessed he was preparing for collapse. Like me, he was getting a bit long in the tooth, and inevitably that leads to dependency on pharmaceuticals to artificially extend our lifespans. When I asked him if he was on blood pressure medication, he responded he was, and a number of other critical meds, too. I asked him how he was going to procure these medications in a post collapse world.
No clue, lol.
This reinforces my opinion of most humans being just plain stupid.
This clown fears collapse and death... so he preps... meanwhile he is unwilling to do anything about a lifestyle that has resulted in life-threatening high blood pressure. Sheesh. I wonder if he knows how to tie his shoe laces.
I am reminded of a Pro Vaxxer moron (and former friend cuz he mocked me for not shooting the Rat Juice)... he guzzles a bottle and a half of wine every single night ... pretty much subsists on frozen meat pies.... and has a drunk's protruding belly... and was absolutely terrified of covid. You'd think if he was that fearful of dying.... he'd do something about his diet and his alcoholism. I know a number of other Pro Vaxxers who are similarly unhealthy....
F789 all of them ... let them shoot more boosters (and eat cake).
Many medications have undesirable long term side effects. Some though like blood pressure medications do help people with little downsides. What I find frustrating is we treat the symptom, not the cause.
Two people with high BP have informed me that they do not have high BP. They of course are taking meds to bring it down. Duh.
Correct. Geoffrey's friend may live longer without the BP meds.
Anyway, the first steps for lowering blood pressure should be sunlight on the skin, potassium, magnesium, exercise--those four are the most important (and they won't lead to dizziness or falls). Possibly taurine, L-arginine, L-citrulline, and a low-carb diet. Probably also Vitamin K2 for long-term reduction of arterial calcification. Preppers should definitely stockpile potassium and magnesium, whether they have high BP or not.
From my observations ... people with high BP generally eat shit... drink too much ... and do no exercise... a disease of gluttony and sloth.
Doomsday preppers need to stockpile painkillers to deal with the cancer they will get when the toxins from the spent fuel ponds get into the water supply and veggies
This report was put out by the *cough* Government of Canada recently...
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https://horizons.service.canada.ca/en/2024/disruptions/index.shtml#Health
Apologies... wrong link. This is what I meant
Wow... that's grim reading.
It gets a little more interesting when you see who or what Kristel Van der Elst, Director General, is aligned with.
Don't make me start from scratch - where's the link - or just tell me.
WEF
🙄🙄
Good work on putting this one up. Especially The Bronx Blackout vid.
Yeah, the redundant fuel rod pools are a big problem. I'm having to concede, most unwillingly, that you might be right.
But I also can't believe that Our Father will be happy to see one of his great treasures destroyed by such trash. This won't be (definitely isn't?) the first time the planet has been through this process, and I guess a few hundred thousand years is not so long on his timescale.
I believe (right or wrong) that there is evidence of ancient nuclear explosions in North Western Australia. Not to mention, Sodom and Gomorrah.
Yeah, prepping... All you say is true, but the "Crisis Period" may be intentionally brief (as the Bible seems to say), and allow for survivors - who will no doubt be motivated to maintain those pools of water...
Wait and See, is about all we can do. I'd like to have that honour, at least.
The silver lining is that once the humans are extinct... this stops:
Industrial Farm Cruelty
https://t.me/leaklive/11666
https://cubeoftruth.com/av
Horrifying Animal Experimentation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuKaHh3ZKIk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNKRgwHJumM
Fauci under fire for ‘puppy experiments that saw beagles locked in cage with hungry sandflies that would eat them ALIVE’ https://www.the-sun.com/news/3920949/fauci-puppy-experiments-beagles-locked-in-cage/
@ Al Can
You said "Our Father". I have to wonder - is this not the time where Mark 13 comes into play?
"19For those will be days of tribulation unmatched from the beginning of God’s creation until now, and never to be seen again. 20If the Lord had not cut short those days, nobody would be saved. But for the sake of the elect, whom He has chosen, He has cut them short...."
God will not let His humans go extinct - He died for us.
I have no doubt this coming tribulation will be horrible - beyond horrible. Most will die. But some will survive to see His return and the execution of His wrath on these evil monster, fallen rebels and those who join them. And that I want to see.
Doomsday prepping may be hopium, but this is a massive appeal to futility that isn't helpful at all.
So true. The nuclear spent fuel or actively working nuclear reactors will finish us off. When I realized this several years ago, I spent a couple years drinking more than I should. I quit doing that, but I also quit prepping. I just keep enough food and water for a couple weeks, after that, death will be welcome, but I would prefer a quiet, painless death . . . not sure how to do that.
Eddie said to get fentanyl. I don’t really know how so I have a 22 handy and I also have a garage with a car. Hopefully I will have a full tank. I don’t know how long it takes.
Better than a vehicle in the garage, is a hibachi in your bedroom. Take a sedative, fire it up and lie down on your comfy bed and go to sleep.
Good idea though. If I run into any drug dealers, maybe I can get something to bump me off when "that day" comes.
Doctors won't give me any sedatives. I allways hear of others getting all kinds of drugs, legally and illegally, but I couldn't even get my doctor to give me a couple pain pills for my hiking first aid kit. For real pain tylenol is useless. When I was going through a terrible period in my life, and had upstairs neighbors that were awake 24/7, showering, walking around, etc., I couldn't get a couple sleeping pills either. Do I look like a drug abuser? No, I do not!.\
Go doctor shopping, I hear in Florida they will prescribe you anything you want
Anti Aging clinics... the whore of whores in the medical profession ... HGH ... whatever you want they will give ... so I have read
I also read that if a person has bitcoin they can order whatever they want on the dark web without any problems
That's where I'm at.
It’s a continuum. We West-Coast pimps prep for the CS-Z going off, which is survivable, if you have the essentials.
Of course you shoot looters and beggars, just like today.
You shoot your family members and neighbours who are begging at the farm gate?
What about the well-trained former military men?
Or the thousands of experienced hunters - my hunting mate in New Zealand has a rifle and scope that is so accurate that he has shot deer at over 800m.
One minute you are going about your business chopping wood or weeding the garden and the next your head will have exploded - you won't even hear the crack of the rifle cuz the bullet will reach you before the shock waves.
Then the bad guys will leisurely walk towards your doomsday encampment ... and help themselves to the food... and no doubt the women.
How will you deal with such men?
I have extra vittles on-hand specifically for extended family. Strangers can take a hike. I’m in a very huwhyte area of a major city, what is needed is neighborhood level defense from riff-raff visitors.
In the countryside, if 800-yd deer rifles are an issue, then you have to escalate and engage at 1,200 yards with something like a .338 Lapua.
Right tool for the job, I have tools that fit the urban context.
How will you even know the man with the high powered rifle and scope are even there... one day you walk out the door ... and from half a km away there are a group of men .. with rifles aimed in your direction ... when you step into view... BANG.
You're dead.
How far are you from the nearest nuclear power plant? They all have spent fuel ponds... you can calculate how long before you die from cancer using a complex formula involving wind.
It’s called recon. There are plenty of communities with military men who know how to detect invaders. If communities bother to work together during a crisis, they police themselves. Your version of collapse doesn’t sound like reality either.
Ah right so every time they go out to tend the garden they'll do a recon ... checking for snipers within a 1km radius ... hahahahahahahaha
What about the spent fuel ponds?
No, I would assume you have people who are on recon duty while others are farming. You have security. I agree without that, these individualist preppers are wasting their time.
Collapse has a variety of potential meanings. It doesn’t mean all order simply disappears. It means rapid decline in power structures. It can mean sharp declines in industrial output. It would be no doubt chaotic. Nuclear plants have safeguards and I would imagine anyone living near one would have engineers who would survive to keep containment going. All this is possible while sharp declines take place.
I would agree these are all concerns but perhaps your conclusions are based on a Hollywood lens about what collapse actually looks like.