For those of you who have prepared it is wise to remember the advice that always accompanies the final stages of preparation. Once you are prepared, shut up, zip it, run silent and run deep.
The reason is simple comrades, when the “voluntary rationing” phase concludes, those who have prepared are quickly cast as ‘hoarders” and targeted by those who created the desperation. It has always been thus.
DC Mayor and COVID Compliance Minister, Muriel Bowser, asks residents in/around her region to enter a phase of voluntary rationing. What comes after the voluntary phase is the part many have been studiously preparing to avoid.
In the bigger picture… I find it rather revealing that only when leftist policies are followed to their natural conclusion do you see officials in the leftist economic system they created, a system not coincidentally always based on the outcome of scarcity, asking people not to engage in economic activity.
Chasing socialism always creates an outcome where the expressed intent from government is NOT to buy stuff, rationing. Socialism, or leftism in its modern form, always creates scarcity; it is the diametrically opposite outcome of a free capitalistic society.
This is bad
Yes. But we cannot say we weren’t warned…
Thanks to Sundance & CTH…
I hope everyone took the prior warnings to heart and took the appropriate actions at home.
Hubby calls me a worrier. But his eyes have been opened somewhat. I just don’t know what kind of time frame we are looking at.. is it 2 months, 6 month,,, a year.?? God help us all.
The Bloomberg article that Griever referred to up top says it could take several years to “unsnarl the mess” (supply chain mess). But If Repubs take back government I suspect it will be corrected in a few months then we have to wait for the food supply to refresh and begin to feed through the two supply / processing /. distribution chains.
Refer back to Sundance’s multiple articles within the past couple of weeks detailing the 2 food supply chains and how they cannot just be re-activated quickly and have everything they need to start stocking food stores and parts stores and every other commodity thats been starved for parts and materials. Especially with so many parts of the supply chains seriously short of workers.
So I’m guessing we should dig in / prep for the long haul – to the end of this year at minimum.
Just wait until urban mob makes their way into nearby suburban surroundings foraging for food.
Remember, we’re all in it together. . .
Deep deep shit, that is.
The mother of all supply chain shocks lurks in China’s lockdown, January 12, 2022, -Bloomberg:
If you haven’t stocked up yet guys, you need to do it immediately. Like going bankrupt, the store shelves will slowly get emptier and emptier, and then all at once they will bare.
Tons more information on the deliberately manufactured supply chain meltdown, and government cyber attack threats on the food chain here.
Do not click on link.
What? Why?
Who is up-voting Scott’s ‘Do not click the link’ post? Guys everyone should take a look at the article he is referring to–it shows the supply chain meltdown from 10 different angles from ten different news outlets, with a super important perspective from a trucker at the end..
This is confusing, Scott, what’s up man? Why did you tell people not to click on it?
Do not take it personally.
It could be someone here to subvert the good information on this site or it could be someone that doesn’t believe any link that is not an established right leaning site is shared.
The good news is that this is an independent minded group here and we don’t do what someone tells us to do just because.
We like doing our own research. 😉
I appreciate that, and good to know. Thanks hoosiertruthfan!
Why?
Well I clicked on it and on the last link within it. And I will tell you this after reading, especially the trucker’s report… in a less stable, less “law” abiding country, if this all disintegrated into full scale nationwide deprivation, somebodies would be dragged from their “residences and offices” in short order.
I believe the Stalinist traitors who have brought this about really have no idea what they’ve done. They may think they do…but I doubt it.
There’s not enough of a standing army or national guard.
Anybody hear remember when China was going to conduct exercises in Canada?
Look for the meat puppet and his masters to “ask for help” from NATO/UN.
Now you know why they have been trying to take the guns.
And they are still trying. Check out California, the incubator and lab for such futile attempts.
UN troops are the only way they’ll ever get the guns.
They’ve also imported a lot of people who actually hate them, stoked racial issues, angered those most likely to have protected them in the past, and emptied the Military of the most experienced alpha males. I don’t think they thought it through either but we will all have to pay the price to some degree because of it
Yes, but we won’t be the only ones paying. I said on the next page that hunger knows no party…as Dem supporters are about to find out.
Betsy, for as long as I have hung around here you have always been the true north star of The Conservative Treehouse – always pointing wayward souls in the right directions.
Thank you for your tireless perseverance in the fight for all that is true and right and good. I sincerely mean that. Thank you
Oh my goodness, griever. I don’t know what to say. What an overwhelming thing to read. I truly just comment but that you would write those kind words? I shall treasure them, and I thank you so much for them. Bless you.
I meant every word
You are consistently reliable, tireless, compassionate, bright, and kind
That you meant it means more to me than the lovely compliment….and believe me, I took every word to heart. Thank you so much.💓
Greiver, and she knows how to throw a tomahawk(please forgive if I misspelled it, Betsy 😉).
yes, Betsy is incredibly shrewd and insightful as well and puts those virtues to use where appropriate =j
Its a real Bloomberg article:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2022-01-12/supply-chain-latest-china-s-covid-fight-risks-more-supply-turmoil
Gotta love how they refer to what’s coming as a “supply chain stumble.” Sure. Just a little stumble. Oops, I tripped on the crack in the sidewalk. Glad I caught myself and didn’t fall. It only took a second. Not a problem. I continued on my way and everything was fine.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2022-01-12/supply-chain-latest-china-s-covid-fight-risks-more-supply-turmoil
Yeah, it looks like China has weaponized the supply chain.
Obama and his gang have!
Same gang.
The website you posted at the end of your comment is a precious resource griever. I’ll send a donation their way once i am back from work.
Check it out everyone – the information is invaluable.
Thank you for saying so. I know the author has worked tirelessly to make it what it is.
The whole China Covid lockdown story stinks to high heaven. From what we’ve seen from China this far is that their people don’t matter; what matters is an image of superiority in every sector of government and commerce, their image of strength and invincibility, and world domination. This whole lockdown of ports and near halting of commerce is (IMO) either one of two things: they’re using an excuse of the weakling Omicron to drive a death blow to the US and other countries who are dependent upon their slave labor manufactured products, or they’re hiding a much more sinister lab leak than Covid ever was. Both scenarios seem plausible, however, there have been reports of hemorrhagic fever outbreaks in China since Covid. Its not a huge leap to imagine their bioterrorism acts include that type of bioweapon as well. Dr. Malone even suggested the vaccines could have created mutations of this nature.
We will likely never know the truth. All we can do is prepare for the storm, take measures to stay as healthy as we can, and ride it out.
Either of those things is certainly plausible Witchwoman63, but I personally believe that something far bigger is going on at the top of the global power structure. Something bigger than nations, even China and the USA.
Tritorch has good info, you should look at his other articles while you’re there.
” You’ll eat nothing ….and be happy ”
World Economic Forum
The joy will bubble up and overpower your grumbling stomach. Just wait. You’ll see. It’s gonna be great.
Except for Nancy Piglosi. We all know her freezer is filled to the brim with absurdly expensive pints of ice cream.
Prepare everyone!
We are screwed.
You reap what you sow
It’s “winter weather” today. Tomorrow it will be “misbehaving citizens”. The day after that it will be “white supremacists” and then “wreckers and domestic terrorists”.
Truckers who ” selfishly ” refuse the jab will be blamed. ( They were essential workers before ! )
As a poster mentioned in the daily thread, DEF – diesel exhaust fluid shipments across the US/CAN border will be reduced , thus possibly creating a further cascading truck stoppage / slowdown pressure.
DEF , is used as an emission control and newer truck engines will not run without it.
Interesting times.
Hopefully, 30,000 Truckers will choke off the scarce food supply so DC starves 1st
The CONgress Critters will all just fly home on their private jets laughing all the way.
If they’re flying home to their blue states or blue regions, there will be nothing there for the blue CONgress critters but scarcity, riots, looting.
No, they’ll instead be re-routing their flights to red states/regions, ala AOC and other CONgress critters who “fled” to Florida for a mask-free, vaccine passport-less vacation.
Don’t worry: we in the red states are ready to welcome all members of the fleeing Uniparty who arrive here. 😉
When these Commies come frolic down here in Florida they have no idea who is cooking their food or pouring their drinks. The Service Industry has six ways to Sunday to mess with you.
I see what you did there.
👌
Why do you think Nancy Pelosi bought a house in Florida and Mark Zuckerberg is moving to Texas!?
Do you want to change the way people vote quickly it will happen when they do not have food at the stores. The demon rats are in deep Doodoo.
There are ways to fool the sensors.
DEF shortages are as good of a way to shut down the trucks as a good old fashioned strike. The exhaust systems on new trucks is a joke along with the computers that run them. An entire generation of trucks ruined by govt regs!
I have a f350 6.7.
Ironically it was a RV blog that mentioned a possible exhaust fluid shortage a few weeks back.
DEF is sold right at the fuel pumps alongside diesel. Its also sold in gallon- five gallon containers. Its I think ,33% urea and its corrosive. For those that may not know- it is NOT mixed with diesel. Rather its injected into the down stream exhaust to reduce nitrous emissions. When the truck goes into regen mode its not unusual to smell the effervescence of…Piss! Yes its true. Now for the really cool part? If your DEF tank runs dry the truck will still run but defaults to 5 mph.( no you cant just uriante into the tank as some drivers found out when first introduced. )It punishes you for not filling the tank. Thats YOUR goofy D.O.T. at work.
It’s not just the big semi’s, there’s millions of diesel pickups that use Def and go into limp mode if you run the Def tank dry
The way I understand it…DEF is basically liquid urea…FWIW drivers can have a couple Mountain Dews…and refill their DEF tank themselves.
Interesting. Our school buses all run with DEF so it wont just effect trucks
I am sure this wont apply to Congress or anyone else working in the federal bureaucracy. Such inconveniences are only reserved for the little people.
Not a chance.
So I cant sell my assortment of canned meats to starving Biden supporters on ebay now?
So when the GHETTO RATS can’t use their EBT cards because there is no food, I can picture them rioting in those rich WHITE LIBERAL areas of the city, like the Georgetown area. That will be fun to watch unfold as they start looting the homes of those Elitists.
They will be reported as mostly peaceful looting
Didn’t we have some mayors who through looting shouldn’t be prosecuted because it was probably just hungry people?
Hungry white people, deservedly hungry because of their white privilege, will be labeled rioters and looters.
Non-white hungry people, on the other hand, will be deemed hungry because of others’ white privilege and will therefore be given a pass and will be called “peaceful protestors.”
We should know how this will work by now…..
Yes and part of reparations.
Mostly peaceful looting only happens in fly-over country. Riots in the affluent will be Armageddon. Call out private security reinforcements with shoot to kill and demand all sections of the military forces be called in to quell the uprising.
“Mostly peaceful demonstrations” not RIOT! Watch your words…racist?
BLM OWNS the town. Did you see the street Bow-Wow Bowser named after them? 😉
I bet Fauci has a nice big pantry, maybe they’ll share some of theirs. HA!
Globalists – The party of Death, Destruction and possibly Crimes Against Humanity
Possibly”? Read some of the quotes coming out of the WEF conferences & seminars of the WEF and Davos.
Look at how horrible he looks! I hope the evil inside him eats him up quickly!
Gates is wearing biden’s “the winter of death” look.
DNC-Don’t Know Chit.
I see a distinct difference between preparing and stockpiling food and supplies during times of abundance and panic buying/hoarding during times of shortage.
It’s not your perspective you need to worry about. It’s the view of the government who will draw no such distinction.
Exactly
Bloody right
Yes, and oh the irony that the same government that will draw no distinction is the same government that created the situation in the first place that prompted those paying attention to stock up in anticipation of the disaster of the government’s own making. And round and round we go….
These government is the arsonist who sets the fires and is also on the volunteer fire department, frequently claimed to be heroic in saving people from the fires he set.
Yep… no one will care who bought what and when – only who has what that can be redistributed.
Prior planning prevents p!so poor performance.
Sorry friend, it’s never about what you think only what those around you perceive
What is “hoarding” any way? Now, there is a mental illness associated with hoarding where a person buys random things that have no real use to them and fill their home or apartment until it becomes full of trash and filth and they literally get buried in it.
Purchasing in bulk in order to preserve one’s family’s future security should illness, weather, unemployment, “hard times”, etc., come to them, is WISE. That used to be called “putting some back”. The person who does not prepare for such disasters is considered ill-prepared and lazy. Ants do it, squirrels do it – reference nature.
I think your point was, that in times of “scarcity”, one shouldn’t take ALL the cat food on the shelf, right? What if I had ten cats (I don’t)? What if I had 6 children? (I do). Do you know how much a family of eight eats? What if I just now realized that I had to figure out how to feed 6 children, my spouse was laid off due to a vax-mandate, and the family is in serious deep doo? My job would be to secure as much as I could for my family. Period. That is called personal responsibility. So, if there are 3 packages of pasta on the shelf when I shop, I have every right to pick up 3 packages of pasta. If there are 10, I have every right to take 10.
Communists/Socialists ***create scarcity*** in order to control populations. Our response is not to play along. We should take Solzhenitsyn’s advice on what to do with Communists.
Off soapbox.
6 children? You are a very blessed woman!
Just dial back the food stamps.
Sorry—those were just increased by 50% by Biden Regime.
lol at your username. I’m in my 50s and stuff like that still cracks me up. Lord help me
🤣
Need simple folding signs for thin or bare shelves:
“This [empty] space brought to you by Joe Biden and the Transportation fairie, er guru.”
And the COVID Clowns.
I have this made up and ready to print.
THE FOLLOWING SPONSERS:
The Biden Administration T
he House and Senate of the United States of America
K Street Lobbyists
Wall Street
The Propaganda Media Mill “News”
Dr. Fauci and the NIH
The Wuhan Institute of Virology
The Chinese Communist Party
The California Air Resource Board California AB-5
The Ports of San Diego and Los Angeles
The Long Shoremen of San Diego and Los Angeles
The Communist Racist Democrats
The Feckless Republicans In Name Only
And FEAR.
Forgot to ad the first line:
THIS EMPTY SHELF BROUGHT TO YOU BY
Soryy.
Illegals still exempt
Yup
Heck, now they can just show their arrest warrant and come on in! No further identification necessary (not that identification is the point, because the point is we need to secure our borders, ID or no ID).
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/tsa-confirms-allows-illegal-immigrants-arrest-warrants-id-airports
If anything shows us how effed up the US is now it’s this. Could be an Onion headline or something Babylon Bee made up.
They are carrying precious cargo. New DIM voters.
Daily Caller is reporting that Walensky said boosters required to be considered up to date on “vaccinations”. So….. do they require 2 or is it 3 and how old can the 2 be?
FUBAR.
Link here: https://dailycaller.com/2022/01/21/rochelle-walensky-cdc-covid-19-coronavirus-booster-vaccine/
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One upside is the multi tonnage loads of meth and fentanyl that come via 18 wheeler from Mexico might be coming a bit slower.
The results of Marxism being systematically pushed in every societal regard by the 20% hard core doctinaire Lefies will inevitably be a massive course correction. Only a sociopath could find virtue in this engineered and entirely self inflicted scarcity.
From energy independent, to dependent in 11 months, while the schools install litter boxes for students who identify as cats, and the bread basket of the formerly free world becomes fossilized in production and transport of food stuff.
The depravity of these sick ideologues is only matched by their irresponsibility.
“Only a sociopath could find virtue in this engineered and entirely self inflicted scarcity.”
They are almost all sociopaths. Those that aren’t are psychopaths. Some are both.
The ends justify the means has been their motto since as long as I can remember.
what are they going to do with those $1,500 a month welfare cards…I predict a booming business for DC liquor stores!
Like somebody’s really going to listen to her. That’s a dog whistle to do the very opposite. You first, MURIEL!!!!
CTH has been sounding the alarm far long enough that those who were willing to believe are in a far better position to face the challenges that are at the door.
Even squirrels have more sense that half the country.
They start early preparing for the perceived storm.
Fastest way to cause a run is to ask entitlement minded subsidized residents to, “self ration.”
I was thinking the same thing . . .
….which was exactly the plan.
However, this is because of the news stories already out in DC of bare shelves at the grocery store. Their narrative is hoarders are creating them.
TV shows the “self rationing” all the time; usually with the building on fire, police car windows busted out, people running in and out thru the windows with armloads of “their share”! This is the scene for EVERY large city in America as the Obama dream of punishing America into TRANSFORMATION his way! Biden is a demented puppet and EVERYBODY in DC knows it; ESPECIALLY the GOP. The MSM just keeps the puppet show playing like the band did on the Titanic! EVERYBODY will be awake when they hit that icy water!
How about just the DEMS have to comply. They voted for this mentally ill Pres and his incompetent so called administration. Everything was running great under Trump and we were all much happier. The only ones responsible for this mess happen to all have D after their name and that includes the Blue States.
War, what is it good for?..
Justifying rationing!
My thought exactly, as if on cue I see the US Embassy in Ukraine is being evacuated .
My local grocery stores here in the Bay Area (Contra Costa County) are still fairly well stocked. Nonetheless, I have stocked up on foods with extremely long shelf life. My garage is full.
It’s starting to look like maybe it won’t hit us as bad here. Maybe because the population here is not quite as dense as in the northeast as well as the fact that we should not be as impacted by the crossborder trucking issues. That and we still have a hell of a lot of farmland here.
We’re going to keep eating fresh foods as long as they are available.
What I mean to say is that we are less densely populated. Much of the population here is fairly dense, unfortunately.
hahahahaha + sigh.
How many miles is it to Oakland?
They brought Oakland & Richmond to eastern East Bay several years ago via Section 8 housing. There’s no escaping it in Contra Costa county.
About 20 minutes on a good day. (As I remember from my trips out there)
…until they start shipping all that “excess” food to the east coast in the name of “fairness and equality”. Just like they did with the monoclonal antibodies…
” Equity Distribution “
Eh! People don’t even know how to eat on the east coast!
Bet on it.
Be careful to watch soups and cans with meat as they require lower temperatures for long term storage. Ask me how my spouse found out the hard way this summer in the mid Atlantic when garage temps went to 100 degrees.Botulism is real.
My cans go to the basement.
Mine too…oh, you mean food cans, yeah that too.
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I used to buy stuff at military auctions. Raise your hand at the wrong time or without carefully inspecting the lot on which you are bidding can lead to those things happening. I remember one sale in which they were selling 50 cal ammo cans and the quantity was 100 m/l. I could have transported, stored and sold 100 easy enough. I drove 250 miles one way to inspect the lot. It was 100 pallets.
CA is the BEST! Plus, people are leaving. Heard of another one this morning!
I’ll be leaving for a Red Southern State in a few weeks myself. 🤣
Notice how you cant really tell if the character in Bowsers message is a man or women.
Yep. Always a sex- and race-ambiguous globohomo NPC “person”.
DC is going hunger games.
I’ll bet real estate is ice cold and people are getting out.
Zero sympathy they’ve been voting for this for decades.
Everyone living in the District of Criminals either works for the city or feral government or serves those who do. They vote 96% democrat. I have absolutely zero sympathy now or in the future. They’re getting what they’ve wanted for a long time now. …good and hard.
Is the Mayor’s Twitter message suggesting only BIPOC people are capable of being selfish; or is she hinting that she knows who, in her community, are more prone to storming the shops and fighting in the aisles and carparks when they don’t get what they want?
Everybody knows that Mormons are supposed to keep a 2 year supply of food.
Does this mean that the government will eventually declare “open season” on Mormons?
Hairy S. Reid already did that to Willard in 2012.
They did it before.
Hungry people! The government will not be seen; just military and UN troops.
The government declared “open season” on Mormons in the distant past, which resulted in Mormon leadership declaring the 2-year supply rule for every Mormon man, woman and child you mention.
The Mormons and I don’t agree on many things, but I will give credit where credit is due: they learned from their history. Good on them….
Can’t find nabisco premium saltines anywhere here in Maine…at least in the big chains. Wife went out to a small market today and found 1 box. It rang up at $5.09. If you can find them, the price around these parts has always been well south of $3 bucks. Cashier said it wasn’t a mistake. Wife put it back on the shelf. Supply & demand
I’m making a list of “from scratch” recipes for the few things I do buy “prepared”, like crackers. Here’s a recipe:
Making crackers from scratch
https://www.servedfromscratch.com/category/crackers/
YouTube has recipes for dang near anything you want to make. There are probably 50 videos on making crackers of various types.
Oh, cool! Thank you!
The store brands are just fine!
‘DC Mayor Murial Bowser photographed with friends dining at five star restaurant after telling residents to ration food’
Too soon?🤷🏻♀️
Now that they’re hiring jack booted #BLM/lgbtq/antifa unemployables to randomly check for vaccination compliance, they can further “strengthen the economy” by hiring the scrubs who didn’t get hired in the vaccine batch to monitor grocery store patrons and confiscate ‘hoard quantities’ out in the parking lot.
Best advice on the planet: “Once you are prepared, shut up, zip it, run silent and run deep.”
It’s been popular to post preps on boobtube. Hundreds of families giving tours of their pantries and their stockpiles. Big mistake. In times like these, I don’t think it’s wise to even send “pics” on a cell phone to family and friends.
This is exactly what happens when a Communist/Socialist takeover is underway. Exactly. They’ll blame it on “climate change”, “covid”, “equality”, name your Leftist excuse.
It would even be prudent to drive the old truck or beater, wear thrift store clothes, no makeup, no jewelry, put away the designer stuff, and shop in small spurts in various areas to keep the lowest possible profile. I’d also carry.
Just sayin’ y’all.
Done that for decades already! I’m a survivor of Hollywierd!
It you look like you’re unaffected, then you’re the target.
Pay with cash…
You forgot to mention “stay home”.
YES! I did my last planned run three days ago and have absolutely no intention of going anywhere for anything .
Have been sick since Tuesday and it’s just about killing me that I can’t go shopping. Hope this crap breaks soon so I can do my one last run. I’ve been working at stocking up for months, but I need that one last trip before all the shelves are stripped.
That’s a viable strategy for those who do not have to go out to work or for other necessary (medical, legal) reasons.
Glad my better half and I are both retired. It’s far easier to stay home. My gasoline usage is about 12 gals (have a 15 gal tank) every 3 to 4 weeks.
“It would even be prudent to drive the old truck or beater, wear thrift store clothes, no makeup, no jewelry”
Teehee….you just described my contented life! My car is a 2006 Equinox. My Goodwill clothes are far classier than any I could ever afford if they were new–and the people who have a clothing budget apparently get tired of their lovely clothing pretty ast.
Me too. I drive an early 2000s Subaru, wear the same black Lee jeans for days at a time, T shirts, my winter boots… I am content and don’t need more… although some company would be nice once in a while? Unfortunately I am in a liberal hellhole city surrounded by double jabbed, CNN watching libsh## soyboys. Oh, well… can’t have it all.
Yes, they will be easy meat for the jackals.
We are thankful that while we could not
get out of Oregon, we did move to a small city on the coast.
Is there a long term opportunity in this?
Folks talk a lot about creating a parallel economy. Can we do that around food production and distribution ?
Suppose ten thousand patriots acquired land and Dutch style food growing warehouses next to hydro-powered electric generation (small scale, using rivers and streams).
What if they all simultaneously got off the grid and produced local food for local community distribution, using the latest technology?
Our food is poisoned. Agriculture has been corrupted as much as any other sector, really more. Industrial agriculture is a stain on the face of the earth. From Monsanto glysophate, oil based fertilizer, tomatoes and spinach that have had all the nutrition bred out of them, it’s a horror show.
Every step of chicken production, from almost slave chicken farmers who contract out to Tysons and have to use abusive production methods to meet their quotas to Tysons using close to slave illegal immigrant labor in the meat processing plants, is awful.
People have written whole books on the subject, but what if we crowd sourced a new model? The kind that produces free people, healthy animals, and healthy food?
Good suggestion
This mostly already goes on in rural America. Someone raises beef cattle, someone else pigs, most raise chickens, most have gardens. Your idea, of course, is wonderful, but at this point, if you can get out of the cities and grow your own, you’ll be better off.
Isn’t that what the Amish people do?
That idea has been suggested / recommended and is even more strenuously advocated nowadays. Ice Age Farmer on Bitchute I(and a few other video platforms) has been pushing this for over a year.
https://www.iceagefarmer.com
I have a Community garden in my small village. Watching that effort and knowing the experiences of a few other towns, a community garden requires close and mature management to ensure equitable effort is input, and that the output production is also shared as equitably. In our town’s case, most output has been donated to a local charitable food pantry, but some is also given to a local restaurant that offers it in seasonal specially prepared gourmet dishes at a discount for community garden members.
Remember the Pilgrims’ initial experience in Massachusetts… the Virginia Company contract that funded their voyage imposed a shared community agriculture on the settlers with profits going back to the Company. But after six years of significant inequality in labor effort which caused bad relations between many citizens, Gov. Wm. Bradford decided to issue plots of land to each surviving family on which they would each grow their own. Whatever excess they grew could be sold for private profit. Socialism generally does not work equitably for all participants.
Right on the dot, Sundance. Very impressive. And astute.
Sundance has shown him/herself to be reliable and honest. If you’re still sitting on the fence at this point, get off of it and get busy fortifying your safety and security in all areas, NOW, not on your 1-5 year plan. The people who escaped Nazi Germany saw the handwriting on the wall early and got out of Germany and Austria, etc. The ones who suffered the most were the ones who refused to believe what was happening in front of their very eyes.
I’m begging you.
I left PA for Florida 3 years ago. Based on the real estate activity this past year I was barely early. No regrets. Now to ensure we keep DeSantis and his ilk in the Guv mansion for the foreseeable future will be the next challenge.
I’m conflicted by family, including adult children and elderly parents, who choose to remain in the chaos of the northeast. They cannot conceive of what may soon transpire.
But every fiber of my being wants OUT of this mess. I have already feathered my new nest down south.
When SHTF, I hope my clueless loved ones will still have an opportunity to join me there!
Hate to say it but, if they vote Dem, I wish you would not encourage them to join you.
They can always visit for longish stays if you set up a nice place for them to crash while there.
And now, the peaceful, law abiding residents of D.C. are going to strip the stores.
Guaranteed.
…mostly peaceful?
Until the 40’s are gone.
Then its on.
Socialism 2.0 is just like socialism 1.0, lol. This time was supposed to be different.
It… just… was never done right before, but our socialist elite sure will unleash the best socialism ever, they are smart, they read books in college, they learned in school how great socialism is.
They are now putting into practice and…. It’s the same ol’ failed socialism.
I live in a rural community so local meats, eggs and veggies in season abound. I personally have six months food stores and pre purchased my coffee and ketchup, two items I can’t live without. Libtards can keep their cities…….
After Superstorm Sandy, during a ten day power outage (months for those who were badly flooded), the one item that I could not live without.. was coffee.
I stocked up on coffee too. Then I thought what happens if we lose water? So I’ve been buying jugs of that too. Amazing how much water one needs in a day when you actually calculate it. So used to just turning on the faucet.
Just purchased my second Berkey water filter. Came today, but will be heading out on Monday, on its way to a friend in California who told me they cannot buy Berkey’s there. More insane laws from elites who don’t care about people.
Other than salt water, Berkey’s will take any kind of water you give them and filter it to delicious, clean, clear drinking water.
Been a Berky user for ten years. Will come in handy now, especially since I can break it down and transport to my campsite, string up a tarp and let the rain fill it highly recommend it.
Canadian Prepper’s latest youtube video discusses a letter he got from Berkey. Prices going up 30% February 21st.
I hope you’re not buying Heinz as I can’t stand putting any money in John Kerry’s pocketbook! Store brands are great!
Plenty of store brands are made in Heinz facilities. I buy Red Gold brand
You can make ketchup. Unfortunately, coffee is harder. If you can stand it you could lay in a couple years’ worth of instant, as it keeps pretty well. Ground, even vacuum packed, not so much. Whole beans vacuumed in a bag and then put in a freezer will last more than this disaster is likely to go on, though.
Once again, liberal cities seem to be taking the brunt of liberal failures. Intentional, or otherwise. Here in Oklahoma City, we’re not starving yet. But as liberal cities start to feel food scarcity, the media will promote fear from it and then we end up with panic buying across the country.
Regardless of what happens to areas around you, it seems you will be impacted because of the reduced #s of truck drivers eventually………….I don’t see how any certain enclaves are indefinitely immune.
Doesn’t the Mayor’s request to ‘voluntary ration’ food at grocery stores actually say (is interpreted as): get as much food as you can, while you still can? 🤔
Yes.
Tropical fruit that comes from Mexico or through Mexico may not make it here before it spoils.
Avocado doesn’t last long.
Oops! Crisis at the shipping ports, off loaders broke? Crisis with workers, Jab mandates. Crisis for fuel prices, shut down pipelines. Crisis of empty store shelves, transportation delays. Crisis, truckers shortages due to Jab mandates!
Have you heard, possible 18 year olds now eligible to be truck drivers? Oops, thought they played that game earlier? Remember when the gullible went to Trucking School, got a new truck, new trucking job, then two years later discovered they owed more than the original amount after paying for two years!
Like many, are you wondering, with all the shortages(planned)that are now beginning to surface! Why they building these massive warehouses? Just how many taxpayer funded empty shelves are needed? Why are taxpayer benefits extended to warehouse builders for more empty shelves! How many local politicians should be under audit for these warehouse expansions in your area? As now we begin showing businesses with empty store shelves?
This time will be no different, once the Sheeple are no longer needed, their reality will be devastating. They were so easily used. Not Needed
Without the American middle class, just who do these people expect will prop up the world economy?
It’s always the USA. The rest of them are too used to kicking back and *receiving* our subsidies, to ever step up to fill that gap!
They HAVE to create shortages in order to justify rationing, which is the implementation of their “Redistribute the Wealth” plan.
Today’s inflation of food prices will be a lot worse tomorrow, until it becomes nearly impossible for average middle-class Americans to provide for their families.
The paradigm of “Nuclear families residing in single family dwellings” is slowly being eradicated. What we’ll be left with will resemble inner city housing projects and a populace dependent on mass transportation and food banks.
When liquor is rationed, I’ll take this seriously.
If only Hillary had won. The liquor supply would be our least worry..
Been buying all kinds of liquor for bartering. In our small town I look like a lush, but I keep to myself, buy a few bottles and head home.
Hubby and I don’t drink, but were told liquor is a key bartering tool.
I read the other day where truckers are considering selectively not delivering to certain liberal enclaves & Wash. DC is at the top of the list . Karma might just be a fickle bitch . Now that would be sweet .
How long till the contagion spreads to Boston? Chicago? Atlanta?
Remember the abuse Puerto Rico inflicted after the hurricane?
We’ll see the same containers rot and find secret storage areas the government hid from public on a massive scale
Brazil has that for driving in Sao Paulo, you can drive on certain days based on license plate last digit, odd or even number. It’s called Rodizio.
So those who can afford get 2 cars with different odd/even plates #.
But most people… Bus, subway, walk or bike.
I’m sorry………….SAY WHAT?
And sure enough as I’m typing this an email from Joe Biden comes through (I get the DNC. emails) and it says that I should be alarmed because Republicans want to end abortion.
Sundance said: “The reason is simple comrades, when the “voluntary rationing” phase concludes, those who have prepared are quickly cast as ‘hoarders” and targeted by those who created the desperation. It has always been thus.”
The Criminalization Of Preppers In Turkey: Will Your Country Be Next?
Then the criminalization of Turkish preppers began.
People there have started turning to tangibles. They saw what was coming – how things were taking a turn for the worse – and so they attempted to prepare for it.
Then, the ironically named Justice and Development Party (AKP) submitted a bill to the Turkish Parliament asking for fines of anywhere between what would be $7000 – $144,000 USD for those “hoarding….food and other goods”.
51 individuals were accused of “lowering dealership inventories,” which allegedly led to higher prices. The AKP fiddling around with their centralized banking system most certainly couldn’t be the cause. It must be the citizens’ fault that inflation is rocking the country.
And so, anybody who attempts to protect themselves from totalitarians must be stopped.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/criminalization-preppers-turkey-will-your-country-be-next
These infantile, cartoonish “public service messages” are the favored style of graphic illustration for the leftist nutcases. The cartoons usually depict a politically correct mishmash of “diversity,” and cartoon characters with mixed physical features that tend not to exist in the wild. So, you end up with an cartoon character who looks like a black white woman from India.