Posted on 07/08/2024 4:27:37 AM PDT by MtnClimber
We have seen how quickly Western governments will use every ‘emergency’ to dispatch basic civil liberties. We also know what’s coming.
Battered conservative syndrome is real! We have gotten clobbered over the head so many times during the last decade that we’re almost numb to the pain. Even worse, we’ve been conditioned to accept each new blow as if we somehow deserved it more than the last. We do not.
We have seen how quickly Western governments will use every “emergency” to dispatch basic civil liberties. We have watched American political operatives rig elections with mail-in-ballot fraud. We have endured online censorship of our political speech. We have been targets of gun-grabbing politicians seeking to disarm us. We have suffered discrimination from banks that refuse us service. We have remained mostly quiet as the DOJ treats J6 protesters as seditious traitors and blacklists the rest of us as likely terrorists. We have put up with Marxist prosecutors maliciously pursuing us for our personal beliefs. We have kept our heads down while corporate employers demand total obedience to their “woke” religion.
We also know what’s coming. The technological infrastructure for “vaccine” passports, digital IDs, central bank digital currencies, online speech codes, race-based privileges, AI surveillance, and social credit scores is being built right now. “Climate change” fanatics are making it harder and more expensive to grow food. Digital prison walls are going up all around us. “Green energy” regulators and technocratic snoops are creating a system that minimizes our freedom and maximizes their control. The question, then, is whether we use this foresight to prepare for the future or to complain about its inevitability.
I ran across someone online warning that the “green energy” Nazis were driving up the cost of energy so quickly that we would all freeze...
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
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A century ago, homeowners all over the country cultivated essential crops no matter how small their parcel of land. During both world wars, the federal government actively encouraged citizens to grow what they could, so as to increase the available food supply for our fighting forces overseas. Fast-forward to the present, and government agencies are actively discouraging homeowners from growing their own food.
Everyone should be forwarned by now.
prepper ping
>Battered conservative syndrome is real!
Well, the problem, 1st & foremost is: “conservatives”, whom have not only championed each/every abuse, but have been the ones to CREATE them (TSA, DHS, NSA, NCLB+)
B-E-S-T example is any call to abolish the illegal Ponzi schemes of SS/MediXYZ. Many “conservatives” cry, “But, but, I ‘paid’ into...” (having done no such thing. We’ve all been TAXED).
‘Conserving’ (the status quo) != supporting, adhering, upholding nor defending the Constitution.
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“A cynical person might conclude that the U.S. government does not want Americans to be self-sufficient because a self-sufficient population is much harder to manipulate.”
There’s not many of us left that even have the skills to do so. There IS a learning curve, so get started NOW!
There are many smart people out there that already live a more self-sufficient life and they can help you. Do what you can with what you have where you are. :)
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I just got a pressure canner for Ball jars. It is an All American model 930, made in Wisconsin.
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From the article) :" We have seen how quickly Western governments will use every ‘emergency’ to dispatch basic civil liberties.
We also know what’s coming."
"Battered conservative syndrome is real! We have gotten clobbered over the head so many times during the last decade that we’re almost numb to the pain.
Even worse, we’ve been conditioned to accept each new blow as if we somehow deserved it more than the last. We do not."
"We have seen how quickly Western governments will use every “emergency” to dispatch basic civil liberties.
We have watched American political operatives rig elections with mail-in-ballot fraud.
We have endured online censorship of our political speech.
We have been targets of gun-grabbing politicians seeking to disarm us.
We have suffered discrimination from banks that refuse us service.
We have remained mostly quiet as the DOJ treats J6 protesters as seditious traitors and blacklists the rest of us as likely terrorists.
We have put up with Marxist prosecutors maliciously pursuing us for our personal beliefs.
We have kept our heads down while corporate employers demand total obedience to their “woke” religion."
" We also know what’s coming.
The technological infrastructure for “vaccine” passports, digital IDs, central bank digital currencies, online speech codes, race-based privileges,
AI surveillance, and social credit scores is being built right now.
“Climate change” fanatics are making it harder and more expensive to grow food.
Digital prison walls are going up all around us.
“Green energy” regulators and technocratic snoops are creating a system that minimizes our freedom and maximizes their control.
The question, then, is whether we use this foresight to prepare for the future or to complain about its inevitability."
Yay! I’ve yet to get a pressure canner, but I have all the other GADGETS that canning entails. Everything was so scarce during CovidBS-19 that I am REALLY over-stocked now and plan on keeping it that way going forward. :)
Now, if the weather would DRY OUT and give me some warmer night-time temps I MIGHT get a ripe tomato or two from my 24 plants. ;)
Yes, GREAT Wisconsin company. Great History. Manitowoc is a great town. Very ‘industrious.’
It’s an excellent canner. I have one. Your great grandkids will be using it.
L
I have all those, too, and use them regularly.
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