You haven’t heard much from me lately because I’ve been on my August recess and mostly using that time to read and actively prepare.
In the course of my research I have spent some time reading blogs for preppers, and wow, what an interesting world that is. I know some of you are asking, ‘Ann where have you been?’ Well, not reading things like Modern Survival Blog and checking the prepper news aggregator Survival Pulse, but I am now.
These sites are a mix of how-to tips on everything a self-respecting survivalist needs to know and commentary on our present political scene.
I found this news (below) from Louisiana there, and I suggest strongly that you have a look at an older post at More than Just Survivingabout what not to do if you experience (God forbid) a home invasion.
Louisiana AG warns violent crime in US will reach ‘epidemic’ levels: ‘There’s a tipping point that’s coming in this country’
(as if we couldn’t tell!)
Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry believes that it was inevitable that violent crime in the U.S. will get worse and warns that given the current state of affairs in cities across the country, the worst is yet to come.
In a phone interview with Fox News, Landry said that while he has tried to be tough on crime in his state, he realized years ago that in other parts of the country there were signs that crime would reach “epidemic” levels.
“When I became attorney general back in 2016, one of the first things that we tackled was we took a very proactive fight against crime,” Landry said. “I predicted four and five years ago that this country was headed towards an extreme violent crime outbreak, that it was going to become an epidemic.”
With homicides and gun violence on the rise in cities across the country, Landry said he is not surprised.
That is what the UK Daily Mail is reporting, but I would love to see some stats about where all of those leaving their soiled nests are now resettling (and likely bringing those liberal policies that created the LA hellhole with them).
Hollywood’s Apocalypse NOW: Rich and famous are fleeing in droves as liberal politics and coronavirus turn City of Dreams into cesspit plagued by junkies and violent criminals
Today, Los Angeles is a city on the brink. ‘For Sale’ signs are seemingly dotted on every suburban street as the middle classes, particularly those with families, flee for the safer suburbs, with many choosing to leave LA altogether.
British-born Danny O’Brien runs Watford Moving & Storage. ‘There is a mass exodus from Hollywood,’ he says.
‘And a lot of it is to do with politics.’His business is booming. ‘August has already set records and we are only halfway through the month,’ he tells me.
‘People are getting out in droves. Last week I moved a prominent person in the music industry from a $6.5 million [£5 million] mansion above Sunset Boulevard to Nashville.’
O’Brien, 58, who moved to LA from London 34 years ago, is also planning to move to Tennessee.
‘Liberal politics has destroyed this city,’ he says. ‘The homeless encampments are legal and there’s nothing the police can do. White, affluent middle-class folk are getting out. People don’t feel safe any more.’
With movie studios still shuttered because of the coronavirus pandemic and businesses only just starting to remove the wooden boards put up after city-wide rioting following the death of George Floyd while being arrested by three white officers in Minneapolis, LA is now in the grip of white flight.
Rush Limbaugh at one point was advocating that the President should do campaign stops in California (and elsewhere) to highlight what has become of big Democrat run cities. What do you think?
Update: Think twice about packing your bags for Tennessee as even there the Republican governor is drinking the BLM Kool-Aid. Read the Dailyrollcall and see what I mean!
Three weeks ago today I talked about preppingfor possible increased social unrest that could mean shortages in grocery stores and an uptick in violence on city (small town!) streets.
How are you doing with your prepping? Time is growing short according to many observers who are following the evolution of what they expect to be a perfect storm.
Here is one such view suggesting that we don’t have until November—a date which most of us assume will bring Armageddon if Trump is elected to four more years in the White House—to prepare for the safety of your loved ones.
By the way, I find it very uncomfortable sounding like a fearmonger, but I see no downside to stocking up, locking up, and making plans with your family to defend what is yours. I think it’s mentally a good exercise to rid yourself of the “normalcy bias” and imagine some what-if scenarios so if all hell breaks loose you are mentally and physically prepared.
If no hell, then thank God, laugh at yourself and enjoy fewer trips to the store this winter.
Enjoy The Month Of August And Use It To Prepare, Because September Is Coming…
2020 has definitely been a chaotic year so far. The COVID-19 pandemic has greatly disrupted life all over the planet, we have witnessed a horrific economic downturn, and civil unrest has been raging in major U.S. cities for months. But the good news is that we appear to have hit a pocket of relative calm here in August.
Yes, global events are still going crazy, and the bizarre explosion that we just witnessed in Beirut is just one example. But compared to what we experienced during the first half of 2020 and compared to what we will experience during the last portion of this year, I believe that August should be relatively peaceful.
I would encourage everyone to enjoy this month as much as possible and to use it to prepare for what is ahead, because September is just around the corner.
Of course many Americans can’t imagine things getting much worse than they are right now. Gallup regularly asks Americans whether they are “satisfied” with the direction of the country or not, and what they have discovered is that the mood of the country has shifted dramatically since February, and this has especially been true among Republicans…
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I believe that this will be the most chaotic election period in modern U.S. history, and I believe that much more civil unrest is ahead.
In particular, I believe that a Donald Trump victory in November or a contested result that is decided by a long legal battle could set off a national temper tantrum that would be absolutely unprecedented.
Author Michael Snyder goes on to say that a lot depends on what happens with the Chinese virus, etc…..then this:
The period of time that we have entered has been described as “a perfect storm”, and as I have detailed previously, quite a few prominent voices have been specifically pointing to the month of September as a major turning point.
Of course the craziness will also continue throughout the rest of 2020 and into 2021 as well. And beyond that, we will see things happen that most Americans would not even want to imagine right now.
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I believe that this will be the strangest election season that any of us have ever seen, and I fully expect the craziness to begin next month.
Much more here. Be sure to see that Mr. Snyder has published a new book.
LOL! I see that author Michael Snyder attracted the attention of Ms. Miranda Blue of Right Wing Watchhere in 2017.
I had a few laughs at RRWover the years as the Wing Watchers extraordinaire, Ms. Blue, found me a worthy target. Here is one of several posts, this one in 2015 about yours truly. And, she found this post of mine an especially worthy target for her vitriol.
Things turned ugly as the pro-police group attempted to push the intruders out of the neighborhood with chants of “Commies go home!”
Police made several arrests. I watched a number of videos and it appears those arrested were on the side of Antifa/BLM.
The most important takeaway for me was to see this was happening, not on some big city street (like you saw in my post yesterday), but in a suburban neighborhood just like hundreds of thousands of other neighborhoods in America.
I’m guessing it will be getting worse as November approaches. Note how many of the marchers in DC are (silly, naive) white women.
I haven’t been visiting twitter much lately, but happened to see this tweet on Georgetown and then spent way too much time at #BlackLivesMatter.
As much as I don’t like twitter, I am reminded that most Americans have no clue about how anarchy and violence are spreading because the mainstream media rarely shows it.
#BlackLivesMatter protesters enter residential areas in Georgetown, Washington DC, just to wake up the “White, rich people” who are guilty of trying to sleep at night pic.twitter.com/DuckMAUfOD
