This is What Shopping Looks Like as the Antichrist Approaches

I finally did it. I broke down and ordered me a plate carrier.

A plate carrier is an unattractive vest that holds body armor plates. You can put four in, to protect you from all sides. It works great if you get shot where you happen to be covered by a plate, if you don’t mind broken ribs and so on. Unfortunately, many things most people consider important are not found in areas typically covered by plates.

The idea, I believe, is that it’s better to lose a part you don’t need to survive as long as your head remains alive. I’m not sure I agree, but that appears to be the philosophy.

Plates aren’t the whole picture. You have to get trauma pads. These are stiff foam pads that go behind the plates. When a bullet hits a plate, it may dent it, and it will definitely transmit energy to the person behind it. Pads are supposed to spread the impact out. I don’t know if they work. They look okay in Youtube videos people shoot behind their trailers.

You can also get ballistic helmets. I don’t like the word “ballistic.” It means nearly nothing. I would call them “anti-projectile” helmets. They’re not that great, in case you’re wondering. They’re supposed to be very good at protecting people from light shrapnel, but if you get shot in the head while wearing one, there is a good chance the bullet will go through OR it will push the helmet in so far, your skull will be broken. It’s still a lot better than the product most people wear in armed confrontations, which is nothing.

I don’t have a helmet. I felt like God wanted me to get armor, but I haven’t heard anything about helmets. That’s good, because a decent new one will run at least $450, and good luck finding one you can have in less than a month. You can get used military helmets for maybe $200, though.

Here’s the really sad thing about helmets: they’re disposable. At least the fancy plastic ones are. When a Kevlar helmet takes one shot, it pretty much shatters where the bullet hits it. The next round that hits in the same general area will not hit hard plastic. It will hit mushy broken plastic. The only remedy is a new helmet.

A couple of companies make steel helmets, but everyone makes fun of them. Not sure why. They’re just as light as plastic, they don’t push in nearly as much when they get shot, they don’t shatter when they get shot, and they work better around the edges. If you shoot a plastic helmet near an edge, it’s much more likely to let the bullet through. My best guess is that people hate steel helmets for the same reason people used to hate rifle scopes: a stupid, baseless resistance to change. But I don’t know much about the subject. It’s just an impression.

I was thinking it might be neat to have a thermal scope, in case Soros sends a busload of entitlement-minded, violent racists to my house at night. I could spot them hundreds of yards away, and they would have a pretty hard time getting close enough to me to fight back. Experts, however, say the in thing is a night vision monocular and an infrared laser. You put the monocular over one eye, you spot people in the dark, you light them up with a laser they can’t see, and then you light them up with something else.

It sounds pretty good, but I don’t think it would enable a person to hammer invaders from a really long distance. You wouldn’t see them until they were maybe a hundred yards off, and you would be in a lot of danger at that range.

Maybe the answer is a separate thermal doodad for picking up targets. You find them with it, and then you switch to night vision in order to deal with them. You could find an invader way off in the distance, which would be hard with night vision, and then once you knew where he was, you could use night vision to aim.

I don’t know. I’m just making up guesses using very limited information.

Okay; my guess was right. FLIR makes a product called the Breach. It’s a little monocular you can use to look around. And it’s dirt cheap. Only $2500. Let me check the couch cushions to see how much change I have.

A former Green Beret on Youtube says he carries a Breach for spotting, while backing it up with night vision. I guess I’m smarter than I thought.

Man, I would love to have a Breach. I could wander around my property locating critters for fun. But not $2500 worth of fun, I think.

It would be hell on coyotes and coons.

In the past, I have scoffed at people who talked about the need to be able to shoot bad guys at long distances. The main reason is that shooting a perp a long way off is nearly always murder. You can’t say you were reasonably afraid of great harm if you shot a guy with a knife a hundred yards away. But these are different times. These days, there is a real possibility that armed groups with very clear intentions might menace people from a hundred yards or more, leaving no practical way to avoid fighting. If 10 “protestors” with rifles start coming toward you from a long way off, and you know who they are and why they’re there, you can’t just wait until they get close enough to make police investigators happy. You have to start shooting while they’re still at a disadvantage.

The price of a night vision monocular is not far from the price of a Breach. I’m not sure why night vision monoculars cost so much. I bought a night vision scope for $600, from a company that also makes highly regarded monoculars. Anyway, if you wanted thermal for spotting and night vision for closing the deal, you would be looking at the price of a good used car.

It’s cheaper than a funeral, granted. But a lot of intelligent, informed people expect to do well with a $500 AR-15 and three or four mags full of ball ammo. Kyle Rittenhouse had no armor, no helmet, and no weird optics, and he successfully battled a large crowd of vicious armed aggressors bent on murdering him in the street. He killed two, maimed one, scared the rest off, and didn’t damage property or hurt the innocent.

I don’t know why I find this stuff interesting. Christianity is primarily about love. I really can’t see myself shooting anyone. Sometimes you want to be able to do a thing even if you don’t want to do it. I would be highly disturbed if I hurt anyone, even to protect innocent life, but the knowledge that I can hurt the wicked is still comforting.

Newly-Minted Beef Tycoon Solves Your Problems

To answer the question I know you want to ask, yes, I have mastered the art of making beef jerky.

It’s like saying you’ve mastered the art of stirring coffee, but still.

Making jerky is extremely easy, but as is the case with many foods, you can have problems because people provide bad information.

Yes, Alton Brown is on my mind. How did you guess?

Alton Brown says to marinate jerky for 3-6 hours. I tried that. Like many tips from Alton Brown (Shun knives cough cough), it does not work. You would be surprised how long it takes marinade to get into a thin piece of beef. I made my first batch of jerky his way, and it was okay, but it was not as flavorful as store jerky. Yesterday I made a batch using beef that had been soaking for about a day, and it was very flavorful. Hand it to someone who didn’t know any better, and he would think it came from a factory.

It might actually be good to dilute the marinade or to go 12 hours. My jerky is so full of marinade flavor, it almost covers the meat taste. This morning I put a piece in my mouth while I was closing the bag, and in the few seconds I was holding it, I started to drool on myself. More than usual.

Brown also says to slice beef as thin as possible. Bad idea. When jerky is too thin, it gets too dry, it’s no fun to eat because it’s tiny and crumbly, and it takes up way too much room in the dehydrator. If slicing jerky 1/4″ thick makes a pound of beef cover three shelves, slicing it half as thick makes it take up 6. How big is your dehydrator? Do you really want to take over twice as long per ounce of jerky, and to clean everything twice?

I like 1/4″ slices. They work. When you eat a piece of jerky made from 1/4″-thick beef, you know you’re eating something. It’s not like chewing air.

I also learned that smoking the meat is a waste of time. To give Brown a little credit, he recommends liquid smoke. Real jerky manufacturers have smokers, but I did it both ways, and if there is a difference, it’s not worth the effort.

You don’t need to cook your jerky in the oven, either. Do your own safety research instead of listening to me, but my dehydrator heats to 155°, and my jerky was not raw when I took it out.

Final thing: don’t overdry your jerky. A lot of people recommend going up to 13 hours. That’s lunacy. Yesterday I went from noon until around 5 p.m. at 155°, using jerky up to 1/4″ thick, and it was dryer than it needed to be.

Here is what I recommend:

Use eye round roast. Maybe other cuts will work. This one is guaranteed.

Soak your meat for at least 12 hours.

Use liquid smoke instead of smoking.

Cut the meat at least 1/4″ thick.

Don’t bother cooking the meat before drying it.

Be very careful not to overdry the meat.

Use 1-1/3 cups of marinade per pound of beef, and marinate in a bag to make the marinade go further.

Use the same “secret” recipe everyone else uses. Here is what I used, and you can substitute ingredients.

INGREDIENTS

2/3 cup Worcestershire sauce
2/3 cup soy sauce
2 tbsp. brown sugar
2 tsp. pepper
1/2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. garlic powder
1 tsp. Liquid Smoke
2 tsp. Thai chili sauce (not sriracha, although sriracha would work)

I think teriyaki jerky will result if you use pure soy sauce and add a bunch of fresh ginger. Just a guess, but how could it not work? If you like spicy jerky, use more chili sauce. I’ll bet you would have figured that out on your own.

There must be a thousand recipes that work just fine. Everyone pretends their recipe is astonishing and special, but they’re not. It’s extremely simple.

I don’t get Alton Brown. Is he ever right? He’s wrong about knives, jerky, and steaks. Is there ever a good reason to listen to him? I can make bad food just fine without his help. If I look to someone else for tips, obviously, I want tips that actually work. Otherwise, I waste food and my time.

I guess the answer is to use his advice, but only when it has been tested by people you can trust. Good luck finding any! People who fawn on TV chefs will defend them even when their food tastes like sawdust mixed with dog chow.

Some guy on Youtube recommends the Presto Dehydro dehydrator. He says you can buy a small one and add shelves later. I have not tried it. The small one is $40.

I have a 9-tray Excalibur I bought a long time ago, when prepping first entered the mainstream of American conservative thought. You can’t buy one now. If you go to their website, you’ll see that they’re sold out. Maybe that should concern you. Maybe God has been warning a lot of people.

If you simply buy your own jerky, you won’t spend a whole lot more, and of course, jerky is not the unique solution to food supply chain interruptions. You can buy beans, macaroni, canned fish, canned soup, protein bars, protein powder, canned milk, rice, white flour, and all sorts of other stuff. You can buy butter on sale and make ghee, which doesn’t need refrigeration. You can even buy fancy bagged bugout rations, which seem ridiculous to me. You need water and heat to make them work, and if I have water and heat, then why not make something resembling real food, for a tenth of the price?

I’m pleased with my jerky. It will last at least a year, even without oxygen-sucking packets to extend its viability. My dried apples will last years, plural. If a food crisis lasts more than a year, it means the tribulation is here, big time, so a few crisis supplies, or a garden, won’t really help.

Here’s something preppers don’t seem to talk about: human beings are resilient. We find new ways to cooperate and survive. If blue-staters manage to deprive us of stuff to keep nuclear plants going, we’ll adapt and use our endless supply of coal and oil. If they kill our cell service, we’ll build networks. If they confiscate our bank and security accounts, we’ll create our own banks and securities firms. We have the vast majority of the farmland, we have the oil and the coal, we have lots of industry (not like the 1860’s), we are much better at fighting, and we have God on our side. We even control a lot of California farmland. Unless the tribulation itself comes down on us, we should be able to keep civilization going in “Jesusland,” as Der Spiegel calls conservative America, regardless of whether there is a civil war. We may get damaging interruptions, but they would last weeks, not years. That’s my opinion at this moment.

I’ve probably said it before, but I always think of this when I think of prepper scenarios: Jews in Auschwitz had submachine guns and hand grenades. Look it up. People have ways of getting what they need when God is with them.

I have been too pessimistic about the dystopian future. Barring the complete manifestation of the tribulation, things shouldn’t be all that bad in red America. Even in the tribulation, billions of non-prepping human beings will survive 7 years. They will wish they had died, but still.

I think blue America has more to fear, and that makes sense, because they reject God more completely. They don’t produce a lot of food or oil, the police and military will break against them, they don’t know how to fight, they don’t have the kind of armament we have, and they are burdened with huge numbers of ignorant, hostile, ungovernable welfare addicts who will do nothing but complain, riot, and steal. People who live on the government nipple will be useless for fighting and government works, and they will attack the people who are actually able to get things done. Blue society may decapitate itself, as it did in Cambodia. Without competent people to organize and command, how will a new nation of mindless terrorists pose a threat to red-staters? If they were any good at anything, they wouldn’t be what they are today.

I suppose this situation would breed a new crop of blue-state conservatives, too late to do them any good. There will be a price for being a virtue-signaling poser.

Let’s say Orlando residents rise up against people in my red county and try to kill us and take what we have. First, you would have to organize that kind of rabble and get them to act in concert. Can’t be done to any significant degree. Maybe you would get occasional caravans of unintelligent, selfish, unskilled people who would be more likely to shoot each other than to harm me or my neighbors. Second, you would have to get them to drive a long way to attack. That’s not something they’re inclined to do. They’re inclined to loot stores and homes that are within walking distance, and they are inclined to prey on each other because it’s convenient and they are lazy. History proves this. Third, they would have to be able to overcome us when they arrive. So people who don’t know how to shoot would have to overcome entrenched, orderly, easily commanded, highly motivated 2A proponents, many of whom enjoy shooting scoped rifles, and many of whom are sitting on large stockpiles of ammunition.

Anyone who can kill a deer at 200 yards can kill a person at the same distance. What percentage of our modern terrorists can hit anything at 7 yards?

Think about Kyle Rittenhouse. He was up against at least two assailants with firearms, and he maimed one of them. He also killed a “man” armed with a skateboard and a third person who was attacking him. He did it quickly and easily, he didn’t harm the innocent, and he got away. That’s a picture of future encounters if America has a civil war. People who aren’t ready shouldn’t start trouble with people who are. A gun doesn’t make you a factor unless you know how to use it.

To shoot invaders on my land, I would just have to get a big screen TV box and put it in the pasture. I would wait for them to fight over it, and then they’d be easy pickings. They might even kill each other and save me the trouble.

I guarantee you, we would have a real militia in place before the Antichrist’s ad hoc troops arrived. I wouldn’t have to go it alone. I wouldn’t have to stay awake every night, peering across my land with a thermal scope in order to kill invaders before they arrived at the house. There would be patrols and watches. The sheriff and the police departments would be everywhere, helping coordinate the effort. It would be the exact opposite of the situation in blue cities, where people would be too busy looting, burning, killing, and raping to think about coordinated sorties into other areas.

There would also be large prayer meetings here, all the time. That’s the most important thing.

Life would be different for stubborn conservatives who live in places like New York and LA. They would be killed in their yards or in front of their apartment buildings, by people who see them (or pretend to see them) as thieves and traitors. Law enforcement could not save them. The neighborhoods of professional victims are too big; the supply of murderers is too abundant. Conservatives, Jews, and Christians (not fake Marxist Christians) would drown in seas of demon-controlled handout addicts. So would their children.

It would be nice to offer my property as a shelter for unprepared blue-area friends, but how would I feed them, and how would they get here? Sometimes you can’t help people even if you want to. I know a number of people who would like to hole up here. Can’t take all of them. Maybe a few, if they bring their own food. If trying to help your family just means I have to starve along with you, it’s not helpful at all.

Once the closest ones arrived, the rest would probably be up the creek.

It’s interesting to speculate about the future. I just hope God removes me before things get bad. If I’m storing up arms, ammunition, and food for people who will be left behind, fine with me. They are welcome to it as long as I’m with God. It’s a fantastic trade.

In the meantime, I enjoy my little efforts at preparing food. Hope it goes bad because I never need it, but it’s comforting to make an effort.

Cuomo Dusts Off Centuries-Dead Libel

This just in from New York City: Jews spread disease!

Wait…that sounds familiar. Let me Google.

Okay, Wikipedia has the goods. When the black plague hit Europe for the first time, Jews were blamed. They were accused of poisoning wells. And they admitted their guilt! Well…after a little torture.

That’s something for people who support torturing terrorists to think about. I would confess to being a chicken before I would let myself be tortured. It’s not a great way to get sound information.

Wikipedia says anti-Semitic violence swept Europe during the plague years, and in one place, 2000 Jews were burned alive. One wonders if scientists in that area checked plague statistics to see if things got better after the well-poisoners were dead. Maybe I should not belittle medieval scientists. We can’t even get modern scientists to admit putting sick old people in long-term care facilities caused covid to blow up in New York, or that mask edicts and lockdowns are not correlated with reduced infection rates. Those things are clearly true, but we’re still told to remember our place and do as we’re told.

It shouldn’t shock us if old prejudices flare up among ignorant people (such as politicians) in spite of common sense, but it’s remarkable that scientists remain as biased and irrational as ever.

Governor Cuomo, the mastermind behind the old-folks-home catastrophe, is now going after Jews in New York City. To his shock and dismay, religious Jews insist on practicing their religion. This involves gathering in large groups. You can’t really do what Jews do with everyone standing inside his own 6-foot circle; it was pathetic enough when Biden tried it with press conferences. Cuomo is said to be sending various types of government hassle-merchants into a Jewish area, to fine and cite people into submission. One man who owns a restaurant that only does takeout business was fined for leaving his front door open to let fresh air in. The crime? Opening for dining.

Cuomo is stepping in because he didn’t find Mayor DiBlasio’s targeted efforts harsh enough, and guess what Cuomo called his delousing…I mean anti-coronavirus campaign? The “Cluster Action Initiative.” Does that sound familiar? The Nazis called their effort to exterminate Polish Jews “Aktion Reinhard.” They called their euthanasia operation “Aktion T4.” When they decided to kill concentration camp prisoners who were not useful to them, they called it “Aktion 14f13.” It was better known as “special treatment.”

Who is giving Cuomo dictation? Satan himself?

Are there no Jewish people in his administration? I’m a gentile, and I saw the problem with the name immediately. Hasn’t anyone pointed this out to Cuomo? Since when has the party of warm and fuzzy bunnies started using the language of military aggressors to describe health initiatives?

Leftists also blame Christians for coronavirus. They closed our churches. They have tried repeatedly to link Trump rallies to outbreaks, although no one is making any effort to caution BLM and Antifa terrorists, who wander the streets in huge throngs. In the minds (“mind”?) of leftists, “Trump supporter” is just another way of saying “Christian.”

Leftists can do whatever they like, no matter how likely it is to spread disease, and the MSM stays silent, but let two Jews or Christians get together to pray or root for Donald Trump, and journalists scream “SUPERSPREADERS!” as though all the viruses wore crucifixes and little red hats.

The spirit of antichrist hates both Christians and Jews. It is the spirit behind anti-Semitism, and it has also driven persecution of Christians. You may think this can’t be true, because Jews persecuted and murdered early Christians, and Christians have murdered many Jews. You don’t understand how it works. Like any evil spirit, the spirit of Antichrist likes to take the people it hates and turn them into programmed assassins. It loves pitting us against each other. What’s better than having loyal servants who torment and kill your enemies? Turning your enemies into loyal servants who do the killing for you, with gladness.

It’s bad when your persecutors kill you in spite of dogged resistance, but you haven’t really been humiliated, violated, and defeated until you’ve been fooled into doing the dirty work for them. You can’t get any lower than that.

Sooner or later, in order for the tribulation to get going, Christians and Jews have to be slandered and demonized so effectively a substantial portion of the world’s population wants to get rid of them forever. That’s where we’re headed. Coronavirus is being used to herd us in that direction.

Religious people believe that the effective practice of their religions is more important than receiving optimal protection from a contagious disease that kills a tiny percentage of its victims. They want to please God, help others, and avoid punishment in the next life. The Antichrist’s people believe this life (“your best life”) is all there is, and they listen to the spirits that control the MSM. They listen to the nonsense about covid being a major plague that kills huge numbers of people. They see religious people as dangerous, superstitious savages who should no longer be humored. They feel entitled to control us with rules premised on the notions that God does not exist and that holding onto this miserable life is so important, human rights should be nullified in exchange for marginal increases in safety.

The Antichrist’s people may not believe in Satan, but they listen to him all day, and he tells them the same things he told the Romans, the Nazis, and the Marxists: Christians and Jews are a problem that needs to be addressed.

Cuomo may be able to point to infection maps and say he’s only going after Jewish areas because they have a high covid rate. The real problem, though, isn’t just that he’s infringing First Amendment rights or generally being overzealous. It’s also the inflammatory language, which is heavy on references to Jews. Cuomo and his underlings keep characterizing the local infection rate as a Jewish problem, and he complains about Jewish “clusters.” Then there is his use of the phrase “Cluster Action Initiative,” which sounds like the forced cleansing of a Jewish ghetto.

Cuomo runs the risk of mainstreaming anti-Semitism and making it acceptable. Once that happens, ignorant people in the streets will take over. People who are too stupid to draw logical distinctions will not know the difference between “social distancing good” and “Jews bad.” There are a lot of rank anti-Semites in New York already, especially among blacks and Hispanics, and they don’t need a power-mad governor giving them license to commence pogroms.

It’s very sad. Jews helped elect this man. Jews in America invariably vote for their enemies and demonize their friends. In Israel, they name streets after Donald Trump. Here, they empower the people who hate them most, and they fear the people who send more charity money to Israel than all Jews combined.

It will get worse, and America Jews will continue to appease. They support appeasing terrorists in Israel, and now they’re supporting domestic terrorism which will eventually focus more intently on them. We have already seen leftist provocateurs going after “Wall Street bankers.” Which ethnic group is primarily identified with Wall Street and banking?

If it’s rewarding to chop your enemy’s head off, how much more rewarding is it to persuade him pay for and sharpen the hatchet, to make him believe his friends detest him, and to convince him you’re the best friend he has? It’s a beautiful thing, if revenge can have beauty.

In one of the Hannibal Lecter novels, Lecter gives a pedophile drugs. He convinces him he wants to have a good time with him. Then while the man is giggling and enjoying himself, Lecter persuades him to cut his own face off, eat part of it, and feed the rest to dogs. He also cons him into putting one of his own eyes out and breaking his own neck. That’s how Satan does things. It’s not enough to hurt you. He has to make you take pleasure in hurting yourself.

Jews and Christians will become more and more unpopular. Violence against them will increase. Eventually, the state will endorse all of it. The tribulation is on the way, and America is not going to wise up and prepare.

Speaking my Mime

This morning Usurvivable Killer Hurricane Eta passed over my house. When I woke up after an uneventful and restful sleep, I looked out the window and noticed that it was completely still. Then I checked the Internet to find out if I had the date wrong. No, I was right under Eta. Probably in the north eyewall.

Have I been watching the news, like a responsible person? Of course not. People who watch the weather news are not responsible. They are just gullible.

They were telling us 73-mph gusts were on the way. Did they actually believe it, or were they just trying to sell more diapers and SUV’s? It’s impossible to know. When people lie to you over and over, you can’t evaluate anything they say without corroboration from credible sources. It’s like listening to Joe Biden talk about fracking. Or, well, anything else.

Remember how the Weather Channel got caught faking the intensity of the wind? A reporter was leaning into the wind like he was trapped behind a jet engine, and people entered the frame, walking normally. Guess what? They’re still doing it.

I think the worst thing about their antics is that they don’t credit the master. They never mention the man who taught them everything they know. It’s criminal. I won’t stand for it.

Here, then, is the granddaddy of all Weather Channel hurricane reporters. Enjoy.

“You Have Already Been Found Guilty; Now we Must Look for the Evidence”

They say the Internet is forever. I have thought about this a lot. When you have a blog that amounts to more writing than a medium-sized dictionary, and when there are uninvited organizations that gather and store whatever you publish, there is zero hope of deleting your words and claiming you never wrote them. When twisted leftists rivaling Castro and Pol Pot run America, they will have a mountain of evidence to use against me when they purge society of deplorables and bitter clingers.

I’ve written a lot about firearms, and recently, I’ve written about my concern that the terrorists whose events are erupting like carbuncles all over America will one day show up on my farm to do me in, making it necessary that I either shoot them or accept martyrdom quickly.

“Red flag” laws are popular now. The idea is that if there is evidence a person is likely to commit violent crime, the state should drop in, take all of his firearms, and take whatever other action it finds appropriate. Have I red-flagged myself by writing about the possibility that I will have motivation to shoot people? Are you in the same boat? Have you posted things on the web that might tick the right boxes?

When the true kooks take over, the red-flag threshold will be very low. Owning a gun should do it. As of now, in a time when those in charge in my state are only mildly kooky, I believe you have to be a genuine, obvious head case to get in trouble. That’s probably more true in my county, where, my guess is, the sheriff himself would stand beside me and lay down fire from my front porch.

One of the things snowflakes look at when they determine whether a person is a dangerous nut is the number of firearms that person owns. They also look at ammunition. Anyone who has more than two guns or a hundred rounds has what is known as a “home arsenal.” The correct term for a big stockpile of arms and ammunition is “armory,” but never mind.

Snowflakes don’t know one type of gun from another. If they knew anything about guns, they wouldn’t be snowflakes. They think rifles and shotguns are the same things. They think semiautomatics are machine guns. A person who has 10 hunting weapons and one pistol for self-defense has a “home arsenal” as far as your average journalist is concerned.

Snowflakes don’t know the difference between a cache compiled in anticipation of conflict and a sporting weapons collection. They don’t know how many rounds a normal, law-abiding enthusiast might reasonably go through in a month. They can’t distinguish between stockpiles created by crackpots and ordinary reserves gathered by ordinary people who have nothing but good intentions.

Contrary to what snowflakes think, a box containing a thousand rounds of ammunition is not a cache. It’s enough for 10 normal range days, assuming you’re a frugal shooter. It’s completely reasonable, and for someone who likes to practice, it makes good economic sense to have 20 or 30 times that much. Every time you buy ammunition online (the cheapest way), you have to pay for shipping, and very often, the cost is the same whether you buy 1000 rounds or one round. You would have to be simple to buy small amounts. Also, America has a history of shortages now, so stocking up is just common sense. On top of that, it’s a good investment. If I had bought 1000 boxes of 9mm ammo at $8 per box last year, could sell it this year for $30 per box, and people would kiss my feet to get it.

Snowflakes can’t tell the difference between Fudds, 2A proponents who are firm but not aggressive, and Boogaloo, NFAC-style morons who pray for the day they can put on their plate carriers and shoot random citizens.

A Fudd, named for Elmer Fudd, is a left-of-center fake 2A proponent. Somehow, these people have gotten the idea that the Second Amendment has something to do with hunting. They think they should be allowed to have low-capacity rifles and shotguns for shooting animals, but they’re all for banning weapons that are actually useful for self-defense. Fudds are a problem because in their ignorance, they contaminate the true 2A community and drag everyone else down with them.

A sane 2A proponent understands that our Constitutional was written solely to allow citizens to own and carry military-style arms. Such a person objects to laws that infringe those rights, but he doesn’t sit around at night playing violent video games and wishing they were real.

Boogaloo-style nuts are mindless, hateful anarchists who are socially stunted and haven’t developed normal human characteristics like love, compassion, or a concern for fairness. They like firearms and firearms rights for the worst possible reasons, many are not conservative, and they probably represent less than 1% of the 2A crowd.

Snowflakes think anyone who has a lot of guns is a maniac waiting to snap. Well, maybe I should not do this, but I’ll be transparent. I have a fair number of guns, but when it comes to defensive weapons, the list is pretty short. I have a small number of defensive rifles and pistols. The other guns are for fun.

It’s true that my other guns COULD be used defensively, as could kitchen knives. I don’t think of them as tools of violence, though. I admit, I ordered myself a red dot scope just in case anyone ever needs to use my AR-15 to preserve human life or prevent a forcible felony, but I consider the AR-15 to be a poor choice for self-defense, and I bought it for pleasure. I have some revolvers, but revolvers are sorry choices for violent confrontations. They’re heavy, they take a long time to reload, they have low capacities, and they jam just like automatics.

Some people defend revolvers, but the truth is that a revolver is always a second choice. No informed person carries a revolver unless there is some reason why he can’t carry a semiautomatic.

So anyway, as HOME ARSENALS go, mine is pretty ordinary, except that I was smart enough to buy ammunition before things went crazy.

As for my intentions, you would have to be extremely determined and very persistent to get me to shoot at you, and you would almost certainly have to be in the process of invading my home. Do they red-flag people for threatening to process home invaders? Not yet. Not in Florida, I mean. Next year? Maybe.

I have never desired to join a militia, where I might have to take orders from a guy who works at Tractor Supply, and I am positive guerrilla warfare and civil war are not the answers to our problems.

I suppose I’m safe until the hard core wack jobs take over. May I be gone from the earth before that happens. I’m sure they would join me in that wish.

Maybe you’ve been cagey and kept your beliefs and capabilities off the web. Good for you. The rest of us will understand if you put on Biden hats and wave at us when they haul us away.

I Have a Panic HOUSE

Today I am having my roof fixed. I’m paying $1000 for something I could probably do myself, but I am not interested in rolling off the roof and becoming a permanent yard ornament. I’m also not excited about having my ceiling fall because I didn’t know how to do roofing correctly.

I wanted to put blinds in my former dining room before the roofers showed up. Why? Because it’s a workshop/gun room now. I have a lot of ammunition in that room, and anyone looking into a window would know what it was. These days, ammunition is like gold. You can buy it, but if it’s a popular caliber, you’re likely to shell out three times what it cost last year.

Roofing companies are a top resource for released prison inmates. If you can’t get a job anywhere else, a roofer will probably take a chance on you. Good information to have, if you’re a homeowner or, perhaps more importantly, a homeowner’s wife or daughter. The thought of an electrician or plumber seeing my stuff doesn’t concern me all that much. Roofers are different.

Sadly, I signed a contract before buying blinds, and I didn’t think I had time to get them installed before the roofers showed up, so I didn’t do anything.

Today the roofers showed up without warning, so moving my ammunition out of sight, one container at a time, was not an option. Someone was looking out for me, however, because I had my ammunition loaded on a wheeled shelf unit. I rolled it into a hallway, and I was all set.

I should have bought these shelves a lot sooner. I cheaped out at first. I bought plastic shelves from Home Depot. I wrote about this a couple of days ago. They run $40 each, and when you overload them, they bend. Mine bent. The shelves I have now are fancy chromed Seville Classics jobs from Amazon. I have two units. One is mostly dedicated to ammunition. The other is for reloading components and other items. I have hundreds of pounds on the first one, and it’s not sagging at all. Wish I could say the same of myself.

I moved one of my plastic shelves to the laundry room, where it has become my paranoia storage area.

I went to Walmart yesterday for dishwashing powder and salt, and I bought a big, heavy bag of jasmine rice. I also picked up 4 pounds of great northern beans, canned salmon, two large jars of Skippy, and 6 pounds of pasta. This is a lot of food. One person could probably go a month on it. I also have 6 gallon cans of Stanislaus pizza sauce.

You would think a long-term food supply would take up a lot of room and cost a lot of money, but you would be wrong. My shelf unit is maybe 25% full. My total bill at Walmart was around $80, and I bought a lot of things unrelated to preparation.

I plan to add more rice and maybe some different beans. I have 48 cans of tuna on the way. I want to dry apples. When you’re from Appalachia, not having dried apples is uncivilized. Ordinarily, drying apples is a pain because of bugs, but I have a screened-in pool, so no flies.

I checked into generators. Not a great option, unfortunately. I would have to spend close to $20,000 to get a whole-house rig that would cost me $5 per hour to run. That’s about $3600 per month for electricity, assuming diesel would even be available, and the price would go way up in a crisis. Unless you have your own natural gas well or hydroelectric plant, I think you can pretty well expect to do without power in a hard core prepper scenario. Maybe you can run your laptop off solar panels.

I wonder if people are buying manual pumps for their wells.

There is zero fresh water near me, unless you count swampy ponds.

I suppose I’ll have to hope we still have power during the civil war.

The Internet says my power company uses a mix of coal, uranium, “biomass,” and natural gas. What is “biomass”? Chicken manure, maybe? Is there anything chicken manure can’t do?

Let’s see. Coal comes from the South, so that may still be available after the North turns on us. Natural gas comes from the South. I would guess that biomass comes from the South. Would we still have nuclear power? The plants are in-state, but would we be able to get uranium? Maybe the Chinese would sell it to us on Alibaba or Banggood.

There is a lot of oil in Jesus-friendly areas, and there are also many refineries. That’s good.

If you would like to dry your own apples, I have the ultimate tip. Spend $25 on an apple peeler. They really work. You can core, peel, and slice an apple in 5 seconds. I should go get apples today. You can dry them by setting them on a window screen.

I don’t like factory dried apples, because they put a chemical on them to keep them white. It kills the flavor. To get the real flavor of dried apples, you need to avoid that stuff. Real dried apples taste like apple butter. Factory apples taste like air.

The future is uncertain. Are we looking at a few weeks of pro-Biden terrorist riots followed by a crackdown and resumed calm, will we have a full-blown civil war complete with drawn borders, or will we simply move into an Israel-type situation in which terrorism is a normal part of daily life? Actually, we’re already in that situation, except that the acts of terrorism committed here haven’t been as serious as the ones Israelis face.

A full-blown civil war with new borders would be a catastrophe, because leftists would freeze or simply steal the bank and security accounts of conservatives and centrists, and they would also cut off our access to phones, the Internet, and credit. Leftists would probably be massacred routinely due to their inferior capacity for violence. They’re pretty good at throwing bottles of pee, but they would do poorly while trying to familiarize themselves with firearms, camouflage, tactics, and so on. Jesus people have been shooting, hunting, and serving in the military for centuries.

My hat is off to people who think they can do well after a total breakdown of society. It would be very hard to prepare sufficiently well to guarantee that. I figure it’s realistic to prepare for a bad month or two, tops, and I see no hope of providing my own electricity over long periods. I will have to bank on a future in which companies in my area adapt and continue producing power.

Should I cut some firewood? Arrgh. Anything but that.

In my area, I would probably need wood for maybe 45 days. That’s a lot of wood. To prepare it, I would need to create huge snake-infested piles which would eventually attract termites and rot.

I have a lot of downed wood already. Maybe I should just wait and see what happens. I can cut it into firewood if I have to. I was going to burn it, but maybe it has value.

In any case, there is no possibility my ammunition will get the roofers excited today.

The Biggest Scandal Your Neighbors Will Never Know About?

If you’re not conservative, you may be amazed to learn that Rudy Giuliani has a copy of a laptop hard drive belonging to Hunter Biden, the son of Joe Biden. People who watch Fox and get their news from the Internet instead of TV and newspapers are well aware of the story, but the leftist press, including Facebook and Twitter, is actively censoring it.

Hunter Biden is an influence salesman. Whose influence does he sell? One likely name comes to mind. Hunter Biden is a drug addict who was discharged from the Navy because of his problems, he fathered a son with a stripper, and he’s a Yale-educated lawyer who doesn’t seem to be able to make it as an attorney. It’s hard to imagine bigwigs other than Joe Biden lining up to work with him.

I am not on a first-name basis with this man, obviously, but in order to distinguish him from his father, and to avoid typing “Hunter Biden” over and over, I will refer to him as Hunter.

The hard drive contains disturbing photos of Hunter, along with an 11-minute video of a man who appears to be Hunter, engaging in a sex act with a woman. One photo shows Hunter with a crack pipe in his mouth. Text in the hard drive suggests Hunter sells access to his father to the Chinese.

Democrats are calling the data “Russian disinformation,” and they’re saying Giuliani–the star prosecutor who took down the mafia–is an unreliable dupe who is easily taken in by fake evidence. The problem with this theory, as Giuliani has noted, is that a person claiming to be Hunter’s attorney demanded that his client’s property–the hard drive–be returned. If the hard drive is fake, it’s not Hunter’s property, and it would be unethical for an attorney to lie in order to get it.

Unless Giuliani is making the story up, Hunter’s legal representative has conceded the genuineness of the hard drive.

Emails in the hard drive say an interest in a foreign deal was set aside for H, and a source confirms that H is Joe Biden. Another message in the drive informs Hunter’s daughter he won’t take half her salary like Joe Biden would. The implication is that Joe Biden is receiving half of Hunter’s profits.

That would be a little sick. Biden became rich through his political position, and everyone who knows anything about taxes knows you do NOT let your children give you wealth. You should always look for ways to transfer wealth to them in order to avoid inheritance taxes. A rich parent who skims money from a less-wealthy child is like an animal that eats its young.

Twitter is banning mention of the story, which appears in The New York Post (a reputable mainstream outlet), and so is Facebook. Twitter’s rationale is that they don’t publish “hacked” material. Unfortunately for Twitter, Hunter abandoned the laptop at a repair shop, and he signed a waiver saying it would become the shop’s property if he did not pick it up. You can’t hack yourself. The people at Twitter know this. Technology is their thing, and they have lawyers. Twitter is censoring the story because they know it hurts Biden’s chances of being elected.

We have reached a predictable (and predicted) point in history in which a big percentage of Americans get their news from social media. Because social media firms are not bound by the First Amendment, they are allowed to restrict speech arbitrarily. We saw this coming, and our legislators did nothing to protect us. As a result, a few kooky, spoiled, far-left tech kids now have the ability to keep legitimate news from tens of millions of irresponsible Americans who make no effort to find reliable news.

It certainly looks like Biden (the elder) made a lot of money from selling influence or at least access through his son, after saying he never discussed his son’s business with him because of the conflict of interest. That, unlike the fake Russian Trump dossier financed by Hillary Clinton or the debunked collusion scandal, would be a very big deal. But if you ask your Democrat or swing-voter neighbor about it, he may have no idea what you’re talking about, even if he watches the news twice a day.

For a few years, I’ve been disturbed to see conservatives gloating about their political successes. We barely got Bush elected, we lost the presidency to a previously obscure mediocrity twice in a row, and then we barely got Trump elected. Somehow, many conservatives thought this history showed that we owned the world. I’ve seen people on the web talking about the death of leftism, as though it were a done deal. I wondered how anyone could be that dumb.

They’re even smug about the Supreme Court. Well, guess what? Clarence Thomas is fat, old, black, and fond of tobacco, Roberts is unreliable, and there is no legal barrier to packing the court. If the Democrats want to put 150 liberal judges on the court, leaving 6 conservatives to oppose them, they can do it.

America becomes less conservative every year, we don’t have the House, we are close to losing the Senate, Biden is ahead in the polls, and if Trump loses, the Supreme Court is Biden’s for the asking, as soon as next year. We are on the edge of a precipice, and many of us are too stupid to see it.

Now leftists in the information industry are doing what smart people predicted years ago. They’re choking conservatives out of public forums. Because we rely on their platforms so much, they can destroy our ability to speak and amplify the voices that oppose us without committing a technical violation of the law. The First Amendment still exists, and it’s still the law, but it no longer matters much. It protects us from the government, but the government isn’t the aggressor.

Having the right to speak means nothing if you’re speaking to three friends in your backyard and your opponent is reaching a billion people on Facebook, with help from Facebook’s promotional algorithms.

It will be very strange if Biden is elected, the laptop story finally gets to the public, and Biden is impeached and removed. I suppose impeachment will be impossible, however, because Democrats in the House will not hold one of their own accountable. They have no integrity.

Hunter is the most interesting part of the story. His father is aggressive, mean, dishonest, highly ambitious, and ruthless. Hunter does not seem to be cut from the same cloth. He appears to be unambitious, nonaggressive, sensitive, and easily dominated. The impression one gets from reading his communications and seeing his photos is that he was raised by a domineering, selfish dad who pushed him around and wrecked his self-image. It’s just an impression, but it makes me wonder.

He seems like a more honest person than Joe. He has admitted he probably wouldn’t have gotten where he is but for his dad. Joe would never admit a thing like that. Joe is not bright. He graduated near the bottom of his law school class, at a low-ranked school. He plagiarizes because he can’t have original or clever thoughts. Joe compensates by lying and bullying. If you questioned Joe’s merits, he would challenge you to a pushup contest, make a patently false claim of high intelligence, call you a name, and accuse you of being some kind of plant.

Here is a sad excerpt from a text Hunter sent:

my brother and I were
required to go to mass
every sunday growing up.
Just the three of us-Bean
my Dad and me. It was an
event-as long as we had
on a clean shirt and pants and
combed our hair we were ready to go. But
it was mandatory. And the
truth is U hated moss for
the post part. It always
seemed hollow to me. more
a an exercise in commitment than an act of
spirituality.
We were almost always late. We always sat in
the back or stood against the back wall if
there wasn’t room for the three of us to sit
together. And for some reason I always remember
it being hot regardless of the weather the hemi
lp at st. Joseph’s on the Brandywine rarely
spoke to me in anyway, and I spent most of the
time between standing, sitting, kneeling repeat
over and over lost in thought about what way
ahead or what was behind
There were only two parts of
the mass that I enjoyed.
The first was the “sharing of
peace.” IIn that monent
while the rest of churchgoers
would be shaking hands
with their peep neighbors, Bea
Dad and I would turn to one-
another and we each would
hug and kiss. No matter what.
It orbit mattes if Beau and
I were arguing up until the
moment we entered the
church, or if Dod way
pissed at one of us for
whatever reason. We would
give each other a hug and

I can’t read minds, but that seems like it came from a man who is much more honest than Joe Biden, at least in his personal life.

The feeling I get is that Hunter disappoints his father. Maybe his average mind and talents bother Joe because they don’t fit in with his fairy tales about himself and his brains. Biden has made crazy claims about his academic achievements and his IQ, and we all know smart, talented people produce smart, talented kids. Joe is a blue-collar impostor in a white-collar realm. He pretends to be something his genes could never have produced. A man like that wants a son who gets into Yale because of his grades and test scores, not because is dad is a Senator.

Hunter’s eyes look distant and haunted in his photos. He looks like he’s just there because he has to be. Maybe for his dad.

Quite honestly, he seems like the Holden Caulfield of the Democratic Party. That sums it up better than anything else I could say.

As happy as I would be to see the laptop keep Joe Biden in his basement and assisted living for the next 4 years, I feel very bad for Hunter. How can you read the story, read the texts and emails, look at the pictures, hear about the drugs, the sex video, and the pornography, and not wish this hadn’t happened to him? Situations like his drive people to kill themselves.

I don’t know the truth. Maybe I’m completely wrong about Hunter Biden. I have impressions; nothing more.

This is what happens to families when church is a lifeless place where effeminate men putter around in robes instead of introducting people to the Spirit of the living God. As a politician, Joe Biden knew he had to go to church regularly even if they were sacrificing virgins on the altar, just as he had to marry and have kids. It looks like he dragged his sons along just for optics.

Boredom and alienation are normal in Catholic churches and other churches where the Holy Spirit is stifled.

Arriving late in church is something proud people who don’t know God do. People who know God, and who know other people’s time is valuable, show up on time. It’s disrespectful. It’s also a way to make sure people see you when you arrive.

We should pray for Hunter Biden, while we’re praying his dad loses and Kamala Harris never becomes president.

The rapture can’t some soon enough for me. I keep praying for God to call us as soon as possible. Freedom of speech is dying. So is freedom of assembly. Restraints on disinformation are being removed. Hatred and cruelty are now fashionable. If it’s this bad now, I don’t want to be here to see what it’s like in 2030.

Yelp Lets Imbeciles Call Terrorists Down on Businesses

You know what hurts? Being right.

As I’ve observed the decline of America, I have made a bunch of predictions. Many involved technology, which I know little about. Even though I don’t have deep knowledge of technology, I have been proven right over and over. My misses are few in comparison. Surely God must have been telling me things.

One of the things I predicted was that the Internet would replace the government. Eventually, people will be wired together so effectively, they will resemble a single consciousness that reacts to things very quickly. Too quickly and decisively for the government to react. It’s happening.

Today I learned that Yelp, the Internet review giant, has a new policy. If enough idiots and liars flag your business as racist, Yelp will put a notification on your page.

It’s extortion. It’s a protection racket. “Play ball, or go out of business while violent, unprosecutable mobs menace your store.”

Why do I say “unprosecutable”? Because we have major cities in which it’s nearly impossible to get yourself prosecuted for terrorism related to Antifa and BLM. People are being arrested, released, and arrested again.

I had 95 Yelp reviews up as of this morning. Now I have none. I deleted them all. I tried to replace them with messages protesting the extortion, but you can’t do that. You can add to a review, but you can’t remove it. Yelp offers you a little box in which you can explain why you deleted your review, so I used it to call them extortionists.

Remember what happened around 50 years ago? The government stepped in and forced business owners to accommodate minorities. Whether it was a good idea is debatable, since the public was turning against segregation anyway, and passing intrusive new laws extended the federal government’s control of individual citizens, but it was something the government was entitled to do. No private entity could do it. Now government has been supplanted. We don’t have to draft laws or have Congressional debates or votes. A bunch of imbeciles with cell phones can shut you down pretty much instantly, and there is no legal recourse, nor is there any due process. Then when terrorists show up to break your windows, the police ignore them, or they get arrested one night and show up to terrorize you again the next day.

Jewish legend says the people of Sodom and Gomorrah tormented visitors because they loved their cities and didn’t want anyone else to share in the blessings. It says that when merchants visited, locals would swarm them. Every person would steal one small item. Each crime was too small to ground prosecution, but the merchants were ruined. It was like being attacked by piranha. Or flies. Satan is the Lord of the Flies, after all. That name wasn’t given to him without good reason.

Now we have swarms of unnaccountable terrorists, performing the same basic function as the Sodomites, with just as little accountability. In fact, they receive approval and financial and social rewards.

Cell phones and the Internet are facilitating our decline into lawlessness. Fifty years ago, it was much harder to coordinate large numbers of cruel morons. Now it’s a breeze, and I promise you, it will get easier.

I keep telling people: this is the Beast. Yes, the Bible says one man will bear that title, but he will not be alone. He would be powerless alone. He’ll have a body of servants, just as Jesus does. The body of the Beast is part of the Beast, just as we are parts of Jesus.

Jesus influences, but does not control, people through the Spirit of Holiness. Satan is a weak loser and the father of all losers, so he doesn’t have a comparable, ubiquitous spirit. He has Skynet, however, and it has given him power greater than any power he has ever had.

The net human beings are weaving for themselves will choke them to death. No one can withstand constant scrutiny and exposure or a system of quick rewards and punishments that come without recourse or due process. We are sewing a straitjacket around ourselves, and we’re just too stupid to see it. We can’t handle this much power. It will destroy us. Only the perfectly righteous can handle omnipotence. This is why God cast Satan into hell. Satan wanted the power of God with the character of a cockroach.

It will keep getting worse. We will not magically develop the character needed to wield this kind of power correctly. There is no hope that will happen. Conservatives understand this, because conservatism is based on the knowledge that people are selfish. Liberals pretend people are good and that they can solve their own problems, so they will keep feeding the flames.

I’ve used Yelp a lot. I’m not sure why, because the recommendations haven’t worked out well. Business owners queer the reviews. There are tons of glowing reviews which clearly were not written by actual customers, and I’m sure business owners write bad reviews for competitors. I’ve eaten plenty of slop at places with good reviews.

Yelp gives you the illusion that you’re getting something you can trust, but in reality, it’s not that good. My experience suggests consistently bad reviews can be trusted, but a huge string of good ones means nothing. A lot of business owners have big families and no integrity.

In the upcoming civil war, the left’s ace will be control of information. Censorship and ecommerce restrictions will be used to counter the right’s control of most of the land and most of the weapons. Yelp, Google, Youtube, and so on will be on the wrong side of history. Tech kids are overwhelmingly leftist, and tech people tend to be cruel and arrogant, with undeveloped hearts and no interest in fairness. It will be interesting to see what happens.

I wonder what the next sign will be. Yelp isn’t the biggest influence on the web. The bigger players may be able to cause real suffering on a very wide scale.

Meanwhile, Leftists Protest his Recovery

If you learn nothing else before you die, learn this: God created the universe for love.

Thought I’d just toss that out there.

Donald Trump has coronavirus. You may have noticed. It’s a bad thing. Occasionally, healthy people–like President Trump–have serious problems with coronavirus, or they die. Hopeful leftists are saying there is a 5% chance he’ll die, simply because of his age. I call BS. At least 5% of people his age are in terrible health–unlike President Trump–and people in terrible health will obviously make up most of the 5% who die. Hello? Common sense? Sometimes healthy people die, and it’s not good to be sick at all, so his illness is a bad thing. But it looks like there is a huge silver lining.

The President went into the hospital on Friday. By Saturday, people all over the US were gathering to pray for him and wish him support. That’s wonderful. If he has to have the sniffles for a day or two in order to motivate people who show him their love their faith in God, I say it’s a good trade.

There is a movement called Drag the Interstate. I don’t really understand the name, because it sounds like something Eddie Izzard would do, but people hold rolling Trump rallies in moving vehicles. They were all over the place this weekend. Massachusetts, Florida, New York…lots of places. They had three public prayer meetings in The Villages, a huge retirement community near me. There was a big boat parade in Virginia. Lefty journalists are taking care to point out that many of these events were planned before Trump got sick, but some were not, attendance was surely increased dramatically by news that the president was ill. His illness also changed the tone of the events. It may be improving the tone of the whole campaign.

Mike DeWine, the governor of Ohio, declared a statewide day of prayer for Trump and the first lady! How about that?

I’m not a Paula White fan, but give her credit: she appeared on the Trump Youtube channel and hosted a long prayer service. That’s important, whatever her faults may be. Surely it means something to God when a president acknowledges him during a pandemic caused by humanity’s rejection of Jesus Christ.

Night before last, after hearing about the outpouring of love, faith, and solidarity, I had the powerful sensation of being loved. I know that doesn’t seem to make sense, because the love was directed at the president. But I felt it.

It got me thinking about the rapture. In heaven, people swim in love all the time. There are no shadows in heaven, because there is nothing to hide or which wants to hide, and there is no sun. The word says God is the light of heaven, so there is no need for any other source. Because Jesus visited me twice, I know how God’s love feels. It makes you feel like a hamburger under a heat lamp, except the warmth is the warmth of God’s heart, and it goes right through you. We are transparent to God.

In heaven, people live in an atmosphere of love, and we could be living in love here, too. The Trump rallies and caravans brought this to mind.

Leftists are full of hate and murder. They love being snotty and impudent. They love cruelty. They love humiliating older people and their betters. They’re perpetually enraged and depressed. They live in a dark alternate reality constructed of infantile, demonic delusions. Conservatives are closer to God, and we are happier and warmer. It’s a fact you can observe simply by watching leftist and conservative political gatherings. One side is throwing feces, literally, and tormenting people whose feet they aren’t fit to lick, and the other side is praying, singing, waving flags, and talking about how great their president is.

Have you noticed that leftists don’t praise Biden much? They don’t particularly like him. They have no loyalty to him. Conservatives feel genuine warmth for Trump. We praise him and thank God for him all the time. Totally different.

The rapture will be wonderful, because people who make it will be separated permanently from the Antichrist’s murderous, tamper-throwing, lie-loving, truth-hating children. They’ll bathe in love all the time. Everyone will be in agreement. No one will ever be stressed about an election. God has always been king, and he always will. Satan dethroned Adam. That won’t fly in heaven.

President Trump has done very well so far, as his doctors tell us, but leftists are making up fantasies about his condition. They say his prescription for dexamethasone proves he’s seriously ill. They claim, falsely, that his team is sending out photos with false time stamps. Meanwhile, he is appearing on camera occasionally, and he even got in an SUV and drove by the supporters outside the hospital. He also made his chief of staff go outside and give his supporters Trump-labeled chocolate kisses. That’s the kind of president I want!

Of course, lefty journalists are excoriating Trump for risking the lives of the Secret Service agents who rode with him. Yes, seriously. Secret Service agents risking their lives by accompanying a president!

Secret Service agents risking their lives to protect a president? Wow. I hope this new practice doesn’t catch on.

Meanwhile, leftists actually showed up–at a hospital–to counter-demonstrate. One character held a sign saying “Science Matters,” and a couple of hefty Latinas in stretch pants showed up to dance and sing while giving everyone the finger. One of them chanted, “Your president is gonna die!,” with a happy expression. She said what you would expect her to say. Sometimes it almost seems like Trump’s first name starts with “F.”

Only leftists would protest a sick person’s medical treatment.

People who have severe cases do not stand up, walk, speak clearly, or go for car rides. Obvious? They lie flat on their backs inhaling oxygen. I don’t know how the president feels today, but as of yesterday, he clearly did not have severe symptoms.

Journalists are generally not intelligent–this is true, not a baseless insult–and they are also extremely lazy. They don’t do much footwork. They don’t research. They wait for other people to call them with stories. They also find out what other journalists are covering, and they join in. When they report on Christians and conservatives, they almost never dig for the truth. For example, they keep saying the Proud Boys is a white supremacist organization even though it’s full of minority members and the founder married a full-blooded American Indian (not a fake 1/32 Indian who scams the government for affirmative action and poverty bucks).

When journalists talked to Trump’s doctors, they were suddenly different people. They asked questions that were pretty esoteric. Suddenly, they knew a great deal about treatments and symptoms. It was very clear they had been Googling for hours before the press conference. They kept prying for sound bites they could use to make Trump look seriously ill. They were aggressive and rude. They were extremely determined.

It occurred to me that America would be a much different country if journalists worked this hard all the time.

Leftist outlets are full of the “Trump is dying” theme. It’s like they’re living on another planet where what they say is true. When I say they live in an alternative reality, I’m completely correct.

Trump is right. The press is a public enemy. It’s necessary, but it’s diseased. It’s also dangerous, as the victims of Joseph Goebbels could tell you. Fake news is a very real thing. It’s a weapon for people to whom the truth looks like a problem that must be contained.

Here’s something interesting: Yahoo News got rid of the commenting function on its stories. Why? Here’s some information which may be relevant: commenters were overwhelmingly negative with regard to many, many far-left-narrative stories. This was especially true for stories promoting “transgendering” (an impossibility) and the attendant castration, mutilation, and hormonal sabotage. It sure looks like the leftists at Yahoo couldn’t take the heat, so they bricked up the kitchen.

Public comment is news, and stifling it is a form of fake news. Fake news doesn’t have to be affirmative. You don’t have to say something that isn’t true. Withholding the truth is also fake news.

I can’t recall ever hearing anyone else say that. Why isn’t everyone saying it?

I want to live in love and joy, even here on earth. I worked hard to make myself a caustic person, and I regret it. Love and joy are better, and the Holy Spirit will actually pour these things through you so you don’t have to manufacture them on your own.

I keep praying for Trump. I keep cursing the spirits that want to take him down. I also curse the Biden campaign. I hope to see good news, but the truth is that Donald Trump isn’t the source of my safety, joy, success, or love. I’ll be okay no matter what, and when I die or the rapture comes, I’ll do even better, by orders of magnitude.

Leftists: it’s okay to be happy and upbeat. It’s okay to stop being snotty. Cruelty is toxic. Warmth and kindness are good things. They’re not signs that you’re stupid or ignorant. Join God’s team and see. He’s ready to take you in.

Bottles of Urine no Match for Rifles

Yesterday it suddenly occurred to me that the town my cousin lives in might be close to Kenosha. I texted her to find out. She says the closest part of Kenosha is 15 minutes away. Her son’s girlfriend lives in Kenosha.

I asked how things were going. She told me over 600 cars from Minnesota had arrived. Terrorists or protestors? It appears that the answer to that question, in many cases, depends on the local response. If the police and citizens show up in a display of force, visitors protest relatively peacefully and then leave. If not, terrorist rioting is likely. Her bedroom community has a population of around 20,000, so the arrival of several thousand potential rioters is a serious threat.

Illinois is in bad shape. It’s way off to the left. It’s so bad, the state imposes an unconstitutional requirement on firearms owners. They have to be cleared before they can own, and they have to have Firearms Owners [sic] Identification cards, or “FOID’s.” Imagine having to pay for a card and a background check in order to exercise your other civil rights. If Florida went that route, would have to have a card in order to blog, vote, or go to church.

I wonder how many people in my cousin’s town have gone through the aggravation of getting a card and preparing for the worst.

As for Kenosha, it’s starting to look like the BLMtifa terrorist movement is turning into a shooting war. Last night, a man with a rifle shot several people, killing two. I saw a video showing a young man with a grotesque arm injury. In the movies, when a person gets shot in the arm, he wraps a handkerchief around it, and everything is fine. In the real world, guns can tear large chunks out of limbs, and sometimes they tear limbs completely off.

There is video of the shooter. He is sitting on the ground, and a witness says his rifle was being jerked around. These facts suggest he was attacked, and if so, he very likely had a reasonable fear of death or serious harm. Witnesses claim the police saw him walking around with a rifle and did nothing. It’s impossible to say right now, but it looks like he was a local resident trying to protect life and/or property. He’s getting unfavorable, biased coverage, so it seems the liberal press is betting he’s conservative.

If you’re carrying a gun legally in order to prevent arson, aggravated battery, murder, and so on, and a group of rioters grab it and try to take it, you’re entitled to shoot to kill. End of story. No room for debate. It’s different if you were carrying illegally or if you performed a violent act to provoke the aggression. Depending on the facts and the party the local prosecutor jumps for, there is a very good chance the shooter will not be charged. That would go over great with leftists who think self-defense is a crime.

If he’s not with the rioters, there is zero likelihood the left will excuse him. Journalists certainly won’t. These are the people who still call Nick Sandmann things like “snot nose entitled kid” for being illegally accosted and menaced by rude leftists protestors.

Should the shooter have been where he was? Impossible to say. It’s generally legal to be present and defend people and property in a riot, and the use of guns is legal in many situations. It appears it was legal for him to be where he was, because witnesses say the police were not interested in him at first, and because other armed individuals are roaming Kenosha without consequences.

The story doesn’t fit a mass-shooter narrative. Mass shooters show up and shoot for no reason, and they empty their magazines. The video suggests this man shot a few times and then stopped, and the witness account about the rifle being jerked around suggests it was a response to a lethal threat. It looks like a measured response to grave danger.

It’s legal to carry openly in Kenosha. It’s not legal to riot or grab a person’s firearm. That’s what lawyers call strongarm robbery and battery. If the shooter was minding his own business, and terrorists tried to disarm him, they are probably guilty of felonies.

What’s in store for the next couple of weeks? Will we see opposing factions shooting at each other from cover, in scenes reminiscent of post-apocalyptic movies? It would be catastrophic for violent BLMtifers.

Leftists generally don’t own rifles, and many don’t even have handguns. The type of leftist who is most likely to engage in shootouts in riots is a street criminal armed with a semiautomatic pistol he doesn’t know how to use properly, along with poorly chosen ammunition. It doesn’t take much skill to stick up unarmed pedestrians or shoot out of car windows during drive-bys. It doesn’t take good equipment. Conservatives, on the other hand, are much more likely to own military-style rifles with large magazines and optics made for short-range battles. Conservatives are more likely to know which types of pistol and rifle ammunition work best. They are much more likely to shoot well. They are more likely to own protective equipment. If leftists try to turn the current wave of terror into a shooting war, in all likelihood, the leftist body count will be at least several times higher than the conservative and centrist count. It will be the mother of all mistakes.

Does that mean they won’t try? Well, have they made any intelligent choices yet?

Right now, many leftist terrorists are probably texting and Zooming about the need to buy guns and teach the rest of us a lesson. Others–white female hobby terrorists, for example–are probably feeling red-pilled and trying to discourage the use of guns. Who will prevail?

It seems safe to say that non-leftists will come out on top, by a wide margin, in a nationwide conflict. What happens after that, though? If leftists are enraged and eager to commit violence now, what will they be like after they’ve buried hundreds of dead terrorists and been forced back to their own communities? It won’t be a boon to race and class relations, and even if non-leftists shut the terrorism down, we will still have to live alongside the people we defeated. They will never admit their dead and wounded brought it on themselves.

Ammunition for popular calibers is extremely expensive now. I don’t like it, because I hate gouging, but maybe it’s a good thing. Non-leftists had large stockpiles before the gouging started, and violent leftists have no business with ammunition. Before the rioting started, it was easy to get 9mm ammunition–the most popular large pistol caliber–for 10 dollars a box. Earlier this year, I paid $7.35. Now, garbage FMJ is running $35. Jobless terrorists will have a hard time paying that much. Meanwhile, non-leftists have safes full of expanding rifle and pistol ammo, and many of us can make ammunition from scratch. All over the country, there are enthusiasts who make bullets from scrap lead.

What advantages do leftists have? Let’s see. They control cities, right? I’m not so sure. There are a lot of poor terrorists living in and around cities, and they cause a lot of problems, but the people with real power are affluent fake leftists who are likely to turn on the terrorists when push comes to shove. Leftists control the Internet. That’s true, but tech companies have stockholders, and again, many of the people in charge are affluent fake leftists who will change uniforms the first time someone spray-paints their Bentleys. Leftists run our banks, and they have a lot of money. Again, though…fake leftists abound, and greed often outweighs principle.

If fake leftists with money start coming around, we could end up with more of a class war than a race war. If that happens, the lower classes will be crushed. They’re just not very capable.

Non-leftists control the farmland and the natural resources. We control the oil-producing areas. We control much of the coasts, the border with Mexico, and the border with Canada. We have disproportionate numbers among the military and police. Many of us are spread out in rural areas where leftists don’t stand a chance in a conflict; it would be like Napoleon invading Russia.

Things look better for non-leftists than leftists, unless you consider the supernatural. The terrorists and their supporters are insane because of supernatural influences. They don’t know the Holy Spirit, and he’s the only source of good guidance. They’re under the influence of fallen angels and demons, so they are able to believe anything, no matter how preposterous. Right now, the insanity only affects maybe a third of Americans. Without the Holy Spirit, who’s to say that figure won’t double or triple?

The big divide isn’t left/everyone else. It’s children of the Antichrist/children of God. Most people are children of the Antichrist. They don’t have the Holy Spirit to correct them, so other spirits dominate their thinking and feelings.

Sooner or later, the Antichrist has to win. Prophecy makes that clear. Maybe it will happen when Trump is reelected, leftists go completely crazy, and non-leftists sink to their level on a national scale. The fact that you’re not a Marxist doesn’t mean you’re on God’s side. Carnal conservatives serve Satan, just like BLMtifers. If half of the nation starts acting like the Proud Boys, Satan will have his army regardless of what uniforms people wear.

I don’t want to be here for the civil war. I want to be in heaven at the marriage of Christ. I don’t want people coming to my house telling me it’s my duty to shoot terrorists. I certainly don’t want terrorists coming to my house. I hope my sense that the rapture is imminent is correct. I am ready to go.

If you want to get closer to God so you can prepare, get baptized with the Holy Spirit, repent, speak in tongues every day, fast, seek internal improvement, and try to serve God. Start speaking powerful things into existence. Here’s a strange thing that has turned out to be very powerful for me: start proclaiming holiness. Say, “Jesus is holy.” “I am holy.” “My body is holy.” “Everything I own is holy.” “Holy” means “belonging to God.” Proclaiming holiness releases supernatural power. If you look at the Bible, you’ll see that heavenly beings say God is holy, over and over. There’s a reason for that. It’s not pointless toadying. The Psalms say we should bless God with our words all the time.

Man, I hope I get to go when the horn blows. This place is getting too filthy to stand.

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Fox has published two photos of the Kenosha shooter. In both, he is sitting on the pavement. For some inexplicable reason, Fox does not identify him as the shooter in the second photo.

In the first photo, he is holding a rifle that looks a lot like an AR-15, and a nearby rioter is supposedly reacting to being shot, although the rifle is pointed away from him. In the second, a man is in the air above the shooter, with a foot about to come down on the shooter’s upper chest or face. If he was attacked like that before he shot, then there is little hope he will be convicted of anything.

I think the second photo was taken before the first, because we know the shooter got away. If he had been attacked successfully before firing, he would have been disarmed and beaten.

If he wasn’t doing anything illegal, and he was attacked by morons willing to go up against a rifleman, then his attackers got what they asked for, and I’m glad he’s okay. We don’t know much now, though, so it’s impossible to say who broke the law and who didn’t.

Today’s Group Therapy Session

I think I finally had a day of .17 HMR shooting with no malfunctions.

A while back, I bought an Athlon Argos 6-24x scope, which I have often misidentified as an Athlon Ares. It’s a $400 scope, so a person has to have realistic expectations, but it seems very, very nice. I made the mistake of mounting it on my Savage 93R rifle with a 20-MOA base, which was totally pointless for .17 HMR. I tried to zero it at 100 yards, and I ended up several inches above my point of aim. I had to order a 0-MOA base for it. That base arrived last week, and I installed it. Today I had to zero the rifle all over again.

I shot factory ammunition, because there is no other kind. I started out with Hornady 17-grain V-Max, and after zeroing, this is what I got:

I started on the 7 o’clock bullseye and worked my way around to the 5 o’clock bullseye, shooting 5 rounds per bullseye.

I didn’t do too bad. The second group looks very good apart from a flyer, and the same can be said of the third. The first one was not great, but it was okay. The fourth one opened up so much, I checked the gun to see if any screws had come loose.

I don’t know what happened. My guess is that it just shows a need for practice in order to develop consistency.

Here is the second target. I shot Hornady 20-grain XTP hollowpoints.

I like these groups a whole lot better. I particularly like the third group. Five rounds and only two holes. I was afraid a screw had backed out and I had missed the target entirely, but that’s not the case.

Other people have gotten better results with XTP’s than with V-Max, and maybe I’m in the same boat. Maybe my gun likes XTP’s. Or maybe I just shoot badly until I get going.

My understanding is that V-Max rounds are good for disintegrating annoying animals you don’t intend to eat. They do a great deal of damage right after they enter. XTP rounds are for bigger animals, and they penetrate deeper.

I bought a lot of both types of rounds. I thought XTP’s might be best for practice, and even if the V-Maxes never shoot as well, they certainly shoot well enough to kill varmints. No problems there.

It’s very nice to have this gun working the way it should. Now that I have a .17 HMR rifle I can trust, I can assume most of the error in my groups is caused by my mistakes, and that means I should be able to figure out what I’m doing wrong, fix it, and shoot better.

Now that the rifle is zeroed and has completed its shakedown period, I can think about shooting, not gunsmithing. I can shoot it a couple of times a week. I don’t like to shoot a lot of rounds in a given session, because my concentration drops off. Maybe I’ll plan on shooting 50 rounds per outing.

If I didn’t have .17 HMR, I suppose I’d have to rely on .204 Ruger. It’s the second-cheapest accurate caliber I own. I have .22 rifles, but if there is a 1-MOA .22 on the planet, shooting ammo that doesn’t cost 20 cents per round, I have not heard of it.

It looks like 20-grain rounds shoot an inch higher than 17-grain rounds. So which do I use to zero the scope? I guess I should use whatever is most accurate. I want to use the most accurate ammo for practice, and my guess is that zeroing for my practice ammo makes the most sense. I don’t really care if my zero is off when I’m trying to shoot a raccoon 30 yards away, but it would be annoying at the range.

I have mil-dots all over my reticle, so I suppose none of this matters. Regardless of which ammo I use to zero the scope, I can use the reticle to compensate when I use the other ammo. This is what real shooters do, and I would like to be a real shooter.

Now that I’m shooting well, I have a dilemma. Do I or do I not clean the rifle? Different calibers behave differently. The guy who taught my long-range class said he never cleaned his 6.5 Creedmoor barrels until groups started opening up. I’ve read that .17 HMR does not like clean barrels. I suppose the best thing is to keep shooting and see what happens.

If it’s true that I have two accurate guns, then it must be about time for me to visit a long range facility and move out to longer distances. I should be able to function at 300 yards with .17 HMR and 400 yards with .204 Ruger. It seems to me that it would be best to practice with cheap calibers before spraying half the county with expensive 6.5 Creedmoor.

I can start thinking about using my Kestrel, and I’ll have to get a spotting scope. I can see bullet holes through my rifle scopes at 100 yards, but that will not work farther out.

It’s nice to not be inept. I hope things continue to improve.

If You’re Going to Collect, Collect Something Useful

I have been trying to put my ammunition in order.

For a long time, I’ve bought ammunition in bulk. It’s generally not easy to get good deals unless you buy over the Internet, and you have to buy a lot in order to avoid killing the bargains with shipping costs. It’s not unusual to pay the same price for shipping 50 or 3,000 rounds. Say you pay $10, which is not unusual. That adds 20 cents to the cost of each round in a 50-round box, but it only adds a third of a cent to the cost of each round in a three-thousand-round crate. You have to be pretty slow to miss the obvious.

My reasoning goes like this: if I know I will continue shooting a certain caliber until I croak, I might as well buy enough ammunition to get me as far into the future as possible. It won’t rot. It doesn’t have to be refrigerated. You can buy it today and use it 50 years from now, if you’re still here. If you wait, you’ll end up paying much more in the long run. Also, the Democrats are gradually destroying our rights, so who knows if you’ll be able to buy anything a couple of years from now?

If you buy now, you’ll be able to shoot until they come to your house to take your ammunition, and you will also have an investment which is guaranteed to increase in value.

I wish I had the guts to spend $50,000 on guns and ammunition. I know I would never regret it. I would have plenty to shoot, I’d be in a position to make money if I changed my mind, and I could also leave it to people I cared about if I died.

As it is, I’ve done pretty well. There are a few things I still want to buy, but I feel pretty comfortable about the next two years. If the rapture doesn’t come, I should be safe from deprivation for quite some time. I used to think I was rich if I had two boxes of ammo. A person who still thinks like that would be shocked to see what I have right now.

When I think about my policy, I think about all the stupid news stories I’ve read. “Police raid gunman’s house; find home arsenal.” I’ve written about this before.

Gun people get upset when they see the word “arsenal.” I believe this is because an arsenal is understood to be a facility maintained by a government or institution, not an individual. I kind of like “weapons cache.”

If I were ever suspected of committing a violent crime, and the police got a warrant to search my house, I know exactly what would happen. I’d become the latest “home arsenal” guy. I own more than a thousand rounds of ammunition, and that sounds like an insane amount to a person who knows nothing about guns and a lot about things like whaling moratoriums and plastic straw bans.

I don’t know why it’s so important for cops and journalists to count people’s guns and cartridges after a shooting. Even mass murderers generally don’t use more than 50 rounds to commit a crime. I don’t know if anyone has ever used 1,000. If I ran a pedestrian down intentionally, would they come to my house and count my vehicles? The number of guns you have isn’t at all relevant to the danger you pose to society. My grandfather probably owned 30 guns, and he was a circuit judge.

I took a two-day shooting course recently, and I was advised to bring 300 rounds of ammo. That’s almost a third of a home arsenal! I had it in my car for 300 miles! I shared the road with cars kids were riding in! Possibly disabled kids! Disabled transgender kids, even! When will the insanity stop?

“Trump-Loving Nutjob Roams Countryside With Military-Grade Rifle and Mini-Arsenal”! That’s how they would put it in a Huffto headline. It wasn’t a lot of ammunition for two days of classes, but you could never explain that to the guy with the flannel pajamas and hot cocoa in the famous Obamacare ad, any more than you could make him understand that testosterone serves a purpose.

It’s not hard at all to shoot 200 rounds in one day of serious shooting, and if you’re just banging away for fun, you can do it in two hours. A “home arsenal” will only get you through 5 to 10 shooting sessions. It’s not a lot of ammunition. It only seems like a lot to a person who thinks roach spray is murder.

As I have said before, my plan is to accumulate an ammo savings account. I’ll store up useful calibers and set the ammo aside. Then when I want to shoot, I’ll buy more and try to leave the stored stuff alone. I’m not preparing for the day when I can rent a hotel room overlooking the site of an Antifa rally so I can cleanse America of annoying vandals.

I wonder how many rounds of ammunition there are within a one-mile radius of me, outside of my property. I’ll bet the number is over 100,000. Buying in bulk is not an original idea that started with me. I’m a late adopter. I think my intentions may be nicer than many other people who stock up. Civil war is on many people’s minds. Whatever the truth is, I’m part of a huge demographic. We’ve been having ammo shortages off and on since Obama’s regressive reign, and many, many people have been buying in bulk. Bulk-buyers actually caused the shortages. They moved the supply from store and warehouse shelves to their homes. There must be an ungodly amount of ammo in private hands right now.

Attention, soy commandos who may be reading this blog. I didn’t buy it for you. I just enjoy shooting. Please do not bother me. And if you decide to bother my neighbors, have the courtesy to bring your own body bags. It’s a really bad idea. There is no shame in negotiation or in abiding by the results of lawful elections. It’s better than feeding the turkey buzzards.

Just in case I’m still on earth when the tofu brigade starts visiting rural properties, I’m thinking of getting some laser safety goggles. I keep researching the usefulness of lasers as weapons, and the news is very bad. For $200, you can get a laser which, in terms of its ability to cause suffering, makes an AR-15 look like a nerf gun. You can’t burn a hole through a Proud Boy with a handheld laser, but you can blind a whole bunch of Proud Boys in a few minutes. You don’t need training or ammunition, and you won’t have to wear earplugs. Just point and hit the switch. We may be heading into an era when every intelligent American takes laser safety goggles with him every time he goes outdoors.

I’m starting to think lasers are far superior to firearms as weapons. Lasers are very small and light. They run a long time on one battery. They render people helpless instantaneously, and their effects can be permanent if you use them correctly. Bullet wounds may seem impressive, but most are nonfatal and fail to incapacitate. When you’re blind, you’re all done, even if you’re still armed to the teeth. A 250-pound Navy SEAL who can’t see is a plaything for a scrawny vegetarian who can.

If lasers become really popular as weapons, things will get really ugly in America. I would hate to see it. I think it would be smart to buy some goggles. You never know when you might run across the wrong people in 2020 America. You could turn down the wrong street and find yourself in a bad situation.

Goggles may not be enough to keep you safe. I’ve read they reduce the effective power of a laser by something like 99%. Rioters commonly use 5mW lasers. It’s just as easy to get 500mW lasers, so it looks like goggles only protect you from people who use cheap weapons.

Pilots already wear laser safety goggles. Maybe they’re the canaries in the coal mine. Vicious people shine lasers at airplane windows all the time.

It’s strange that conservatives are lagging in their appreciation of lasers. I guess lasers don’t seem manly. Blinding a rioter with something that looks like a flashlight probably seems unsportsmanlike to many conservatives, like pulling hair and kicking other men in the groin. Lasers work, though. That’s why armies aren’t allowed to use them against human beings. If they didn’t work, they wouldn’t be banned.

Should I get a strong laser to protect myself? Great question. It’s the kind of question that makes me wish Jesus would come for us tonight.

I guess I should get some real shelves and get my ammo sorted and off the floor. I should probably quit thinking about disgusting new methods of guerrilla warfare. Maybe God will spare me involvement when things truly go haywire.

Protect Yourself From my Blog’s Radiation

If you are lucky enough to see this post, you may not know my website was blacklisted recently. Users, including me, have been getting a terse “IP BLACKLISTED” message on their way in. It has been an on-and-off thing.

My blog is not my life. I don’t make money from it, and no one depends on it for anything important. I started getting the blacklisting message a few days back, but I didn’t try to do anything about it until today. I contacted my host, and they said a perma-something-or-other code in my site’s software was incorrect. They say they’ve fixed it and that the site should work now.

While I was Googling, trying to figure out whether a site could be blacklisted by an ISP, I read a lot about conservatives who have been banned from social media. It’s such a trend, President Trump is trying to get the giants (great, appropriate Biblical term) held accountable for editing their sites, just as I could be held accountable for editing the posts I write. If a platform merely publishes content provided by others, it can’t get in much trouble, but if it starts banning some content and keeping the rest, based on caprice, it ceases being a mere publisher and moves into the realm of content creation.

The tech who fixed my site for me didn’t explain why my site’s code was messed up. Can a thing like that happen randomly? We know it can happen when someone tampers with it deliberately, because the tech was able to tamper with it in order to get the site working again. If it can be repaired by a well-meaning tech, it can be vandalized by an angry, biased tech with a lot of body modifications and gender questions.

I don’t know what happened, any more than I know why the Department of Defense banned this blog from its computers as a hate site. In our new virtual world, accountability is nearly nonexistent. I’ve written about this before. In my state, they block people from becoming massage therapists if they have old arrests on their records, but Satan himself can open and run a hosting company. If an angry tech kid decides to block your site, rummage through your emails, or steal your files, you will never know who did it or why, and you will not be able to do anything about it.

One of the things the founders of this nation hated was prosecution without the right to confront accusers. The right to confront accusers is so important, it’s in the Constitution, and we have used it to put terrified children in courtrooms with the men who raped them. It’s not a trivial or disposable right. The Constitution also recognizes the right to due process prior to deprivation of property. In the online world, it’s different. People will ban or shadow-ban you behind your back, and you may never know who did it or why. You may lose a blog or Twitter audience worth a lot of money to you. A social media audience may be worth millions.

It’s no different from losing a customer list, which is legally recognized as a type of property. In the realm of honorable commerce, customer lists are bought and sold. Their value is protected. It ain’t necessarily so on the Internet. You can lose your list instantly and irretrievably, with no compensation or explanation, based on the whims of hipsters who are still mired in their acne-prone years.

Luckily for me, my readers are worth nothing at all to me.

Don’t take it the wrong way.

I don’t know if I was blocked deliberately or not, but I know I would be safer if I ran a site full of sadistic porn. Tech people lean way left, and leftists adore porn. They think it’s the reason the First Amendment was written. It’s practically sacred to them. Promoting Christianity and criticizing sin are not forms of speech they want to protect. People like me are tolerated, at best.

Speaking of toleration, it’s getting much harder to coexist with leftists. The things they’re doing are astounding. I’ll give you an example, which you may know about already. Leftist rioters use laser pointers to blind law enforcement officers and people who disagree with them.

You can go to Amazon or Ebay right now and buy a laser strong enough to blind people. They’re cheap. Under a hundred dollars. Then you can take it to a rally and aim it at the eyes of a person wearing a Fred Perry shirt. In a fraction of a second, you can injure him badly enough to take him out of the fray, and if you do a good job, you can blind him permanently. In the name of love and inclusion.

It’s not a rare thing. Rioters are lighting up the night. In Portland, they’re using shields with holes for laser pointers. Three federal officers have been injured.

Leftists are not calling for laser control, and that’s an astounding bit of hypocrisy. Lasers do harm comparable to the harm done by firearms. It’s true that it’s hard to kill someone with a laser, but most gunshot injuries aren’t fatal, either. Blinding someone is a big deal. If a person aimed a laser at my face, I would be legally entitled to shoot him. That’s how serious it is. But you can buy lasers all day over the web. You can have a thousand shipped to your house next week, even in Chicago, New York, San Francisco, or Hawaii. No background check. No licensing.

A laser is a great weapon. You can hurt a thousand people on one battery charge, and then you can switch batteries, which weigh a couple of ounces each. Try that with a gun. You can hit people accurately with no training. You don’t have to worry about recoil. Your beam can’t be traced by ballisticians after the fact. You won’t get gunshot residue on your hands or clothing. Lasers are silent. They don’t give off smoke, either. Used skillfully, they incapacitate instantaneously and sometimes permanently.

It makes me wonder why I carry a heavy pistol which is hard to use and legally barred from many locations. My state has very harsh penalties for people who exhibit their guns in order to avoid violence, but you can hold a laser in your hand all day get away with it.

Maybe I should invest in a powerful Ebay laser and blind anyone who attacks me.

Anyway, the sadism of angry leftists, which seems to know no limits, makes me wonder if America is headed toward a Wild West future in which the gunslingers carry lasers and a third of the population is blind.

It’s a real equalizer for rioters and looters. Leftists are generally hopeless when it comes to guns, but lasers can level the playing field very quickly. This is why the UN has banned their use against soldiers. Leftists are using a tool that falls into the same category as mustard gas.

If you’re interested, you can buy glasses that protect you from lasers. Amazon is full of them. If you think you may have to defend your property, you might want to buy pairs for yourself and your loved ones. You might want to buy lasers, too.

I cite the laser phenomenon as an example of the way the world is becoming an unbearable place to live. Life is moving in a very unpleasant direction, very quickly. How bad will things have to get before God removes his children because he’s unwilling to let us remain in a world that resembles hell?

He pulled Enoch out. He pulled Noah out. He pulled Lot out. He pulled the Jews out of Egypt. He pulled Elijah and Jesus out. Eventually, he withdraws his children from torment. It’s a repetitive pattern, and the rapture is just another withdrawal in a long sequence of withdrawals.

I wish there were a door in this room I could walk through right now, to take my place at the wedding of Christ. At the same time, I wish I could do something to help people to be saved.

Killing Christian access to the web, along with depriving us of the right to buy and sell, will surely advance the rapture, if it hasn’t taken place by the time these things happen. God has to have a return on his investment, and he’s not going to leave his most precious capital here forever after it ceases to produce an acceptable profit.

I won’t worry about being lasered. The word says I will see the reward of the wicked with my eyes, plural. Not in my imagination. With my eyes.

We should have known the end was near when liberals started throwing feces.

Taylor and Nova Ride in on a Horse

Remember watching the World Trade Center fall? First, one plane struck. TV heads marveled and speculated, and most of us thought the attack was over and that we were already in the response phase. Then the other plane struck. Then journalists, who are generally neither bright nor knowledgeable about practical matters, tried to guess what would happen next. They wondered aloud about the future of the buildings. How bad was the damage? Would they be repaired?

Of course, every witness who had ever held a tool in his hand knew the buildings were coming down. It was obvious. But when the first tower collapsed, journalists were shocked. It also shocked some responders who had made the remarkable mistake of setting up near the bases of the towers.

Watching what’s happening to America is a lot like watching coverage of 9/11. Things we thought would last forever are being dismantled like props being torn down by invisible stagehands.

It turns out the press is ignoring a lot of what’s happening. In particular, they’re ignoring the transformation of liberal-dominated cities.

A man named James Altucher wrote a blog post about New York, and people all over the net are talking about it. He’s a New York hedge fund manager and entrepreneur. He has mentioned some things the press has surely witnessed yet chosen not to discuss. His blog post is titled, “NYC is Dead Forever…Here’s Why.”

I can give you the basic gist. New York is turning into a ghost town because coronavirus has shown people something that should have been obvious several years ago: we no longer need office buildings to do many of our jobs. People are using a service called Zoom to have virtual meetings, and presumably they also use email, texts, and calls. They’re realizing they are not merely nearly as productive, but more productive, working at home.

That’s a very big deal. Office buildings and commuting are extremely expensive. City rents are obscenely high. Even if human beings resist giving up their comfort of their old ways, and even if stodgy managers push back against telecommuting, accountants will see to it that businesses do whatever makes sense economically. If buildings are unnecessary, many people who used to work in big cities will never return.

To give you an idea of the magnitude of the problem, I’ll share this quotation: “The Time-Life Building can handle 8,000 workers. Now it maybe has 500 workers back.” He uses it as an example when he says there are buildings that are 90% empty.

You have to think about the ramifications.

When you own a big building like that, you make income from it, so you pay taxes. You also pay huge sums of money for maintenance and repairs. You may make mortgage payments to a bank. A lot of money goes in, and a lot goes out. If your occupancy rate drops by 90%, what happens? You end up in a situation where you can’t pay your taxes or your lender. You can’t pay to keep your property up. You have to slash rents in order to maximize your income. You end up with substandard tenants who can’t begin to keep you afloat. Then you abandon your property, and your corporation declares bankruptcy. If Altucher is right when he predicts people will not return to New York, we could be looking at a future in which New York looks just like Detroit.

Detroit is an amazing place. It’s strange that Americans pay so little attention to it. I suppose the liberal press suppresses information about Detroit because it’s a beautiful example of a city utterly destroyed by leftism. If conservatives had ruined it, we would hear about it every day.

As everyone knows, Detroit used to be a prosperous city. Wealthy people and companies built beautiful structures. Now many of the places look like sets from post-apocalyptic movies. That’s not hyperbole. It’s exactly what they look like. These properties can’t be given away. I’ll root around and find videos for you.

It’s not just an inner-city thing. In 2018, the median price of a Detroit house was $35,000, and that represents a huge increase from a few years earlier. I can buy a house in Detroit for less than it would cost me to renovate my kitchen in Florida, and the odds are high that I would lose money, because Detroit property values are probably benefiting from temporary optimism related to a dubious renewal campaign.

I’m not sure, but it looks like suburbs depend on cities to a large extent. If a city dries up, presumably many people, who only live in its suburbs so they can commute, will leave.

Ten years ago, people had to live in New York in order to keep corporations running. Now we are getting close to a model in which a big percentage of people can literally live in Egypt, work in New York, and never, ever have to meet their coworkers.

There are things people like about commuting. It gets you out of the house. You can socialize. You can have lunch at restaurants. You can shop after work. On the other hand, people really, really like working from their couches while wearing stained sweatpants. You don’t have to dress up. You don’t have to be around annoying coworkers and bosses. You may be able to set your own hours. You can forget about trains and traffic. You may save enough money in one year to go to Europe twice. Not that you can go to Europe in 2020, but still. You can buy nicer sweatpants and a bigger SUV.

If Altucher is right, and he surely is, then Manhattan residents should get used to blank storefronts, shuttered restaurants, and a theater scene that looks more like Knoxville than Broadway.

What will happen to the hordes of perennial government sucklings? Many, many New Yorkers live off the labor of others. Who will bums beg from? Who will fund hobby philanthropy organizations? What will happen to locally-funded poverty projects?

If the dogs leave, what will happen to the fleas? They can’t go to the suburbs or the country. People move to those places to get away from them. Dependent people have to have cities in order to thrive. Maybe they’ll be able to get by on what the feds give them.

We already knew the Internet would devastate stores. Now it looks like it will work in concert with coronavirus hysteria to gut cities and suburbs.

Many years ago, I predicted that with the advent of online retailers, people would start moving to the country. It didn’t happen. At least not when I predicted it. It was hard for me to relate to people who actually liked cities, so I think I projected my own desires onto the general public. Many people love city life. Now we may see the abolishment of that lifestyle in many places. We also see how unpleasant life is in cities during crises. Maybe my prediction will finally come true.

Will it happen everywhere? My guess is that leftist cities that reacted hysterically to coronavirus will be hit hardest. They destroyed their economies and forced people to experience a new web-based lifestyle they might otherwise have avoided trying for years. They killed businesses that were necessary to lure people back. It looks like New Yorkers don’t have much to return to. Maybe that’s true in other leftist strongholds where mayors and governors overreacted. Eventually, though, I would expect the trend to spread to other places. Freedom to choose and design your own environment and social circle is very seductive, and financial concerns are compelling.

I saw an interesting Internet comment the other day. Someone mentioned polio. The commenter said a relative had gone through a polio epidemic, and people hadn’t reacted like little girls in a room where a rat has been released. They didn’t kill local economies. People took reasonable measures and accepted the risk. We do the same thing with the flu every year, and the seasonal flu has killed millions of us over the years.

Death is bad, but it’s part of everyone’s life, and liberty and prosperity are very important.

Americans were wrong to flip out over coronavirus. If we hadn’t panicked, we probably would have lost more people, but the effects on our way of life would have been more tolerable. Look at Sweden. They didn’t have lockdowns. They’ve had a fairly high rate of infection, but so what? It has not been catastrophic, and the country keeps chugging along, just as countries do after wars and natural disasters.

It’s interesting to see how coronavirus continues to hit leftist areas more severely. My county has had an explosion in the official infection count, but it’s not a disaster, and we haven’t seen the severe shortages or economic problems places like Chicago have endured. I can think of a few things that have been hard to buy. Disinfectant wipes, alcohol, hand sanitizer, toilet paper, paper towels, and eggs. There are probably some other things I’m not recalling because they have had no significant effect on my life. I never ran out of meat. I was always able to eat nearly anything I wanted. I never had to go home because I couldn’t get in a store.

My cousin in Chicago still can’t get toilet paper. She went through a period where it was nearly impossible to go to stores. Getting inside her local Walmart took hours. Once inside, she couldn’t get meat. For all I know, she still can’t. A few weeks back, long after talk of meat shortages had ceased, I sent my cousin near Atlanta a photo of steaks on sale, and he said it had been months since he had seen anything like that.

I’ve been predicting this county would hit something like 9,000 known cases and then see a sharp dropoff. I based this guess on the New York figures. It looks like I won’t be far wrong. I was mistaken when I thought the US-case collapse we saw earlier in the year would continue, and I didn’t think this county would blow up the way it has, but even true hot spots calm down eventually, and surely that will happen here, in an area where things have never gotten very bad.

Much of our virus-figure explosion is atypical and not useful for drawing conclusions because we increased testing dramatically and because we have a big locked-down prison population that got hit very hard.

To get back to the point, it seems like God has been much gentler to rural and conservative people. We’re getting virus upticks after the nationwide shortages abated and after better ways of addressing the epidemic were learned through the painful lessons endured by New Yorkers, Bostonians, and other subjects of the leftist elite. There is no panic. There is no real deprivation. Economic damage is minimal. As an example of the contrast, South Dakota never had a lockdown, and their governor just turned down a round of government handouts because they don’t need it.

It seems like ungodly people are much more likely to suffer, and they’re much more likely to give up their freedom and dignity because they’re much more afraid of death. This is something to think about as America continues to deteriorate. We will continue to see two different schools of thought. We will see the fear-based, desperate, selfish, bestial mindset of leftists, and we will see a calmer, more altruistic, less hostile attitude among people in areas that are heavily Christian.

People who don’t love God will do nearly anything in a crisis. During famines, they have been known to kill and eat their children. That kind of thing makes sense to people who think this life is all there is and that you have to make the most of it. Real Christians, on the other hand, have a history of allowing themselves to be martyred during prosperous times. Real Christians are less likely to panic. To us, death is like being sent home from a war zone, and maltreating others in order to stay alive is a frightening, off-putting idea.

When I think about leaving this earth, I don’t get scared. I long for it. My body is not what it used to be. I use reading glasses. My appearance is deteriorating. I forget things more often. The thought of being in a renewed body far superior to my earthly body at its best moment makes me wish the end were closer, as does the thought of getting cataracts and arthritis and being unable to do the things I enjoy. I don’t want to be a 75-year-old on this earth, shuffling around in this body. The thought of making it to 90 is genuinely disturbing.

People don’t believe in God generally want to hold onto whatever they have, regardless of the cost. It’s undignified. Look at Joe Biden, with all of his age-denying cosmetic procedures. Sometimes I think he smiles just so he will have something to show the IRS in case they object when he deducts his dental expenses.

I wonder if Hollywood stars are panicking because it’s harder to get elective surgery now. The pandemic must be harder on female stars because they have much shorter shelf lives than men. It’s not unusual for an actress to get her breakthrough during a certain year and be supplanted by younger, more attractive women 5 years later. One season of diminished activity could be very hard on certain female stars; especially those in their mid-thirties.

It will be interesting to see how Altucher’s predictions hold up a month from now. It would really be something, seeing Fifth Avenue turn into the South Bronx.

Biggest Danger to American Christians: Friendly Fire

Christian pride and self-righteousness are very destructive things. They lead us to become the worst enemies of the church. I have very few problems with nonbelievers. The people who mistreat me because of my beliefs are generally Christians. This is normal, and that’s sad.

I published a Youtube video about a rapture dream I had. I’ve written about the dream here. I said my mother and I were in her parents’ house, a huge horn blew from somewhere out over the Pacific, and we rose through the ceiling. In discussing the rapture, I talk about my belief that it will happen before the tribulation. I don’t mean nothing will go badly for Christians before the rapture. I mean whatever happens prior to the rapture will be an hors d’oeuvre, not the main course. I believe the real tribulation will be much worse. Whatever I said in the video was consistent with these beliefs.

This makes me a believer in the pre-tribulation rapture. There are also people who believe it will happen in the middle of the tribulation or at the end.

Have I said I was certain the rapture would come before the tribulation? I don’t think so, because I’m not. I just have a very strong impression that God says it will happen that way, and I have a lot of evidence from the Bible.

Some character with zero Youtube content showed up and started making comments of little value. First, he said something like, “Dude, young men will dream dreams, and old men will have visions.”

Of course, that’s not what the Bible says. Joel said old men would dream dreams and young men would have visions. Everyone knows that. It’s something every Christian should know, like how many commandments there are.

Eventually, I decided to say something. I replied and said, “Have you gone back and checked that yet?”

He (gender assumption) deleted his comment. No reply. Just an effort to hide the mistake. Then he posted a big, long comment saying 2 Thessalonians 2 proved the pre-tribulation theory was wrong and evil and so on. His comment was rude, and he said something about how he would rather be dyslexic than a “pre-tribber.”

This is the kind of thing people get wound up about. Not how to get rid of pride and hate. Not how to get love to flow. Not how to become one with the Holy Spirit.

I replied again, and I mentioned the deleted comment. I pointed out that dyslexia doesn’t make you say–deliberately–things which are incorrect. He really believed the verse said old men would have visions. I said he should try to be more honest. I didn’t think deleting the comment and then lying about it was the best course of action.

The 2 Thessalonians 2 passage he referred to mentions “the day of Christ.” He thought this was a reference to the rapture. I thought about it, and I felt I had a revelation. I said “day of Christ,” which clearly isn’t necessarily the rapture, might well refer to the Messianic Age. The Bible says a thousand years are like one day to God, and there is at least one example of God using “day” to mean “millennium.”

When Eve and Adam (in that order) sinned, they faced a punishment God had ordained earlier. He had said they would die during the day they ate the forbidden fruit. Then Adam lived another 900 years. So God lied, apparently, or…he was referring to a heavenly day, not an earthly day.

Obviously, he didn’t lie.

It seemed to me that this might explain some Biblical references to “the day of the Lord.”

Anyway, the anonymous commenter got really angry and said all I had to offer were “smarmy insults.” Then he demanded I produce documentation proving something or other I said I believed, as though Internet participants were entitled to make each other write research papers. He said, “I am going to dismantle your cult.”

This is when I found out he had no content. I wondered what was setting him off, so I went to see his videos to find out if he was a nutbar. There was nothing there.

I don’t know how he plans to dismantle my cult without creating content on his channel. I didn’t even know I had a cult.

I decided the best thing was to delete his weird comments and get on with life. In a way, this was like the rapture. One of the purposes of the rapture is to put an end to the necessity of dealing with people and spirits who are irrational and emotional and not worth talking to.

It looks like there is a battle going on among the people I call “Jesus buffs.” They’re like Trekkies, except their thing is Jesus. They speak nothing but Christianese. They wear shirts with huge crosses on them. They take pride in having gone to more revivals and concerts than you have. They make a point of telling everyone how they know this or that semi-famous preacher personally. They study the Bible and listen to theorists instead of spending time with God, and they use their studies to prove their strange theories. Generally, they do not claim their ideas came by revelation. They claim they figured things out on their own. Sounds a bit like pride.

I have been lumped in with a faction known as the pre-tribbers. I’m not sure, but I think the mid-tribbers and post-tribbers think we’re going to hell. We’re not just mistaken; we’re mouthpieces for Satan himself. There are also no-tribbers and rapture deniers. I suppose they also think we’re going to hell, along with the mid-tribbers and post-tribbers.

I’m not surprised that people disagree about things. Most Christians do not believe in the baptism with the Holy Spirit, and he is the only source of knowledge. Many who do believe in the baptism and have received it don’t spend time with God or pray in tongues, so they have logins they rarely use. Most Christians don’t hear from God, so they make things up. Even the ones who hear from God don’t get complete information. Disagreement is inevitable. The thing that’s disturbing is the factionalism and hatred, over trivial things.

We are supposed to shed the works of the flesh, and the Bible says factionalism is a work of the flesh. There are times when we have to break with people, and we are often required to point out their errors, just as other people are required to point out our own. That doesn’t mean we’re supposed to hate each other and condemn each other to hell based on whether we use Shiraz or Cabernet Sauvignon to take communion.

I suspect spirits of delusion are sent to Christians because of pride. Many Christians take pride in their denominations and their doctrine, without realizing how crazy that is. In addition to looking down on other Christians, most of us have a condescending attitude toward Jews. The premise is that modern Christians would never have crucified Jesus, had they been around in Pilate’s time. Of course, most Christians would crucify him right now if he came back under an assumed name and taught the same things he taught 2000 years ago. Many feel superior to the Jews who were, and are, against Jesus. They don’t realize faith comes from God, not from innate superiority.

Pride goes before a fall, so it makes sense that so many of us would fall into hateful factionalism.

It’s a very good sign when preachers and Jesus buffs mistreat you. They’re the same sort of people who killed the prophets and clamored for the crucifixion. It’s important to be able to tell when friction from other Christians means you’re on the right track.

Disagreement over the timing of the rapture should not be so significant to us that we attack each other and tell each other we’re going to hell. You don’t have to know the date of the rapture to go to heaven. It’s very telling when a person is so deluded he becomes infuriated with people who disagree with him about relatively trivial things. When all you have to offer is anger, you ought to know you’re not serving God.

We should be living as though the rapture were coming in the next hour, all the time. Knowing when it will happen is not necessary to living a holy life.