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Don’t despair—prepare.

It’s hard times here in pioneer-land. The extreme cold will not relent, causing a ton of daily battles for Giavana, Pia, and me. Now that we’ve made our big decision, the lifestyle seems to revolt against us. The sub-zero temps freeze our door closed overnight and throughout the day. Attempts to open it have resulted in a broken panel that now needs repair. Sinks have to be dripped overnight to prevent our water sources and tanks from freezing solid. However, if the drip isn’t just right, our grey tanks will fill overnight and spill out onto the floor—a flood. A few drips from the overhead AC unit caused a panic—roof leak, or just condensation? It would be a b***h to get up on that curved, slippery roof in this cold to try to fix that. When we move to our new location, White House is going to the RV spa to get inspected and fixed up so she’s ready to bug out if necessary.

We had to reflectix all the windows, so there’s no sunlight, we’re blacked-in every day in this modern covered wagon due to the Siberian cold. Meanwhile, outside our cozy little Hobbit-hole, America is being dismantled before our eyes. TBH, it sucks. But, we’re tough. We’re going to pull through. America likely will not, which escalates our preparations. As promised, we’re seeing a flood-the-zone shock and awe campaign of horror to overwhelm you, get you to give up, tune out, and put your head in the sand. Please don’t do that.

Several key areas of justification for this thesis are below, along with what we’re doing to prepare for it. Again, I’m not doing this for click-bait or to scare you. I’m hoping you’ll take heed, follow our prepping practices, and share this vital information with others.

We’re All Going to Get Sick and Die

The good news is Giavana and I have now closed another very important hole in our preparations. I’ve commented that we have comprehensive and solid medical supplies, including good quality tourniquets, anti-clotting materials, etc. I’ve posted links in the past to what we bought. We just ordered another case of good quality NIOSH N95 masks.

The big gap has been prescription only medical supplies. We’ve accelerated refills of all our scripts in order to stock up on those. Those are for problems we already have. The exposure is for things that might happen. We wanted our own little ER with antibiotics, antifungals, and more—the good stuff. We found Jace due to many rave reviews in the prepper forums we frequent, and our order is on the way. Whew. Problem solved, just as the anti-medical, anti-science regime is dismantling our public health and medical research infrastructure. WARNING: Be very careful about self-administering any prescription drugs. You can die. Giavana is an RN. We have several good prepper medical books to guide us (I’ve linked to those in the past posts). Jace also provides a free guidebook PDF. This tactic is strictly for emergency life or death conditions.

In the first short few days of this dystopian new regime, our public health agencies have already been silenced—not allowed to let the public know about health emergencies or prevention. This, with several deadly potential pandemics on the rise. Remember when Trump said that testing was bad, because the numbers make him look bad, so he secretly sent all our test kits to his friend Putin? How many Americans died because of that idiotic move? He has paused science, halted cancer and other important medical research here in the United States, but disease marches on. Disease don’t care. If disease could be happy, disease would be ecstatic. Anyway, no more bird flu updates, and we'll never see the next pandemic coming.

This is how you get to a place like North Korea, where all public-facing communication, run by the government, assure you that all is well and everyone is happy. Meanwhile, all around you, people are miserable, sick, and starving to death. Trump has also eliminated Biden’s legislation to provide lower prescription drug prices to families and seniors. Big pharma and all those lobbyists are ecstatic as well. Critical clinical trial studies at the National Institutes of Health hospital have been stopped. Those ill, hopeful patients will be sent home, their dreams crushed by this evil. The important studies lost.

Mother Nature is Coming for Us

As well, we’re now throwing fuel on the climate crisis. Thumbing your nose at Mother Nature has never worked out well. It’s colder where we are than it is in Siberia. There’s snow in Florida. The oceans are boiling. California is burning. Tornadoes are springing up unexpectedly all over America and wiping out entire towns. This was a primary factor in our recent decision to keep our White House RV covered wagon loaded and ready to run, but move to a sticks and bricks small apartment. Given some notice, we could have hitched up the RV and fled, but sometimes you get no notice—such as with earthquakes, tornadoes. As well, roads will immediately be jammed.

We’ll have options. Options are good. Because Trump has announced he wants to eliminate FEMA, so if your town is wrecked, you’re on your own. Insurers aren’t insuring. No help is coming. Prepping has never been more important. NOAA is also being canceled, so as with the next pandemic, you’ll likely never see the next cataclysmic climate event coming. Trump, his family, and his oligarchs will likely be safe far away, while you and your family burn or drown. I’m sorry to be harsh, but people better wake up. I don’t want this for anyone. I benefit in no way from scaring anyone. I’m trying to help. I’m trying to save people from this horror to come.

I’m Hungry Mama, Ain’t Nuthin’ to Eat

On top of the food shortages caused by climate disasters and bird flu, the idiotic decision to start rounding up 70% of our farm workers and send them away will be cataclysmic to our food supply. It’s already happening, as they’re not showing up for work out of fear. Food is rotting out there in the fields . At the same time, we’re alienating and threatening the allies that we buy food from. In response, they are rightfully threatening to cut us off, just when we need them most.

We’re going into growing our own stuff mode. We’ll report back on what products we select after our research. As well, with the new tactic we’ll have much more room to stock up on MREs, freeze-dried prepper stores, canned goods, water, ammo, and much more.

War and Draft Cards are Coming

Desperation leads to war. Given the above, we’re going to be big desperate. Got loved ones, male or female, ages 14-40? There’s a good chance they’ll be drafted at some point in the coming years into Generalissimo Trump’s meat grinder war. You can take it to the bank his kids, Musk’s kids, will safely be far away.

This is much more likely as of yesterday, when our Congress put an alcoholic, abusive, cheating, party boy news personality in charge of our nuclear stores, trillion dollar budget, and three million people in the military and Defense Department as a whole. The guy who has only run two micro-businesses in his life, and shamed, bankrupted, and ran both into the ground. He’s there to do whatever the Fuhrer says to do, which is incredibly dangerous to all of us and those we love.

To make this scenario worse, we’ve alienated our allies. We are a pariah to the rest of the civilized world. Our enemies, who Trump stupidly thinks are his