Mike Krieger saved TBP back in May of 2014. A denial of service attack had the site down for days when Mike emailed me and hooked me up with his IT guru TMWNN. I was hours away from pulling the plug on TBP. Within two days TMWNN had fought off the attack and has protected TBP ever since. I owe an enormous debt of gratitude to Mike for helping out a fellow blogger.
We both started blogging around the same time (2009/2010) and both had the same goal – to warn as many people as possible about the dire financial consequences from the actions of the Fed, Wall Street and politicians. We both thought we could change enough minds to make a difference.
I agree with Mike. We failed. This ship is going down and nothing we say or do at this point will change our course. I know how he feels, because I feel the same way. I find it extremely difficult to write anymore. In the early days I would be putting out two or three articles a week.
Mike seems to have found solace in his family and gardens. I wish him well and anticipate his new website.
Guest Post by Mike Krieger
Remember: Matter. How tiny your share of it.
Time. How brief and fleeting your allotment of it.
Fate. How small a role you play in it.
– Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
For the past ten years, I’ve spent most of my waking hours learning how the systems we live under function and how wealth and power operate and consolidate in the U.S. as well as globally. I’ve learned a lot and I’ve shared a lot. If I could go back and do it all over again, I would.
I dedicated all that time and energy to writing and engaging on the big issues of our era for two main reasons. First, I felt there was a window of opportunity to turn the ship around and reform the system to avoid needless additional widespread suffering and upheaval, which to me was guaranteed given the destructive path to which our ruling class was obstinately committed.
Second, my decade on Wall Street offered some valuable insight into the inner workings of financial feudalism and how it systematically and intentionally enriches certain small segments of the populace while enslaving the masses via perpetual colossal debt issuance coupled with reoccurring central bank bailouts for the creditor and financial asset speculator class. This wasn’t widely appreciated when I first started writing about it, so it became a personal mission to inform as many people as possible.
For a decade straight, I wrote incessantly about oligarchy, empire, endless war, an erosion of civil liberties, Wall Street criminality, unaccountable central bank power and much more. I figured if enough people understood how real power functions we could rein in its perniciousness. Sometimes I got it right, sometimes I got it wrong, but I always put forth my best effort. I’m proud of the work I did and the overall mission, but the unfortunate truth is it didn’t have the impact I had hoped for. Although I certainly helped and inspired people along the way, the macro situation we find ourselves in today is even more unstable and dangerous than it was a decade ago.
Despite fleeting moments of awareness when it appeared large numbers were waking up to how the ruling class actually rules, such waves of inspired energy were almost always quickly repurposed and redirected by mass media, dishonest pundits and others into typical red/blue manufactured political squabbles generally centered around the “culture war.” The imperial oligarchy wants us fighting amongst each other about race, geography, abortion, gendered bathrooms, sports team names, two hundred year old statues, or any other similar issue they don’t really care about.
As long as we’re fighting about that stuff instead of focusing on their wealth, power and criminality, they win. I’ve seen this sort of thing happen countless times over the past decade, and the general public seems to fall for it every time. If mass media wants to distract or make some ridiculous narrative the center of our attention, it’s a trivial task provided it triggers the culture war hysteria switch embedded in so many across the ideological spectrum.
After watching the first half of 2020 play out, I’ve finally seen enough. I’ve concluded and admitted to myself that the general public is simply unwilling or unable to put aside petty differences to unite and effectively challenge the ruling class on the really big issues of the day. If it didn’t happen this year, it’s not going to — or more accurately — time has probably run out at this point for grassroots movements to coalesce and force this decadent and destructive paradigm to fundamentally transform. Rather, it seems far more likely that the social and economic fabric we live under will simply collapse under the weight of its own corruption, depravity, violence and sociopathic greed before “the people” at a national level do anything particularly productive.
As such, continuing to write articles about what’s happening and how power, empire and oligarchy function has started to feel pointless. I feel like I’ve said nearly everything I wanted to say on these subjects and I’d just be repeating myself by carrying on. I’m simply not inspired to keep engaging and creating content in the same way, so I’m not going to.
Over the past ten years of public writing, I’ve undergone many changes, both in how I see the world and in my personal circumstances. When my emailed notes first started appearing on Zerohedge in early 2010 before I even had a blog, I was still single and living in New York City. I’m now married with three children in Colorado. Ten years ago, I had perhaps taken care of one tomato plant in my entire life, yet these days I’m spending several hours per day in our garden learning how to grow food. The things I’m passionate about and love most are different today than they were, and my work needs to reflect this change.
Going forward, I want to interact with readers in a distinct way than I have previously. I want more philosophy in my life, and less outrage. I want my words and my message to inspire rather than discourage. I want to promote resiliency and wisdom in the face of uncertainty and craziness. I want to increasingly focus on the things I love and the things I can control, rather than the things I despise and cannot easily influence.
Liberty Blitzkrieg has been an important part of my life and a useful medium, but it’s now time for a different canvas. I’ve had the idea of starting a new website with a distinct kind of mission and perspective for several years, and it finally feels like the right time to dive in. As such, I’ll be taking the next several months off from writing as I get some projects done around the house and think about exactly how I want to proceed.
I do know there will be a new website and that my writing will be going in a more expansive direction. In the meantime, I will continue to be active on Twitter in my usual way commenting on all sorts of issues, and if for some reason I become particularly inspired to publish a post in the interim, I won’t hesitate to come out of hibernation. I will continue to put together and distribute my weekly “Liberty Links” post to those who support my work during the transition. Liberty Blitzkrieg and all of its posts will remain online and available as a resource for those who are interested, or may become curious in the future.
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That about sums it up for me as well. I guess I should get some pics together of what I’ve been working on and write another article on apple trees.
Yeah, I think a lot of us could say some similar things to what the above article says. The founder of Liberty Blitzkrieg’s last name is essentially German for “warrior” but he’s now forged ahead with a family and with a fresh interest in essential gardening, and that’s just one example of how many of us “took the red pill,” tried to share that with others, and have moved on to other essential things in our midlife years.
As the song says, “You only live twice”
Don’t fret.
The Oath Keepers will save us.
With no disrespect to Mike, pretty much everyone fell for that stupid Psyop that has evaporated into thin air.
Guardians of the Republic and other sick jokes.
The Oath Keepers literally turned into a shitty news blog with a gun raffle on the front page.
https://oathkeepers.org/2020/07/god-bless-the-usa-lee-greenwood-new-version/
(gags on fake patriotism)
I don’t know the mission of Oathkeepers but if you want to prepare for the future that you are expecting, seek out your local militia and become an active member. Learn all that you can so that you can teach others and teach any skills that you already have. And, try to promote making connections with other local and national militias so that there there will be some level of communication when the SHTF. You can’t leave it up to others to take care of your own liberty.
And, of course, assume everyone you talk with is working for the feds, because some are.
My point exactly.
No, no, and NO!
Any group over 3 to 5 people has at least one informant in its midst.
Large groups and organizations are ALWAYS .gov sponsored or hijacked by .gov.
You can’t stop or fight and win against the coming Antichrist and NWO and you can’t hide from the coming judgment of God.
Few will survive the 3 1/2 year great tribulation and literal armegedon and those that do will witness the return of Jesus and submit to His 1000 year reign on earth.
Yes…..there are times in all our lives when you get that 1000 yard stare……
Yup, happens to all of us. Even happened harshly to this here character —I’m sure we all can relate. [See the clip b4 it gets expunged down the memory hole –2 minutes]:
I understand.
Eventually one realizes you can’t fight and win against city hall. It wears you out. That is not to say pointing out the truth about the emperor’s new clothes from time to time isn’t still a public service, as well as being good for the mind & soul.
The events of this year have had me expand my garden, build a rabbitry and start raising quail. Still in a dogfight to survive economically, but I see nothing but challenges ahead. Next trick is building a still.
Any chance you could write an article on rabbit keeping? I’d really be interested. Your experiences and failures would be ideal.
Concur.
I’m not at an experience level to discuss successes or failures, yet; maybe some day.
Current status is 3 New Zealand Rabbits. 2 does and 1 buck. They have just now reached the age for safe breeding, 6 months. So this weekend, it will be rabbit party time.
For instructions, I purchased “Storey’s Guide to Raising Rabbits” by Bob Bennett. It’s well written, and the author is funny. Who knew there were “rabbit-nerds” out there. This book pointed me toward New Zealand Rabbits, and my wife went to a rabbit show, and the many people she spoke with suggested New Zealand Rabbits also.
I went with a book, so I have a reference whether the internet is working, or not. Over the last several years, I’ve made it a point to collect reference-type books. My wife and I gift them to each other for Christmas and birthdays. We’ve accumulated books about gardening, edible and medicinal plants, first aid, home brewing and liquor distilling.
I gave my wife the rabbit book for Christmas several years ago. It was semi in jest, and since then it’s been a family joke that if we ever thought the economy was going bad, really bad, we would start a rabbitry for meat. I’ve sort of joked for years that we would know when the time was right, and that I just hope we can get some when the time comes.
Along comes March of 2020, and we knew. It was a mad scramble to find a breeder who had some available. Could not find any in our home state of NJ, eastern PA or New York, so it was off to Delaware just as they closed their borders to out-of-state folks.
What I’ve learned so far, is they’re nice animals and pleasant to pet and hang-out with. After a day’s work, it’s relaxing to have a drink and go feed the bunnies. I used to have a fish tank addiction, and feeding these guys feels sort of like feeding my fish. I gave-up on the fish after an October nor’easter in 2011 knocked out my power for a week. After cleaning up the remains of my reef tanks, I did not have it in me to restart.
It turns out rabbits produce the best fertilizer I’ve ever used. If there’s a magic bullet for making plants grow, its rabbit manure. It’s easy to use, straight from the hutch and into the garden. No composting required.
2020 has been tough, and it’s difficult to be optimistic about much right now. My business is in survival mode, and I cannot honestly say I see any improvement on the horizon. Putting some extra effort into the garden, starting to raise rabbits and quail has been a useful distraction.
Never did I think I would be going into a weekend and thinking it’s time for some rabbit porn while I put together the aviary for the quail that are out growing their makeshift home in my garage. It’s a how did we get here moment.
Rielly.
I was going to recommend Bennet on Rabbits. He’s practical and gets to the point. Growing up on a small truck farm I’m always amazed at the number of crummy books on raising animals. Good grief, some of them would have cured me of ever trying had I not been raised in the country. Just look at all the BS on chickens. Some of the coops they are selling would qualify as a split level ranch home in the 3rd world. I had a pair of Rhode Island reds who insisted on wintering in our giant forsythia bush. Wanted no part of a formal shelter.
This is the key. View anything digital as fleeting. View physical books as vital.
Thanks for your commentary. IMHO it’s extremely useful. I hope things work out for your new endeavors and look forward to hearing more!
It saddens me to hear you have decided to throw in the towel. With that being said, sometimes you have to know when to do this for your own sanity.
I too am at a point where I have realized the ship is inexorably on a path to the ice berg and it is far too late to turn it around.
The best those of us who have more than 2 brain cells to rub together can do is gird our loins as best we can and surround ourselves with like-minded individuals to survive the coming storm.
While I do believe our way of life, not only here in the US but other western cultures, is rapidly coming to an end, the pendulum does always swing back, and when that happens we may still see a renaissance of upright, morally balanced people take the wheel.
History has always been thus, and I am sure you are now taking your place amongst all the soothsayers through history. Those that saw what others either blindly refused to see, or outright denied the existence of.
We all stand on a precipice, and what is at the bottom of the crevasse remains to be seen. I think we all have an educated guess on what really will happen in any case.
I look forward to whatever form your next phase takes.
I keep you and your family firmly in my best hopes and prayers
Jim, I don’t think you failed. I don’t think Krieger failed. I don’t think Ron Paul failed. Sounding the alarm has value, just not as much as you think. The expectation that big change would happen just because you saw things clearly, well that isn’t the way it works. Somebody has to do the dirty work.
Think back 10 or 15 years. There were no good sources of information. Guys like you guys were way ahead of the knowledge curve, hell, I would say you guys were the knowledge curve. That’s not nothing. But there’s no troops. The gun nuts and militia weirdos were (predictably) a bunch of big talking sissies. And they continue to this day. Only President Trump has put his money where his mouth is. 50 determined men could change the arc of this real quick. it ain’t over till it’s over
Actually there was MUCH better information available 15 years ago. Most of the people who consolidated and built those info sources were attacked by the feds on multiple levels until the information went back underground and is now smuggled like english bibles in the 16th century.
This is a sad day for those of us who, although silent, much appreciated your posts. I for one, am sorry to see you go.
I’ve arrived at the same conclusions. Any minds that could have been changed already have. It’s time to go Galt for real, withdraw from the suburbs and high paying jobs that force us to pay ever increasing taxes and move to where there’s fewer people, more wide open spaces and join the ever growing group of people who pay no taxes. In the past few years, we knew the time to go was coming, but this ridiculous lockdown of the whole country has made it clear the time to go is now.
I’m tired of being made to care every single day and knowing that no one is going to stop this insanity. The evil people who run this show are never going to be held to account or be punished. It’s time to take care of ourselves and our own and find a quiet corner of this Earth to just live our lives and be left alone.
Best of luck to you and your family Mr. Krieger!
Thanks for all you have done. I enjoyed learning about the path of our destruction. Haha. Hang in there you made a difference. There is a certain degree of peace knowing why it is falling apart. For that peace thanks. Good Luck.
Nice farmer’s tan, Hardy.
Thanks, Mike, for speaking truth even when it cost you — you’ve been an inspiration and support for many more people than you’ll ever know. And frankly I’m happy to hear you’re not giving in to the Powers That Be, you’re just readjusting to keep yourself sane — it’s no failure to learn that things aren’t working using certain methods we’re using, so we discard what isn’t working, and try something else. Anything else, staying humble and taking things one day at a time. Kudos to you. Reminds me of the ending of “The Man Who Would Be King” —
“Peachy, I’m heartily ashamed for gettin’ you killed instead of going home rich like you deserved to, on account of me bein’ so bleedin’ high and bloody mighty. Can you forgive me?”
“That I can and that I do, Danny, free and full and without let or hindrance.”
“Everything’s all right then, Peachy.”
You have NOT failed.
You have received my book and when you read the chapter on biblical world view, please know, that much of this chapter came about because of people like you.
You have informed those who chose to listen. Thank you very much.
The most well known person on the planet, Yeshua Mashiach (Jesus Christ) and His very own book, which happens to be the absolute number one best printer ever since the printing press was invented, are at the same time most rejected.
That’s why HE said: “Narrow is the gate and difficult the way, that leads to eternal life. And very few will find it.”
Or as the cowboys say: “You can lead a horse to the water, but you cannot make it drink.”
May Yehovah bless you on this new part of your journey!
Sorry to hear the news. I foresaw the ruination back in the 90’s when the Clintons turned the country into a psycho paradise and went on to infect the world with Ignatius J. Reilly’s vision. Of course, it’s no time to join the queer Mardi Gras parade. It’s a time to look for similar minded folks who still have hope for the afterlife.
It is taxing to keep an eye on all their shenanigans, we become weary watchers while the world sleeps.
i think a lot of us are in that stage. reminds me of some years back when the oil drum shut down. the atmosphere there had become ‘were done talking about it, were all off busy doing whatever we thing we ought to do about it, not much left to say anymore’ and that was that.
inasmuch as the empire hasnt yet collapsed we’re all scrambling to find some way to keep from getting eaten by the monster, while working on our own plans and projects for making it through the chaos. good luck to all of us. The enemies of civilization are maybe massing their forces for their final assault, largely because we’re in the last days of energy abundance and this is the last chance for _any_ large scale moves by anyone. Everything is going to get a lot more local and that process is going to accelerate. We need to hang on and put our energy into making sure the local scene around us is sane and civilized. the mega-scale structures cannot hold together much longer, and we’re watching them fall apart in front of us right now. so, indeed, anyone who hasnt put in a garden needs to put that close to the top of the list.
And to all of you in the states, be very glad of the second amendment.. in europe that aspect is going to make everything a lot more tricky for civilized people as in the intial stages of relocalization exactly the wrong folks will have all the armaments.
It is time to go look after your family. Go in good health.
I don’t know Mike Krieger, but it seems like he has fought the good fight and richly deserves some time for himself.
That said, I may be just trying to convince myself to keep up the fight, but I think our side has a real chance of winning and winning big.
The other side controls the levers of power. ALL of the levers of power. After all, they are the party of bigness. Big government, Big business, Big media, Big unions, Big tech and on and on.
What have they done with their power?
1. Their presidential candidate is older than the oldest president ever (Reagan) when he LEFT office – with early stage Alzheimer’s. To be kind to Biden, it is clear and obvious that he is also suffering from early stage dementia.
2. They have NO vice presidential candidate at all. That’s why they haven’t announced one yet. They vetted the possible choices and they all FAILED the vetting process. They have NOBODY.
3. They have thrown everything but the kitchen sink at Trump. Russia Hoax. Charlottesville Hoax. Impeachment. Violating his attorney-client privilege with Michael Cohen. Sexual scandals. Coronavirus Hoax. Black riots Hoax. Leaks from his closest advisors (Bolton, Mattis and MANY others). Fake polls showing that their Alzheimer’s candidate has a TEN point lead. Ridiculous. Now trying to grab his tax returns. I could go on but I am running out of space.
4. They control the media, but Tucker Carlson has the highest ratings EVER. Higher than all of their pitiful outlets combined. He speaks the truth and he doesn’t back down. Their legacy print media is bankrupt and their “reporters” and “commentators” are a complete joke. They are talking only to each other. They are changing no one’s mind. EVERY Trump voter is still voting Trump and their candidate arouses less enthusiasm than Hillary.
5. Michael Flynn has been exonerated. As the plot against him is exposed, and the coup attempt against Trump is exposed, more and more dominoes will fall and the dems know how truly bad the evidence against them really is. I think it leads to the top – Barack Obama. That is why the libs are becoming more and more hysterical as time goes by.
6. Ghyslaine Maxwell is under arrest and all of Epstein’s clients were liberal dems. They thought they had “taken care of” the Epstein issue. They know how bad the evidence against them is that Maxwell is about to expose. The initial flight log to PEDO ISLAND contains many names. Anderson Cooper. Tom Hanks. Alex Baldwin. Madonna. Bill Koch, Bill Clinton. Kathy Griffin. And yes, Barack Obama. Plus MANY others.
7. The stock market continues to levitate. It stays high because Trump has turned their games against them. Yes, it is rigged. It was always rigged. But now it seems that he is the one who controls it.
8. The economy will recover once the Fake Virus hysteria fades. The virus is real, but it is not significantly worse than any other virus. The media coverage of it is fake. It seems likely that an effective treatment will soon emerge. Plus the death rates are down to nothing. School age children have a 99.9% chance of not being hospitalized if they even catch it. As people realize this fraud that has ruined their lives in so many ways, what will they think of the dems?
I guess that’s enough for now. As Joe Biden says, I’ve taken too much time already.
This is a Fourth Turning. Nobody ever said it would be easy. We have to fight. The stakes are too high. If the United States fails, then what is left for us for the rest of our lives? What is left for the future of humanity? We have to fight and we have to win. Our chances are excellent. There is no alternative.
I fully understand the desire to shake off the dust and walk away. Belaboring the obvious along with preaching to the choir gets real old after awhile.
Tell you what though, there have been many times where I thought I wasted my time, that no one grasped what I was attempting to teach or explain, only to have someone come up to me after the fact and tell me that something I said hit them so profoundly that it changed their life.
As I grow older, I realize that I’m not in control of very much and to think I am is the highest form of hubris. Now if it gets too onerous I step back, say a quiet prayer and ask for guidance and that God’s will be done. Makes me feel better and, oddly enough, when I do that things have a way of working out in strange and interesting ways.
Never give up, when it’s rightfully needed.
FUCK THEM……………
Watch Trunews …. the names that Maxwell has includes Donald Trump. Who do you think arranged for him to meet his latest wife? Politicians are bought and paid for. Two sides of the same coin. And as always needs to be stated … not a demoncrat.
Those who are open to reason have largely been reached while we always hope to garner more. Carlson is unfortunately correct that since they reject dialogue and reality we need to go to the next step. RIOT! The shitheads in the Blue Progatories riot and the authorities bend over and grab their ankles and say have at it. What would they do if 1,000 enraged middle class types blocked highways, threw firebombs, dragged Black people out of cars by the dozens and beat holy living shit out of them? Why don’t we get credit for NOT doing that? For the record, we have been the good guys and it has gotten us nothing but more outrages committed against us.
Mainly agree, but call BS on #6 – Anderson Cooper, Tom Hanks, Alex Baldwin, Madonna, Bill Koch, Bill Clinton. Kathy Griffin. And yes, Barack Obama. Plus MANY others.
I’m not buying Obama, Griffen and Koch??????
Google “Epstein Flight Log” . The internet is your friend.
If that’s too much for you, here is a link:
Everything you enumerated is based in at best the world prior to 2008, the last chance we had to reverse course and force the downvote of TARP and QE∞. It doesn’t matter anymore, none of it. No justice will be served through Washington. It isn’t possible. No solutions will come from Washington. It isn’t possible. That’s not to say that perhaps Trump wouldn’t like to attempt change, but large systems are what they are. Newton’s Third Law has a price to pay and the Leverage Piper is playing in the distant background.
Decentralize your food supply. There’s no excuse for anyone on TBP to be fucking around with politics at this point.
All hail General Zio-Con Maximus!
I want to believe…but I’m too old and too damn tired of waiting for the right thing to be done about all of this. After decades of nothing happening and ‘this time it’s different’, unfortunately I’m inclined to go with nothing will happen and it’s never different.
I know we have to fight, but it seems we’re all alone, and as the Japanese proverb says, “The nail that sticks out gets hammered down.” I give you Aaron Schwartz, Andrew Breitbart, Seth Rich and LaVoy Finicum as examples of those who did stand up and fight, and were hammered down because of it. Even Matt Drudge cashed out and exited stage left. We’re all looking for Neo, and the thing is, he’s fictional character who does not exist.
Ohh…this time IS different, you can rest assured of that
Aaron Russo, George Carlin A couple more who tried to warn us
Common- Bravo chap! I share the sentimate.
Mike- thanks for all these years of fighting the good fight, and like.many others have indicated, your impact has been great, in fact much greater than you probably realize now in these dark, darkening times.
Best.
Well said, Common Cents. Agree….the fat lady hasn’t sung.
I voted for Trump thinking that he would either be Hercules cleansing the Augean stables or Samson pulling down the palace….either way, he has lanced the boil of the DC/Global deep state…he has drawn out the corruption for all our eyes to see….
The fight isn’t over. Courage all. Steely-eyed resolve is needed.
Common Cents, what a great post you left us and I agree 100%. But I highly respect Jim and his decision. Take a break along with a deep breath. You done good (as they say back home). Many of us appreciate your wisdom and hope to hear from you again many times.
Hey man ! You tried ! What more could you do? Even the handful of martyrs who engaged in ‘excessive displays’ have already been forgotten. It was meant to be. All we can do is prepare the best we can and then place our faith in God. One way or another, He will get us through whatever is next. The key is FAITH in believing the statement … ‘See you on the other side …’
WOW…Mike I know how you feel. When you ask those around you simple questions about money,how it’s created,debt,fiat currency and a laundry list of others that in my are opinion simple questions all you get back is a blank stare .
This Plandemic has shown me how the sheeple are being corraled….the slaughter will be easy going forward. The “Stasi Karen’s ” will help all of those folks who offer them a little security in exchange for their and their neighbors liberty.
I know everyone is tired of the “Buy more ammo but it defines the fact that I see no hope in the paradigm we currently living in getting any better.
I’m not fatalistic in my opinion but I know as Mongo said long ago ” I’m just a pawn in the game of life” . I hope that maybe I’ll get the chance to be the stick that slams the cog down…who knows I guess it depends on when the “Looting and Burning comes to the Suburbs ” . Hopefully I’ll make it to my farm,place signs that say ” IS There Life After Death….Trespass And Find Out “and live out my days in a rocker over looking my fields.
I had hopes of leaving my place to my nephews but one is getting eaten up with the “White Privilege” crap and the other will start college in the fall. Hopefully his father and I can save him from this mindless crap that he’ll be indoctrinated with.
Jim…as The Sith Lord said “Feel The Anger” when it boils over give us a good round of prophetic words that will tide us over until the next round…that’ll help with Mike being on hiatus .
Until then…lock and load .
I’m thankful he saved your site.
Thanks to TBP and like minded sites, isn’t this the time we knew was coming? Shouldn’t this be the time we are stalwart and even more determined to steer this ship? Not back on course but towards a new, higher, enlightened destination…Rest…. Re-energize. Rebuild.
Mike writes:
I know those thoughts. When I began my blog in September of 2016, I fully expected Hillary Clinton to become president in the next few months. The blog was to be by daily F U to America until they came and put me on the rack.
When Trump won, I actually had hope for a while. And, sadly, even now, a part of me hopes the Trumpster, Q, and patriots in the military will save America and make her great once more.
But, as I’ve stated here before: Hope springs eternal, but reality is a bitch.
It was when I collated headlines in the Spring of 2018 through the Summer of 2018, that I realized Big Brother was unstoppable. And I always thought if Trump were real, he would have COMPLETELY outed the swamp prior to the 2018 Midterm Elections. He had the goods, so why not?
Nope.
So in December of 2018, I wrote two articles that summarized a similar state-of-mind as Mike K’s post above. Respectively, they were about Americans and blogging in general:
“A Modern-Day Paul Revere Not Warning of Noah’s Flood at a Wedding”
and
“Peachy Keen and Cool as a Cucumber in a Banana Republic”
In the latter article, I wrote this:
Just know that “Uncola” navigated many delicate lines in order to accommodate readers in respectful ways. But for anyone who would care to go back and reconsider anything I ever wrote, they might see what I left there in-between.
Thank you, Mike. Well done. It was really generous of you to reach out to J.Q. during a dire time. And I’m also very grateful to Jim and TMWNN for their daily efforts on here TBP.
No matter what happens, though, I’ll always come back to that old Walt Whitman quote:
“We were together. I forget the rest.”
I understand. Hell, I did the same thing. Many others, too. Which is largely the point of my last article – take care of yourself first, as it seems there will be no coming together of normal folks to confront this shit.
A simpler life is what I am pursuing. I am expanding a hobby that will make me a very popular man if the shit entirely hits the fan. It is great fun to learn.
Making a still?
Well, making a still is not illegal. Running one is frowned upon, and I would never do anything illegal. You know me – I am a law abiding citizen.
You are making pure grain alcohol for hand sanitizer. Right?
I only use the very finest aged corn/rye sanitizer. My skin is very delicate you know.
Point to consider. The mistake most often made in the production of corn/rye sanitizer is thinking small when assembling the production facility. Inevitably, the product ends up being far more popular than you originally thought it would be. My advice, you are an industrialist, scale it up a little bit from the beginning, and you won’t be sorry. Your production costs are small, it’s the time and effort that ends up counting. Now go save some lives.
Fermenting is the bottleneck. Distilling sanitizer is faster than the fermenting of it. It takes at least a week to ferment a drum of sanitizer, which is say 8% alcohol, perhaps only 5% top grade sanitiser. So to get 20 litres pure sanitizer a week as an example you would need to ferment 400 litres a week. That is a lot. And such large sanitizer quantities would surely draw some attention from those agencies that regulate sanitizer.
But point taken.
Mike has lost hope. That is a dangerous thing when to many people lose hope. They do rash things. He is saying by his actions that the time for words is over. We don’t always agree but we are on the same side. Good Luck ,Mike.
“I agree with Mike. We failed. This ship is going down and nothing we say or do at this point will change our course. I know how he feels, because I feel the same way. I find it extremely difficult to write anymore. In the early days I would be putting out two or three articles a week. ”
I get it I really do, the way things are going it’s a toss up if I’m failing into depression, or it’s the beginning of real fear for the future.
I come here not because I thought anyone or a group of us could really change the path this nation (and world) is on, but to try and get a better grasp of what is going on to better prepare. If that’s even possible…..
My dream has recently been that by 64 (I’m 61) to sell everything, buy a used motor home, hook up the jeep and travel for the next few years while we’re still able. Then drive that fucker over a cliff when we’re not able.
The driving off a cliff is my idea, not my wife’s, she thinks I’m a maroon for even suggesting it.
I have learned to trust my gut and it again paid off in spades this week with a big decision I had to make. I knew that I was going to blow a verbal gasket with the level of virtue signaling going on at my soon-to-be former employer. Suffice it to say that everyone on here has heard of said employer, especially someone like Jim with his previous education. It would have been unhealthy for me, but more importantly, completely futile.
My gut tells me we have at most 2 years of quasi-normalcy left. Marty’s work just sent it over the edge in terms of pushing myself to finish the orchard. I pray everyone on here who has no hope of relocation (either CONUS or OCONUS) makes a concerted effort to disconnect from our centrally planned food network. I also hope more people write about their endeavors with specificity.
AOC said:
Plan for 2-4 months instead.
I have some interest in one of these Farm Bot contraptions and I have the room. Interesting concept.
If you are interested in applying tech to garden, look into aeroponics or hydroponics. Aeroponics is the fastest growing method with highest yields there is for most veggies but hydro is close without the risk intrinsic to aerponics. Aside from tubers and fruit trees I have no interest in soil growing at all. Remove the soil and 90% of pest and disease problems are gone. Apply environmentally controlled agriculture techniques and 99% of pest and disease problems are gone. Just like people plants want shelter and to be comfortable too.
wives never have any sense,do they?
this is tred,damn name went to anon 4 some reason–
Nice play on words,card. Couldn’t help it. Sorry.
If you haven’t grown weary and disappointed by this point in time, you haven’t been listening. I am thankful for the wisdom and vision this site has given me, yet sad that the course is now set and we are now just riding the coaster until it’s final turn rolls up.
Will be sending another contribution to Jim with many thanks for all his effort and will also focus on nailing down the loose ends around the house and cementing friendships in the neighborhood to develop the unity we will need to survive, that could not be achieved on a city or state level, due to the superior planning by whoever “They” are.
Blessings to all, love one another fervently, even as you see the day approaching.
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Wish you nothing but the best in your endeavors.
HORSEHOCKEY!!!
Unless you are going to start naming the one true enemy and start advocating harsh and immediate action, Peaceful or otherwise then all this is is a Self Pitying Hot air
Pity Party.
GALTS GULCH IS A FICTION. It does not exist and there is nowhere to retreat and hide or ride it out. We are in the beginning of a manhunt. There is a Satanist Cabal executing a pogrom or Blood Libel on anything resembling a conservative of any race in this country.
YOU’RE NEXT WHITEY has been my rallying cry for years now but only because whites are the only ones who think they are going to escape hardship and even torture. All conservatives will eventually be hounded down and your kids taken for burnt offerings to Molech.
All you have to do is look at Iraq, Libya, and Syria to see how it will be done. The punks are just the spear tip.
I am almost dead yet I wake up every day and suit up and show up. Most days I can barely get my mail and each night my heart is likely as not to stop. You never hear me complain or give up. I gave up fixing the unfixable and have advocated revolt for 20 years now. I consider it both a privelige and duty to God to try until I breathe my last. For me it’s a debt of gratitude for being delivered from the gates of hell.
My methods often offend you but none of you ever had to guess at what I said and I will stand in front of God knowing I fought the good fight.
This is not over. The part that is over is voting or any other vain attempt at fixing this mess. It’s a ball of yarn after the kittens played with it. It has no end or beginning as was intended by the evil bastards in charge.
Flea, if prudent, can you suggest a locale in the Pac NW where a sly oldster might find like-minded folk?
Yes but I don’t want to get those people sore at me. Email me if you want and I can give more details.
[email protected]
I can speak generally here and tell you that Liberals are flocking to central and western Mt as we speak. Sales up 10%. N.E. Mt is fracking country so things are sky high. There are lots of fine places in E. Oregon and S.E. washington that are squeaky clean conservative. Bend is out.
Roseburg is our kind of people but I have no clue regarding price or availability. The problem is State government is liberal and unpredictable. Mt. is geting real purple but is priced out of most normal budgets anyway.
N. Wyoming is semi NW. Sheridan is a real nice town still in the mountains but can get cold.
That’s all I’m willing to say here.
Hulett, Wyoming area is a good place as is the area around Custer,S.D. .
There really is no safe place now. The SCOTUS just ruled that the eastern half of Oklahoma now is under the jurisdiction of the 5 tribes which were ceded the land in reservations. These 5 tribes are the ones that participated in the Trail of Tears march to the eastern half of what is now known as Oklahoma. The ruling basically states that since the reservations were not terminated properly by the government of the united States then the tribes ceded the land still hold jurisdiction. 1.8 million people live in the area the SCOTUS just ruled to be tribal jurisdiction with a large majority living in Tulsa.
This ruling brings into question termination of tribal lands such as the area in Georgia that belonged to the Cherokee nation which Andrew Jackson forcibly removed and marched west. There are areas all across the united States that have tribes that will now contest jurisdiction of the governments of the several states. This ruling, in effect, will start the legal balkanisation of the country. One thing to note, however, even though the tribes have local jurisdiction that area still comes under the jurisdiction of the federal government and not the state. So the hierarchy of power is tribal first then the federal government.
Basically, the country as we know it is FORKED! All thanks to a loonybin SCOTUS ruling and Gorsuck, the so called conservative judge but in actuality a R.I.N.O. (TM), sided again with the rainbow crowd.
Good thing Trump nominated conservatives. /sarc
FLEA! Come to NYC! I’ll show you around. It should be emptied out in a few months and more like the Wild West used to be! Flea, I’ll kill you, if you decide to die!
See Bee.
I’ve been to NYC and lived quite a few places upstate. In 71 to 75 lived on L.I. out in Suffolk Cnty. No desire to go back there. My Mom was born in Corning area.
Don’t worry about me dying. 4 years ago I was supposed to have 1 year left, maybe 3 if I would stay in low desert in AZ.
So I’m playing with house money.
If you change your mind about going on safari in NYC, drop me a note. And keep playing and winning at the casino!
Flea- We’re all on the same road and I think everyone already knows the final destination, but it’s about the journey and what we do to make this a better world for those who will inherit the world that we leave them. Stay the course and above all, don’t let the bastards get you down.
I’m feeling the same as many here. I’ve done what I could to wake friends and family up and I feel it hasn’t been a worthy endeavor. I too feel tired. It’s the same shit, just a little worse each day. The sand in the hourglass has just about run out.
I moved to a small town 4 years ago with no connection to it. I just knew in my bones to get away from the cities and 12 miles from any interstate. Mission accomplished. The little lady and I have been learning to grow and store food. We have some PMs, free flowing water, and the means to defend our .5 acre. From here, whatever will be, I’m as ready as I’ll ever be though it never ends. I’m as angry as a hornet on too many days for my liking.
I understand the mountain is too tall for me to climb at my age and trying to get through to people is a waste of time by and large. The “big Mo” is rolling downhill and all I can do is get out of the way and watch it go by.
The pendulum isn’t swinging the way I’d like to see it but it will swing again the other way. I know I won’t be around to see that but it will. Bad time makes for strong men. There will be some in the future, guaranteed.
My thanks to all whose wisdom and humor I’ve enjoyed immensely. TBP with a cup of coffee is my morning wake-up.
A BIG hat tip to JQ for the tremendous effort and all that I’ve learned by reading the brighter minds here.
Like Flea, I’m not rolling over and have a surprise for some dumb fuck who thinks he’ll dictate some horseshit to me. SURPRISE !! Peace, may we all find some…..
I would say that’s a relative statement because it depends on what the definition is of the term”protected”
While theburningplatform.com is encrypted and authenticated, some content is NOT encrypted. Attackers might be able see images being viewed on the site which can be modified to trick people by changing the look of a page.
So by stating that theburningplatform.com is “protected “, that does not mean the same as saying the connection is fully secure because someone might be able to see or change the information.
If OP is worn down and taking leave to gather himself, imagine how Ron Paul must feel.
He was the last exit ramp on the highway to hell, imho. The greatest thing he did was help those of us that knew something wasnt right to organize our thoughts to the point we could plainly see the bullshit.
Enjoy your rest OP. Just know that if writing and warning others is what you are truly meant to be doing, you won’t be at peace until that is what you are doing.
Thanks for all you gentlemen have said. It has made a difference. Don’t be depressed about failing to undo the course of our nation. The seeds of our destruction were sown and sprouted decades before, and these cycles have never before been stopped. It was a grand try, a worthy endeavor. America as we have known it can not be saved, but we can hope to make it better once more. You and I will likely not see that day, that doesn’t mean that it won’t come.
‘Splain this feudalism to any Spud : Every aspect of her life is controlled by money, and only one group has the power to create any amount of money from thin air and to then use it to control everything and everyone else. The Spud does understand – but they have no money, they have debt. So if the buying power of your 401k, savings, income, and everything else drifts towards zero then so does the weight of her credit card debt. She thinks you’re stupid, that all savings are stupid. Money sitting doing nothing at a bank would be better used buying a plastic pool at Walmart.
I have been railing against the insanity for decades now and it has changed nothing. Voting, political activism, letters to politicians and bureaucrats at all levels, emails, posting on blogs, face to face conversations with thousands of people over the years, all to no avail. Stupid people tend to be quite content with their lot in life. Philosophy for me tends to promote outrage as most is just plain B S. I came to the conclusion years ago, that everything I managed to cram into my brain was for me and me only and when I die it dies with me. I hope you can find peace because because that would be the one thing I have sought without success. Just when you think it is within your grasp some moron manages to screw things up so bad that you lose the ability to ignore it.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. – Edmund Burke
I cannot win alone, but I will not stop fighting the evil that has taken over the left. For as long as you can, with as much will as you can muster, within the parameters that you can do so, don’t ever stop fighting.
One of my best friends turned me onto TBP in 2010, and the rest is history. Jim’s 4th Turning articles opened my eyes, and I just kept digging in. Found Mike K’s site, ZH, and many others. But my journey started here. I’ve felt like I’ve been living in 2 worlds for years- because once you see it for what it is, and you push past that weird feeling when the lightbulb goes on, there is no going back.
Then you try to alert your closest circle, and 95%+ of them react in ways ranging from: not caring, not really wanting to get it, or thinking you are crazy. You keep trying to help them see it, but eventually you realize they were never meant to.
Maybe that’s more or less how it always goes. This 4th Turning will run its course, and I believe the good guys will win. We’re built for this. We were born for it.
Thank you Jim Q.- your efforts truly changed my life course, and my family’s, for the best.
“I agree with Mike. We failed. This ship is going down and nothing we say or do at this point will change our course.”
Well, fukkin’ duh…
It’s only been written for 2,000 years. So tell me, when is anyone gonna start reading? Learning what’s actually going on?
Just curious of course.
Clarified and updated since 1830 in CONTINUING REVELATION > Rehashed and ill-translated for 2,000 years
Happy *244th Birthday USA;
(4 Nephi 1:40)
and a personal favorite;
1 And now there began to be a great curse upon all the land because of the iniquity of the people, in which, if a man should lay his tool or his sword upon his shelf, or upon the place whither he would keep it, behold, upon the morrow, he could not find it, so great was the curse upon the land.
2 Wherefore every man did cleave unto that which was his own, with his hands, and would not borrow neither would he lend; and every man kept the hilt of his sword in his right hand, in the defence of his property and his own life and of his wives and children.
(Ether 14:1-2)
and
(1875)
Revelation is so cryptic that anyone can take whatever meaning they want from it.
There’s only one final destination when a government issues currency ad infinitum.
The ‘good’ people have written about what the evil ones are doing but they mostly have not written about the exact mechanics of how they enslaved Americans and the exact mechanics to dismantle the slavery. The ‘good’ people failed in their efforts to move the needle back towards liberty and any time the really knowledgeable people tried to point out exactly how to return liberty the ‘good’ people rejected and even criticized the solution. The ‘good’ people do not want to realize that they are still not truly awake, they do not want to admit that all their writings were useless and that they failed over and over because the solution exist in understanding the actual mechanics of the slavery, the mechanics of the solution and most importantly performing the ACTIONS to mechanically disassemble the slavery. The ‘good’ people were failing and criticizing those who pointed out their failures. Even to this day you ‘good’ people demand the solution is a failure while you keep failing at repeating the same actions that failed over and over never even attempting to implement THE solution.
How does God judge you for such failure while criticizing God’s messengers? What do you think you look like to this level of awareness that knows all tools were provided and disclosed and you IGNORED them? Your arrogance is what ensures your doom.
When faced with vision of the actual solution you saw the danger and you feared that danger but you were told not to fear. If you truly understood the mechanics of the slavery and the solution you would have already known that the biggest part of the solution was not to fear. So you feared while you criticized and kept doing the same things that had always failed. How dumb and arrogant do you look? Honestly, pretty dumb and arrogant. But you want to reject this too only to keep on failing never wanting to face the fact that your actions could not ever lead to success because there was never an actual solution component to your ‘strategy’. Your answer was to simply ‘wake people up’ never considering the fact you weren’t awake either, for if you were there would have have been an exact defined goal post of what achieving liberty and justice for all would have actually looked like, how it would mechanically function on a day to day implementation -you still don’t have that.
Your journey to ‘wake people up’ never had an accurately defined destination, so how could you ever possibly arrive there? It’s like saying you are going to drive to Florida and then proceed to climb into a cardboard box and eat pinto beans to get there, the goal and actions do not line up, the goal is vague and the actions are non-sensical within an objection to achieve the stated goal.
You guys should really think very hard about what and who you criticize. You have failed continuously and you may want to consider admitting your failures, the non-sensical nature of your efforts to date, where that is leading and how you need to check yourself.
If you are going to give up trying to reach a just and free destination, that is not really surprising, just know that you never actually even tried in the eyes of those aware of the actual solution.