Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog,
The verdict is in. Joe Biden is the worst president in the entire history of the United States, and that is really saying something because we have had some absolutely horrible presidents.
Just about everything that Biden has done since he entered the White House has turned out badly, and our once great nation is now barreling down a deeply self-destructive path. If we do not reverse course, our country is not going to have a future, and more Americans than ever are losing faith in the federal government. In fact, a brand new survey has discovered that a lack of faith in the government in Washington is motivating large numbers of Americans to hoard “water, food, warm clothing, weapons, and cash” for the extremely chaotic times that are ahead of us…
People watching President Joe Biden’s shaky grip on Washington have lost faith the government will protect them in a doomsday event, and that’s driving a national prepper movement.
With the Doomsday Clock the closest to midnight it has ever been, over 70% in a new survey of 6,200 said they “do not have faith in the government” in a catastrophe such as a nuclear war or even climate-change-fueled disaster.
As a result, many are hoarding water, food, warm clothing, weapons, and cash to help them get through the worst days of a doomsday event.
These days, companies that are helping people get prepared for what is coming are generating more revenue than ever before.
In fact, the emergency food industry now generates approximately 500 million dollars in sales each year.
And it turns out that those that are in the 40-year-old to 65-year-old age bracket are the most likely to be prepping…
Those aged 40-65 are more likely to be prepping, and twice as many men as women are getting ready for a disaster.
Just what that disaster will be is dividing the nation. Some 55% cited climate change, 36% virus and disease, and 25% a nuclear attack. But there were other concerns. Over 15% are concerned about an asteroid strike, 15% about a robot or artificial intelligence “takeover,” and 7.5% about a “zombie apocalypse.”
It doesn’t surprise me that middle-aged Americans are the most likely to be prepping.
I have noticed that a lot of young people under the age of 40 just don’t understand the changes that we are witnessing all around us.
But those of us that are a little bit older and a little bit wiser can see where global events are taking us.
At this point, even middle-aged celebrities such as Josh Duhamel are preparing for what life will be like after things “hit the fan”…
“Transformers” and “Las Vegas” star Josh Duhamel has spoken out about becoming a doomsday prepper, stating that he’s planning on protecting his family if the “s*** hits the fan” in Los Angeles. The actor, who has starred in the TV show “Las Vegas,” gave an interview in which he explained, “I’ve become a bit of a doomsday prepper, I guess.”
Duhamel told the website Inverse, “I’m learning how to hunt. I fish.” He added, “Suddenly I had 54 acres out there. So I had two cabins, one with no electricity or water. They both have wells and electricity now, but they’re both really small.”
Overall, it has been estimated that over 20 million Americans are “actively planning” for some sort of a major emergency…
In 2020, more than 20 million Americans, nearly 7 percent of all U.S. households, were actively planning for an emergency, according to the latest analysis of Federal Emergency Management Agency data.
Plus, those stockpiling canned goods in the cupboards, caching ammunition and hoarding toilet paper now come in all stripes – from suburban ‘guardian moms’ to multi-millionaire tech gurus.
Since that figure is a few years old, I have a feeling that the true number would be significantly higher now.
And speaking of “tech gurus”, a group in Japan has actually come up with a survival plan that is truly bizarre.
It is a floating city that can hold up to 40,000 people, and some are calling it “a real life Noah’s Ark”…
TECH boffins have unveiled plans for a bizarre floating city likened to a real life Noah’s Ark.
The ocean-based metropolis would provide a “self-sufficient habitat” for 40,000 people, designers in Japan say.
It looks cool, but even once construction is started it will take many years before it is finally ready.
And even though the designers claim that it would be “resilient to an apocalypse”, I severely doubt that it could withstand being hit by a giant tsunami…
The developers, N-Ark, even claim the zone – named Dogen City – would be resilient to an apocalypse.
Measuring 4km in circumference, the plan would be for inhabitants to be able to get to any point in the zone within an hour.
At least they are trying to do something.
And the truth is that we should all be trying to do what we can, because all of us can see that our world is getting a little bit more crazy with each passing day.
This week, I was absolutely horrified to learn that three teens actually tried to light sticks of dynamite inside a Philadelphia grocery store…
The Philadelphia Police Department is searching for at least three teenagers who allegedly attempted to light sticks of dynamite inside a grocery store, according to reports.
The incident occurred at the Fresh Grocer located on the 5300 block of Chew Avenue in the city’s Germantown section on June 20 at 5:10 P.M., local news station Fox 29 reported.
Police have said that a member of security called the police after seeing teens roughly between the ages of 16 and 19 years old wearing all-black clothing “light sticks of dynamite within the store,” according to the report.
Our entire society is slowly but surely going completely nuts.
It is almost as if we are all stuck inside a really bad science fiction movie and we can’t get out.
Unfortunately, we are only in the very early chapters of this nightmare. Things will eventually get much worse than they are now.
So if you have already been prepping, don’t stop.
If you have not been prepping, I would encourage you to get moving, because the clock is ticking.
It is my sincere desire to provide readers of this site with the best unbiased information available, and a forum where it can be discussed openly, as our Founders intended. But it is not easy nor inexpensive to do so, especially when those who wish to prevent us from making the truth known, attack us without mercy on all fronts on a daily basis. So each time you visit the site, I would ask that you consider the value that you receive and have received from The Burning Platform and the community of which you are a vital part. I can't do it all alone, and I need your help and support to keep it alive. Please consider contributing an amount commensurate to the value that you receive from this site and community, or even by becoming a sustaining supporter through periodic contributions. [Burning Platform LLC - PO Box 1520 Kulpsville, PA 19443] or Paypal
-----------------------------------------------------
To donate via Stripe, click here.
-----------------------------------------------------
Use promo code ILMF2, and save up to 66% on all MyPillow purchases. (The Burning Platform benefits when you use this promo code.)
Maybe we aren’t as stupid as we look?
I dunno, this part sounds pretty stupid:
“Just what that disaster will be is dividing the nation. Some 55% cited climate change, 36% virus and disease, and 25% a nuclear attack. But there were other concerns. Over 15% are concerned about an asteroid strike, 15% about a robot or artificial intelligence “takeover,” and 7.5% about a “zombie apocalypse.”
Right.
Wasn’t Communism on the list?
I’m far more afraid of our own government hurting and/or killing US than I am of communism — although that’s getting to be more of a distinction without a difference …
IDK, all but the last two have been historical certainties. AI / robotics? They certainly have potential, maybe more so the rest. Zombies? I have often said as bizarre things have become, and as much as they hype it, it wouldn’t surprise me.
We all have our reasons I guess.
It is interesting that climate change is #1 (and I can see why that might be your uncertainty) , and we all know why that is. Just because most of us don’t think it is manmade, leastwise just because we are on the planet, it sure seems there is an organized effort otherwise to bring it about.
Not on my top five, but I’m not out in the southwest (not that they are the only ones affected by change). Truthfully, I don’t care what the reason is, the more people prepping the better.
For me it has to be societal collapse. Though that is rather a cop out, as any of the above could cause such. Economic / civil war / governmental (private and public) malfeasance and ineptitude would top my list. They are all somewhat related, so it is hard to seperate them.
Anybody else willing?
If we do not reverse course, our country is not going to have a future, and more Americans than ever are losing faith in the federal government.
You cannot reverse history. You can move forward in a new direction, but you will never reclaim what is past.
That more and more people are losing faith in what is clearly a degenerate and corrupt system designed to enrich a few at the expense of everyone else is a sensible reaction, perhaps far too late for most people to be able to do anything about, but certainly deserved.
Remember this: it is not any particular person or administration that is inherently corrupt, but rather the entire sweep of a culture. The things that we have come not only to accept, but to embrace as foundational are part of the rot. Our food systems, abortion and birth control, sexual degeneracy and the collapse of family, entertainment, ease and distraction at the expense of invention, creation and industry- all of these are going to have to go if anything is to come from this. In a closed system you have growth and decay in an infinite loop. You cannot confuse the two just because they are dependent upon each other. Somehow we’ve come to conflate the symbiotic relationships as if they were one in the same.
It is goinng to be a terrible and a wonderful time and it will all depend upon how much you have invested on either what has passed or what is to come.
Open system
I agree with most of what you say, but wonderful?
You lost me. Unless you are talking about Heaven.
It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.
Even in the absolute worst possible situation, there can still be beauty, goodness, & truth. Just have to have the eyes to see it.
(****IGNORE this next part Archie – keep scrolling****)
Read the Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom.
Wonderful; full of wonder.
Awful; full of awe. Awesome.
Liberating; facing new challenges and coming out the other side more learned and confident.
Wiser; knowing to not trust those less apt to make the most of it.
I often wonder to myself, ‘Why am I alive at this time in history?’ Must be cause I care.
I lost faith in the government when they did 9/11. That was my “red pill” moment. I haven’t believed a word that comes from them ever since.
November 22, 1963 for me.
Still ways to go before he passes Woodrow Wilson, but he’ll probably get there.
Wilson was definitely better on the border than the Demented One.
Epic crimes, not failures. And Sleepy Joe’s only the logo on the product. Resident Biden is just along for the ride. And it’s still all down to a multitude believing in and thereby supporting the system – the system of our own subjection.
And the award for the least bad prez goes to the one who served the least time.
Abolish the state. 2024 = 1776.
W.H.Harrison is #1!
No one will ever be able to put enough of everything away for a long enough period of time without forming alliances with many like minded people. That will be needed to prevent “others” from kill you and taking whatever you have.
No shit Sherlock.
Frankly the characterization should be: have arrived for sometime now at criminally fucking psychotic.
Seems, the purpose of the Joe Buttons, AOC and UncleFesterman type politicians is to destroy confidence in dot gov.
The insurgency always leads to a new system. The idea is for the old masters to become the new without anyone noticing. There are plenty of organic interactions going on within the synthetic orchestration to make it look convincing.
Bingo
Those questions in the survey are very lame. Only 2 IMO are worthy. Notice, 55% said they are alarmed about “climate-change. (now a crisis we are told. LOL) About 23% are concerned and worried about robots and zombies. Where was this survey conducted? In an 8th grade classroom? We live in a very unserious and uneducated country, to say the least.
Tens of thousands marching from the Darien Gap. The street camps along the border and major “shitties.” Thousands of jigs rioting and looting cuz dey team done be won a champeenship is somewhat like a Zombie episode. The climate change stuff is pure ignorant BS. That may be the worst thing of all that so many can believe that unscientific garbage.
Ah sweet, more fear porn, so good, fap, fap, fap. = every Snyder article for the addicts.
Quit reading at 55% fearing climate change.
Yeah. Percentages are a drag.
Everytime I come across a percentage in an article?
I need to take two gummies and sack out for at least…..three hours. Then after a quarter cup of coffee, I can start to re engage with the greater world.
You got my sympathy friend.