The firehose of crazy is open full blast and it’s only going to exponentially worse between now and November.
I know I can’t keep up with all the stupid going on. Every fucking day now they raise the bar a little bit higher.
Umm, yeah, it’s only Tuesday but it feels like a whole week already.
So what’s on your mind lately?
Inflation, WWIII, The bullshit going on in the Middle East and now Africa?
The WEF, U.N., Government misdeeds, gun control, etc. etc. etc.?
Whatever you want to talk about, have at it.
I go out in the garage, turn the music on (and up!), and work on My Old Toyota. When that fails, I go down in the workshop, turn the music on, and tinker away on old audio and radio gear.
Can’t do anything much about the current craziness, so I tend to stay away from it by keeping busy.
Words to live by.
Same here. Have fun, do what you enjoy, but keep your head on a swivel.
yeah, gave up on the bullshit a while ago, say 12 years or more now. not much I can change unless it is local to me.
still I carry at all times with spare magazines.
but still manage to stay frosty as we used to say back in the day. if it gets bad enough, I set up some trip wires I just happen to have here.
but it tends to be quiet here in the woods. peaceful even.
but one never knows what tomorrow will bring either
Yes. Words to live by. The whole world (flat or spherical) is fucked up. SNAFU, FUBAR, SUSFU, TARFU and BOHICA. Did I miss anything? We ain’t gonna vote our way out of this and orange man bad is not the second coming of Christ. Yes, do what you enjoy and I enjoy fucking, anyone with me? Recently got back from a long beach vacation with the husband. Ordered tickets to a Whiskey Myers/ J.J. Grey concert along with hotel reservations for that concert. Enjoying the two grandsons to the max. Riding the Harley. Living life to the fullest. But always prepping and keeping my head on a swivel. Live life to the fullest until SHTF. Live till you die and don’t let the man keep you down. Life is short, make the best of it.
You all take care.
“You will hear of War and reports of war. See that you are not alarmed, for these things must happen but it will not be the end”. The fear mongering on the macro stage is a distraction from our immediate environment. If we start transfering angst of the world onto that closest to us mistakes will be made.
Much like drjim, I try to put as much distance between myself and insanity.
Besides, after having to beat on the wife’s Edge for six hours to pull the LR wheel bearing, I don’t have enough energy for anything else.
Leigh
Whitehall, NY
nissan titan, front bearing hubs. still haven’t gotten the axle nut off since the last a-hole that worked on it shanked it with an impact gun to max instead of using the proper torque. bent a 6 foot cheater bar. long hot summer.
Best bet would be to heat the nut to cherry red with an acetylene torch, then have at it with the cheater bar. Been there, done that with Budd Nuts on the duals of an F70 Freightliner. That was a long day.
Leigh
Whitehall, NY
Finally got around to looking at the ballot in the people’s republic of Multnomah County (Portland Oregon). The entire front of the ballot (16 races) were for elected Judges. There were 3 more on the back side also. 19 total races for judges. ALL, I repeat ALL, of these “elected” positions had a SINGLE name listed. All of them were running UNOPPOSED! Most were listed as incumbents.
How is voting supposed to change anything when they don’t even give you a choice???
Every position on every ballot should have a “ none of the above” block and if none of the above wins all the candidates on that position can never run for office again. O but to dream
Exactly, and I’ve started writing in ‘None of the above’ on my ballots just because it is the only time they have to pay attention to what I have to say as my ballot is tossed in the trash.
Been saying that for 50 years!
All of the ballots for various offices here have a block for a write in. So write in any name you desire, like dead people from ancient history.
Aristotle, Leonardo Da Vinci and Julius Cesar are good counter regime choices, IMHO.
Me? I have gotten to where I don’t have the mental/physical energy to worry about WWIII, Trump’s Salem trial, or how El Presidente’s puppeteers are doing all they can to run this country into the ground.
Right now what I worry about is stretching this $0.80 that was last year’s dollar to pay my bills, feed my little family and gas my truck.
Every time it seems we gain some ground, Old Man Murph comes around and reminds me that hope is nothing but a fever dream. It’s getting tougher, and fucking tougher, and I’m tired of it.
My daughter in law is out interviewing for college teaching positions and all they ask are DEI questions. They have told her outright that they intend to subvert the affirmative action supreme cout decision. The hatred of white heterosexual male Americans runs deep with our institutions. I almost feel sorry for them. Spending your life filled with hatred of anyone is no way to be and I’m certainly not going to spend what time I have left on this earth filled with hate and anger about things I can’t control. Going to spend time out in nature, do some catch and release fishing, and go see some good bands play live music while it all burns down. Not looking for any trouble but armed all the time and head on a swivel. I will say this: HOME CARRY. They don’t even know who they have let in the country and trouble could come right to your door.
I can’t wait till the range goes two way with those DEI cunts.
I was impressed with President Trump’s testimony at the kangaroo court in New York.
Look again – he didn’t give ANY testimony at ALL.
Perjury trap.
The truth shall set your free, maybe not this time.
This is going to read like a book. TLDR – been busy, don’t really care what is going on in the world until it hits close to home as I can’t do anything to alter events.
I don’t have TV in the house so I just follow the highlights of the news now and again on the web in my spare time. There’s really nothing I can do about the details and my vote doesn’t count for anything at the state or federal level. The rest of the bullshit is just background noise and at this point in time doesn’t really affect me. By the time it does things will be real ugly. What happens at that point in time is open to debate.
People are acting odd/off/not normal. I chalk it up to them starting to reflect the stress of events. They don’t know what has them on edge but they are feeling it. AFAIK none of them have given even the most basic of thoughts towards being prepared for any kind of downturn or emergency. When this financial house of cards comes tumbling down they are going to go totally bat shit crazy and I feel it will be dog eat dog.
Beyond basic maintenance tasks around the home front or helping the kids with vehicle repairs most of my time is spent in either the garden, honing shooting skills or finding small pleasures to enjoy.
As far as the garden have most the ground prep done. Thinned what I call my spring, meaning they are floricane fruiting, raspberries a couple of weeks ago and topped them, did the first fertilizer application. Fruiting laterals are already six to eight inches long and popping blossoms. These plants will produce fruit around the end of June into early July.
Transplanted two rows of primocane fruiting raspberries that are what I call my fall raspberries by the simple expedient of pruning off all the canes in the spring. Everything that grows during the summer that is not thinned out will produce fruit from late August all the way through to the first hard frost of fall. In about three years they will be a mature planting. You have to look ahead for some of the things you want to grow.
The greenhouse is full of garden starts of all kinds that are outgrowing the small pots but it has been frosting every morning and to put them out will just result in us losing them. I detest the idea of up potting them but may have to if it doesn’t warm up soon.
Did some pruning of the apple trees and fertilized them. Ditto the blueberries. The blueberries also got a shot of elemental sulfur to help maintain a low pH.
Hit the apiary pretty hard and cleaned up two deadouts. I always hate losing a colony. Collected a swarm a few weeks back that kind of offsets one of the losses. It’s always iffy whether a swarm becomes a viable colony/hive. I normally have several swarms land in my backyard each summer, usually off the commercial hives in the Canola fields. Some make it, some don’t. The rest of the colonies are doing very well with lots of brood. Need to treat for varroa in the next couple of days before the honey supers go on. Finally have developed a solution for extracting and salvaging the crystalized honey that is sitting in the frames from when I damned near cashed out a year and a half ago. It’s a slow process but I can process as much as thirty six pounds of honey a day.
I don’t smoke, drink, do drugs, party or chase other women so my only bad habits are hunting, fishing and shooting. This year I’ve even forgone the fishing to have more money to spend on components. On the long range shooting front we finally secured a location to set up a mile range as shooting at 1k has just become too routine, even in the wind. All the hunting guns are tuned and we only shoot them to maintain proficiency. The 5.56 and .308 MSR’s are ready to rock when/if they are needed.
Health has been a three steps forward and two steps back endeavor but at least it’s going the right direction. Had really good news a month ago when the doc told me the mass in my left lung has completely vanished. He can’t explain it but I’ll take it as an answer to prayer. Overall I’d say I’m around 80% of where I was before everything went tits up a year and a half ago.
We keep laying in certain supplies against the day they might be needed while they are still available such as medical, water purification, long term fuel, clothing and so on. If nothing else it’s a hedge against inflation.
Ok, I’m starting to bore even myself. Here’s to hoping for the best for all of you. See you on the other side.
wes
wtdb
Spot on Wes, much the same, just over here waiting. Trump trial, couldn’t tell ya. Doubt I’m even close to ya in regards to preps but not worried. Just want take take some with me and leave the rest to the youngins.
its been a doozy of a month. no garden but got a dozen more beautiful chics and a rooster that will be laying in july. then the truck took a crap, 1k bucks so far. the washing machine died, another k almost. the septic pump alarm went off, last time that was 2 grand. this time it was just a bad sensor, 100 bucks, thank the Lord. my heavy duty weed eater had a glitch and will need replacing soon, and the wife’s car brakes went sideways. turned out one of the pads broke and disintegrated leaving only the metal backing plate. easy fix, thanks again big guy. so, counting my blessing while working thru my curses, just trying to keep floating. hello summer!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWoQ7PFSYlk
Just hang around cleaning all my toys while blasting this and repeating to myself:
This is my rifle!
There are many like it, but
this one is mine.
Wait…did I just say that outloud?
Busting my hump to move. 25 years of stuff. I’m not pitching too much, tho.
Got heavy equipment to move yet. It’s taken a few months to get this far.
Still have quite a ways to go. Nothing else is on the agenda at all.
Hoping to settle in a touch before we see the elephant.
Each day more and more I feel like they’re going to let Trump win and let him and us suck on the blown economy.
They will say look, we don’t cheat, I think they realize everybody’s list are getting longer than Santa Claus’s list for Christmas
I am down in Austin for a nieces graduation.
From Nashville to Little Rock I stopped for gas a bathroom 3 times.
At each of the truckstops there were 2 white buses loaded with non English speaking people. Not the same buses, I checked the plates.
I wonder where they are shuffling them off to?
you people are fuking deluded psychopaths
And fuckin’ proud of it.
Thank you, thank you very much… I’ll be here another three years. I am your host, how may I make your experience more enjoyable and breathtaking? Perhaps, one of my sociopathic/psychopathic memes I am famous for? Or, maybe for your intimate pleasure one of my scatological memes? Of course, using Bugtussel Wireless I am not sure I have something in your fetish range.
aseg – Hmm, I don’t believe I’ve ever fucked a deluded psychopath. Could you provide a list of indicators or profile so I know what to look for?
wes
wtdb
Fuking deluded psychopaths?! “Get to the choppa!” Achievement level unlocked…😁
Meme away CederQ, meme away.
That’s why you should be shitting your pants, there are millions of us