Author: BigCountryExpat

Different Brands, and Comfort Food For The Apocalypse

Greetings and Salutations Y’all!
Well I finally got that particular odious chore over with. Got 90% of the food repacked, restacked and inventoried. There’s a few more hard cases I have to bust out and count the ‘stuff’ inside, but that’ll be a later date thing. THIS mission to corral up all the #10 cans and get them inventoried and organized was the BIG issue this weekend.

Those hard cases are literally some of the ones I scrounged back in Afghanistan. Medical Supply Trunks is what they’re called. They’re made by Pelican:

I got two of them in a dope deal. They’re pretty much bomb proof. The only cash I had to pay was the flat-rate $20 at the Post Office to mail them home. The wheels on them make them soooooo easy to tote the ‘stuff’ around in too. Right now I have about 80-90 Mountain House Pouches of various flavors and MREs stuffed in them, to include Russian and Krainian Rations. I’m debating on swapping out the rats to the new Storage Bins, as those Med Trunks have wheels. The problem is what would I put in there instead?

Ammunition is out as that’s just too damned heavy. If it was loaded with just Boolits and mags, I don’t think even Sapper and Myself could lift it fully packed. They’re too small for weapons cases, and either way I got some “FauxTemu-Pelican” cases for the Long Guns if need be. By the way, as an FYI some of them are actually worth the $$$. Check them out if you’re looking for a deal. To be honest, I’ll probably leave them as they are, as they’re “ready food” i.e. just add water and we’re good to go.

Three of the Storage Bins we put together today are actually more “Meal Prep Bins”. One of you asked about the ‘types’ and/or brand I prefer. We have several different brands. MOST of them are pretty well known:

Mountain House The Original. I got a LOT of their stuff.

Peak Refuel (Sapper’s Go-To) VERY Pricey. VERY Frou-Frou.
As I mentioned in the comments, Venison and Bison are on the menu… it’s almost as bad as the French…

Auguson Farms (for “ingredient stuff”) More on that in a minute)

Provident Pantry a good place to get deals on “kits”. In my case I got “baking kits” with like 4 cans of white flour, baking powder, butter powder, a can of sugar and the like for less than if I bought them separately.

Nutristore for Meats as the prices are a wee bit better than others, BUT the portions are correspondingly smaller.

Freeze Dry Wholesalers Their website is HERE. No payout for me if you go there, but they have some NICE meat that I have tried and can vouch for. Just be aware that the Uncooked Sirloin Steaks are really thin and when rehydrated they cook like a minute-steak. Like >WHAM!< and they’re done. What I love about them though is they have FD Seafood… The Shrimp are good. Gretchen’s Cheesecake. I don’t have a LOT from there, mostly stuff to keep the wife off my ass and fed.

MREs I get from everywhere. I have Brit Rats, South Korean Mini-Bibimbap Rats (Great as they’re compact AF) Danish 24hr Rats, French RCIM 24hr Rats (Frou-Frou AF as well… who in the fuck has Duck Pate in a field rat??? The fucking Frogs, that’s who) Canadian Rats, and the aforementioned Russian and Krainian Rats. There’s probably one or two countries I missed, but you get the idea. I also of course have US rations. I even scored some T-Rats. The “Breakfast Cake w/Syrup” ones. I picked those up back I think in June? when they were on sale. $40 for the case at $10 a tray. The expiration date is May of 2027 (3 years) so why not? Each one is 18 Portions and as I recall, it was a damned good cake for what it was/is… Plus it has the syrup (FakeMaple) packet so yeah. I figure in a ‘Everything has gone to Hell’ at least we got cake to eat. The ONLY rations I won’t get even though they’re cheap as fuck are those fucking nasty “Humanitarian Rations”

30 bux for I -think- there’s 10 of them in there?
Each one is theoretically one days worth of chow. VERY Calorie dense… like 2200 per pouch.
HOWEVER
The supposed ‘variety of meals’ is a choice of lentil stew, lentil stew, or lentil stew. Supposedly there are two other menus, beans w/ tomato sauce or a pasta w/ tomato sauce, but I’ve never heard of anyone finding those. They also have like a generic pop-tart in there, as well as two MRE “vegetarian” Cracker packs, w/Peanut Butter and a Jelly pack. There’s also a set of some form of cookie too. They’re Vegan/Halal/One-Size-Fits-All generic MRE. IMO, they’re Shytte and the fact that these are what we are air-dropping into Gaza is part and parcel of why they hate us I’m guessing.

To continue on the “ingredient stuff” I made up three boxes with pretty much the same ‘stuff’ in each Bin. Specifically Pizza Makings. When you get right down to it, Pizza is a pretty damned useful and easy to make survival food. It’s got a couple of thing going for it:
1) It’s a ‘comfort food’. In a disaster, it’s something that can put a smile on a kids face, and that in itself is worth having the ability to make it.
2) It’s simple. You only need the absolute minimum to make it IF you’re “properly Prepping” i.e. having a good balance of foodstuffs.
3) Relatively healthy if you make it from scratch. Vitamins, Carbs, Dairy, Vegetables and Proteins with the meats. Can’t really argue it.
4) It feeds a couple of people. Depending on how you slice it, an 18 inch pie can go quite a ways.
5) You can (as I have) bake it in a Solar Oven. And no, you don’t need to spend big $$$ on that. I made mine with some 1 inch thick Silver wrapped insulation board, some flat black spray paint, and a piece of glass. I took the insulation board and made a box out of it. Hot Glue and Nails, with a wooden bottom. I made sure that the box had an angle on it so I could maximize the sun hitting the interior, and added foil-wrapped ‘wings’ around the four sides of it. Then I sprayed the interior AND exterior (but not the foil parts) with the flat black paint. When I put the pizza inside, and covered it with the glass? Hoo boy did that sucker cook/bake up. According to my thermometer, it got to about 300 degrees in there.

So for having the ingredients on-hand? Part of that “baking kit” I got… In this case: flour, sugar, a pinch of salt, yeast and water. I think it was Some folks like to toss in some Olive Oil. We have plenty of that around so, yeah. The dough fixins are easy to have on hand. The tomato sauce is made from the BIG #10 can of tomato powder, and I got a case of FD Mozzarella Cheese in #10 cans. I split all of that up through 3 Bins. Then I added FD Sausage Crumbles, Ground Beef, and FD Bell Peppers and Onions. No pepperoni however… not sure if that can even be FD’d or if a dried stick will last that long? (i.e. years of longevity?) Thoughts in the comments?

So yeah. Pizza for the Apocalypse.
Can’t beat that with a stick.

There were some revelations from all of this though. One is I need a shitload MOAR of can openers. Like one per Bin. At least. I have a pile of P-38 can openers, but truthfully, they suck. Especially if you need to open a #10 can. They’re handy if you got like a ‘normal’ size can, but for bigger jobs? Notsomucho. And then I also need to get a Sawyer mini-water Filter for each bin as well. It would purely suck to have all this goodness and NOT have the means to utilize it Aye?

So that’s what -I- spent my weekend doing.
Now it’s back to the Tractor Factory in the Oh-Dark Early.
Joy.
So More Later
Big Country

Running Late, Sorry About That. Getting Ready for the C4 With A Quick Lesson on Inventorying

Greetings!
Sorry I’m late.
Been a full day again.
Seems to be happening a lot lately…

This time my issue was an “unexpected sleep-in”. Usually Chili lets me know what time it is (08:30 on the nose) as that’s when her lil bladder starts yelling to her that she needs to be emptied.

Damned near to the minute for that matter. 08:30.

And then, as of late I’ve been so busy trying to get the inventories around the house done, general “cleanup on Aisle 5!” and other taskers. This on top of working the NORMAL 40 hours a week at People’s Glorious Tractor Factory #187 and then ADDING an additional 10 hours +/- to get the overtime $$$. Mainly because I desperately need the extra cash now, so I plum crashed da fuq out hard last night.

Normally during the work week, I’m already up and running long before 08:30… Usually 06:30 to get ready for the Salt Mines if you will… Weekends are when I get to sleep in a wee bit… Until today. Sapper oh-so-kindly handled the pupper, and Gretchen (who never actually sleeps past 0930-10am usually, woke me up at like 11:30 this AM.

I must have needed it. Even after my shower I still had that punch-drunk tired feeling until I got a Monster and a Stacker into me… Coffee was contra-indicated as I’m out of my blend, and the shopping trip tomorrow should cover replacing it.

So after a late wakeup, a lady on Fecesbook Marketplace who I messaged late last night let me know the Item(s) I was looking for/at were available. In this case, BIG storage totes/containers:

They’re the 40 Gallon Storage Bins.
The extremely robust ones

And she was selling them $11 a throw, with a $1 off each one if you bought 10. Sapper and I both were like “Uh, Take our money Please!” It took an hour plus to get there, as it is Saturday, and every. fucking. retard. normie. was out on the roads, and add on she was located out in Clearwater/Oldsmar, which is a fair distance from the Casa.

I got 10, and he got 10. Not a bad deal at all considering that they run normally like OMFG!!! expensive:

$35 a throw BEFORE taxes at Lowes.

Originally, it was going to be 5 and 5, 10 in total… with us splitting the cost. When we picked them up, and saw that they’re unused… like brand new, we ended up getting 20 of them. We had to play “Car Tetris” to get them in the back of my lil Hyundai Tucson as I didn’t remove the Grans car seat, nor any of the other shytte that was back there before we left dammit.

Besides that inconvenience, let me say these are the thick walled mothers… Perfect for throwing Number 10 Cans in them, of which I found out tonight that they hold 16 of them perfectly. They have to be laid on their sides though (the cans that is) and there’s a wee bit of leftover ‘wiggle room’ between them, but I stuffed some ‘soft items’ like MREs and the like in between the cans.

Gretchen is also pleased/happy now that I’ve started cleaning up the front room, as it was looking like a fucking supply depot in World War Two with random piles of cans piled and thrown all over the place, as well as random cases of MREs and flats of canned meats and whatnot that I’ve picked up over time.

After we got home, I activated my “Loggie Mode” and got down to business. That means starting by making a spreadsheet in Excel dammit….

Ugh… let me tell you about inventories… even in the Army, the s-l-o-w-e-s-t part is doing the written spreadsheet Inventory IF one doesn’t previously exist… I fucking purely hate Excel too for the record. Not that I can’t do it or write/make the formulas, it’s just that I hate it with the passion of a Million Dying Stars at Supernova. Now, since I had to make it, I made it as simple as possible and in it, I only made a couple of columns that matter.

‘Keep It Simple Stupid’ is a Religion for the Infantry IMO.

I did it on ‘easy mode’ primarily to make it printable. Too much info means having to fuck with the size of the font, and in my blind-ass case, I wanted the font to be very Visible and LARGE for quick reference if needed. This was even more difficult as I ALSO wanted ALL the info for each bin to be on ONE page of printed paper ONLY. Because of these limitations, and because I wanted it “Short and Sweet” I made these the labels for the Columns that I ended up using:

Inventory ID: This I labeled either ‘MRE’, ‘FD (for freeze dried) Pouch’, ‘FD Can’, or ‘Drink Mix’ I might add more IF I find another ‘type’ of Inventory

Name: the Brand Name/Manufacturer. This might help to figure out which label I might be looking for by visual ID.

Description: for this, I’ll name what it is, in the case of one of the boxes of MREs, I put “Low Sodium MRE (No Heater Included)” others have the name/flavor of the chow itself like “Beef Stroganoff” and the like. In one case (literally!) the name was a group of foreign MREs I have, i.e. “British 3x, Polish 1x, First Strike 1x, Danish 1x, Canada x 1, Humanitarian 1x”… those are ALL 24 hour (3x meals) rations that I packed in a heavy cardboard box on their own with a “Use First” note on it… you get the idea

Unit Size: literally what it is. The pouches are generally “2 servings per Pouch” for the Mountain House and the cans (for the most part) are #10 sized.

Quantity in Stock: pretty self explanatory. The servings for ‘other items’ are also added in here, with the number of cans, as in it can look like this: “4 Cans, 20 Servings Per Can” for in this case, Sweet Corn.

Inspection/Manufacture Date: again… WHEN it was made, if available. If I don’t have that, then I go by when I bought it, as I mark every can/box with a sharpie when I get/receive it so I at least know when I got it, and can go from there. ALL the items I get get marked like that either way. It’s a good habit, and in the case of the #10 cans, I write it right on the lid, as it helps if the labels ever get ripped off.

Expiration Date: more of the same. In some cases however, I have to estimate from the date of Manufacture if I can’t find an expiry date. I lean towards 20/25 years added to it for the Freeze Dried stuff, as it’s pretty resilient, and has –always– been in a temperature controlled environment.

On-hand Quantity: again, just what it states. This however is where I’ll be subtracting from when I open/use a can/pouch whatever. The idea if possible is to replace it, but IF things got the way the majority of us expect, “what I got, is what I got”

Total Meals/Servings Available: that’s where I ‘do the math’ on how many Servings available of that line Item in total so I know what I roughly have. I tend to low-ball that, just to make sure I have some “overage” so to speak. Like in the case of one BIG Auguson Farms Bucket of Vegetable Soup. 236 Serving that make a single cup of Vegetable Soup per serving. The thing weighs like 40 pounds, and I got a deal on it back in 2019… I’m not adding it in, as that may/may not be used for refugees. I am NOT however counting it toward the house for now… “Keep the Best, Bogart the Rest” as we used to say in Supply…

and lastly:
Bin Number: which is what number Bin (storage container) are these being packed in.

I know there are faaaar more complex spreadsheets that can do formulas to list them in order of expiration date, low-to-high and whatnot, but to be perfectly honest, IF I get to the point where I’m worried about this stuff expiring?

Personally, I’d consider that A Very GOOD nay GREAT Thing!

It means that the shit has not completely hit the full on Communist-Socialist Fan. The soonest some of the food ‘best by date’ that’s upcoming is June/July of 2025. The latest is 2047

Hell… I personally don’t expect to be around in 2047 LOL!

I mean yeah, I’m 54 going on 55. Cashing in at 75? I’m comfortable with that. It’s been a long, strange trip, and I’ve enjoyed it so far. That being said however, the ride ain’t over, and the majority of this is so’s the Grans have ‘stuff’ to keep them fed in bad times. And judging from the way these fucking lunatics are talking, shortages and restrictions, never mind outright collapse seems riiiiight around the corner.

Hence me getting the Quackers in a Row.

Putting everything that wasn’t already in storage bins is part of the plan. We got a wee bit complacent around here over the past year, and the realization that IF we had to pack up and ‘jump’, it’s a pain in the ass to have to snatch up and empty out the pantry of #10 cans if and when you –need– to head to your ‘alternate redoubt’. Speed = Life in many instances Aye?

My major concern right now is that 20 of those bins aren’t enough. I had planned on using a few for some TA-50 as I have enough ‘gear’ that I’ve collected over the years to probably outfit a short Platoon with Armor, Pouches/Holsters and the like. I just may have to re-evaluate my pack-rattish ways and just get rid of a lot of the stuff… the majority of it was for the Spawn(s) who’ve gone No Contact now, so I don’t see the point in keeping stuff for them per se… anyways…

Now as far as the mission packing the food goes?

I’m feeling a hell of a lot better in that having it all packed and ready to be thrown in the Truck(s) and on the trailer, as well as all the mags, spare ammo and well, all the ‘critical party gear’ which was already ready to roll, this makes me happy(ier) I mean bouncing out on a moments notice? Guns, Ammo and Gear, yep. Food? Before this? Notsomucho.

Until today/tonight/tomorrow.
Queue <BIG SIGH OF RELIEF>

This also now allows us to scatter and redistribute some of these in caches as each Bin so far has a pretty fair mix of Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner as needed. I mean Ye Olde Sawe of “Don’t keep your eggs in one basket” keeps coming to mind… I might have to look into it…

Then, on a humorous note: One thing I found while redistributing/repacking ‘stuff’ and had forgotten about is Gretchen’s Freeze Dried Cheesecake:

Yes. It is “a thing.”
And Yeah Yeah… I spoil her.

When I got one of those bags back in the day, it was still less than $20 a bag! The current cost as of tonight is almost $35!!! The story behind it? Back when she and I first got together when she found out I stored long-term chow and whatnot, I bought a bag as a joke. I was still working as a Manager in a call center and was pulling down like $74k a year. Even with the divorce, I still had mad-money on occasion so to speak. She was absolutely against eating anything that she considered and derided at the time as “survivalist”.

Like REALLY!?!

She actually got pretty shitty with me to the point I debated on shitcanning her for a more “Apocalyptic Adaptive Model” so to speak… But since I decided I was in it for the long run?

I decided to pull a fast one on her.
Question my survival food will you?
I’ll show you woman!

The weapon-of-choice?

The aforementioned Freeze Dried Cheesecake.

What broad can resist Cheesecake in any form at all?
Answer: None.
Not Even Gretchen.

Even still FD’d, its like eating Astronaut Ice Cream. I’m pretty damned sure damned near ALL of you have had that delicacy at one point or another in your lives. This stuff, the Cheesecake, is the BOMB I will say. After she had that, and I tricked her into eating a couple of MREs, as well as ‘other questionable (for her) food sources’ over time, her palate isn’t as refined as she’d like to think of it.

She’ll freely admit now that there are some pretty damned good FD foods out there. My answer to her whenever she’s bitched to me in the past or even bitches at me now about a purchase is “Hey… it’s either I buy this, or you get a fucking can of Alpo. Your Choice baby.”

It’s absolutely amazing how the complaints and arguments stop after dropping that particular infonugget on her Aye?

So… what have you done for preparing for Cumswalla-the-Commie-Cuntbag-Collectivist’s (s)election? That right there is what the “C4” stands for in the Title… with headlines like this:

I’d have to say that I absolutely recommend to start getting your checks and making sure your food and shit/gear/equipment is really really, really, REALLY I MEAN IT FOR SURE ready now, as we got less than 90 days+/- ’til the roof potentially falls in on us.

And, IF you haven’t started doing anything at this point?

Well…

Need I say more?

So More Later
Big Country

Inflation, My Childhood Memory and The Upcoming Cumswalla Spectacle in Chicongo

Greetings and Salutations!
Love that movie BTW. One of Christian Slater’s best roles IMO. Anyways. Tonight is a wee bit of a trip down memory lane. I stopped into my local “Rebel” ne’ Exxon Gas Station which has renamed/rebranded the little convenience stores connected to them as “Rebel” stores.

The guy behind the counter, Al and I chat occasionally while I do my ‘reload-run’ on my beer for the night. The prices there for the beer (for now that is) are actually cheaper than the Publix which is in the same complex/shopping mall? arena?

It’s $18.99 for an 18 pack of Miller Lite. And yeah yeah, nasty cheap beer. Don’t make too much fun of me for it… Unfortunately for me, I got Diverticulitis, which is when pouches in my intestines get inflamed from having certain foods. For me, one of the things that causes issues is good beer. Like as in anything heavy and dark. I can’t ‘do’ the Guinness nor -any- German beers anymore at all. Other ‘things’ are out of bounds like peanuts, and other such items. Pretty much anything that’s hi-fiber according to my Doc at the VA. A wee bit of a bummer there Aye?

So anyway, Al last night was doing a price increase again on the majority of food items that are in such a facility. Candy, chips, and the like. He was pissed off as not three weeks ago I was in there, and the company had him go around and do the initial price increase(s) on items. This is done by them sending him a worksheet and a bunch of the stickers that need to go on to the shelves with the respective items… we’re all familiar with them…

Al gets pissed as they’ve now done it twice in the past month. It’s time consuming as well, as he has to match up all the right stickers with the right product. I’ve done it in days gone by when I worked 7-11 when I was between jobs. It’s a pure pain in the ass.

Now… the noticing:
The last time they did a price increase, one of the items I saw that made me double-take was the beef jerky and Slim Jim display on the ‘end cap’ of the aisle:

That’s a stock photo as there’s no prices as you can see. The sides of that end cap are where the bags of Beef Jerky are located. BEFORE the initial price increase, a 12oz Bag of “Old Trapper” jerky was running $9.99.

After the three week ago increase, it’d gone up to $14.99 for the same 12oz bag. That’s like a 30% increase. I swear I should have ‘invested’ so to speak when it was $10 a bag… I joke, I joke…

Last night, Al was not only doing a repricing, but he was also doing a restocking of the same “Old Trapper” stuff. He was taking ALL the 12oz bags off, and putting up, per HQs instructions, the now-10oz bags. Then he put up the new stickers which made me go from a double take the last time to damned near a spit take on this one…

Try $19.99 a bag!!!

That’s damned near over a 50% increase… actually MOAR if you figure in they took OUT 2oz of product… I leave it to you maff geeks to ackchully figure it out…

Needless to say, that’s utterly insane even by convenience store prices. The Slim Jims? The itty-bitty 4-5 inch ones I used to get for Stella-the-Sausage Princess when she’d accompany me on these trips? Used to be $.50 cents a throw… two for a buck…
NOW!?! Like $1.25 each.

Oh we are so fucked.
The candy bars too… I remember a time man…

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaay back in the day…..< queue flashback >

1979-1981? Somewhere in that Zone. I was between 10 and 12 years old. Hell, it could have been ALL during that timeframe as the mission of which I’m going to speak of happened multiple times over that era. Back then, DeadDad would be hanging out with various students, accomplices and Army buddies from those good old days. I have quite a few fond memories of those times, and in particular these Missions stand out. Anyways…

DeadDad would invariably run out of smokes/beer and/or bourbon/whiskey as he was wont to do. By that time, he and his cronies would have already been “three sheets to the wind” so to speak which was also known as ‘hammered/pie-eyed’. Not falling down fucked up, but moreso “not a good idea to get behind the wheel as the Fuzz would definitely bust his ass” sort of thing. MomUnit’s attitude at that point was “You’re on your own!” and at that point, the Mission, if I chose to accept it, fell to me, and my bicycle and backpack.

DeadDad would then call down to the local “Golden Hen” which was not a “White Hen” convenience store… This was a blatant local ripoff that surprisingly had a State Liquor License for small liquor so to speak. As an aside: New Hampshire had some really strange leftover ‘Blue Laws’ from back in the day… a liquor license for ‘small liquor’ meant you could sell beer and literally bottles of booze under a half liter in size. That meant primarily Nips/Airplane sized bottles up to a pint size bottle only, as well as beers. Bigger bottles had to come from the State Owned Monopoly Liquor Stores.

To continue. DeadDad knew the guy who worked the counter there. So what he’d do is call ahead and place a phone order if you will… I remember it exactly… 1 pack of Pall Mall Red Unfiltered Soft Pack smokes, 1 pack Lucky Strike Unfiltered Soft Pack, a six pack of whatever flavor of Beer he was hitting that night (which varied) and then a Pint of Bourbon… usually ‘Ancient Age’, which was his 80 proof flavor-of-choice.

He’d tell the guy “I’m sending down my boy to pick it up OK?” to which the guy on the other end was like “OK, cool!”. DeadDad would then give me a $20 bill, with the understanding that the $4 to $5 in change +/- was mine to buy candy/soda/sugary crap as I wanted/needed as payment for this earliest version of “Uber Eats/DoorDash” of the time… the only caveat was I had to split the payout with FedBro in that I had to buy him some stuff as well and bring it home to him… he was/is 4 years younger than me, and at that time, the ride on a bike was on US Route One, which was a mite dangerous for a 6-8 year old kid.

Mind you, these days?
FedBro and I would be removed from the home by CPS for a stunt like this, the Golden Egg shut down and its licenses to operate suspended, and the clerk either fined to the maxx, or more likely, fucking jailed for contributing to the delinquency of minor(s)…

Jail time for everyone!!!!

But the issue here is a failure of purchasing power and dollar weakness. Back then, that $4-$5 bux I had left over? I got a huge pile of candy bars back then with it. A standard-sized Hershey Bar cost $.25 cents a throw. A can of Coke? $.25 cents as well. These days, the same order would be OVER $50 easily.
Needless to say, the current price at the “Rebel” store? It’s $3.49 for a single standard Hershey bar.

I told Gretchen and Sapper that ANY and ALL future ‘sugar fixes’ we need are going to be done through the ‘Zon, in bulk. There is no way in Hell that I’m paying that much for a sugar-fix.

And when you tie in the latest from Cumswalla?

Link HERE
I said it before, and I’ll say it again:

Oh we are so fucked.

To read up on what it means, outside of just how fucked we are if and when this Sperm-Burping Sidechick gets installed in the “Drivers Seat” of National Policy, check out this tweet:

Per the continuation of the thread who don’t have twatter:

“Harris will propose, what her campaign bills as “the first-ever federal ban on price gouging on food and groceries—setting clear rules of the road to make clear that big corporations can’t unfairly exploit consumers to run up excessive corporate profits on food and groceries.”

Next Tweet:
“The campaign singles out the “highly consolidated” meat-packing industry, noting how just four meat processors control the market and arguing “the lack of competition gives these middlemen the power to drive down earnings for farmers while driving up prices for consumers.”

Next Tweet:
“Notably this new move by Harris comes after Biden tried cracking down on consolidation in the meat processing industry in 2022 and then provided, per USDA, over $700 million in grants to independent meat and poultry packers.”

Philip Melanchthon Wegmann on August 14, 2024

Now… does this sound historically familiar?

I know it does to me.

The Soviet Union was famous for their state-directed price controls… in the end it was a major reason that they went bankrupt. There were a LOT of ‘other reasons’ that the Soviet Union collapsed, but the two-tier availability of goods, i.e. the “Elites/Party Members” who could shop at ‘the good stores’, who were eating good steaks whereas the Proletariat were stuck with extremely limited availability and or shitty cuts of “meat” IF even available at ALL! Add in the broadening of awareness of the average Comrade to these factors, and it helped significantly, thus hastening the eventual collapse.

But BEFORE it did? They had mile-long lines for food, shops with nothing on the shelves, meat coupons, shortages, and food black markets cropping up.

What isn’t being said is that THAT was the Soviet Union.

With an essentially unarmed civilian population.

And damned near ZERO “Diversity”

Now, just imagine how this’s going to play out. I know that they sure as fuck haven’t. It is, to me readily apparent that whomever is running this fucking idea has no fucking clue how quickly shit will go sideways.

It’s called ‘blowback’.

Whomever thought this is a good idea don’t understand that Tyrone, Dur’asell and Shaniquiasorus are not going to sit idly by while this goes on. Not if they gots dem Glocks they ain’t….

In fact as of late, watching the general ‘vibe’ on Twitter/X, the Nogs are rapidly becoming aware that they as a racial group have been sold out in favor of the new pile of Burrito Goblins, AKA “Fresh DemoncRat Voaters”. That pic that was out there a couple of days ago that showed the receipt of an illegal who had… what was it? $13k in available EBT and almost what? $5k in EBT Cash available??? The tweet is here and according to the various sources out there, it’s legit!!!

The blaqs are not amused.
Those are their Gibs dammit!!!!

Now, let’s throw shortages, rationing and a general fucked up situation, and we’re ripe for watching some serious shit coming down, even BEFORE November and the already-highly questionable (s)election. The next part that I’m waiting on is the DemoncRatic Convention in Chicongo which runs from Mon, Aug 19, 2024 – Thu, Aug 22, 2024.

The word is ten thousand pissed off Palestinian supporters are planning on descending and/or rioting there about the “current thing” like all good NPCs would. I for sure know there would have been a riot IF they’d actually put (((Shapiro))) on the ticket, and that because of his membership to the Tribe is exactly why he wasn’t put on there, despite being a better candidate that Tampon-Timmy, The Stolen Valor Scumbag. The state of ‘MichiMogadishu’ and that HUGE Muj population there has them worried, so “No Jew for You” was what they went with…

I also want to see if there’s any dissent on the coup that was pulled against Pretender to the Glorious and Harmonious P&PBUH (Plus 10%) Orifice of The (p)Resident, The Dementor-in-Chief, Emperor Poopypants the First, Chief Executive of the Kidsmeller Pursuivant, Good Ole Slo Xi-Den. I know that The Royal First Usurper, The Empress KinkyBoots is pissed off, and the His HIGHness the First and Only (remaining) Son of the Emperor Poopypants the First, Lord HIGH Destitute Debauched and Depraved, Hunter the Whoremaster is running scared as there’s a LOT of leaks coming out about future indictments with his name on them… I wonder if THEY are going to call “shenanigans!” on that shytteshow?

Then:
Lots of folks out there are wondering if our favorite Villain, Felonia Von Pantsuit, AKA “Killary” or “The Arkancide Queen” is going to try and upset the Apple Cart and steal the nomination. She just might try, as she’s still herself, and it’s always been about her, her and her.

Interesting times to say the least.

So, your thoughts?
More Later
Big Country

A Tampa Raid, Observations That Are Useful Plus the Flammenwerfer Link

Greetings!
Dammit… due to having to answer questions in the comments, cleaning the kitchen (a major issue tonight) and taking care of the Pupper (who for some reason is wound like a fiend tonight), I’m late AF for this poast.

So yeah, Chili got ahold of either some good speed or meth.

She’s been going since dawn at combat speed. No slowing down nor any sign of slowing down. I wonder if this’s a left-over from her playing with the Redhead this past weekend? Not sure. Either way.

Now… got an interesting Twatter file:

Seems this ‘hostage/barricade’ situation was in my neck of the woods… Mind you, -I- who tend to be extraordinarily conversant in ‘current affairs’ here in the Greater Tampa area completely missed this little interaction.

Not sure if it’s because they buried it or what, but I did my research and as far as I’ve found, no one got whacked.

Well except for the one Nigger who supposedly self-deleted after the fact.

The link to the story is HERE
Now, the reason for this particular writeup?

Well
A couple of observations. Especially since I read the story after I saw the bodycam footage in the twatter file poasted above. One of the things is, according to the article published by the Tampa DotGov story is that:

When the detective encountered the suspect, he fled into the breezeway of a nearby building. The detective chased the suspect and called for backup.

Patrol officers arrived on the scene and were fired upon by the suspect. One officer, a five-year veteran of the department, returned fire.

The suspect then entered an apartment in the building, that was occupied by adults and young children.

The Tampa Police SWAT team, which includes hostage negotiators, was activated as officers evacuated the building.

Tampa DotGov News August 8, 2024

Now… if you watched the bodycam footage, what did you notice? Tell you what… what -I- noticed was on the initial breach of the door, there was, considering the timeframe involved, one hell of a barricade erected in a short period of time.

As seen in my screen grab:

“Huh… door blocked… must get past blocked door!”
(Cop Brain at work)
On removing the blockage, it looks like a table?

Either way, a rather large blockage to say the least…
I mean I got to say I’m impressed… said nigger must have been highly motivated to construct such a blockage so quickly.

Now then, after the Fuzz get past that particular obstacle, there’s a pile of ‘other shit’ blocking the door after they get the initial barricade out of the way…

Chairs, detritus, plus other Nigs caught in the crossfire. Most of them (the blaqs-in-question) squirrel out in onesie-twosies all the while leaving others behind as far as I can tell.. this being my hypothesis as you can hear non-stop shrieking as the cops are rolling in. No count as to how many were actually in there to begin with… the footage shows two ambulatory Nogs beating feetz as fast as they can, with no worries about ‘others’ In fact…

Not “get the mom/baby/kids out” first.

In fact the first coon who manages to make a run for it?

Dunno about you, but that looks like possibly the mom?

Niiiiiiiiice…

Mother of the year right there Aye?

‘Cos the next one out is a kid… probably about 10-12 years old.
Nice to see that whole ‘lack of caring for the young’ that the niggers are oh so famous for in action ininit?

I don’t know

The story of ‘who-how-where-when’ is rather sparse on this.
Which is also a bit out of the ordinary. Normally you know every. single. person. who was there, and the niggers in general have the propensity to print fucking t-shirts of the deceased even before the body is cold… Hell, in many cases, Ben Crump is on his Lear Jet before the Nigger-In-Question has hit room temperature to start the lawsuits. Jes’ Sayin’

Death By Cop is the “New Nigger Lotto” I swear.

The payout is almost guaranteed except in under most egregious circumstances, and it usually pays well…

Anyways
So they (the Fuzz in Question) do the breach, and long story short (according to them) Said-Accused Nog Self-Deleted in the closet and here endeth the lesson.

To be utterly honest, a happy ending in my opinion. Dead Criminal and hey, win-win… the blaq criminal in question already had a warrant as well as a looong criminal history, so in this case? No need to worry about my state taxes feeding this fucker for the next 20 years…

Add on we managed to gather some rather good intelligence regarding just HOW the Po-Po here operate… leastways the ‘regular responding street cops’. Look at this picture:

You can see them after removing the table? door? whatever, they struggle to remove chairs and shit from the improvised barricade.

What’s most obvious though?
The fuzz on the scene have full on heavy assed shields.

I looked up to see what the weight was, and found that particular shield as that triangular window is unique out there:

Can’t get a price unless I upload the swine credentials…

The weight however is that the biggest one, the 24in x 36in model, weighs in at 15 pounds. Not much however, under that sort of circumstance, and the general lack of regular training they do not have (as something like this is nominally a SWAT job) that shit must have been wearing on the Fuzz in Question.

Either way, the actionable intelligence that I got from that video? Well… it’s not obvious, but it is, but it isn’t. It goes back to the same aspect if you’re fighting with someone in Level 4 Plates and Soft Armor… some ‘stuff’ that, depending on loads, can stop rifle fire up to and including 7.62×51 mm as well as Russian 7.62×54 mm as well as 30-06, which no one outside of hunters, realistically uses anymore (outside of someone using a WW2 M1 Garand as their primary weapon that is)

We’ve been over it before.

HOWEVER

Did you notice what -I- noticed? Probably not, as I’m wired differently. The biggest thing I noticed? Besides them ‘sweeping’ each other like morons, is that they ALL had their lower torsos utterly exposed. To whit:

That phrase was one of DeadDads favorites.
It meant never assume anything.
In this case however? It’s rather useful.

That and that it also shows the reason the Prosecutor as well as 75% of the Deputies in Hillsborough County were sooooo freaked out and worried about having to ‘bust me again’ after my initial 2016 interaction due to my and the Ex Wife’s antics that evening. It’s why almost every. single. time. that DumbCunt tried to get me “SWATTED” (3 times as I recall) that when the Politzei showed up during those exceptionally challenging and extremely stressful situations, that they showed up politely and slowly with a certain amount of trepidation.

Simply Put:
It’s the Flammenwerfer Stupid.

Yep.

Not any of my other ‘questionable antics’ nor ‘other things’ bothered either the cops, nor the courts. I probably could have been making fucking illegal Cruise Missiles, and it wouldn’t have given them “the willies” like the Flammenwerfer did as my defense attorney described it…

The thing that put the utter and complete “WEIRD” on both the prosecutor as well as ALL of the Sheriff’s Department is that I had a fully functional World War Two Styled Flame Thrower.

Granted that’s one I made for someone… a mini-version after my eventual release and charge-dismissal.

THAT is what had everyone go almost completely apeshit.

And if you watch that twatter clip?

Tell you what… IF said-criminal Monkey had one?

It’ would have been ‘roast pork and bacon’ ALLLLL over the place as I can see at least five or six points where IF and WHEN they were breaching, a guy with a Flammenwerfer would have completely ruined their day.

Nevermind the naysayers who’d say “Well Big Country, the SWAT Team woulda been in Nomex! Nomex is fire-proof!!!”

To which I’d argue: Nomex is fire resistant and designed to be somewhat FLASH proof. Meaning that IF there’s say a quick fireball like you see in the movies:

Well then you’re good.
On the other hand however…
Nomex melts
Provides some momentary protection
That’s it

Those cops in the door? Especially with them short assed maximum length three foot long shields, which only provide ballistic protection?

With ZERO protective clothing?

Being armed with a Flammenwerfer has some serious physical and psychological advantages. NORMAL PEOPLE fear “death by fire” like you read about… ANY normal person, as well as abnormal motherfucker like myself shy away from the concept of being burnt to death.

Yep

Get yourself a Flammenwerfer.
Got me a hunch it’s going to be a fantastic equalizer.
Just my two cents.
Just as an additional thing, Here AGAIN is my instructional (with parts links) on “How To Build Your Own Flammenwerfer” which may/may not be useful, YMMV, Don’t run w/Scissors. Do Not Taunt Happy Fun Ball. The Management States  Unequivocally That ANYTHING and EVERYTHING You May or May NOT do with These Instructions is ON YOU UTTERLY.

Link HERE

Otherwise… been a loooong night. I’ll see you guys/gals in the AM as I owe y’all a post.
More Later
Big Country

The Fall of England, Cumswalla, and the Possible ‘Why’ of the Krainian Kursk Klownshow

Greetings!
OK… the KB was delayed by a day. THEN when I got it, I had trouble figuring out which black lil USB dingus (the antenna?) or whatever it’s called) belonged to which device. They’re all labeled now to stop any confusion but it was a mite confusing, and after accidentally unplugging the machine while trying to wrangle it out from under the desk, getting the wrong dingus plugged into the wrong whole, then turning off the machine by hitting the power button by accident?

Needless to say I was not in the mood to try and crank out a bleggpoast last evening, to say the least… Not that anything has changed out there… I did see a new nickname for Cumswalla that tickled me a wee bit: Cackles McSidechick.

I also heard about the whole Twatterfest and the near-meltdown on the Left side of the fence over OrangeManBad and his propensity for ‘bad/mean words’ and whatnot and his ‘conversation’ with Elon. Good fucking Christ on a Anally-Placed Pogo-Stick… these are the people who’re supposed to be our ‘betters’? Much as in England?

The vast vocal majority of the people that’ve been speaking about wanting to extradite ‘Murican citizens for ‘badthink/meantweets’ on the intahrwehbz ALL look like motherfuckers who’ve never been punched in the fucking face before. Most of them being of the ‘Protected Political Bureaucratic-Oligarch’ Class.

Mind you, not that they haven’t experienced some form of ‘unpleasantness’ in their lives… Judging from this particular fembots phizz:

In this case, I’d say he spent a lot of times getting swirlies and being stuffed head first into a bin at school… (he’s Brit so hence that particular nomenclature for a trash can). If there was ever a fucking face that needed to be full on close fist punched while wearing brass knucks, it’s that one in particular.

That soy-infused face belongs to one Theo Bertram. This fuckwit went and had this to say:

Of course Musk’s meme is pure gold.
And that lil faggot is being positively raked over the coals in the comments. I just wish it was (and still -might be- IRL when all is said and done.

Jes’ Sayin’

However, all in all, despite some of the hand-wringing that’s going on out there over possible State Department backed extraditions and the like, I’d say it’s probably not going to happen. I mean they might be thinking about it, but in the end, unless they manage to ‘black-swan’ or false flag us into a blanket gun ban that’s successful, ain’t no way in fuck the local Po-Po are going to risk their asses getting plugged trying to detain and/or arrest someone at the behest of Jolly Olde Englande. As long as we stay armed? England can pound sand.

Mind you I won’t be transiting Jolly Olde for the duration as they probably can and will ‘detain’ you IF you happen to land on a Plane at Heathrow or Gatewick. Better to avoid the tossers altogether IMO.

And yeah yeah, since Cumswalla is being pushed on us like a dime bag of really good heroin, it looks like they’re trying to line her up for a ‘win’ for the values of the “Steal: Part 2”. They seem to be trying to get the NPCs ‘hooked’ and see what happens… The Treasonous Ministries of Lies and Propaganda have been frontmaxxing as hard as they can with the ‘rehabilitation’ of the New Chosen One in order to give the perception that she’s ahead in the Polls and with the People. Makes it a wee bit easier to try and steal the (s)election again as we didn’t do shit the first time ’round. Hate to say it, but it’s pretty fucking obvious that she’s about as popular as a case of the clap.

Sounds about right…

For those who don’t ‘get it’ the ratings on Rotten Tomatos, in particular the critics scoring can be, shall we say? Tweeked via having certain well-known critics receiving some payola to give a higher rating that the movie deserves.
Case in point: Kathy Kennedy’s latest Star Wars Abortion:
“The Acolyte”
AKA
“Lesbian Space Witches Starring a Bunch of Wooden Planks”

I must admit the Audience score on the Acolyte has come up quite a bit as of late. After the first three? four? episodes it was hovering at like 7% rotten. Some of my favorite Movie Critics on Yewtoob like The Critical Drinker, Disparu and Az from HeelvsBabyface ALL have great takes on this phenomenon. Not sure who my favorite is, and I reeeeally hope that they don’t get hemmed up in England/Great Britain as Drinker is actually from Scotland but either way, they crack me the fuck up with their takes on Modern Movies and TV. Az is utterly hilarious when he gets on a rant, and they also do an occasional link-up with Gary from Nerdrotic All of them are really cool and I highly recommend all of their channels.

Then, on the Krainian Kursk Klownshow, we have news from the front from various sources with interviews from Krainian POWs that the Russians have caught, that the intent of this attack was specifically to hit the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant.

According to several Krainians, they were supposed to do a “pedal to the metal” old fashion Cavalry Charge. The furthest it made it (as of August 9th) to was outside of a village called Milyutino:

Now, looking at the Goolag Maps, you can see the location of the Kursk NPP:

39 minutes via Vehicle from Muliutino/Milyutino…

Depending on the language the spelling could be either…

According to most sources (as things are on-the-fly and fog of battle and all that) The Russians beat back and eliminated the Krainian Kolumns that were in Milyutino, and ran them back.

The most recent news is they started hitting other areas and spreading out more troops and digging in as also seen in the latest map:

They’ve been s-l-o-w-l-y been pushed back.

However I do wonder what’s going on with that attack that’s south and west of Guyevo (in the south at the bottom). I can’t really find anything yet but again, IMO and Experience, it’s a really bad idea to have your logistical support train stretched that far and that thin in hostile territory. ESPECIALLY while lacking any significant air cover.

This’s a “Hail Mary” attempt to cause some sort of uproar.

Likely Krainfeld, having failed to achieve his goal of snatching the Kursk NPP, then ordered (or Budenov, his eeee-vil retard henchman) a drone strike on the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, which caught a cooling tower on fire.

This of course was blamed on the Russians.

Which looking at it, the concept that the Russians did this is retarded, as the fucking Russians have and hold the fucking place to begin with. I mean really!?! THIS is the reason I hate the majority of Humanity… leastways the NPCs out there. Programmed Retards and Morons.
The Lot of Them.

If it was the Russians, WHY start by burning the Cooling Tower?
To what end?
According to that rat faced (((fucker))) Krainfeld The Koke Fiend, “Russian forces intentionally started the fire to blackmail Kyiv!!!”

Blackmail? How so!?! Are you joking? I mean FFS, IF they were doing something like that, the downwind issues would primarily effect Russia and NOT the Krain:

“Leave now, or we’ll irradiate our own territory!!!” said no Russian EVER.

Fucking Krainfeld needs to step away from the coke…
Like for real.

Now, OTOH, IF -I- were running that show and I wanted to make a statement/do terrorism? I’d just have the same exact ‘drill’ that was run at Chernobyl back in the day run on all six power reactors simultaneously. THAT would be a thing of damned near World Damaging Affect… SIX Chernobyls??? Talk about becoming a “Glowie”

I mean Chernobyl was only initially discovered when a guy in I think it was Norway? who worked at one of their (Norwegian that is) Nuke Plants who set off the Radiation Monitoring Stations while he was going INTO the plant as opposed to setting it off when he was screened at night while leaving…

That was a bad time.

And if you haven’t seen the HBO? series on The Big “C” and I think it was HBO, I highly recommend it. No shit I have a personal family connection. My “Uncle the Doctor”(M.D.) was/is one of the most respected and highest authority Neuro-Radiologists at the time, and he was invited by the Soviets to go over and assist, which he did.

Y’all got to remember, this was pre-Glastnost… the “Bad Old Days” when it was ‘Ivan Versus Uncle Sam’. That’s why the Russians/Soviets didn’t tell us about the meltdown until they couldn’t hide it any longer.

Simplicius thinks this’s part of a Grand(er) Scheme on Krainfeld’s part to broaden the war. In his own words:

“There was still some hesitation on my part on whether the Kursk madness was truly a sign of an AFU reaching its critical end point or not, though mostly I leaned on the affirmative. However, the latest desperate move seems to fully avow this interpretation of events. But, I believe there are a few multi-varied nuances to properly interpreting Zelensky’s threatening signal.

First: it can be said that this act of desperation was a strong signal to Zelensky’s own “partners” in the U.S. and the West. I predicted long ago—last year—that once things finally grind down to the gristle for Ukraine, Zelensky would have no choice but to begin threatening his partners through escalation to save his own hide. He would threaten not only pushing Russia’s red lines in unnerving ways which would pose the threat of nuclear annihilation to the U.S., but as a last ditch effort he would also float the threat of unveiling many secrets and ‘skeletons in the closet’ of his Western partners as blackmail.

But what’s happening now is in effect a double nuclear blackmail. Not only was Zelensky trying to reach the Kursk nuclear plant for this very purpose, but has now acted out his furious frustration at the ZNPP, as well. It’s difficult to know for certain, but captured AFU POWs have in fact now attested to the Kursk plant as being the objective, or Kurchatov, the town where the plant sits. This was supposed to have been reached in the first day or two, which now appears to have been a miserable failure being covered up by more antics.

But getting back to the second point. I believe the ZNPP strike was also a double threat toward Russia. ZNPP may be currently inactive, but Kursk is in operation, and Zelensky likely meant to send a symbolic message that the Kursk nuclear plant may be “next”. In essence, it is saying: “Be wary, the Kursk plant is in my sights. This is just the first demonstration of my seriousness.”

But why would Zelensky threaten his partners as well? The obvious answer is to shock them into providing more aid and committing totally to Ukraine’s victory. “Give us everything or we’ll take the entire world down with us in a ball of nuclear flame.” Funny how much similarity there is between Zelensky and Israel, what with their Samson Option and all”

Simplicius76 SITREP 8/11/24: Desperate for Escalation, Zelensky Bombs Zaporozhye Nuke Plant in Frustration August 12 2024

So the TL;DR is that Krainfeld was/is gambling that this’ll make EVERYONE in NATO throw in fully on the whole “Lets ALL (NATO) Go to War Against Russia” thing… As stated before, I got me a hunch that again he’s in the throes of a serious Cocaine Induced Delusion. No joke.

Also, not for nothing, but Ole Simplicius states what to that majority of readers here is the absolute obvious take at the very end:

“Funny how much similarity there is between Zelensky and Israel, what with their Samson Option and all”.

No kidding? REALLY?

I think and by reading the majority of his analysis(s) over time, for whatever reason, he’s been exceptionally careful when it comes to making observations pertaining to the JQ and Krainfeld’s obvious konnections to the (((tribe))).

The tribal animosity between them (the Tribe) and well, everyone who isn’t them is well known.

This time, and after what with Nuland’s AND Blinken’s (both card carrying dual citizens BTW) bullshit political maneuverings that started this entire shitshow, this time (((they))) managed to get two Orthodox Christian Countries, who by rights should be “besties” so to speak, into slaughtering each other. All because of ‘reasons’ and sheeee-it that date back to shit that happened to them back in the day in both countries. Revenge I suppose, to them, is a dish best served cold. Fucking dumbasses.

My question still remains is what exactly happens WHEN, not IF, the Krainians realize they were utterly fucking duped and that they possibly directly and indirectly killed and wounded millions of their fellow ‘Brothers in Christ’? The reckoning on that is still out there… Going to be ugly either way.

So moving on from the (((noticing)))…

On the family front, school started Monday.

The Red Headed Nookular Power Reactor had her first day of first grade!!!! Old, old I’m sooooooo old! According to all reports she positively loves it. This was her right before she rolled out for Day One:

She’s getting tall(er)
AND Cuter (if such a thing is possible)
And nope, she hasn’t slowed down, not one bloody bit.

We also got a couple of pictures of her sister Adriana. She’s not quite in Kindergarten (next year I believe) but the BabyDaddy sent us some ‘school pics’ if you will:

Addy is growing like a weed as you can see.

What’s interesting is the two sisters barely look alike right? Addy definitely takes after BabyDaddy, as he’s got a LOT of Native American in him. I also think she’s going to be tall like Gretchen is, as the BD is a short lil dude. Not sure but looking at her lil feetzs, the knobby knees and the long neck? I think she’s going to be a seriously tall drink of water when she gets older.

Gretchen wants to go up there for her B-Day in October. She turns 5. We’ll have to see… it’s going to ALL depend on the finances, as that’ll cause quite a dent that I don’t have the skrim (as of now) to cover… I’ve been stashing a couple of bills here n’there… I’ll make it happen… We got an open invitation to come and get her when and if we get back up to Tennessee.

Either way, BOTH girls are thriving.
And TBTH, I’m seriously relieved that the BabyDaddy has stepped up so much and finally grew up enough to handle taking care of her. I just pray that it stays that way. If not?

Well, that’s what shovels are for.

So on That Note
More Later
Big Country

Spilled My Drink Dammit

On my tablet.
Spilled my Morning Monster into my KB this AM

Completely fried it… and stickified it too.. Tried to clean it, but nope. No spacebar nor letter ‘c’ ‘v’ or ‘b’

What can I say? I’m a fucking genius amiright?

Thankfully a replacement (the same one!) is on the way w/an overnight from the ‘Zon for $18!!! So SCORE!

The tablet does NOT however allow me to go and do my usual thang, so I’ll get y’all in the AM.
More Later
BCE

A Suprising Krainian Klownshow Kursk Production That Was Unexpected

Greetings and Salutations!
Ok… ended up with the Redhead here overnight at the last minute. Not a big deal… just literally unexpected. Not a big deal. She goes back to school in a week? Maybe two? No idea as the school schedule here in Florida has me all jacked up from my memories from grade skool in New Hampster.

We usually didn’t go back until the first, maybe the second week of September. Usually a week after Labor Day. That being said however, up in the “Great White North of Frigid Climes” we got released faaaaar later than they do here. Like around early June. Mainly a ‘heat related thing’ I figure. Meaning my guess is the School systems down here don’t want to pay the extortionist power bills to keep the AC on in the extreme summer months… and I can’t say I blame them.

BUT

Down here they don’t have to deal with ‘Make-Up Days’ which is like when the Blizzard of 76 came through, and we were out of school for a month plus… THAT year I remember for oh-so-many-reasons, to include the fact that we didn’t get out of school until right before the 4th of July… and then we had the shortest summer break ever.

Fuckers.
Not like we were actually learning anything amiright?
I mean no idea on Hurricane Day-Losses but snow days went against us overall… there was a mandatory-minimum amount of school days that we positively had to attend… which lead to shit like 2.5 months of a Shortened Summer… >Le Sigh<

Anyways..
On To Other interesting notes for tonight:

In this case we’ll focus on the Krainian Klown Kar Show starring Krainfeld and all his Krew. Apparently they caught the Rooskies with their pants down in Kursk of all places…

An interesting development to say the least.

As you can see by this map:

(h/t The Busker)

The Krainians launched a pretty significant assault INTO Russia itself. Got to say IMO, pretty fucking ballsy. Stupid, but ballsy.

I’m sure this has a LOT to do with the current (mal)Administration, or lack that thereof, and Kumala The Word Salad Queen and Cumdumpster Supreme starting to get ‘rocky’ on the campaign trail because of her major misfire regarding her pick of “NottaJew” Commie-Wannabe TamponTimmy, the Stolen Valor Buddyfucker. You know… that fucking Goy who let the nogs burn Minneapolis for 4 days without sending in his own units to regain control of the ‘mostly peaceful noggershines’?

Yeah… that fucker.

The timing of this is highly suspect per usual…

Considering how the Krainians have been getting the ever loving shit kicked out of them on the regular and getting regularly pushed back, village by village since that ‘failed offensive in June? July? In the majority of cases (Oye vey so many such cases!) part of the issue is a distinct lack of trained personnel. Not that the recruiters haven’t been trying to catch ‘absconders from service’:

Zero Idea if this’s legit.
However if it is?
Run Free Young Man, Run Free….

Yeah, the conscription over there has gotten retarded.

Seems the front has zero trained cadre.
I.E. combat veterans… or long time professional NCOs
This is a thing of badness.

That being said, despite the current troop allocation-situation, the Krainians did manage to spring a “gotcha” on Ivan. According to some of my sources, part of the “how” they managed to do it, it that “someone” hacked the traffic cameras ALLLLLLL around the entirety of the now-fighting for Area of Operations in Russia. And let me tell you, they’re like Britian in that there’s a LOT of traffic/speed and in general cameras everywhere… From what I heard the Krainians spent the past couple of months watching ALL of them int he area they attacked in… Because of this, The Krainians had a massive intel advantage in that because of this they knew exactly the timing of the Border Guards relief, as well as IF there was any sort of “Regular DotRusMil” movements in the area.

Apparently there weren’t.

Seems they only had some conscripts and Border Patrol in that A.O….that and a couple of half-assed minefield which apparently didn’t do shytte Aye?

Somebody’s head should roll.

Putin himself on the video conference reporting on the incursion itself that I watched looked exceeding displeased with the situation

And yeah…
It’s that bad
LOTS of local displaced folks all around the area. Back in the day, civvies didn’t have the ability to in-real-time stream their complaints about shit like this… since this “Reverse Uno Card Invasion” happened, people who’re fully on the run from the Krainians with just the clothes on their backs have taken to Twatter and the like to express their extreme displeasure at the situation.

My guess is Gerasimov is on borrowed time
He done fucked up, and is the current (for now) ‘top dog’ here.
Be interesting to see what happens on that point. I highly doubt that Belousov is going to be replaced as he’s been an incredibly effective ‘broom’ in sweeping out the Culture of Russian DotMil Corruption… he’s the ‘new guy’ and just barely in his position… the responsibility for this failure is going to cause another shake up in the chain of command is my hunch…

Leastways is should.

So either way, per the map above and now below, this’s been dubbed “The Krainian Battle of the Bulge” in that it’s pretty much a pointless expenditure of resources that would have been better utilized in other areas…

Yes they have managed to take a bunch of territory.
No question.
BUT
Holding it?
Ain’t no way in Hell. Ivan is brutal when shit like this happens. Look at the historical record. Stalingrad, Moscow, Leningrad… various ‘other locations’… Hell Kursk itself, which in 1943 had the single largest Tank Battle/Battle in general in History which apparently is being repeated. Link HERE

The Krauts lost 200000+ men.
The Soviets lost 700000+/- men

The Soviets still won.

And that was “back in the day” when Comrade Stalin decreed your life wasn’t worth a speck of spittle on a hot griddle. Things (despite the bullshit put out by the various Treasonous Ministries of Lies and Propaganda) have shown that now the Russians have not unnecessarily sacrificed troops in vain “meat assault attacks” during this SMO as they’ve become known as…

Case in point: The Treasonous Ministries of Lies and Propaganda ran multiple stories about the Assault on Andiivka. They said the Russians didn’t even have rifles and were using shovels in human wave attacks. That was quickly buried in allll the ‘other news’ but the reality is that no, it didn’t happen. In fact, considering the proliferation of Helmet-GoPros on both sides you’d think you’d seen tons of vidya of these supposed “unarmed human wave assaults” that the Krainians could make MAD propaganda points with. Instead? Radio Fucking Silence.

You think you hate the media enough etc…

Fact of the matter is, the entire Andiivka Assault cost the Russians about 2500 professional soldiers. Over 13000 in total KIA. The majority of whom were prisoners given the opportunity to commute their sentences in combat. Call it 10k in ‘expendables’.

This war, after the initial fuck ups by the Russians that cost some seriously highly trained troops via being killed in action… i.e. Air Assault/Airborne and Spetsnaz at the opening of the SMO, the Russians, unlike the Krainians learned their lesson. Professional Troops like that don’t grow on trees. Conservation is key. It literally takes years to get some of them to the level that they were at when they got nearly wiped out due to Higher Command underestimating the Krainians… Especially at the Assault on the Airport in Kiev… my understanding is they thought that shit was going to be a cakewalk, but ended up being like “Desert One”

Hence the ‘slowly encircle them, and grind the fuck out of them’ approach. I mean it makes sense to me, both in a DotMil perspective AS a troop, and as well as from a DotCiv perspective, in that the civvies understand that the troops are being cautious, careful and generally smart in their approaches to the Enemy Locations, thereby making the civvies happy that their family members in uniform may not get waxed unnecessarily… The Krainians however don’t have the numbers, nor the luxury of having the ability to train up new piles of ‘quality troops’ never mind quantity. Waste Not, Want Not. That’s a lesson the Krainians have yet to learn…

Stalin used to say quantity has its own quality in those times.

Problem is between the unwillingness these days of the Krainians who are willing to voluntarily go to war, and the Korruption that infests every. single aspect. of the war?

I mean who the fuck would want to go at this point?
No one with any sanity for sure.

Like our young Marathon Runner above, the majority of Krainians in the current ‘culling’ of folks to send to the front lines? Well sure as fuck the Recruiter Commissars? They’re not in Kiev hunting down the various eligible Nouveau Riche (who also happen to be members of the (((Tribe))) which is an interesting thing that there Aye?) but chasing down ‘common folks’ and retards/downs syndrome kids from my understanding. Fuckers….

Also, word is the majority of the Commissars themselves? They’re ALL (((Tribe Members))) who are exempt from front line duty, despite being better trained, and younger and more able than the carcasses they’re currently ‘snatching and grabbing’ off the streets… Nope… the folks they grab? It’s mostly the lame, lazy, sick and weak, plus a bunch of poor “Gruntpas” meaning guys over 40+ like me who’re just not willing to put up a fight with the Commissars when they come calling.

My source BTW is a former NCO who’s married to a female Krainian who I maintain correspondence with. They apparently have, despite him holding an US passport, tried to do snatch and grabs on him as well while he’s on the street in Kiev… they either try to say he’s a deserter from the Legion, which is the Merc Group that used to have a bunch of ‘Murican retards in it, OR they try and say his documents are bogus.

Considering he’s a retired SF Light Colonel, as well as our unarmed combatives instructor back in the day I guess a couple of times it didn’t end well when the Recruiters/Kidnappers didn’t want to take ‘No’ for an answer… I hope he really fucking hurt them…. Fuck those guys, for real. I hope my old Sarge fucking broke some bones when they tried to snatch him.

As far as this push though?
It’s been bad.
The Russians last night lost a HUGE number of guys when they ANNOUNCED they were send a ‘relief convoy’ up ‘this particular route, at this particular time’ and whaddya know? The Krainians blew the ever loving fuck out of it, killing/wounding at least 500+ troops…

Whatever the fuck happened to OPSEC?
Out the fucking window I guess.
THIS is the product of being overconfident in your position

The asshole PIO who put that information out there should publically go up against a wall and shot on live TV IMO.

Either way, it’ll be a lot of back and forth over the next few. The Krainians hit the Russians in a soft spot. It’s going to take time and effort to dislodge them. Nevermind the reinforcements keep getting hit… Truthfully, I have no idea how long, nor do I care this is going to go on for. My major concern is that nothing happens that could cause Russian Based “Canned Sunshine” that needs SPF 100000 to come out… that would really put a harshness on my end-of-summer mellow yannow?

I mean either way, everyone with even the most basic brain functionality realizes this a forlone hope… at-best Hail Mary play that was/is set up to give the Kameltoe something that they could use to say that this whole fucking disaster isn’t a disaster before the upcoming (s)election. Problem is, even the Krauts say it’s a lost cause:

I mean hey, They, the Krauts? THEY oughtta know amiright?

Once Burned, Twice Shy or something like that…

Anyways… Got to bail.
Thoughts per usual appreciated in the comments
More Later
Big Country

A NonPolitical Pupper Update Poast For Some Smiles

Greetings!
Appreciate all the info and feedback from last night. Tonight is going to be -sparse- as I had a hell of a day. Started at 0400 with the Red Hot Chili Pupper waking up unusually early. Lots of whining, crying and beating her kennel door.

Turns out the poor thing has the shits.

My fault I think… during her house-training, I’ve been rewarding her after we get the ‘mission done’ and last night I done gave her something she didn’t have before, one of them “Beggin’ Strip” fake-bacon treats. The Sausage Princess is alllll about those, and has no issues. Methinks the puppyguts are a wee bit too sensitive for that particular treat. So, from 0400, 0700 and on, and on and on… wash, rinse, repeat of taking Chili out to ’empty her’ so to speak. No worries about dehydration, as she’s been torqueing the agua down…

Nope, just her feeling crappy, and since -I- didn’t crash until 0200, I’m operating on about 4 hours of rack time. She is however growing like a lil weed:

That’s the FIL, Gretchen’s Da with the pupper.
He unfortunately lost his pooch, Guido about a year, maybe two ago. Guido was a really awesome GIANT Golden Labrador.

So b/c Gui took the Rainbow Bridge route, Dad’s been lonely as the dog was his BFF. Every time we go, IF we can wrangle it, we usually bring Stella up to visit, which makes their day.

Mom and Dad might have been an option a few years back to take in Chili when Cowboy turned her down…unfortunately, as y’all have heard, they can barely take care of themselves, so we do the visitations with either Stell or now Chili. As far as the defaulting to us thing… I mean that was the last thing I expected, but hey we got her now….

Not that I’m bitching.

I mean how the fuck am I supposed to turn that lil face down?

She is though, as I said growing like a weed. This’s her playing with “Auntie Box Wine Stella” as I jokingly call her now:

Stella’s been great BUT she is almost 7 years old, which is middle aged, and she does get ‘grumpy’ at the Pupper-Shenanigans. She holds her own though, and let’s the pup know when she’s out of line. That usually takes care of it.

The cats on the other hand purely hate her. And for now, she’s terrified of them. Despite my admonishments, and liberal use of a super-soaker, the cats literally lie in wait to bushwhack Chili if I leave the room… They’re not doing any real harm but just establishing “who’s Boss” by swatting her and hissing at her. I can’t pre-emptively “soak ’em down” as they are being cats… which means they’re being assholes… eh… ’tis what it ’tis… They’ll learn soon enough when she out masses them by 40 pounds…

I’ve had to increase her food intake too.
AND adjust her collar three times in the past couple of days… like 7 days, and that being adding a 1/4 inch here and there… I think she’s in a growth spurt. She’s a natural on lead too. Follows the commands naturally and knows exactly what the mission is when we head out the door. All in all, she’s a great doggie, and I really dig her.

So, no politics or racerage tonight… all the usual suspects are still at their games, and nothing there is ever going to change… well… ONE point of order: I’m thinking they might have to dump Walz… TamponTimmy’s stolen valor was called out today by fucking CNN of all places. To paraphrase Johnson from back in the day:

“When you’ve lost CNN, you’ve lost Middle America”

Aas well as every. single. vet. in. the. country. Even diehard retard Perma-Blue Boomer Nam vets can’t let this slide. Task and Purpose, that shytte-rag tried to call it “the swiftboating of TamponTimmy” but it’s not working.

He’s a POS Blue Falcon cowardly motherfucker who abandoned his troops right before a hot deployment to Iraq.

Fuck that guy.

So… Hope you enjoyed the doggo update.
More Later
Big Country

OK We’re Back and I Got a REALLY Strange One for Everyone to Think On.

Greetings Gang!
Sorry for the technical wipeout, but as they say, “shit do happen” and in this case, it was every. single. time. I hit ‘publish’ for the blegg of ANYTHING moar than like 100+ words and/or multiple pictures, it was erroring out.

Mind you this wasn’t my bandwidth or intarwhebz related as I have a Company-Paid for ultra hi-speed-lo-drag Intarwhebz Biddness connection. Nope. I was getting an “Unable to Poast” error which I thought was a mite strange. Kind of irritated me as it takes me a long minute to A) come up with nightly content and B) then transcribe the insanity of the rats and snakes that inhabit my cerebral cortex to a viable read for y’all.

Trust me, it’s a wee bit of hard work.

Especially after a past couple of days that I’ve had.

Been a bitch truthfully. I did get one interesting new bit of info that I can now share with everyone. Three, three and a half months ago I applied to a couple of other gigs out there as The Politburo fucked me over on a raise at Glorious People’s Tractor Factory.

The TL;DR? It’s been two years of Gulag-Level Work and a lousy $1 raise for that entire time. Considering that I started at a number between 17 and 19 an hour, you can understand my discontent. Those of you who’ve been long term followers know I was desperate AF when the IT Commissar got me the “in” to get re-gainfully employed, so I wasn’t in the position to argue.

That and I -do- have my DotMil retirement, Sapper paying in, and Gretchen paying in (on her busy seasons) so we keep this shithouse floating juuuuuuuuust above the bankruptcy line so to speak.

However
That’s some pure-dee bullshit. In fact I’ve brought a massive amount of new business to the Factory because of my skillsets and winsome good looks. This past #2 Anniversary, I met ALL my markers, and in response I got the whole $1 raise, and when I said “Hey, that’s sort of fucked up!” the Politburo told me I have unlimited overtime…

Normally no one has OT available.
That being said?
I still think it’s fucked to say “Work MOAR if you want MOAR Bux”. So I’m doing the barest minimum, while logging 10-11, even 12 hour days and they can suck my taint. I mean c’mon… a $.50 cent a year raise? GFYS.

Either way… as I said, I applied to a couple of other factories. I mean from what I’ve seen on the various Reddit and other Job Boards out there, experience is key. So with 2x years of “Tractor Factory Experience” I figured to ‘go fishing’.

I applied three plus months ago. Took ’em a minute, but about a month and a half ago, I had to do this weird ‘record your answer interview’. I was a wee bit put off by this as I don’t want to be recorded ever by a company or whatnot, but according to what I read online, this now the “Newest and Bestest Thing”. It was a generic 7 question “What would you do if…” and “Have you done this? Answer this question as….” sort of thing that what appeared to be an AI Recorded dude who asked me the questions.

Then I promptly forgot about it.
Then two weeks ago I got the “Congratulations! You made it to the Final Boss!” email. I scheduled the interview for yesterday.

I’m waiting on the offer letter right now.
It went perfectly to say the least.

NOW once I get THAT in hand, I’ll take it to the Politburo and ask them what they’re willing to do. I know I’m like damned near indispensable. SO much so that the IT Commissar even said as much as I became a rock star at the Factory. TBH I’d like to stay where I’m at IF they match. I mean I do my own thing, my current Boss is gold, and I like everyone I work with.

We’ll see.

Now, the meat and taters for tonight’s ‘crazy’
And I mean that literally.
So I got a “NextDoor” email… that’s that ‘Karen App’ that everyone goes on and dimes out HOA shenanigans and various ‘other’ peccadillos in close neighborhoods. Usually I ignore/delete but the title of this one made me go “I’d like to know more!”

Now, Newsbreak, IMO is like a shitty-National Enquirer wannabe website. Because of this, I did go there, and did a wee bit of a dive around the webz to see what I could find from some theoretical ‘real news sources’ so to speak…

Let me tell you… this’s some weird shit…

Link to the story is HERE

Damn
One KIA, 2x WIA cops, one of which who needs multiple surgeries as they shot him up so badly. Mind you, this happened last Friday

It happened in Lake County. I live in Hillsborough. However this was the first time I heard of it!!! Mind you we’re not big “TV” folks here as I’ve said before. ‘Jeopardy’ followed by ‘Star Trek’ on the ‘Heroes and Icons’ channel and that’s about it period fucking dot. I do however ‘crawl’ damned near 18 hours a day on the news looking for intel/patterns/infonuggets and ‘stuff’ that I can use here, and for my own personal OODA Loop analysis.

This one completely was off the radar.
Which is Insanely Odd in itself.
I mean it’s got ALL the ‘things’ that the Treasonous Ministries of Lies and Propaganda purely fucking LOVE, to include the top 5:

1) White Folks doing Bad things
2) Evil Black Rifles (a lot of them per the NY Post article, 20+)

3) Anti-Government ‘Sovereign Citizens’ (supposedly)
4) Homeschooled
5) Extreme Christian Religious Views

There’s more, but that right there?
That’s the Pentafecta of Perfection for a ‘if it bleeds it leads’ National Story to demonize everyone and everything on the Right from the current DotGov (mal)Administration. I mean adding to it, in some areas, Dead and Wounded Cops? I remember when ONE dead “Baconator” made national news…
This time?
Not. One. Fucking. Word.
As I said, a wee bit on the Odd Side

Now, granted when you read the story, it’s readily apparent that the Matriarch of this particular four family members was fucking absolutely bugfuck crazy. There were the Mother, Father, and 2x daughters, both of legal age… 22 and 23 respectively. No word if they were hawt or not…

That being said though…

Part of the reason I think there’s a Enemedia Blackout?
A couple of thoughts…
That the initiation of Contact with the initial three deputies left One Dead, One Wounded, with the survivors (2) retreating. No casualties on the ‘Home Team’. The deputies were caught completely unprepared and paid for their negligence/complacency.

Keep that in mind, as it will be on the Final Exam:
Complacency Kills

THEN, now that the fecal matter had publically hit the oscillation device at full speed, the eventual fallback (after the usual ‘cordon and contain procedures) for the State/County Goons was to ‘send in the SWAT Team’ to breach and kill/capture/diffuse the situation. The SWAT Team subsequently breached the house and performed a single-line stacked entry, with the point man utilizing a full length Lexan Body-Shield for protection.

Again, the home team managed to cause some serious havoc.

Dad managed to take out the lead man of the SWAT Team, and forced them to do a ‘fighting withdrawal’. I’ve read multiple sources that said that the Father, armed with an AR, was on a wall opposite running parallel (unseen) to the entry point that the SWAT team was utilizing… then, as they creeped down the hall, Dad waited inside a room undetected, until they were where he could hit them. He then started a mag-dump through the wall which took out/incapacitated the point man, as the team was getting hosed from the side, instead of the expected front.

Apparently that full-length Bulletproof Lexan Shield wasn’t of much use being hit from the side Aye? Also… another Final Exam point: Sheetrock is concealment, not cover.

Now… this’s where it gets weird to me at least.

I’m not into the whole “Sovereign Citizen Thang” at all.

God knows though growing up and living in New Hampster you run into a lot of them, or leastways until the fags from the Socialist People’s Republic of Taxachusetts inundated the state and ran them deep underground… Either way, according to the Enemedia, the two adult daughters and Dad shortly after driving off the SWAT Team self-deleted.

Now knowing from personal experience what I know of the SC Folks? I have issues with this. Mainly because they’re the ones in bad times to keep “hunkering in the bunker” for one. The other is that they had successfully driven off the main SWAT Probe, and were in a position to ‘keep making the Bastards pay’ for every. single. inch. of property. They had, according to MULTIPLE Sources, plenty of Ammo, weapons, body armor, water fuel and food.

Why the fuck would they self-delete?

Add on that SC Folks are really huge on property rights and telling the DotGov to fuck off. ALSO, IMO, most of the SC kids I’ve met who were hankering for a showdown like this would have livestreamed the fuck out of it.

The fact we got 2 x ’20 something’ daughters and there’s no social media presence AT ALL supposedly? Call that another oddity. I looked myself and there appears to be nothing out there. Just like the OrangeManBad’s Ree Tardy Osweird amiright? Add on since most SC LOVE a good LOUD public fight, I’m inclined to believe that they would have surrendered in order to make a ‘splash’ in the news. Lord know I sure AF would be ‘making a public stink’ if the ‘bad goys’ decided to finish off the question of BCE once and for all… y’all folks would be seeing it live in real time, with the Flammenwerfer taking center stage.

“Do I smell bacon cooking….?”

I might be stretching it, but considering the location, the lack of Enemedia coverage and whatnot, plus everyone but Mom being dead? I’d personally put the odds that they surrendered with the intent of makes some ‘Grand Statements’ against the DotGov, and were executed out-of-hand to prevent it. I mean you positively know the cops had to be bullshit that they got their collective, supposedly ‘professional’ asses handed to them, one cheek at a time. A couple of quick shots to the head and “nobody says nuthin'” and yeah, I can see it happening that way…

Jes’ Sayin’

It also stands that this particular “Anti-DotGov thang” stateside just happened at a particularly sensitive time, in that England, as well as Ireland are practically going full retard, and the last thing the DotGov here needs is anyone else getting some not-so-bright (in their eyes) ideas about standing up to “The Man” in any way, shape or form… They do NOT want the plebes getting ideas to tell the ‘Authorities’ to go and fuck themselves. Hence my theory.

I mean shit, they murdered women and children in Waco to prove a point about the DotGov’s attitude towards anti-gov folks… why wouldn’t they execute a couple of “Religious Whackos” out of hand? I mean as one who used to “take the King’s Shilling” in ‘other capacities’ I completely know where they’re coming from…

Gonna be an interesting couple of months to say the least…

YMMV.
I report, you decide.
Your thoughts in the comments?

More Later
Big Country Expat

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