NC Renegades

Ok.. I have no idea where this article is going to lead. I’m just going to write about some things and see what comes out.

Today my second born turned 19. My daughter who turned 16 in September got her full drivers license today. I’ll take donations to cover my incredibly high car insurance now. LOL… My 2 year old twin girls have been potty training and doing rather well, my wife took them to pick out big girl panties since they had gone 2 days without any mishaps. I guess what I’m saying is life is pretty good for me right now. I have a beautiful wife, who I wish I had found a long time ago. My kids are all doing well in school. My bills are paid. I have food on the table. I have a roof over my head. So what more could I ask for?

How about my government quit taking half of everything I earn? How about people who have committed crimes for everyone to see be arrested and tried? How about people quit trying to force me to accept things which I do not believe? How about letting me choose how my money is spent instead of forcefully taking it from me for the government to do as it pleases? How about our government quit trying to figure out how to disarm us and destroy the Bill of Rights?

Why do I continue to prepare? At one point in time I thought the system could be changed from within if enough of us fought and got elected to positions. I’ve long since given up on that. Quick history. I joined the tea party way back when, rose thru the ranks etc., Earned a spot on the Rowan Republican executive committee. Fought like mad to get people to do something. Long story short the Country Club Republicans didn’t much care for us trying to set things right. We got voted out and the tea party no longer had control of the executive committee. I pretty much decided voting was useless from that point on. You can read about it here.

Along came Trump. I was torn. There was no way in hell though that I was going to sit by and let Hillary Clinton win the White House. I voted for Trump. I didn’t vote for him in the primaries.

Looking back, I wish Hillary would’ve won. Why you ask? Well all hell would have broken loose that night. Perhaps this Civil War we are in would already be over. Trump has been full of promises, yet hasn’t delivered much.

While I enjoy a good conversation, there isn’t much worth replying to in the comment sections here or anywhere else lately. And boy you should see the comments that don’t make it. It’s an inherent problem in this Liberty movement. We bicker and bash each other’s ideas. Yet nobody can seem to offer a viable plan of action for us to move forward.

Am I preparing for no reason? Perhaps. But I’ll continue. I’m not getting any younger. I’d prefer to settle this and leave a better future for my children. Right now I don’t see much of a future for them. I train, I work out, I am in good health. I used to be a bicycle racer. How many people here reading could get on a bike and ride 100 miles in the mountains in 6 hours or less? Heck how many of you could ride a bicycle 25 miles in say an hour and a half? How many reading this can run 10 miles averaging 8 minute miles? So I continue to prepare, work out, stay in good health. But for what?

It’s really hard to look at myself in the mirror somedays. If I was a single guy, I’d vanish. Go off grid and live a very simple life. Or would I? But I have a huge family and I can’t expect them to go that route. I imagine a lot of people reading this are in the same boat. So we continue to feed the monster. We work our jobs, and the government that we have come to hate, profits from us. We are slowly killing ourselves.

So, what are we to do?

We have 363 days until the next Presidential Election. I think no matter which way it goes, this is it. Democrats will absolutely lose their minds if Trump is re-elected. If he is even allowed to make it till election day. Republicans are not going to accept a Communist Democrat cheating their way into the Whitehouse. I don’t see the Trumpers just going away and saying “oh well, we’ll get it back in four years.” Nope, the boiling point I believe is going to be reached on election day 2020 or possibly even earlier, but it’s coming.

Everyday there are stories just boldly flaunted in our faces, tempting us, saying to us, So what? You can’t touch us. So what are you Deplorables going to do about it? This establishment hates us. They are out in the open now boldly stating that they are the ones in control. Almost daring us to do something.

There is no Voting Our Way out of This.

I guess I’ll keep preparing. Food, Water Guns, Ammo, etc.

I’ll continue to get sick to my stomach watching criminals walk free everyday while nothing is done.

I guess I’ll continue to try and open people’s minds and eyes to the future War that seems inevitable.

With yesterday being Election Day 2019 for many state and local races across the country, it means that it is officially less than one year away from Election Day 2020 – November 3rd, 2020.

What can we expect from the next election? At this point, who knows. Will the Left uncover the smoking gun that will lead to Trump’s impeachment? Will the FISA IG report expose the Deep State’s treason against President Trump? Will the economy hold itself together long enough to not shatter Trump’s chances of another four years? Alas, those musings are not for this post.

There are a few things that we DEFINITELY know:

1. We know that the push for gun control will march ever onward, regardless of who wins.
2. We know that divisiveness will continue to grow as the chasm between Right and Left expands and the desire for compromise shrinks.
3. We know that the Far-Left will continue to be active in the streets and in training, whether it is under the cover of a Democratic Administration or in the face of a continued Republican Administration.
4. We know that the fragility of our system is ever present, from the Just-In-Time supply chain and the chronically underprotected electrical grid to the global threats we face in Russia and China’s expansion and projection of power in South America.
5. We know that, much like heroin addicts, our financial system is absolutely addicted to its drug – Quantitative Easing and cheap credit – and we know that a system like that cannot survive indefinitely.

We should be redoubling our efforts to get the requisite training we need and to get the supplies that we require. Where should our focus lie? Each person must answer that for themselves, but I can certainly tell you what two of my top priorities are (aside from food, water, medical supplies, and the absolute basics). I choose these priorities not because everything else is less important, but because if the election does not go our way, I think that there will be a vigorous push for gun control and I am afraid that the political defenses we currently have against it will not hold.

Stripped Lowers, Build Kits, and 80% Lowers

Three Palmetto State Armory stripped lowers and one complete lower with a PSA upper (no optic yet).

There is absolutely no reason why everyone should not be stocking AR-15 lowers like they are going out of style. One of the big gun control pushes will always be Assault Weapons Bans, and you should be trying to stock up on AR parts and build kits. I personally buy all of my lowers from Palmetto State Armory, and considering that they often have stripped lowers for $29.99 or $39.99, even people short on cash can buy an extra lower or two to stock away for a rainy day. Pairing that with a AR-15 Build Kit, you have a complete AR rifle for under $350. The days of the $350 AR-15 are numbered, so take advantage while you can. And as NC Scout pointed out yesterday, a “budget” build is all you need to be effective in the field (though in my opinion, Palmetto State far exceeds “budget” and I own enough of their guns to back that up).

There are a number of sites that sell 80% lowers and the requisite tools to finish them, and they have a wealth of resources to help even the most mechanically challenged people (coughcoughMEcoughcough) finish them. I have personally purchased from 5D Tactical, but there are others out there. If possible, pay using cryptocurrencies or even a mailed check. Just keep it off the credit card so that if the financial institutions decided to turn over records, that purchase is made off the books.

Standard Capacity Magazines

The G.I. magazines like these can be had for $7.99 a pop at Palmetto State. The Hex Mag came from GunMagWarehouse.

Another top target of gun controllers is, as we all know, standard capacity magazines.  If the Dems manage to sweep the House + Senate + Presidency, this would probably be order number one in this policy area. Even if they don’t win all three, my question to you is this: do you really expect the spineless GOP in Congress to truly protect your right to own a 30+ round magazine? I’m going to say no. Buy the magazines now in large quantities. GunMagWarehouse has a huge selection of magazines and occasionally has insane deals (I recently bought twenty 9-round Glock 43 magazines from them at $5.99 a pop despite the fact I don’t even own a Glock 43). They are especially useful for those, like me, in states that have magazine restrictions because they have a large selection of magazines in 15, 10 or 5 round increments like PMags and HexMags (my two preferred choices). Palmetto State also occasionally has both 30 round PMags and GI Aluminum magazines at $8.99 or even $7.99 a magazine – sometimes even with free shipping on 10+! They also occasionally pair cases of ammo with ten PMags at a price where you are basically getting the magazines for damn near zero. If you think you have enough, you don’t.

Time to Wake Up

Now is the time to wake up out of your Trump Slump slumber and repurpose and rededicate yourself to your prepping. Prepping should not be a chore. It should be a lifestyle. Resiliency should be ingrained into our being and our daily lives. When I pray before bed every night, I ask God for two things: Discernment, and Discipline. I personally know that He has a plan for me, and I ask Him to show me what He wants me to do. Then, I pray for the discipline to get the job done. Now is the time for all of use to discern our paths forward, and to go down our paths with the utmost discipline.

Tempus Fugit.

Drug cartels would not exist if there was no market in the United States. We will never win the war on drugs by pandering to and subsidizing drug addiction. Build the war (correctly), legalize drugs (which will minimize profits) and let the chips fall. That means drug testing to receive any government benefits, no government paid “recovery” programs and faith. Faith to let communities help members recover if they want to have help.

I understand that this means the death of many people who have succumbed to drug addiction. I also understand that we have lost this “war” a long time ago. Stop funding the cartels with crime to buy drugs and government assisted suicide with the help of China.

David DeGerolamo

Activism in the liberty movement often requires a painful examination of details. We look at political and economic trends, identify inconsistencies in the mainstream narrative, point out inevitable outcomes of disaster or attempts at collectivist power, and ask – “Who benefits?” Ultimately, the analysts and activists with any sense of observation come to the same conclusion: There is a contingent of financial elites embedded within the political world and the corporate world that have a specific ideology and malicious goals. They create most geopolitical and economic crisis events using puppets in government as well as influence in central banking. They then turn the consequences of these events to their advantage.

They want to reinvent civilization and mold it into a homogenized and highly micromanaged global hive. Within this collective, they see themselves as not only the future masters of social evolution, but also as demigods that are worshiped by the masses. And, they are willing to do almost ANYTHING to achieve this endgame.

There comes a moment in the life of many liberty movement activists or analysts when they are confronted with this reality: The reality that we are not fighting a faceless “system” that was built passively by mistake, or built in the name of mere random greed. No, the system is only an extension of a greater agenda and the weapon of a conspiratorial army. What we are really fighting are very evil people with psychopathic desires to dominate and destroy. Attempt to change the system without removing the cabal behind it, and you will fail every time.

This is where we hit a wall of indecision and find ourselves at an impasse on solutions within the movement. There are even some people who argue that “nothing can be done”.

This is, of course, a lie. Something can indeed be done. We can fight and remove the elites from the equation entirely. In fact, we have no choice but to fight if we hope to retain any semblance of our sovereignty or foundational principles. But sadly, there are people in the movement with some influence who do not seem to understand the difference between fighting to survive, and fighting to succeed.

Freedom cannot be boiled down to a dream or a wish; something that might happen someday if we are able to stay alive long enough. Freedom is a responsibility that is already born into most human beings. It’s not a cheesy or childish ideal, it’s a timeless ideal. Freedom and the fight for peace and balance in the face of would-be emperors is an infinite battle. It never ends. The fight IS freedom. Without the fight, freedom disappears.

Finally, when I consider the claim made by some people that beating the elites in a direct confrontation is a “pipe dream”, I have to ask a fundamental question: Why do these people assume we have a choice? I’ve witnessed some pretty desperate attempts at silver bullet solutions to globalism in my years in the movement, from presidential election campaigns to change a system that cannot be changed from within, to “revolutionary” cryptocurrencies that the banking elites happily invest in and co-opt.

People misplace their faith in corrupt politicians and the rigged political process, even though they should know better by now. In the final analysis, politics is designed to keep society in stasis, frozen with inaction or fighting in the name of a false leader. Always, when the dust settles the elites escape blame and scrutiny while the public picks up the pieces and tries to understand just what happened. The current chaos surrounding Donald Trump is no different; it is only different in that Trump is a puppet whose job is to appeal directly to liberty activists. For once we’re getting recognition, but it’s not the good kind…

And while building alternatives to the mainstream system and removing yourself from the grid is a step in the right direction, this alone is only a stop-gap. One day, the establishment will come to take what you have. There is no way around this. Narcopaths are like ravenous parasites feeding on every last morsel of humanity. They take whatever can be taken.

The question is, when they come to digest that which you hold precious, how will you respond? Is fighting back impossible, or is it preferable to slavery? Is dying for a better tomorrow a fool’s errand, or the only errand we are put on this Earth for? These are questions that need to be answered and answered soon. The time left to ponder them is running out.

More…

It seems Kentucky elected a Democrat Governor last night. I read that Kentucky was a case of a Republican Governor that was not liked. Virginia elected enough Democrat state representatives that the commies now control both state houses, they already own the Governor’s mansion. Virginia now will ram through their semi-auto firearms ban they have waiting in the wings.

I do not want to be defeatist or cause you undue distress while you’re browsing the interwebz today but…

If I were to assume to offer some advice to you, it would be to not take for granted that “MAGA” is going to continue beyond January 2021. Sure these 2 states could be flukes, VA is inundated with swamp creatures and transplants. It is very red out in the rural areas I frequent in the mountains, with Trump signs everywhere. Kentucky…I don’t know why it would elect a Democrat governor but perhaps it won’t translate to the presidential process.

Perhaps it will.

There is no doubt that urban areas, small though they are, control the politics.

We are in salad days right now. Stuff is cheap and readily available. I do not know your individual situation but I would presently stop resting on my MAGA euphoria and begin plugging as many holes in my kit, preps and living situation as possible. If it means you go into some hardship now to accomplish this, I believe it better than later.

If DJT beats all of these swamp creatures and holds onto the presidency we still can face oppression on a state level. Democrat anger at Trump will foster state action that could mimic what has happened in other states already. I certainly can see that if VA passes a huge semi-auto ban with no provisions for grandfathering (to cheers from woke culture) that NC could soon follow suit. We are being inundated with transplants ourselves.

Wake up, shake the sleep from your senses and listen to that wind.

Get your mind back to being the ant, not a foolish grasshopper…wearing a red hat.

Tick. Tock.