The Prepper Broadcasting Network - PBN News: The Most Powerful Civilian Weapon

Episode Date: September 20, 2024

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There may be some areas that are drier than others, but look, it's going to be wet. Change of shoes, plenty of socks, water boots for all that kind of stuff. I'll tell you what, I'll propose a challenge because in 2019, I thought we were dead in the water. I thought this event's going to be a total bust for more reasons than one. And people came hard, man. They came prepared and they came hard. And this is an opportunity. You know, this three-day campout, this three-day essentially off-grid campout is a great opportunity for people like you. And when you add rain to the mix, it's a huge learning experience. Ask anybody who was at 2019.

They'll tell you they learned some lessons. I myself, I myself, I nearly had trench foot because what I did not expect, I had a good pair of boots, you know, a good pair of waterproof boots, you know, waterproof to some up and to a point. What I did not expect, which was my failure, was that my disaster coffee booth would be in a puddle. My entire booth was in a puddle Saturday. And in order to operate it, I just had to be there standing in water. And I stood in water basically the whole day,

Saturday. The boots never dried. I didn't bring another pair of shoes because, you know, these things I've used for years in a lot of different scenarios. But I never waited in them. So I didn't realize that that was going to be a part of the deal. Yesterday when we were looking at weather forecasts, I said I'll be in hip waders. That's my game plan. Crocs, hip waders, hiking boots, waterproof hiking boots. Footwear is a thing. And probably keep all my dry socks in the vehicle. That way you don't wind up with any incidences, any leakage, any, you know.

Mother Nature is rough, man. And most of us don't really get it because we always have go inside as an option. But once you don't have go inside as an option, you don't have get dry as an option, changes things, right? So, Prepper Camp, prepare for the water. 12 noon on Saturday, the Tinfoil Hat Contest will take place at Disaster Coffee booth at the Disaster Coffee and PBN booth. So, be ready. Be prepared for that. Come see.

All right? Even if you're not making something, come see because the people do amazing things, absolutely amazing things. So come see. I don't know. We're probably going to give multiple prizes away this year. Last year I felt bad. I think we gave one or two prizes away or something like that. People do so well.

I mean, they do so much cool stuff. It's so hard for a guy like me to be like, you're the winner. You know what I mean? They're all great. So, yeah, have a good time. Plan for a good time. Take notes. You know, have a ball.

Go to classes. Go to the classes that make you feel uncomfortable. Go to Sarah's self-defense class. You know, all that. Get physically involved. Dig deep. Dig deep. You know, that's what you're here for.

So we're going to talk about the 158 Democrats who voted against the sex crime ban on immigrants because we have to. There's a lot of stories like ripping through everything right now, like the pager bombs and all that kind of stuff, which, man, you know, I know a lot of people love to consider China like the big bad wolf, but wow, who would have thought, you know, you get electronics from your enemies that are laced with explosives. I think China's really in for trouble over the next five to ten years in so many ways. In so many ways. But I wanted to talk to you first about the pen is mightier than the sword, about the civilian's number one weapon. And I really do believe that.

That is you know. You could argue it is. Your ability to write. And your ability to speak. Right. Why do I bring this up. Because we're entering a time. Where these things are going to be considered.

And are being considered. What do I do. What can I do? Right? There's whisper. There have been whispers of civil war in the air for a very long time. Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1839

coined the phrase, the pen is mightier than the sword in his play. Do you know what his play was titled? Funny enough. He wrote a play called Conspiracy in 1839. True this, beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.

Behold, the arch-enchanter's wand, itself a nothing, but taking sorcery from the master hand to paralyze the Caesars and to strike the loud earth breathless. Take away the sword, states can be saved without it. I don't know if I agree with him on that last part, but, you know, it is what it is. Now, Lytton, back in the 1800s, in the early 1800s, coined the phrase, but,

you know, this is an old one, man. Like, this is not a new concept. It's not some, like, you know, this is an old one, man. Like, this is not a new concept. It's not some, like, liberal art school adage. You know what I mean? Like, it wasn't born out of the Institute of the Arts. It's ancient. It's ancient.

Because it works. Because if you can write, if you can address people, then you have the ability to make them think. You have the ability to call them to account. And in a lot of cases, you almost force them to respond depending on the forum. And remember,

it's harder now because publications are rough, right? The editors are compromised. But anyone can write a story. Anyone can do their own public journalism. Anyone can write an editorial. Anyone can send a letter to the editor, right? These things are, they're all well within the realm of possibility for the average person. You could argue that our, you know,

people did this stuff back in the day. They wrote the newspaper. They would write the newspaper and they would say, hey, you're screwing up. Or you got this wrong or you did that wrong or whatever. Before the comment section, see, the comment section, I think, kind of drains us. Like we get to say our two cents and go about our day and get back to work. You fool.

But before the comment section, people wrote direct to the newspapers. You know, we want a retraction, or here's my thoughts on this, or what the hell's going on with this city project that's taken forever? People wrote. George Whetstone in Heptameron of Civil Discourses, 1582, wrote, The dash of a pen is more grievous than the counterboosts of a lance. 1582. Pretty long ways away.

There was another guy, I don't know if you know him, who wrote another play. I don't know if you ever heard of it. His name was Shakespeare, and in 1682, 1602, rather, he wrote Hamlet. Or, I guess. I don't know when he wrote Hamlet. But in Hamlet, 1602, Shakespeare gave Rosencrantz the line,

Many wearing rapiers are afraid of goose quills, and dare scarce come thither. So those wearing rapiers are afraid of goose quills. What's that mean? You know, the rapier is the little, I'm pretty sure it's the little, like, thin-bladed sword to count a monocrystal fights with. And the goose quill, of course, is the pen, right?

This is not an old concept. My kid is 13 years old and he's in language arts and he hates it because he's a 13-year-old in language arts. Even though his dad's a writer. And all

13-year-olds are like that primarily. And they can't understand the point of it. Why should I be able to craft my words effectively? Why? Why do that when I can ask AI to do it? Ooh, that's a trap. When you think about it through this lens, when you see it through this lens, that's a trap.

AI will craft your discontent for the government, sure. They'll craft your discontent for your HO, sure. They'll craft your discontent for your HOA, for your child's school, for your whatever, right? They might omit some things, though. They might manipulate some things. They might tell you that certain words and phrases are not allowed. Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy, 1621, includes, from this it is clear how much more cruel the pen may be than the sword. Pretty interesting. When's the last time you sat down and wrote something?

You know, we even shoot ourselves in the foot because when it comes to politics and addressing representatives, most of the time we get a pre-written letter to sign, right? And imagine if you were a representative and you got a wave of emails that were all a pre-written letter with a different signature or a different intro or just something that, you know, compared to receiving a mountain of correspondence, well-written, scathing, right? Clear in, you know, what it is you want done.

If we write, if we write and we make those writings at least public to some degree, the other thing we can do is claw back vocabulary. You know, like the vocabulary in the world is it's a huge problem. It's a huge problem. The vocabulary has been manipulated in such a way that we don't know what the hell people want. Right. Manipulated in such a way that we don't know what the hell people want. Right? Like, we need to sprint back to plain speaking and vocabulary that makes sense.

I'm trying to think of the word. I'm trying to think. I was listening to a podcast about immigration and statistics and labor and the offset of, you know, all that kind of stuff and a word came up that's popular. And there's a lot of words that are popular now, like sustainability. You know what I mean? Like these kinds of words. Ah, was that it? There's so many ideas in my head right now because the other big thing that showed up in my mailbox this morning

was a strange, very, very strange flyer, right? It was a very strange flyer about data centers in Virginia. It was an informative, large-style flyer about data centers, hard, you know, like cardstock, laminated, nice, for more information on Virginia's data centers. And it talked about all the benefits of Virginia's data centers. Now, when we did Gotham Get Out, I walked by one of these data centers, and I told you all, I think I put it up on the membership site, but it looked like where the First Order would be hiding out.

It looked like an evil warlord's, not a warlord, it looked like a supervillain's lair. That's what those data centers look like. A lizard den maybe that was really weird you know and I started reading that stuff then I saw a headline that Three Mile Island's opening up again

in order to power Microsoft's AI and all this stuff is whirling around in my head and the use of vocabulary to manipulate us into thinking differently. I was listening to Josh Hawley grill the Arabian chick. I don't know who she is, really. She had something to do with the protests in the universities, and he was putting up a bunch of slides, the intifada.

She put up like long live the intifada, and she gave a definition of the intifada, and it means to shake something off, just means to shake something off, she said, in Congress, in front of Congress. This means to shake something off, she said, in Congress, in front of Congress. Just the ability for – maybe the most dangerous part about the liberals is not their ability to lie to us. It's their ability to lie to themselves so fluently without second thought, right? Without a second thought, they can look at something and just say, oh, that's not what it means. That's not what that is. And it's not just lying to the people in Congress, but it's the lying to themselves. How the hell did I get here? Vocabulary.

Yeah, we have to say what we want and use the words that we've always used to describe it. You know what I mean? This can only happen through self-expression. Through self-expression. We're losing self-expression because of AI. Everything that's going to rewrite stuff for you, everything that's going to pre-write stuff for you, everything that's going to create something for you,

it chews away at your ability to express yourself. And you might think that you hear that word and you probably think like, ah, whatever. You know what I mean? Like, how important is it to do that? Well, you want to get good at it. Expressing self is an important skill to have, man. Expressing self is an important skill to have, man. How else do you plan to tell people how you feel, what you want, and what you don't want in your life? It was an eventful day yesterday. I had a woman come to my door and drop off a bunch of Kamala Harris literature and pass the most rapid judgment on me

I think anyone's ever done. I was trying to not see her. You know what I mean? I was working. The dogs barked. I figured she left. I went to the door. My old dog Lola went to the door.

She had to go out. So we go out front. She's old. She can't run nowhere. You know what I mean? So we go out front. We's old. She can't run nowhere. You know what I mean? So we go out front. We're walking around, and the lady's up there walking back now down my street.

And I run into her, and she looks me up and down. She's like an older white woman, of course. She looks me up. The agents of chaos. She looks me up and down and says, did you see what I left? And I said, yeah. And she says, are you planning on voting? Now, look, I'm cordial. You should be cordial. You should understand that as bored as they are and as uninformed as they are, they're still doing something. They're doing their part in the political process, right?

I mean, it's a shame that the Republicans don't come to my neighborhood. But she's out there handing out that kind of stuff. She looks me up and down, and she says, did you get my information? I say, yeah. She says, are you planning on voting? And I just told her, you know, not in a mean way or anything. I just said, I'm not going to vote for them. And she immediately says, well, you know, both Tim and Kamala Harris own guns. That's what she said. And I said, oh, okay. That's good.

That's a good thing. And we talked briefly while we walked the dog, and she walked with me for a moment. I'm not sure what her intention was. And we wound up, in a matter of seconds, onto the subject of, I could see her, like, pulling subjects from a hat to try to win me over.

And we wound up pulling the subject of, oh, oh, that's right, pulling the subject of school shootings, that's right, pulling the subject of school shootings out of the hat, right, using sort of like a fear tactic to get me to go, oh, you know what, you're right, I'm wrong, the Second Amendment is crap. And she says, just after telling me that the president and the vice president incumbent are gun owners, she goes on to tell me that you know we probably should get rid of the kind of guns that were used in school shootings and the kind of guns that were used to kill try to kill donald trump

and you know i just just told her i like those kind of guns. And it wasn't, like I said, we're just talking. I didn't want her to feel like this guy's an ass. I didn't even want to be that way because I could care less. You know what I mean? I'm going to vote. She's just a person. I'm just a person. We're talking. We're never going to see each other again. There's no point in going off on her. Well, you should know that. But I just thought it was a weird line of thinking. It was a weird line of thinking for a person to try to win you over with the fact that these people own guns,

and then to tell you, and she did say, so they're not going to try to take your guns away. And then almost immediately after that says, but there are some guns I think we should get rid of. And you know, we talked for a little while longer and went on about our day thank you have a nice day boom it all it all is kind of spiraling together in this concept of you know how do you

react in a situation like how are you able to express yourself in a situation like that can you tell people what you're going to do and not do, what you want and don't want out of your life and out of your politicians and out of, you know, everything? Now, most people assume it comes naturally until you sit before that white page with the blinking line and realize you have to write something that matters to someone that matters. I see it all the time. I see it all the time in the freelance writing world. There are people who are hiring out to write poems to people they love. There are people who are hiring out to write wedding speeches, eulogies. You pick up a book from the 1700s when you were taught by your mother. You know what I mean?

Like you didn't go through some massive education in Harvard and so on. You were taught sparingly by mom before dad took you out in the field for the day. You pick up a book, a journal, you know, from the 1700s, and you'll see writing you can't even believe because it's just reps. Like you can't even believe. Because it's just reps. Like everything else I tell you about, it's just reps. Just do the reps. We don't do any reps. So we can't write.

We can't express ourselves really well. We do it all in the comments section and on Twitter, you know? 100 words, baby. Or no, 100 characters or whatever it is. 200 characters. I describe my feelings on the deepest and most important issues of the day. It explains a lot. I promised you I'd get to this article. I'm not getting to it.

The full list of 158 Democrats who voted against sex crime ban on the immigrants. It's crazy. That's it. It's exactly what it is. It's Newsweek. I'll put it in the Element chat. You can look it over if you want. I may talk about it again at another time. I don't know. It doesn't jive with the show right now. It doesn't jive with the show right now, but it's something you all should be aware of. You should all be aware of the fact that there was a bill, and it passed, thank God. There was a bill yesterday presented. Pretty straightforward.

You know what I mean? Pretty straightforward. It was just to make sure that if you have sex crime if immigrants commit sex crimes they get deported i don't know how you can come up with an i vote no bill you know what i mean or an i vote no on this bill she says well i'll go into it another time. It may this may. There's a list of all the Democrats, too. There's so many women on the list.

It makes no sense. I can't even wrap my head around it. That's it. You know, it's pretty. I mean, there's nothing crazy about it. You know, it's pretty, I mean, there's nothing crazy about it. More than 150 Democrats voted against Republican Representative Nancy Mace's bill that would ensure undocumented immigrants convicted of sex offenses are deported or deemed inadmissible to the country. At any other time in history, you'd look at that and go, that's a slam dunk, this is when you pick up your pen, your mighty ink-filled sword, and find which one of these Democrats are close enough to you that it matters, and

send them a well-crafted email. You know what I mean? And express yourself. And say, in what world does it make sense for us to allow people in the nation illegally and let them commit the most heinous offenses of all

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