tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post6594118414702571281..comments2024-03-18T18:27:23.680-07:00Comments on Raconteur Report: Where I Am, And Why I'm StayingAesophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-25242761855530433932019-02-04T18:13:14.081-08:002019-02-04T18:13:14.081-08:00We have a hill farm in the rolling hills of the Bu...We have a hill farm in the rolling hills of the Buckeye . Deep green in 50 shades of green as they say in Ireland . Big dogs and big guns all over these hills and thousand meter range in every wheat field . Flourishing underground economy with deeply underground churches giving not one fuck for 501c3 status . What if Shabbat was on a different day each week ? Robehr Orinskynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-62608179883712793572019-02-04T18:02:42.241-08:002019-02-04T18:02:42.241-08:00It seems that it will be less important which stat...It seems that it will be less important which state you live in versus where you live in a state when things really go sideways. I live in good old deep red state Indiana in a rural area surrounded by Amish so if things go bad we have a good support system and reasonable distance from the vibrant diversity but if I lived in northwest Indiana near Gary, it would be a different story. Arthur Sidohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03848508095612688493noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-21514034309196773302019-02-04T12:18:04.493-08:002019-02-04T12:18:04.493-08:00You pretty much summed up how I feel. If you have ...You pretty much summed up how I feel. If you have to fall back from the southern smog bowl, feel free to look us up in Madera county gold country. Got 200+ acres a mile or so from the back of a major reservoir and large creek down one side of the property. California Hill Folknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-79703428082934258802019-02-04T06:22:18.557-08:002019-02-04T06:22:18.557-08:00I thought about leaving my home state, but have de...I thought about leaving my home state, but have decided to stay and fight the madness.I have no ill will for those that choose to go elsewhere. I'm happy to see this sentiment is shared by others. One thing that bothers me is this. So many people that share a lot in common are quick to go small tribe and condemn "Yankees" as all being the same. That's no different than the lib's saying we are all ignorant,inbred, racist's. There's millions of us northern folks who are not on board with the communist takeover. We are outnumbered, and we know that no one is coming to our rescue. I will not go quietly into the cattle car, bless all of you like minded. scruffnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-47472941929589090272019-02-04T02:38:14.202-08:002019-02-04T02:38:14.202-08:00Sorry. posted pre coffee. FMLSorry. posted pre coffee. FMLG Russellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15723865701967757461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-22711888387236423942019-02-04T02:36:12.642-08:002019-02-04T02:36:12.642-08:00I moved out of SOCAL after figuring out Id never o...I moved out of SOCAL after figuring out Id never own any land or home due to values, taxes, and crime. Grew up there. Served out there USMC. Dodging the Laws got old. Smoging my car, and paying to park it on tje street outside my highrent high crime appt got old. Having bangers doing drive bys every day within earshot, and nobody going to jail....<br /><br />I got out. Been in Texas since. Watched the fuckers fleeing come here and try to comifirnia it. Were holding out si far. <br /><br />Your article gave me hope for the fall. I have my shit in a kit. and am trying to prep my family for the reality of the melt doen. <br /><br />God bless you crazy stubborn fuckers. I aspire to be as hardy. G Russellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15723865701967757461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-34566028504442862862019-02-03T16:12:05.529-08:002019-02-03T16:12:05.529-08:00I know you're mostly kidding, Aesop. I know wh...I know you're mostly kidding, Aesop. I know where you're coming from so I don't disagree with you about that either.<br /><br />Royhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10108430731483801350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-77098859969082073762019-02-03T15:59:00.032-08:002019-02-03T15:59:00.032-08:00Same here, just ignore Gov. Cornhole and everythin...Same here, just ignore Gov. Cornhole and everything is good. Of course I avoid Buffalo itself whenever possible. Something about building chunks falling on me turns me off.hillbillynickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04866559333353625013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-59995091240250282412019-02-03T15:35:03.002-08:002019-02-03T15:35:03.002-08:00I was born in Kalifornia, it took me 18 years and ...I was born in Kalifornia, it took me 18 years and a stint in Uncle Sam's cluster-fuck to get the hell-out. You wanna stick around and say 'I told you so' that's your prerogative but before that happens your guns will be taken and used against Americans and that is an immoral decision to make. If you wanna die OK but arming your enemies, my enemies in the process? Not good!<br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-86577510610149814402019-02-03T13:36:55.799-08:002019-02-03T13:36:55.799-08:00I kid, Roy. A little.
More of the problems were fr...I kid, Roy. A little.<br />More of the problems were from transplants who'd effed up Bahstun and NYFC, then came here to make a new hellhole.<br />But somebody voted for them, and it wasn't kids I went to school with. It was 20M asstard transplants, who're about as "Californian" as Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer, Gray Davis, and Ahnuld Schwarzenegger.<br /><br />My offer stands: I'll pay you $1 for every native Californian that effed up anybody's home state, if they'll pay the same amount for each of their state's toothless banjo-playing kinfolk who messed up mine, and I'll retire on the profits.<br /><br />It ain't the banjo-pickin' that's the problem.<br />It's the mental deficiencies.<br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s73flj1t38<br /><br />Aesophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-8354947578775174482019-02-03T13:25:08.030-08:002019-02-03T13:25:08.030-08:00I live in Kentucky. It is not an adopted state. I ...I live in Kentucky. It is not an adopted state. I live where I was born and where my family and ancestors have lived since the days of Daniel Boone.<br /><br />However, due to my time in the service and just after, I have lived in about 9 other states - Illinois, Florida, South Carolina, Hawaii, California, Virginia, Minnesota, Ohio, and Tennessee.<br /><br />California is probably the finest piece of land in the entire country with the best weather. (That's why all the hippies and illegals go there.) But my favorite place to live was - East Tennessee. Friendly people, beautiful place, cheap to live there - what's not to like.<br /><br />Yet 36 years ago, I decided to move back to Kentucky. Why? For the same reason Aesop is going to stay in California no matter what - FAMILY.<br /><br />And that's what it's about folks. That is where home is. I don't blame Aesop a bit. Indeed, I admire him because staying and fighting it out is a LOT tougher than pulling up stakes and abandoning all that you hold dear.<br /><br />If he changed his mind and moved out here to Central KY, (or Tennessee), we would welcome him with open arms.** But would he truly be happy here? Maybe. But maybe not. Not because of politics, or the weather, but because his family would still be half a continent away, behind the iron curtain.<br /><br />**PS: If he did change his mind and move out here to our "Appalachian Paradise" we could at least put to bed this notion of his that California's problem are caused by "toothless banjo pickers". (There are probably more banjo players in my one county than in the entire state of California, and I would state that nearly none of them are liberal hippies.)Royhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10108430731483801350noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-40903612967427242922019-02-03T13:23:40.887-08:002019-02-03T13:23:40.887-08:00I stopped counting how many manufacturers and whol...I stopped counting how many manufacturers and wholesalers refused to sell <i>legal</i> products in CA because they were lazy bastards, not because of any CA law or anything else preventing them, except their own fat stupid contrariness. My final pronouncement on them all ends with the phrase "...sideways, with a rusty chainsaw".<br /><br />One of them turned down a large buy from the people I represented at the SHOT Show.<br />We were standing there with cash in hand and an order sheet filled out.<br />They understood that what they were selling was legal from top to bottom, including in CA, but their <i>company</i> policy was "Fuck California".<br />We told them we understood their position, and that the reps in their booth were just the messengers, but we told them point-blank to tell that company they were dead to us.<br /><br />Two years later, they tried to turn that around and re-enter the CA market, long after AR clones with bullet buttons were red-hot here.<br /><br />Word of mouth killed them.(And bet your ass we helped out with that quite a bit.)<br /><br />And then they went out of business.<br /><br />I still can't stop laughing about that.<br /><br />And I hope they learned to love the taste of a shit sandwich.<br /><br />And they aren't (still) the only company that does that kind of b.s.<br /><br />Nobody's asking any company to go broke.<br />But if you're in business, <i>do</i> business.<br />Or GTFO.Aesophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-33148475842781386372019-02-03T12:36:14.658-08:002019-02-03T12:36:14.658-08:00I agree with pretty much everything except the har...I agree with pretty much everything except the harsh criticism of manufacturers in the firearms industry that have decided not to play your legislators' stupid game. Kudos to those manufacturers who keep creating new products that demonstrate the stupidity of California's anti-gun laws, but it's more of a hobby or act of civil disobedience than a profitable business model because the laws keep changing to make those products illegal, probably before the development costs have been recuperated. You have no right to expect the entire firearms industry to give in to the California legislators' semi-annual temper tantrums. Frankly, it's better for free people everywhere if they don't. Try seeing my perspective instead of your own. Every pistol I buy ships with a ten round magazine that I don't want because the manufacturers decided that it's easier to cave in to California and a few other commie states and the entire country is penalized by the actions of your legislators that we have no chance of voting out of office. The rest of us are hoping California implodes before it destroys the rest of the country.Liberty4Everhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10991932345322858593noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-8824177779936350922019-02-03T11:27:16.402-08:002019-02-03T11:27:16.402-08:00What do you have against Cleveland?
There's st...What do you have against Cleveland?<br />There's still some decent neighborhoods, and once you're in the outer ring 'burbs it ain't so bad either.<br />I live in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park - back yard is that 55sq miles of zero gangbusters or other undesirables.<br />Cistern for water when city water goes down, septic system - not connected to city sewers since they never ran them down road I live on.<br />Got 5 acres, 2 fenced in gardens so the deer don't eat my veggies.<br />Can legally target shoot at neighbors house that is not in park, and hunt deer there too.<br />Everywhere I've wanted to move to seems to get fucked up by dumb ass laws and Marxist morons moving in.<br />Got friends closeby- I'll ride it out here.GamegetterIIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11963151027331481180noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-52848125434927752282019-02-03T10:45:22.790-08:002019-02-03T10:45:22.790-08:00It seems that many of us are realizing a day of re...It seems that many of us are realizing a day of reckoning is probably close at hand. I read many good blogs, including yours Aesop, but rarely comment.<br /> Your thoughts in this latest post really resonated with me. Good on you for being an ornery pain in the a@@ stay-behind. Like you, I despise the commies who unmask themselves more every day. However, being an ornery guy myself, the lame stream media does provide ironic entertainment on a regular basis.<br /><br />Here is a takeaway from your piece above that I would like to see pursued more systematically: the concept of 'monkey-wrenching' the commie ideas currently being forced on our republic. Aesop - Do you see any merit in organizing/publishing an ideas repository from which folks could adept to local conditions??Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-27237599002916855012019-02-03T10:11:42.205-08:002019-02-03T10:11:42.205-08:00Some time ago, when I was still living in the SF B...Some time ago, when I was still living in the SF Bay area, there was a gun store not far from my home. I think I was buying one of my shotguns, and commented on the semi-auto M-60 the had sitting on the counter top. "I guess you don't sell many of those", thinking that the display model was all they had. Store manager looks at me and says, "we've sold over 200 of those so far". I was astonished. I suspect all have vanished in the California wilderness areas, north and east of the SF Bay area.Pat H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/18297461069687246149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-6906136145389839652019-02-03T06:55:40.671-08:002019-02-03T06:55:40.671-08:00God love ya,Aesop. We've had this "discus...God love ya,Aesop. We've had this "discussion" before and I fully understand and respect your assessment and resolve.<br />Your points harden my own resolve in my adopted state.had<br />Boat GuyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-2923821170779449052019-02-03T05:43:38.349-08:002019-02-03T05:43:38.349-08:00Well, good on you to be the remnant Robert speaks ...Well, good on you to be the remnant Robert speaks of at SLL.<br /><br />If still alive I'll be happy to visit when you dust yourself off from among the rubble; mean that in a well-wished way. I left (born in the San Fernando Valley) back when Newhall-Saugus area was just arroyos & scrub and a person could literally test the full elevation of the flip-up on their '03 Springfield. Hang well and quietly f-them every chance you get. The breeze will come. The higher the house of cards, the higher the wind-loading.Badgerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05728311767575235395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-91461821018308386782019-02-02T23:39:44.668-08:002019-02-02T23:39:44.668-08:00*EDIT my last:
"You'll either die or BE ...*EDIT my last:<br /><br />"You'll either die or BE a slave, at which point you'll wish you were dead".<br /><br />Need more fucking coffee.<br /><br />Cheers.<br /><br />- Juliet LimaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-12311886929970445882019-02-02T23:37:16.376-08:002019-02-02T23:37:16.376-08:00Home is home. It's your hill to die on. All ...Home is home. It's your hill to die on. All we can do is draw a line in the sand and hope the motherfucker threatening to cross it isn't stupid enough to do so.<br /><br />Been following your blog for a couple of years. Sounds like you are more or less where I'm at, regarding the current state of affairs. I thought we had it bad up here in Canada, but it sounds like you guys are getting screwed hard too. Hell, it seems like the socialist dimwits you guys have trying to screw the US into oblivion are stealing ideas from the socialist dimwits trying to screw Canada into the ground.<br /><br />I'm about done with any kind of discourse with these people. All I can say for them is "enjoy the collapse you created and the ensuing era of warlords in the various balkanized neighbourhoods. You'll either die or wish you were a slave, at which point you'll wish you were dead".<br /><br />- Juliet LimaAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-58170680231304863512019-02-02T21:11:57.307-08:002019-02-02T21:11:57.307-08:00I feel the same way about my liberal fucktard of a...I feel the same way about my liberal fucktard of a city in Florida, Gainesville, where they just voted to get rid of plastic grocery bags and plastic straws because, apparently, our landfill which is 150' above sea level is leaking plastic into the oceans. As if.<br /><br />Fucking a-holes. I love this area, and I won't leave just because of asshats. Oh, no. <br /><br />I'm so far right even the local republican party is left of me.<br /><br />And yet I stand. I go to where the Civil War memorial used to be once a month to pay respect to what was. This city used to celebrate the Battle of Olustee, which kicked the carp out of the Union. Bush II landed here on his way to The Villages. We used to be a great place to live. And I don't want to leave. They can't make me leave.<br /><br />Don't have a lot of guns, but what I do, I know how to use.<br /><br />Fuck retreating. Some people can. Wirecutter escaped to save his lady. I am glad for him and his wife. But some can't or won't leave. So, yeah, I get it. Oh, yes I do.<br /><br />Currently I am waging a campaign of information, striking up discussions and sewing dissent at check-out counters and other places people gather. Don't have a MAGA hat yet, got to get me one. Beanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15293778848879361153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-12293467904370957282019-02-02T19:40:40.533-08:002019-02-02T19:40:40.533-08:00What do you have against Buffalo? I have lived ne...What do you have against Buffalo? I have lived nearby most of my life, and will try to stay here unless the Democrooks make the place unlivable. The food alone is a reason to like the place.cyrus83https://www.blogger.com/profile/06055801885180497088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-38620871150859412292019-02-02T17:58:03.864-08:002019-02-02T17:58:03.864-08:00Born here.
I just planted two more Oroblancos.
I a...Born here.<br />I just planted two more Oroblancos.<br />I am looking forward to enjoying their fruit until I die.<br />If things get sporty we could use people with certain skill sets in the northern part of the state.<br />We are a tank of gas away.<br />Just saying...waepnedmannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07114411043832799988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-25001377199714564132019-02-02T17:27:56.887-08:002019-02-02T17:27:56.887-08:00's my point: they will run out of food and wat...'s my point: they <i>will</i> run out of food and water, and I won't be under their thumbs to f**k with, come the day. Sux to be them, because they can't look five minutes ahead, let alone 5 years, and see it coming.<br /><br />There's more to CA than Disneyland, Hollywood, and Frisco.<br /><i>Lots</i> more.<br /><br />The cosmic fruitloops west of I-5 just haven't figured that out yet. Thank heavens.Aesophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07834464741531503378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714028479313834812.post-11156896925066216212019-02-02T17:08:38.171-08:002019-02-02T17:08:38.171-08:00Living in the Northeast and South I understand abo...Living in the Northeast and South I understand about having deep roots to a place that make it difficult to leave. Having relatives in California I also understand the appeal of the state. Were it not for the third world types and their associated costs (not just monetary either) it would be worth the expense to live there permanently. Unfortunately the state has been wrecked especially over the last thirty years, the decline is shocking. <br /><br />California is (or was) the best state to live in and sets the pace for the rest of the country in many ways. When this country crashes things will probably be worse in southern California than most other places (excluding NYC). Southern California is dependent upon a vast water system for its daily needs which is also dependent upon an overtaxed electrical grid for its operation. Without sufficient water life will become impossible in semi-arid climes such as LA. Northern California will certainly be better off and this applies double even further north. <br /><br />The Gavin Newsomes, Willie Browns, Camel Toe Harriss's et al. of California and their constituents don't strike me as the self reliant or productive types. Without the skills, experience and materials to improvise and figure out solutions to problems they won't make it. They do however bring to the table lots of bad attitude and 'gibs me dat' thinking. Good luck with that when they run out of food and water.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com