All the 'preppers' in those TV shows and magazine articles are not preppers. They are simply nerds in need of attention, and wholly deserving of any mockery they receive. They are basically a wannabe Paris Hilton, only without the sex tape.
Posted on 12/11/2012 3:37:42 PM PST by Kartographer
Have you noticed that it has become trendy to bash preppers? For a long time the prepper movement was ignored, but now it has become so large that it is getting very difficult for the mainstream media to pretend that it is not there. In fact, it has been estimated that there are now approximately 3 million preppers in the United States alone. So now the mainstream media has decided that mocking the movement is the best strategy, and lots of “critics” and “skeptics” out there have picked up on this trend. Instead of addressing the very real issues that have caused millions of Americans to prepare for the worst, those criticizing the prepper movement attempt to put the focus on individual personalities. They try to find the strangest nutjobs they possibly can and then hold them up as “typical preppers”. The goal is to portray preppers as tinfoil hat wearing freaks that need to be locked up in the loony bin for their own personal safety and for the good of society. The criticism of preppers has really ramped up in recent months, and it will likely get even worse in 2013. The establishment does not like any movement that is outside of their control, and the prepper movement is definitely not under their control.
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If I save up a few cans of food from time to time, they can laugh all they want. I will get the last laugh when they realize they cannot have the cans of food after the SHTF.
(Hopefully, by that time, I’ll have a gun, so that I can laugh down the sights at them.)
Watching DD Preppers right now on the DVR, I like the guy from Israel, he is pretty cool!
All the 'preppers' in those TV shows and magazine articles are not preppers. They are simply nerds in need of attention, and wholly deserving of any mockery they receive. They are basically a wannabe Paris Hilton, only without the sex tape.
I have a differing opinion: Those people ARE preppers and many preppers mock them and that makes the prepper mockers just like the people who come on these threads and mock us.
I think it's not a good idea to be on TV, but I don't mock these people because I don't want to be like the ones who mock us.
It's like the mother yells at the child for doing something she didn't like, and the child, to vent his displeasure, kicks the dog. Someone kicks us on our threads, then we kick the TV preppers. I can't do that.
There are some preppers on that program that have “stuff” I wish I had. Some also have great locations. But, I still would not be on TV as that is too much exposure.
Well, it "could" be fatal, but it also could be the key to surviving. If a community can start to be hardened before the tough times hit ... well, there's strength in numbers.
Back on Nov. 23rd, I was approached via email on another forum, asking if I would consent to be interviewed by the media on the subject of disaster preparation. Innocent enough - until I started researching the interviewer.
The media outlet is the Floridian View, based out of Daytona Beach, FL. It's a monthly pub with a website of its articles. Trolling around their archives showed them to be an upscale, "yup-to-the-minute" clique, who could not control their urge to make snide comments about conservatives and Christians, and sneer at us "plebs" out in flyover country.
Now, we have had to endure the mocking and ridicule of "Doomsday Preppers". We have had media producers troll this very website for soundbites that fit their agenda. I also heard from self-proclaimed "voices of reason" stating that we should embrace these media types in an effort to "get the word out". But whose word would it be, ours? Or theirs?
My opinion of the media has formed from personal encounters both during wartime and back stateside. I have posted my position on this for all to read. I don't trust these Leftist collaborators any further than I could throw them.
The deal-breaker was they wanted pics of me, The Tribe, The Bunker and ALL my preps. When I came to the conclusion that consenting to this would blow the hell out of OPSEC, that was when I pulled the plug.
1st Rule of Prep Club: You do not talk about Prep Club.
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Good call.
Some preppers are allowing Discovery to film them and that's their choice and I'm not going to dump on them like others dump on us.
Discovery's “Doomsday Preppers” gets more viewers than any other program they have. That series isn't going away as long as they get those high numbers of viewers. I forgot to watch it this past Tuesday night.
What is 'prepping' and what is a prep club?
The only ones who know what we have are our kids. They’re preppers, and homeschoolers, OH NO! My brother is a prepper, he knows too. It’s good to have like minded TRUSTED folks in on the plans. But, to do TV or interviews to let the takers know where to go when the shtf, are foolish. Those on discovery are out to make money, they aren’t really into the prepper philosophy.
Have you noticed, we talk about prepping, but really don’t discuss what our plans are. We talk about what works and should we get ‘product a’, but I haven’t seen anyone posting their inventory.
Marcella, you’re right. I know several of the people who have been on Doomsday Preppers and they are the real deal. Joshua Wander who was featured this week is a former IDF soldier, was in the U.S. military, and is an Orthodox Jew. He really does prep. He had his jewishpreppers.com blog way, way before Doomsday Preppers came along.
There are others that I have met, including a young man and his family who are in the process of moving to Costa Rica — that’s their way of prepping.
Based on the Doomsday Preppers that I personally know, none of them went on the show to gain fame. I don’t think they were prepared for the ridicule they’ve received from their, “allies”, people like us. That’s really a shame.
I know from personal experience that reality TV has very little to do with reality. When the editor goes to work on the final piece, you have no control over the outcome. That’s the big gamble they all take. Sometimes it has seemed to me that they portray one prepper in a more sympathetic, admiring light while setting up others to appear more bizarre than they really are.
The wooses couldn’t survive cold climates. When the shtf, I’d rather be in the north, not the south. Where are the takers going? Not north.
Darwin bats last.
The mother of Newtown school massacre gunman Adam Lanza was a survivalist who was stockpiling food because she thought the world economy was on the verge of collapse.
Nancy Lanza began hoarding such items because she feared that the financial crisis was going to bring about the end of civilized society.
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