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Amazon Prime Days continue and so do we. Below, find some of the best prepping on survival books that are on sale during the summer Prime Days. If you’ve been looking to add to your survival and preparedness library, now’s the time! ​​Please use my link for shopping so that OP gets the commission. (It doesn’t cost you a penny extra but helps us a LOT!) Note that at the time of posting, these items were on sale and available. They do sell out quickly, and as this is a one-woman show, I cannot always keep up with the things that are out of stock. Books under $10 are marked with stars. (***). Food and Food Storage Books ***Complete Dehydrator Cookbook: How to Dehydrate Fruit, Vegetables, Meat & More  *** The Camp Dutch Oven Cookbook: Easy 5-Ingredient Recipes to Eat Well in the Great Outdoors  *** The Complete Guide to Pressure Canning: Everything You Need to Know to Can Meats, Vegetables, Meals in a Jar, and More General Prepping & Survival SAS Survival Handbook, Third Edition: The Ultimate Guide to Surviving Anywhere *** The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Apocalypse Tiny First Aid Guide: Emergency Medical Care for Anywhere – The Ultimate Step-by-Step, Everyday Carry: Survival Medicine Pocket, Micro-Guide (1 Tiny Guide & 1 Tiny Field Guide) (Perfect for backpacks and BOBs) Homesteading *** The Beginner’s Guide to Raising Chickens: How to Raise a Happy Backyard Flock (Raising Chickens Guide) The Backyard Homestead: Produce all the food you need on just a quarter acre!  The Self-Sufficient Backyard *** Raised-Bed Gardening for Beginners: Your Guide to Growing Sustainability and Self-Sufficiency Herbalism & Medical *** Rosemary Gladstar’s Medicinal Herbs: A Beginner’s Guide: 33 Healing Herbs to Know, Grow, and Use *** The Ultimate Survival Medicine Guide: Emergency Preparedness for ANY Disaster  (If you only buy one book, this is the one to buy!) Master Recipes from the Herbal Apothecary: 375 Tinctures, Salves, Teas, Capsules, Oils, and Washes for Whole-Body Health and Wellness Traditional Skills Back to Basics: A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills *** Mushrooms: How to Identify and Gather Wild Mushrooms and Other Fungi How to Eat in the Woods: A Complete Guide to Foraging, Trapping, Fishing, and Finding Sustenance in the Wild Wilderness Long-Term Survival Guide: Forgotten Skills to Make the Wild Your Home Are there any other books on sale for Prime Day that you would suggest? Please share them in the comments section below! The post Prime Day 2: The Best Prepping and Survival BOOKS on Sale appeared first on The Organic Prepper.

The “Big, Beautiful Bill”—a massive package of tax relief, more funding for immigration enforcement, and savings from entitlement reforms—is now law, and it’s a triumph not only for President Donald Trump but for the whole Republican Party.  The GOP passed two make-or-break tests here: one of party discipline, the other of political principles.  And the party saved its life by getting this bill enacted.  The stakes were so high because most of the BBB’s tax cuts only continued the lower rates Trump shepherded through in his first term.  But that relief was temporary, and if the Congress hadn’t made it permanent by passing the BBB, Americans would have seen their taxes go up.  This wasn’t just a vote about tax cuts—it was a vote against a tax hike.  Democrats wanted Republicans to commit suicide by letting taxes go up on their watch.  What would happen to a tax-hiking Republican Congress in next year’s midterms?  What would happen to a Republican Congress that humiliated Trump by failing to deliver the legislation he promised?  The answers are obvious: This was an existential trial for the party.  Liberals played three cards to try to get Republicans to torpedo their own majority and president.  First, they used their media leverage to make the bill as unpopular as possible, though most people polled had no idea what the bill’s details were or that their taxes were guaranteed to go up if it didn’t pass.  As always, Democrats tried to demonize spending reductions as attacks on the poor, though any voter who looks at what the bill actually says will find commonsense reforms, such as requiring that able-bodied recipients of Medicaid support work at least 80 hours a month to qualify for benefits.  Is working 10 days a month too much to ask of able-bodied beneficiaries between the ages of 18-64?  And the law exempts parents who are raising children.  Democrats will scour the country for woeful anecdotes to promote ahead of next year’s midterms, but if Republicans campaign on the clear merits of the law they’ve passed, voters will reward them.  The other cards the bill’s opponents played came from dissident factions on the right and put Republican principles to the test.  Ironically, the two arguments against the BBB on the right came from utterly opposed rival camps: the libertarians and the New New Dealers.  The libertarians had a champion in Kentucky Republican Thomas Massie, one of only two House Republicans to vote against the bill in the end.  “I voted No on final passage because it will significantly increase U.S. budget deficits in the near term,” he wrote on X.  But why would higher deficits be worse than higher taxes?   The more libertarian policy is actually to let Americans keep more of their own money, no matter what.  Even if someone like Massie disputes that, the practical upshot of defeating the BBB wouldn’t be to keep deficits down anyway, since the bill’s failure would hasten the return of Democrats to power.  The result would be higher taxes and more spending, the dead opposite of what libertarians want.  Antithetical to Massie, yet also opposed to the BBB, are those conservatives with high-profile media perches who want to conserve the New Deal.  These New New Dealers consider the welfare state as sacred as Democrats do—they prefer bigger government and imagine it can be used for socially conservative ends.  They don’t want tax cuts for all Americans, only families, in the form of more expansive child tax credits.  Yet the BBB helps families tremendously, not only by lowering their taxes along with everyone else’s but also by creating “Trump accounts,” which allow parents and their employers to make tax-advantaged contributions for a newborn’s future needs, such as college or buying a home.  The Trump accounts even start every American baby off with a $1,000 contribution from the federal government.  Yet Trump accounts aren’t the specific policy the New New Dealers want, and they find the BBB’s spending cuts and taxpayers-first philosophy abhorrent.  They looked to Vice President JD Vance as their champion, but he strongly supported the bill, which was in keeping with the ethic of self-responsibility (not welfarism) laid out in his memoir-manifesto “Hillbilly Elegy.”  Democrats have spent a decade praying Trump would shatter the Republican coalition, but instead he’s strengthened it, clarifying the party’s aims and defying the fringes.  He listens to libertarians and family-policy engineers, but he wouldn’t allow narrow concerns to veto a bill that protects the border and lowers taxes for essentially everyone.  With a single-digit majority in the House, if Republicans had any serious divisions, they would have lost this fight.  Instead, they’re as unified behind low taxes as they were in Ronald Reagan’s day, even as they’ve added new priorities as well.  COPYRIGHT 2025 CREATORS.COM  We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post A Big, Beautiful Test of GOP Principles and Discipline  appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Amazon Prime Days continue and so do we. Below, find some of the best prepping on survival books that are on sale during the summer Prime Days. If you’ve been looking to add to your survival and preparedness library, now’s the time! ​​Please use my link for shopping so that OP gets the commission. (It doesn’t cost you a penny extra but helps us a LOT!) Note that at the time of posting, these items were on sale and available. They do sell out quickly, and as this is a one-woman show, I cannot always keep up with the things that are out of stock. Books under $10 are marked with stars. (***). Food and Food Storage Books ***Complete Dehydrator Cookbook: How to Dehydrate Fruit, Vegetables, Meat & More  *** The Camp Dutch Oven Cookbook: Easy 5-Ingredient Recipes to Eat Well in the Great Outdoors  *** The Complete Guide to Pressure Canning: Everything You Need to Know to Can Meats, Vegetables, Meals in a Jar, and More General Prepping & Survival SAS Survival Handbook, Third Edition: The Ultimate Guide to Surviving Anywhere *** The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Apocalypse Tiny First Aid Guide: Emergency Medical Care for Anywhere – The Ultimate Step-by-Step, Everyday Carry: Survival Medicine Pocket, Micro-Guide (1 Tiny Guide & 1 Tiny Field Guide) (Perfect for backpacks and BOBs) Homesteading *** The Beginner’s Guide to Raising Chickens: How to Raise a Happy Backyard Flock (Raising Chickens Guide) The Backyard Homestead: Produce all the food you need on just a quarter acre!  The Self-Sufficient Backyard *** Raised-Bed Gardening for Beginners: Your Guide to Growing Sustainability and Self-Sufficiency Herbalism & Medical *** Rosemary Gladstar’s Medicinal Herbs: A Beginner’s Guide: 33 Healing Herbs to Know, Grow, and Use *** The Ultimate Survival Medicine Guide: Emergency Preparedness for ANY Disaster  (If you only buy one book, this is the one to buy!) Master Recipes from the Herbal Apothecary: 375 Tinctures, Salves, Teas, Capsules, Oils, and Washes for Whole-Body Health and Wellness Traditional Skills Back to Basics: A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills *** Mushrooms: How to Identify and Gather Wild Mushrooms and Other Fungi How to Eat in the Woods: A Complete Guide to Foraging, Trapping, Fishing, and Finding Sustenance in the Wild Wilderness Long-Term Survival Guide: Forgotten Skills to Make the Wild Your Home Are there any other books on sale for Prime Day that you would suggest? Please share them in the comments section below! The post Prime Day 2: The Best Prepping and Survival BOOKS on Sale appeared first on The Organic Prepper.

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Elon Musk claimed in a post on X Saturday that he formed the America Party “to give you back your freedom.”Musk had been threatening the move if “this insane spending bill passes” Congress and appears to be focusing on the national debt as a major issue.“There is a precedent for what Musk is talking about. What he’s doing takes on a different form, but we have seen a very well-known billionaire decide he’s going to take it upon himself to disrupt the system. We’ve seen this. It’s what Donald Trump did with MAGA,” BlazeTV host Steve Deace says on the “Steve Deace Show.”“And in the middle of competing with him every day on the Cruz campaign, I remember saying during one of our strategy sessions, ‘I think the secret to Trump’s sauce is he is creating a third party within the Republican party,’” he continues.What Trump also did was focus on immigration as his main issue, which Deace believes catapulted him to the top.“Musk needs an issue. Do not underestimate him as a person. He’s one of the most brilliant men who’s ever lived. He’s one of the most successful men who’s ever lived,” Deace says.“That being said, if he wants to be anything aspirational, if he’s just pissed off and wants to be an agent of chaos, then nothing I’m about to say matters,” he continues. “Elon Musk is going to need a message. He’s going to need an issue right now. His issue seems to be too much debt. That ain’t going to work.”“We don’t have too much debt because a bunch of swamp creatures are screwing over the American people. That’s not why we have too much debt,” he explains. “It ain’t the system; it’s the people. Almost half of all federal spending goes to so-called entitlements. And there’s nothing after that.”Deace notes that 14% of our debt comes from the military-industrial complex. If the interest was paid down, it would be 10%.“Pennies on the dollar compared to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and now Obamacare,” Deace says, adding that when he asked Grok, Elon’s own AI, how much in government subsidies Elon Musk has received, the answer was a whopping $38 billion.“The guy who got $38 billion in subsidies is going to turn around and say, ‘We gotta get rid of Grandma’s Social Security check.’ To quote Lucius Fox in 'The Dark Knight,' ‘Good luck,’” he adds.Want more from Steve Deace?To enjoy more of Steve's take on national politics, Christian worldview, and principled conservatism with a snarky twist, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

MAGA world is torn asunder! At least that’s what a lot of D.C. reporters seem to think. The truth is less dramatic. Anger and confusion over recent moves by the administration are real, but also a natural part of governance — and the reality of political success. Of course, that doesn’t mean the players inside the administration are all safe in their jobs.The White House is currently engaged in heated back-and-forths on two major fronts: the Epstein files and lethal aid to Ukraine and the ongoing U.S. role in that conflict. The administration has set clear paths on both: The Jeffrey Epstein investigation is officially closed, and weapons will continue flowing to Ukraine.This moment won’t define the administration. The latest drama will look like a sideshow soon enough.People are angry, and the president is irritated. Major White House players might fall in the aftermath.First, neither issue is a threat to the MAGA coalition, any more than an aborted freeze on ICE agricultural raids, or strikes on Iranian nuclear sites, or even Elon Musk’s angry departure threatened the president's authority or popularity with his base. There will always be back-and-forths inside a dynamic coalition with players who are old-time believers and players who secretly long for less confrontational politics.The first Trump administration was beset on all sides and from within. The second administration is far more unified, and Democrats and their allies in government and American intel agencies are on the back foot — and have significantly less credibility with Republicans than the first time around.A seriously weakened opposition party naturally creates more opportunities for infighting, and a political movement largely governed by one man is going to clash from time to time with those outside (and inside) players with strong thoughts or stakes in any field.Sometimes explosions of internet outrage can have an impact, though, as was the case during the brief pause on agricultural immigration raids. While Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents lacked the resources to crack down broadly before the One Big Beautiful Bill Act put more than $46 billion toward deportation resources, a public shift in policy sat terribly with many of the White House’s faithful supporters. The ensuing reaction caused a pullback.During a July 3 rally in Des Moines, Iowa, President Donald Trump called out Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins by name as the person who “brought this whole situation up,” while promising to make sure farmers and hotel owners were included in the enforcement process.Speaking in Washington on Monday, Rollins clarified: “There will be no amnesty.” She added: “The mass deportations continue, but in a strategic way, and we move the workforce towards automation and 100% American participation.”BlazeTV host and columnist Auron MacIntyre was one of several to get the message loud and clear: “Always chimp,” he wrote — a reference to “chimping out” when bad policies are floated.Strong negative reactions won’t always work, though. The president was clearly irritated when New York Post reporter Steven Nelson asked about the Epstein files during a Tuesday Cabinet meeting but allowed Attorney General Pam Bondi to answer anyway. There’s nothing there, she said, and nothing more coming — but that doesn’t mean her position is secure.Maybe there is nothing else there beyond “this creep” and an imprisoned Ghislaine Maxwell. Then again, maybe releasing all that’s known would threaten foreign or domestic intelligence operations around Epstein’s infamous island.Either way, Bondi’s been under concerted attack for mishandling the media and releases around the Epstein files for months. Prominent conservative voices, including Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck, clearly don’t think she’s up to the job. Notably, the president didn’t name her in a Truth Social post defending FBI Director Kash Patel and his deputy, Dan Bongino.Lastly, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has drifted in and out of Trump’s inner circle — and trouble. Reports suggest he was sidelined during key phases of the Iran strike. On Friday, President Trump told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy he hadn’t approved the pause in aid shipments. Then, during Tuesday’s Cabinet meeting, Trump told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins he didn’t know who gave the order to halt the shipments. That kind of public distance from the president doesn’t speak well for Hegseth’s standing.Still, this moment won’t define the administration. We’re only seven months into a four-year term. The White House remains focused on major priorities: finishing the border wall, revitalizing and reshoring the economy, ramping up immigration enforcement, renegotiating trade, and pursuing global peace. The latest drama will look like a sideshow soon enough.Plenty of reasons exist to feel energized in Washington right now. The rumored collapse of MAGA isn’t one of them.Blaze News: FBI, DOJ Epstein memo sparks right-wing outrage: ‘Nobody is believing this’Blaze News contributor Mike Howell: The Epstein memo is a joke — and the joke’s on usBlaze News, July 1: Is the FBI salvageable? Here’s what bureau insiders have to sayBlaze News: DeSantis has some serious political advice for Elon Musk to ensure a ‘monumental impact’Blaze News: Border Patrol chief has defiant message for Mayor Karen Bass after she claims to have stopped ICE raid in Los AngelesBlaze News: 25 years after a Central American hurricane, Noem’s DHS to end associated immigration Temporary Protected StatusBlaze News: Drug middlemen launch attacks against MAGA allies pushing for health care reformsSign up for Bedford’s newsletterSign up to get Blaze Media senior politics editor Christopher Bedford’s newsletter.

For most of human history, scarcity was the enemy. Territory, calories, energy, and land all had to be fought for, hoarded, and rationed. Wars were waged and innovations forged to survive deprivation. But the material hardship that once united societies in common struggle has largely faded in the affluent world.Now we face a different enemy: artificial abundance.The future belongs to those who reject the simulacrum and embrace reality.In the wealthiest nations, human beings are no longer selected for resilience in the face of scarcity. They’re selected for their ability to resist the seductions of abundance — synthetic food, fake relationships, dopamine on demand. The danger isn’t hunger or want, but the numbing comfort of simulated satisfaction.Loaded with empty caloriesOnce, entire civilizations rose or fell depending on their ability to produce and preserve food. Famines routinely devastated societies, and most people spent their lives just trying to eat.Now, calories come cheap and easy. Factory farming, food science, and global logistics mean even the poorest Americans can gorge on processed junk. A trip to McDonald’s or a few bucks at Walmart buys a week’s worth of empty calories.But artificial flavorings and chemical fillers are no substitute for real food. They simulate nourishment, but slowly poison the body. Calories are now so available that obesity, not hunger, is the largest threat to the well-being of the poor. The need has been met — and subverted.Sex and glory, sold cheapThe same dynamic has corrupted sexual desire. Historically, sex drove men to build civilizations, conquer enemies, win wealth, and rise in status. Today, that drive is short-circuited. Men can now simulate conquest and fulfillment without risk, pain, or purpose — through pornography and video games.Why fight for honor or love when you can get the illusion of both from a screen? Instead of greatness, many young men settle for a life of digital masturbation — and that’s how the system likes it. Young men remain trapped in a kind of eternal adolescence: satisfied just enough to avoid rebellion, addicted just enough to stay quiet.Fake attention, real lonelinessSocial media and dating apps have similarly distorted the lives of young women. Women crave connection, validation, and community — roles they once fulfilled in family, faith, and friendship.Now they chase attention online, deluding themselves into believing that likes and comments are the same as love and loyalty. Social media simulates female community and male desire, but gives neither. Depression rises. Real-life relationships crumble. Women fear male attention in person but crave it online, where they feel in control.RELATED: Rule by the people? Not anymore in the Western world Blaze Media IllustrationWhat results is a dysfunctional, hypergamous dating market. Men won’t approach. Women hold out for the fantasy of the “perfect man” who never arrives. Both sexes lose.Lockdowns revealed the lieCOVID-19 lockdowns showed us the true danger of attempting to simulate every aspect of human experience.During the lockdowns, social interactions from school, church, work, and even bonding with friends over a meal became impossible. School, church, work, friendship — all of it was forcibly digitized.The results were catastrophic: soaring depression, stalled childhood development, and broken education.But the worst part? People stayed in their digital cages even after the doors opened. Simulated connection became easier than real interaction. And easier won.The real thing is harder — and worth itReality demands effort. Family, community, faith, and responsibility are hard. They hurt. They risk rejection. But they matter.Left alone with simulated choices, most people will pick the path of least resistance. That’s why society must rethink what it rewards. Because the simulations aren’t harmless distractions — they’re traps.The French philosopher Jean Baudrillard called this phenomenon the “simulacrum” — a copy with no original. A cheeseburger that isn’t food. AI “friends” that aren’t human and virtual “communities” that cannot possibly relieve loneliness. A porn star who looks and behaves nothing like a real woman. Online attention that ruins offline romance. Video game violence that replaces true heroism.An evolutionary filterWe face an evolutionary bottleneck as serious as any in human history. But instead of favoring the strong, smart, or adaptable, survival now depends on who can say no.Can you say no to simulated sex? Simulated success? Simulated community? Can you hunger for meaning, not just comfort?Those who make it through this filter will be the ones who choose austerity over ease — who hunger for the real thing. The future belongs to those who reject the simulacrum and embrace reality.Artificial intelligence will only make these temptations worse. But those who refuse to be pacified will also be the ones who endure.Choose meaning. Teach your children to do the same. The future depends on it.