Well, the Kickstarter campaign didn’t fund

Posted by Glen Tate on May 6, 2014

Thanks to all of you – hundreds of you – who pledged to the Kickstarter campaign to make the movie. Movies cost a lot of money (if you do them well) and, accordingly, we needed to raise a lot. We didn’t.

I wouldn’t have changed a thing about this Kickstarter campaign. We did everything we needed to do. I have no regrets.

I want to thank “HD” (Hollywood Dude, the producer), Autumn “PR Girl” Torres, and Josiah “19 Delta” Wallingford for putting in a ton of really good work on this. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Now it’s time to get the audio books released…

Help us make 299 Days: THE MOVIE!!!

Posted by Glen Tate on May 2, 2014

Yep. This is the big announcement.

Let’s make a movie. For real.

Everything you need to know is here, on the Kickstarter page for 299 Days.

Here’s more detail: We have a real Hollywood producer – who is a Patriot and prepper (!) – and we’re going to raise the money to make the first of hopefully three 299 Days movies. Movie One will be based on Book One and Book Two. You can listen all about it on this interview of me on the Survival Podcast (which, by the way, is the best interview I’ve ever done.)

We know Hollywood is full of left-wing lunatics so we’re not counting on them to make this movie. Instead, we – the Patriot and prepper community – are going to do it ourselves. We’re self-reliant; doing things ourselves is what we do. A movie is no exception.

We will raise the money in two stages: (1) pre-sales of DVDs and Blu-Rays, and (2) a Kickstarter campaign for the remainder. (Here is background on how Kickstarter works.) No one has to pay a dime unless we meet our funding goal and can then make the movie. Here are the details:

The first stage is from March 20 to April 1 when we will pre-sell DVDs and blu-rays of the movie. You can pledge to buy them here. We are not collecting your credit card numbers now; you are merely pledging to buy DVDs and blu-rays. If we don’t meet the funding goal We’re doing pre-sales to raise as much money as we can this way so we can ask for less in a Kickstarter campaign. If we don’t meet your Kickstarter funding goal then we don’t get the Kickstarter money, so we want the Kickstarter goal to be as low as possible. So please pre-order as many DVDs and Blu-Rays as you can – they make great presents to hand out to people to described why they should be a prepper. The more you order, the better the chance of the moving being made.

The second stage is from April 2 to May 2 when we launch the Kickstarter campaign. In that time period, you can go onto the Kickstarter web page for 299 Days and (1) view the magnificent video trailer we did (some of the screen shots are below), and (2) make a pledge. The great thing about Kickstarter is the rewards. You get something cool for your pledge. For example, a $20 pledge gets you a sticker or patch. A larger pledge gets you a signed movie poster. An even larger pledge gets you a role as an extra. A really big pledge gets you all of those things plus a weekend out at the cabin with the Team or a trip to Jack Spirko’s.

No matter what you do, please do two things: (1) watch the Kickstarter video once it’s up on April 2, and (2) share the this blog post and (after April 2) the Kickstarter page on Facebook, Twitter, and by email to your friends – and post about it on forums. Get the word out about the Kickstarter campaign.

We can do this. But we need your help. Think how great you’ll feel if we can actually make the first movie that accurately portrays us – and you had a direct part in making that happen.

Thank you. Each and every single one of you.

“Glen”

Here are screen shots from the Kickstarter video that will be available starting April 2 on the Kickstarter page for 299 Days (link to be provided on April 2).

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In an effort to reduce the funding amount we need to ask for on Kickstarter, we are offering a discounted price on the pre-sale of DVDs. In addition to receiving an autographed DVD, you will get email updates on the progress of the production, your name on the “Special Thanks” wall of the 299 Days website, a .pdf of the script, and a “Thank you” post, on your Facebook wall, from Glen himself. This reward on the Kickstarter campaign will go for $65. If you pledge now, you will receive it for only $50 (30% discount).

This form is only a pledge to pre-order. No payment is required until we reach our goal on the Kickstarter campaign. If we do not reach our goal, you will not pay anything.

This pre-order opportunity is available from March 19th through April 1st, 2014. We will then launch the 30 day Kickstarter campaign to raise the balance of the funds needed. Only if we are successful, will you be asked to remit payment for your pre-ordered DVD(s).

The information on this form will be kept 100% confidential. The data will not be shared with anyone.

The pre-sale pledge period has ended. To obtain a signed DVD or BluRay, please go to the 299 Days Kickstarter page.

Why I would trade 1.7 million hipsters for one mildly retarded man

Posted by Glen Tate on May 2, 2014

I was in Seattle last night at a swanky event full of hipsters. They were typical lefty urban people: weak, shallow, feminized, obsessed with image, skinny, arrogant – and pretty much unhappy. In a room of a couple hundred people, I was the only man. There were lots of “males,” but no men.

As I met people, I kept asking myself, “Would this person be an asset out at Pierce Point when the Collapse comes?” The answer was consistently, “No. Hell no.” These people were so dependent I can’t imagine them lasting more than two or three days without the internet. I’m serious.

As I was driving home, I looked out at the Seattle skyline. I must admit that it was beautiful. The sun was setting on the Space Needle, the mountains, the ocean, the boats, and the bustle of a thriving and highly affluent international city. I realized that almost no one in this beautiful city will be worth a crap when the Collapse comes. They’ll be trying to order cases of bottled water on Amazon during a riot.

I’m not sure exactly how many people live in Seattle or what percentage of them are hipsters, but I came up with 1.7 million in my head. (I’m a fiction writer; I get to make shit up.) I kept thinking about 1.7 million worthless hipsters.

Then I pulled into a sandwich shop to get something to eat (I couldn’t eat any of the foofy crap they had at the event). Ahead of me in line was a mildly retarded man.

We started talking. He told me his name was Steven. I found it really easy to talk to him because… I had more in common with him than with anyone at that event in Seattle.

Steven was happy and humble. He didn’t have anything to be happy about by the standards of the hipsters, but he was genuinely joyous. I had a powerful feeling that God was very happy with Steven, who He created. Steven was modest and content; he was the opposite of the hipsters.

I asked myself the same question about Steven that I’d been asking all night, “Would this person be an asset at Pierce Point?”

The answer was yes with Steven. He wouldn’t complain. He would work hard. He would be nice to people. He would listen. He would try his best.

Then it hit me: I’d trade 1.7 million hipsters for one mildly retarded man.

Steven: you’re welcome out at Pierce Point, my friend.

Bundy as a “racist”? – don’t play their game

Posted by Glen Tate on April 25, 2014

(Look at this picture: Cliven Bundy is on stage with a black man! Gasp! The New York Times said Bundy was a hateful racist. How is it possible that Bundy would hang out with a black guy? Maybe Bundy’s not a real racist, but just a “racist” under the New York Times definition.)

This week, the New York Times reported that Cliven Bundy said some racist things. Bundy essentially said that blacks might have been happier as slaves than welfare reciepents. Bundy’s wife summed up what he really meant: “What he was saying is that there are lots of different forms of slavery.
Welfare is one kind. It’s just another way to suppress people.” I 100% agree with that.

Let’s get this out of the way quickly so it doesn’t detract from my main point: I don’t think blacks were better off as slaves or somehow want to be slaves or should be slaves or whatever the hell else people are claiming Bundy means. People are people, no matter their color – I’m tired of having to even say this. By the way, if anyone wants to check my non-racist credentials, read my books. Read about Pow, Bobby, Gideon, Ashur, Berkowitz, Ramirez, Vasquez, Anderson, and some more characters coming up in Book Nine. And if you want to tell the real Pow that white people are superior, be my guest. In fact, I dare you. Oh, and I’m (proudly) an enrolled citizen of an American Indian tribe. So don’t start with me on the race thing. OK, back to the main point of this blog post.

Here’s what I’m saying: don’t fall into the trap of thinking you have to agree 100% with everything a Patriot says or else you need to run away from him or her and disavow them. I’m seeing some “Patriots” run fast from Bundy and it’s bullshit. No one will every agree 100% with you. Ever. Don’t set that as the standard. You can never meet it. If 100% agreement is the standard, we’ll never agree with each other. And that’s what the Limas want. The perfect form of divide and conquer.

What if the New York Times spent its vast resources investigating the BLM agents? What if one of them beat his kids (just an example – I’m not saying any of them have done this). Would BLM and Harry Reid issue a statement that they will never associate with that agent? See: disavowing people on your side only works one way – against Patriots and for Limas.

Don’t play their game on their turf and expect to win. I stand by Cliven Bundy. You should too.

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