No bullshit from Jimmy this morning. He is spitting mad. He unloads both barrels on Obama and Holder. His opening description of America is an all-time classic in my humble opinion.
Jive Talkin
By James Howard Kunstler
on January 30, 2012 8:52 AM
Well, he had to get up there and say something. In this particular winter of our discontent, the wispiest nostrums and baldest lies will do. America is not interested in reality. America is a nine-hundred pound man imprisoned in a fetid trailer bedroom begging for one more case of Little Debbie Cocoa Cremes before the front-end-loader bashes through the wall to haul him to intensive care. America just wants to hear another story about its own wonderfulness before that happens. America’s soul is so lost that it has disappeared into the same cosmic wilderness that MF Global’s client accounts were last seen entering.
Mr. Obama keeps telling nationwide audiences that “we have a supply of natural gas that can last America nearly 100 years.” That is just not true. If he believes it then he is either 1) getting treasonously bad advice from dishonest advisors or 2) not reading reports issued by his own agencies or 3) just making shit up. This was the same week, by the way, when the US Department of Energy dropped its estimate for the Marcellus shale gas play by 66 percent, while the estimate for all US shale basins went down 42 percent. The shale gas industry is another Ponzi bubble that is about to founder on a scarcity of investment capital. Just watch.
The “energy independence” trope is a lie, too. At least in the sense that Mr. Obama means – that we can run the suburban clusterfuck and all its accessories by other means than fossil fuels. He just says it because it makes voters feel better. By the time they find out it was just a story, he won’t need their votes anymore. Meanwhile, we’ll do nothing to prepare for a different way of life, and so, necessarily, the result will be an obscene scramble for power and resources that will leave a lot of people dead.
The topper for me, though, was the President’s cheeky announcement that he’d ordered the Department of Justice to form a “special unit” to investigate mortgage fraud and other lethal irregularities in the banking sector. The fact that his congressional audience did not bust out laughing shows what a convocation of craven and perfidious cat’s paws they are. Note to readers: the DOJ has a long-established criminal division fully empowered to prosecute all the familiar scams of our time from NINJA lending to the robo-signing of titles to MERS mortgage mischief, to the bundling and sales of booby-trapped CDOs – up to and including whatever Jon Corzine thought he was doing at MF Global.
Notice how lame the major newspapers and cable news networks were in responding to Mr. Obama’s impudent japery. None of them, including The New York Times, bothered to ask Attorney General Eric Holder what he’s been up to along these lines for the past three years. It is really hard to account for the stupendous incompetence of the news media in recent years. Of course, I’m allergic to conspiracy theories and the only explanation that adds up for me is the diminishing returns of technology. Among other untruths we’ve embraced collectively is the idea that computer-distributed information amounts to knowledge and understanding, tending toward judgment. Apparently, it’s only made our society much dumber and more irresponsible. After all, none of the supposed media watchdogs even asked The New York Times or The Wall Street Journal, or CNN and a hundred other outlets why they didn’t interview the Attorney General of the United States and ask him why he has not been taking care of the business now assigned to this special unit.
Not included in the State of the Union message was any reference to the provision in the recently signed National Defense Authorization Act that allows the US government to suspend due process of law and use the military to arrest and indefinitely detain US citizens on vague and opportunistic charges of “suspicion” You will remember a month ago when Mr. Obama signed the law and issued a “signing statement” that said his administration would not carry out these specific provisions. Did anyone notice that it is an impeachable offense for the president to state his opposition to enforcing the law? In which case, why isn’t there a bill of impeachment making its way through Congress right now?
I’ve had enough of Obama, though I voted for him in 2008. I won’t vote for him again. But I’m not altogether confident that any of us will be voting for anyone in the fall of 2012. Too many systems we depend on are spinning out of control. I suppose we will continue feeding ourselves a diet of lies and evasions until circumstances become so extreme that language itself loses all relevance and only real action will answer. I believe that moment is approaching in the yet-to-be-acted-out political uproars of the spring and summer. In the meantime, American leadership is bankrupt. Just accept the fact that America has no legitimate leadership. The vacuum is total and we know how nature feels about a vacuum.
ron says:
Well useing natural gas and the jobs it would provide sounds like a good thing,as long as fracking isnt done with nasty chemicals.Kunstler always writes like were all going to ride frigin horses or something.
At least i could see what Obama was about before he was elected.I mean James couldnt see what obama was about?
Funny all these so called educated people and they cant learn from history.
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30th January 2012 at 10:53 am
ssgconway says:
Kunstler’s portrayal reminds me of the intrigues that dominate ‘Hypatia,’ as factionalsim tears apart Alexandria while the Goths sack Rome, making the Imperial pretensions of the plotters of no account. They diced for vanity while the gales of creative destruction reached the maximum creshendo of their awful power and one of the last voices of calmness and reason passed from this life in a paroxym of senseless violence. I hope that tthe same is not said of us by latter-day historians of our times.
http://ancienthistory.about.com/b/2009/10/02/hypatia-movie.htm
http://www.amazon.com/Hypatia-Charles-Kingsley/dp/1147742332
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30th January 2012 at 10:54 am
ecliptix543 says:
Even without a shot at tattooed Nascar rednecks, this is a wonderful way to start the week – full of optimism for our future, unflinching admiration for our Dear Leader and all of His wonderful and righteous new decrees… oh, wait a second. That was the North Korean press release.
Yeah, Obama sucks goat testicles while Boehner tickles his taint with a pink feathered boa.
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30th January 2012 at 10:58 am
Kill Bill says:
America is a nine-hundred pound man imprisoned in a fetid trailer bedroom begging for one more case of Little Debbie Cocoa Cremes before the front-end-loader bashes through the wall to haul him to intensive care -Kunstler
Hah. Just send my little debbies to the local hospital.
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30th January 2012 at 11:14 am
Kill Bill says:
I tink Kunstler has happened on real money maker here.
a hovaround with a battering ram.
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30th January 2012 at 11:16 am
KaD says:
“America’s soul is so lost that it has disappeared into the same cosmic wilderness that MF Global’s client accounts were last seen entering.”
I have to disagree with this to some extent. There are still a hell of alot of good people in America; they’re just not the ones that make the nightly news. They’re the ones that suffer in silence.
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30th January 2012 at 11:31 am
efarmer says:
If Obama has his way the economies of the world will be so destroyed that we will have plenty of crude and natural gas reserves, perhaps several hundred years worth.
From my window, that is exactly what he is trying to accomplish.
EF
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30th January 2012 at 11:46 am
ecliptix543 says:
KaD, I think that some of them suffer while screaming and trying to repel unlawful arrest.
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30th January 2012 at 11:47 am
howard in nyc says:
with kunstler’s title today, can’t believe no one has linked this yet. may be my all-time favorite am radio pop song:
juh-juh-juh
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBw25CrUS-o&ob=av2e
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30th January 2012 at 12:10 pm
Wyoming Mike says:
Great, this brilliant sage isn’t voting for Obamao AGAIN! So, how much of a dumbass was he to vote for him the first time??? The ignorance and dipshittedness spouted by these media types is absolutely astounding to behold. It’s no wonder nobody listens to these morons.
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30th January 2012 at 1:13 pm
Thinker says:
In the interest of considering both sides and ideas of all kinds, I read this paper by Robert Kagan of the Brookings Institution. They’re claiming it influenced Obama’s SOTU speech when Obama claimed, “Anyone who tells you that America is in decline or that our influence has waned, doesn’t know what they’re talking about.”
Not sure I agree with everything Kagan says, but I found it interesting, nonetheless. I’m also keeping in mind that, during 4Ts, “doomsday” beliefs run rampant — a symptom of an aging Prophet generation.
Not Fade Away: Against the Myth of American Decline
Anyway, if anyone is open to different ideas and discourse, it’s a good read.
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30th January 2012 at 1:25 pm
Stucky says:
I had to look up the word ‘japery’. Though it had something to do with pissed off Orientals. But, no, it means “a jest or joke”.
I wish Kunstler would offer an on-line course, “How to eviscerate your opponent with a pen”. I’d signup in a heartbeat. And that’s no japery.
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30th January 2012 at 1:39 pm
Stucky says:
Howard posted a link to Jive Talking by the Bee Gees. Do NOT click on the link. It is shameful … and Howard no doubt regrets posting it.
If you want to learn basic jive, click here;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa1rjCZxtxo&feature=related
Advanced jive
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_lLJjb1BBQ
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30th January 2012 at 1:48 pm
howard in nyc says:
aren’t you being a bit hard on the beaver, stuck?
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30th January 2012 at 2:03 pm
ecliptix543 says:
Stucky – Do you like movies about gladiators?
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30th January 2012 at 2:07 pm
AWD says:
“America is a nine-hundred pound man imprisoned in a fetid trailer bedroom begging for one more case of Little Debbie Cocoa Cremes before the front-end-loader bashes through the wall to haul him to intensive care.”
Thanks Kunstler, I couldn’t have said it any better myself. Only it’s reality.
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30th January 2012 at 2:12 pm
AWD says:
At least he admitted he voted for Obama. Another idiot who voted for Obama (a man with no experience, no values, zip, but looked good on T.V.) who wishes he could take his vote back. What a fucking idiot. He and everyone else who voted for Obama are getting what they deserve. Touch shit.
I disagree we are leaderless. The fucking criminal politicians and Obama increased government spending by 30% since Obama was elected, spent the deficit past 100% of GDP, have not prosecuted any bankster criminals or Corzine, and have committed the treasonous act of abandoning the constitution and bill of rights with NDAA. And lets not forget, Obama has destroyed healthcare with Obamacare. He’s been busy, no matter what dribbles off his mouth after his T.V. and MSM money-shots.
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30th January 2012 at 2:45 pm
Stucky says:
Hard on the beaver? ….. lol ! “Nice Beaver!” —- Leslie Nielson, The Naked Gun
@ecliptix — yes, I actually love gladiator movies. Why do you ask, grasshopper?
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30th January 2012 at 3:07 pm
AWD says:
Oh, I wonder who is going to be driving the front-end loader that takes a 900lb America to the ICU. Any suggestions? China? If current obesity trends continue, 50% of Americans will be 900lbs in a fetid trailer eating little debbie’s on their SNAP cards in 5 years….
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30th January 2012 at 3:30 pm
Persnickety says:
Straight trend lines are for salesmen, idiots, and economists…
The rest of us should know better.
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30th January 2012 at 3:32 pm
Hope@Zerokelvin says:
I was wondering when the scales would fall from Kunstler’s eyes and yea amen the blind would see.
Heh.
I do not understand Obama’s poll numbers. Most of the left leaning blogs hate him for not being left enough and the right has always hated him for being so left. If he loses people like Kunstler, Obama may be in more serious trouble than we know. Just what the country needs right now: An delusional narcissistic vindictive man child who is finding out he isn’t ‘wanted’ any more.
Perhaps that little contretemps with Jan Brewer is showing us the true face of this man. Trump recently said that the “real” Obama is nothing like his public face.
Kunstler may be spot on about no elections in 2012.
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30th January 2012 at 4:00 pm
Administrator says:
HZK
I’m afraid Obama will try to win the election by attacking Iran and taking away a key Republican issue.
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30th January 2012 at 4:07 pm
AWD says:
My prediction:
OWS/civil unrest, followed by martial law and suspension of elections. If Obama attacks Iran, we’re all fucked.
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30th January 2012 at 4:20 pm
Stucky says:
IF Obama attacks Iran? If …????
A THIRD carrier group is headed to Iran … includes a guided missile cruiser and three guided missile destroyers.
When I connect-the-dots, I only see war.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/third-aircraft-carrier-group-coming-iran
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30th January 2012 at 4:38 pm
Administrator says:
Sunday, January 29, 2012
More US scrap metal headed for Persian Gulf
USS Ponce joins USS Enterprise in Persian Gulf
By YaYaCanada
How much clearer could it be that a false flag event is planned?
Further to our earlier discussion about the US having found a way to dispose of its scrap metal and at the same time create a pretext (with the help of Israel?) for WWIII, here is the latest news report (bolding mine):
Pentagon deploys ‘mothership’ to Persian Gulf as tensions with Iran escalate
The Pentagon is rushing a “mothership” to the Middle East to be used by commando teams as unrest in the region heightens, reports The Washington Post.
The U.S. Navy is planning to refit the USS Ponce, an amphibious transport docking ship, which was about to be retired and decommissioned.
The Ponce was commissioned in 1971 – it’s now over 40 years old. Wikipedia reports:
On 2 December, 2011, Ponce came home to await decommissioning on 30 March, 2012, when she would be towed to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and be placed with the mothball fleet
And now “she” is headed to the Gulf. How much clearer could it be that a false flag event is planned?
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30th January 2012 at 4:53 pm
Stucky says:
Mothership protects the Fatherland. Precious.
Obama’s Foreign Policy
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30th January 2012 at 5:11 pm
AWD says:
The reign of the anti-christ always ends with war…
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30th January 2012 at 5:18 pm
TeresaE says:
And not one direct kick to the head of a Nascar fan, well done sir!
Glad he finally pulled the rest of his head from his ass, it was very weird how only part of him got it.
Was watching propaganda, ‘er, I mean, the news, with my hub concerning Iran and how we need! *panic* to do something NOW! NOW! Or else in three years they will be underground.
Noticed my hub listening (I wasn’t at first), noticed his head bobbing agreement with some of the bullshit speculation and manipulation. Pointed out to him that we’ve killed off half the Iranian scientists over the past couple years. Pointed out that China will back Iran. Pointed out that China makes lots and lots of our defense needs. Pointed out that we had heard all the SAME bull spouted by President Georgie, only a few short years ago.
He told me I was crazy and Paul would destroy the world with the insane notion of stopping wars and squelching our worldwide destruction of others.
I’m so glad I can come here and listen to others that see what is happening and fear the outcome as much as I do.
Cause most of the country either hasn’t a clue, or buys the bullshit.
Looks like war, followed by Martial Law, eventually leading to the complete erasure of any hope left for our Constitutional lives.
This shit is interesting, too bad it isn’t any fun.
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30th January 2012 at 10:44 pm
Stucky says:
TeresaE
I read last week that China made a statement significantly backing off their support for Iran if they block the straits.
Wish I had time to google it but I GOTS to go to bed … according to Ms Freud. So solly.
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30th January 2012 at 11:24 pm