Kunstler’s contempt for Romney is clear. He’s voting for the lessor of two evils in his mind. When I see liberals this worked up, it makes me think Romney is going to win. Thankfully he took a shot at NASCAR fans. I was getting worried that he was going soft. I can’t wait until we’re energy independent and gas only costs $2.00 per gallon.
The Tides of Event
By James Howard Kunstler
on November 5, 2012 8:32 AM
Mitt Romney’s sickening insincerity was on full view Sunday night as CNN served up both candidates complete finish-line pitches to the Ohio crowds thought to hold the fate of the election in their fickle sway. Romney has consistently proved one thing over the whole, long, nauseating course of his campaign: that he will say anything to get a vote, no matter how hollow, fatuous, craven, or at odds with reality the utterance is.
Last night he went on about how the USA would become “energy independent” when he opens all federal lands to oil drilling. This plays on some lamebrain notion that there are vast fields of easy-to-get oil sitting out under the Wyoming hardpan waiting to be tapped. Surely Mitt know better.. or does he? The reality is that these lands fell into federal ownership largely because they had so little value in the first place. If there was another Spindletop lurking under the sagebrush you can be sure it would have been found long before now, so Mr. Romney is just preying on the public’s wishful ignorance (or his own) when he says these things.
Which gets to the larger issue of what the “drill drill drill” mantra really means: namely, that Mitt Romney has no idea where history is taking us. The public may be very nervous about how they will pay for gasoline needed to live in the suburban matrix, but the reality of the situation is that the suburban matrix is the problem and doing everything and anything we can to prop it up is going to destroy the nation. Mr. Romney is oblivious to this reality and so you can be sure that his mysterious “plan” for leadership is an empty promise. A reality-based plan, for instance, would be the rapid rebuilding and electrification of the regular railroad system, both as an economic development measure and a national security issue, along with the spirited promotion of walkable neighborhoods and the rebuilding of our small towns and small cities. But Mitt is “a car man,” as he likes to say.
President Obama was on display, too, a little later making dubious claims about his accomplishments and distinctions. (Jon Corzine is still at large.) There’s no evidence that he understands the true nature of the implacable economic contraction underway and how it will change everything about how we live on this continent. But I think there is a better chance that he could get a clue in the next four years than is the case for Mr. Romney. Also, I don’t trust Mr. Romney to deal intelligently with foreign nations, while the specter of yet another arch-conservative idiot on the Supreme Court of the type that would rule affirmative on something like the Citizens United case gives me the vapors… so I have to pull the lever for Mr. Obama.
Finally, I just don’t like Mitt Romney. He’s the over-eager twerp in the classroom with his arm always sticking up. He’s the missionary bozo in a necktie ringing your doorbell to sell a fairy-tale cult religion dreamed up in the 1820s by another over-eager con artist. He’s obviously using the national stage to work out his father issues (George Romney ran for president in 1968, blundering his way out of the race early on). He shamelessly panders to the worst elements of his own party – the ignorant, militaristic, punitive-minded Nascar evangelicals – and dissembles so automatically that there is nothing left of whatever core beliefs he might have theoretically developed earlier in his career. He’s too chicken to engage with the realities of climate change, so visibly on display this season. He’s spoiling to rumble with China, apparently oblivious to the fact that China’s leader-in-waiting, Xi Jingping, is an army brat. I pray at my little alter of ecumenical totems that the tides of history will sweep Mitt Romney out to the seas of retirement from public life, where he can enjoy his Medicare entitlements secure in the guarantee that he will not be hassled over any pre-existing conditions.
Speaking of tides, we are now a week past the awful depredations of Hurricane Sandy and a lot of people are yet sitting in the cold and dark. The story is still developing – in a way similar to Hurricane Katrina – in the sense that the ordeals of individual suffering and loss are slow to emerge from the chaos of the moment into public awareness. For instance, it took weeks after Katrina for many property owners to learn that the loss of their house was attributed to “flooding,” which is generally not covered in home insurance policies. There are still vast neighborhoods, such as Long Beach, Long Island, where the issue hasn’t even come up yet, at least not in the news media. When it does, it will be much bigger deal politically than was the case in Biloxi, Mississippi, or the 9th Ward of New Orleans, where people were more accustomed to the cruel boot of authority, not to mention the frequent tantrums of a subtropical ocean.
I don’t know how Sandy will affect the electoral results in New York, New Jersey, Virginia, and Pennsylvania, but even if polling places can be set up in ruined, blacked-out districts one would think the eligible voters have a lot more urgent matters on their minds.
Anyway, once this dreadful election is over the floodgates of events will open up and we will once again be forced to reckon especially with the epochal forces that seek to shatter the financial system. Sandy was a kind of preview of coming attractions for a different sort of wreckage to come.
Hope@ZeroKelvin says:
Well, here he goes, Kunstler is totally unable to break out of the Liberal Normalcy Bias, oops, I mean Liberal Head Up Their Asses Thinking. Can’t get off the Liberal Plantation, so sad too bad. Gonna pull the lever for Obama, knowing that it is his own destruction he’s voting for. What a fucking maroon. He thinks Obama will get more a clue than Romney? WTF? Based on what evidence? Obama has been completely unable to incorporate any ideas/policies outside of the Marxist/Socialist/Progressive playbook during this entire term – despite overwhelming evidence of the epic FAIL of this worldview for this country and the world.
He really hates Mitt Romney, got it. Typical of the self-loathing, envious and small dick mindset of the mediocre cretinism that defines modern liberals. Of course, NONE of these liberal pukes would even survive without the wealth and freedoms generated by the very people they despise, ie, the wealthy capitalists. Fucking parasites, all of ‘em.
Kunstler is just jealous that he can’t get an audience of 300 while Romney is garnering crowds of 30,000 people coming out in the bitter cold in the (formerly) Deep Blue state of Pennsylvannia, heh. Of course, since Kunstler is sooo smart and sooo enlightened and sooo published and gets his dick sucked regularly by the other academic elites and whatever horseshit wonderfulness he envisions himself and his elitist buddies to be, he can’t even conceive that there just might be people out there who are perfectly happy and successful and powerful who DO NOT subscribe to his worldview. In fact, we roll our eyes in contempt at the idiotic thinking it represents.
Kunstler is obviously missing the economic boom happening in the Dakotas. Too bad those evil fossil fuels aren’t more available in the NE which is about to get hammered by a new storm. Let me know how those solar panels are working out for ya’. He thinks that these federal lands were so designated because they were “poor” in resources. WTF? They are federal lands because they were fucking stolen from the Native Americans and kept off limits to American citizens by Gordian knots of fed.gov regulations.
And oh, that “herd all the people into the cities” is working out REAL well with the complete collapse of the infrastructure. Hopefully this collapse is temporary cuz if it goes on much longer, Long Pork is gonna be on the menu. Meanwhile the Evil Redecks of The Oil Guzzling Suburbs are warm and dry with their generators humming merrily along, while the REAL MEN get out there with thei chain saws and pick up trucks to clean up the trees.
Kunstler thinks Obama will deal more intelligently than Romney with foreign leaders? Like pushing the Dalia Lama out the back door at the WH past the trash in the winter cold? Like leaving Bibi cooling his heels to eat Kobe beef with Moochelle? LIKE ARMING FUCKING AL QUEDA WITH MILITARY HARDWARE IN THIS FUCKING ARAB SPRING FIASCO????? Oh, and then there is the image of Obama and his ilk sitting in the Situation Room watching the BENGHAZI SLAUGHTER like it was some kind of snuff film. WTF?
Gah, I won’t even comment on his hatred of the Nascar watching, military supporting, God loving and God fearing folks he clearly has nothing but contempt for. Ya’ buddy. THE MARINES ARE NOW ASSISTING IN DISASTER RELIEF IN STATEN ISLAND YOU ASSHOLE. And where do most of our military com from? Not from your limp-wristed, NYT reading, latte sipping, metrosexual academic elites, I assure you. Without electricity, those elites are dumpster diving in Manhattan while wading throught their own shit while their Nanny State Government diddles around getting a marathon ready to go and FEMA dolts dither around with their jackets and stupid blue tarps. What. The. Fuck.
Mebbe Kunstler just needs to cash in on the Doom and Gloom Porn Industry of which he is the High Priest so he’s gonna vote for the guy that will continue that state of affairs to increase his book sales and lecture fees, meh.
I fucking swear Kunstler posts this drivel to piss me off.
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5th November 2012 at 10:38 am
Administrator says:
Oh Boy
Hope has fallen for the Bakken oil for 1000 years bullshit. LOL.
Don’t let reality, geology, or facts get in the way of a good storyline.
Drill, Drill, Drill
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Hope@ZeroKelvin says:
@Admin: No, I am reading the reports from the geo-physicists I know and watching the incredible wealth generated by the Bakken, by the Canadian tar sands, etc, etc.
Look, I’ll take energy from any place any time but THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE FOR FOSSILS FUELS IN OUR CURRENT GLOBAL SITUATION, none.
So, in the hope of forestalling total global collapse, I say, Drill Baby Drill and get those nuclear reactors spun up toot sweet.
Kunstler is still an asshole.
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5th November 2012 at 10:55 am
Wyoming Mike says:
Romney is a steaming pile of horseshit. A political whore in the truest sense. A total asshole. Obama is still worse.
It’s a sad state of affairs when Roseanne Barr is a FAR BETTER selection for president than anything the 2 ruling parties can muster. Sigh.
I will vote Gary Johnson and hope for a tie.
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5th November 2012 at 10:57 am
Eddie says:
My message to the Jim Kunstlers and the Chris Hedges of the world:
Don’t be so busy voting against the worst guy that you fail to see the horrible flaws in his next-to-worst opponent.
To me, at some point it becomes about more than voting for the guy you detest the least.
It becomes important what YOU stand for…and WHO you stand with…Whether your man wins or loses is a secondary consideration.
I will no longer hold my nose and vote for a mainstream candidate. I simply cannot. They are BOTH far too wrong on far too many issues for me to go along for another minute, much less another four years.
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5th November 2012 at 11:02 am
bluestem says:
They are all full of it, what do you expect for any narcissist who runs for “public office” to better serve the human race, Just be prepared. John
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5th November 2012 at 11:02 am
sensetti says:
Hope you forgot Obongo’s open mic
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5th November 2012 at 11:04 am
The Dude says:
“When I see liberals this worked up, it makes me think Romney is going to win.”
Lots of crow are about to be eaten around these parts on Wednesday morning. I have no love for Obama, but saying he’s going to lose is delusional wishful thinking. Maybe, just maybe, Kunstler hates Romney because the latter is a complete asshole.
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5th November 2012 at 11:04 am
Stan says:
Well well
So JHK is gonna vote for Obama?? What a surprise! Who would have ever thought a liberal ass wipe would vote for a liberal ass wipe?
I would have! Duh!! Well at least Cunts-liar will get his way. Obama is gonna win
Count on it
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5th November 2012 at 11:11 am
Garth says:
Hope@zerokelvin you are wrong. You have little to no understanding of entorpy and by the sounds of it you still believe in Sky wizards, patriotism and good guys vs bad guys (and that the Americans are the good guys).
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5th November 2012 at 11:26 am
Garth says:
*entropy
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5th November 2012 at 11:26 am
Dorkus Maximus says:
I would probably vote for a ham sandwich over Obama, but ….
It seems clear that Obama is not going to get us in any new Mid. East wars, but not so clear with Romney.
The economy is beyond repair, it will have finish dying and resurrect in some form. Romney probably better for the resurrection.
Ultimately, I can’t stomach the loons Obama will try to put on Supreme Court – but could they be worse than Roberts? Ugh.
It’s lose – lose.
Will vote Romney because I believe that Obama, in his heart, is a tyrant. We will see his tyranny in a collapse.
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5th November 2012 at 11:38 am
Hope@ZeroKelvin says:
@Garth:
Hey dickhead. It’s spelled ENTROPY.
Please be sure to regale us with your understanding of the Laws of Thermodynamics, EROEI and the % of US energy needs meet by fossil fuels vx nuclear vs solar vs wind vs WOOD.
Oh, and a brief synopsis of the relative numbers of economic GAIN versus LOSS involved in each source of energy.
Start with the eco-loon greenie grifter programs under Obama and go from there.
Yeah, I do believe Americans are the good guys, not the fed.gov, the average Joe. I guess you must think the Muslim Brotherhood or the ChiComs or the Ruskies are the good guys. Great. Go live amongs them and let us all know how that’s workin’ out for ya’.
Yeah, I do love my country, it’s founding principles and institutions, NOT the Leviathian fed.gov presiding over masses of brain dead sheeple it has become.
Ass-wipe. Try to be part of the solution and not just ANOTHER problem the patriots like me will have to solve or work around.
Fuck you and the Sky Wizard you rode in on.
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5th November 2012 at 11:53 am
Garth says:
hope@zerokelvin. I know I know, it’s terrible when scientific law get in the way of conspiracy theories about how the guberment are the satan that will destroy us all. Well the muslim brotherhood think they are the good guys and so do you, so who’s right? could it be that the world is shock horror GREY? and that morality is simply something people make up depending on the culture they were indoctrinated into? You fail to realise that it is people like you, and on the other side of the coin the extremists in other countries that are THE problems that face humanity. Government isn’t evil, it’s just totally incompetent and caters for the lowest common denominator voting public. Presidents and elected officials are just chaps who are very good at convincing average people that they know what the fuck they are doing. They don’t, and even when they do they get tangled in such a huge amount of bureaucracy that they can’t do anything anyway
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5th November 2012 at 12:20 pm
flash says:
Kunstler is a train wreck of cognitive dissonance looking to avoid the rusting scrap heap of mediocrity via juxtaposed nonsense.
There no need to repeat any majors differences between the repugs and dimwits, because thera re none.
HJK-This plays on some lamebrain notion that there are vast fields of easy-to-get oil sitting out under the Wyoming hardpan waiting to be tapped. Surely Mitt know better.. or does he? The reality is that these lands fell into federal ownership largely because they had so little value in the first place.
Really? There were /are folks whose families had lived on lands sought after by Federal Thugacracy tossed off the property with out any recourse under the law and the land then managed for the benefit of a few crony capitalist in the loop and HZK makes the wild claim that no one wanted this land.
The Thugacracy owns 650 million acres because no one wants it?
HAH! HJK is clearly off his rails…stick a fork in this lispy lib-tard , he’s done.
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5th November 2012 at 12:26 pm
John A says:
I fear Team Soetoro/Biden and their Marxist buddies are behind the scenes pulling strings in Ohio and Wisconsin. We will find out tomorrow. Israel will attack Iran with or without US support if they feel their security is at risk. Whether Romney is elected or not elected will not deter them one way or the other.
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5th November 2012 at 12:30 pm
John Coster says:
Well, I agree with Admin. Hope has been snookered. Sometimes you only get to choose which oligarchs
you want to support. I’m afraid I agree with Kunstler. I fear the Romney Zombies will stampede
the whole hoard over the cliff a little sooner. His Neocon pals and their supporters among the divinely chosen right wingers in Israel are likely to light the fuse a lot faster than Obama I fear. Which scares the shit out of me. I mean adding trillions to “defense” when we can’t even keep the lights on in New York doesn’t make me feel a lot safer. So, the way I see it, you get to choose between two groups of criminals, one of whom might be simply unethical and somewhat delusional…as opposed to the other, who are stark raving mad. Energy independence from North American oil? Sure. It was written on the golden tablets Mitt found in a cave. I’m just hoping we can buy a little more time, and I acknowledge
that I may be wrong, but the only real leader I’ve seen, Ron Paul, is down for the count.
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5th November 2012 at 12:36 pm
intj_4_? says:
I thought JHK said in a previous essay that he would not vote for Obama again if he water-boarded him?
… I only remember it because I adopted it shamelessly ; )
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5th November 2012 at 12:39 pm
sensetti says:
Whats the chance there might be a new oil field in one of these area’s?
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5th November 2012 at 12:55 pm
Oscar Mannheim says:
@John Coster
Are you from Katonah once upon a time? Go to Harvard? Play music? If so, “Hi, Bro’!”
I think you’re out of time up there no matter who wins. I fled the place in 1998 and now live on a nearly self-sufficient hobby farm in South America. A strange and wonderous trip it’s been since the Sixties, but things surely have gone downhill, haven’t they? Who’d a thunk America was going to turn out like it has? As for Kunstler, though, the guy is a goopy jerk a la Gary North and Hope has him pegged nicely.
If you’re who I think you are, please comment to that effect and we’ll see about getting in touch. It’s been a while.
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5th November 2012 at 1:02 pm
card802 says:
Valerie Jarret, Obama’s closest adviser:
“After we win this election, it’s our turn. Payback time. Everyone not with us is against us and they better be ready because we don’t forget. The ones who helped us will be rewarded, the ones who opposed us will get what they deserve. There is going to be hell to pay. Congress won’t be a problem for us this time. No election to worry about after this is over and we have two judges ready to go.”
Obama said voting is the best revenge.
Such hateful speech coming from the party of tolerance.
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5th November 2012 at 1:09 pm
Administrator says:
sensetti
That is 16 years of supply at our current usage. How many barrels of oil will we need to burn in order to extract the 115 billion barrels and at what price?
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5th November 2012 at 1:17 pm
sensetti says:
. Don’t know Admin, but before it’s all over I bet it gets drilled. I think that’s what Romney is talking about. My little farm runs on horse power, I have and continue to plan on Oil and Gas shortages and high prices going forward.
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5th November 2012 at 1:45 pm
Kill Bill says:
Correction:
The Rombama have consistently proved one thing over the whole, long, nauseating course of this campaign: that they will say anything to get a vote, no matter how hollow, fatuous, craven, or at odds with reality the utterance is.
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5th November 2012 at 1:51 pm
Hope@ZeroKelvin says:
@flash: You are still a fuck headed idiot.
I never said no one wanted the federal lands. The Native Americans certainly did want them, fought hard to keep them, but were lied to, swindled, murdered and exiled because the fed.gov wanted that land.
At least you retain some shreds of sanity in agreeing that HJK has had a terminal brain fart.
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5th November 2012 at 1:51 pm
Kill Bill says:
BP proved with the poorly drilled Macando well that you can get alot of oil from a well and expending, in comparison, little energy in doing so.
We should be thanking BP and Halliburton for its giant leap forward in crude extraction methods.
/snark
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5th November 2012 at 1:57 pm
flash says:
HZK, calm down Queenie and take another look at my post again , specifically the initials HJK which signified it was a Kunstler quote.
Sid you even read HJK’s article
OK.I love you too , now back to your insane ranting on how Obama f’ed up America’cuz he’s an anit-American mooslime and if we only elect the Kolobian’s , his great hair and massive bag of corporate bullshit alone is a win win for America.
Feelings nothing more than feelings you have…
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5th November 2012 at 2:46 pm
flash says:
BTW, HZK, don’t forget the Appalachians people beign shoved off their land.
Kunstler wants everyone densely packed into cities so he and his urban progressive butt boy buddies can lord over your every social and economic function.
He is statist of the lowest order and there’s plenty back this statement up.
Still the rusty old collectivist toilet bowl ring can turn a metaphor like no other prog-tard and that is why I continue read him.
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5th November 2012 at 2:52 pm
BUCKHED says:
Fuck’em all in government…I quit believing in them when 2000 rolled around and I didn’t have the flying car I was promised as a kid in 1964 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It’s extremely tough explaining to someone that feels that by not voting for Romney I’m voting for Obama is stupid logic ….Nope I’m being true to my set of beliefs by refusing to vote for someone who is 180º opposite if what I believe in. I will NEVER vote for someone that thinks that the Federal Reserve is a good thing or that voted for the NDAA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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5th November 2012 at 2:57 pm
AWD says:
HZK’s 10:38 comment is 10x better than the crap that Kunstler wrote. The stupid fucking idiot liberals just can’t help themselves. So, what, another $4-5 trillion on the debt? Obama needs to lose, but these nose-in-the-air neo-New Englander liberals just can’t do it, and neither can their boomer liberal brethren.
It’s been so nice, so very nice to be out of touch for awhile. Sure, I can watch CNN (now fully liberal) or the crap on Fox on the ship, but I don’t, ever. It’s so easy to see what a clusterfuck our country is, and it’s amazing to see what good ‘ol U.S. dollars still buy in foreign countries. They still love ‘em. Nobody’s informed them about Bernake and the Fed. Oh well, might as well enjoy it while I can.
Tomorrow is the big day, the beginning of the end. I’ll be back just in time to experience the blacks rioting and burning their lovely villas and boutiques. Grab some popcorn, folks, it’s going to be one helluva show. Until then, greetings from Panama, very nice and warm. Glad I’m not in New York, or Philly, or Detroit, or my office. Ha, keep pitching Hope, you’re throwing ALL STRIKES!
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5th November 2012 at 3:17 pm
Loki says:
If you want evil, vote / write in SATAN! Why vote for a LESSER evil! /sarc
I feel like a vegetarian asked to vote for cannibal chief.
Seriously, if you support this empire enough to vote for emperor, go for it. Be aware that they have already (selected) him for you anyway. You are just proving you are a loyal subject.
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5th November 2012 at 3:36 pm
Cynical30 says:
@ Hope:
*sigh*
Does it really matter if we pick the Dodge or the Chevy for our Thelma & louise-style Grand Canyon trip? I’m pretty sure Mittens will be just as competent battling the big, scary moozlims 5,000 miles away as Barry is single handedly fixing all of the hurricane damage.
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5th November 2012 at 3:40 pm
Cynical30 says:
But I do agree with you on the article. This asshat’s been accosting Obama for the past 3 years or so on all of the articles that Admin posts. Now it’s like oh well, he gets my vote anyway. WTF???
It’s just like black people voting for Obama because he’s brownish. Matter of fact I heard some get-out-the-vote songs this morning on the radio. They literally DO say “VOTE FO OBAMA CUZ HE’S BLACK!!!!” in the songs.
*sigh*
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5th November 2012 at 3:43 pm
efarmer says:
Garth says, “Government isn’t evil”.
Where are you?? I am going to take a sledge hammer to your thick fucking skull.
EF
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5th November 2012 at 4:42 pm
Bob says:
Who knows whether the collapse might go better for us depending on who is elected tomorrow? I sense that Obama is the bigger, more immediate threat. I can see things breaking up in a more orderly fashion if the FSA does not have as much direct influence. Whether that is worth all the errors and evils to be done otherwise, who knows?
Either way, I am dismayed and looking for ways to oppose the degree to which the govt has tried to preserve itself (Exec orders, NDAA, Patriot Act, etc.).
I would welcome a fresh start that doesn’t include either of these clowns, their parties or their supporters!
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5th November 2012 at 5:43 pm
Colma Rising says:
Cuntslers false premise with respect to oil is that it’s oil that’s important rather then the portable power of the BTU”S that that particular source can supply in a small area.
If price were to double., you would probably find smaller cars and buses to transport people not passenger trains. Trains are only useful in that they can transport cargo and cargo can be loaded any time of day and full to the brim.
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5th November 2012 at 6:07 pm
Muck About says:
I don’t care if you like Kuntsler or not.
His vision of the future carries much more probability than others. The only thing he leaves out is the transition from the current 330 million US population to the 100 million he envisions. That is a pretty big die off (which I expect to happen sooner or later) that he skips in his books.
Bitch about him all you like, his view of the future is not out of line with the distinct probability that such a die off will indeed happen when TSHTF. Never underestimate the violence of a hungry Free Shit Army on the rampage. It certainly won’t be the orderly soup lines and warehouses full of cots of the 1930′s..
MA
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5th November 2012 at 6:40 pm
chiefdarkcloud says:
sensetti & Administrator
That 16 years of supply pictured and mentioned above is “estimated reserves” and estimated reserves are ALWAYS ESTIMATED on the high side of reality.
Two other facts need to be taken into consideration: (A) It takes years to get the permits and to drill exploritory wells, and yet more years to get the oil out and processed (B) You cannot get all of the oil out of the formations, PERIOD. So there is some number, a number quite less then the 16 years “estimated reserves” actually available in those locations.
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5th November 2012 at 6:40 pm
chiefdarkcloud says:
Hope@ZeroKelvin
SOME MUCH NEEDED ADVICE TO YOU : “SUBMERGE HEAD IN SHIT FILLED TOILET – FLUSH TWICE – REPEAT
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5th November 2012 at 6:42 pm
printmemoney says:
Joe Stalin had a name for guys like kunstler, “useful idiot”
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5th November 2012 at 7:40 pm
flash says:
I post this for my darling,dreamy true love Hope.I know she feels the same way, too!
…crank up the B-52s bitchez, Romney the Riding Corporate Raider is coming home
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5th November 2012 at 8:05 pm
Hope@ZeroKelvin says:
@flash: You crack me up with that Calvin & Hobbes. That is my fav all time cartoon. You can be the Calvin to my Susie cuz she always always kicks Calvin’s ass, just sayin’.
@Garth: Please try to post in some known language and remember!!! Grammar and punctuation are your friends. Mr. Paragraph is also welcome anywhere.
Look, I know I have received a record amount of thumbs down, ad hominem attacks and Smokey-esque attempts, however feeble, at a flame fest for my endorsement of Romney. I would write in RP if the fate of the country wasn’t at stake, and thus, the fate of the freaking world should Obama and his maniacs get another 4 years. From THAT the will be NO HOPE of restoration of anything like the America I would like to see.
But RP could not close the deal, for whatever reason, so I feel like I gotta make a stand some where where there is a chance, however tiny, of avoiding total Armaggedon.
Is Romney a perfect candidate???? Hell no, there’s plenty about his positions I don’t like. But he has zero skeletons in his closet, is NOT surrounded by Marxists/Radicals/Islamists, has a great resume for turning around troubled enterprises and seems genuinely a decent guy – especially when no one is watching and when off camera. I think he is a Leader, not perfect but decent, NOT a self proclaimed Messiah who is a psycopathic enigma who seems bent on the destruction of the USA.
We,ll see what happens tomorrow. I think Romney will take it, big. Then the real hell will break loose as Obama will torch the country, the economy, the Rule of Law on his way out.
We will have to shake down Moochelle to make sure the silver in the WH doesn’t end up is a secret pocket in one of her custom dresses, heh.
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5th November 2012 at 9:13 pm
Hope@ZeroKelvin says:
@chiefdarkcloud:
Thank you for your advice on how to rectify my seemingly intractable bad hair problems. How creative! How unusual! How organic!!!
Please let us all know how your complexion and your hair health are doing the next time you pull your head out of your ass and rinse the fecal matter off.
You can post pix to this site on the before and after effects. Inquiring minds want to know.
I’m sure you gave me this fashion tip since it must have worked so well for you.
But no, I’m not taking any advice on sexual matters and if you send me any of your personal butt gerbils,I’m sending them back.
Same with your sheep.
Peace, got nuthin’ nut love for ya!!!!
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5th November 2012 at 9:23 pm
sensetti says:
chiefdarkcloud
Thank you but I live on the high side of reality, I blame it on all the ganja I smoked in the 80′s.
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5th November 2012 at 9:26 pm
crazyivan says:
You guys are such a cute couple.
Flash and Hope,
Sittin in a tree.
k-i-s-s-i-n-g.
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5th November 2012 at 9:35 pm
chiefdarkcloud says:
Yes Hope this is how I clear my mind, it works, just try it,.
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5th November 2012 at 10:17 pm
crazyivan says:
I knew chiefdarkcloud would be lurking around, trying to bust up this TBP romance.
Let me tell you something Chief, around these parts you don’t lose your girl…
You just lose your turn.
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5th November 2012 at 11:35 pm
flash says:
Oh, looks who’s green with envy.It’s crazy Ivan with the sticky blow-up doll.
HZK , I feel confident you’re going to get your Kolobian on the Whitehorse, but I seriously doubt he’ll be riding to the rescue of any outside his corporate controlled sphere.
And , while the Kolobian may have very few skeletons in the closet, he’s got bats in the belfry , aplenty.
Note to self: Buy more popcorn.
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5th November 2012 at 6:06 am
flash says:
What we need is more conservatives on the Supreme Corporate Court of the land.
Yeah, that’s the ticket.
November 5, 2012
There Is No Good Reason To Vote for a Republican for President
Posted by Laurence Vance on November 5, 2012 06:53 PM
Writes Jim Fedako:
FYI. Roe v. Wade was decided 7–2 by a court that was 6–3, Republican appointees v. Democrat appointees. One of the dissents was a Democrat. That means 5 of the 6 Republican agreed with the decision. This alone exposes the canard that is now the talking point: the next president decides the court. While the statement is prima facie true, its implication, that only Democratic appointees are evil, is false. From Roe v. Wade (a small, but high-profile sample), we see that only 67% of the Democrats are evil (with regard to the sanctity of life), while 84% of the Republicans are. Another reason that voting is useless.
And of course, there is the “conservative” John Roberts appointed by Bush who upheld Obamacare.
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5th November 2012 at 7:56 am
Anonymous says:
Fuck Obama. and fuck Cuntsler
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5th November 2012 at 10:59 am
Ron says:
Well Romney spouts some good shit so i voted for him since Ron Paul didnt win.
Since Kuntster voted for Obama im sure i did the right thing.
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5th November 2012 at 11:23 am
John says:
That was me above. Anonymous. A mistake.. Supposed to be me. Let me start again. Fuck Obama. Fuck Cuntsler.
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5th November 2012 at 6:29 pm