The Cheeto Cometh

Guest Post by Jim Kunstler

I dunno about you, but I rather enjoy watching the praetorian Deep State go batshit crazy as the day of Trump’s apotheosis approacheth. I imagine a lot of men and women running down the halls of Langley and the Pentagon and a hundred other secret operational redoubts with their hair on fire, wondering how on earth they can neutralize the fucker in the four days remaining.

What’s left in their trick-bag? Bake a poison cheesecake for the inaugural lunch? CIA Chief John Brennan has been reduced to blowing raspberries at the incoming president. Maybe some code cowboys In the Utah NSA fortress can find a way to crash all the markets on Friday as an inauguration present. What does it take? A few strategic HFT spoofs? There will be lots of police sharpshooters on the DC rooftops that day. What might go wrong?

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Civil War Two is underway, with an interesting echo of Civil War One: Trump dissed Civil Rights sacred icon Georgia congressman John Lewis, descendant of slaves, after said icon castigated Trump as “not a legitimate president.” That now prompts a congressional walk-out of the swearing-in ceremony. The New York Times is acting like a Manhattan socialite in a divorce proceeding, with fresh hysterics every day, reminding readers in a front-page story on Monday that “[Martin Luther] King’s birthday falls within days of the birthdays of two Confederate generals, Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson.” Jeez! Who you gonna call? Ghostbusters?

There’s not much Trump can do until Friday noon except tweet out his tweets, but one can’t help but wonder what the Deep State can do after that magic moment passes. I’ve maintained for nearly a year that, if elected, Trump would be removed by a coup d’état within sixty days of assuming office, and I still think that’s a pretty good call — though I hope it doesn’t come to that, of course. My view of this was only confirmed by Trump’s performance at last week’s press conference, which seemed, shall we say, a little light on presidential decorum.

Perhaps it befits this particular Deep State to go down in the manner of an opéra bouffe. History repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce, old Karl Marx observed. What does the Union stand for this time? The rights of former SEC employees to sell their services to CitiBank? The rights of competing pharma companies to jack the price of insulin up from $20 to $250 a vial? The rights of DIA subcontractors to sell Semtex plastic explosives to the “moderate” jihadis of the Middle East?

So the theme of the moment is that Donald Trump is a bigger crook than the servants and vassals of the Deep State. He ran for president so he could sell more steaks and whiskey under the Trump brand. He’s in violation of the emoluments clause in the constitution. Well, I’m not aware that George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, or Andrew Jackson put their slaves in a blind trust after they became president. Anyway, at this point in our history, nobody can beat the Deep State for financial turpitude, certainly not a single real estate and hotel magnate.

I guess the big question is whether the Deep State — and, yes, Virginia, the Deep State does exist, unlike Santa Claus — will tear the country apart in the attempt to defend all its ill-gotten perquisites and privileges. The public at large is restive, eager to get on with the job of deconstructing the matrix of racketeering that adds up to the immiserating culture we live in, a society where health insurance company presidents make $40 million a year while ordinary people lose their homes because a $5,000-deductible health insurance policy doesn’t cover the cost of treating a routine tonsillectomy.

I didn’t vote for the Cheeto-head sonofabitch, but it will be interesting to see what he does between noon and six p.m. Friday, if he survives the festivities.

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musket
musket

The DO is the CIA….the rest is a northern Virginia bureaucracy….

starfcker
starfcker

Kunstler has a good point. The drug company CEO’s are the highest paid executives in the country. Thanks, obama. Thanks john roberts. Cheeto will fix that quick, I would expect. http://fortune.com/2015/01/05/ceo-pay-pharma-wall-street/

Andrew G.
Andrew G.

They’re all running scared because the cheese is about to be moved… then it’s the unemployment line for a lot of government drones.

Ha ha!!!

Jus sayin… 🙂

Chubby Bubbles
Chubby Bubbles

We can only hope..

Stucky

“I didn’t vote for the Cheeto-head sonofabitch,” —– Cuntsler

No, you Joo COCKSUCKER. But, you did vote for Oreo twice, you despicable turd eating faggot.

Mike Fuller
Mike Fuller

Kuntsler is part of the problem. Trump is part of the solution.

Kuntsler made a freakin career from his tearing down of American institutions. Now Trump must deal with the effluent of decades of Kuntsler’s polemics having taken firm hold in the brains of the SJW outcast class. For Kunt to call for presidential decorum at this flashpoint in history is akin to demanding the Nazis require the Jews to march smartly, in precise formation, two-by-two, into the showers.

Civil society is long past the point where the two opposing political powers negotiate IN GOOD FAITH to achieve the best outcome for the country as a whole. It is only one party that is held to any kind of standard of behavior while the other is free to act openly against the best interests of the country in any manner it chooses. No criticism is accepted of its ways or means, and no acceptance of the other side’s.

Obama nailed this reality down, his majorities, while he had them, held the hammer for him, and the party faithful – including Kuntsler – enabled the extremism to prevail. Sure is telling that the other side is all for the peaceful transition of power until they are in the position of having to give it up.

Now it is going to take a shit-kicking, trash-talking, no name-taking bruiser to come into town and whip the government into something resembling a governing entity responsive to the people and – at the very least – slow the growth of the behemoth that threatens our very sovereignty.

Decorum be damned! The dems don’t have it but they insist we must? So Obama was smooth, he was a freaking communist! Jeesh! Anyone who tries to go into DC today and play by DC’s rules is going to get eaten up and spit out before sundown. Trump isn’t just anyone. Let’s kick ass and break noses. I’m ready to shake up the well-established order myself.

starfcker
starfcker

Mike Fuller. You crushed it. Great comment.

TJF
TJF

Kunstler made me LOL, and I wasn’t always laughing at him this time.

FLAPrepper1
FLAPrepper1

I didn’t vote for Trump or Hitlery or Johnson or Stein. I and 72 others in my county of 570,000 people voted for the Constitution and the Constitution Party. I hope Trump is a good president and that he survives. I do believe that he will be the most targeted President in history. The elites or as you called them Deep State are totally pissed off that ordinary people took back a little bit of power. I can see a Civil War coming in the future if things go sideways.
I was a prepper during the Reign of Obama the Jug-Earred and I am still a prepper during the Reign of Trump the Orangeman.

Greg in NC
Greg in NC

“My view of this was only confirmed by Trump’s performance at last week’s press conference, which seemed, shall we say, a little light on presidential decorum”.

Decorum as in dignified or polite? In my lifetime is seems that “Presidential decorum” has been merely a mask for blatant lying, cheating, stealing, and covering up for the same. Trump is breaking the illusory customs and striking the root of the problem.

“He’s in violation of the emoluments clause in the constitution. Well, I’m not aware that George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, or Andrew Jackson put their slaves in a blind trust after they became president.”

Can you say “Natural Born Citizen” or did you ignore that little clause when you pulled the lever for the obozo?

Hypocrite and clown always seem to come to mind when reading JHK’s writings.

hardscrabble farmer

“My view of this was only confirmed by Trump’s performance at last week’s press conference, which seemed, shall we say, a little light on presidential decorum.”

Nothing like watching a liberal start clutching their pearls as they head for the fainting couch.

Unspecified
Unspecified

If JK is referring to Trump’s inauguration as his “apotheosis”, well then, does that make Kunt a pessimist? Or an optimist? That’s a tricky one.

According to Sherrif Joe, Trump is more legitimate than BarryO. But dat’s raaaycissss. Like the Democrat George Wallace.

Confusing times indeed.

Ammo

Does anyone need to be reminded of Capt Decorum’s constant berating and name calling of us in fly over land; how did it feel to have him constantly use his wimpy pointy finger poking you in the chest like it was the end of an AR 15? Did you enjoy the presidential decorum of his support of those BLM’s ( my sister’s usage for her Black Labs Matter) who were out to kill us “crackers”, and anyone else who supported Trump? Libtards just better get used to ” the orange-man’s” non-decorum when it comes to those who think it’s business as usual in the political arena wake up, because for Trump— politics is a contact sport and there is no “department of nice” for you to run to in Washington. Go home to mama’s kitchen and get some warm cookies and milk; and I’ll keep my prep going ’cause I ain’t screwing around this time…..I’m done with f*****g decorum.

TrickleUpPolitics
TrickleUpPolitics

Trump had plenty of decorum until a member of the “press” started yelling at him. The press, media, celebrities, pundits, talking heads et al have shown that they have no limits when it comes to publicly disrespecting Trump. I’m glad he has a thick skin and the ability to take it right back at them.

Ammo

Listen to the media hate mongers trying to provoke anger and incite racism towards the Trump presidency. Who are the bitter clingers of hatred? https://youtu.be/-8_m8tIKOFM

AC
AC

We’re somewhere between the end of civilized decorum and Sarajevo 1992. Probably past the half-way marker.

Things are starting to get sporty.

TampaRed
TampaRed

Slightly off topic but good news–the Clinton Global Initiative is being shut down effective 4/15/17.
For some strange reason the donations have dried up since Nov 7th.
Now let’s work on the Foundation,which is where the real $ is.

http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/25146-clintons-shutter-global-initiative-as-donations-dry-up?utm_source=iContactPro&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=TNA+Top+Daily+Headlines&utm_content=TNA+Top+Daily+Headlines+Jan+16+17

Ace
Ace

** sell more steaks and whiskey **

What garbage. Stick to writing about urban architecture, Mr. K.

KaD
KaD

http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2017/01/16/silencing-nicole-kidman/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social

Nicole Kidman said very matter-of-factly last week that Americans should come together to support the president, whoever that might be. Kidman said something that vaguely resembled an endorsement of Trump, and Hollywood freaked out.

It is clear now that the Enforcers are everywhere, at least for the time being. People like the insufferable, thuggish Joss Whedon, the Avengers director and self-described “feminist” who posted a meme mocking Kidman for being a “puppet for Trump” and a “blunderturd” over her original comments (and then went on to re-tweet an inspirational quote about “one people, one family, one house” from Congressman John Lewis, with no hint of irony or self-realization whatsoever).

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