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Guest Post by Jim Kunstler

Is there any doubt that the Democratic Party will be blamed for the government shutdown brought on by the DACA showdown? They insisted on a DACA deal that would have enabled everybody-and-his-uncle in a DACA person’s family to migrate to this country, a formula known as chain migration. Did they really believe that would go over? Or is it just more identity politics posturing?

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I’m not the first observer to point out that it looks like the Democratic Party puts the interests of non-citizens above everybody else in the country. That’s what will be remembered about this gambit at the polls in November. It also looks like an engineered misdirection away from the more ominous fast-developing story about political corruption at the highest level of the Justice Department and its subsidiary, the FBI.

Unlike the allegations in the slow-cooking Russian Collusion story — allegations so far uncoupled from evidence — there’s plenty of evidence that FBI leadership deliberately mishandled several concurrent Hillary Clinton inquiries and, along with other players in the giant NSA matrix, launched the Russia Collusion story to derail Donald Trump’s legitimacy in office. Former President Obama and his White House aides are implicated in these machinations. Whether you’re a Trump fan or not, this ought to raise troubling questions about the legitimacy of the FBI.

On Sunday, the FBI revealed that it had lost five months of text messages between Trump antagonists Peter Strzok and Lisa Page. The agency offered a lame explanation that “software upgrades” and “misconfiguration issues” interfered with the app that is supposed to automatically save and archive communications between officials on FBI phones. This was the couple who chattered about an FBI-generated “insurance policy” for the outcome of the 2016 election with Deputy Director Andrew McCabe. When will these three be invited to testify before a house or senate committee to inform the nation exactly what the “insurance policy” was?

The bad odor at the FBI seeps into several other areas of misbehavior involving Hillary Clinton, her campaign, the Democratic National Committee (DNC), and members of the permanent Washington bureaucracy. Did the Obama White House use the Christopher Steele dossier, paid for by the Clinton Campaign, to obtain FISA warrants against her opponent in the election for the purpose of conducting electronic surveillance on him? Was the FBI abetting a Democratic Party coup to get rid of Trump by any means necessary once he got into office? Did the FBI conduct a stupendously half-assed investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server by dismissing the charges before interviewing any of the principal characters involved, granting blanket immunities to Obama White House officials, and failing to secure computers that contained evidence? Does the FBI actually know what then Attorney General Loretta Lynch discussed with Bill Clinton in the parked airplane on the Phoenix tarmac? Did the FBI fail to investigate enormous contributions (roughly $150 million) to the Clinton Foundation after the Uranium One deal was signed? Did they look into any of the improprieties surrounding the DNC’s effort to nullify Bernie Sander’s primary campaign?

These are some of the big questions that a nation not 100 percent distracted and misdirected will want some answers to. The even greater question is whether the USA’s institutional justice system remains sturdy enough to fairly inquire into all these things. It probably can’t happen without a deep house-cleaning at the Department of Justice and the FBI. For the moment, Trump is just observing the scene like the Cheshire Cat in his tree. Considering what a dope he is, it is one of the many miracles of his long and (so far) lucky life to have his enemies look even dumber.

One thing I wonder is how long this toxic political struggle can go on before the financial markets notice what it says about the country.

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Anonymous
Anonymous

” That’s what will be remembered about this gambit at the polls in November.”

It will be if the Republicans make a point of making sure they do, otherwise that is far, far beyond the attention span of the average American voter.

Ozum
Ozum

“The even greater question is whether the USA’s institutional justice system” is still moral and uncorrupted enough to fairly investigate and act on this. I doubt it. The legal system is the death of the American ideal. I await from afar (northern boonies) to see what follows. Not smiling.

starfcker

Wow. Kunstler got woke. Welcome aboard, Jim. Chooo fuckin choo

Aquapura
Aquapura

I think Kunstler is risking alienating his base with these comments….although I can’t say that I dislike this direction he’s heading.

Robert (QSLV)
Robert (QSLV)

Threw his base a bone at the end with the “Trump is a dope” comment.

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Robert (QSLV)

hardscrabble farmer

“Is there any doubt that the Democratic Party will be blamed for the government shutdown brought on by the DACA showdown?”

ONLY IF YOU READ A NEWSPAPER OR WATCH TELEVISION.

Iska Waran
Iska Waran

I expect 2-3 more shutdowns this year over immigration. Maybe I’m wrong, but I think Dems will keep pushing some lame ass bill with virtually nothing on border, chain migration and switching to a merit-based immigration. Trump will keep rejecting it and Dems hope that the American people will eventually expect Trump to give the Dems what they want. The Dems’ problem is that Stephen Miller and Tom Cotton will be able to successfully explain the duplicity in the Dems’ proposals (the difference between “authorize” wall funding and “appropriate” wall funding, for example).

If Trump digs his heels in, Republicans will be the party of Americans and Democrats will be the party of illegals. Republicans will minimize their losses in the fall elections and Trump will be safe from impeachment.

EL Coyote the short-stack
EL Coyote the short-stack

Iska Miska Trumpeteer has gone bye bye.

Iska Waran
Iska Waran

Not sure I follow, EC. Possible meanings: I’m crazy (could be), I’m a fat white guy (not that fat). I’m also not 25 stories tall. If Trump gives Miss Lindsay Graham what she wants, he’ll lose his base. I don’t think he’ll do that no matter how much Jared and Ivanka think he should.

EL Coyote
EL Coyote

It was Ray who went bye bye after he tried to make the threat innocuous somehow. I likened your fantasy (…and Trump will be safe from impeachment.) to his own desire to imagine a soft lovable destroyer.

Trump’s a nice guy but he leads from behind; he follows the polls to see how his decisions are received by the likes of Ann Coulter and other morons. When the members of his own party in Congress say they have no idea what he wants, that is not a leader. So solly.

Insisting on a budget-busting wall when the whole point of continuing resolutions is to decide on a way to meet the current bills is counter-productive. This is not the Reagan era where voodoo economics is naively adopted, this is the post 9/11 era where there are no more savings to inflate away or induce people to spend their imaginary wealth effect away.

Are you a fiscal conservative or a Mexican Wall free-shitter? Is it the policy of the Trumpians to spend all the available monies and thus accelerate the national bankruptcy and throw SS recipients into the streets?

Maggie
Maggie

“— there’s plenty of evidence that FBI leadership deliberately mishandled several concurrent Hillary Clinton inquiries and, along with other players in the giant NSA matrix, launched the Russia Collusion story to derail Donald Trump’s legitimacy in office. Former President Obama and his White House aides are implicated in these machinations. Whether you’re a Trump fan or not, this ought to raise troubling questions about the legitimacy of the FBI.”

Edit… sorry about that… two thoughts jumbled into one.

First thought is that some people refuse to accept the obvious. For them, the red pill really IS the blue pill. Perhaps, they see the feeding tubes of the matrix as preferred to the knowledge of how to grow their own food. For some of those supporting the complete restructuring of our country’s foundation, demanding the cornerstones all be removed, they will never see that the very foundation that made the country strong is the only thing that prevents its fall. A belief in the value of a man and his family’s right to be sovereign in his home is the cornerstone.

What is in the news? That bizarre story of the couple with those kids tied up for years. What is that all about Q?

The second though is about the need to always follow the money:

I was in the military, but for a while I was a sort of commander’s secretary while I was both disqualified from flying for a back injury AND turned up pregnant after the initial diagnosis. (Way to go, Nick. On active duty with flight pay as aircrew (even better than red rope) but medically DNIF’d (Duties Not to Include Flying) and suddenly pregnant, so in limbo status for nine months plus.) So, I was privy to a bit of the money talk once in a while. And then, when I ended up in the financial data stream at the Maintenance Depot between Mordor and Utah, I saw a few numbers that made me think I must be in that rabbit hole with Alice.

For decades there have been moneys drained off many budget items and poured into slush funds, as people like Ollie North discovered when he was a personal aid to a personal aid trying to turn a bunch of guerilla fighters into freedom fighters and change the way a country controlled its demise. Those lessons had a different sort of trickle down effect. We all learned how to pass the cost of doing business with the military through to the government and how to get those dollars passed along without one hand telling the other.

Later, when I sat in union negotiations with the Company and a NLRB negotiator, I learned how those lessons play out in other government-private cooperatives. In Labor, it is known to Union business representatives as the “pass-through.” Nutshell: If a government regulation is the cause of the increase in cost to the business OR the union management, then the government will absorb the increased cost of the contract without dispute. In other words, a CBA negotiated at arms length after contract award, increasing wages beyond contract specifications, can pass through. I expect the big IAM pension funds to announce a need for bailout soon… cost of doing business in a ZIRP environment with all those confiscated wages of union employees.

Okay, so that line of thought (that people in DC learn how to pick up the skim like any mafia underlings. Clawback of trillions of dollahs possible? Could it be that the very spy network built to enrich them might have recorded evidence to imprison them?) came out of the idea of having government agencies outsource various duties to private companies through contract bid was one of those public-private competition ideas of Al Gore. Remember “Reinventing Government?” I do. A professor (nods at Norman Mayor CS Rosenthal) assigned it for reading in 1995. So…. Why the fuck is it still being done? We know the Clintons were on the take…why wouldn’t Algore be there with them? Why are we granting private industry the right to develop classified technology over which we have no control? Are those whackjob Congress Critters really that corrupt and insane?

I think the answer is beyond frightening.

Capn Mike
Capn Mike

huh. Who down-voted???

Ghost

Obviously an Algore-smitten policy wonk.

Annie
Annie

Maybe just someone tired of another long rambling comment from Maggie. I can’t comment on whether I think it was due to the content of your comment because I’m not going to wade through all that and see if there’s anything relevant or not.

Maggie
Maggie

Then that is fair game. I was trying to be clever and incorporate some Q insinuations in the mix but I rarely come off as clever.

Annie
Annie

Hi Maggie,

Sorry, I’m sore and cranky today and my filters aren’t in working order. I like some of your rambles, especially when you talk about your Pyrs 🙂

One of the best things about TBP is that there is no censoring in the comments. Normally if I see something I disagree with or if it is just something I don’t want to deal with that day, like this one, I skip it instead of complaining about it.

Maggie
Maggie

Another great thing is developing skin like an alligator turtle. No harm taken. My biggest guy is complaining about his hip a lot. My mentions of the vet and X-ray have Nick reviewing tax deductions. Haha… none for doggies.

Annie
Annie

Oh, hip problems are not good in the big dogs 🙁 Have you tried glucosamine? Our two nine year old Prys are still healthy and spry but between them and our dwarf Pyr who is slowly going deaf and blind I’m dreading what the next couple years might bring.

unit472/
unit472/

DACA is a disaster if the ‘path to citizenship is not long, arduous and expensive. Parents and other family members who brought or harbored these children must be forever barred from immigrating to the US and be deported . If the child is 18 at this time and still wants to stay in the US and BEGIN the path to citizenship we are going to have to allow it but if they choose to accompany their family back to Mexico or wherever they forfeit any right to ever return.

steve
steve

If Trump is the dope (“Considering what a dope he is”) what would you call the Army of left wing sycophants and apparatchiks opposed to him? You know, the ones he’s made a fool of time and time again.

Anonymous
Anonymous

What really pisses the Democrats off is they wish they had this issue. Concern for the worker and all.

Then they then could blame Trump. “Trump wants to take away Social Security to give welfare to illegal invaders.”

JIMSKI
JIMSKI

If you think for a minute that the DACA shit will hurt the Dems than you have NOT been paying attention. This is the bread and butter of the Demacratic platform. The knee jerk reaction of the liberal twats and twinks could very well be energized by this to actually show up. Kface seems to have a hard time putting himself in the position of a sociatal leech who wants America to die one way or another.

As far as the FBI and Just us department goes this could not have happened without some deep true believers. The kind that actually think that Trump could destroy the world. They tried to steal an election 3 ways. Now as is all comes out those true believers are being pushed into a corner and will soon be unable to stop Trump.

This is a very dangerous time for Trump. A true believer would sacrifice themselves to stop him at any cost. Anyone know what the rules are for an FBI agent in the same room as the president? Are they still armed?

That shit should change if so.

Iska Waran
Iska Waran

I agree that there are people in the FBI and DOJ who are virulently anti-Trump and might be a physical danger to him. I don’t think the DACA issue resonates that strongly with independents, no matter what libs’ polls say. “Deport their ass” isn’t the kind of comment people make freely, so I think the hardliners against illegal immigration are underrepresented in the polling. A lot of people won’t understand why the Dems won’t concede most of what Trump and Cotton want in order to regularize the so-called Dreamers. We’ll see, I guess. I’ll vote against Keith Ellison, so his margin of victory may shrink to 74-26. Thank God for gerrymandering.

Montefrio

I strongly doubt that anyone who voted for HRC will EVER vote for a non-Dem no matter what crimes can be proven against her and the rest of them, no matter whether or not “the Democratic Party puts the interests of non-citizens above everybody else in the country” as the DP has NO interest in US citizens other than those who make up their voting base, no matter that the DP and its voters are largely seditious haters of the Norman Rockwell-Andrew Wyeth America of yore, preferring as they do the Jackson Pollack “splatter platter” portrayal of what constitutes “art” and represents the deracinated society that half the country thinks is “progressive”.

Heads must roll before the DP can ever be considered credible again, at least to the white-whiner wing of the party.

Trapped in Portlandia
Trapped in Portlandia

My only disagreement with Kunstler on this article is that I don’t think Trump is a dope and it is a miracle that his enemies looker dumber than him.

I think Trump is much, much smarter than anyone gives him credit for. In fact, playing the dumbshit who does outrageous stuff is an excellent way to fly under everyone’s radar while you implement your plan.

But maybe I’ve been reading too much of the Q stuff. We’ll see.

Ammo

Odd occurrence this morning…when tuning into the ” Rush ” show on my old radio, I stumble across one of several Spanish stations in CA that was translating an announcement notifying its listeners to call a number given to them should ICE show up at their door [or mowing job/my words] for free legal representation by an immigration attorney. Of course, as usual, standard operating procedure with tax payers money……after all, your money is Jerry’s money in Mexifornia.

AC
AC

The Democrats don’t need to worry.

Jeff Flake (Traitor-Arizona), Lindsay Graham (Faggot-San Francisco), and Dick Durbin (Communist – ‘Chicago’), have their back – with a DACA bill that not only gives amnesty and citizenship to the ‘dreamers,’ but to their parents (and with chain migration, probably each of their whole fucking villages) as well.

I don’t know why John McCain isn’t sucking Dem cock as hard as these three treasonous fucks. Maybe that awesome tumor is finally killing him?

Sen. Tom Cotton: Flake-Graham-Durbin Bill Gives AMNESTY to DACA ‘Children’ AND THEIR PARENTS! –MILLIONS OF ILLEGALS!

Tony
Tony

Lindsey Graham is from South Carolina… Pelousy is from San Francisco

AC
AC

Oh, I know . . . just being funny.

TJF
TJF

Girly man Lindsey is from SC, not San Fran, but I agree with your sentiment.

Rather Not
Rather Not

This was not the best excuse the FBI could come up with. It is just about the worst excuse they could come up with. That was deliberate. What is interesting is that they intend to force this down our collective throats as ‘good enough’ as a demonstration of raw power. The FBI/JustUs is saying, I don’t work for you, you work for us.

They know that NSA intercepts and stores every electronic communication. They know that even if they did screw up seriously enough to lose the texts, they could have the NSA give them to them. No 4th Amendment violation…these are communications the gov’t should have. They know that. They know we know that. They’re telling us they’re above judgement, above oversight, above reproach, and we’re just going to have to take their word for it, regardless of how much this all stinks to high heaven.

Now we’ll have to find out whether they’re right, or overplaying their hand.

Ammo

Rather Not

Weren’t they quick to come out with the big OOP’S Apology when they deleted Bush’s messages…as you suggested: it’s screw you conservatives and libertarians, we run this country, you pee-ons get to the end of the line…illegals first, and you crackers don’t even bother to get in a line.

hardscrabble farmer

DACA is dead. Doesn’t matter if a couple of Republicans come over, Trump just vetoes it. You think they’ve got 2/3 of the Congress?

DACA is like saying it may have been wrong for that guy to rob the bank, but you can’t take the money away from his kids.

Econman
Econman

The link @ the end of my comment is a great article on who The Real Enemy is –Liberal white people are fucking over everyone – the poor, illegals, legals, minorities, their own brethren.

What really annoys me is when they try to coddle up to blacks and hispanics, like they understand them, while they show contempt for poor whites. My good ol’ boy friends, now that they know me, are realizing these immoral, anti-GOD degenerate loving pansies are nothing but communists and it’s not the minorities that will take down America.

The author lays it all out. Working in edumacation, I deal with these schmucks all day and the kids can’t stand them either. They treat everyone like white slave owners treated the blacks, with contempt and vindictiveness. Vile scum.

The Great White War

Econman
Econman

When I tell them blacks and hispanics are anti-illegal alien, they stare. They don’t know any to ask and most are scared of brown/darker people. Explaining that illegal aliens decrease the pay of minorities and poor whites starts short circuiting their pea brains, cognitive dissonance takes over. They like illegals because none live near them.

I find Liberal whites and many Japanese are the most racist people on earth.

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