Guest Post by Jim Kunstler
Forget about sharks. In their Valentine’s Day editorial: Why Does Trump Ignore Top Officials’ Warnings on Russia?, The New York Times jumped several blue whales (all the ones left on earth), a cruise ship, a subtropical archipelago, a giant vortex of plastic bottles, and the Sport’s Illustrated swimsuit shoot. The lede said:
The phalanx of intelligence chiefs who testified on Capitol Hill delivered a chilling message: Not only did Russia interfere in the 2016 election, it is already meddling in the 2018 election by using a digital strategy to exacerbate the country’s political and social divisions.
Hmmm…. After almost two years of relentless public paranoia about Russia and US elections, don’t you suppose these Ruskie gremlins would find some other way to make mischief in our world — maybe meddle in the NHL playoffs, or hack WalMart’s bookkeeping department, or covertly switch out the real Dwayne Johnson with a robot? I kind of completely and absolutely doubt that they’ll bother with our elections.
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Let’s face it, the United States is doing a stellar job of destroying itself with bad ideas, foolish ideologies, and pervasive self-deceit. If I was running the Russian intel services, I’d just pay to send a few Nebraska county commissioners to Disneyland — that would keep our seventeen US intel agencies busy until kingdom come trying to figure out the angle. And it would cheaper than spending a hundred grand to fuck with Facebook.
Actually the Times’s editorial seems to have CIA / NSA fingerprints all over it, or at least Deep State paw prints. By stating that the Russians are already “meddling” in 2018 elections that haven’t happened yet, aren’t our own security agencies setting up the public to lose faith in the electoral process and fight over election results? Oh, by the way, the Times presented no evidence whatsoever that this alleged “meddling” is taking place. They just assert it, as if it were already adjudicated.
But then they take it another step, making the case that because Mr. Trump does not go along with the Russian Meddling story, he is obstructing efforts to prevent Russian interference in the elections that haven’t happened yet, and is therefore by implication guilty of treason. A fine piece of casuistry.
The longer this fantasy about Russia continues from the Left side of the political transect, the deeper the nation sinks into a dangerous collective psychosis. After all this time, the only known instances of American political figures “colluding” with Russians involve the shenanigans between the DNC, the Hillary Clinton campaign, and US intel services including the FBI and CIA, in paying for the “Steele Dossier” and the activities of the Fusion GPS company that claimed Russia hacked Hillary’s and John Podesta’s email.
There is now a ton of evidence about all this monkey business, and no sign (yet) that Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller may be taking a good hard look at it, not to mention the professional misconduct of a half dozen senior FBI, NSA, and CIA officials, especially former CIA chief John Brennan, who has now morphed into a CNN “analyst,” taking an active role in what amounts to a psy-ops campaign to shove the public toward war.
The “resistance” may think it is getting some mileage out of this interminable narrative, but its arrant inconsistencies only undermine faith in all our political institutions, and that is really playing with fire. We are already choking this polity to death by endlessly litigating the past, insuring that the country doesn’t have the time or the fortitude to deal with much more important quandaries of the present — especially a financial system that is speeding into the most colossal train wreck in history. That will de-rail Mr. Trump soon enough, and then all the rest of us will have enough to do to keep our lives together or to refashion them in some that will work in a very different economy.
PS: Readers may wonder why I did not devote this space to the school shooting in Parkland, Florida. It is exactly what you get in a society that wants to erase behavioral boundaries. It is especially dangerous where adolescent boys are concerned. The country has a gigantic boundary problem. We have also created perfect conditions — between the anomie of suburbia and the dreariness of our school systems — to induce explosions of violent despair. That’s why these things happen. Until we change these conditions, expect ever more of it.
They say whatever suits their purposes.
The truth is not in them.
An exceptionally rare Kunstler editorial that I can mostly agree with.
Most interesting aspect: if Kunstler not only recognizes the phoniness of the “Russian meddling” claims, but is willing to say so expressly in his column, there is some hope that more people than just the Trump supporters and alt-right (not necessarily the same thing!) recognize this.
The bad news: a highly corrupt government can hang on for far longer than it should, even when a majority recognizes the falsity and corruption. Just look at Venezuela.
HSF, watch Obama flip on that opinion making your point perfectly
The powers that be won’t even let athletes in S Korea be officially Russian. They have to be “athletes from Russia”. Did Russians take ‘roids? Probably. They just didn’t evade the tests as well as other countries. It’s a bunch of fucking bullshit just to embarrass Russia – undoubtedly pushed by some American Jews who won’t be satisfied until they’ve manipulated America into nuking Russia.
Wonder who Kunstler thinks are the apostles of the Russians under the bed might be. Let me help him out – From the Federalist article on ‘media collusion’.
” it looks like Steele and Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson may have persuaded a number of major foreign policy and national security writers in Washington and New York that Trump and his team were in league with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Those journalists include New Yorker editor David Remnick, Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg, former New Republic editor Franklin Foer, and Washington Post columnist Anne Applebaum.”
Notice anything about all these people. They are JEWS like you Kunstler. A rotten mendacious tribe of people whom the original American people mistakenly saved from extermination. That mistake needs to be rectified.
Can’t you see what’s happening with your own eyes, Kunstler? That kid in Parkland was a Russian trained operative who shot up the school as a way to exacerbate the political divisions in this country. The kid’s last name is Cruz. The shooting happened in Florida. A lot of Hispanics from Florida are Cuban. Cuba is a Communist country. It’s crystal clear what went on here. Wake up, man!
A stretch – can’t consider without corroboration.
If we told the FBI that AIPAC, the ADL, and the SPLC are just Russian fronts, do you think they would *finally* investigate them?
Greetings,
I’ve followed Kunstler for years. I’ve followed him not so much for his left leaning politics but for his ideas regarding suburban living and the destruction of Main Street USA.
Public schools now resemble medium security prisons. Now, I believe that function follows form and if you put children in a medium security prison for 13 years while giving more than 10% of them anti-psychotics or amphetamines then it isn’t any wonder that a few will snap and return to the place where so much ugliness was forced upon them and commit acts of violence. Imagine having to go to the DMV 5 days a week for 13 years. Not everyone is mentally able to accomplish such a feat.