Guest Post by Jim Kunstler
The signals from the political establishment to Donald Trump ring pretty clear now: get thee hence, thou big-bottomed orange menace to order and sanctity! Has ever a president been lonelier at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave? Lincoln’s “team of rivals” in the drear winter months of 1864 seem downright chummy in retrospect and, of course, poor Richard Nixon stayed swozzled on scotch whiskey during the darkest nights of Watergate, when he reputedly wandered the West Wing halls conversing with portraits of his predecessors.
The other power centers of America, especially the news media, insist that there is no evidence of fraud in the recent election and it’s time to get on with the hallowed ceremonies of transition. The post-Christmas suspense is killing them. Mr. Trump will not be moved to declare that he lost the election — probably for the excellent reason that he really didn’t, if there had been anything like an honest tally of the ballots. They hear murmurings of martial law and the Insurrection Act, and it all sounds to them like an imperial Nightmare on Elm Street. They can hear the tinkle of their lucrative perquisites shattering in the creases of their temporal lobes.
It’s said in the alt.media that the president wishes to exhaust all the formal alternatives before possibly moving onto the novelty steps of contesting this final act of the four-year coup against him, which brings us all the way to January 6, when the electoral college slates are toted up in the House chamber, Vice President Pence presiding. One popular fantasy has the Veep tossing out “certified” votes from states where irregularities were starkest in favor of alt.slates submitted by Republican-majority state legislatures — with Hieronymus Bosch-style Antifa chaos to follow all over the land. Sounds like a low percentage deal to me, but then… what’s actually at stake here?
Not to be too melodramatic, but something kind of like a Manchurian Candidate situation. How okay is it, actually, for Joe Biden, with a record of accepting large sums of money from China’s intel apparatus, to move into the Oval Office, especially after they laid the Covid-19 trip on the world? No problemo, the DNC and its vast network of apparatchiks answer. There’s no evidence of Ol’ Joe colluding for pay!
Oh, but there’s plenty of evidence, and quite a bit of it is in the public annals already, what with Hunter B’s laptop having been partially dissected since, at least, October, and a great tangle of slime-trails clearly revealed in the email logs and his corporate memoranda. And one must wonder if there is additional evidence in John Ratcliffe’s DNI files — you know, the place where every electron of recorded information ever transmitted on the Internet sleeps. You might have forgotten that something a little screwy is going on there, since the ODNI was supposed to issue a public report on the election (and its adumbrations) by December 18 and the fateful report was indefinitely postponed for reasons so far unknown.
Maybe the president’s antagonists are acting super-anxious to get rid of him — and constructing yet another media campaign to agitate public opinion — because there is evidence that other persons in government, persons of both parties, have been importuned by CCP largesse to perform services in recent years, not to mention other incriminating highjinks they’d hoped would fade harmlessly into history with tags such as the Clinton Foundation, the Open Societies Foundations, Skolkovo, Uranium One, the Maidan Uprising, the Steele Dossier, the Mueller investigation… you get the picture… a vast sepulcher of unholy rot where the Deep State has tried to entomb its most shameful secrets, including now the dark deeds of Election 2020.
Problematical, also, is the likelihood — in the event that he actually does concede and agree to exit the scene — that Mr. Trump will transition into post-presidential life with a bale of secret knowledge so huge, reeking, and damaging to his enemies, gathered over four years of access to the nation’s intel files, that not a congressman, senator, or high-up bureaucratic lifer will be left standing as the information dribbles out strategically in the months-to-come of the as-yet hypothetical Biden-Harris (or Harris-Biden) Administration. Imagine what Ol’ Joe, Kamala, Nancy, Chuck, perhaps even “Cocaine” Mitch and the rest of the Beltway gang are fretting about as they chug down their midnight Zolpedims. The Golden Golem of Greatness is not fading away from the Swamp crime scene no matter which way this thing turns out. And don’t forget, he is not exactly alone. Tens of millions of extremely pissed-off Americans are standing-by pretty quietly, for now, from sea to shining sea, behind him.
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def., countable and uncountable, plural adumbrations (uncountable) The state of being in shadow or shade; (countable) a shadow.
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a privilege, gain, or profit incidental to regular salary or … Looking to acquire a job loaded with perquisites, or “perks”
” a bale of secret knowledge so huge, reeking, and damaging to his enemies”
If he had it he would have dumped it by now. Of course it wouldn’t matter, the press would give it a good leaving alone. Or maybe he is keeping many of the choice pieces for some type of blackmail protection for his family. Who knows? We have lost, on to the next round.
His plane will crash at some point if he doesn’t do something.
The media needs it’s funding cut… all the bad actors need their funding cut, do that and it’s game over. The 2018 EO calls for just such an action. Note that the deadline for the announcement of foreign involvement in the election has passed with a couple of agencies refusing to get on board. So long as those agencies refuse to act nothing will happen and Pedo Joe and the Ho will be anointed.
Trump’s major problem is he has no loyal backers in high enough positions to effect changes. He should have cleaned house much earlier. Not doing so will be his downfall. Barr should have been tossed in October, ditto Wray. There are too many in positions of authority who will go against him because he doesn’t butter their bread.
Or, more likely, is that Trump is the trojan horse i have always believed him to be. Without him, we arent masked and no one would have stood for it. But they needed the distraction and division.
You keep saying that, and doing nothing.
Maybe you think saying that is doing something.
And what have you been doing? Based on whats in the news, people are frozen in their tracks awaiting trump doing something. Which he wont. The only person doing something did it in nashville, and that was more than likely some 3 letter organization. But i know you arent doing a single thing. Because if it aint on tv, it never happened.
Sorry little Apple, you keep spewing bullshit, your TDS is strong. Trump had squat to do with masking, he was excoriated for calling Covid the flu, ditto for not wearing a mask. Did that factoid escape your notice?
https://bgr.com/2020/07/19/coronavirus-transmission-face-mask-mandates-trump-vs-fauci/
It was and is the democrats, rinos and state governors who insist on lockdowns and maskings, pushed by the likes of Fauci and Birk and all the other psuedo scientists hoping to get rich from the virus vaccine. FAUCI was the prime mover in the forced maskings.
It was your chosen fellow BIDEN who stated that he would FORCE people to wear masks.
“Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden would use his federal powers to force Americans to wear masks if elected, he said on Thursday.”
https://nypost.com/2020/06/26/biden-says-he-would-sign-order-forcing-americans-to-wear-masks/#:~:text=Democratic%20presidential%20candidate%20Joe%20Biden%20would%20use%20his,wear%20masks%20if%20elected%2C%20he%20said%20on%20Thursday.
It did make me wonder about all the people who would vote for someone who talks mask-wearing and lockdowns. I guess many sheeple are scared and obedient.
Not even close sweetie. There are two types of people, those with tds, and trump apologists. I avoid both.
That’s a nice twist of logic. If there are only two types, where do you fit in?
Your math logic sucks because it implies three types – everyone else, and you.
Full point! Front snap kick to solar plexus. Match over.
Kunstler sound more like a Qanon-style psy-op every week. Pity.
It’s simple. Trump was inept. Some of the Left’s criticism – that he was never a great business guy – was just … true. I get that some of his bombastic statements – ban Muslims, build the wall, drain the Swamp – were probably why he got elected, but once in office, he should have changed his approach- but I don’t think he was capable of that. Teddy Roosevelt’s “speak softly and carry a big stick” turned into “bellow loudly and carry no stick at all”. WTF was the point of threatening to veto the latest covid relief bill and then signing it anyway? The only way he could have extracted what he wanted was to refuse to signing funding bills until he got what he wanted. If that meant a six month government shutdown in 2017 so be it. He kept hiring people who hated him and trusting Republicans to give him what he wanted later… always later. Well someday never comes. He was Flounder.
With just 25 days left in office he had no reason in the world to sign that piece of shit bill.
Psst. Hey, Genius. The bill was set up so the Fed gubernmint would shut down on Monday night, Dec. 28th. Yeah, that’s why he signed it on Sunday night. There is great worry over the re-do election in
the cheating State of Georgia. If the dirty Dems win, that means they get control of House AND Senate.
Not a pretty thought.
Auntie like to fantasize about The Man From Queens, in the waning moments of his presidency, making a kitchen experiment for the ages.
An easy ingredient for starters; Orange Man Bad pardoning Julian Assange and Edward Snowdon (DJT should have done this already) just to irritate the Deep State.
Then display the truth about a certain 1963 ride in Dallas’ Dealey Plaza for those old enough to remember that. (Careful with this one, Donald – a real time Zapruder activity could still be in play even though Auntie is not aware of any U.S.A. ex-presidents getting offed up to now. That could always be changed.) More bursting-with-flavour should be added with the events of 11 Spetember 2001 being presented objectively for the first time in Gubbermint history.
The icing should consist of generous gobs of foreign influence photos of leading persons of The Sewer and the setting in motion of some obscure Executive Order or statute to eliminate both the Federal Reserve and the Culinary Institute of ‘Merika.
Followed by a cherry-on-top cascade of the “truth” regarding UFOs and Aliens who live among us.
The incoming Harris Administration would not know whether to shit or go blind; and it is already 90% there.
I like your thinking, Auntie, but alas it is but a dream. America does not really want the truth. It is too ugly.
I imagine a lot of people are hoping that Trump will retire to a farm, there to write his memoirs, or go build houses in Africa somewhere. Fat chance. This man is tenacious: over and over he knocked down anyone who came after him, Deep State and all, and did it handily. Even his turncoat lawyer, jailbird Michael Cohen, who had every incentive to sink Trump, was unable to lay a glove on him. Unfortunately, the pandemic and the shady election hijinks combined to take him down, but not by much.
Unlike the grifting Clintons, the Obamas and Joe Biden, Trump is not dependent on benefactors to keep the money rolling in. He is already rich. He will be like Don Corleone, biding his time until the time is right, and then unleashing the dogs of war. People who take comfort in the fact that lately he has been relatively quiet and restrained are fooling themselves. An accounting is coming.
“I imagine a lot of people are hoping that Trump will retire to a farm, there to write his memoirs”
Read “Witness” by Whitaker Chambers. He did and tried to warn us. A true patriot after he disavowed Communism and communist infiltration. We should have learned.
I rarely comment but you have mentioned one of the best books ever written and a “must read”to anyone who wants to understand the allure of Marxist thinking in the 1930’s from the mind of a true intellectual who was also honest enough to reject it all when he saw the true hideous reality coming to life..
Yes indeed, but all for naught?
They will hound him and his children until they are all dead or in prison. the hatred runs deep in these folks.
Trump played the game and played it well. He was no doubt handsomely paid and he and his family will laugh at us stupid peons for believing he was on our side or that he was even an “outsider”in the race. Their are no outsiders or renegades among the elite. Only ones that exist are highly controlled puppets. The only one that actually thought he ran something was JFK and the message was loud and clear that day in Dallas who holds the reigns of power. The idea that he pretty much came out of nowhere and was such a pleasant surprise to conservatives and said all the right things and made all the right promises should have been the first clue. He surrounded himself with people he wanted because he IS one of them. They ALL sneer and look at us with disdain…always have. The conservatives and patriots were played big time. Deny it all you want..won’t change a damn thing.
We will know within a year. SDNY is still in hot pursuit and if it goes the way of all the other big time cases, then he is in on it. If they continue to go after him, he is an outsider and they will make an example of him.