Guest Post by Jim Kunstler
In case you don’t know what condition our condition is in, the name for it is a crisis of legitimacy. Four years of seditious harassment by a “Resistance” within-and-without the US Government culminates in the janky election of a mentally incapable grifter… run by whom? Does anyone seek to know who, exactly, is pulling Joe Biden’s strings? My guess would be…duh… Barack Obama and his posse. When will he be outed? Maybe today… or next week at the latest. Heads will explode to see liberalism’s bowling trophy fall off the national mantelpiece. If you think Nancy Pelosi is running around in a hebephrenic fugue state now, just wait.
A crisis of legitimacy means that citizens have lost faith in their institutions, that is, in the armature of agreements and procedures for running this society. Do you have any idea how much damage RussiaGate did to the country? The three-year-long mind-fuck perpetrated by the highest officials of the FBI and the CIA ruined whatever was left of their reputations. Not only are citizens not safe from the powers of life-and-death vested in these agencies, but they know that officials who wield that power recklessly won’t be held responsible when acting outside the law. Are we any better now than the Russians under Leonid Brezhnev?
UkraineGate and the first Trump impeachment it spawned was a CIA operation that used CIA agent Eric Ciaramella and Intel Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson (a former DOJ RussiaGate player) to cover up the influence-peddling crimes of Joe Biden’s family behind a smokescreen of perfidy fanned over the nation by the notorious RussiaGate liar, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA). The State Department assisted in that op, and now the whole country knows that they are also ethically unreliable.
In both of these gigantic flimflams, the president could not get any satisfactory scrutiny of the injuries attempted against him, because the ops were run by the very agencies needed to provide that scrutiny over unlawful official behavior. Did the DOJ and its stepchild, the FBI, show any interest in the recent voting irregularities, or is it just convenient to let it all slide so they can answer to a new president, with a clear and urgent interest in burying the matter?
Is it any wonder that a huge chunk of the population doesn’t believe the election was on-the-level? Federal law enforcement has not revealed the identities of exactly who incited the invasion of the Capitol building — and do you believe who The New York Times and CNN claim it was: white supremacist Nazis? Has it not occurred to the “winner” and his handlers that such a public mood of distrust will thunder through our national affairs going forward?
It’s late in the game but something appears to still be in play, and the Resistance is keenly aware of it: a trove of declassified documents laying out their crimes against their own countrymen. Nothing has stuck to the Resistance because they controlled the levers of adjudication. What if, under the extraordinary conditions of the moment, those levers are transferred to one arm of the government that has not disgraced itself: the military? I wrote in this blog more than once in recent years that political disorder could lead to this. Has that moment come?
Thousands of troops are billeted in and around Washington DC now. Why is that? The figment of more white supremacists coming to reenact last week’s incident at the Capitol? I don’t think so. A BLM / Antifa riot, like the ones staged in cities (including Washington DC) all through the summer and fall? (Weren’t they mostly peaceful?) Or is something else up, something that will mark an epochal shift in the fortunes of the USA?
Did you catch Joe Biden on TV last night? Did his appearance fill you with the sweet, warm unction of reassurance? Or did you get the impression that I got: of a near-mummy in a state of panicky confusion, sent from his hidey-hole out to a podium to give an impersonation of someone in authority? I didn’t believe the performance for a minute. The poor schlemiel is headed straight into history’s discontinued merchandise bin. He will probably wonder what awful vanity propelled him down the memory hole as he descends into the darkness… but his memory preceded him down the memory hole and he will have forgotten how the whole thing started. His exit will be a merciful one compared to the people who trussed him up and shoved him onstage to flesh out their lame narrative.
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There are more US soldiers in Wash D.C. right now than there are currently stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan combined and like their OCONUS counterparts, I bet if you asked any of them what their “mission” is, they would have no idea.
To protect “Democracy.” Except we are the goat humpers in this scenario. Instead of Allahu Akbar, we should yell “Viva Cristo Rey!” since we have a nice little Cristero War looming among other kinds.
Deus Vult!
yes.
Double post.
Mr. Magoo and Miss Super Spreader needed some one to attend the circus……they are the perfect “stuckies” for attendance.
The Greatest Show on Earth, Barnum and Bailey can’t hold a candle to this shit show. Guess the pols got a tad frightened when they realized that a real mob could’ve torn them limb from limb and tossed the scraps to the dogs.
They have to let the world know that they will broach no disobedience, no dissent and they have to present the facade that they are legitimate and in control, a show of strength and power. Look. little peons, look at what WE command, what WE control. Don’t even think about resistance, it’s futile. See our power, our Army, of course we’re legitimate, might makes right and we rightfully stole this election. You have no say otherwise, you are silenced. You must obey or else…
Uh, I think the Army is there to protect them from the villagers with their pitchforks who want to stab this Frankenstein to death. Just an idea.
Or…to secure broad areas while mass arrests take place.
I’ve also always thought the military would have to be the final answer. I don’t know if that’s good or bad news. Mattis? Kelly? Petreus? McChrystal? There is plenty of room for doubt and dread.
Try Gen Milley-now there is a profile in courage (sarc)!
I think Douglas MacGregor, currently advisor to acting secdef said it right, the most immediate task would be to fire a least 50% of senior military leadership (or words to that effect).
There are two GOs I trust implicitly: GEN Tommy Franks and LTG Randy Mixon. I have my reasons and they are rock solid. I really hope Trump has been in contact with them.
To date Trumps pick of staffing has been off the rails bad. So I’m going to go with there isn’t a hope Trump has talked with anyone thats not swamp.
Auntie had a dream-nightmare that indicated the Aliens (yep, those Pleidians, Reptilians, or Zeta Reticulans from outer space) are coming to make an appearance at Joe’s inauguration next Wednesday.
A naughty upstage of the Harris Administration’s début fer shure but it would be in keeping with the spirit of 2021.
SITUATION UPDATE, Jan 14th, 2021 – An astonishing theory: FEMA and the US military will save America at its final hour
https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-01-14-situation-update-jan-14th-2021-an-astonishing-theory-fema-and-the-us-military-will-save-america-at-its-final-hour.html
Within a week, we will know the real answer
If Pieczenik and Wood and Flynn and people like Steele are all wrong, then it will become obvious that the patriot community has been subjected to the most elaborate psychological operation in history. The Q movement will collapse, and people like Pieczenik will be forever blacklisted, exposed as hoaxers and manipulators.
But if they are right, we will witness the most extraordinary turnaround in the history of our nation, and perhaps in the history of the world. Biden will be arrested, the Republic will be saved and the military will uphold the Constitution.
January 19th is National Popcorn Day, so grab your popcorn and get ready for thrills either way.
Listen to my full podcast for a more detailed explanation of all this:
I listened. Wow, just wow… Sin unchecked has led us down this insane path. While the military might save us from political annihilation the deeper problem will remain, continuing to fester till God has had enough of us. I’ll certainly let out a cheer to see the human devils perp-walked out of the “sacred halls of democracy” (backed by the Pentagram) if only to buy us time to further share the gospel of Christ. I won’t be surprised to learn that “angels” have had Trumps back since the beginning. Peace, safety and all that…
I am so very thankful I can be sure of my eternal destination far away from this temporal shit-show… 😊
If the country is open to travel come Feb 1 my wife and I will be making our way by car from Texas to the southern OBX to visit my folks. Perhaps we might share a meal on our way through your neck of the NC woods if the path allows?
Oh Yea, without a doubt Pastor! I’m about 55 minutes from 95.
Just had family from texas drive up for a visit, Dallas, took’em two long days.
We’re in our dream home, nicknamed the Markamo…keep me up on your plans.
Click my name and you’ll find my contact info. I’d very much look forward to meeting you in person!
Pastor,
I asked Admin to send you my Proton em-mail address.
Keep me up on your NC plans!
👍👍
Mark. I hope your house ends better then Al’s.
TN,
I missed it…who is Al?
(If 5,000 pissed off commie led landscapers show up playing the El toque a degüello at the Markamo…I will put on my coonskin cap, and break out my M1A version of ole Betsey…I am experienced with fighting large numbers of pissed off little brown skinned men).
KILLER SONG…stone cold killer lyrics…and by Marty the balladeer of ballads.
Markamo – Alamo It’s inhabitants did not fair well at the end of the day, but they died on their feet.
I agree on Marty. El Paso was one of my favorites a long, long time ago.
I can’t see said the slow witted man on the ramparts wearing his coonskin cap backwards!
Goddammit! Are you trying to force me to post another “grasping at straws” pic? Well, are ya, punk?? 🙂
mark said those were doobies… pass me a fattie, won’t you?
Maggie,
Roll another one…just like the other one…
Ha!
That really did look like me…back in the day…made me laugh out loud!
I refuse to lose hope…remember Stuck:
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Me either.
That’s the same Hopium that Q had people addicted too.
“Any day now, the evil left will pay for their crimes.” “Soon” “It’s coming”
The only way the left will ever pay for their crimes is if the people rise up. The government will never do it.
This is quite innaccurate, governments fight it out all the time.
Or perhaps pigs my fly out your butt.
If Biden is unlawfully installed on January 20th, here’s what the Right can do on January 21st.
Posted on January 15, 2021 by State of the Nation
LAUNCH A NATIONWIDE ECONOMIC BOYCOTT; Submitted by The Pissed-Off Patriot
In case y0u don’t know by now, the Democrats have overthrown the Republic.
Their communist takeover is virtually complete, and very few are even aware.
It’s called a soft coup. They stole every election in sight during the 2020 election cycle.
They didn’t even have to do a bolshevik revolution.
Now they’re gonna put their Maoist cultural revolution on steroids.
With that reality check out of the way, Patriots need to respond very, VERY quickly.
The quickest and surest way we can do that is with an Economic Boycott.
That means an immediate disengagement from all of Corporate America that supports this purge of Patriots.
Start buying local … support every mom ‘n pop you can before they’re all gone.
Because a Biden administration is totally illegitimate, folks can stop paying all taxes but only in a way that limits vulnerability
Look, any imposter who steals the POTUS election cannot be allowed to steal our money too. No friggin’ taxation without representation—PERIOD!
Truckers, especially, can refuse to run their routes in all the sanctuary cities.
Now listen up, truckers! On Thursday, January 21st, stop all deliveries to the following Democrat-controlled hellholes.
Washington, DC
New York City
Los Angeles
San Fransisco
Seattle
San Jose
Portland
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Chicago
Detroit
Atlanta
Charlotte
Austin
Houston
New Orleans
Denver
Minneapolis–Saint Paul
Milwaukee
I like the plan, so how do we organize to compensate the truckers who will lose their livelihood. I am not sure something as straightforward as “CrowdFunding for Truckers Who Boycott” is going to stay up long enough to be successful….local…..we have to start small and local. 5 friends could help a local trucker find other work…..besides driving a big rig…unless of course it was parked sideways on a bridge.
I absolutely will boycott buying toilet paper …. until I need more toilet paper.
I absolutely will boycott buying food …. until I need more food.
I absolutely will boycott buying gasoline …. until I need more gasoline.
And so on, and so forth. You get the picture; boycotts are bullshit, a waste of time, and rarely (if, ever) work.
Ya got to plan ahead Stuck…
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Uh, no, boycotts do work, just depends on who and what is being boycotted.
I’ve been attempting to reason with a liberal from Oregon, now, unfortunately, living in Texas. Here is a sampling from the conversation…
You can’t rely on anything you read on the internet. Antifa is against violence. They are a bunch of pot-smoking peace-loving aging hippies. In Portland, all of the violence was from neo-Nazi, proud boy, patriot prayer hate groups, with one exception. That one violent antifa guy was arrested. But the neo-Nazi, proud boy, patriot prayer hate groups are quite dangerous. They invaded the BLM protests to raise mayhem and to antagonize the peaceful protesters. They attacked the capital in DC.
Barr was Trump’s lackey and he still claimed the election was fair.
This idiot is now on my ignore list…he was given irrefutable facts and he STILL refused to acknowledge them. Those facts came from the internet, not the MSM so they don’t count. So long as idiots like this are supporting the filth there’s little hope for the country. Hopefully he gets vaccinated soon…..
It depends on what you mean when you say they “do work”. In other words, did the boycott achieve its goals?
— If the goal is to put a company out of business … that never works.
— If the goal is to hurt a company’s bottom line … sure, that works but, usually only temporarily
— If the goal is to change the way a company does business, that rarely works
— If the goal is to bring awareness of a company’s evil practices … that can work, but usually the ones calling for a boycott are just preaching to the choir
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If you are a Freakonomics fan, you’ll enjoy his article regarding the efficacy of boycotts. It’s a podcast, but has transcript also. Here…
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https://freakonomics.com/podcast/do-boycotts-work-a-new-freakonomics-radio-podcast/
Well, at this point in time I’m not real sure about anything working. I am dropping friends, temporarily or permanently, who knows. I can’t comply or pretend to comply or countenance anything that is happening at present, pretending that things are just fine or that some form of normalcy will return is impossible. I feel like a wanderer, a stranger in a strange land, I isolate on purpose, I have nothing to converse about and I really don’t want to be around people at present.
I’m not in a fugue, I’m in a funk. The black pill tastes like shit.
I suffer from Weltschmerz, World pain, grief, world weariness. a deep sadness about the inadequacy or imperfection of the world (tiefe Traurigkeit über die Unzulänglichkeit der Welt). Is there a cure? Not sure.
I recall reading a speech that Elizabeth Cady Stanton gave to congress in 1892, seeking equal rights for women and others of the dispossessed classes. I found her words to be most wise….and depressing. Illusions shattered.
“…When death sunders our nearest ties, alone we sit in the shadows of our affliction. Alike mid the greatest triumphs and darkest tragedies of life we walk alone. On the devine heights of human attainments, eulogized land worshiped as a hero or saint, we stand alone. In ignorance, poverty, and vice, as a pauper or criminal, alone we starve or steal; alone we suffer the sneers and rebuffs of our fellows; alone we are hunted and hounded thro dark courts and alleys, in by-ways and highways; alone we stand in the judgment seat; alone in the prison cell we lament our crimes and misfortunes; alone we expiate them on the gallows. In hours like these we realize the awful solitude of individual life, its pains, its penalties, its responsibilities; hours in which the youngest and most helpless are thrown on their own resources for guidance and consolation. Seeing then that life must ever be a march and a battle, that each soldier must be equipped for his own protection, it is the height of cruelty to rob the individual of a single natural right.”
https://www.nps.gov/wori/learn/historyculture/solitude-of-self.htm
True maybe? However it will not make the 6 o’clock news on MSM or the NYT or WAPO. Non event that should have been revealed 3 years ago. This is just part of the Uniparty story line.
There is no significant opposition to the coup (or whatever term you want to use) that occurred here in the formally United States. There are a lot of theatrics, miscreants acting afraid, ill tempered folk who hate scammers sitting on their hands, unhappy people who will go along with everything they are told, but no real opposition. None. Not any. The Deep State/NWO/Globalcorportistfinanciers/roll your own term here have proceeded successfully without having to actually DO a thing except lie.
The lies are endured by people who hope to keep getting a piece of the pie, and those that hope to steal a bigger piece of the pie. That is it, in a nutshell. What do yo think will happen when people realize that the pie is shrinking, declining fast in nutritive value, and soon not even going to be there to steal anymore? That is when it will get sporty, and Trump won’t have a thing to do with it.
I really used to like reading Kunstler though I am no lefty. How do you suppose they got to him? It really is too bad.
Formerly instead of “formally”.
Expect lots more language corrections from the Ministry of Correct-think post 20 Jan 21.
Spell, Formerly indeed. Thanks.
What the hell is a “hebephrenic fugue”?? Sounds like some Jewish phallic thingy.
I had to look up both words … cuz I ain’t as smart as Kunstler.
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hebephrenic: — “a form of schizophrenia characterized especially by incoherence, delusions lacking an underlying theme, and affect that is usually flat, inappropriate, or silly.” ….. [fukmeded, what a perfect description of Da Cunt!]
fugue: — “a state or period of loss of awareness of one’s identity, often associated with certain forms of hysteria and epilepsy.”
Also, I looked these:
ar·ma·ture
/ˈärməˌCHər,ˈärməˌCHo͝or/
1.
the rotating coil or coils of a dynamo or electric motor. any moving part of an electrical machine in which a voltage is induced by a magnetic field.
a piece of iron or other object acting as a keeper for a magnet.
2.
a metal framework on which a sculpture is molded with clay or similar material.
a framework or formal structure, especially of a literary work.
“Shakespeare’s plots have served as the armature for many novels”
3.
BIOLOGY
the protective covering of an animal or plant.
ARCHAIC
armor.
bil·let1
/ˈbilit/
Learn to pronounce
verb
past tense: billeted; past participle: billeted
lodge (soldiers) in a particular place, especially a civilian’s house or other nonmilitary facility.
“he didn’t belong to the regiment billeted at the hotel”
I don’t know how to edit my comment above. This is Tim. Long-time reader, minimal commenter.
I got the impression that Joe Dementia is going dark on January 21st.
I just discovered hebephrenia runs in my family and who doesn’t appreciate a lengthy fugue from time to time?
This is not meant to just be a frivolous fly-by. I hope you will watch the video and read the accompanying message, as I have done. I will be back to add some more comments soon.
It occurred to me that “Row, Row, Row your boat” is a fugue and I didn’t know, know, know it.
History doesn’t repeat itself; it segues into polyphonic harmony.
There. I’m off to walk with Geneva, who is the best person God chose to live next door to me. She turned 80 last year and she and I are determined to keep walking until the wall falls down or that eastern sky splits right open. It was last week last year (2020) when her husband Cody was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He died before Mother’s Day and I swore up until two weeks before he passed away that God had healed him. He was never really sick, though he did seem tired.
He was ready to go and I think his family are the finest bunch I’ve seen at a parent’s death.
I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m beginning to understand why Nero fiddled while Rome burned.
I cooked a strip of venison tenderloin Nick shot last fall and we wondered how they could starve us out. But, I’ve heard of game wardens raiding local landowners freezers if they suspect poaching. We paid a hundred dollar fine because Nick turned in my tag, not realizing the landowner tags are now specific. Seriously, three years ago we had so many landowner tags, I invited people to hunt our land. Now? One buck; one doe per landowner. A couple of turkeys.
And, while there really is a rabbit season? It is always rabbit season.
However, the nice game warden who showed up at our log home before my husband got back from turning in the deer for processing at the local butcher shop said he believed we really did make an honest mistake but he had to give us a fine, but would make it the lowest he felt he could give us (really? isn’t there a $25 my husband is a city slicker dumbass from Cleveland fine in that list go browns?)
So, the processing of the young buck was around a hundred bucks and we froze about 65 pounds of meat (half roasts and stew chunks/half ground no added fat) and kept a lot of bones for dogs. The fine was also a hundred bucks making the meat twice as precious as a lesson to us both. We may not be in the military industrial complex any longer but the revenuers are everywhere, even out here in the suburbs of the sticks.
In an actual collapse down scenario, wildlife will be decimated within a couple weeks. You can’t count on that. Think small … minnows.
In an actual collapse down scenario, wildlife will be decimated within a couple weeks.
Yup. I’m always amused when I hear about those stalwart souls who are going to hunt Bambi to survive. If things truly go sideways, those hunters will be out hunting each other for food. Think The Road for examples of what happens when the food runs out.
Deer had to be reintroduced into Arkansas during my father in law’s youth before WW2 as they were pretty much extinct in most of the state.
I believe they used the term “lid” during the “campaign”.
I thought the “Weekend at Bidens” memes were funny before.
Now it just worries me.
If Andrew McCarthy shows up at a presser, it’s over.
Dr Jill is setting up the basement to look like the oral office, including a smaller version of the Resolute desk. His paid staffers will continue to call him Mr President Elect and he will be happy.
“Hebephrenic.” This is why I read you, Kunstler. I learn something new every time.
So … if, as Kunstler says, b h o is pulling the strings to get Joe Van Winkle into the White House — then who was it that pulled a career nobody — who’s never held or created a productive job in his life — into the US Senate and into the White House in ’08 and ’12?
b h o is a career malcontent … a man so without substance he doesn’t even cast a shadow in bright sunlight … yet someone rammed him up our collective asses to be the White House occupant for 8 miserable years …
THOSE are the folks we need to find and expose …
I’m sure Soreass has his hands on the strings or at least the ones pulling them. Kumswallow was 0bama’s candidate last election and I’m sure he got her on the ticket.
Obama’s parents were commies and his maternal grandparents. They were part of a network of well to do commies. The Ayers family was part of it. Bill’s Dad was head of Communistically Wealthy Edison. The Geithners were part of the group and the Axelrods and all the usual suspect academics.
That is absolute nonsense considering BHO was a puppet. When wiki leaks reveals an email to Obama from the CEO of Citi telling him who his cabinet will be (before he is even sworn in), you know this guy is not a shot caller.
Pure yes man, one of the best.
They are next, Globalist swine, first it is round up traitors time.