Guest Post by Jim Kunstler
How do you like the party you supposedly voted into power so far? Or is it perhaps too much to say they were actually voted into anything? And if so — if there was something, let’s say, a little irregular with the ballot tabulation, maybe even more than a little — have they not succeeded splendidly in pissing-off more than half the people across the land? And then attempted to rub that half’s faces into the squishy, fetid loam of the DC Swamp?
I’d say that every move they make, every breath they take, seems calculated to spark a new civil war. Yesterday’s spiteful exercise in cognitive dissonance was a humdinger: Mr. Biden threatened to cut off travel to Florida for flouting his regime’s policy on Covid-19 lockdowns, while over in Texas (and several other states), he ordered a general unlocking-down of the border with Mexico, permitting the unchecked illegal ingress of thousands of possible Covid-19 carriers a day. Ron DeSantis, Florida’s governor, responded, saying — if I may paraphrase — see you in court, asshole.
Meanwhile, the cancellation reign-of-terror among the regime’s self-appointed guardians of Wokeness rages on. In the name of diversity and inclusion, no one in the USA is allowed to publicly question the Woke narrative of the moment, or else be deprived of your livelihood. The New York Times fired forty-year veteran science reporter Donald G. McNeil, Jr., for using the freighted word “n*gg*r” while answering a student’s question about the history of the word’s usage, just as I am explaining his use of it in the incident at issue — that is, academically.
Though Mr. McNeil’s intent was incontrovertibly innocent as viewed by persons not insane — including, only briefly, the paper’s executive editor Dean Baquet — the decision to not sack Mr. McNeil provoked a reflexive uproar among the Times’s staff, as something in the wind might provoke a flight of grasshoppers transforming into a swarm of locusts, and Mr. Baquet reversed himself, forcing Mr. McNeil to choose demotion or resignation. Then, to make matters worse, the Times’s publisher, AG Sulzberger, spiked a column by nominally “conservative” op-ed writer Bret Stephens that attempted to argue some legalistic points about intent in the conduct of a witch hunt, an apparent affront to the Times’s witch-hunters, who seem to prefer their witch-hunting as a straight-up blood sport.
How strange it is to see the group formerly so avid for social and sexual transgression, and the artistic subversion of norms, turn into the most viciously censorious species of bluenose. But, of course, you must understand that Wokery is not about principle, not even a teeny-weeny bit. It’s simply about coercion and punishment, which is exactly why apologizing for supposed counter-Woke errors never avails. In other words, you are not dealing with a mere extreme type of moralist, but rather dedicated sadists. They’re not in it to correct injustice, but for the pleasures of vengeance alone, the torturing of their quarry, and the glow of power it confers.
And the motive is no different among the Democratic Party’s Wokesters in government. How else explain the idiotic impeachment of former president Trump, like the trial of the cadaver of Pope Formosus in the year 897, seven months after his death, for provoking the Carolingian Duke Arnolf to cross the Alps into Italy and seize the throne of the Holy Roman Empire. That episode took place in the heart of the Dark Ages, of course, but have we perhaps not entered a new Dark Age with the Woke Inquisition against — let’s just face it — Western Civ, and all its (for some) difficult-to-comprehend achievements?
Like the trial of Formosus, the trial of Mr. Trump is strictly in the service of laying out a story, a narrative, for validating the continued persecution of Woke heretics — that is, “insurrectionists,” indeed anyone not ardently on-board with transforming the USA into a Woke tyranny of race-and-gender hustling and the endless extortion of cash penalties for the crime of whiteness. What cat-turd box of Satan’s own law school are the leaders of this despotic hysteria hatched from: Pelosi, Swalwell, Adam Schiff, Schumer, and their accessories in media and tech, Jack, Zuck, Cook, and Bezos, and their numberless priests in higher ed? How much longer will it be before the substantial and obdurately not-insane of this country refuse to roll over for these rampaging maniacs?
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As bad as the Biden regime is proving to be – we’re not even going to get a reach-around – I’m more deeply disturbed by the connivance of the media, social media companies, Big Tech generally and big business.
There’s this dude on Twitter – “Michael Malice” – who’s an anarchist. He made a good, if obvious, point: The more the media covers for the lies and schemes of the neoliberal order, the less anybody (with a brain) believes them. Obviously a lot of people have brains that barely suffice to manage breathing, continued heartbeats and the workings of the digestive system, but among those with a greater capacity, the “news” today has become the anti-news. You can listen to NPR (as I do) to find out exactly what isn’t true.
agreed about npr. i listened to it for years to gauge what “the others” were saying, but i simply couldn’t take it any more. i turned it off about a year ago. they’re literally delusional/crazy/out of control.
its brain-explodingly frustrating go know its partially funded by our money…………
Powder-patch-ball; powder-patch-ball; powder-patch-ball. Repeat until the problem resolves itself.
Unlike the first Civil War, this time we won’t make the same mistakes, We take no prisoners, show no mercy, or accept their surrender.
Don’t forget to tie their shoe laces together…if they turn into zombies they won’t be able to chase us.
Weed…my brother in ” Buy More Ammo”.
I have more ammo than Argentina. But I’m still on the hunt for a sale.
Weed
Keep us informed…..
I got a good deal on 5.56 Winchester green tips a few weeks ago…$14.99 a box with a flat rate of $9.95 for shipping. My friends and I bought all we could . It’s gone now .
You definitely need “that Yankee gun you load on Sunday and fire all week.”
Henry’s.
Thank goodness for the invention of repeating firearms.
Let the madness continue and soon there will be more scenes like this one. A man shoots his neighbors over a snow shoveling dispute. What is most remarkable is how the couple continue to taunt him even after he’s pulled a gun and is obviously beyond his last knot on the rope…
https://www.waynedupree.com/2021/02/neighbor-snow-shoveling-dispute/
Thanks Govenor DeSantis for exposing the lunacy. Florida is open. No masks, no lockdowns. We have far far better stats than most states regarding the Covid HOAX. Even with a huge elderly population, International travel destination and extensive tourism “Covid” deaths are far lower than many blue states with tyrannical mask and lockdowns.
If that doesn’t get you to see the farce you must be a woker joker.
For exposing the farce the govt feels it must punish Florida.
BASTARDS.
All the more reason for Xiden to close all of the airports in FL and set up checkpoints at all highway entrances. DeSantis refuses to bow down and worship St. Fauci and to kiss the ass of the pretender in chief.
If those northern blue states add Vitamin D3 to their health regime, they’d have a much better outcome.
Stop giving the enemy tips VV lol. Let those fuckers kill themselves. I seriously have no sympathy for anyone that has followed the ministry of truth’s murder method. A world of true knowledge at nearly every fingertip and people still choose ignorance and fear.
For all the people that die from comorbidities that werebwell within you self control and to those that suffer when the vax really kicks in, well, as Major Payne said, you can find sympathy between shit and syphilis in the dictionary.
My field of fucks to give is barren.
At this point, I’m pretty sure the mother who has been trying to amuse her homebound child for the past year, or the union guy who just lost his job on the pipeline, have more pressing concerns than whether or not Trump gets impeached. I also doubt that the people mourning the deaths of their relatives due to the incompetence of that duplicitous moron Cuomo are very concerned with it, either. Nor are the people on the border who have to deal with the wave of unscreened immigrants poring across the border. Politics is always about whose ox is getting gored, and right now there is a lot of blood spilling out there. But there are a lot of people who voted for Biden, and if their ox is looking a worse for wear right now, perhaps they will be consoled that at least Orange Man Bad is gone.
I had a friend that caught the woke rabies and now I shun them like the lepers they are.
Just disobey what you find stupid or repressing.
Just disobey it.
150 million adult males versus about 40,000 agents of various ABC agencies?
It’s not even a contest.
This is about fear and voluntary compliance – always has been.
I will not…
“Irish Democracy” in conjunction with a repeat of “The Troubles”. They won’t know whether to shit or go blind.
More than eye candy, this one performs…
Sorry… this was supposed to be in the Friday Fail… epic fail on that… sigh
Make it a 1968 GT 350 and I’ll listen……
Ohhhh, I thought it was some symbolic statement I’m too obtuse to catch.
That’s OK, I like Shelbys.
My first car was a 67 Mustang. 351 Windsor engine,Offenhauser hi-rise intake,holly 600 carb,hooker headers and a ten bolt top loader 4 speed. Did low 14’s in the quarter .
I loved that car..until I had my 77 Camero Z-28 that was tricked out as well .Stock it sucked modified it was a beast .
They was no “dark age”. It’s myth created and perpetuated by haters of Christ.
https://westernaesthetics.com/blogs/news/the-myth-of-the-christian-dark-ages
Common Myth: The “Dark Ages” existed from 500-1500 AD. Christianity imposed an era of ignorance and superstition all across Europe. A period preceded and followed by the glorious lights of Greek and Roman antiquities, and the Enlightenment-Renaissance.
Common Revision: The Period from the fall of Rome until the Enlightenment across Europe was not ‘dark’ rather, the fall of Rome initiated a great and accelerating learning curve of innovation and progress that was only beginning to reach maturity as is neared the time of the “Enlightenment-Renaissance” era.
First of all I couldn’t give a rats arse about all this foolish Wokery. I am retired and have no stake in the game. In my opinion all BM’s matter and this story makes me want to take a big one. I am just an average Joe who requires no acceptance by the main stream anything. Dis me here, dis me there…and let me tell you I don’t care.
Montana king lifted mask mandate today! Yay!!!
Yes.
I tried to explain to my brother just yesterday why this is: “They want a civil war in order to cause a break-up of the country. As soon as the US is no longer the US, the very same pieces of . . . dookie . . . who have robbed this country for the last hundred years get to walk away from EVERY obligation to the people, all the pensions, the social security, AND ALL THE NATIONAL DEBT. And many of them will go on to positions of power in the NWO because “domesticative terroristics” caused it . . . after being pushed and pushed and pushed and poked and prodded and looted for a hundred years.
THEY ARE GODLESS. THEIR positions of power ARE THEIR REWARD FROM SATAN.
These people believe they are god. The whole basis of satanism is that one has a special knowledge, it is the oldest religion.
I believe they want a civil war to justify eliminating the Second Amendment. After that they can act with impunity. Why kill the cash cow when you can cut off its horns?
I think they want a ‘civil war’ as cover for economic collapse and debt jubilee. Tearing up the constitution is just gravy.
I’m not sure the communists are necessarily trying to start a silly war as much as they’re just that tone deaf. They’re cloud people and they don’t even notice it when they crush countless millions by accident. They’re petty and stupid and short-sighted. They’re the epitome of “let them eat cake.” So trying to penalize a state because a bunch of sportsball fans had a party is perfectly sensible to them. They don’t see any disconnect or hypocrisy, just their good intentions and we stupids’ failure to obey.
Not that I’m defending them, I just think they’re so stupid, they don’t have the ability to understand. If ever there was a candidate and a party that needed to get the famous Bush Sr. Gotcha! questions about “How much does a loaf of bread cost?” and “How much do you pay for groceries in a week?”, it’s these people. They don’t know and they don’t care. Even better- they should be asked how much they should cost.
Lurch Kerry, who was born for the lamp post, said a guy making $250k welding pipelines was being “offered more choices” when Biden outlawed his job. No idea WTF that means.
Funny-I call him Dr. Frankenstein’s hideous escaped monster.
Birds of a feather and all that…
Did you see that comment from Harris about how out-of-work coal miners could be employed clearing land mines?
Think it was cleaning up the strip mines, but still a dozen illegals could do it cheaper.
Mr. Kunstler, Substantial and obdurately not-insane of this country are refusing to roll over right now. The time is right now. Your wait time is zero minutes.
“For example, our politicians like to brag about how many jobs that they have “created”, but the truth is that they don’t actually create any jobs unless you want to count useless government desk jobs.” Corporations take it too well for granted that they rule us. Let all the tyrants (political and corporate) march to their own deaths, I have a different path to follow. As well, I will not follow the dictates of what a lot of these medical experts are saying. Aside from those trans-gendering and the committed Eugenics crowd (I firmly believe there are inherent DNA based inabilities for some individuals to use their full potential) the two classes (very small numbers actually despite what they possess) believe they are superior but their flaws are very apparent as any depictions of them on social media rarely flatter. If they had to deal with me on an individual one-on-one, they would find out fairly fast they do not have any “complete” ability to influence anything I do or say.
A Point for Deeming them Insignificant: All versions of Windows should be free. That kills any further advantage Microsoft has (stolen and insignificant like Facebook and everything that preceded and followed), but I don’t need to switch to any “anonymous” software and pay for “secure” communications. These pests of society live on the fringes and at the benevolence of those of us who are not ready to completely eliminate them from any further participation in our society (we will keep their technology, barely two generations old which is always incredulous to think about). At times, fringe individuals (like the Neanderthals) have been bred out of existence and other times our society has wiped out large segments of society in general. The US Capital was seized and that has not happened for ages (you really won’t convince me otherwise). Aside from a few assassinations and minor bombings during the last century they haven’t really experienced fear and you can see from their reactions they “got the message” (Thanks Lex Luther and Marvel for giving us a look at what we could do to those that think they are in power)). At other times the have been removed forcibly as they are a plague on society. It doesn’t take thousands of men to win a war, just those with commitment. Lay a hand on anyone that values his freedom more than his life and that individual will have met the wrong man (courage). They work at their best if they are used together. Training for 60 days for the US military in ethics, give me a laugh. Those little skinny ass Captain’s that thinks they know better than others might follow along but they were the ones that got it first. Most individuals will be smarter that the social justice warriors they hire. I and others refused to sign federal training that offended me and was extremely vulgar (3 years ago) and they pulled it. Get an audience together and they will be beat down every time by audience members asking questions (they usually try and make a quick escape as they know what they impart is stupid). These depraved classes (I don’t belong to a class, I belong to a tribe of one and those I call friends and family) would like to convey in the media that they are able to control us but the truth is they have unleashed on themselves a furious group, millions strong, that if the call of arms does come they are the ones unlikely to survive for very long, even with their Führer-bunkers.
If you’re not watching mainstream media or you’re not on social media, the majority of this passes by without your noticing. Stick to your family and local-area concerns and don’t worry about the rest because you can’t change it anyway