Guest Post by Jim Kunstler
No need to argue anymore about defunding the police. The police across America have been successfully disarmed and castrated. Why would any cop with a sense of self-preservation interfere in the commission of a crime now? Just assume that the social contract is cancelled. You’re on your own.
Interesting factoids, by the way: rape reports are up 322 percent in New York City over the past year, shootings were up 97 percent and murders up 44 percent — a good start to the new era of all-against-all, where life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. But don’t worry, Benjamin Crump and the legion of super-hero personal injury lawyers stand ready to enforce the suspension of law, seeking multi-million-dollar payouts in civil suits, such as the $27-million recently settled on the family of George Floyd, which is $27-million more than Jesus of Nazareth got for somewhat harsher treatment years back, though, according to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, George Floyd has by far outpaced the old lord-and-savior in sheer saintliness mojo. Looks like George and Jesus will soon be vying for Speaker of Kingdom Come in the new, revised cosmos of American Wokery.
Anyway, New York’s City Council voted last month to end qualified immunity for police officers, which formerly shielded them from personal lawsuits in the performance of their duties. Predictable result: they will no longer perform their duties. This is on top of Mayor Bill de Blasio ending the age-old practice of posting bail for charged felons pending disposition of a criminal case. Meanwhile, the city’s main jail, Rikers Island, is scheduled to be closed down in 2026. Abolish incarceration! Well done, Big Apple!
For the moment, Derek Chauvin is on ice, having served his purpose as sacrificial goat in a trial that had all the fateful velocity of the Chattanooga Choo-choo. No need to rehearse the prejudicial actions of Rep Maxine Waters (D-Calif), oval office occupant Joe Biden, sidekick Kamala Harris, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune newspaper, Minnesota AG Keith Ellison, and other workers on the railroad of justice. The case will surely go into appeal and by the time it is finally adjudicated the old USA will be on ice, too — in the mortuary of lost civilizations.
Minneapolis police officer Kim Potter is teed-up next in the death of multiple felony suspect Daunte Wright, who was turning his life around when he made the split-second decision to evade arrest on an outstanding warrant for gun possession. And on deck: Columbus, Ohio, police officer Nicholas Reardon, who (it’s said all over Twitter and cable TV) unfairly interfered in a knife attack between a couple of girls just going about normal teenage girl stuff in their normal, playful way.
Critical Race Theory, and its enforcement arm, Systemic Racism, have got America in a full nelson, having put over the idea that any regulation of behavior among 13 percent of the US population is a crime against humanity — effectively rendering lawlessness a new social entitlement. Waiting to see how that works out as 2021 rolls forward. The weather didn’t cooperate much this week of the aforesaid events, so there was little action in the streets after the Chauvin verdict and all — except in Portland, Oregon, city of masochists, where the nightly riots continued as usual.
Is there a problem with all this? Only that the remaining 87 percent of the folks who live in the USA have so far failed to identify these operations for what they are, an epic hustle — by which I mean the seeking and acquiring of advantage, including large sums of money, by underhanded means. Sorry to tell you: the responsibility for this is on the 87 percent who are craven and feckless enough to allow themselves to be hustled. What’s the payoff for them in this game? A sense of radiant, self-informed moral purity for consenting to be coerced by the hustlers. The endorphin rush must really be something, a little like a snootful of fentanyl-and-meth.
Notice, too, how all this racial psychodrama is an effective smokescreen for other nefarious actions afoot by the Democratic Party. I refer to the various bills moving through Congress now to pack the Supreme Court, turn the District of Columbia into the 51st state (to gain two more senate seats), and to institutionalize voting fraud across all the states (HR-1). Not paying any attention to that? It’s just a gang of power-hungry maniacs trying to destroy your country. That is, unless Joe Biden & Co, manage to start World War Three in Ukraine or Taiwan before that bidness comes to vote. Oh, and here’s the moral of the story: life is tragic. Sometimes things don’t turn out… they just turn.
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The god of this world is insane… I think its starting to show….
Continually calling out Satan answers few questions and provides zero solutions. It is a hope-less endeavor.
#amiright?
I never offered a ‘solution’ and if I had posted a couple scriptural references along with the observation you would have gotten ur knickers all knotted up and wailed that I was going off on God this and God that. God God God satan satan satan… likely popped a blood vessel.
Whats funny is you accuse Stephany as being a moth drawn to a flame whenever someone mentions boomer. Someone mentions God or even satan and you seem compelled to toss in a few quips. Who’s the moth?!?!?
I generally like you, really. But, I do not like you when you turn into an exaggerating bag of donkey shit. It is unseemly.
I rarely comment on people’s religious postings. And when I do it is generally only to regular TPBers who make a lot of religious posts. For example; ordo, but I now only rarely address his religious stuff — and GCP, but I’ve pretty much stopped — and Edwitness, can’t remember last time I challenged his religious views — and mark, who hates my guts so I stopped, and of course … you.
Now, I addressed you because you do, in fact, talk about Satan, prince of this world, etc. quite often. I was hoping my two simple observations would have generated an answer from you that shed some light! Instead, it is YOU who often gets butt-hurt at ANYTHING I say about religion. haha Who is the moth, indeed?
If I commented as often on religious commentary made by TBPers as you indicate …. it would take another 100 posts every single day! I would say a conservative estimate of TBPers is that HALF of them are Christians! Who has time and/or energy to comment on every Jesus/Satan post?? Sure as hell ain’t me!
I mean just moments ago someone made a political comment on the “Deagle” thread but, then in closing, I guess they just had to add —> “for I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have committed unto Him until that day”. —- Other than an eye-roll and the shaking of my head, I said nothing. Just. Don’t. Care! Or, take Uncola’s Jesus-pictures thread … out of 116 comments only 6 were mine and only ONE of them pertained to the question! (Four others pertained to me busting your balls over Koine Greek.)
You see, I really don’t give that much of a Rat’s Ass anymore. The daily reductionist argument in the blaming of Satan for all the shit going in this world, and the concomitant insistence that Jesus will magically intervene is an intellectual battle that truly doesn’t interest me all that much … at all.
In closing, if you reply I probably won’t see it … at least not today, as I’m probably done. It’s the first gorgeous day we’ve had in several weeks, and the yard needs much attention. Not to mention that I tire of scrolling past 700+ FF posts …. I’m getting an ugly blister on my scrolling finger. That, too, is unseemly.
Apparently, according to VV, apple cider vinegar (organic) helps dry up blisters.
Don’t you think you should have posted a link to the Deagle thread? I mean that would be helpful for people. I can’t believe that you didn’t post a link, what kind of person does that? Are you new at posting comments?
Pot meet Kettle!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for thinkin’ about me….
I’m pretty much with ya on that not given much of a Rat’s Ass anymore. Everybody always pickin on the freemason’s god:
annuit coeptis novus ordo seclorum <—=== Long Live the Crescent Lodge
It takes 7 paragraphs to say you don’t give that much of a rat’s ass anymore, Stuck…?
Step 1: Demoralize/defund local police
Step 2: Let criminals out of prison/no bail required
Step 3: Purge military of the non-woke
Step 4: Usher in national police force backed up by military to combat “resultant crime wave” but use it to round up non-vaxers, freedom loving patriots and otherwise deplorable individuals. Whose gonna stop them?
He told us he was going to do it and now in his third term, it may come to fruition.
https://youtu.be/Tt2yGzHfy7s
A real gangsta that Barry O.
When he said “fundamentally transform the US” he was telling the truth, the problem was that most people interpreted that to mean change for the better, when in reality his intent was to destroy the US in order to transform the US into a communist country.
Not cynical enough. /s
Auntie sees Mr Kunstler acquiring , practicing with, and packing (discretely) a Walther PPK for his future forays into the urban jungle. Get the extended magazine for better control and always use the jacketed hollow points. Center mass, double tap.
Like the man said – we are on our own.
It reminds me of an interview with a German Machine Gunner at D-Day.
He was asked about why they were such wimps and let the Allies Run all
over them, He Answered, – – –
“What Do You Mean We Were P*SS*ES!!!
We Kept Firing Until The Barrels Melted!!!”
Is such a “Self Preservation Attitude, – – –
Coming Soon To A Neighborhood Near You???
I’m back to .357 mag. No one can complain I had to shoot some scum six times with a piddling .380 or .32acp. One hit anywhere ends the encounter.
And no “evidence” to pick up.
“Peak National Dysfunction”? Come on man, it can and will get much worse. We are nowhere near the peak.
Also my first thought, but one could also argue after peak dysfunction comes stop of all function, then he could be correct.
This is an interesting lecture/speech by Dmitry Orlov about the collapse of both the USSR and the current collapse of USSA from less than a year ago. Start around the 58 minute point if time restrained.
The last half-hour is prophetic because it turns out he was right again.
D. Orlov is a very smart guy and we all should listen closely to his clear-eyed analysis.
One for the QOTD:
“Information spreads at the speed of light, while ignorance is instantaneous at all points of the known universe” – Dimitry Orlov
Stupidity rides shotgun with ignorance and needs to be added to the maxim.
At one point in this audio, Dmitry says he believes those with the best chance of surviving are those with a little bit of land outside the peripheral vision of urban centers. He says the rural poor have had the necessary practice at being poor to survive the shortages that are sure to occur with the upcoming redistribution of wealth we will see very soon, in his opinion.
The necessary practice at being poor. LOL…
He’s not far wrong… Those that will suffer the most will be those that live paycheck to paycheck… or in this case stimi to stimi…
Those that have learned to live simple, will suffer the least. Some may not even realize they are supposed to be suffering only because they are not consumption minded.
Those that will suffer most are the civil servants (school principals, dmv workers, tax office clerks and so forth). They will report to their jobs not knowing anything better to do. Will most likely be at their desk when the mobs come through the door, and go down not realizing what is happening and thinking they are loved by everyone.
Talk to any of them, and I have family members, they don’t have a clue no matter what one tries to tell them.
In the discussion, Orlov mentioned that in rural areas, public servants did continue to perform their jobs and people paid with bartered items if the service provided was essential.
The Soviets actually put in quite a good electric grid which is less susceptible to disruption than ours. They also don’t have idiotic environmentalist nuts like we have wanting to suck all the carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. If they did, they are dead.
Finally NYC gets something right. It is the trifecta of qualified immunity, cop unions and officer safety that allow them to enforce corporate law, theft, abuse, ability to lie, and slavery. Very seldomly are they held to account for their deeds, they should not be above the law.
Some red meat from Gore Vidal: “There is something about the state putting the power to bully into the hands of subnormal, sadistic apes that makes my blood boil”.
How about ending immunity for pharmaceutical companies and politicians?
Absolutely agree. Immunity, and law in general simply provide benefits on one group or an individual and provide restraints to another group or individual.
Why not call “immunity” what it is – a government license to commit crimes?
Back in the Mid-90s when Minneapolis was known as “Murderapolis” the local Lib Rag the Star and Sickle had a pull out section in the Sunday paper with a map of all 97 killings that year and where they occurred. And who the victims/perps (if perps were known)were.
Lo and Behold!!!!!
The majority of the killings were gang related and retaliatory killings. The then black mayor blamed crack.
The murder rate for this same city that is home to the Sacred Site of the Crucifixion of Floyd in Year One of our lord George Floyd was up 70% from 2019. 82 homicides in 2020 vs 48 in 2019.
This is the same city that call for the defunding of the police in 2020, that was supported by the city council.
I say let the police back off some more and let Nature do its thing.
Well I assumed that the social contract is cancelled after Snowden, and the non-actions thereafter.
I slowly realized I’m on my own against the state – as no judiciary, press, institutions, thinkers & philosophers, human rights organizations etc., nor the church will come to my aid to defend against overreach by the government.
It became the moment it first dawned on me Western ‘civilization’ [enlightenment, humanism, individualism] is finished and on its deathbed. It’s getting clearer by the day now my analysis is correct.
Thanks, JK.
Time to go tribal…
added: or head to the shop…
A lot of you think Donald Trump deserves credit for opening to peoples eyes to government corruption. The Sars-CoV-2 hoax has opened my eyes to the systemic corruption of the institutions. I have been able to verify that intellectuals are so riddled with cognitive dissonance that they are not rational. And they will bring their considerable intellects to bear to defend their delusions.
Always ask yourself the counter-question.
In this case, “are non-intellectuals not riddled with cognitive dissonance?”
And it immediately makes your statement quite pointless, except maybe that intellectuals should be better in that than non-intellectuals… which however is not a new idea.
It’s not always either/or, m…
Where did I make it an either/or?
I pointed out that it is healthy to always look at things from an opposing viewpoint as well, to sort out the matter.
Here’s a little kulchah for youse mugs:
“And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!”
Rudyard Kipling
I’ve been off this little piece of hill ground three days this week (bowling, shopping/rabbiting and a doctor’s appointment of note for it being the only place with masks required).
I do not remember seeing a single black person anywhere during the trips. Isn’t that odd? Have they all left the hills?
Reminds me of the time Jesse Jackson came to town for something. There weren’t any Blacks there. Just asshat White politicians. The local Black people, unlike their Urban fellows were all at work.
I’d have to drive 20 minutes to find one, and that is only because of the university.
I don’t think your neck of the woods ever had a large black population, did it? Certainly cannot say the same thing here in W TN where 80% of the TN black population stays.
Near Memphis?
They are trying to get the black woman police chief from Durham NC.
Says she handles demonstrations well (just don’t do nothing always works), yet the homicide rate is only 17% ever solved.
The last Police Director linked arms with the Black Lies Matter mob and walked onto the I-40 bridge, closing all traffic. Of course, Memphrica is a black city controlled by blacks, run by blacks & for blacks. How they managed to elect a white mayor last time is one of the great mysteries of the universe.
I seldom venture into the hellhole & do not like driving through it, but it has the only bridges for 100 mi either side.
agree
I grew up between Sikeston and Bell City in what was sharecropper suburbia after WWII until mechanized farming drove the black population to the cities in the 1980s.
There are parts of Sikeston white people do not venture.
Now, up here in the low Ozarks? No… I don’t think there are a lot. At least not in my neck of the woods. There are several Hispanic families, though.
But why did Dave stop there?
He should demand 100% tax on all inheritances, and stand proud to be in line with (another) one of the 10 planks from The Communist Manifesto!
(Likely not what he intended, but good intentions and such…)
Ahem – it’s the Buffetts of the world who can buy the laws the way they like them.
Nice daydream though.
That is why our tax code has 100’s of thousands of pages.
Don’t be silly with that good intentions nonsense. It’s going to take some serious dudes with really bad intentions to fix this. Take the ideological brainwashing out of it. There’s no principle that is going to fix this. We’re going to have to take it back. It doesn’t matter how.
“A second wrong to make it right!”
Not just as a regrettable means, but as an end.
Yeah, has worked countless times before…
They need their wealth confiscated so that they can’t use it to purchase governments. It is fucking common sense requiring no higher order reasoning.
And then on that confiscation foundation you’re gonna build a just, honest, and lasting society?
When I hear “fair share”, my first thought is of communism.
To anyone paying attention, this is the time to get serious about prepping for what is coming in the not too distant future. The insanity we see all around us is not random, nor is it the result of incompetency. It is by design, to achieve a purpose.
It will not be long until your ability to survive will be predicated on your skills and preparations.
This is nothing new, Kneegrows have been protesting and rioting for over a century. Starting in 1898. And then in 1906, 1908, 1917, 1918, 1919, which was a huge year for riots and mayhem, all over the country. Then 1921, and on and on. This is not to even mention the 1960 riots. We cannot live with these savages. Over and out.
Word is a policeman just got shot and killed across the street. All the news choppers homing in and there’s a million sirens.
We heard the shots. Sounded like somebody emptied the clip. No other information available yet.
Deputy I know just texted me. “DEA sting gone bad. Bad guy dead. Undercover cop only slightly injured.” They blocked in two cars, and then boxed them in with two trucks. I’m guessing the DEA did all the shooting. sounded like 11 or 12 rounds of .223
Anyone who can justify working for the DEA deserves something. The have no more moral authority than the people they hunt.
Charities have now been corrupted and are using contributions to help illegals.
https://reformationcharlotte.org/2020/03/02/sbc-installs-radical-soros-linked-open-borders-mass-immigration-never-trumper-to-lead-sbcs-send-relief/
I really like reading RC. Great insight into the ‘most’ conservative denomination in Da World! /s
The adage “do not attribute evil when stupidity will suffice” is obsolete for these times. While the people who vote appear to be stupid, the people making these anti-policing policies are not. My guess is the newly minted replacement police will resemble brownshirts and they will have all their powers and privilege’s restored.