Guest Post by Jim Kunstler
While the China-sponsored hologram known as Joe Biden dazzled a sparsely-filled House chamber Wednesday night with a plan to turn the USA into the Big Rock Candy Mountain, events were spinning out of control so fast elsewhere that Rachel Maddow’s head was revolving like the demon-possessed little girl in The Exorcist, spewing a pea soup stream of Woke hysteria at her credulous audience. What’s got her noggin in a twist?
“Conspiracy Theorists” are auditing the 2020 election ballots in Arizona, causing “grave concern,” she gushed. An army of DC-based Lawfare attorneys attempted to quash the audit earlier in the week on the grounds that the vote had already been certified and that was that. But Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Daniel Martin ruled otherwise, that it was the prerogative of the state Senate to authorize it, and the audit continues.
Democrats continue trying desperately to hit the pause button on the process. The venue, an old civic arena, is only rented until May 14, so physically disrupting the audit may be their only hope to prevent discovery of massive, widespread election fraud — exactly what the Democrats have aimed their firehose of propaganda against since last November.
The question is: what actually happens if the auditors come up with clear and conclusive evidence proving that the ballot count was wildly incorrect due to fraud? Might the Arizona legislature have to de-certify the results? One big tamale is the US Senate seat that former astronaut Mark Kelly, Democrat, took from Republican Martha McSally, giving the Dems a 50 plus one (Kamala Harris) vote advantage. Whoops, there goes Ol’ Joe’s agenda, right there. Might Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan have to submit to audits? Will it take lawsuits to prompt the courts in those states to order it? More importantly, does it shift public opinion further in the direction of cynicism and mistrust of the establishment — including their local officials and the news media?
The numbers are already pretty grim: 70 percent of Republicans and 30 percent of Democrats say they doubt the veracity of the 2020 election. Will the discovery that massive, widespread election fraud actually occurred lead to a constitutional crisis? How will Joe Biden survive in office if a growing percentage of the public sees him as illegitimate? And what might happen if the establishment attempts to blow the whole matter off? Can they still say “nothing to see” when the public has seen so much that they can’t unsee?
None of that will happen in a vacuum. Plenty of other events are roiling in the background with the potential to go critical. Joe Biden’s proposals to jack the US economy by $5-plus-trillion won’t be very good for the credibility of the US dollar, with other countries already eager to dissociate themselves from dollar-based global trade payment arrangements. But that’s just financial esoterica compared to what’s happening on-the-ground across America, with households running on debt and back payments for rent and mortgages piling up, and landlords and banks taking the hit in the meantime. There’s no Heimlich maneuver for a nation choking on debt. And that plan to become the Big Rock Candy Mountain, where they hung the jerk who invented work, is liable to disappoint even the mesmerists in the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Also, meanwhile, the US continues to stupidly stir the pot in Ukraine, to provoke war over the breakaway Donbass region in order to give NATO a reason to exist. The Russians don’t want or need to take responsibility for what has become a failed state. But Ukraine has been their buffer from European invasions for centuries and they won’t permit it to become a forward base-of-operations for NATO. Does the USA actually have any real interests there — other than to justify the earnings of defense contractors? The Biden family is not even taking any more payments out of there (as far as we know).
When it comes to real geopolitical friction, look in the other direction, at China. Not only is US weakness vividly obvious to them, they are substantially responsible for it, having successfully launched the bio-weapon Wuhan virus that pushed the disordered US economy over a cliff, and then helped install their errand boy in the oval office. Among other stupidities, the USA allowed most of its advanced microchip manufacturing capacity to relocate in Taiwan. We can’t run anything here from cars and refrigerators to municipal water systems, and probably even our war weaponry, without continuous supply and resupply of these chips. Game this out.
Then there is the fantastically stupid agitation and provocation on the home-front of the Democratic Party-sponsored Woke Jacobins, who are too dumb to even understand that if you want a police-state, you need police. Rather, they want to live in chaos and anarchy, the Satanic version of the Big Rock Candy Mountain, where the looters play in the stores all day and the jails have gone away. Joe Biden pimped for that hustle Wednesday night, too, declaring the nation systemically racist and “white supremacy” the nation’s greatest domestic menace. Oh really? Not our own DOJ, FBI, and the rest of the Intel Community?
The FBI raid on Rudy Giuliani was an interesting development on that front. The little imp that is Merrick Garland may have chosen the wrong guy to mess around with. If the bozos in DOJ actually charge him with something, they’ll find themselves in a special hell of discovery — that is, discovery of conclusive evidence that the DOJ has become a criminal operation actively working against the public interest. I daresay the truth is that just about everything the DOJ has done for the past five years involves the covering up of their own crimes, and a case against Mr. Giuliani will be just the wedge to open up public recognition of all that. That’s going to be a little bit of a problem when the people lose all faith that their public officials were elected fairly and honestly.
There’s a lot to push through and sort out in the months ahead. We’re all on ship, leaderless and rudderless, heading into a summer maelstrom.
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Decent people don’t need a government, they will do the right thing without any outside influence. Other people will be decent, if they are supervised by right minded leadership. Corrupt, lying leadership has no influence on decent people but leads weak minded people to become corrupt liars because they feel stupid if they don’t…”everyone else is doing it, why shouldn’t I…”
By golly, we sure do live in some interesting times, don’t we?
Oh, by gosh, by golly!
The curse of interesting times.
We live in a time when we all know our political leaders are clueless or evil. Sometimes, as in Biden’s case, both.
How is gardening going in Texas?
Well said, Rusty.
This is a bit off topic but does tie to the whole de-fund the police thing and a civil society.
I linked to this from one of the vids regularly featured on the right side here.
It appears to still be up on twit so it would be interesting to hear jack explain how a death threat, to a sitting mayor no less, doesn’t violate their “standards”.
I guess it depends on which “community” you live in.
Check it out a revel in the fact that the very people who created and nurtured these head cases are about to pay the piper.
That is disturbing.
Rudy has appeared to be fearless in public since he was raided. I have a hard time thinking that a former prosecutor would not have known how to conduct his business?
We shall see, now?
Speaking of rudderless. The snowflake brigade is rudderless when they have to stopp to charging a Macho Governor with ManSitting.
DeSantis was sitting in a way that he did not approve of.
“Sitting very strongly,” Rupar noted, attaching a screengrab of the governor’s potentially career-ending indiscretion. The photograph shows DeSantis sitting in a chair, his legs slightly spread with his hands resting on his knees.
https://www.rt.com/usa/522581-liberals-florida-desantis-sitting/
I’ve moved beyond the political process. It’s a done deal. It’s over. No voting our way out of this.
That’s 100% !
We’re winning!!!!
Math is racist!
Think of it. When Biden was sworn into office, the [covert] owners of the FRBOG, Inc., received the actual value [to spend on global conquest, equity, political corruption—including a goal of conquering the USA] of $3000 from EVERY man, woman, child, LGBT&FW in the USA for every trillion dollars of annual deficit spending.
In less than 100 days Biden and Pelosi have quadrupled the annual amount Wall Street financiers will receive—and they are just getting started. A person would almost conclude there is acceleration on a long-term agenda. And the pretext of the global [and domestic] chaos that has been used to justify their actions has not yet been accepted as a fraud.
If this is a matter of concern to you, and you love conspiracy theories, details on how the scheme works are posted at https://genzconservative.com/the-federal-reserve-for-dummies/#_ftn3.
The Arizona story is huge and represents a possible tectonic shift in the political landscape. If this occurs then the Senate will have the power to neuter the Biden agenda. However, the Biden hologram could begin to shift its inability at lawmaking to the practice of issuing everything they want by Executive Order. The problem with this approach is that in many cases these orders are unconstitutional and will result in court actions to overturn them.