Guest Post by Jim Kunstler
What America really wants to know is: after those months of “family leave,” did Pete Buttigieg get the hang of lactating? Hey, if sexuality is just a “social construct,” then the functions of sexuality must be teachable. So now Pete can move on to ovulation lessons and become the “birthing person” of his dreams. Pete’s dreams are America’s dreams, you see.
In the meantime, though, America has a little transportation problem that a Secretary of Transportation might look into if he wasn’t so busy performing a gender reeducation parable for the Woke family values crowd. Namely, that federal rules combined with California Air Resource Board regulations are destroying the trucking industry, a major link in the broken supply-chains for the gazillion products and parts that an advanced technological economy needs to keep on keeping on.
Under the rules, for example, California wants to phase-out tractor trailer rigs more than three years old, and eliminate all trucks that run on fossil fuels by 2035. Now, it happens that most of the truckers who service the ports of southern California are independents. They have to buy their own rigs, on which many make the equivalent of a mortgage payment, because a semi-rig can cost as much as a house. Of course, the rig must be allowed to operate for the duration of the loan. The new government regulations cancel that financial formula, and with it, the trucking industry. So much for the good intentions of the eco-wonks.
Secretary Pete might have paid attention to the developing trouble at the shipping container ports in late summer and started an emergency review of these untenable rules and regs, but instead, while learning the ins-and-outs of “chest-feeding,” he allowed the system to break down. The reality spinners in the “Joe Biden” news media would like you to think that the breakdown only applies to Christmas schwag for the hoi-polloi: No inflatable Frosty-the-Snowmen for you this year, you deplorable insurrectionist gorks in your sad little towns out in the Flyover gloaming! Actually, it applies to most of the things even super-hip Wokesters need every day in the normal course of things, and especially the replacement parts for all the engines and machines that American normality depends on. Plus, the situation has already moved into food supplies. And now that it’s all broken, the shortages may persist as far ahead as anyone can see.
Let us count the ways that America is committing suicide by Democratic Party policy. There is, front and center, “Joe Biden’s” vaccination mandate — with no basis in law, by the way — that is destroying most of the critical services industries in the nation: the hospitals, school systems, police forces, firefighters, ambulance squads, airlines, railroads, restaurants, you-name-it. No vaxx, no job for you — and no resuscitation for the unfortunate persons writhing on their kitchen floors in myocardial infarction. I’d say that depriving folks of their livelihoods while ensuring harm and death upon the citizenry is a bad combo for public order. One can easily imagine the righteous wrath building to the point where lamp-posts in capital cities are decorated with the dangling government officials who caused this happen.
Then there are the vaxxes themselves and the Covid cat that dragged them in. Do you feel all warm and fuzzy over a shot that will turn your body into a spike protein generator, considering how spike proteins behave in a human vascular system? Got any questions or doubts about the number of adverse events seen so far? Looks like more than ten thousand deaths in the USA directly attributable to the vaxxes under the VAERS registry, and millions of injuries around the world. Not to mention the murky origins of the disease, the participation of US public health officials in its design and development, and the colossal profits reaped by the pharma companies that sell the vaxxes. Have you noted the draconian desperation to vaxx up absolutely everybody, despite some excellent reasons for people to say no thanks? Does the Big Picture look a little nefarious to you? Like some parties are out to bump off a pretty large number of people — including parties who have stated out loud that steeply reducing the global population would be a swell idea?
In the course of an average day, do you ever think about all the people from around the world who are jumping the US/Mexican border? It’s thousands of them each day, and millions piling in over the year 2021 — under the averted eyes of “Joe Biden” & Co. Some of them are criminal opportunists who — how shall we say — aim to blow shit up in this country. That’s apart from the economic burdens that the nonviolent ones will impose on the nation. Can you blame genuine US citizens from regarding this as an affront to common sense and common decency, not to mention an insult to the law and the constitution behind the law? Well, it is, you know. Since it’s the federal government’s duty to control entry across the border, and since “Joe Biden” directed the border patrol to not perform its duties, will you be surprised if the citizens develop the notion that they will have to defend the border themselves?
Do you think economic collapse will make any of this better? As winter looms, you’ll have plenty of time to mull that over, all bundled-up in your kitchen with the propane tanks empty and the last can of cold Spaghetti-Os in your gloved fist. When the time comes for that, don’t expect “Joe Biden” to be reading Thanksgiving homilies off his teleprompter. He will be gone, and the Democratic Party horse he rode in on with him. And when that time comes, we will be ready to start stitching things back together again in this land, perhaps a bit differently than the way we’d gotten used to. Be patient and brave. Our time will soon be at hand.
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Crimes against humanity.
” I’d say that depriving folks of their livelihoods while ensuring harm and death upon the citizenry is a bad combo for public order. ”
Perhaps that’s the real plan. How can you build back better if the old way still exists?
Be patient, Be brave our time will come. Following this advice is to wait patiently for the train to a Hillary fun camp.
So, Colin Powell is dead. Fully vaccinated, died from Covid. Did he get the booster? He was a mere lad, only 84. The covid vaccines obviously don’t work if Powell, who was fully vaccinated, still got the covid and died. That shoots out of the water the notion that the vaccines make your infection less severe and your hospital stay much less damaging. Oh dear, what to think?
As to the article…I am taking care of business now while the weather is nice….I hate spaghetti-o’s and Dinty Moore beef stew smells like Alpo, so instead have canned chicken and tuna. Lots of stuff still on the shelves, went to Walmart and Dollar Tree and local chain grocery yesterday…no bare shelves and Christmas crap stacked to the rafters, prices higher but not insanely so, except for gasoline which jumped ten cents a gallon in one day.
I am not fretting, I’ve seen how the fear makes folks go out and sped on stuff and then nothing really bad happens. Been prepping since 2015, still have canned long term food stuff from then. Running around all frantic and fearful is counter productive.
It may smell like Alpo, but it tastes like Gravy Train!
Can’t we all just get along?
It’s all on the level.
Trust me, I am from the government and am here to help you.
Good afternoon, Ronnie!
Went to the local big-box last night. Once again, the long TP/Paper Towel aisle was completely empty except for a pile of the house brand TP. Some brands of foodstuffs were seriously depleted. Overall, the place was no where close to stuffed to the gills like it is usually. Fresh meats were way down, canned fish and meats were almost normal. Flour was present, unlike last panic.
in switzerland you can tell prices are up, maybe on average 5-10% from a year or a year and a half ago when this farce got rolling, but i dont think theres been a noticeable decline in availability. this could of course mean switzerland is outbidding someone else.
but the majority of the supply chain constrictions really have an artificial feel to them.
make no mistake, there is real resource decline behind all of this. the ruling class are trying to stay on top , stay in power, stay as the ruling class, while the demolish everything else. if/when it falls apart chaotically (like any natural system will when its this far into overshoot) , the ruling class are just as fucked , or even more fucked, than everyone else. enough of them know that , that theyre trying to evade their fate…its futile but they are hellbent on trying to kill us all off as they go down.
I too have been prepping. Today, I dry canned 14 quart jars of rice and 8 quart jars of black beans as well as 8 quart jars of pinto beans. I have 6 pints of lentils in the oven as I type. This is in addition of my previous cannings . Pantry also has the bounty of the recent summer harvest of veges. I have purchased cans of tuna and chicken. Mt menu may be boring, but I won’t starve. The only thing I will run out of after 90 days will be prescriptive medications.
So glad Granny taught me to can decades ago.
The whole thing is going to Hades in a handbag. Patience is the order of the day. Find out if you can trust the guy on your right and left. Define your roles. Are you a “Village Patriot” or a “County Patriot” or a “Walking Patriot.” I’ve paraphrased the descriptors used to describe the kinds of Taliban fighters. Some only fight to defend the village. Some the whole township or county area. Walking fighters are those who engage in offensive actions and attacks far from home. We all fit in to one of these groups should it come to that.
Note to self…
GET THAT ADDITIONAL PROPANE TANK FILLED TODAY!
Or 4.
A persistent trait in many people is the tendency to think some job they’ve never done is “easy.” Buttigieg looks at ships, trucks and trains and says to himself, “How difficult can can it be? I played with all those things when I was a child, and I know exactly how they work. Of course I would make a great Secretary of Transportation. I went to Harvard, for God’s sake!” Then some community college graduate explains to him the realities of the business, and old Pete decides decorating the baby’s room is his new priority.
Speaking of Pete, can you imagine how FUBAR that poor kid will be if he survives?
He didn’t ask for this shit.
Lots of Teletubbies and Village People posters, I presume.
Strategic patient is great, not for the frog, but the one who do the boiling.
What I want to know is why are homos allowed to adopt kids in the first place?
Why is this mentally deranged fag pretending to breastfeed instead of just giving the kid a bottle?
Why? Because he IS a mentally deranged …….. One may recall months back when he was filmed hiding in a park two blocks from his office with his black Suburban while his goons/aides unloaded a bicycle for him to pretend he rides a bike to the office for the MSM cameras.
In addition to all the above he was raised by Communist academics. Another example of communist immigrants coming to destroy America.
It’s over. We lost. They won. Too bad that their reach exceeds their grasp, but… if you want omelets, you gotta break eggs.
What’s next? That is the only important question now. Don’t waste any time on the past, and the present is already gone. If you aren’t living in the future, you are already in the grave.
“IT” hasn’t even gotten fully warmed up. You will not do well in what’s to come with a defeatist attitude. Buck up, embrace the suck and get back in the game. You can do much more than you now imagine.
Harry,
You completely missed the point of my comment.
I guess I can see the point was they have won and we must adapt the struggle to a new reality. I cannot yet concede that they have done so. There would be many a brave soul laying surrounded by piles of smoking brass before such a concession could be imagined. I imagine the usurpers in smoking brass.
“What America really wants to know is: after those months of “family leave,” did Pete Buttigieg get the hang of lactating? ”
Ummm….NO.
I REALLY do NOT want to fucking know THAT.
Patience. They are playing Jenga. While they alienate some of the structural support beams in their game, it’s like pulling multiple pieces at a time and sooner or later, this will crumble. Hopefully, I will still be in the game(still have my marbles and supplies), then I can pick up the pieces and carry on or start over. The other option being…less palatable. I have no say in which one transpires so I can only prepare for both. Patience does not mean do nothing, it means waiting for good opportunity.
Let’s see how the super woke hipsters feel when they run out of food. I am sure that they will find a way to blame the basket of deplorables.
I am confident that the best and brightest in Washington DC can ensure that any resources held back in our small towns and countryside will be equitably shared with our Great Cities.
“There is, front and center, “Joe Biden’s” vaccination mandate — with no basis in law, by the way — that is destroying most of the critical services industries in the nation: the hospitals, school systems, police forces, firefighters, ambulance squads, airlines, railroads, restaurants, you-name-it. ”
What is most disturbing about this to me is the number of people who are just blindly following these mandates. At least half the people in this nation are just obedient sheeple with not even the faintest grasp of what is happening. They are following Fadouchi and company over the proverbial cliff.
>>>not even the faintest grasp of what is happening
Decades ago I lived in Germany, and was puzzled how a civilized, sophisticated people could be led by the nose into the various extreme unpleasantries of the 1930s and 1940s.
I am now no longer puzzled. And today’s Americans really are pretty far from civilized or sophisticated.
Butt-i-gag (that’s how I’ve been pronouncing it, bc it was a long time before I ever heard someone else say it) isn’t even his given name. He changed his name to this, the sign of a genuine moron.
Just call him Buttitch. Two syllables. Very efficient.
If you’re planning to buy a car, computer or cellphone, you’d better do it soon, because in 6 months they won’t be available. I heard that common electronic parts that normally take 1-2 weeks to get in stock now say “2024.”