Guest Post by Jim Kunstler
The world is waiting to know: will “Joe Biden” bomb Guatemala back to the stone age for sending incursions of its (very fine) people across America’s southern border? All of a sudden borders are sacred again, you know. Of course, there’s that old problem Colin Powell used to raise back in the Iraq War days of you break it, you own it. But, hey, don’t we already own Guatemala? And isn’t it already sort of broken?
Well, you can own a dog, say, a pitiful, broke-down, half-lame, scrofulous, rheumy-eyed, junkyard kind of old dog, and that doesn’t stop the dog from taking a dump on the neighbor’s property across the street. Anyway, the only thing Guatemala is dumping in Texas and Arizona is new voters, and that just means more democracy for us — a “win-win” as they say in the cabinet room! (Though, Yamiche Alcindor might still want to ask “JB” at the next presser if he would risk the US supply of bananas. We’re having enough trouble getting auto parts, fer chrissake.) Such are the quandaries of US foreign policy.
Then there’s this Shangri-La called Ukraine. Can anyone find it on the map? It’s nowheres around here. Let’s face it: Ukraine is not sending us any new voters or bananas. What good are they? You might argue: they exported the Vindman twins to America (win-win); they supported Hunter Biden’s cocaine habit for six or seven years and paid the mortgage on The Big Guy’s beach house. So, maybe we do owe them.
But then, it’s said that Russia is lurking on Ukraine’s border like a hungry bear at the edge of a sheep pasture, licking its chops, fork and knife in its fisted paws, napkin tied around its throat, visions of mutton-filled perogies dancing in its head. The whole DC foreign policy establishment says we should take a few potshots at that bear, teach it a lesson. I say, just throw Guatemala over the fence, let the bear chew on that, including a few bananas for dessert. There it is: problem solved.
Another possibility, which the “Joe Biden” admin seems to favor a little, is World War Three. We couldn’t lose that, could we? Well, at worst it would be a “lose-lose” so at least nobody else would win. Would the US be any worse off without New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and a few more population centers teeming with homeless junkies? (Who rarely show up at the polls to vote, by the way… and if you asked, could they even tell you who’s running for president?) World War Three begins to look like our silver linings playbook. London, Paris, and Berlin are not our problem, to be blunt about it. Even as you read this, “Joe Biden” is striving to explain his thoughts on these vexing matters, but he’s talking out of his ass so much it’s hard to tell whether he is setting forth actual policy or just breaking wind.
Isn’t it refreshing to not have to lede with Covid-19? It looks like “Joe Biden’s” effort to change the channel is working. Even so, there is some interesting Covid-19 news, like: the whole endless, heartbreaking, demoralizing episode is winding down. Whoa! That’s a shock! What will Western Civ do without it? In the UK, Boris Johnson put a stop to all restrictions, mask mandates, and vaxx passports, just like that (snap) on Wednesday. Then France announced it would lift most Covid-19 restrictions in February, which is a little more than a week from now, for those of you who haven’t mastered the new maff. Then, on Thursday, Austria’s parliament voted to approve mandatory vaccinations for everybody in the country — say, what? — leading the casual observer to wonder whether half of everybody in that country is maybe super pissed-off at their government, seeing how France and the UK are going the opposite way.
Let’s be honest: it’s getting laughable to seriously advocate vaxxing up a whole goshdarn population when it’s perfectly obvious now that the vaxxes don’t work and are making a lot of people sick with everything that can go wrong in a human body, plus Covid-19. Are nations such as Austria and Germany not looking plumb insane now? Can the European Union endure such wildly contradictory policy among its member states, and not make itself ridiculous? Let’s just say, the situation in Europe is in flux and events are moving fast.
Here in our exceptional nation, it is lately discovered — to the chagrin of the elite managerial classes — that The Science personified by Dr. Anthony Fauci is not medical science after all but rather political science. Ah! I see now why so much confusion has been sown over Dr. Fauci’s management of the Covid-19 pandemic. If he actually represented medical science, he might not have killed several hundred thousand people in this country by withholding and suppressing effective treatments and promoting deadly vaccines. He might not have disgraced the entire medical establishment and half-wrecked the system it works in. But, to paraphrase another eminent political scientist of yore, Josef Stalin, while one death is a tragedy, a half-million is a mere statistic. There’s science anyone can understand!
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JK uses the term rheumy-eyed today after MyG used that same term to insult me last night. WHO copied whom? Good thing I am insouciant or it might get me riled.
It’s obvious that JK reads my comments, either that or synchronicity?
I didn’t insult you…a descriptor is not an insult. In other news, you tender little soul, you, why do you think that all of a sudden, as if by magic, all the Covid restrictions are being lifted globally? What, oh what, could be the reason? Less than 48 hrs ago they were balls to the wall determined to incarcerate and punish their countrymen and then, voila, they’re suddenly lifting all those
restrictions. What little birdie, whose little birdie crapped on a bunch of shoulders?
Insouciantly minded souls demand answers.
In other news, Meat Loaf has died. I am distraught, I liked the guy. Seems like lots of folk are dropping like flies, there was no cause of death listed for Meat Loaf except for ‘overweight.’ He was 74 and big boned. Wonder if he’d been jabbed?
I’m elated to hear that descriptors are not insults as I find paid troll operative asswipes beyond dishonorable.
MyG, the Covid restrictions are not being lifted, Austria voted to make mandates law, as if you can mandate that a sheep must agree to kill themselves. Where are you getting this attitude MyG, when did I say the Covid thing was over? Try harder , you are not making sense anymore.
I didn’t say the Covid thing was over, I didn’t accuse you of believing that the covid thing was over, I merely asked what you thoughtof the covid thing seemingly (as per Boris) being over.
I make sense, you just don’t like what I’m saying…but, that doesn’t mean we can’t be friends and love one another. I love you despite your rheumy eyes:)
Family says Meat Loaf had severe Covid. Translation: booster killed him.
Louie Anderson today also.
Sports and entertainers are dying wholesale, politicians not at all. Who got the saline?
Saline? They excused themselves from the jab.
Remember all the videos of world leaders (and I use the term very loosely) getting their vax shots.? Umm….that is the saline of which I refer. The people who should be dead are not.
Louie had advanced stage cancer but they’ll claim it as COVID.
Anderson had blood cancer. God bless and keep both of them. They entertained a lot of us for a long time.
You’re being cryptic?
Iska asks when will it end? Read the guide stones Iska, the bottom line figure is there for everyone to see.
“balls to the wall” ????Sounds like someone has cock envy!
It’s a pilot term for pushing your throttles (the top ends have “balls” like a Hurst floor shifter ) full forward toward the “firewall” (for 100% thrust). Otherwise meaning “Gung-ho” petal to the metal. Might have a sexual innuendo…
Nothing is better than crushing the insouciant, seeing them driven before you….
Bravo JK! And the establishment will now pretend that the million + deaths and severe injuries from the vaxx and the suppression of HCL and Ivermectin never happened…,.
Everyone knows they will blame Trump and by extension people like us.
Never noticed before but there is a link to the Burning Platform at the end of comments on Kunstler’s site.
“Joe Biden”
Very funny JHK.
We have always been at war with Eastasia.
Cool map. Must be after Putin annexes the EU and the middle east, and China grabs Taiwan, Japan and the reset of the Western Pacific. In other words, some time next year.
Our mafia oligarchs are SOMETIMES at war with the Ruskie mafia oligarchs, fixed it for ya.
Who will get to provide the EU/Germany with NG in the coming hydrogen powered world? That s the question.
“Who will get to provide the EU/Germany with NG in the coming hydrogen powered world? That s the question.”
Boom Boom, out go the lights.
You will be driving a hydrogen powered car in the not too distant future, MyG. There are a lot of folks driving hydrogen powered cars in Cali right now. It takes NG at the service stations to produce the H2 for the H2 pumps on site where others buy regular gasoline. Bang, bang back attcha.
The Eu will need LNG to convert.
Considering natural gas, or propane, can easily be burned in ICEs, it would seem thermodynamically absurd to make H2 from either then burn the H2.
I guess that’s what we’ll be doing then. It’s the science!
Except when we provided China the equipment and air power to oppose Japan about 1935 through 1945 and then Nationalist China to present. South Korea 1950 to present. South Vietnam 1960 to 1975; generally Thailand, Philippines, Laos, Japan, Burma, many Pacific Islands, etc .
“Would the US be any worse off without New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and a few more population centers teeming with homeless junkies?”
One problem with that statement is that the nukes that take out those cities will also take out the surrounding areas (a one megaton blast will blow out windows 60 miles away – use the r-squared law to adjust for differing yields). Not to mention the radiation / burning effects of the explosions themselves. The “hole in the ground” (including the flooding for the cities mentioned since they are near major bodies of water) is minor compared to these.
The second problem is that the EMP will have even further long-ranging effects. No electricity (the single mode of failure for our “civilization”), every modern auto disabled, every electronic device disabled (not in a Faraday bag or military grade hardened). Etc, Etc.
Also – do not conflate the practice of medicine with “public health”. They are 2 entirely different topics with entirely different goals. The practice of medicine concerns itself with the care of the INDIVIDUAL. Public health doesn’t care about the individual – in fact, the policies of public health will of necessity cause harm to a portion of the population “for the benefit of the rest” if forced on the entire population. Just look up the statistics surrounding the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (and Court) as an example. Since its establishment in 1987, the NVCIP has paid out over 4 Billion dollars (not including legal fees and if death has occurred, a maximum payout of 250K), mostly from victims of the MMR (now MMRV). (Mind, the CoVid “vaccines” are not covered by this program -for that, you have to look up the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program – and be prepared to be dismayed.)