Guest Post by Jim Kunstler
Wonder much about the eerie blank demeanor of Erin Burnett, who delivers the 7:00 o’clock news on CNN? I sure do. It’s a creepy kind of fraught blankness, like what the Vietnam grunts used to call the thousand-mile stare, denoting their guilty involvement in a morally odious enterprise. Of course, one must follow CNN in order to discern what fresh bullshit the governing regime is serving up day-to-day from its steam-table of perfidy and bad faith. Does the lady hate her job that much? Or does that farbissiner face signify mere simmering contempt for the audience of deplorable elderly gorks receiving said bullshit over their pitiful TV trays of Ensure on Froot Loops? Or maybe a miniature Donald Trump lives in her head dressed in a little red devil suit with horns, stabbing her parietal lobes with his tiny pitchfork?
Seeing as how Ms. Burnett is the mouthpiece for the Progressive Woke news media in the primest evening slot, does that glowering visage represent the peculiar joylessness of the political Left, a movement steeped in a special kind of shame induced by the irritating failure of its ideas to comport with reality? This is the joylessness of people bunkered too deep in anomie to even find pleasure in their own sadism. Thus, the hint of bored indignation: how dare you not believe the bullshit I am delivering on behalf of your betters… who know what’s good for you?
Or maybe the girl is just on quaaludes.
Anyway, nothing serves as a better barometer of how things are going in the struggle over the fate of this tortured land than Erin Burnett’s scowling puss. And where is this country going? I will tell you: straight into a dark passage of the profoundest political discord, an epochal nightmare of loss and death brought on, it begins to seem, deliberately, by the folks in charge. They are being found out, and the fact that they remain in charge spells ever more obvious danger among all concerned as the truth of their crimes emerges.
Sunday, at the March Against Mandates in our nation’s capital, the resistance to Covid vaccine tyranny laid it out, none with plainer eloquence than Bobby Kennedy:
We love the United States Constitution. And we have witnessed over the past 20 months a coup d’etat against democracy and the demolition, the controlled demolition of the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights. And starting with the censorship. James Madison, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson all said the same thing: we put freedom of speech in the first amendment because all of the other rights that we were trying to protect relied on that right. If you give government the license to silence its critics, you have given them the capacity to commit any atrocity they want, and to obliterate all the amendments and rights in the constitution.
The message is getting through and the tyrants are running scared. They are perhaps having bad dreams involving torches and pitchforks. Naturally CNN took the lead in attempting to defame Mr. Kennedy as an anti-Semite for mentioning the name of Anne Frank in alluding to the Nazi insanity of the last century and people’s desperate efforts to escape it. CNN said:
The son of former Attorney General and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy has a long history of spreading vaccine misinformation…. Sunday’s event, billed as a protest against vaccine mandates, featured speakers repeatedly spreading misinformation about vaccines and showcased several bigoted comparisons to the Holocaust. At least one man was seen displaying a yellow Star of David, which Jews were required by law to wear as an identifier in Nazi Germany.
So, wearing a Star of David now makes you an insurrectionist in the twisted logic of Wokery. How stupid and confused are they? Anyway, heroes emerge out of adversity. Let them pile it on, insulting history and reality. In fact, Bobby Kennedy stood in the cold at the Lincoln Memorial as a heroic figure for these times, giving a speech that carefully and succinctly denoted the stupendous criminality of the US public health bureaucracy and the corporate-government fascist partnership with Pharma Inc. that has poisoned hundreds of millions of Americans in a medical experiment that has only begun to kill possibly more people than the Nazis ever dreamed of murdering. There has not been a more important public utterance in this land than RFK Jr.’s since this century began.
Meanwhile, the Covid tyranny collapses across Western Civ. Prime Minister Boris Johnson of the UK tossed his country’s entire Covid restriction program into the dumpster last week as the truth about vaccine failure and injuries became impossible to avoid. The Czech Republic and Ireland followed. France made noises about lifting her policies in February. For now, Germany and Austria remained locked-into their Teutonic obedience neurosis, but how much longer can that last? Or does it finally break up the EU? Large street protests rocked European cities Sunday, too. The vaccines have lost their credibility as sacred totems against the accelerating chaos in the advanced nations of the world, who stand to lose the very advancements in prosperity, comfort, and convenience they enjoyed in the centuries of energy super-abundance.
What awaits now is mayhem in the financial markets, the banking system, and national currencies — underway even as you read this. It’s not enough that the people of Western Civ have been battered by a contrived assault on their physical health; now they’ll watch themselves go broke and hungry. Maybe even the monsters of idiocy behind president “Joe Biden” can cook up a world-beating hypersonic war over a country we have next-to-zero national interest in just to make things perfect. I can’t wait to see the look on Erin Burnett’s face as the history of the future unspools.
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I haven’t cast a vote in a national election in 35 years but if Bobby Kennedy ever runs for president I’ll be first in line to vote for him.
As for Burnett, she got her evil training at Goldman Sachs before CNN. Any questions?
I hope he picks Tulsi Gabbard as his V.P.
Tulsi Gabbard is a gun grabber. I hope she never gets power.
Here we go again…vote harder, harder, harder, harder,harder. You fuckers never learn.
The deep state will take him out with prejudice, just like they did his father and uncle when they dared challenge their power and primacy.
He is the deep state.
I read RFK jr’s book family values. An excellent read. He tells how basically the CIA is their own government, and how they did everything they could to F*** over his family and the world. They are basically an arm of the global Cabal.
“coup d’etat against democracy”
What a load of bullshit.
It was a coup d’etat against the Republic; ie the People, the legal citizens that constitute the fifty states. Not some idealised version of society c0nstrued by Kennedy.
Allegiance to her minority half.
Just so…,But out of this horrendous carnage will come something new, perhaps even rule by Americans rather than a foreign dominated Cabal…
Outstanding piece by JHK. I am thinking the Great Reset might go in an entirely different direction than the evil fuqueres assumed it would. Like right back in their freak ass faces!
The crash and burn of the Covid fraud makes that exit from Afghanistan look like an act of military genius in comparison.
RFK is a modern profile in courage. Go Bobby. We greatly appreciate your brave stand. We are behind you all the way.
She’s not even good looking.
Looks like the Exxwife
The Left’s version of a Stepford Wife.
Probably near used up by now.
Bend them over and they all look like sisters.
What does THAT have to do with anything.
Word of the day: Farbissiner (maybe the word of the week but hey, it’s only Monday)
Back in the days when I could she would have been desirable. As far as Kennedy—Trust but verify. By their fruits ye shall know them. I haven’t seen much fruit from him yet.
He’s been on the frontline for “anti-vax” for years. He’s been non-personed in the media because of it … for years.
Don’t mean to be a pissant but the phrase was “thousand-yard stare”. Not “mile”.
Pissant: An early challenger to TWOTD
I’m going with “legs”. Help spread the word.
Slight quibble with that: All the other rights actually rely on the 2nd Amendment. When the soap box and ballot box are either taken away or rendered useless, what’s left is the ammo box. Per Jefferson, liberty exists where the government fears the people, and an armed population makes that happen. (The 21st century version of Guy Fawkes agreed.) For good measure, it’s time for the Harry Mudd Media to fear the people as well.
Eh,before you reach for the ammo remember the jury box and jury nullification.
That said,always have ammo box in comfortable/easy reach!
“Thousand YARD stare, not the thousand MILE stare”. Erin Burnett looks that way because she has realized she has become a whore. Whores all have that same blank stare, because inside, their soul has died. She is just a talking head, repeating what she has been told to say, day in, day out. She is not permitted to have an original thought. Not exactly journalism, but propaganda. This isn’t the way she expected her life to play out, but she is no longer a young woman with time on her side. This is as good as it gets for her. If money is all there is to it {and with whores, it always is}, then she shouldn’t be too unhappy. But what she does for a living is worse than a whore: She deceives people. She knows better to believe the script she parrots daily to others.
In this instance, her deception has killed and maimed millions, and psychologically traumatized a generation of children.
That 5 million a year is worse than a prison.
At least she can buy friends, and self-respect.
I will say thank you to anyone who at least shares some of the values that have made this country great. Granted , this country has suffered a great deal of leftist crap these last 2 years (probably the last 70 years actually). But there is light at the end of the tunnel. The Great Reset is upon us!! But it’s not the one Klaus Schwab is expecting! It’s the reset that has been planned in the beginning! The New World Order of the Messiah, Jesus Christ ! They will be taken totally by surprise. You will too if you miss your chance to join this revolution! The old will be swept away, and the new will enter in!!!👵😇
Yes, and thank you Mr. Kennedy for the part you play. It takes to do more than just complain.👵😇
Guts
The term “Thousand Yard Stare” originated in World War 1, not Vietnam.