Guest Post by Jim Kunstler
Back in the quaint old days of the George “W” Bush admin, White House political advisor Karl Rove famously said, “We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out.” He was actually bragging on it, a little bit, I think.
Didn’t that set the tone for the years that have followed? The part that even the perspicacious Mr. Rove missed, though, is that the viziers of empire are perhaps even more apt to create their own unreality, which explains a lot about these fretful present days of American collapse. Is there anything the government tells you now that is not some sort of fabrication? One thing for sure is that the elite colleges churn out thousands of certified bullshit artists every year — with no other skills — and many gravitate to the power centers national life, where they rise in the ranks spinning metaphysical simulacrums of their boss’s purviews — the Jen Psaki types, who ricochet between the DC political bunkers and boob tube news central. The less glib and physically unpresentable become mere “fact-checkers,” the network of casual liars who toil in the trenches of official unreality.
It’s all pretty hard on the common folk’s brains, and eventually on their souls, as they sink into this mire of purpose-spun cognitive dissonance. Why, for instance, is the head of the CDC, one Rochelle Walensky, still telling the public to vaxx-up and boost when the number of really grave adverse events associated with said vaxxes is so out-of-this-world, compared with previous vaxxes, that liability lawyers from sea to shining sea could be magnificently employed piercing Big Pharma’s EUA shield with fraud charges until the next ice age?
The VAERS program is front-and-center in Ms. Walensky’s CDC purview. Does she not cop a glance at it now and again? It will be fascinating to hear her testify in the Nuremburg-style proceedings that ought to come for America’s public health officialdom. Are they running scared at CDC, FDA, and Dr. Fauci’s NIAID? The waiting must be the hardest part. So much is ominously unknown. But despite official suppression and obfuscation of patient outcome data from the compromised medical establishment, all-causes death numbers are wafting out of the life insurance industry like the Furies from the cosmic darkness.
Is it true, as is hotly rumored now, that the mRNA shots lead uniformly to autoimmune deficiency syndrome? Ditto the alarming rise in cancer cases among the vaxxed… ditto heart damage, organ damage, grievous neurological damage? We’ll know a lot more about this in May and June, and it’s hard to imagine what the collective emotional reaction will be if all that turns out to be true. Never in history will so many face the prospect of an untimely death, and at the hands of such banal bureaucratic villainy. Will they just compliantly check out of this world, the same way they lined up for their vaxxes and boosters, or finally rage against that machine?
The latest venture in unreality these days spills out of Russia’s operation in Ukraine. The mind-fuckery over it sure seems advantageously amplified here as a cover for the tragic developments in the Covid-19 vaxx melodrama and other domestic torments. All the evidence suggests that our country’s leadership wanted this war to happen in the worst way. We set up the provocations in Donbas and let’er rip. Now we posture on the sidelines, crying crocodile tears, pretending to help while sabotaging peace talks.
What’s followed in our attempts to punish The Evil Putin (the source of all our problems) is the most feckless fiasco of unanticipated consequences since Kaiser Wilhelm gave the go-ahead to Austria to punish Serbia over the murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914. Voila: a World War. Only in this case it’s looking more like a suicidal economic war by Western Civ on itself.
How are those sanctions working out? No fuel for German industry… no fertilizer for Iowa farmers… no nickel and other metals to make machine parts for Europe and America…. And suddenly, having kicked Russia out of the international trade payment clearing system (SWIFT), we’ve provoked them to resort to backing the ruble with gold, meaning that our broke-down Bretton Woods fiat money system becomes the new “barbarous relic” of global finance, leaving the West to pound sand down a rat hole, while the other two-thirds of the world do actual business for commodities that modern life can’t do without.
The result of all that? America and its partners in Western Civ resign from modern life and go medieval. Everything about America is looking more and more medieval — our rough living conditions, our lawlessness, our violent entertainments, our Hobbesian racketeering, our occult sexual preoccupations, our depraved elites, our quack science. Our center has not been holding for so long that hardly anyone even remembers where the center used to be. And now the bottom is falling out.
Hence, that pitiful scene in the White House this week with “Joe Biden” wandering aimlessly through a crowd focused on the charismatic Barack Obama — apparently tired of working-from-home. Even the luminous Dr. Jill has abandoned this hollow figurehead on Democracy’s flagship. You have to wonder if Mr. Putin saw the video, and if even he had to cringe at the sad spectacle of his antagonist’s ruin.
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Are the “bureaucratic villainy” themselves beginning to feel the pain?
Epidemic: German and Austrian Mayors Under 60 Are’Suddenly and Unexpectedly’ Dropping Dead
The names of Mayors being added to the list of unexpected and sudden deaths seems to be growing steadily.
The “Freie Bremer” channel on Telegram compiled a list of several such incidents, at least 15 known deaths in Germany and Austria in the period mentioned. However, the number of unreported cases could be higher.
https://rairfoundation.com/epidemic-german-and-austrian-mayors-under-60-aresuddenly-and-unexpectedly-dropping-dead/
Karma is a bitch. Thats what happens when you start believing your own propaganda.
They thought they were getting saline but were back stabbed. They know too much to let live.
Term limited by stupidity.
And where has the good “Dr.!!!” Jill been lately?
She was everywhere during the “campaign”, propping up her husband and leading him around like a well trained service dog. Even for the first few months of 46’s run, she never seemed too far off stage.
Now?
Is she keeping her powder dry for a future elected/appointed office? Now that Brandon has apparently outlived his usefulness, and TPTB have pulled back the curtain and said “Yeah, this is our plan and “fuck you, what are you going to do about it” he will be mercifully be put out to pasture, and memory holed.
Naa, we live in a wonderland, all full of pixies and fairy dust.
Reality is a tv show all pretty and gruesome where beautiful people act out.
Check out the Zelinsky show, coming to a legislature worldwide, tickets are hard to get but you can watch it on the Boobtube. They even trot out a Azof Nazi to act all tough and barbaric. No worries, the nastiest will be imported here by cIa and the USless goobermint, count on it.
And those folks testing positive for ADS? Poor slobs, useful idiots, so sorry Miss Molly, you done it to yourself. 2 of my own children did it, one even does the boosters. She was such a beautiful, intelligent child, a shrug of the shoulders, where did I go wrong?
Just bought some peeps, gonna stock up on feed, ordered a chicken tractor twice the size of the one purchased 6 years ago, that sold last summer. Picked up a set of downhill skis from the side of the road for skids. Had cross country skis on the earlier version, too narrow. Keep it moving.
Got to learn how to turn compost into chicken feed, just need a critical mass of garbage and manure to get enough to sustain.
That is reality now, get ready, and keep the dogs away from the chickens!
Chickens like worms and worms like compost. Seems like a win win. Better stock up on ammo because the starving hoards will come.
And the chickens will turn over the compost for you while looking for worms, and every once in a while dropping in a little more fertilizer.
I feel your pain about your daughter; I loved mine so much; she was such a loving girl; HS Salutatorian & $20,000 scholarship; earns 3 figures; became an idiot liberal and refuses to even talk to me. Probably only God can fix these awful things.
First, MBS refuses to take Biden’s phone call, then the mainstream media lets the story of Hunter’s laptop see the light of day, and finally everyone ignores Joe when Obama comes to town. Leaders in other countries must see this and think, “we ain’t hitching our wagons to this loser” as they snuggle up to Putin and Xi.
The Western countries (US/Canada, Europe, Australia/NZ, and Japan) are toast. The only thing they produce is worthless money while the “3rd World” produces real goods and has the commodities needed to produce the real goods.
Maybe Kunstler’s right and we’ll go medieval, but I suspect the blue cities will first turn into towns auditioning for the next sequel to Escape from New York. It is going to get ugly fast. I better be moving inland into the red zone.
To be honest, I cannot tell if Putin is part of the new world order plan or really just throwing it off. I am hoping for the latter. One thing is for certain. We have fallen into the abyss and the bottom is coming fast.
“The center cannot hold.” The Devil hates a center where most find general agreement. He loves extreme separation among people.
Sounds like the Devil’s a fan of centrifugal force. To get it, you just apply spin.
Centripetal force is required for circular motion. Centrifugal force is the force that makes something flee from the center.