Guest Post by Jim Kunstler
In a confab of friends on a warm evening this weekend, someone asked: Do you think what’s going on is due to incompetence or malevolence? The USA is certainly skidding into a great and traumatic re-set featuring a much lower standard of living for most citizens amidst a junkyard of broken institutions. But so are all the other nations of Western Civ. If it’s not being managed by malign forces, such as der Schwabenklaus and his WEF myrmidons, then it sure looks like some sort of controlled demolition. The big question hanging over the 2022 election, then, is: Must America commit suicide?
What provoked the mental illness of the Left? What turned the Democratic Party into the Party of Chaos? It seemed pretty sane in 1996 when President Bill Clinton declared — to much surprise — in his State of the Union address that “the era of big government is over.” Of course, few understood back then how cravenly corrupt the Clintons were, even especially as Hillary launched her own political career once Bill’s turn was over. Few, I daresay, thought at the time that Hillary would come to eclipse Bill in influence — though not so few suspected that the first lady operated as the demented megalomaniac she has proved to be.
Gawd knows what went on in that Shakespearean marriage… but the Democratic Party in the post-2000 Hillary years discovered that its very existence required the government to get ever-bigger because the American economy — the real, on-the-ground economy outside Wall Street’s financialization hall of mirrors — was withering away with the off-shoring of industry and something was needed to replace it. And, by the way, let’s stipulate that the Republican Party mostly abetted all that, even despite transient rumblings from its Tea Party renegades.
Forgive me at this juncture for repeating my oft-stated theory of history: Things happen because they seem like a good idea at the time. Off-shoring seemed like a good idea at the time. Fob off all those filthy, polluting factories onto other countries, and pay the natives three bucks a day to make all the stuff we needed. Plus, pay for the stuff with US treasuries (IOUs). What a racket! But then every activity in America was turning into a racket — which is to say, making money dishonestly — until it became the immersive economic milieu of the land. Even the two most noble endeavors in our society, education and medicine, disgraced themselves with shameless moneygrubbing.
Something weird happened starting in 2004 when one Barack Obama came onstage at the Democratic convention that nominated the haircut-in-search-of-a-brain called John Kerry. The new star lit up the joint posing as a Great Uniter. And four years later he made a fool of Hillary, cutting her off at the pass from seizing her supposedly ineluctable turn — and supreme glass-ceiling-breaking triumph — as president. Where’d he come from? This pavement-pounding community organizer with the 1000-watt smile?
In retrospect, Barack Obama appears to have been manufactured out of some misty Marxist cabal of the subterranean Far Left that infested a sub-basement of the Democratic Party. He came on-board in 2009, just as all that skeezy financialization blew up the banks and launched the era of government rescue operations that heaped previously unimaginable quantities of debt on the USA’s already unmanageable burden. Republican George Bush II got the blame for all that and Mr. Obama proceeded to make it a lot worse.
Barack Obama served as liberalism’s bowling trophy, the capstone of the great civil rights crusade: a black president, proof of America’s moral uprightness. He managed to do next to nothing to change the conditions that had wrecked black America — namely, the paternalistic policies that shattered families — but he put up a good front while the country teetered economically. And notice that his DOJ, under Attorney General Eric Holder, managed to avoid prosecuting anyone but mortgage vampire Anthony Mozilo for all the banking crimes of the day. Meanwhile, President Obama took care of Hillary by anointing her Secretary of State, from which perch she grifted tens of millions of dollars into the coffers of the janky Clinton Foundation. Smooth moves there. In the end, Mr. Obama remained an enigma, passing the baton to Her Inevitableness in 2016 — which she commenced to blow utterly in overestimating her own political charm — she had none — and underestimating the appeal of her opponent, the Golden Golem of Greatness, Donald Trump.
Mr. Trump’s astonishing victory apparently disordered Hillary’s mind. She was reportedly too drunk late that election night to even appear at the podium to make the excruciating concession speech. But her Russian Collusion operation ginned up months earlier had already set in motion a great vengeance machine which partisans in the DOJ, FBI, CIA, and State Department ran with through the whole of Mr. Trump’s term in the White House, climaxing in the orchestrated election frauds of 2020, which installed Barack Obama’s empty vessel of a stand-in “Joe Biden” as president.
The amalgamated pathologies of Barack Obama’s reign — which includes the birth of Wokery, the Jacobin-Marxist crusade to trash culture and economy — and Hillary Clinton’s psychotic thirst for revenge has transformed the Democrats into the Party of Chaos, presiding over the suicide of America, and Western Civ with it. Which, of course, prompts the question: Who exactly is running Barack Obama? I don’t pretend to know at this point. Many people I know are sure it is an international banking claque. The part that doesn’t add up is the supposed banking claque’s utter lack of political charm. Nobody in Western Civ is for them, in the sense that they offer any salvation program from either the disorders of Woke culture or the disorders of crumbling economic globalism.
Mysteries abound now, and they are disconcerting to an extreme. How did the polite and rational society called Canada fall under the punishing sway of Justin Trudeau? Ditto the Apparently insane Australia and New Zealand? Ditto the Europeans, who followed America’s absurd campaign to make Ukraine a war zone, and who now face a winter with no fuel for industry or home heating — and possible a descent into new medievalism. Perhaps the Covid bamboozle did that, just drove them over the edge. (And they will soon learn what a deadly con that was, especially the “vaccine” feature.)
Personally, I think we under-appreciate the tendings of history per se, and that tending these days is the set of circumstances adding up to a Long Emergency, a.k.a. the Fourth Turning, a.k.a, Mr. J.M. Greer’s Long Descent. In plain English, we’re exiting the techno-industrial fiesta of the past 200-odd years and entering the uncharted territory of what-comes-next, and that is driving the immense anxiety of the age. Our business model for everything is broken, mostly because the fossil fuel situation has become so uncertain, and it is driving us nuts. Understand that and you will have enough mental equipment operating correctly to stay sane.
Suicide is hardly the only option. Resist those who want to drag you into it. We are going to carry on one way or another. We’re going to make it through this bottleneck. Let the insane bury the insane. Keep your eyes peeled, keep your hearts open, and keep your powder dry.
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What’s going on? Please. What happened is that the 4th branch of government failed…US. Plain & simple. All the people mentioned in the article did their job, we did not.
AA- I would say that the fourth estate failed/was corrupted. A free press is the barrier between Nazi oppression and pure propaganda. We lost that barrier.
Yes, propaganda works like a charm, but not on everyone. There’s a reason for that. Education…and I’m talking REAL education. Not the BS titles behind one’s name. The general pop has allowed themselves to become so incredibly dumbed down that they can’t even recognize when they’re oppressed, when to push back hard, or even how to push back.
Unfortunately, people like that will impact us all in the end.
I take a great deal of comfort knowing at least
40% of the population refused the poison and
a sizeable chunk of the population thinks the last
elections were fraudulent. The great Chinkfru Hoax
opened a lot of eyes about how corrupt their government is.
What they do with the knowledge is where things get interesting.
MSM certainly sold out, but alt-media has been actively demonized, deplatformed, debanked, fact-cheka’d, and censored by Big Tech for anti-globalist sedition. As J.Assange or Michael Hastings might agree, hard to report when the limitless resources of the deep-state have conspired to destroy you and your proponents.
Example here, our fine host, J.Quinn has had to plan long-term and struggle mightily to keep TBP online. A ridiculous thing for a popular op-ed and news outlet with a benign outlook in a formerly free and prosperous Constitutional Republic.
Thomas Paine would have been horrified. But may we enjoy this last scrap of free discourse while it lasts. Without morally founded, populist effort to restore the 1948 Smith-Mundt Act, we have been wasting our borrowed time.
None of them did their job if the welfare of the American people was the objective…
That was never the objective. Power & money begets corruption. Always. That’s human nature. It’s why checks & balances were put in place. Men are not angels.
This is what we all need to do… noncompliance…
And this….
BREAKING: Saskatchewan warns Trudeau’s federal Nitrogen agents could be arrested
Saskatchewan Minister Jeremy Cockrill has sent a warning to the Trudeau government that officers sent by Ottawa will be arrested if they continue to trespass on farmland to test nitrogen levels…
What is more concerning to some than the actual trespass are the motivations of the federal agents. According to the land owners who confronted the federal agents trespassing on their land, they were told that the purpose of them being there was to test the water in the farmers’ dugouts to measure nitrate levels.
For those following recent news in the agricultural world, this is being seen as connected to the Trudeau government’s recently announced policy to reduce the use of fertilizer on Canadian farms by 30%. This policy has been widely criticized by farmers across the country and by provincial governments in the Western provinces.
Some observers have said that there is reason to suspect that these actions are the first steps in replicating the attacks on farmers that have provoked widespread unrest in the Netherlands and other places in Europe.
Kudos to Saskatchewan for stepping up to the plate. Never gonna happen here in british communista tho. Our dear leaders here are requiring unvax’d new moms who worked for the govt to pay back maternity leave. KNOWING full well that the move will put families out on the street.
PEOPLE… rise up. Be ungovernable, start today, if not then you are aiding and abetting the enemy.
The West Coast Progressive infection that started in California and worked it way up through Oregon and Washington, reached BC a couple years ago. Now you folks in Vancouver & thereabouts are as freaking nuts as my comrades here in the Rose City.
Maybe a bit of shaking from the Cascade Subduction Zone will cause this whole woke region to take a swim and never emerge again.
>>>Maybe a bit of shaking from the Cascade Subduction Zone
There’s no ‘maybe’ about it. The only question is when.
The FEMA director for Region 10 (aka the Pacific Northwest), stated that “everything west of I-5 will be gone”. I think he’s exaggerating a bit, but not by much. There will still be plenty of land left along the former I-5 and westwards, but there will be few passable roads, no electric power, no new fuel supply, and no prospect of significant outside assistance for weeks, if not months. Enjoy!
“everything west of I-5 will be gone”
Sweet.
I’ll have waterfront property.
The first thing I’ll do is turn my leftard neighbor’s house into a boathouse, and make his deck my new dock.
I’ll say. With L.A. as a visceral example of total failure to avoid, the west coast metro suicide of S.F., Seattle, PDX, and B.C. happening within a decade had to be orchestrated. (Whose info/culture war schema has more of a Maoist feel to it than a Santa Muerte.)
I moved PNW in 2012 for the regionalist /separatist mindset. But now that is all but snuffed out, leaving expensive Utah and Idaho to carry the Byzantine solution to the other side of collapse.
Brian – What was the credit card for at the second check point where the couple stopped?
That is in Ontario… and I think its just a toll booth for hiways… another tax collection point…
Not that I have any interest whatsoever in going to Canada, but this website https://travel.gc.ca/travel-covid/travel-restrictions/foreign-sept7-vaccine seems to confirm that I couldn’t go anyway, being unvaccinated against the covids.
What a gay country. Probably lousy with monkey pox.
Except illegal aliens, people can’t enter the U.S. without a vaxx either.
2nd time I’ve seen this here. Is it true?
US citizens can but if you are from anywhere else you must have proof of vaccination
for non-citizens, it does seem they still demand injection papers. fuck them.
Just go to the Rio Grande and have a look.
Joe… Better yet. I’ll bring the Rio Grande here for him.
Attn: Guest/Anon Yes non citizens must show proof of the Vaxx. These nice people are fully vaxxed citizens of the US so they don’t even have to stop for an ID check.
Mr. Anonymous would never lie to you. He is just not that kind of guy.
Same goes for the good ole USA…hilarious mother fuckers.
Unfortunately the U.S. also requires the jab for non-citizens (except the illegals, of course!). As a citizen, that makes me wonder if we left to visit friends, if the U.S. would give any or much notice if it was decided by the controllers to make even citizens have the jab to get back in.
Let freedom reign. Go Canada.
“Let freedom resign. Go Canada.”
FIFY
I really appreciate that he ends all of his articles on a positive note. I’ve really cut back on Berenson and Kirsch’s articles lately because they’re too damn depressing to ingest day after day. In the height of the madness, my daughter screamed at me for not taking the jab. She had never done that before. She was scared for me. Now, she’s pregnant and I’m terrified her jab will harm the baby. The birth of a precious grandbaby and all I can do is worry (and feed her healthy foods, something at least). What a totally fucked up country.
Well, look at T4C’s grandbaby. He’s thriving & looks very healthy. So there is hope.
Yes, there is hope AA. Thanks for the note. It is greatly appreciated.
CC.
This is a great article with many recomendations for Detoxing from jabs.
Best wishes to your daughter!
https://www.organiclifestylemagazine.com/issue/17-how-to-detoxify-and-heal-from-vaccinations-for-adults-and-children
This is fantastic, Mark. Interesting that it calls for salads, herbs, veggies, etc. Recently I found grass-fed beef bones and made her bone broth. Perhaps the bastards strangling food production will cause us all to revert back to the healthy diet we had before all these ghastly factory farms. I truly appreciate your advice and encouragement. God, I love this site!
Read “Deep Nutrition.” It’s basic premise is this:
If it wasn’t eaten anywhere 150 years ago, don’t eat it now.
We should be eating real meat fed on grass, real organ meats,
fermented food, food grown without herbicides, insecticides.
Avoid seed oils at all cost. That is hard to do because it is in
everything processed. Read labels, the second you see seed oils, move on.
Eat all the fruit oils and animal fat oils you want. Butter is a must!
According to Dr. Mercola, the oils are poison. I stick with EVOO and avocado oil.
CC,
You are more thab welcome. Get her some Ivermectin…I gave my daughter, son in law, and grandson 50 12 mg pills just in case last Christmas.
My wife and I take it four to five times a month. We are Pure Bloods of course but both have had it, and are are around shedders.
Check this out:
HOW TO USE IVERMECTIN AGAINST COVID VACCINES
https://www.brightworkresearch.com/how-to-use-ivermectin-or-protect-against-the-covid-vaccines/
Get her some NAC and all the immune system supports as well.
Oh, I have Ivermectin. HCQ as well. As soon as the lying scum on TV rejected them I found a source-from Jim Quinn I might ad. It came from India so I’m a bit spooked about its purity. I’ll use it as an emergency treatment. So I take Quercetin with zinc tablets which apparently acts like HCQ. Screw the ‘medical establishment’, I going it on my own.
If ‘Insulin Hub’ and Andrew James is the Indian source yours is fine. TrustPiolet highly rates them.
I put the direct link up on TBP many times.
Ivermectin will remove/flush the Spike Proteins.
I use Zeolite powder to remove/detox heavy metals, and that would include Graphene Oxide that is one of the most toxic jab poisons.
God bless your daughter/grandbaby buddy.
CC I’d also like to add to the optimism shared by others. Friends lost a grandbaby late in the pregnancy after mom had to take the jab. Her and her husband have since had a perfectly healthy little boy with no issues thus far.
“Thus far”.
I have the feeling this is a long term thing, maybe generational. The aggressive cancers of the vaxxed are not letting up. May they not be visited on the children of the vaxxed.
I agree but the longer it takes to do harm the more time real scientists can develop a cure.
Great news AB. Thanks for the support.
Berenson and Kirsch are both insufferable leftards. I used to troll them on substack and was kind of appalled that Lew Rockwell started publishing their bullshit on LRC. Lew has always loved him some leftards, but he recently called Berenson out in one of his columns over the screeching leftard screed Berenson tweeted against Alex Jones, wishing bankruptcy on him.
Keep your eyes peeled, keep your hearts open, and keep your powder dry.
Keep your larder stocked and your tribe close.
And make sure you have plenty of water filtration
systems. the simplest and among the best is a “LifeStraw”
You can drink almost any water with it. About $30 and will
filter several thousand gallons before it fails.
LifeStraw
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“Forgive me at this juncture for repeating my oft-stated theory of history: Things happen because they seem like a good idea at the time. Off-shoring seemed like a good idea at the time. Fob off all those filthy, polluting factories onto other countries, and pay the natives three bucks a day to make all the stuff we needed. Plus, pay for the stuff with US treasuries (IOUs). What a racket!”
Stopped reading right there. Only started reading because of a catchy title so I got what I deserved. Bunkola aplenty.
This is not happening because it seemed like a good idea at the time. At least not in the way he’s claiming.
It was a very good idea that is paying off handsomely for the “Company” and the Repukelicrat and Demlican Pols at the time as well as now.
“They” keep pushing the “Accidental, Incompetent, Stupid” narrative to keep you coming back to vote over and over and over ad infinitum until one day you wake up to Zappa’s brick wall.
“They” will continue using it until it no longer works, at which time they will change it. Unlike us, the “Company” doesn’t fix stuff that ain’t broken.
Its been a truck load of BS pure and simple from the beginning. I get piss’d when people, writers, commenters say the same stupid things over and over. If they knew the harm, they’re just incompetent, it’ll be better if we had the right people in there…. bullshit.
They know and knew the outcomes. It was all traitorous from the top down, corruption in unimaginable scale. Offshoring was to maximize profits for the scum, and keep the ‘Peoples’ from gaining to much unfettered wealth. Just-in-Time manufacturing was doomed from the beginning, it was all planned well in advance, cheese in the trap, to bring once wealthy nations, to their knees and the People would roll over and accept it. I get a little more than PO’d when people start spewing this nonsense…
Sigh… I’d better go to the shop, get some work done.
I call them Rethuglicans and Demirats.
Mealy mouth pukes and that’s my final offer.
Best I can do is ‘parasites’.
It just dawned on me that the upbeat slogan, “The Future Is Here Now” is actually pretty terrifying.
once we accept the obvious things, like Trudeau is really a Castreau, Michelle Obama has a dick, our”allies” do next to nothing for us, we are governed by the Federal Reserve, and our leaders are liars and companions of thieves, only then can we confront the underlying agendas that are killing us.
Don’t know what chromosomes “Michelle O” has, but Justin sure as Hell has one half from Fidel.
Big Mike has his own y.
” …Fob off all those filthy, polluting factories onto other countries, and pay the natives three bucks a day to make all the stuff we needed. Plus, pay for the stuff with US treasuries (IOUs)…”.
Well, not exactly. He’s got the cart before the horse. There is no way any significant offshoring could have happened without the rest of the world willing to take worthless fiat from us. It was a nice ride while it lasted, but now we’re left having to rebuild if we want to eat. Most people will never get it.
“Keep your eyes peeled, keep your hearts open, and keep your powder dry.”
And your firearms loaded.
David DuByne did a good video on Brighteon yesterday about global droughts. If you have long term survival plans, you should give it a look.
https://www.brighteon.com/691851d5-9e04-4493-ba99-9f7f97e86d4e
Uh, no.
We “the West” are exiting the last vestiges of Christian morality of the past 2000-odd years, and are entering the well-known territories of complete nihilism and irreligion.
Actually, Devil worship is waxing powerful around the nation and world. And from that that comes the nihilism and death cults.
Seems to me that the democrats where far from sane in the 90’s. Like a roller coaster being pulled up that first incline only to be released to the force gravity, Marxism had slowly permeated it’s way into the central power of Government. Federal, State and Local Governments started filling with Marxist with big ideas. Cloward–Piven rules for radicals was the bible for the up and coming politicians and activists of the early 70’s. They saw the democrat party as the easiest party to infiltrate as the ideals were not that far removed from each other. Pushing the ideas of Marxism in the higher levels of education and placing Marxist professors in every hall of academia proved to be very effective. After 9-11 the nation encountered the perfect storm to usher in the ideas of Cloward–Piven openly without censorship to the main stream public. Like a steam roller they pushed the public into acceptance that Government is your protector and without the power of Government we are all doomed. Bill may of said “the era of big government is over” but like with all politicians, it’s not the words, it’s the actions. Bill planted more Marxist in the halls of Government than any other President before him. We still suffer to this day from the actions of the Clintons term as POTUS. George Bush is a Marxist and so was Daddy. The NWO is a Marxist idea and daddy like son were champions of that idea, as were so many of the so called Republican party. Barack Obama was the inevitable enigma. If it wasn’t him it would have been someone else. He was the perfect choice as he moved the nation further under the spell of Marxism in a mere 8 years, further than anyone before him. He played his hand to what was a lost generation. Latch key kids brought up in an American hating, agenda driven educational system ripe for socialist sabotage. I would say what we see and feel today is a well orchestrated long term plan coming into fruition. For some it will be like a dog chasing a car, once he catches it he has no idea what to do with it.
Kunstler and his fellow fag Bolsheviks built this. He should own it.
Supporting Marxists for 50 years had consequences …reeeeeee …no one could have known.
“What provoked the mental illness of the Left? What turned the Democratic Party into the Party of Chaos? It seemed pretty sane in 1996 . . .”
The Left has been a little loony for a long time, but the event that drove them over the edge was the election of Trump in 2016. To this day I still don’t understand why they hate Trump so much. Other than his bluster, Trump basically governed like G.W. Bush. The Left never hated Bush nearly as much as they hate Trump. But the NWO knew that Trump would trigger the Left, which is one of the reasons they selected him to win in 2016. And it is why they make sure that he stays in the spotlight, with the January 6 hearings and the Mar-a-Lago raid. Of course Trump also has a strong effect on much of the Right. Many of them virtually worship Trump, despite the fact that he is a Judas goat and controlled opposition. Trump is one of the best assets that the NWO has had in politics for a long time.
True leftists totally hated W and refused to call him president. They all referred to him as Mr. Bush. I will agree that the hatred for Trump was amplified, but that is what 8 years of community agitation will do for a country.
It is neither, it is the mass ignorance of the so called Citizens. They are getting exactly what they deserve.
“pavement-pounding community organizer with the 1000-watt smile”
I never trusted or liked him from the very start and is smile nauseates me