Guest Post by Jim Kunstler
Last night I had a dream. In the dream I woke up to the banner headline: BIDEN ARRESTED. It was only a dream, but was most satisfying, as it made vivid and emphatic what must happen to correct the dreadful tendings of the criminally psychopathic enterprise that our government has become.
The gang behind the shabby and absurd pretend-president — a figure as comically macabre as the plastic effigies of the undead who crowd American front yards this time of year — is not content with running the country into a ditch. Lately these rogues and degenerates are making noises about blowing up the world.
The autumn days dwindle down to signal events that will overturn this wicked enterprise. The yellow-and-blue flag of Ukraine can’t compete on the lawn with tableaux vivants of werewolves, skeletons hung with rotting flesh, radioactive burn victims, hooded demons from hell escaping their graves, and tortured souls shrieking from the various zones between this world and perdition. America is expressing itself with stunning verisimilitude to the onrush of reality: maybe we’ve had enough of romancing death.
That’s the developing lesson of our fiasco in Ukraine. The past three weeks, the US and its vacillating NATO cohorts issued a set of challenging insults aimed at Russia, the designated “villain” in the concocted Ukraine melodrama produced-and-directed by the Party of Chaos as a diversion from our own acute problems at home.
First, the sabotage of Nord Streams One and Two. Maybe a US op, maybe UK, maybe Poland in the mix somewhere. Obviously not Russia, despite all the clumsy propaganda on CNN. What was the idea there, exactly? To deprive Russia of a natgas export market? Guess what? The destruction of the Nord Streams leaves plenty of natgas for the other 70-percent of the world that’s not Europe. And plenty of natgas for Russia itself to develop industries in an import-replacement program to offset the idiotic economic sanctions recklessly imposed on it by “Joe Biden” & Company.
Not such a good outcome for Germany and the EU, though. They will, first, freeze through the winter with idle furnaces and, second, starve in 2023-24 from a lack of fertilizer (made from natgas in the Haber-Bosch process). Oh, and no more industry for you, Euroland. It’s back to the jolly rigors of the Twelfth Century, planting barley and peasecods with pointed sticks while wolves roam the streets of your depopulated cities.
Next, days ago, the attempted destruction of the bridge over the Kerch Strait in the Black Sea, connecting the Crimean Peninsula to mainland Russia. Nice try. Didn’t work. Both the railroad lanes and the motor lanes are operational again. Who did it? We’ll know soon enough.
Note also: the ongoing shelling and bombing of Ukraine’s giant nuclear power generation plant at Zaporizhzhia — admitted by US officials to be a Ukraine operation in a September 13 New York Times report. Yes, that was the bright idea of America’s advisors to NATO and Ukraine: lob explosives into the biggest nuke plant in Europe. See what happens….
Note also that the main human object of all this US, NATO, and Ukraine mischief is the leader of Russia. That’d be Vladimir Putin. One must admire Mr. Putin’s prudence and fortitude in the face of such provocative effrontery. So far anyway. Now, it appears that he has had enough of these shenanigans. For seven months, the strategy behind Russia’s Special Military Operation has puzzled the West. Why so tentative? Why not just use Russia’s manifest superiority, air power especially, to go in and bust the whole joint up? Do what the US has done in places like Libya and Syria?
Forgive me for repeating what I’ve written more than once before: Russia will not benefit from having a broken, failed state on its doorstep. Such a situation would clearly just invite more international hugger-mugger. Rather, Russia will benefit hugely from having a neutral, functioning Ukraine next door, a state with ample agricultural resources that could plausibly feed its people and live in peace, perhaps even enjoy special trade privileges with its bigger neighbor to the east… a Ukraine that would be a geographical buffer between Russia and what is apt to be a very disorderly and distressed Western Europe on the other side.
The Ukrainian leader, Mr. Zelenskyy, capped off the weeks of sabotage by appealing to the US and NATO to conduct “preemptive nuclear strikes” against Russia proper. That’ll work in Ukraine’s favor, I’m sure. He promised to call German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and make the pitch for NATO jumping into the action on the ground. (And with whose army would that be?) Such cheek from this desperado! Going mad-dog is probably not a sign of confidence.
As of Monday, October 10, Russia began delivering some disciplinary actions against Mr. Zelenskyy’s insolent regime. Russia sent missiles into at least 10 Ukrainian cities, targeting electric power generation, water, central heating, and other “key services” in Kiev and elsewhere. Message: if you think we’re fucking around, consider this an attitude adjustment opportunity.
The action is an overture to a strategic shift. Russia aims to speed up the game clock, consolidate its ownership of the Donbas provinces, destroy Ukraine’s remaining military capability, bust up enough stuff to perhaps prompt the Ukrainian people to ask whether continuing to follow Mr. Zelenskyy’s gang is a good idea, and leave no alternative to talks that will leave Ukraine neutralized. Mr. Putin is calling “Joe Biden’s” bluff. All of this could have been avoided, of course, if the maniacs of America’s deep state had simply abided by the promise made thirty years ago to not expand NATO. What part of that deal didn’t we understand? Apparently, all of it. On purpose. Because we have acted with conscious and arrogant dishonor.
Of course, our “president” could commence that nuclear war he affects to be so avid for. It would be a fitting career-capper for the Ol’ Dawg. The show-runner behind all this needless mayhem, former President Barack Obama, reminded us a while back: “Don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to fuck things up.” Roger that, BHO! Which gets back to that dream I had of the headline: BIDEN ARRESTED. It was good, but not enough. How about : BIDEN, OBAMA, AND 639 FEDERAL OFFICIALS IN NINE AGENCIES ARRESTED. What a strange moment in our long and steadfast history as an orderly Republic that would be. And yet, what a perfect ending to these years of perfidy and travail.
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Biden, Obama and 639 various officials taken to the juzgado? One can certainly dream. Dream for a return to rule of law.
That was my particular bully pulpit , platform after “the Donald ” won the presidency , re establishin the rule of law , and that to me meant holding to account all those ” ruling elite ” that we all know by name . It didnt take long for The Donald to say about the Clintons “I dont want to hurt them , they’ve given their lives to serving this country ” or something very similar to that in sentiment . My question is where did your magnamnimity in victory get you or us Donny ? Damnit )-: the purpose was’nt to take pleasure in political wrath and vengeance , it was to deter lawlessness in govt going forward, Jesus God how simple is that to understand ?
That’s a hard job – monitoring all the globalist maneuvers & the corrupt wretches acting out their stupid roles.
The lack of “rule of law” has destroyed the country. The FBI is only there to cover up the crimes of the elite and they are paid well by the globalist corporations. We have no country without justice and we have no justice unless we the people stand up and deliver it. That is never going to happen because United Sodomites of America have other things on their minds.
Seems obvious that we’ve gone too far for the so-called democratic process to offer any chance of reversal. The only way to get the country back is to take it back.
Even so, with the wide open borders, the demographic has been altered to the point that the country we remember is simply not possible…without a massive reversal of several decades of unbridled immigration. And that can only happen through a bloodbath.
I’m afraid it’s Turner Diaries or nothing. It’s come down to that.
There’s always something else.
The bloodbath you tout as the way to ‘reclaiming the country we remember’ isn’t a baptismal for our country’s rebirth. Its next incarnation will be a handful of splintered remnants with everyone fighting for themselves after ‘Grid Down’ – our governments ‘Sampson Option’ when we get serious about shucking our government’s corn.
After which everyone will be taking their next day from somebody else.
The parasitic Big Nose Nation has brought ours to ruin by turning us against each other. That’s only going to get worse.
For an absolute certainty, it’s too late to take this country back. Who is here that would piss on its Woke population if it was on fire?
Where can we buy ammonium nitrate ?lol
You forgot that the FBI is also there to intimidate political enemies. The rules are made by the people who have the guns.
Imbeciles playing with gasoline and matches. What could go wrong?
Your Biden dream could only happen after a “FBI/DOJ purged” dream.
The clowns running ops against the federation of the bear are absolutely fucked,again,nato should have allowed Russia to join up decades back.
My guess is the average Russian/American would have no problems trading whiskey/steaks for caviar/vodka and having a world wide house party,fuck those in our way!
The owl is not amused!
I think I have that.
Hey Jim, about your dream, remember the words of the great American philosopher, George Carlin:
“It’s called the American Dream, but you have to be asleep to believe it.”
That would be awesome.
When Obama was elected my dream was so America just became another shit 3rd world country. I didn’t vote for him, but I was, really, he’s going to be that bad. Yes he was. Before he was elected in 2012, my dream was Obama was a traitor, again I had disbelief in my mind. Yes, he sucks, but a traitor. Well, if aligning with the NWO, spying on Trump, and stealing an election isn’t being a traitor, What is. I have had some very beautiful dreams that came true, such as meeting my wife. But the Obama dreams were the worst ever.
Obama’s not a traitor, because he’s not an American. He’s a foreign agent and an invading enemy combatant.
x2! Nah, x10.
Dreaming is where everything begins.
EXCERPT: The really pernicious thing about unity is that it’s sold as some kind of spiritual ideal: We each sacrifice our ourselves, then we somehow become collective superheroes.
This also is false. The high and good – the truly spiritual – forms only in individuals. The more united our minds are, the more we decline. The more individual our minds, the more we rise.
Unity in the religious sense is a spiritualized dream of a free fix. By embracing unity, people hope to solve their personal deficits without work. Unification calls power down from heaven and we’re magically fixed. It’s “spiritual,” after all.
The truth is this: Where individuality has had the upper hand, prosperity, growth, and invention have defined the times. Where collective ideals (like melting into one) have had the upper hand, humanity has sunk toward an animal level of existence.
Well said but salvation as I understand it has never been worked out at a collective level but an individual level and I believe the scripture has my back on this . It seems obvious, to me anyway , that the only person that can do the work on you for you is you. I’m a christian , that is my personal theology
and “that’s my story and I’m stickin with it “
God Damnit JK that was spot on. Way past time for Americans to wake the fuck up to what our Government is leading us into… I guess that’s sort of wet dream too.
The dream should be alive if our Military Joint Chiefs would honor their oath !
Obviously to even the casual observer with 2 active brain cells on jumper cables has to be able to see the majority of DC parasites are the domestic enemies of the American Citizens and the Constitutional Republic . They can start with every member of the Kangaroo Committee for January 6 . A true collection of lying political scum & villainy !
Honor Your Oath
FORGET ME NOT
Convicted and executed for his treason and crimes against humanity is something to dream. Arrests mean nothing in the corrupt banana republic anymore.
It’s almost winter, and Zelensky wants the Germans to blow the dust off their old battles plans and invade Russia? Ja, that sounds like a good idea.
Psalms, Psalm 109:
8: Let his days be few; and let another take his office.
9: Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
10: Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
11: Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour.
12: Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.
13: Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
14: Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
15: Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.
…………..
Amen. This is my prayer for you, Joe Biden
Pepe Escobar lays it out why the Krimean bridge truck bomb was not a purely Ukrainian operation:
https://thecradle.co/Article/Columns/16704
An interesting exercise for those with enough memory to power a Gameboy device; think on the things that only one month earlier dominated headlines and ask yourself, what happened to that? Monkey Pox, the Kherson Offensive, the Nord Stream attack.
How, you may ask, could things that were of such major importance at the time suddenly become unworthy of mention? How big were the stories and the coverage at the time and what accounts for their disappearance from discussion?
The monkey pox thing turned out to be only a butt monkey thing. The butt monkeys were getting negative press attracting attention to their disgusting sexual deviancy so it was snuffed out. The Kherson and Nord stream were replaced by a bridge blowing up and today the massive missile attack cause ya gotta go with the current thing as people dont have the band width to absorb more than 1 or 2 distractions at a time.
HSF ~ I saw bubbles in the ocean which proves the story is 100% true.
Russia has been striking Ukraine all day with missiles.
https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/world/massive-russian-attacks-in-progress-inside-ukraine-zelensky-s-office-hit-by-missiles
meh
Wake Auntie when there is an actual attempt to capture Odessa.
OT, but too, funny…dream a little dream….there’s a price for that too.
then, all my hair fell , out……. ha ha ha
21 – year old after 5 years of taking hormones
https://youtu.be/4EmcO8tZh18
LOL. Yup hair loss. Hell I’m losing hair over the last 5 years but still have more at my old age. I wonder if it has become a better driver now
Her clitoris is now a micro penis.
In one way, I have sympathy for the brain washed kid. In another way, anyone who submits to big pharma get what they deserve.
She admitted that she is a woman? WOW somebody must have not told to stick to the narrative. How did she figure out she is a woman? I thought its impossible to define that. Looks like a dude talks like a dude but has no balls and probably had her breast removed. I guess she is feeling remorse. Victim of the massive scale sorcery by the witch doctors of satan.
Yes, a real testimony to the presence and power of Evil in this end time.
Was also thinking, we should send all the soy-infused fem boys, gays, drag queens, and feminists to the front line against Russia, China, Iran, and damn near the rest of the world tired of these military misadventures.
Since I hear so much about how men are useless, it’s women’s time to rule, men have “toxic masculinity”, etc., then all these people can go fight.
No strong men means a society will be conquered by 1 with strong men. The stupidity of anyone that thinks a modern society can exist without men is mind boggling.
There is nothing toxic with embracing my masculinity in the same way women do with their feminity. We men are not toxic. We are different than women. Not wrong. Different for a reason. We’re bigger. We’re hunters who faced mastadon to feed our kids. Lol.
It’s why men are sent to war. Stay on the sinking ship and get the women and children into the lifeboats.
Men are needed to create life and protect the bearers of life and our progeny. We’re also Dads to play catch and BBQ for the crew.
Happy Canadian Thanksgiving.
100%. Long before civilized society formed, there was a distinct and biologically purposeful division of skill sets and labour between the two human sexes. Think hunter vs. gatherer, fighter vs. nurturer, etc. Without that evolutionary critical symbiosis, humans would have become extinct.
I too dream , a rumbling and shaking of the earth so load and violent I awaken with my feet already on the deck then calm silence then I hear the voices from my past : a turret gunner shot down 3 times and survived all two infantry men first wave Omaha beach survived a marine IwoJima survived a screaming eagle survived Bastogne a surgeon operating under Fire New Ginny ? a math teacher survived the Frozen Chosen my friend who ran to a crashing helicopter with a fire extinguisher USN he was blown off the deck and got his name on a wall !
All these men sacrificed for us and what we have permitted accepted or tolerate in what was our country the aforementioned so gallantly defended has them rolling over in their graves registering on the Richter scale as we hang our heads in shame
When they blew up the Nordstream pipeline I could not help but think just how vulnerable the CNG infrastructure is.
While the tankers themselves are sitting ducks on the open sea, to attack one at a CNG terminal would be catastrophic. Most large countries only have a handful, of terminals, and smaller countries often only have one.
Sabotaging energy infrastructure seems like a very slippery slope with potential disastrous implications and consequences.
Wasn’t Galveston Texas literally destroyed by a ship of some kind of compressed gas or LP in the 40’s? Setting off a shipload of LNG would equal a nuclear bomb. Surprised some sick bastard hasn’t tried it yet. I prefer my gas underground from a pipeline.
It was Ammonium Nitrate.
The 1947 Texas City disaster was an industrial accident that occurred on April 16, 1947, in the port of Texas City, Texas, United States, located in Galveston Bay. It was the deadliest industrial accident in U.S. history and one of history’s largest non-nuclear explosions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_disaster
Go big or go home, I suppose. Galveston was destroyed in the 1900 hurricane resulting in 10,000 estimated deaths. Texas is dangerous, new residents, you can’t say that you weren’t warned !!!
Around these parts of Texas it’s damned sure dangerous if you even leak the fact you did not vote Trump either time. Does not matter you did not vote dem either but to some of these inbred idiots it’s one and the same, i.e, not voting Trump means you support the dems. I cannot recall I ever voted for a dem. Plenty of ignorance around , that’s for certain.
All we have are dreams as we live in this nightmare.
Noone is above the law except the Bidens. Noone fucks with a Biden. We need to stop dreaming about truth justice and the American way.
Uh no , I intend to carry the torch even if it seems like we have zero chance of healing our nation . If that sounds idealistic its probably because it is bro .
carry the torch. good thing. but carry it somewhere where it is not snuffed out.
Or hide it in your Alamo.
Otherwise you are not idealistic you are delusional.
It does not “seem like” the USA is dead. It is dead. You can’t ” heal” a corpse.
You can put dead Uncle Sam in a chair in your living room and let him rot there while you pretend he is alive. But that is a very sick way to live and it won’t bring him back.
You remind me of Anthony Perkins in ‘Psycho” as he clothes and feeds and talks with his dead mother in the attic. Yuck.
There is no “our nation” there is a badlands run by Nazi dictators and global monopoly partners where authorities with a badge are the worst highway robbers and citizens are the target.
Now that we no longer have a border – by definition we are not a ‘nation’ because we have no physical jurisdiction. The Border Patrol is now a taxi service to drive illegals anywhere they want to pick up a government check.
The USA corpse still has some blood left in it so it is being kept on ice while the blood-suckers get every last drop before the corpse rots.
Every 40 billion$ that you can send to the black hole of the most corrupt nation on earth – UKR – is another 40 billion$ for deep state thugs and their kids at the UKR pig trough and one less $ ‘wasted’ pretending that the USA corpse is still alive.
“Nothing But Looting” is the deep state motto, not ‘one nation under God’.
The DEA openly helps Zambada-Niebla and his Sinaloa successors run coke, heroin and fentanyl into the USA to kill as many citizens as possible to make way for their replacements from the south.
An IRS SWAT army of 187,000 thugs (including the 87K added by Nazi figurehead Biden) is training to snuff out every small-medium business because the global monopoly partners of the Nazi FED want it ALL (and because Fauci-Trump lock downs ‘only’ destroyed over half of small businesses while globalist elites like Walmart and Target were exempted from the rules – and ‘only’ 95 % of the stimmie check total went to globalist elites like Blackrock- Not Enough! Gotta kill ALL the little people not just most of them!).
Communist China has set up and runs “police stations” inside US cities that are untouchable scared cow institutions exempt from US authority (if there was any).
Now, the FED is raising interest rates to deliberately destroy the middle class (because a dead economy kills all demand and thus temporarily lowers pressure on interest rates and thus makes it easier for the FED to give one last mega-pile of free cash to government-sponsored banks) while giving a half-billion$ per DAY!!!!! in reverse repo cash to monopoly banks as a bonus.
The FED will keep raising rates, and hold them just high enough to make EU, UK, and YEN bond markets die before ours does, so they can continue for a bit longer to create new T bills for the big boys (and buy them back and hold to maturity because no one in their right mind wants them) and thus the US economy has been sent to the hospice – next stop, the morgue. And the FED will NEVER hike rates enough to slow the growth of inflation that kills citizens except the super-rich. Even if they wanted to do it, just the cost of interest payments on existing debt would be many times larger than all tax revenues combined.
Visualize 1970s stagflation on Steroids ending in a fast deflationary Greatest Depression and WW III for dessert. That is a textbook monetary death spiral. An unstoppable flat spin to ground zero.
And they know it.
The game plan of the Uni-Party is crystal clear:
ALL US policy is about helping global corporations and political grifters pick the dead corpse of the USA clean before the rot makes it inedible, and ‘fuck you’ to everybody else. Anything that could even theoretically “heal” or “rebuild” or “fix,” much less liberate us from global monopolies, is KILLED by leaders in BOTH parties. [Thanks, Traitor Ted Cruz for proving my point by being the deciding vote to pass the Big Tech Cartel Censorship Authorization Bill (with a bullshit happy-talk label on the cover)]
Remember the scene in ‘Book of Eli’ when all the thugs in the corrupt town now know the gig is up and they all start looting anything in the bar they can carry to their bikes and hit the road?
Well, the FED and the Deep State have been in that mode pillaging our USA bar, and hauling everything out the back door since at least 2008 (actually you could say since 9-11-2001 and you could even use Robert Rubin’s ‘send all blue collar jobs to China’ policy under Clinton as the start of ‘nothing-but-looting’ policy, but it was satanic globalist shrub Bush who put that policy on steroids with the WTO ‘all U.S. corporate blueprints must be given to China’ trade agreement.). The USA bar storage area has been picked clean already. Just the stuff on display out front is left.
The next scene in Cannibalizing America-2023, will be when every average Joe at the bar has figured it out and fights to grab what little is left on the bar shelf and gets out of Dodge before the empty-handed mob eats him up.
Anybody trying to ‘heal’ or feel kinship with that mob is going to die a very horrible death.
Rifles can be made to make only the sound of the hammer striking the primer and hitting the target.
Rifles can be made to make only the sound of the hammer striking the primer and hitting the target.
Only in Hollyweird unless you are putting a can for a .338 or .50 on a .22. You have to keep it subsonic as well or the sonic boom of a bullet passing a solid object queers the deal. A pellet loaded into a cartridge case with the flash hole enlarged and using just a magnum rifle primer(no powder) will go through a one inch plywood board and make the sound you described.
If I say I am an orange and want you to address me as such, I still am not an orange. No matter how much I think I am an orange I’m not an orange. You treat me as an orange then you are a crazy dumb ass and should be treated as such.
Easy Over!
I self identify as a ring tailed lemur(when it suits me and local conditions) and expect to be treated as such.
That said,you find me hanging out in your trees do expect to be swatted away,otherwise,show me the respect that your average ring tailed lemur deserves!
Unless your Donald Trump
(sarc)
Puppets don’t get in trouble for following their scripts
JHK, despite what anyone thinks about his hopeful optimism, is a damned good writer.
Wordsmith extraordinaire.
“Forgive me for repeating what I’ve written more than once before: Russia will not benefit from having a broken, failed state on its doorstep. Such a situation would clearly just invite more international hugger-mugger.”
Actually Russia does benefit from creating a quagmire for the West in Ukraine which ultimately may bring down the primacy of Western Civilization and give Putin the basis for creating a multi polar world.
Of course we all know who is pulling his strings.
I had a dream about Biden, too. Augusto Pinochet came back from the dead took him and his whole gang for a helicopter ride
Let’s all sit down to a nice dinner of stewed regrets and recriminations, followed by half baked accusations with cold silence, washed down by a nice glass of self pity..
Stellar. Other than F-M-N & KJIAF, any consideration for a handle? seems ta be important for some reason. Saw Your post about ‘spiritual’ resonance.
Didn’t feel qualified to relate any NDE’s. Mostly accidental.
EVERYTHING IS BULLSHIT.
Putin just put a legendary badass General in charge of Russian forces in the Ukraine. A guy who even the Russians are scared of. That doesn’t bode well for the Ukes.
I don’t know why people expend such energy over Biden, who is just an obvious actor in this whole drama. Beyond illegitimately ‘elected’, beyond ‘corrupt’ or whatever label sparks the most outrage. He is a facade designed to effect a certain outcome.
Spend more energy on the WEF, C.O.L., GAVI, etc.