Low Down on the Showdown

Guest Post by Jim Kunstler

Threats to “our democracy” indeed! The effrontery! In a fair and just world, the Democratic Party of Chaos would slouch into the donkey’s graveyard — but since when is the USA part of a fair and just world?

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Is there a more preposterous notion warbled across this troubled nation than the campaign mantra that “Joe Biden,” and the claque concealed behind him, are defending our democracy? What could be more self-evidently untrue?

Is censorship and abridging the First Amendment democratic? They haven’t been trying to finesse that. They abhor diversity of opinion, especially when it conflicts with their obvious efforts to wreck the country. Is siccing the dogs of the FBI and jailing their opponents outside due process of law democratic? Is ballot fraud democratic? Forced “vaccination”? I could go on (and often do), but you know exactly what they are doing: lying incessantly about everything, shoving lunatic narratives down your throat, turning reality inside-out and upside down, and blowing up what’s left of American culture and economic life.

If what they’re doing is obvious, why they’re doing it isn’t. I have only two theories: Either 1) the Party of Chaos is acting in the interests of sinister forces outside our polity, or 2) They’re so far gone ethically and so deep in criminality carried out by so many persons and agencies in their service, that everything you see them do now is some attempt to cover-up or distract from the discovery of their crimes.

The correct answer is probably both. One way or another, Davos money and influence worms its way through US institutions and works its wicked will, chewing up the structural supports of daily life. One obvious agent is George Soros, whose many NGOs operate at the fine-grained local level to elect district attorneys who won’t enforce the criminal statutes and state secretaries of state who won’t enforce election laws. Mr. Soros is also deeply implicated, through his Atlantic Council org, in the years-long program to destabilize Ukraine and light the fire for a completely avoidable world war. At least part of the time, George Soros lives in the US. Why his activities are not under investigation by the US Department of Justice probably answers your questions about his hidden influence at the higher levels of government.

Bill Gates, the Microsoft tycoon, circulates at the center of the evil nexus where US public health shakes hands with the drug companies. His money appears to be entangled in the biolab projects around the world engaged in weaponizing disease and then profiting off of alleged “vaccines” to defeat it. The Covid-19 project went badly awry, especially the “vaccine” part. He’s been vocal about reducing the world’s population and now appears to have succeeded in helping to prompt a weird medical genocide.

Other supporting outside players range from the barely plausible Klaus Schwab and his World Economic Forum, which has implanted leaders and managers all over Western Civ inculcated in his Great Reset effort to wreck what’s left of industrial society and its cultural armature; to shadowy figures in European banking chattered about but never identified; to the CCP, which has gotten huge benefits from its relatively penny-ante investments in the Biden Family.

On the domestic scene, where covering-up skeins of manifold crimes sets the political tone, Christopher Wray of the FBI must lead the pack of paper-hangers. Under his leadership, beginning in 2017, the agency carried out most of its RussiaGate crimes against a sitting president and did absolutely nothing to investigate the blatant ballot fraud of 2020 that sealed the deal. Even under the shelter of “Joe Biden,” who Mr. Wray helped elect, and the stooge AG, Merrick Garland, damning information about FBI crimes continues to leak out of the woodwork via whistleblowers, while the agency behaves more and more like an American Gestapo.

All that desperation probably signals the chilling fear that a new congress will start seriously asking questions about all this misconduct that could eventually lead to the right people going to jail. Special Counsel John Durham failed to gain convictions in this year’s trials of small-timers Sussmann and Danchenko, but he did manage to make public many salient original sins of the RussiaGate op in the process and, though 99.9 percent of observers think he’s done, I’d be willing to bet that more will be heard from Mr. Durham after the election, and not just some jive “report.”

Similarly in US public health, where the central figure in the Covid disaster, Dr. Anthony Fauci, seems to think that retirement will erect an invisible shield of protection from prosecution around him — if he lives long enough. Dr. Fauci’s agile avoidance of giving testimony under oath may be at an end as Federal Judge Terry Doughty has compelled him to be deposed in the joint Missouri-Louisiana lawsuit alleging collusion between the government and tech companies in censoring free speech related to Covid and the “vaccines.”

Rochelle Walensky of the CDC has gone-to-ground for more than a week before the election while reports pile up of soaring all-causes deaths implicating the mRNA shots. Former NIH director Francis Collins lays low, Dr. Ralph Baric is bunkered-in and silent at the University of North Carolina, and scores of other high-up employees present-and-former at CDC, FDA, and other public health agencies must be nervous, if Congress flips, about having to account for what they did to their country. If it does flip….

And so, the midterm election plods to a climax on elephant feet. The shift in sentiment is palpable. Under normal circumstances, the prodigious, naked dishonesty of the Democratic Party of Chaos, and its many gratuitous insults to the voting public — such as the past year’s barrage of drag queen story hours — would lead to an extinction event for the Dems. Their desperation must be such that they will try anything now to stave off an election disaster, including any-and-all forms of ballot fraud. Look to the usual places, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, Nevada, Arizona.

This time, of course, many observers are watching and they’ll know what to look for. The result could easily be an election the outcome of which won’t be accepted by either party, sparking an invitation to broad civil disorder. I’m not much of a praying man, but tomorrow I’ll get down on my knees for a few words with The Manager.

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61 Comments
Anonymous
Anonymous
November 7, 2022 10:03 am

“Is censorship and abridging the First Amendment democratic?”

Why, yes, Jim. Yes it is.
Few things are more inevitable under mob rule than squashing ideas the mob doesn’t like.

Aunt Acid
Aunt Acid
November 7, 2022 10:03 am

Both the Kakistocracy and Plutoblicans win tomorrow no matter who is (s)elected.

(Durham investigation? C’mon. Jim.)

CCRider
CCRider
November 7, 2022 10:08 am

Another attempt to resuscitate our ‘democracy’ read: oligarchy. Sorry voters, democracy died shortly after birth. If there is a red wave it will put Kevin McCarthy in as Speaker and if you don’t think that’s a dead end you don’t think at all. But, just wait for Durham to attack the bad guys right after the election. I like your stuff Mr. Kunstler but at times your optimism is adorable.

Mary Christine
Mary Christine
  CCRider
November 7, 2022 10:38 am

I like your stuff Mr. Kunstler but at times your optimism is adorable.

Hope dashed can cause a couple of things to happen. He might realize that the rule of law is dead and there is only one thing left we can do. Or depression and acceptance takes hold and they win without firing a shot.

TN Patriot
TN Patriot
  CCRider
November 7, 2022 11:08 am

I like your stuff Mr. Kunstler but at times your optimism is adorable.

Maybe it will lead to another book he can hawk in his articles.

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer
  TN Patriot
November 7, 2022 9:02 pm

He’s a great writer, why shouldn’t he sell his books? It’s not like any legacy publishing house would touch him with a ten foot pole.

You guys are harsh, always punch right, eh?

Anonymous
Anonymous
  hardscrabble farmer
November 8, 2022 7:27 am

Every rock fan seems to want their fave band to starve and die young to stay pure instead of sell a few records and live past thirty. Yeah, sounds like love.

Eyes Wide Shut
Eyes Wide Shut
  TN Patriot
November 8, 2022 7:33 am

95% of the government is from the same criminal cartel.
They won’t stop their lying, cheating, stealing and murder until they are stopped.

Saxons Wrath
Saxons Wrath
November 7, 2022 10:09 am

Plan for the worst, hope for the best…and the Worst of the Worst are planning on a steal to make 2020 look like tiddlywinks….

Get your plan A, B, and C ready, and be ready to execute…and start coming up with a D, E, and F while you’re waiting….

Aunt Acid
Aunt Acid
  Saxons Wrath
November 7, 2022 2:22 pm

Auntie is also stocking up on Iodine pills and Gieger counters as a result of worst planning.

Bon chance, mes amis.

Idaho
Idaho
  Aunt Acid
November 7, 2022 9:55 pm

keep a eye on the jet stream and whats up wind of you.

Red River D
Red River D
  Saxons Wrath
November 7, 2022 4:41 pm

“…be ready to execute…”

He he he.

I like your style!!!

Credit
Credit
November 7, 2022 10:09 am

Chief of Staff & deputy, Attorney General, Sec of Treasury, Sec of State and deputy, Homeland Security Sec, DNI, CIA, SEC, ATF, Senior Econ Advisor, Senior Energy Advisor, CDC Director, SBA Chief, HHS deputy are all MORMONS!

bucknp
bucknp
  Credit
November 7, 2022 10:40 pm

Well then , they each will have their own planet when they croak their mortal selves on earth.

CrashDavis
CrashDavis
  Credit
November 8, 2022 12:47 am

Credit – yep. Satanic Mormons abound.
But don’t forget CIA Mormon Mafia globalist (and Schwab-Nazi) Mitt Romney and his Satanic ‘Mini-Me’ Evan McMullin. Mormon 4th Reich Nazis are at the core of this corporate monopoly/Political Whore shitshow. Add Cofer Black who has always been Romney’s Adolph Eichmann-clone managing the UKR Azov Hitler cult to start WW III.
And, Kuntsler, still talking up LARP play-actor Durham – WTF!!!! -, is not an “optimist” he is deliberately conning idiots into counting on Satan to save them.

flash
flash
November 7, 2022 10:14 am

No worries…Deep Shekels got this.
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flash
flash
  flash
November 7, 2022 10:21 am

ha ha ha… because you didn’t vote hard enough, bruh.

When will result of midterms be in? It could take just hours or almost a MONTH for control of Congress to be known… but beware of red and blue ‘mirage states’ that appear decided before they really are
Dozens of races throughout the United States are expected to be close
Experts say it may take up to a month to know which party will be in control of the United States Congress
Earliest results can be skewed by mail-in ballots, with states that count mail-in ballots early reporting more Democrat-favored results
Those that do not count mail-in ballots until Election Day will rely more heavily on votes cast in person, which tend to be Republican

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11395685/How-long-know-won-U-S-midterm-elections.html

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bucknp
bucknp
  flash
November 7, 2022 8:16 pm

Less than one day to go.
-FSH

Warren
Warren
  flash
November 7, 2022 11:32 am

Actually gives me a modicum of hope about tomorrow. Bill Kristol jas been consistently wrong about pretty much everything for the last decade or more.
Now if only Jim Cramer would say the same thing you’re looking at a Red Wedding event tomorrow.

flash
flash
  Warren
November 7, 2022 2:46 pm
Machinist
Machinist
  Warren
November 7, 2022 4:08 pm

Kristol wouldn’t know the difference between renting clothes and the renting of a Temple veil.

Soup
Soup
  Machinist
November 7, 2022 6:22 pm

Oy vay!

Anonymous
Anonymous
November 7, 2022 10:17 am

I’ll get down on my knees for a few words with The Manager.

Who is his manager and how will sucking his dick help anything?

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Anonymous
November 7, 2022 10:22 am

It helped Kamalatoe!

You made that too easy. Here, pitch another one.

Mary Christine
Mary Christine
November 7, 2022 10:35 am

I’d be willing to bet that more will be heard from Mr. Durham after the election, and not just some jive “report.”

I’ll take that bet, James. There might be “investigative” committees but nothing will come of it. The Rethuglicans are the “promise much but do very little” party. They are captured, too, James.

The result could easily be an election the outcome of which won’t be accepted by either party, sparking an invitation to broad civil disorder.

On that, we can agree. Just how bad it can get remains to be seen. It’s always a good idea to pray. Bad things happen when we don’t.

World War Zeke
World War Zeke
  Mary Christine
November 7, 2022 12:29 pm

James K’s consistently wide misses with the federal soul grinder can be irritatingly cheerful. But I think he prefers folks be disappointed with his naive-seeming predictions (and a little angry with their Reps) than defeated, apathetic, or beyond cynical.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  World War Zeke
November 8, 2022 5:55 am

“James K’s consistently wide misses…”

NOBODY. Can be Soooo Blind. Unless…

Anonymous
Anonymous
November 7, 2022 10:46 am

All those CDC martinets are about to learn a tough lesson; once your party is out of power, you are on your own. After all, Joe Biden didn’t tell they them to make all those false statements, and they are the medical “experts.” I guess if they told lies because they thought their masters wanted them to, they were wrong. Oh, well.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Anonymous
November 7, 2022 10:52 am

Except the CDC has always prevailed under “both” parties. Any tough lesson the scamdemic conspirators may face must come from the people exercising the 9th and 10th and certainly 2nd Amendments.

bucknp
bucknp
  Anonymous
November 7, 2022 8:21 pm

No kidding. Where is no name before you from? All this government shit has prevailed “under both parties”. No name before needs to pull head out of hind end.

Wait, Charlie Brown is lining up at the 20, a chip shot. Evidently he will be duped again. 🙂

I think I’ll be a dog tomorrow and shit on someone’s yard I know worships the GOP, regardless what scoundrel , regardless what liar and regardless how much smoke is blown up his duped ass.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  bucknp
November 8, 2022 7:29 am

“I have never voted in my life… I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it’s certain they will win.” ~ Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Another Dictatorial Election: What Have You Done, and Why Are You Still So Blind?

TN Patriot
TN Patriot
  Anonymous
November 7, 2022 11:12 am

As long as any trials are held in the District of Corruption, they are home free. There is a reason it is called a home field advantage.

TN Patriot
TN Patriot
November 7, 2022 11:06 am

This time, of course, many observers are watching and they’ll know what to look for.

Dems have been stealing elections for a long, long time and always have a new wrinkle to their schemes. You can be sure there will be on CCTV videos of any of the big vote counting rooms.

Sue
Sue
  TN Patriot
November 7, 2022 11:46 am

One of Jim’s best columns in that it summarized just how much trouble we are in and how truly evil the Democrats and their friends have become. I am reminded in some ways of 1930s Germany when evil filled the streets.. And, I find Jim’s faith in Mr. Durham very nice but I do not share it. And yes, “many observers are watching.” And yes, praying is good. I want to believe that we can save our beloved country.

Anonymous
Anonymous
November 7, 2022 11:11 am

“I’m not much of a praying man, but tomorrow I’ll get down on my knees for a few words with The Manager.”

NEVER too late to start. Praying. The ONLY unforgivable Sin?

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2012:31-32&version=KJV

https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Bible-Verses-About-The-Unpardonable-Sin_KJV/

Could be 100’s of Years. Could be this Afternoon. ONLY The Father Knows.

” Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.”

Left/Right/Other? Please.

ALL The SAME. Everywhere. In THIS World.

But by ALL Means, VOTE. HARDER.

The Fun has not yet begun. And Winter has not even arrived in earnest.

Iggy
Iggy
November 7, 2022 11:47 am

Yeah this time it will be different get fucked.

TN Patriot
TN Patriot
  Iggy
November 7, 2022 1:16 pm

Sometimes it is a plastic dildo and sometimes one shaped like a hammer that vibrates.

Red River D
Red River D
  TN Patriot
November 7, 2022 4:44 pm

Or, like Auntie said the other day, sometimes it’s a pineapple.

Leaves first!!!

bucknp
bucknp
November 7, 2022 12:06 pm

Tomorrow is election day and polls suggest that Americans are going to overturn Democratic Party control of the House and Senate. Politicians and the media always say that this is the most important election ever, but all too often once the voting is over and the smoke has cleared, not much changes. The Washington uni-party takes over and makes sure the status quo is maintained.

A Republican-controlled House and Senate can actually do something to fix these problems and thus make us more safe and more free. Will they?

Hey Incoming Congress: Try These Three Simple Tricks for a Successful Start

JUST ONE MORE TIME CHARLIE BROWN

KJ
KJ
November 7, 2022 12:07 pm

I’d be willing to bet that more will be heard from Mr. Durham after the election, and not just some jive “report.”

Pop another quaalude, Jim. Ain’t gonna happen.

ursel doran
ursel doran
November 7, 2022 12:08 pm

Biden administration bashing Oil vs REALITY reviewed very well.
“Oil companies have responsibilities to their shareholders, creditors, and employees.
It’s the government that has a responsibility to act in the interest of consumers, communities, and the country.
The Biden administration has not been doing a very good job of it.” (Understatement of the year.) https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Big-Oil-Is-Not-Dancing-To-Government-Tunes-Period.html

bucknp
bucknp
November 7, 2022 12:25 pm

Looking at my Texas ballot sample there is not one SOB I can in good conscience vote. The old saying the only difference between US elections and those of communist countries is that in the US the electorate has two choices. Yea, yea, yea, I know, that saying is as stupid as the “wasting your vote” saying or if you don’t vote you are actually voting for a Democrat. Horseshit! The inbred political experts over at https://www.smoaky.com/forum/index.php?/forum/79-political-arena/ had that inane idea about the “wasted vote” and not voting. Oh and the
“lesser of evils” crap. All that is very old hat as two wings on the same bird of prey is what the peeps actually have.

Actually there are some LP candidates. However , they’ve leaned too far weird on “social issues”. For instance, the fact is a man is a man and a woman is a woman, nothing else, not sex alterations. Also people are not lizards, tigers, bears , whatever the hell is going on with those type of “lifestyles” . I think I’ll be a dog today and shit the neighbor’s yard! It will be fun being chased off by the neighbor. About 12 years ago I thought the LP was an “alternative”. Probably no big deal voting for LP candidates as we know FDT has turned gay with his Mar-a-Lago LGBT hosting as I have mentioned over and over. Needless to say the Democrats are gay as hell. No sir, it’s looking as though I will cast no vote for any “man” or “woman” in this thing. I am going to visit the polls however and cast one vote that says “NO”! to a proposition asking to add a tax so as to fund some newly devised spending endeavor. This area is RepublicOn. Aren’t “they” supposed to be the party of less taxation, or WHATEVER, likely closet gays.

Oh, there are some Greens on the ticket making a token representation. Nope. One mark on the ballot for me an that is it! Disgusting as hell the control mechanism in the great state of texas.

bucknp
bucknp
  flash
November 7, 2022 7:21 pm

😇

Beto is a homo and the other (side) represents a boot in one’s ass.

a9racer
a9racer
  flash
November 7, 2022 8:10 pm

This old guy had a Beto sticker on his car and I respectfully asked him why he supports him. He told me “Cause Abbott is a criminal!”
Asked him what crime Abbott committed and he couldn’t tell me any. So I informed him that Robert Francis O’Rourke was convicted for DWI and burglary. His response?
“Fuck you, Trumper!”
Hahahaha

bucknp
bucknp
  a9racer
November 7, 2022 8:47 pm

Beto sucks and Abbott is a wheelchair hypocrite.

While I rate attorneys right along with money changers, if a tree falls on you a9, breaks your back, whatever took place with Abbott, good luck buddy living in a wheelchair the rest of your life on $230-250K maximum as set in the state of texas tort reforms. Heaven forbid , maybe a good time to learn to be a politician. The pay is damn good on top of the measly 250k.

Abbott was “awarded” $2M, more or less and not much less if any.

a9racer
a9racer
  bucknp
November 8, 2022 7:39 am

Come on, buck, I don’t like Abbott enough to hang out with him. But he does follow DeSantis’s lead pretty well and the alternative is a fake mexican who wants to take our guns? I know for whom I am checking the box today.

august
august
November 7, 2022 1:26 pm

>>>tomorrow I’ll get down on my knees for a few words with The Manager.

I’ve read that God does not even hear the prayers of Jews.

I suppose that policy applies to all non-Christians, but I’m really not sure.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  august
November 7, 2022 4:22 pm

“I’ve read that God does not even hear the prayers of Jews.”

Did NOT read that in ANY Bible, to hazard a guess.

https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/John-14-6/

Even the…https://abujacatholicarchdiocese.org/catholics/where-in-the-bible-does-it-say-the-only-way-to-the-father-is-through-the-son.html…agree. 🤣

Revelation 2:9 & 3:9 may pique Your interest as well.

Not Very…august.

ADJECTIVE
respected and impressive:
“she was in august company”

But You can believe what ya wanna. ‘Free Will’ i think it’s called?

august
august
  Anonymous
November 7, 2022 10:00 pm

I really have zero qualifications to opine about the nature or effectiveness of prayer.

My trollish comment was something of a reaction to online posters, at this site and others, who seem to claim special insight as to nature of the God-man relationship. I’m a bit jealous of the true believers, I guess, or perhaps merely jealous of their certainty.

FWIW I have actually read, in a (non-Scriptural) Christian text, the opinion that “God does not hear the prayers of…….” (fill in the blank with your unfavorite humans); and I have spoken face to face with a young person who assured me that non-Christians do not have souls. I suspect that the first proposition is not true, and I know that the second is false, as well as pretty weird.

FWIW August is the name of a deceased, and admired, blood relative. Cheers!

buckno
buckno
  august
November 7, 2022 7:03 pm

Jews first then Gentiles as far as the “order” of salvation. But not all of either and certainly nothing to do with speciality for the State of Israel. Obviously a dupe but hey, give the State of Israel credit fir attaining control over the “the greatest country. “

Matthew Clark
Matthew Clark
November 7, 2022 1:44 pm

Read about the Ineffective Canadian charter of Rights and Freedoms. Go to

Mydystopianfiddler.com

Soup
Soup
November 7, 2022 5:39 pm

So, “The Manager” fixes elections, too? My God is an awesome God.
Really?

Jdog
Jdog
November 7, 2022 5:50 pm

Eli Lilly may not be a bad stock tip…. I see a wave of depression, and the need for Prozac, hitting a huge percentage of Democrats after tomorrow……

Uncola
Uncola
November 7, 2022 6:15 pm

Question:

If D.J.T. announced his 2024 Presidential Run on the eve of the 2022 Midterm Elections, would it fire up Democratic Party voters or GOP voters more?

Even if the announcement was real or just a rumor?

Exactly.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/campaigns/trumps-2024-presidential-announcement-could-come-tonight

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Uncola
November 8, 2022 6:03 am

“or GOP voters more?”

🤣 You’ll have to wait. Until he announces that r.d. WILL be his running mate/vp pick.

bucknp
bucknp
November 7, 2022 8:11 pm
Anonymous
Anonymous
November 7, 2022 9:16 pm

If the government is now concerned with the legitimacy of ‘democracy,’ they probably shouldn’t have imported 150 million non-Whites to disenfranchise the White population.

a9racer
a9racer
  Anonymous
November 8, 2022 7:47 am

Bingo. Kinda makes you wonder about the depth of that “concern”

Yahsure
Yahsure
November 7, 2022 10:05 pm

If anyone thinks Republicans will make any real difference they are kidding themselves. Think back on the Trump administration and take away Trump and you have one single party. Trump had little to no support from anyone.
I was watching these videos where some guy was shooting birds and foxes and other varmints that were attacking newborn lambs. It made me think of solutions to problems. 2A is for getting rid of two-legged varmints.
Maybe when the dollar collapses and a freedom-killing CBDC is enacted and the WEF and our criminal Gov. pushes a Chinese style authoritarian system.

bucknp
bucknp
  Yahsure
November 7, 2022 10:49 pm

Trump now has the support of the Log Cabin Republicans, Nov. ’21.