Guest Post by Jim Kunstler
“One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we’ll need a new definition.” — Alvin Toffler
Insurrections galore spark off all of a sudden and 2023 was just born days ago! Want to know why? Because the business model of the global economy is broken and the supposed remedy for that is centralized control of populations and super-strict regulation of all their activities — that is, techno-tyranny (with Marxist characteristics, as the Chinese like to put it). Not everybody wants to ride that bus, and so an epic economic problem becomes an arduous political struggle, here and elsewhere in the world.
A large number of people went apeshit in Brazil over the weekend in that country’s weird, geographically isolated capital, Brasilia, a horror of 1960s-style Modernist city planning. They stormed the national congress and trashed the offices within to protest the fishy election of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva over the former incumbent Jair Bolsonaro. As in our own country, the quarrel was over the mysterious behavior of voting machines and the unwillingness of election officials or courts to verify the results. The New York Times offered a thumbnail of Mr. Bolsonaro, who is sitting out the current action in Florida:
The resulting picture showed an elected leader, first as a congressman and then as president, who has built a narrative of fraudulent elections based on inaccuracies, out-of-context reports, circumstantial evidence, conspiracy theories and downright falsehoods — much like former President Donald J. Trump.”
Get it? There’s no way fraud could have happened, just like in our country. And Bolsonaro is another Trump. It explains everything. All complaints are “baseless,” “false,” and “conspiracy theories.” End-of-story…. Are these shopworn tropes maybe losing their mojo? And is The New York Times embarrassing itself, a little bit, to trot them out as if they are actually arguments against anything?
The truth is more that Mr. Lula is another Hugo Chavez, poised to wreck Brazil with a fresh attempt at nationalizing all enterprise, ramping up a Marxist police state, and inviting China in to partner-up in the action, including new Chinese military bases in the western hemisphere — an interesting challenge to the Monroe Doctrine (if anyone remembers what it says). And so, Mr. Lula has arrested hundreds of protesters and declared a national emergency.
Don’t expect it to stop there. The protesters are asking the army to intervene, as Brazil’s constitution actually obligates them to do in election disputes. Also, unlike the USA, Brazil has plenty of prior experience with the army removing elected leaders. Sometimes, electing yourself into tyranny is not the best way to solve economic problems. For the moment, Mr. Lula borrows a page from the American Left’s playbook for destroying a society. It will matter a lot if he doesn’t get away with it. That’s why the US political Swamp, and its errand boys in the news media, look on the action in Brazil with alarm. Unlike the January 6 protest in Washington, the Brasilia mob represents a genuine insurrection aimed at overthrowing a communist seizure of power.
Likewise, the US Swamp endured a rebellion in the House of Representatives last week. The 20-odd reps who revolted against Kevin McCarthy as House Speaker — Matt Gates, Lauren Boebert, and others — sought written guarantees to prevent such legislative insults as the passage of a 4000-page omnibus spending bill that nobody could possibly read prior to voting, along with many Swamp-draining changes in rules. One rule change makes it much easier to remove Speaker McCarthy from leadership if he reneges on any of his agreements. The House can now proceed to multiple inquiries into the vast matrix of rot, malice, and deceit that has set the federal government at war against its own citizens.
One angle of this, of course, is the open border with Mexico that has enabled millions of unvetted migrants to enter the USA, illegally with the federal immigration apparatus recruited (also illegally) to disperse them all over the country. “Joe Biden” traveled down to the border last weekend in a pretend show of concern for the disorder the people behind him have instigated there. They stupidly took him for a photo op to one of the few places on the border where he wouldn’t have to actually witness mobs crossing the Rio Grande: a stretch of wall that his predecessor, Mr. Trump, built. Hey, no unsightly foreign riffraff cluttering up the picture there!
Before long, the House is going to impeach Mr. Biden over this and quite a few other matters. He may not be convicted in the Senate, with its slim Democratic Party majority, but they will be compelled to hold a trial, at least, where a lot of dirty laundry will get aired, and pressure will mount for the old grifter to resign. Ms. Harris is sworn in and five minutes later suffers a “nervous collapse” that the public is not informed about. It sets off a wild series of events around the selection of a new vice-president — Barack or Michele Obama? — that could burn the whole joint down. Stick around in ’23, unless the spike proteins have got your number. It’s going to be a humdinger of a year.
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It was going well until the last paragraph. Kev isn’t going to allow anything from his majority.
” . . . the Brasilia mob represents a genuine insurrection aimed at overthrowing a communist seizure of power.”
It is the communist seizure of power that is the insurrection, and, as happens in all communist seizures of power, it is the defenders against it that are falsely labeled the insurrection.
Because communists see themselves as the only legitimate holders of power, and by any means necessary.
you are on target
9 January 2023NATIONBY HAL TURNER
New Mexico Police confirm that the homes of at least SIX (6) Democrat elected officials in the state of New Mexico, have been shot-up over the past month or so
Just read that myself. Several possibilities could explain this, but right now I’m thinking false flag…simply because six homes were shot up and NO ONE was so much as grazed.
Guess they’re having trouble coming up with Democrat politicians willing to volunteer for cadaver duty?
We KNOW how the FBI operates…
Fabricate
Bullshit
Insurrections
We know what’s coming.
If you don’t want to go to gulag, you are extremist insurrectionist.
KFG, Amen Brother, preach it!
This Brazil thing is another demonstration of the perfidy of our media. Lie upon lie. A perfect example of why reporters will be on the menu when SHTF.
The NYT’s lies are especially grievous given that in Brazil, the constitution provides for the military to certify elections and arbitrate disputes between the judiciary and legislative branches among other things. The American left and the grifting filth in the White House have been demanding and threatening Bolsonaro that he had to use the crooked “voting machines.” They got the crooked result and the proof of its crookedness is that the communist dominated courts, which unlike other countries even have their own corrupt police force and can issue warrants and arrest people on bogus political charges refuses to provide the required info and access to verify the election. These communist courts (real reds, not my disparagement) have refused to hand over the data, allow examination of the programming or the machines which is the constitutional obligation of the military. Lula has sold the country to China. How long before divisions of PLA troops disguised as “humble migrants” hit El Paso?
The chinese have been hitting the US for decades — maybe not PLA troops, but fake students and/or students here to conduct industrial and other espionage in the United States …
And just why do our universities and such need all of these chinese students — when our own United States Citizens are having trouble getting into those universities as a direct result?
Answer: Because the CCP pays their bills and tuitions. While murikan ‘students’ are focusing on gender and microaggression studies, the chinese students are studying and scooping up intel like a hoover vac on steriods. fair trade no? Its the murikan way, money for… anything
Does this help?
When I’ve asked Chinese students why they chose to study here, their answer was because it is easier here and they could not get in to the Chinese universities.
It rings true.
Have you noticed the calibre of intellect getting degrees in our premium halls of learning?
Spys? Sure, but it goes well beyond just our schools.
In Canada, we bounced some Chinese researchers working in level 4 bio-lab but the gov’t refuses to say why and have even used the courts to prevent having to reveal the reason.
Just sayin’
In Illinois at the U of I around one third of the students are Zips. They pay full price I am told. The whores that run these places can’t turn down the income apparently
We have a BINGO!! … Especially at state ‘universities,’ that are MORE than happy to ‘hoover up’ those full ‘out of state’ tuition charges … Much higher margins!!
And just imagine since Governor Rick Perry in Texas the greedy bastards in Texas have have sold mineral rights on Texas lands to guess who, the Chinese. And of course it was Rick that brought the Chinese company Huawei to Plano , Texas. This is the company President Trump was urging the Canadian government to extradite a leading CEO gal for Huawei while she was in that country. What has taken place in Texas surely supports the idea of “patriotism” among the “leaders” in the US, huh? There is no patriotism only the worship of $$$. Sold down the river. Thanks Rick.
Not Chinese troops, but how about the fact most of the fentanyl coming into this country originates in China. https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/us-opioid-epidemic Can you say societal decadence and collapse via addiction?
Alas, what goes around comes around. When the African-American communities were being flooded with heroin and cocaine from the 1940’s to the present it was viewed as moral failing on the part of Blacks and the knee jerk solution was incarceration. But now that rural, suburban and city dwelling soccer moms are strung out on and dying from opioids the cry is, “we can’t arrest our way out of this, we need treatment.” No amount of allopathic treatment is going to cure the misery index, the moral rot and social disintegration that is rapidly metastasizing throughout this country. Welcome to the Terrordome!
We need a psychological insurrection, an insurrection of values, an insurrection of consciousness away from the psychopathy of the plutocrats and their institutions to a more humane, nurturing people first open opportunity society.
“Before long, the House is going to impeach Mr. Biden over this and quite a few other matters”
‘‘What Difference At This Point Does It Make?!’’
Sup-ream court does not want to touch the Brunson v Adams case.
Just keep ignoring the election issue(s) and hope they will go away.
When will the errant spark set it all ablaze?
“Brunson v Adams case.” 🤣 Did it Commence?
JANUARY 5, 2023
“Brunson v. Adams (2022) is a little known case that has reached the United States Supreme Court. The private conference to review the case is scheduled this week on the second anniversary of January 6, the infamous day of the Capitol riot known to many Democrats as a failed, but deadly insurrection.”
https://americanpigeon.org/brunson-v-adams-little-known-case-supreme-court-government-collusion-2020-election/#:~:text=January%205%2C%202023%20Brunson%20v.%20Adams%20%282022%29%20is,many%20Democrats%20as%20a%20failed%2C%20but%20deadly%20insurrection.
Unfortunately this Brunson case was just grifters. Anyone can fill out a form asking for “cert” and file it. Anyone who does this can make a claim they have a case pending approval before the court. People have been warning about these guys for months. I imagine they gave some donors a good fuqueing.
mark,
Do you have an update to the Brunson case yet?
Petition was denied @ 9:30 this morning.
In a surprise move that surprised no one.
I know I ridiculed this a couple of weeks ago based on the language used, i.e. obscure Latin phrases and complex clauses so overlayered in legal-speak that no one with an IQ of less than 140 and a law degree could ever hope to comprehend, but it’s still ridiculous on its face.
You cannot appeal to a corrupt organization to reform its own corruption, it simply will not happen. There is no longer a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, there is only a criminal racket trying to insulate itself against competing criminal rackets using the organs of a failed state to do so. We are living in a post political world that is masquerading as a Democracy in the same way that Frankenstein’s monster was a human being.
Ballots or bullets
SCOTUS Justices are influenced by Appeals Court decisions. They often wait to weigh in until the Appeals Courts are divided, and they understand the basis of the divisions.
I don’t think that’s a bad thing. Look what happened in the New Deal Era when SCOTUS was herded into instant decisions in order to “save Democracy”.
I completely disagree with your second paragraph Marc.
Two reasons the Supremes took it, and even helped the Brothers file it sooner than they were planning to, and then they scheduled it on Jan. 6th a date that was a symbolic threat in itself…I suspect worked out well for the 9 lawyers in black dresses.
This case was a tactical threat from one branch (the Supremes) to the other two, and accomplished two goals for them.
1. To reassert and protect them against congress’ attempt to pack the court, because of their overturning legalized murder…and hold the Lame Duck Congress in check with this decertification threat.
2. Stop the public threats (remember Chucky from NY reap the whirlwind threat?). Plus I suspect they probably gained more security for themselves and their families. (Pure speculation on my part).
Remember after Roe Vs. Wade was overturned some of them had to leave their homes and go into hiding, they had death threats to their children…by specific child’s name. One loon was caught close to one Juctice’s home ready, willing, and able to murder.
I bet there were some behind the scene ahhhh negotiations between the branches on this. This was a smart chess move by the Supremes projecting and protecting their power and their families.
Another reason it wasn’t ridiculous was it exposed what the 385 traitors didn’t do…uphold their OATH!
It also exposed this past similar fraud…but in 1876 Congress and the Supremes upheld their oaths.
“The election of 1876 between Rutherford B. Hayes and Democrat Samuel Tilden of New York was one of the most hostile, controversial campaigns in American history. Tilden won the popular vote and led in the Electoral College, but 19 votes from three Republican-controlled states (Louisiana, Florida, and South Carolina) remained disputed. Oregon’s count was also challenged.
The commission finally announced their decision only two days before the inauguration.
The vote was 8-7 along party lines to award the disputed Electoral College votes to Hayes, making him the winner”.
“Allegations of widespread voter fraud forced Congress to set up a special electoral commission to determine the winner, composed of fifteen congressmen and Supreme Court justices”.
What was done in 1876 should have been done in 2020…TREASON was committed allowing the massive fraud…and FRAUD VITIATES EVERYTHING.
I think because of the Brunson Brothers law suit countless more Americans are aware of what should have been done…but wasn’t because of the Jan 6th False Flag distraction.
In the secular you counter punch, counter kick, bite, claw, spit, scream, sue, mock, taunt, ambush, and play Paul Revere until it is time to shoot Red Coats.
No problem with the last paragraph brother.
Donkey,
Just came in from chores…No Name has it more than covered.
This was interesting.
Saji Abraham
@SajiAbraham_
Replying to
@BrunsonSCOTUS
In case appealing, please ask one rep and one senator to be party to the petition. Locus standi is probable reason for denial.
Its done. No standing hogwash. America has now officially flatlined.
Brunson case is high grade copium. Not a chance the judiciary will hear it. The only way to bring a case like this is with an ultimatum. Not happening.
Nothing will change this system until people decide making the change is worth risking their lives. Asking the court to fix it is an admission things aren’t bad enough to risk death or captivity. Things have to get much worse.
not soon enough?
going to ugly
Lula is a communist and Bolsonara is the good guy??
You guys are cracking me up!
Thanks for exposing yourself.
Back to CNN with you.
Back to the FBI, Gaslight Glowie.
Back to your FBI, Gaslight Glowie.
LOL, these content-free replies!
Tell me again guys (and gals), how the “car wash” scandal and the ensuing trial and removal of a former president was entirely legit, i.e. a non-corrupt group of heroes cleaned out the Augias stables of corruption in Brazil!!1!
Even Glenn Greenwald doesn’t believe that shit anymore.
We can be assured of two facts as American Citizens 1) Most of us are in a state of desperation attempting to love and support our REPUBLIC
2) We are all infinitely aware that regardless of party affiliations those in government elected , appointed and hired to serve typically HATE OUR VERY EXISTENCE AND DESPISE OUR TRUE FORM OF GOVERNMENT AS A REPUBLIC !
The Big Club hates us and wants us dead especially white majority.
As their plan to have 100 million illegals dependent on the leftist agenda independent Americans will be vaccined criminally murdered and bankrupted as the BIG CLUB reaches their stated goal of 100 million illegals spread across our nation polluting our society .
This is their stated plan and they are already above 30 million illegals and they are popping out anchor babies with a maniacal deliberate pace
When you say “most of us” you don’t actually mean most of us, do you?
And we’re probably well beyond the 100 million stage now.
Ammo up.
Seriously.
A storm is assuredly coming.
I’ve nothing left to lose; my bags are packed.
Most of us? Not even close.
The black water buffalo in front of me at the grocery store loaded six bags of chips, four 2-liter bottles of fully leaded soda and two 6-packs of cupcakes on the conveyor, bitching the whole time that her “muthafukin EBT wouldn’t gib’r nough to feed’r chillin‘.
The big club feeds those who hate it with money stolen from those who know they’re being robbed and cannot do anything to stop the robbers except vote harder.
All the things I loved about the USA are dead and gone and I certainly don’t want to support its 800 military bases fomenting war in foreign countries while our bridges cave in and literacy plummets…
… and that’s a majority opinion even if you don’t count schoolteachers , LGBTQs and niggers.
They keep fucking around they will find out what a real insurrection looks like.
Health Experts Warily Eye XBB.1.5, the Latest Omicron Subvariant
They are laughing at us, folks.
Bolsanaro talked real tough in the aftermath of the steal, and then he bitched out and fled to Orlando. I expected the Brazilian wall kisser to cuck out, and now we get the continuing of the script with their own J6, give or take a few days. Much like Trump, he ginned up his base and then fled the field of battle.
God bless the patriotic Brazilians who have said enough is enough. It is hard for a people to outgrow their leadership, but it appears this may have transpired in Brazil. The likelihood is high that this will be used to crack down on anti-communist dissenters like J6, but I pray they have more fortitude then us Americans.
We will see how this plays out, but it perfectly demonstrates that the 2nd amendment is a pathetic fig leaf that delusional Americans still cling to while the rest of their freedoms have been ripped from them. If you are too afraid to ever use the damn things, those guns aren’t tyranny repellent, they’re relics of your forsaken manhood. With no guns these patriots have taken control of almost every seat of government. The cops and military are refusing to engage them, not only out of solidarity but also simple pragmatism. They know they may take down a few protesters, and then the crowd gets a hold of them and would rip them to shreds.
When enough people say no, there are no amount of stasi that will be able to stem the tide.
well stated
The Right of Self Defense is fundamental with or without any laws to protect it.
The Second Amendment is merely a recognition of that right, and a directive to governments in the U.S. not to infringe on it.
We shall see about that.
Too many people believe what American Pravda tells them.
When they come for the guns, that will be the final test about where we stand…..or kneel.
They can have mine after I give them the ammo first.
Hand it out sparingly tho, one at a time so theres no wastage
What platform if any do Brazilian people use to communicate in order to organize that isn’t monitored? Maybe old school word of mouth and flyers?
It says a lot that he fled to…the USA.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It was either that or Israel.
“It says a lot that he fled to…the USA”
But, but, should he not have settled in Minnesota?
In total, there are 13 countries that pass through the equator. These are Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil, Sao Tome & Principe, Gabon, Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Somalia, Maldives, Indonesia, and Kiribati.
“It says a lot that he fled to…the USA.”
But, But, should he not have fled to Minnesota?
“In total, there are 13 countries that pass through the equator. These are Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil, Sao Tome & Principe, Gabon, Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Kenya, Somalia, Maldives, Indonesia, and Kiribati.
You’re on point about everything except the 2nd.
Anyone with two neurons knows our grid will be taken down and that’s why I’m keeping my powder dry. It’ll be open season on everyone with no cops or courts. All my weapons are purely defensive, of course, just like those we send to Ukraine.
I expect those we want to snuff the most will be hiding in a deep hole, waiting for the shooting to stop.
This is something that probably has some relevance…
While its MAYBE kinda similar its definitely not the same at all. The stars are on opposite sides so you know its real and organic and no cee-eye-eh involvement there at ALL, conspiracy nutjob.
Probably just a copycat.
“no cee-eye-eh involvement there at ALL, conspiracy nutjob.”
Really.
Any semi-observant person could readily ascertain that the Horns Were WAY OFF! Too.
Sheesh. SOME Peeps have very vivid imaginations.
Wow. They just put it out for all to see.
I like ours better…because of the fur pelts.
I hope it gets outta control for them if so. As it seems to be atm.
Don’t count on it.
Consider: BOTH Lula da Silva AND Jair Bolsonaro are assholes destroying Brazil … albeit in different ways.
That’s a possibility, no?
It’s more like a probability.
No one ascends beyond the level of town council in world politics without the vetting and approval of someone/s much further up the food chain. And once they are in, the compromising begins until they are fully on board or are ruined and expelled from society.
Trust me on this one.
The story of every famous peson via wikipedofilia
“He came from the humble beginnings of being a poor dirt farmer in a market saturated by dirt. His parents eaked out a living in a hole they had dug from the bog.
Breakfast? Not cereals like the other kids, nope, a steady diet of gruel and soot.
But then, they were “discovered” by a benevolenp member of the 5th estate, and everything turned out swell, gosh gollywogs.”
Marty Feldman Yesterday
Looking at it historically, military dictators have resulted in more sort-of-free countries than communists. Communists have never led (peacefully) to any sort of free government.
If you have a choice, choose anyone but the Socialists.
Culture Club in 1980s writing “Fascination”
Keep feeling assassination…
No.
Keep feeling putrefaction?
Whoa whoa whoa!
Thats, a no!
Ok.
Keep feeling dissertation..
No. All wrong.
Keep feeling infestation.
No man, that was Long Beach.
Keep feeling mestruati…..
OK knock it off, you’re being gross.
Keep feeling some frustration?
Yes. Me too.
Keep feeling insurrection.
Nope.
This song writing process is fascinating.
Aaaaaaaagh!
THAT’S THE ONE!
Stories By Euddolen
That was “Human League”
Whatever, got the decade right, and thats good enough for my participation trophy.
The Speaker of the House is next in line behind the V.P., which leads me to think that Harris will be the President, and won’t have any sort of nervous collapse that we will know of. Probably there is a double for Harris in the wings and practicing speeches.
That communists think they can bring on the revolution (like they thought in the ’60s) is certain. That they plan to usher in a Medieval form of governance is also certain.
It’s not an insurrection. It’s the overthrowing an insurrection by the People.
The Brazilians are doing what we should have on Jan6. I don’t care for Trump either. I care about this country,the rule of Constitutional law.And the right to a fair,and speedy trial, jan6ers are still being tortured in solitary confinement to this day. Why aren’t we there demanding their release. Where is the equal protection,why were antifa and blm rioters coddled and supported by these same cops and government officials condemning jan6ers? We need to think on these contradictions and plan accordingly. They have declared war.
“The Brazilians are doing what we should have on Jan6”.
I agree Kid.
An old Tea Party buddy who I had gone to DC with during the Obamacare first mass protest, and Richmond Rally Day with in 2019… called me about going to Jan 6th 2021…a couple of days before.
I said no for two reasons…I was off the Trump train over Warp Speed the day he announced it (he knew this – we talk)…but I felt it was a trap.
The Gift of Fear:
Mark. Same,only voted for the bastard cuz I hated Hillary, and Biden. Still hate them. Didn’t trust him. Especially after warp speed, I warned every friend I knew Jan6 was a trap. They had already had let every one know their plans by the set up of cp,fed agents fully kitted, and nasty girl troops in body armor and empty auto rifle’s that can be given loaded magazines at any time by the feds or cp. I notice trump rarely,if ever mentions jan 6 protestors or use his massive wealth to help set them free..We had four long years of rioting and violence from the left who got away scott free for the nost part. But god forbid you’re right wing ir a Trump supporter in jan 6 getting barely even rowdy, let alone insurgent in even the slightest . Yet most conservative leadership don’t call for their release, why is that if they are on our side? Guess we will see with this new congress, not going to hold my breath.
Diamond of Diamond & Silk just died. OMG I’m heartbroken. I loved those chicas.
Zelda,I wonder if she listened to Trump and got the warp speed vax? I wonder how many good Republicans and conservatives Trump will be responsible alongside most in the federal system of murdering with this poison. I wonderhow many demcraps will die as well? Sad Diamond is dead to though.
I was wondering that too. She apparently had heart problems. Probably Myocarditis. I don’t understand why Trump keeps promoting this shitshot.
” I don’t understand why…” ?
First ‘Sign’ something was FISHY in Denmark?
President-elect Donald Trump talked about the Clintons on 60 Minutes, saying: “I don’t want to hurt them. They’re good people.” For anyone shaking their head, trying to figure out if reality still exists, you’re not alone.