Guest Post by Jim Kunstler
“You give me a piece of ground and a sword and I am going to take back this country with your help and the help of all the homeless Democrats and Republicans who are Americans first.” — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
If you’re wondering why our country is lost in lunatic raptures of lawless Lawfare and futile MAGAry, it’s because our economy has already collapsed, and our culture and politics with it downstream have also collapsed into spectacular degeneracy. It has already happened. Maybe you don’t know it.
The business model is broken. We’re a shadow of the industrial economy that won a great war and enjoyed a boisterous peace. You can’t replace ball bearing factories with theme parks and hedge funds. Sorry. The full faith and credit of the USA is not embodied in those frivolities, so our money is losing its mojo fast.
But get this: we will go on. This is not the end of the world or the end of history. It is the end of an era. Believe it or not, the economy will fix itself, it just won’t be what it was in 1957. It won’t be what the techno-supremacists think, either. (You need a dependable electric grid to run all those server farms and the apps they serve, and the AI supposedly looming.) It will fix itself because when things fail, as they are doing now, a lot of opportunities will open up to do things differently, even very differently.
When the chain stores fail along with their twelve-thousand-mile supply lines, Americans will figure out how to find stuff, make stuff, move stuff, and sell stuff at a smaller scale, maybe back on your Main Street (if it’s still there). There will be a lot less stuff, of course. But it may be enough stuff, and some of you will be busy making stuff of some kind. Imagine an economy where practically everybody has a useful role to play. Do you know how much more important it is to lead a purposeful, acrtive life of than to be lost in leisure and anomie with more stuff than you know what to do with? Which is where we’re at now, even for many who are statistically “poor.”
When the Happy Motoring colossus tweaks out, we’ll spend less time moving around and more time doing useful things, staying put around the places where we live. We’d be lucky if we could keep some railroads going, but the prospects are not great for that now. Sorry, we blew it. Should have re-started that project in 1970 when the handwriting was on the wall. (We made a lot of bad choices.) Cars and trains require elaborate networks of many interdependent technologies all integrated smoothly at the giant scale — oil, steel, plastics, electronics — and all of that is disintegrating. Pretty soon, you can forget about airplanes, too. That leaves… what? Yes, boats and horses. I know… it sounds inconceivable. Wait for it.
When our grotesque medical racketeering matrix fails, doctors will practice medicine at smaller scale, probably without advanced pharmaceuticals and techno-diagnostics. They’ll open small local clinics while zombies squat in the broken mega-hospitals. You’ll have to pay in cash, whatever form that comes in. You’ll have to take care of yourself, too, but there will be a whole lot less enticing, engineered, toxic crap available to stuff into your body — Froot Loops, Hot Pockets — and the food markets won’t be all that super. There will certainly be less food altogether, but there will be fewer of us to feed, and more of that fewer-of-us will be busy producing that food, one way or another.
That’s the reality I see coming. As you’ve seen vividly, the journey from where we were in, say, the year 2000, to where we’re going has been psychologically disordering at the mass scale. These days, people who ought to know better express ideas that would have gotten them laughed out the room in 1999. The catch is that few of you know that this mass disordering grew out of fear of the journey. It was a phenomenon of infectious mass anxiety over something only dimly apprehended. You just thought it was about bad people.
You’re now faced with the question: how to avoid committing suicide, directly or inadvertently, personally or as a whole society, slowly or quickly? — and its corollary, how to get through the madness in the meantime? Politics happen whether you pay attention to it or not. Politics is concerned with how a society navigates through history. Today, it seems that either A) somebody is steering badly; B) Nobody is steering; or C) some outside force has commandeered the ship’s wheel and is steering for us.
Any way you look at that, we need somebody to steer. Mr. Trump has volunteered to try doing it again. The first time, forces in every quarter of American power set out to bushwhack, sandbag, harass, hector, and hound him. In the process, they just about destroyed the rule of law. Then they simply dis-elected him surreptitiously, something you’re not supposed to say, but there it is, like so much meat on the table. Now they’re trying to hoo-rah him into jail. Whatever you think of his, er, complex personality, you must admire his perseverance through adversity. If he somehow manages to wriggle through the present obstacle course of Lawfare chicanery, his next term would be an extravaganza of retribution. The spectacle would provide much satisfaction but, in the end, it would just be a sideshow, and it is not the same thing as taking care of business.
“Joe Biden,” of course, the man who is not really even there, is only pretending to run for reelection, or at least a coterie around the Oval Office is pretending for him while they try to figure out what to do. They’re in an awful quandary. They hold all the levers of power and they have no other credible candidate, not a living soul, in their own official hatchery.
Outside of that ghastly edifice, Robert F. Kennedy is making a determined flanking move, an end-run near the sidelines. The Democratic Party in all its florid and mendacious lunacy is pretending to not notice him, especially their praetorian news media that is the vector for America’s mass mental illness. Mr. Kennedy put it so simply in April when he announced a run to preside over the stupendous mess that is our government. He said his mission is an experiment to see what happens when you tell Americans the truth. Hold that thought. How long has it been since you thought anything like that was possible?
There’s a broad-based assumption across the land, derived from our fading prime artform, the movies, that Americans can’t handle the truth. Like so much else in our national life, that is probably erroneous… fake truth. And what is so striking in Mr. Kennedy’s performance so far is an absence of fakery. It’s more than refreshing, it’s… startling. Makes you blink, a little bit. Makes you remember what it’s like to not be lied-to incessantly. Makes you want to see more of it because it gives you strength when you thought you were finished. Get this now: our world is changing, and deeply, but we’re not finished.
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“You can’t replace ball bearing factories with theme parks and hedge funds. ”
Tru dat, Bro……
The replacement is porno, pawn, and cannabis shops. That’s all I saw in my walk through Edmunds Oregon in 2019. The Kunz was way off with that line.
You forgot the tattoo parlors.
Yes. 🙂
A topless tranny at the White House Pride event.
We’re so screwed.
No we are not—Daniel 2:20-22 (KJV), Daniel 4:17 (KJV). My God is still in control of this cosmos and everything in it! WHY you ask, cause he created it out of nothing!
Our country knucklehead not true believers
If your god is in control then he’s responsible of everything that’s wrong and evil in the world.
Thank You.
Do you have a better way to show people the difference [ consequences ] of good and evil?
https://godskingdom.org/studies/books/creations-jubilee/chapter-13-the-tension-in-creation/
According to the Bible, God’s Kingdom was supposed to arrive back in the 1st Century. That’s what Christ told his apostles and for which he sent them to announce it. Read your own Bible, it’s all there. Since nothing happened back then, each new generation of Christians has been fooled into believing that it’s coming during their lifetime. It’s the perfect Psyop to fool the dumb masses. Keep drinking the kool-aid!
https://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2008/10/05/warning-the-holy-bible-is-a-wo
Yes, but those things run on the same economy that produces pop-tarts and hot pockets.
The perpetually high need those things, plus free money to make their lifestyle go.
We still have a large bearing plant in out town. Lots of employees.
Ball bearings? 3/8″ work well in my slingshot. Last resort or could be first, for self defense.
Those fuckin things are expensive! I use them with my Wrist Rocket. It’s why I migrated to pellet rifles. Over time the extra cost is mitigated by the higher accuracy and lightning fast follow up shots.
It’s all about the kill ratio.
Have you tried marbles? I’m thinking pellet pistol…maybe.
I discovered 3/8th ” nuts would pierce a early 70’s vintage galvanized garbage can! Ho Lee Fuc! Most likely kill a subhuman easily…
Peace, L.
” Its all ball bearings these days ” Chevy Chase in” Fletch”…
I think he forgets about the starving hordes of invaders that will only increase .
When they start running in the other direction, that’s when you know when there’s a problem.
Lol that’s funny
What is funny is that several here and people I know IRL are looking to move from North America to Central or South America, because of totalitarianism here.
Considering the move to Panama as well.. Sad realization that America is no longer the land of the free and the home of the brave.
It was just an illusion. The American dream, because you had to be asleep to believe it!
Probably a lot different from the 70s.
And Panama is, right?
Yep.
When Guatemala looks better than the USA, it’s all over but the crying.
Gotta stick around to see if the Nuggets can do it again next year.
I’m not leaving!
If there’s no food or “government cheese” they will be run out at the point of a bayonet or composted.
True that, they’re pawns, they don’t even rise to the level of useful idiots.
And this includes the operational members of foreign militaries who are coming in as “asylum seekers” when they are actually invaders, albeit for different reasons.
I’ve not heard much from Texas lately how many invaders are invading. I suppose it is still going on. And I believe it’s onion picking time in the valley but don’t hold me to that.
They’re not invaders when they have been invited by the government for decades.
It’s “Crying Time” again in the valley aka digging onions. I’m not an expert on harvesting opinions other than my own. Could be those invaders have been replaced with mosheens man. They will have to go elsewhere but then the exorbitant amount of hypocrisy among the political masses and the huge crawl of US citizenry upon the Lone Star State…I mow your lawn man, twinty dollar. The invaders will find work and happiness living 15 in a one bedroom apartment.
You mean the bodysnatched retardiots that already live here?!?
Why did the movie THE POSTMAN get poor reviews by the captured media film experts ?
Because it effectively showed the power of unity. By putting on an old mailmans uniform a drifter begins to re-connect a fractured nation and in doing so gives the people HOPE.
They know they’re not finished.
RIDE , POSTMAN !! You Hear Me ? I Said RIDE !!!
Why would anyone want to restore the US government?
Bigger picture. Restoring America’s sense of itself.
‘Zactly.
I want to salt the ashes so it never rises again to plague humanity, when it dies.
Just as an aside, the mailmen where I live are being robbed on the streets.
In Shitcago they are robbing postal workers to steal the keys to drop boxes etc.
Shitcago gearing up for Nascar lol. Niggers and nascar what a fiasco.
Where at? I think there is a NASCAR track 40 miles south near Joliet but I don’t follow it anymore.
I can see it now… a KIA with spinners and J-Bars.
Well that’s messed up. I thought Obama armed the postal workers?
That was the cover story. The weapons and ammo are lying in wait for the invading army that is currently being bussed in across the border, northern and southern.
And the ones here have been ordered not to give out dog biscuits anymore. …The Horror.🐯
That’s why I love dogs, they seem to naturally despise and want to attack anyone in uniform! Hard to not respect that attitude .
Peace out babies! L.
I think Kunstler is right in his observation that we are headed into simpler times with less centralized technology and corporations. Corporate America as we know it is dying. I can feel it in my hometown right now. It feels like people are less busy. That sense of rushing and urgency that infiltrated our lives over the past couple of decades is easing.
Evidently you don’t live near Dallas/Fort Worth nor do I. I’m only familiar with the area and far enough away it’s like the place does not exist. Sure I can sense the invasion around here though of DFWers. When I do visit the hellish place all I can notice is masses of peeps scurrying around like ants so I see no decline in the urgency in DFW anyway.
Have you been there recently?
One month ago. Takes me a couple of days to get over it when I return to home sweet home, nightmares and such.
Tex
I hate Dallas. But thats where the money is, so we are there every day. Luckily, I live an hour away so when I am not there, time does slow down a bit. Dallas is too frenetic, people there suck and nobody can drive. I stay armed and ready. If we make it 3 more years, I am gone to 100 acres in the Sabine forest. I don’t even have internet out there…
I hear you. Three more years is a long time in DFW so hang in there. Thankfully I was able to leave for good in 2016. Big cities are what they are and most of them suck and I agree with the driving habits. That is the biggest reason it takes me a couple of days to get over it. There is no way a person can drive conservatively or even Texas Friendly. Remember the motto, Drive Texas Friendly? I’m not certain but I believe the state gave up on that idea long ago as far as driving goes, Drive Texas Friendly. Yeah, right. And some of the peeps that have migrated to DFW do not necessarily come across as friendly. Bad habits brought to what use to be a fair state to live in even in the metropolitan area. I think Houston went down the toilet back in the 60’s though as I recall.
How about drive in self defense? If it were not for a family member under care at a facility I would not go there period. I have to drive plumb through Dallas (and Irving) and half way across Tarrant County to arrive at that facility. Sucks does not do it justice.
You should have Polk salad though!
I’ll pony up 2 zlotys on the heels of your sentiment, SS. Maybe more than 2.
I walked away from corporate, the rat race, and the slave of the clock,
besides the golden handcuffs of a steady, meaty wage and income in 2020,
when the scamdemic was launched.
Part time jobs w/ less stress {but not always} helped fill the activities calendar and supplement the diminishing level of financial resources, to stay active and fund the never ending and rising cost of living.
But, those PT jobs soon also were a microcosm of the former chase.
Political correctness is rampant in most industries. Always hated that.
-Recently took a leave of absence from the workforce, and am enjoying a summer minus those former shackles.
It’s simpler. More peaceful to one’s soul.
It’s understood, most aren’t fortunate enough to be able to do so just yet.
Obligations and duty call. Still. Scale back if at all possible.
It’s refreshing, to squelch that need that so many have, to consume even more.
Preppers take that to an extreme, piling up storehouses of supplies.
That’s not a bad thing. It’s good to be prepared as best as possible for facing uncertain times.
But, being in the 4th quarter of my game of life, I’ve become content to do more worthwhile things, with less expenditures.
With all the stuff personally accumulated and paid for, it might be time to start getting lean, and selling off / donating the excess. Except for things that still might be useful.
But, by and large, Americans and westerners have far too much shit.
Have you noticed how many storage facilities have sprung up the last 10 years?
Many people just can’t let materialistic things go, on the fear they might need it in the future, or could be one day passed on to family and friends. They won’t want it.
I try to remember an adage I heard many years ago.
“Much of everything you think you might need, you already have. And that which is still needed, a way to obtain it shall be revealed, if it is His will for you to have it. Just trust that, and believe it.”
I’d opened up my yap about purging way more junk from my collection in years past.
And then, as if our Source seemed to check and see if I was really committed, we had 48 hours of rain in Summer 2014. Without a garage, the basement in my home acted as a mini storage cave. The storm was too much for the water runoff lines to handle, and we had major flooding. In my own case, I had 18 inches of raw sewage back up the floor drain, covering the entire floor of the basement, and all its contents. Nasty.
When the water finally receded, the biofilm and waste left behind was a difficult clean up.
Couldn’t sweep it up, or wipe it up. It smeared, like gobs of black, funky odor oil.
Eventually, biohazard crews were extremely busy for the next 12 months. Bleach.
Every house on my block, in my city, and along a freeway corridor spanning 12 different municipalities had to throw away everything that got wet & contaminated. Furniture. Old books. Old photos. Spare clothing. Exercise equipment. Sporting goods. Christmas decorations, and ad infinitum.
The county landfills had to suspend collections, even from the hired hauling services that served those communities. It was a mess. Took many months to clean up.
Akin a bit, to the devastation left in the wake of tornadoes & hurricanes, to some degree.
It’s Spring again, with Summer bearing down quickly.
By Fall, I’m hoping to have seriously weaned down the excess, to the bare minimum.
As it stands now, if I had to sell and move out, I’d need 2 dumpsters for toss aways,
an estate sale over 3 days, and a large U-Haul just to take away the keepsakes that I still cannot let go of. Where to put it all, if not in the next home? Why storage, of course.
With it’s monthly fee. Madness.
All the resale shops are full of the garbage from 3 sources.
1. Granny’s death…donate her shit.
2. A storage renter couldn’t keep up w the fees. . . auction off their shit.
3. Donations from people willing to just downsize, without expecting any lucre from it’s release.
If lucre is the driver, then Facebook Marketplace, Craigslist, or eBay is viable.
Many garage sales should put a “b” in the middle of that yard sign.
Some stuff, nobody really wants.
And yet, in roughly 5% of the situations, one man’s junk is another’s sorely needed treasure.
“Hey, this is still in good shape. Somebody might need it some day.” LOL.
Ok. Bridge the gap and find that need, and fill it, with flexible negotiating of prices.
If given up freely though, the doors of future needs supply will swing open, allowing one to browse and obtain, if they can use discretion in getting only what’s truly needed.
@Lager
That is a good subject to discuss right there. I recently moved back to my hometown this past spring. I’m now having to unpack a bunch of plastic tubs that had been in storage off and on over the past 10 years. I still haven’t gone through them all because the mental work of it is exhausting. Continuously moving every couple of years for the past 20 years caught up with me lol. But I now know I have enough clothes, books, art supplies, DVDs, notebooks etc to last me at least a decade. I have plenty of things to keep myself entertained and MANY books to reread.
I remember shopping thrift stores in my rustbelt midwestern city before Covid. I used to find all kinds of decent things, from tools to books to clothes. Shortly after Covid hit, those same stores no longer have much of anything. It’s really striking. I think they’re skimming the good stuff and reselling it elsewhere.–
Anything worth half its value– plus shipping costs, of course– is sold by my local Goodwill store on ebay. Still less than retail.
F gympwillie and scavanger army, go for ANY other church based or vets orgs, better pricing and actually helping a real cause. ( A lifelong junk store fan!)
Peace, L.
I think that the generation who accumulated good stuff back in the 1940’s and 1950’s has pretty much passed into the great beyond. The 1960’s is when they started manufacturing real garbage, and by the 1990’s, everything was made in China. I’ve heard around here that the estate sale people are saying they’re turning down more clients simply because the stuff in the estate is junk.
I got rid of SO much stuff when my husband passed. Sold, craigslist, but mostly donations.
I went to an estate sale (held mid-week) recently. The prices indicated that these folks did not actually want to sell anything. (i.e., $2 for one used tupperware container. A whole set split and individually priced).
It was a joke. they’d have made more money donating it and taking the tax write-off.
Poor Preppers. Most of them think they can prep their way into maintaining the highest living conditions in the history of mankind with guns and a generator, while the rest of the world collapses. They might do well for the first year, maybe. But there will be nothing to replenish their stores, so the end will just be delayed.
I’m thinking that if you can provide yourself a lifestyle on the level of the civil war era, you’ll make it, and anything above and beyond that will be gravy. Maybe look into black powder arms, and a steam-powered generator…
Sounds like something a former president would say perhaps regarding freedom cities. lol
The storage units were emptied or abandoned in our area during the 2009 debacle. They’re really building them here too (different place same state). It’s actually sort of weird.
Start growing a beard and dressing like an Amish.
Even the women-folk?
Actually I considered that disguise but it would mean moving to Amish country. Around here one would stick out like a sore thumb. No work for incognito. A sombrero might suffice but then again probably mean moving to DFW, Austin or San Antonio. My Spanish ain’t that great so, ain’t gonna happen.
I think we should go back to hanging criminals in public. It’s the romantic in me.
Has the USA defaulted yet? You absolutely guaranteed a default was going to happen. Just wondering if I missed it.
Not yet. But we made up for by going straight to being totalitarian shithole.
You think they’d ever tell you if they defaulted? These people lie about everything. Why would they’d suddenly have a change in character and start telling you the truth while they’re going broke? You’ll know when the US defaults when the massive deflation hits.
It’s already happening in China.
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinas-factory-gate-deflation-deepens-may-2023-06-09/
Abigail and I both noticed the post where you said your creativity went up since studying the Bible. This is one of the waves of the holy spirit. It’s called the feminine creative. You will notice wonderful things happening with our life when you are following your own individual spiritual path. Now image you did that for the next 40 years with wonderful things happening along the way. That is where I am at. You will notice little improvements in your life with spiritual study, and it’s tools of prayer, meditation, and contemplation.
Hope so. All I see right now is all the brokeness in the people around me.
Don’t get discouraged. Your belief of a spiritual war taking place is right on. You always have to go back to the basics. All Good things come from God. Satan encourages destruction and all of it’s forms. While God is the creator of the macro universe. We are the creators of our micro universe. Here is one of my favorite prayers to say when I awake, from Psalm 25.
Show me your ways, Lord,
teach me your paths.
Guide me in your truth and teach me,
for you are God my Savior,
and my hope is in you all day long.
You’re delusional!
And you oh anonymous one, as if there actually were such a thing as anonymity, are redundant and boring.
And judging by all the histrionics, probably a little gay, but that’s just an observation.
John, “commit thy works unto the Lord, and thy thoughts shall be established” and another personal favorite, “add to your faith virtue, and to your virtue knowledge…”
https://danielmiessler.com/p/the-bible-is-fiction-https://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2008/10/05/warning-the-holy-bible-is-a-woa-collection-of-evidence/
The Bankruptcy of The United States
United States Congressional Record, March 17, 1993 Vol. 33, page H-1303
Speaker-Rep. James Traficant, Jr.
http://annavonreitz.com/bankruptcyofus.pdf
http://annavonreitz.com/bankruptcyofus.pdf
“It is an established fact that the United States Federal Government has been dissolved by the Emergency Banking Act, March 9, 1933, 48 Stat. 1, Public Law 89-719; declared by President Roosevelt, being bankrupt and insolvent. H.J.R. 192, 73rd Congress m session June 5, 1933 – Joint Resolution To Suspend The Gold Standard and Abrogate The Gold Clause dissolved the Sovereign Authority of the United States and the official capacities of all United States Governmental Offices, Officers, and Departments and is further evidence that the United States Federal Government exists today in name only.”
I agree, Steph. I think that we have no choice in the matter.
I think that if you wish to survive, you have to plan to provide for yourself.
https://www.palladiummag.com/2023/06/01/complex-systems-wont-survive-the-competence-crisis/
We are not finished unless some imbecile ( and the USSA government – including the Pentagram – is awash with them) actually starts a nice, hot, nuclear WWIII.
The $31million Biden’s got from China probably came with a request to vacate the premises by a certain date. Probably another $31 mil and the Premiereship of the province of America for Hunter if we vacate and they take Taiwan Semiconductor in one piece.
And the maniacs in the State Dept are fully capable of doing so..if they can get the Pentagon to go along…
Different subject, what in the world is Lindsey Graham doing on the same stage as Trump. Someone mentioned this took place at a Trump dupe rally in SC. I thought Trump was anti war? Hum, evidently Trump wakes up in a different world every day.
Trump is out of touch with reality, or just plain desperate, if he thinks having Lindsey Graham on his side is in any way helpful.
Lindsey Graham will go right over the head of brain dead Trump peeps.
It’s one of many things that happen to a narcissists’ mental state. When Obama was in office I thought no one could top Obama’s narcissism. Was I ever wrong! Trump’s is even more serious. Case in point, a TV interview some years ago where Trump is sitting at a desk thumbing through a stack of magazines containing articles pertaining to him. With each magazine he would point out the article to the interviewer and point out Trump’s “greatness” as to whatever the subject of the article, perhaps some miraculous business endeavor he created (but then flopped).
Can they get someone besides Trump or Biden?
It wouldn’t make any difference!
Only not to accidentally look at or hear about either via talking head radio, boob tube or Al Gore’s Internet.
Trump is playing you all.
Yesterday Seymour Hersh was on George Galloway’s “Mother of All Podcasts” show. Asked about RFK Jr, he said “I’m not a fan. He’s an antivaxxer.” Even the smart people are idiots. We may not be done yet, but we’re circling the drain.
Yes, pretty sad that Sey fell for that…
What makes you think Hersh is smart?
It’s all relative. A 86, he can at least spit out a coherent sentence, unlike Biden.
Biden couldn’t create a coherent sentence when he was 30, never mind 80. Unless he stole it from someone else and put it on a teleprompter, and even then rarely.
He’s a blithering useful idiot.
I saw a video where RFK said non-vaxxers should be locked up. Fuk him.
But he changed his mind…..
He would never change it again…..
Would he?
It will be different THIS TIME! (if we vote harderer)
SSDD
The jab thing is really messed up. And to think Trump is still touting it and boasting how many lives he saved. Honestly, do people believe anything Trump boasts about?
Yes, many Trumptards still do.
You are an idiot… do not reproduce…
Is RFK, j going to tell us the real truth behind the climate change hoax or will his environmental activism roots kick in to continue promoting it?
The latter.
correct
Like most politicians, he’ll tell the truth when it suites him.
Most of them lie about 80% of the time so when an RFK or a Trump only lie 50% of the time it seems refreshing.
Only 50?
Climate lockdowns are coming, no matter who “wins”.
There is an interesting conversation between RFK Jr and Jordan Peterson.
RFK Jr has an interesting take on climate change. I think he is sincere in his attributions of vaccines causing many social ills – vaccines and poor food health. I do not agree with his dismissal of the climate change hoax but, it seems he has focused on Big Pharma so long that it eclipses his ability to see other vectors. He does not see the manipulation of sustainability and climate change.
It is still an error but not one of corruption. He is taking a stand that could well get him killed. That is no small thing after seeing his uncle and dad assassinated. That’s not an endorsement. Simply, an acknowledgement that not all people with different perspectives are corrupted. They might just be wrong.
He did talk about that he does not support using climate changer for totalitarian control. I am now considering that everything negative said about him is propaganda.
What if the negative things are absolutely true? Will you justify his behaviour by calling it ‘chess’ like everyone did with trump?
“Climate Change” is a religion.
RFK is an elder in the church.
A true believer.
James Watt just proved that by NOAAs own standards,
96% of all temperature data is corrupted. Always warmer.
“Climate Change” is the greatest scam ever perpetrated on humanity.
Designed solely to scare the rubes into accepting socialism
under the banner of “Saving The Planet™”
The “rubes” have bought in to 50+ years of 100% inaccurate climate projections and start screaming every time a new “catastrophe” is projected.
My point precisely.
Jim’s man crush on RFK is palpable. Once again a politician “reads the room” and says what it thinks the people want to hear. “C+” for effort… “F” for originality. Kind of like Trump the last go around.
So he speaks the truth? Half the country is already aware of the truth he talks about. BFD
RFK will ram “green” everything up our asses and down our throats and then follow that up with reparations for descendents of slaves and after that he will unionize everything that is left.
Fuck.
Him.
Just be rich, go away, bang your wife Cheryl and leave us alone.
I suggest you take some time to read up on the difference between regenerative agriculture and, oh, say, carbon credit scams. Then maybe do a little digging into what RFK Jr considers to be helping poor folks (he uses urban poor and Appalachian poor with equal empathy) as opposed to promoting reparations; that isn’t going to happen in an RFK Jr administration. It wouldn’t have to, as he never promised it and he has enough bona fides not to need to offer it to prove he is genuine in his desire to help.
RFK Jr has been in the trenches fighting for a reclaimed earth that is healthy fo humans for four decades, not for a WEF 15 minute cityscape. The kind of broad brush, brain-dead “analysis” like yours is exactly why we won’t be able to overcome the fine-tuned bullshit of all the flag waving, Astro turfed “patriots” who know far better than Kennedy what words to use to get folks like you all lathered up.
It is a tragic consequence of our time that many of us really cannot begin to fathom the possibility that the unexpected, the game changer, can come out of the blue. We don’t need a savior in the White House, but we do need someone with integrity and a proven record of putting his hands to work, instead of just his mouth, when it comes to rebuilding our civic life. Is there anyone else in either party that even remotely comes close to the standard that Kennedy has lived for 40 years…because I sure as hell don’t see that person.
But basically nobody is doing regenerative agriculture. They can talk about it all they want, but it rounds down to zero. Buzzwords. It does not fit with the global warming political correctness anyhow.
I say this as someone with a burning hatred of industrial and chemical ag.
Check out White Oak Pastures in little Bluffton, Georgia or look up Will Harris, owner of WOP.
Still rounds to zero. I’m seeing things for sale, not information.
…and try to take our guns. Jim is still believing Catholic Camelot Myth.
“It will fix itself because when things fail, as they are doing now, a lot of opportunities will open up to do things differently, even very differently.”
Albert Einstein once said, “You can’t solve problems using the same consciousness that created them.” This is so true. We live in a Kakistocracy: a society ruled and led by the least moral, least competent, least sane among us, hence the dystopian hell-scape we are experiencing now.
It is foolish for us to think RFK Jr. can/will save us all by himself, the system is too corrupt, too immoral and too far gone to be saved by elections. Look at what TPTB did to his uncle, his father, Donald J. Trump and the few wannabes who were honest and tried to run for president and genuinely effect change. America has a consciousness of: predation, rapine, might makes right, I can take anything I want and we see in the upper classes and the lower classes, it permeates our culture. The only way things will change is when we change this demonic, parasitic consciousness to one of cooperation, peace, civility and genuine caring for ourselves and “the other”. Until that transformation occurs we ae merely wishing and hoping, pretending not to know what we know and face the reality of the depravity and moral rot metastasizing throughout this nation. Change begins on the micro level, in each of us, the man and woman in the mirror.
Please…..presidentially speaking, it’s been downhill since George Washington.
What we have now is a fascist oligarchy shit show.
Communist shit show. The Globalist scum have installed a Trotskyite Communist regime on the USSA population while Globohomoshlomo runs the hyper-finance, crony-capitalist con game.
Same conditions with variations in the EU, UK, Canader, OZ and Nu Zealand.
What we have is a globalist oligarchy playing frontman for European based plutocrats.
Presidents come and presidents go, but the bureaucrats remain the same.
They grow exponentially.
They are the ones who write all the rules
we are expected to follow, and they can NEVER
be voted out no matter who “leads” the country.
Resist.
Refuse to comply.
Irish Democracy every day.
Grover Cleveland was OK. Refused federal aid to Johnstown PA after the Flood, saying he had no authority to intervene in local problems.
Thanks for the awesome post. It reminded me of a chapter in “Stranger by the River,” called “The mirror of God.” It’s a chapter about Karma. God sends back to us what we send to the world.
You might want to look up pre-60s definitions of karma.
I have news for you. The world has OWNERS. They’re the only ones that rule. All Presidents are puppet actors pretending to make the important decisions. It’s time to wake up!
We own what we create.
There is one owner. The rest are stewards or thieves [ usurper$ ].
The earth is a farm. Time to wake up!
Different day, same shit. Some folks just never learn I guess. Comparing RFK Jr. to a Jedi is a hilarious revealing of these manchildren’s mind set. Yes Jedi Master Bobby and the ghosts of all our favorite three initial heroes are gonna save us! Just trust the plan and vote harder!
There are no true heroes allowed in this godless society, and RFK will fuck you just the like rest of his pals.
https://archive.org/details/jeffrey-epstein-39s-little-black-book-unredacted/page/n29/mode/1up
Epstein had 8 different phone numbers for RFK Jr. in his black book. He is documented flying on Epstein’s private jet, the ghastly Lolita Express. Everyone knew what Jeffrey’s business was, so don’t give me this he didn’t know BS.
RFK Jr. is comped like the rest. Like Trump he will throw some rhetorical nuggets your way to satiate the masses while their master’s plans unfold unimpeded.
I don’t know if the jedi thing is widespread because I’ve avoided all this so far, but it wouldn’t surprise me because soyboys and leftists (but I repeat myself) are very susceptible to it. Just like the mentality of rightwing nerds was targeted by 40k artwork of Trump.
The next year when our “annual” trip to Disney World rolled around, my
father drove, pulling his new Holiday Rambler Royale International trailer. (I
slept outside in a tent because I was not permitted inside it since “I wasn’t
family”.) My father dropped me off en route at the Kennedy Space Center in
Titusville, Florida where I was subjected to my first NASA programming.
From then on, I was “obsessed” with following the “Yellow Brick Road” to
Nashville, Tennessee. Moving to Nashville was all I could talk about. If
anyone asked me the question I could not think to ask myself “Why?”, I would
respond by reiterating it was something “I had to do”.
Why would any normal human go to Disney World annually?
Disney:
1974 – I was taken to Disney World in Florida for sophisticated mind control programming in Disney’s UNderground in conjunction with extreme trauma inflicted at Dick Cheney’s Wyoming hunting lodge where A Most Dangerous Game of human hunting ensued.
Regardless of extensive proofs exposing Disney over the years, this identified MK Ultra pedophile epicenter remains open to entice children.
Even as a kid I thought Disneyland was gay and attracted pedos.
Half the people I knew who got married in their 20s went to DisneyLand/World for their honeymoon.
It always struck me as odd. Are people who want to go to Disneyland mature enough to marry?
But now it all makes sense. No, they weren’t, so divorced, and they never matured. Decades of being basically children, living only in the “I want, right now” of selfish and childish lack of consideration.
Look around. See many actual adults? I don’t.
Fake AND gay.
My father dropped me off en route at the Kennedy Space Center in
Titusville, Florida where I was subjected to my first NASA programming.
We all got our programming later and it continues to this day.
>>>Even as a kid I thought Disneyland was gay and attracted pedos.
You don’t like happy young men dressed up as mice?
Knustler latest was refreshing to read. It spoke of (wait for it) the Common Man once again coming to the fore like hes always done.
Jr’s. naivety is oddly refreshing opposed to Biden and Trump’s SOS.
Knustler?
You think RFK is a common man of the people?
Good Lord!……The Kennedys, Bush and Clinton families have all had their 15 minutes. They all need to die off ASAP.
Oops. I never meant to intimate Jr as a commoner but I can see how it can be taken like that.
Honestly, you’d rightfully consider yourself and the upvotes as jumping the shark a bit.
I don’t give a shit about upvotes or downvotes.
Admin. should get rid them but he won’t because it keeps people coming back for that little dopamine hit, same thing for people with their phone attached to their face.
Again, you’ve misread.
Will soma produce dopamine?
Abandon the Newspeak and Drink the Soma: Aldous Huxley’s Snarky Letter to George Orwell
Another bullshit article. We are done. We are toast. No freedom, once lost has ever, been regained without violence. None, Never happened, not even once. The fact is the bad guys do not give up unless they are forced to by violence. That is a fact. The problem is, the US is now a country of cowards who will not stand up for themselves and their freedom.
When a country goes to hell, it is not the fault of the corrupt government, it is the fault of the corrupt populace, who tolerate the criminals in government. We are now a country of corrupt and cowardly people who will never stand up to criminal government.
Humans come from the factory hardwired to self destruct. What is going on now has been going on all of history.
“ Only two things are infinite, the universe and the stupidity of man and I’m not so sure about the universe”
Albert Einstein
“I do not fear an army of lions led by a sheep. I fear an army of sheep led by a lion.”
–Alexander the Great–
America–the real America–is one lion short at the moment of turning this around. As Kuntsler said, not around like 1957, but around like being able to not wave a Pride flag and still keep your job.
Feel free to laugh off the idea. But that is how victorious armies, victorious civilizations have come back before. That is how you can have the debauchery, corruption and violence of a Caligula, and 150 years later the empire was still intact and thrived under Marcus Aurelius, the philosopher emperor.
But for those with a LINEAR view, history is railroad tracks leading in one direction to a destination uncertain. They cannot conceive of, let alone perceive, the whirlpools and eddies that crisscross an infinitude of lives that make up that civilization.
Please….history is about as linear as weather. About the only things in the natural world that is linear is time and entropy to the point of death.
And yes, I laugh at your idea because the “real America” has been subjugated, fractured and dumbed down to the point that it does not exist anymore. I totally get your comparison to the Roman Empire but it collapsed anyway, did it not? ALL empires collapse. Why?
Read the Einstein quote again.
The human brain has barely evolved past hunter/gatherer stage. All the information and technology and look what mankind has done with it. Access to information for the majority of all living people on Earth and I argue that collectively humans are stupider now than ever.
Look at how we treat each other, the wars, the hate, for all of history. If we haven’t figured it out by now we never will. It was fun while it lasted.
Your words are an utter submission to defeat, rot and decomposition. Thank you for your lack of service.
Before a problem can be solved, it must be admitted. You are obviously in denial.
Sure, lets support are murderous troops!
The roman knew the meaning of servus.
Sirhan’s point was exactly that. That the course of history is as linear as the weather. His point was that those who think that history is linear are incorrect, possibly doomed.
The fear-porn onslaught that began in the 50’s and 60’s with the Cold War so TPTB could maintain their grift and usury is becoming tiresome and unbelievable. They want to ramp up the crises but most of us are tired of hearing “wolf” and just don’t GAF. That means they’re losing leverage and the “crises” will become more extreme. To quote Tom Luongo “They’ll flip the board.” The rothschilds, rockefellers and khazarians know their scam is winding down and they, like most, think that they’re going to protect themselves by hoarding the wealth and building their ‘smart cities’. It won’t. Their system depends on the rank and file following their rules meant to keep everyone subjugated. What happens when we internalize that they don’t play by them so why should we?
They’re going to have to step on a lot of people to get where they want to. It’s only a matter of time before they step on the wrong person. I don’t think RFK is that person but someone is out there, seething at what’s going on. Like everything humans do there will be unforeseen flaws and consequences that undo the best laid plans. Like Jim said in the article it’ll probably the scale of electricity needed to make smart cities function properly. I’m sure they’ve done calculations but like everything TPTB does, there are some big errors, it’s a bluff, or a farce. Even if they get to their stated goal of 1/2 a billion population (unlikely) the base physical plant they’ll depend on for control will have problems and failures they can’t repair due to lack of resources, skilled labor or mother nature. Look for that to piss off the rank and file to the point of rebellion at least in the form of seeking alternatives. Maybe worse.
Also, many people are waking up to the fact that these fucking wars are completely, idiotically unnecessary and are just another form of control propaganda. The end of the Mil-IC and Med-IC will occur relatively soon. Real people are fed up with big everything, especially government, pharma and tech. Many people want to go back to somewhere between the 60’s and 80’s lifestyles where kids aren’t overscheduled and can play outside, have room to jump their bicycles and play stickball. Tech isn’t going away but it will be more carefully evaluated for use. Look for more Linux in computers as Microsoft becomes even more invasive than it already is. Smart cities will fail miserably. They’ll be dirty, crime ridden and rundown within a year of inception because people will have no stake in them, no way to build their lives or advance. This is a perfect recipe for a black market or a ghetto. The close proximity to others and radiation will just make everyone sick, crazy and agitated.
Anyone who doesn’t learn to take care of themselves in a 60’s rural-ish suburban environment will suffer the consequences and won’t be a burden for long.
Mr. Kennedy the “Honest Politician ” who’s been pushing climate bullsh#t for a living for 40+ years and want’s to throw you in jail if you don’t buy the scam. And let’s not forget he want’s you disarmed as a bonus. I think Kunstler has a Muh Kennedy’s romance a thon going.
Kunstler just can’t help himself, the boomer’s and their insipid infatuation with this criminal family is truly staggering.
I never understood the love affair people have with any politician. I figure they are all crooks saying what they think you want to hear.
William Buckley’s quip about phone books and governance is spot on.
Not quite.
The leftists, liberals – classic or otherwise, who were content with 80% of the constitutional and cultural body being gutted and skinsuited for Progress, who enjoyed the moral cover of the same relativist and globohomo capital financialization of everything that ushered in “covid” and World War Tranny and No Country for White Men, were ecstatic when that same progress favored their interests and elevated their status among the anointed bringers of utopia on the right side of history toasting their gimlets to the beltway whores.
But now that their peers, riding the wave of invaders and massive explosion of debt and its gibs machines, have outkicked the moral coverage of their well-reasoned arguments for progress, they are suddenly some kind of red pilled, bastions of Truth?
FFS. I get the need for heroes in the fallen world, but just because one’s favored projects put them at odds with some demons does not make them angels.
This isn’t some perfect being the enemy of good enough, but my whole short life has been witnessing one long con of negotiating with Evil. Forgive me if I am not so easily convinced that more children of legacy career politik is the answer to anything.
The truth is…we need to publicly hang a whole lot of people for treason…you can’t reform or reeducate Communists.
RFK Jr. talks climate engineering.
” Climate issue has been captured and hijacked by WEF and Bill Gates , they aggravate the problem and then sell us the solution….. and of course the solution is more social controls ”
Thanks for thinking. There doesn’t seem to be a lot of that in some of the Ungreen here.
Of course he does. Now.
Those same groups have already told us over and over Climate Change is a big part of their plan. Why not believe his original commentary, now?
So Kennedy, if elected, only enables 1/2 half of their controls. That’s much more reasonable right?
He’s a Democrat. They’re all cut off the same cloth. He comes from a long line of Philanderers. St. John the Kennedy ? St Robert…St. Teddy? You actually think a Kennedy is the answer to our Nation’s problems? John and Robert would bang anything the Secret Service held down for them all the while John would complain about having a bad back. Chappaquidick? How about the Kennedy compound in Florida where Teddy would walk around pantsless.
Fucking country is doomed
When Teddy died the price of my favorite single malt Scotch went down.
Trump, once a democrat, always a democrat. LMAO
Democrats/Republicans. two butt cheeks of the same asshole devised to divide and fool the dumb masses by the ones that own and rule the entire world. Time to wake up from your slumber!
Never trust a democrat… ANY democrat…..
Always should be the default position.
That’s how you wind up with a “nationalist Republican” who still is pushing poison syringes and blathering “Give me four more years and I will do what I said I would do my first four years.”
Ah!
So instead you wind up with with a murdering harridan communist
or a drooling houseplant both completely controlled by globalists!
Brilliant!
LOLOLLL!
I’ll stick with the default position.
JK should be getting excited as his old books are coming to life soon. Life was a lot tougher and simpler prior to the age of oil and as the sun sets on oil, we will be back to only 20% of our current energy level. Solar and Wind are unable to come up to speed to make up for the loss of fossil fuels. Being old enough to remember, my grandparents lived on the farm in the north. If they did not prepare accordingly, they would risk loss of life. I remember the farming without fertilizer, fallowing fields and rotating crops, plowing the nitrogen fixers, then growing corn the next year. Preparing all your foods from scratch, canning and storing for the winter. Small gardens growing the rest, using an outhouse, plumbing the pipes to add electricity, still retaining the wall oil lamps “just in case”. Shoveling the coal into the corner of the basement for the coal fired heater…Families worked and stayed together, otherwise it was a risk to your life or your children’s lives. Different life indeed. I think JK would agree, much of the smoke and mirrors disappear when life depends on self reliance.
If RFK was really telling the truth, and started getting some traction,
he’d be assassinated just like his dad and uncle.
I’m sure that would serve their purposes too, and maybe part of their freak plans.
Hey Admin. Any interesting local news details in your area about that truck that caught on fire and has taken down I95 for the rest of the summer? All I’ve been able to find is that it was carrying “some kind of petroleum based liquid” and that the sewers beneath the area were on fire after the mystery liquid leaked underground. Usually by now there would be information about the driver, how the “accident” happened, and calls for the responsible company to pay for all of the damages. I can’t even find out who owned the truck.
Ah, the sweet smell of assymetrical wharf-air.
Saw this over at WRSA Thought I’d link it here. FWIW.
https://westernrifleshooters.us/2023/06/12/rumint-9/
We’re not finished. They are trying hard to convince us otherwise.
As news breaks that there are some 17 recordings of Biden crimes , the distraction plays take center stage , again.
Matt Bracken
@Matt_Bracken48
Bongino says USSS has pulled off Trump’s POTUS level security and replaced them with JV. He fears Miami tomorrow is a setup.
Watch for Oswald/Ruby/Sirhan Sirhan scenario tomorrow.
Start at 6 minutes in.
But FOR SURE listen starting at 9 minutes.
Sign me up but at this point Russia seems to be the last hope for America.
Thank God Russia has weapons no one else does. As for the G-5 Russia will not surgical hyper-sonic any members in Europe. So you might as well scratch off Soros(His son) and Klaus Schwab as any type of missile launch would only solidify the NATO narrative which the regime pushes.
On the other hand a surgical hyper-sonic strike on the remaing three
Obama family(CA, MV and HI)
Gates
Clinton family
would destroy the NATO narrative and put the U.S. on notice. The U.S. response would amount to rainbow threats and beta screaming. This would be followed up with another surgicl strike for the next 5 in line.
You can tell it’s all bullshit, including Russia, because important people aren’t getting whacked or blown up on a daily basis.
Truth be told I find Kuntsler so depressing…..
I just spent Memorial Weekend at conservative Lake Havasu where families were taking pictures next to a very large Trumpy Bear that sits happily along the roadside, waving his flags and although unattended, is unmolested. Wouldn’t matter if someone did mess with him cuz the Patriots would just put up another one……My take away was this:
Although I am too old to engage in all the youthful pursuits of Memorial Day weekend party folk I did witness probably close to a billion (yes, that’s billion) dollars worth of fancy boats, trucks, jet skis, etc., etc., and it was a sight to see. No matter what you think of how people comport themselves on the Holiday and at this particular place, it certainly made me realize how caught up I was in the doom-sayer narrative.
Fast boats, big trucks, snazzy cars and young people of all stripes and shapes partying hard on a long weekend actually did my soul some good. We may be a nation in decline, as Kunstler assures us, but perhaps no one told the people out enjoying themselves they should be sad, depressed and give up their toys?
There is a Sam Adams quote for you and the young snazzy car owners. Something about chains resting lightly.
Consolidation of Power, the Great Reset Goal, Part 4 – the Eye of the Serpent
All, every one, campaign promises are like toilet paper.
Used, then flushed.
What happens when the machines -like machine tooling- do not work anymore and everyone who knows how to operate and FIX them or make replaceable parts for them is dead?
Back to the stone age!
Make sure you can vote in the democratic primaries – change registration if necessary.
If voting really mattered, they wouldn’t let us do it. (Mark Twain)
@Matt_Bracken / Gab
@realmuckraker.com
BOLO: Have you noticed “new” Chinese with little or no English training with firearms, or training at paintball or airsoft ranges? There is growing concern about the thousands of fighting-age Chinese men coming up from Panama while our traitor govt assists them in every way.
This is a sample of airsoft combatives. The weapons and weapon sights closely simulate full-auto M-4s etc. The training implications are obvious.
On climate change mentioned in a number of posts, a dated article:
EPA Proposes Phasing Out All Battery-Powered EV/HEVs by 2035
When asking a so called conservative friend who has just purchased a brand new shiny Toyota Hybrid, “I thought ya’ll don’t like electric vehicles?” … “We don’t, this is a hybrid. Gets 40MPG.”, try to explain to that so called conservative he is totally full of dung with that excuse for owning a hybrid.
I don’t think you know what a hybrid is, unless you object to batteries on general principle? I hope you’re not using a laptop then.
BS, the batteries in an EV/HEV are derived from the same processes. What’s your point, a hypocrite that owns a hybrid? “…this is a hybrid.” The resources and processes used for an EV battery many here have pointed out opposed to because of the very “environmental” impact are the same as for an HEV.
BTW, lol, I do use a laptop with a battery long ago dead. Funny, I just plug the thing into an AC wall outlet.
The major difference, hence the’40mpg,’ is that a normal engine is used, and the batteries are charged by using the vehicle, NOT by plugging into something else. So with certain usage (stop and go in cities iirc), it can make sense. The grid has nothing to do with it. It may or may not be good, but it’s not a complete boondoggle like a tesla is. I don’t know what is hypocritical about that.
If your problem is the batteries, fine. There are other choices for batteries but no companies are using them for weight reasons. But which uses more batteries?
You missed my point again. Both EV and HEV batteries…NM.
Actually while I’ll not spend 40K for a “hybrid”, at one time I thought the Prius might be a choice. I changed my mind after being informed about the batt…nm.
https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/R46420.pdf
https://komoneed.com/the-hybrid-hypocrisy/
BTW, I did not mention the hypocrisy based on a Tesla. Again, the batt…nm.
Tex
Can Kunstler remember a strange incident which started a few years ago? The whole world was locked-down, terrorised, poisoned, stripped of money and employment, denied the right to speak and lied to about everything. We watched in horror as a global system of governance and control was rolled out. Remember how your fellow citizens accepted humiliation after humiliation in the desperate hope they would be spared and be allowed to hold onto a few scraps?
Yet Kunstler tells us we are headed for simpler time with less centralised control. Complete bullshit.
The last thing these people will accept is a loss of control.
Over ? …….. did you say over ?
As predicted by many the U.S. lost against Russia and has turned it’s wrath on it’s own people. This was predicted numerous times.
Now the U.S. regime is circling back to China in a desperate attempt to garner one world unity again.
All the while the U.S. regime has gone all in on capital controls making people think Mexico is dangerous while hiding the murderfest in America.
Good luck with staying.