Guest Post by Jim Kunstler
Neocon war is unpopular, ugly, venal. Worst of all, it is unsuccessful – meaning instead of ending in triumph and celebration, it persists as a confusing, contradictory and costly problem multiplier. …Neocons are the Dylan Mulvaneys of American politics, albeit with less sincerity and self-awareness. — Karen Kwiatkowski
The American Revolution was a long emergency, too. Try to see past the elegant uniforms, the dashing horsemen, and the beautiful, unspoiled country to imagine the darkness of uncertainty those people lived in, trying to go their own way against an implacable, distant authority. This holiday we admire the birth of that new nation, though it has aged into a monster repudiating its finest achievements: liberty and the rule of law. The DC Blob is the new distant, implacable authority, and many of us are not happy with it.
By happenstance lately, out and about, I met up with several old friends and attempted to check-in with where they stood on these matters — how are things going in our country? The phrase our country seemed to make their heads snap back a little and their eyes goggle. Their answer, uniformly, was “Trump, Trump, Trump,” issued as a sort of barking. Trump’s criminal insults to democracy must be stopped, was the drift.
My next question was: How’s “Joe Biden” doing? (They didn’t see the quote marks, and I didn’t use my fingers to signify.) “He’s doing pretty well… accomplished a lot,” they said. What’d they make of the developing bribery scandal? “Huh… the what?” Raking in all that money from foreign governments when Joe was Veep, and then after. “Oh… right-wing talking points… baseless….”
This is what my old friends think. Quite a few of them are aware that I write this blog. They don’t actually read it; they seem to just hear about it. The old community of Boomer friends thinks I’ve “gone off the deep end.” One thing these encounters taught me is how successful the censorship and propaganda campaign of the Blob has been. These were people, you understand, who came of age believing in free speech, freedom of the press, respecting civil rights, decrying political persecutions, and, most of all, being against hegemonic wars — which, back in the sixties, was called imperialism.
These days they’re all for a righteous defense against misinformation that threatens our democracy, meaning: censorship. They wouldn’t call it that, exactly. They consider it a battle against right-wing extremism, white supremacy, misogyny, homophobia, the usual bugbears. It never occurs to them that the Blob lies to them continually, remorselessly, promiscuously about everything.
They apparently believe what comes out of CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times, et cetera. They were told to go get vaxxed. They went and got vaxxed. Some are not looking too good. They don’t seem to know that the vast machinery of public health in our country has been marshalled to do them harm, that the people running that machinery were well-aware that their vaccines did not get properly tested, and the little testing that was done did not turn out very well. Those agencies lied about it and worked strenuously to prevent the duped and vaxxed-up public from learning what had been done to them.
What we’ve got, then, this Fourth of July holiday, 2023, is basically the pro-Blob Americans against the anti-Blob Americans. It’s a vicious conflict with no sign of resolution. No amount of factual disclosure — no Durham report, no fruitless Mueller report, not any number of whistleblowers, no alt news — can persuade the pro-Blobbers that their beloved Blob lies and deceives. And no degree of coercion or punishment will convince the anti-Blobbers to fall into line and just do what they’re told. I think my old friends are insane, and they think the same about me.
Everybody knows that the tension building is unendurable, that eventually things will break, and we all worry what kind of country we will have when the breaking ends. I’ll tell you what it will be: it will be a country without a Blob. The Blob thrives on money, and one of the first things to break will be our money and all the operations that generate, multiply, and move it. For years, we anti-Blobbers have been on the receiving end of punishments doled out so liberally by the Blob and its followers. Soon, all the lying, including the lying about our money, will bring on events that’ll deprive the Blob of its nourishment. It will shrink and desiccate into a fragile little nugget of residual malevolence that can be put down like a small, rabid animal.
There will be fewer of us around then, and I think you know who that will mostly be — if the Blob doesn’t do something desperately stupid and suicidal in its agonizing demise, like provoke a lobbing of nukes around the world (as it is currently threatening to do). Otherwise, those fewer of us will then inhabit a land in recovery from a long list of injuries, bad choices, and insults. We’ll know what lying sounds like and there will be a lot less of it because you will no longer be able to pretend that it’s for our own good.
Hard times will produce strong men and women with a bias toward reality, which naturally tends to comprise things that are truthful. Untruth will be consigned back to its traditional category: Evil. It will be shunned, as it should be. Nations come and go and perhaps America, as a federation of states united as one, will go. Many of the self-evident truths that were born with her will remain to be honored one way or another, in some region of this large land-mass, or another. Events await. Facing our time of dark uncertainty, we have a lot to think about this Fourth of July, a very solemn holiday.
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Leave Miss Lindsay Graham alone !
What did she ever do to you ?
“Ladybugs” Lindsay Graham?
Doesn’t Pootin have a warrant out for it’s arrest?
It is a part of the deep state, a soulless critter to be sure.
‘it’s’ is the contraction of ‘it is.’ The possessive form is ‘its.’
“If it weren’t for context, I wouldn’t get any text at all”
Lol
Grammar TseTse
Agree completely. Starve the parasites to death and watch their house of cards collapse.
“The DC Blob is the new distant, implacable authority, and many of us are not happy with it.”
-JHK
Not happy with it? Many here, at other “alt” and increasingly “normie” websites, along with whole peoples, nations, and faiths HATE the Blob and all its evil and murderous manifestations.
Uncle Schlomo came and saw and left hundred of billions of dollars in US military equipment, and infrastructure , but Deep Shekels got paid, and that’s what’s important to criminal Congress and the money laundering grift continues on in Ukraine. …smh.
This guy has the ball sof a bull elephant
“Uncle Schlomo”
Y’ mean Hunter Biden? Or Daddy?
Didn’t know they were Jewish.
Oh, well; learn something new every day!
If you really believe Pedo Joe and his degenerate son have any real power outside of their Deep Shekel handlers, you really are one stupid fuck.
I will not celebrate tomorrow. The country I used to celebrate died quite some time ago.
I am grateful for my personal life. Yes the country I live in helped with that but now that country tries to take it away on daily basis. I have made peace with my higher power and am comfortable with my eventual demise.
The coming demise of this country will not be pleasant but it is coming.
I am ready.
Well said !
Born in the 50’s and we had a great run….so theres that.
This is no longer America………..not sure what it is anymore.
And yes……..everything that lives is born to die.
‘Preseverance and spirit have worked wonders in all ages” !
George Washington Feb.1776.
Two responses:
1. “The Blob thrives on money, and one of the first things to break will be our money and all the operations that generate, multiply, and move it.”
Currency is not the only measure of wealth/power. The cattleman’s associations in the old West sometimes had ranch hands lynch sodbusters who had the temerity to fence their modest acreage. That’s power without money. They still had great influence in their fiefdoms.
2. “Otherwise, those fewer of us will then inhabit a land in recovery from a long list of injuries, bad choices, and insults. We’ll know what lying sounds like and there will be a lot less of it because you will no longer be able to pretend that it’s for our own good.
Hard times will produce strong men and women with a bias toward reality, which naturally tends to comprise things that are truthful. Untruth will be consigned back to its traditional category: Evil. It will be shunned, as it should be.”
True, if there are survivors. And if so, so what. Hard times/strong men and women are just another predictable stage in the turnings. The following generations will predictably behave as the following turnings determine.
Lather… rinse… repeat.
Not quite as black and white as pro USA = pro blob. Most of DC is blob but there are some on our side like Jim Jordan.
They all talk the talk.
Read the room and tell what ever the target constituents are, what they want to here. It’s not hard, you just need to compromise yourself, some call it, “selling your soul”.
Politics attract the worse and corrupt the best.
There is no answer and nobody can stop what’s coming.
Humans gonna’ human.
I am pining for some real results. JJ is closer to McCarthy than I like and CLOSE to the Big Tech blob. Enough of this world of Bullshit topped with horse shit. RESULTS damn it! We want results. No more phony fuques like Trey Gowdy and the others “ready to get to the bottom of things.”
People here and those we read about here have gotten to the bottom of things time and again. The work is done. THEY have to do something about it! Harrington Richardson
Jim Jordan, all mouth and NO action!
“…but there are some on our side like Jim Jordan.”
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
Yesterday, my church ran a 2-minute patriotic video before the start of the sermon. It was very nice, and it said all the patriotic stuff we’ve all heard since we had eyes to see and ears to hear. Every in the congregation stood up. I hesitated for some time because, what I was seeing was no longer America. It was America, but the America I grew up in is gone. Probably forever. I doubt many in the congregation even realize this. Cognitive dissonance and normalcy bias will not let them go down the road — that very narrow road to truth.
I no longer want to stand and pledge allegiance or put my hand over my heart. Pledge allegiance to who? Our Federal government?
Years ago a friend of mine, a libertarian, did not stand or say the pledge. At the time, I thought it was odd (I was in the beginning process of my own personal great awakening) and later I asked him why he did not stand. He explained it to me. It did not fully resonate with me then.
Regarding Kunstler and this article about the “blob”. What is really sad, and pathetic to me is, the 1st level thinking of those 50,000 (plus or minus) that went to SC to listen to the orange man. Those people get some of what is going on in this country, and the world, and they still believe that one man is going to be their savior and is going to make America great again. He spoke again about all the good he did with getting the “vaccine out” and all those wonderful ventilators he had manufactured in record time. The icing on the cake is having the effeminate Lindsey Graham at his event, a person that was booed coming, and going. It did not seem to register that their savior invited that man to his event.
Anyway, I’ll leave it there. What a friggin’ mess things are.
Pickens County, love the Upcountry but prefer Beaufort. I think this next fact is lost on “the blob”.
John C. Calhoun’s plantation was located there. His grandchildren donated it to SC.
The town renamed it in honor of their donation, using the donors last name – Clemson.
I agree. America is looking grim right now. But not as grim as Europe. When I get bored sometimes I ponder what America would be like right now if the left/deep state had not stolen the 2020 and 2022 elections. I have to believe it would be a much better place than it is now. They had to stop Trump from being elected in 2020 and they did. And, so far they have gotten away with it. My IRA misses Trump.
poordude,
here’s a hint…
they do a lot more then rig elections and own your money (at interest).
((( left/deep state )))
Elections?? Hahaaa oh brother.
“Soon, all the lying, including the lying about our money, will bring on events that’ll deprive the Blob of its nourishment. It will shrink and desiccate into a fragile little nugget of residual malevolence that can be put down like a small, rabid animal.”
Very well put. A message of hope.
Happy 4th.
I would not name Fourth of July, ‘a very solemn holiday’, unless one worships the state.
and barbeques
The Fourth of July, no matter what the state says, celebrates the Declaration of Independence.
An appropriate way to recognize the date would be to read it.
Perhaps even with some solemnity.
or mourning
When I saw the title, I thought he was talking about this….
AWD is spinning in his grave.
Sorry, DC — Too Many Americans Remember
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/07/sorry_dc__too_many_americans_remember.html
EXCERPT:
There are some souls who will simply never submit to tyranny. There are rebellious spirits who would rather spit up blood than obey. People with these qualities do not belong to any one genetic line. They cannot be ruthlessly stamped out and forgotten. They sprout up in unexpected places and from unusual family trees. Throughout history, whenever authoritarians believed they could use coercion, imprisonment, and murder to rid themselves of dissent, new generations of rebels continued to spring to life. And every time those new rebels rose, they remembered both the suffering and the courage of the past.
2024 = 1776
ha ha ha… They had to evacuate the White House and bring in the drug sniffing FBI.
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2023/07/03/wheres-hunter-white-house-evacuated-after-cocaine-found-n1707971
Where’d all the pilots go? I personally know where one is at . He’s sitting at home blinded by blood clots, and yeah , he agreed to be clot shotted, so he could work , but now he not only can’t work, but can’t see either…no word yet, if he’s going to take a booster.
“‘He said he’d fix the airlines’: Furious passengers rage at Pete Buttigieg over holiday travel flightmare as FOUR THOUSAND flights are delayed or canceled today – leaving Fourth of July plans across nation in tatters
Travel chaos continues over the Fourth of July weekend at several airports
More than 2,200 flight delayed and 500 canceled in the US by noon Sunday
The move left people outraged and stuck at airports across the nation ”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12256117/Holiday-flightmare-continues-tens-thousands-1k-flights-delayed-morning.html
Comrade Kuntsler will always be a friend of mine so he need not worry about
his old boomer buddies going AWOL on the 60s counter-culture. I’d never do that.
And we all know that Trump is a full fledged arsehole whether or not the
right-wing partisan zealots understand that or not.
Bottom line is that everytime Orange SOB runs for office I get booted off
of Zero Hedge by Comrade Tyler(s).
Happy July 4th from CANUCKISTAN, folks.
MOU
At this point in time, all I can say is I’m not afraid of death, but I sure as hell want to live long enough to outlive my enemies.
Good summary but more than a tad too much hopium, which is the usual case.
Knustler never imagines who fills the Blobs vacuum.
Things could get worse than worse.