Guest Post by Jim Kunstler
“There is only one way to explain this shambles: Every one of these crises traces back to the Democratic Party’s obsession with taking and holding power more or less indefinitely to suit its hubristic, end-of-history “narrative” of righteous liberal triumph.” — Patrick Lawrence
That silence you hear these dog days of a wilting empire is the calm before the storm and everybody knows it. “Joe Biden’s” final desperate ploy against the menace of Donald Trump looks about on par with the Ukraine spring offensive, hardly even worth a “hey, nice try.”
So, the best they could do was to charge Mr. Trump with objecting vocally to an election that looked as rotten as Hunter’s uncapped teeth? We all saw what happened overnight November 3 and 4, 2020: what the numbers looked like in the swing precincts at midnight and the magic mathematics that swapped tens of thousands of votes over from the Trump column to the Biden column (say, whu?) … the shutdown of the Fulton County State Farm Arena due to a supposedly leaking toilet and the ensuing monkey business with rolly-bags full of ballots under the tables captured by the closed-circuit cameras… the miraculous wee-hour harvest of ballots in Milwaukee… US Postal Service truck full of completed ballots out of Bethpage, Long Island, that turned up in Philadelphia… Mark Zuckerberg’s $419-million-dollar operation using two front orgs, the Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL) and the Center for Election Innovation and Research (CEIR) to staff precinct election boards with party shills and buy votes… the thumb drives and modems in the vote-counting machines….
Special Counsel Jack Smith may find it difficult to prove that expressing an opinion about all that is some kind of crime. Meanwhile, he’s turned Mr. Trump into the poster boy for the many other aggrieved victims of a government weaponized against its own people. More than half the country sees exactly what’s going on and no amount of video footage showing “JB” and Jill holding hands on the beach is going cover for that. We are on the threshold of a king-hell national crisis.
Consider: a 27.4 drop in goods of all kinds “roaded-in” on semi-trucks to the northeast USA this summer. That’s everything from auto parts to lumber, clothing, and food. What else do you think sent the Yellow Corp trucking company, one hundred years old, spinning into sudden bankruptcy this week? Yellow won’t be bought and reorganized, either. It owes three quarters of a billion dollars in loans to the federal government (i.e., to us taxpayers) and untold pension obligations. Next, 22,000 Yellow Corp workers will hit the unemployment rolls. Yellow Corp had a special role in the supply chain: the LTL (less-than-truckload) niche, often the final journey of a product to the customer. It was also the cheapest. Whoever picks up the work — FedEx, ABF Freight? — will cost more, and so will everything you have to buy.
Behind this crumbling economy looms the fragile financial system of banks, securities markets, a wilderness of derivatives trades, and currencies. How long do you think it will take before that clockwork of debt obligations and ownerships in failing enterprises breaks down? Think: four to eight weeks, starting with when everyone comes back from the beach or the lake after Labor Day. Banks will resume failing, too, followed by bail-out efforts that will open a trapdoor under the dollar. The country will finally learn what Bidenomics means.
Money trouble tends to blot out whatever else is happening to you, so the nation may not even notice that the Ukraine war is a lost cause. Not that we actually lost it, the Ukrainians did, poor buggers. What role did it play in American life besides money laundromat for the Biden family and a convenient stash for any number of bio-weapons labs? Are you still pretending that the war we provoked there was a heroic stand for “democracy?” Will the place matter to us when Russia has to take it on as a charity? The only thing a lot of newly-broke Americans will notice is the more than $100-billion we pounded down that rat-hole, and the thought will not make them feel warm and fuzzy.
Have you noticed the clamor about a coming new pandemic virus? The catch is that it doesn’t even have to be some kind of lab-grown novelty disease this time. All it will take now to remove millions from the voter rolls is an ordinary seasonal flu, considering how many Americans are walking around with wrecked immune systems from the mRNA vaccines they lined-up for so giddily.
There will be so much going on this fall that the nation might not even notice the impeachment hearings against Mr. Biden, AG Garland, and Mr. Mayorkas of Homeland Security. The major media won’t even cover the proceedings. The only open question around all of these things —a presidential scandal, the Ukraine war, an economic train wreck, political show trials — is how much civic upheaval there might be on-the-ground across the land while all this plays out, especially if our lawless, faithless, clueless government tries to lay a climate emergency trip on everybody as a final, desperate diversion?
Oh.
Just look at that cucked faggot with the goofy beard.
Maybe the boogs will rape his wife in front of him before they slit his throat.
Gas yourself, scumbag troll.
Man, you’ve got some class. I’m from South Africa, and let me tell you, you are clueless. We in SA are not surprised, we knew what was coming; we saw it throughout the continent, invariable, inevitable collapse into barbarism under black rule. You want to know who will be surprised? You smug Yankees with your almighty dollar, your sanctions, your self-righteous anti-Apartheid rallies where the chicks were so easy – it was all good fun, but when you needed somebody to fight your imperial wars in Angola, who did you call on? Why, those mean, evil, racist White South Africans.
Now listen carefully. It’s coming to you. I speak from experience. And who knows, maybe the boogs will rape your wife in front of you before they slit your throat. Shaving your goofy beard will not save you.
Crude, but sometimes truth is.
Hit that one out of the park, eh Mag?
Dare you to say that to my face democrat !
Heres some CODE for democrats and other sub-humans.
I and MILLIONS of other real AMERICANS long for the day when the SHIT HITS THE FAN and your police protection goes away.
Personally…………….all of you PEDOPHILE democrat un-natural/anti-human MAGGOT SCUM PARASITES are in my sights.
You have put your SICK-DISGUSTING party over MY COUNTRY.
Each of you little jackoffs will pay !
Yours is not the only strange fantasy of what the world will be like after the shit hits the fan.
what a raving lunatic
Puke. Upchuck. Vomit.
Gag.
Miss Lindsay shoulda been named Janus for his two face routine ….
2 of a kind pervert crooks peds etc
takes one to know one
Deport him to Israel…
He probably has an apartment at the wall already.
Takes one to blow one.
So what’s up with the Trump-Graham connection? Hum, Trump-Graham 2024. Priceless!
Will Trump’s base go for a Trump-Graham ticket? Odds are yes.
Like I said…let the Truth out.
Grift all the time.
Says the Fag war machine investor.
There are gobs of Rinos in congress, including the leaders, McConnel, Graham, and McCarthy. Between the Senate and the House, I imagine there are over 150.
So what’s up with Trump and Graham? Why did Graham appear at a tRump rally?
‘He’s there when you need him’: Trump defends Lindsey Graham at South Carolina rally
Graham was met with resounding boos when he spoke before Trump at the event in Pickens, S.C. But when Trump took the stage later in the afternoon, the former president urged his supporters to accept Graham as an asset in his bid for reelection in 2024.
“We’re going to love him,” Trump said of Graham. “I know it’s half and half, but when I need some of those liberal votes, he’s always there to help me get them. We’ve got some pretty liberal people, but he’s good. We know the good ones.”
Hey Trump peeps, by all means accept Graham as an asset in his bid for reelection in 2024.
What? SMDH
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SMDH again.
BTW, the pic is courtesy of FOX News.
Said the democrat FAGGOT/PEDOPHILE.
Calling them Democrats is like calling the flu Covid.
It’s a way of disguising the cause, not exposing it.
There are no political solutions to this problem.
War is politics by other means.
“political solutions to this problem”-American people have allowed it to go too far. Only thing now is for the whole system to collapse. Funny Fed money is the root of all the current problems. If the government had to tax the population for all the spending there would have been a revolt long ago.
I think there won’t be a civil war- more like a free for all.
Anarchy, just what the enemies of America are working for.
Creating a “revolt” that leads to anarchy is just what they want, and it wouldn’t have worked before now, because they couldn’t count on a complete collapse, and so couldn’t count on anarchy. I pray there are still enough people opposed to anarchy.
So WHY do we keep flappin’ our lips like there actually WAS a political solution.
Seein’ the problem yet?
We’re surrounded by delusional dreamers.
Whether or not we have an actual World War remains to be seen. However, I don’t see how a figurative World War doesn’t occur in this country and the rest of the world.
Govt corruption, news, medical, economic, energy, social, climate (not by CO2 but solar, geomagnetic, etc), financial, manufacturing, supply lines, etc…are all turning into crap and coming together to create a Mad Max scenario. It’s beyond frightening when taken all in.
Ants have been preparing. The grasshoppers are f**ked at this point and are a danger to you.
I hope all the wonderful people here are putting in their final preps.
Gawd bless us all…tick tock.
The idea is to destroy the system and squeeze people so hard that they beg for change. The Reset Authoritarian system will be offered as the fix.
+1,000
+a bajillion.
Yes.
hahahaha
I’ve learned here on TBP that a cabal of Masons, Jews, and UFO commanders are controlling everything.
Don’t forget election fraud distracting you from the societal collapse.
But who will pay the federal employees’ pensions?
Fuck them.
I have positioned myself for that eventuality. Not by savvy investments, but by buying a farm.
That was the savvy investment.
Got rabbits?
Got Angus?
Rabbits – check
Chickens – check
Garden – check
Orchard – check
Lead – check
Freeze dryer – check
Cash – check
Metals – check
Resolve to end pedos, libtards, antifa fags, white trash, blue gums and anyone who threatens my family and friends – check
Let’s roll….
Backhoe?
Backhoe – check
Son in laws, but parked on my place. Have considered using it for a couple of my granddaughters boyfriends. Worthless shit heads.
Got your own water well? Ponds? Agenda 21 and I assume 30 don’t want people owning their water.
I would call it ‘giving back.’
Not to mention former presidents are entitled to a pension, staff, office expenses, medical care, health insurance, and Secret Service protection.
Please, could we remove the Vermeer paintings from DC first?
They’re probably fakes….
Get the LaFarge and Tiffany windows out please.
I doubt that but if California is substituted, it would be the sane people in Calif. and everybody else.
And yet he talks nice to the Hava Nagilah Munchkin, really makes you think.
Damn right, but outside DC, we’d grab our guns and get ready. You can have those jerkoffs, but not the heartland.
Throw in the KIKE-INFESTED NIGGERHOLE nyc and I,ll pay one of the democrat anons here to suck your dick Mr. Putin.
Man, if that’s not spot on.
What happened to the White House cocaine? Remember when that happened?
I remember the old theory of recessions being sticky wages.
Maybe, there has been an increase in productivity. Workers doing the same amount of work for 60% of their previous real wage.
I don’t see a lot of wage inflation with the vast pool of immigrants. The only thing that will bring a deep recession will be bank failures and the fear that may create. Otherwise, it will be a long drawn out grind of a diminishing standard of living for a large amount of people.
Aren’t you Miss Optimistic- I think first the crash- maybe started this week- and then the long drawn out part.
On a quiet night, you can hear Democrat’s political capital evaporating.
They don’t need political support. They count the votes.
133 million registered voters, 75 million voted for Trump 4 million voted third party, so Biden received 81 million of the of the remaining 54 million possible voters, and and that’s if the turn out was 100%, which it wasn’t.
Some votes are worth more, I heard.
Like opinions and attitudes.
Noo maff election results.
Dominyon sez: Thanks for playing.
It’s actually worse then that, out of the 133 million “registered voters” only 113 million “ACTUALLY” voted. Now do the math….
74 Million for Trump, their admitted number, 113 million Actual voters MINUS 74 million for Trump so that means biden really only got 39 million. Now you understand why you saw all that cheating from, 2000 mules, to the 3AM ballot dumps on live TV, the crazy live TV number swaps votes taken from Trumps tally and the exact amount given to biden ? this was seen/captured at least 9 times, Dominion magic math, Stopping the counting the evening of election day, we have never been told “WHO” ordered that, Just that a toilet over flowed in Ga. so they stopped counting everywhere kicked everyone out and Ruby Freeman and her friends stayed and went to work. Which she has now been caught on audio and video admitting to it all.
Also remember that every state that allowed mail in ballots, drop boxes and vote harvesting, extended voting days all kinds of election laws were changed, LAWS, in those states where that happened, all of these things were either ordered by the court, the Sec. of State for that state or the Gov. of that state.
Now basic civics, WHO makes LAW ? the state “Legislature” so in fact those states submitted fraudulent results which congress certified, the whole shit show is UN CONSTITUTIONAL, LAWS were ignored in favor of changes they were making up on the fly in state courts, by the SOS, By the Gov. The whole election is INVALID, AND everything biden has done since being installed is fraud as well, it will ALL be over turned, even his SCOTUS pick.
So, with what just happened yesterday, Trumps newest indictment, they have opened to door to discovery into the 2020 election fraud and Trumps team gets subpoena power as well, he already has the evidence, this will end up in the SCOTUS and then you’ll see the power of the greatest document ever written by man, on how a Govt. has rules and procedures they HAVE to follow them, that’s the contract.
If they don’t follow the Constitution, then it’s simply Lock N Load time.
Then the nation is already lost and we’re all pissing up the same rope from different directions, aren’t we? Just look around this board at all the (to borrow a phrase) “bitter clingers” desperately clutching the corpse of our political system! Obviously people are still deeply invested in corruption, greed and to a lesser extent, sloth. Nothing changes until THAT changes.
More pain is required, so that’s what we’ll get. God is driving this nation to despair FOR A REASON.
Kunstler is whistling past the graveyard. We all know that the Democrats stole the election. He’s right about that. However they are winning especially with the help of the controlled opposition like Mike Pence
It’s almost enough to make a person not want to Vote Republican!
Nooo! You just have to vote harder…
Yeah, lots of good choices for you on the demonocrat side. You got Pocahontas Warren, Socialist Sanders, Wammie Kamie, Peter In the Buttigieg, WhatYaGonnaDo Klobuchar, Thee Plane Beto O’Rourke, Andy Yang Yang, oh and let’s not forget, Big Swinging Mike. Let us know how that goes for ya!
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/yellow-freight-is-shutting-down-after-99-years-in-business-amid-financial-strife/ar-AA1eDPkK
How about poor management and severely undercutting other shippers in price? Yellow has had a problem with poor management for years. They blame the unions but UPS manages to make plenty of money with a union in place. It’s also a 100 yr old company. Of course they barely managed to avoid a strike because UPS does not want to share their obscene profits they have made since 2020 with the workers.
We asked our ups driver why there was a strike but he didn’t know. (Ours have always been great). They work hard but get lots of benefits. Also, just last year they got rid of a lot of drivers. Cheap? The economy?
One thing I know if ups stops it really hurts small businesses like ours and more. Somebody would like that.
Btw never use ups stores use pirate ship.
Yeah, right. Because people who are making obscene profits always shut down their businesses and deprive themselves of those profits entirely rather than share a bit with the poor victim workers.
Ass-clown.
I’m more concerned about issues that really matter. Like, the way Trump is addressed in court as ‘Mr. Trump’ or as ‘President Trump’. You know, things that really matter? /S
Niger is the Fourth Country in the Sahel to Experience an Anti-Western Coup
At 3 a.m. on July 26, 2023, the presidential guard detained President Mohamed Bazoum in Niamey, the capital of Niger. Troops, led by Brigadier General Abdourahmane Tchiani closed the country’s borders and declared a curfew…
The coup in Niger follows similar coups in Mali (August 2020 and May 2021) and Burkina Faso (January 2022 and September 2022), and Guinea (September 2021). Each of these coups was led by military officers angered by the presence of French and U.S. troops and by the permanent economic crises inflicted on their countries. This region of Africa—the Sahel—has faced a cascade of crises: the desiccation of the land due to the climate catastrophe, the rise of Islamic militancy due to the 2011 NATO war in Libya, the increase in smuggling networks to traffic weapons, humans, and drugs across the desert, the appropriation of natural resources—including uranium and gold—by Western companies that have simply not paid adequately for these riches, and the entrenchment of Western military forces through the construction of bases and the operation of these armies with impunity…
The issue of corruption hangs over Niger, a country with one of the world’s most lucrative uranium deposits. The “corruption” that is talked about in Niger is not about petty bribes by government officials, but about an entire structure—developed during French colonial rule—that prevents Niger from establishing sovereignty over its raw materials and over its development.
At the heart of the “corruption” is the so-called “joint venture” between Niger and France called Société des mines de l’Aïr (Somaïr), which owns and operates the uranium industry in the country. Strikingly, 85 percent of Somaïr is owned by France’s Atomic Energy Commission and two French companies, while only 15 percent is owned by Niger’s government. Niger produces over 5 percent of the world’s uranium, but its uranium is of a very high quality. Half of Niger’s export receipts are from sales of uranium, oil, and gold. One in three lightbulbs in France are powered by uranium from Niger, at the same time as 42 percent of the African country’s population lived below the poverty line. The people of Niger have watched their wealth slip through their fingers for decades.
Same as it always was.
“Will the place matter to us when Russia has to take it on as a charity? ”
Putin must not be looking forward to that. Perhaps freeing all those African countries thru trade deals will help cover the expense.
The only part Russia will be taking over are the ethnic Russian-speaking oblasts. The rest of 404 will become a Khazarian Somalia — an international Mafiosi hood big enough to hide bio labs, money laundries, and graveyards for obsolete military junk.
Not desperation, collapse.
Geeze Louise, work in the garden, do home maintenance, tune up the wood stove, shop for food deals because there is no inflation, help a friend.
And go to church or find one and pray that God has mercy on your scurvy ass.
No problem,I am like the bear shown here!
8th grandchild of Hunter’s?
Nope. No desperation. They have no desperation at all.
Jack Smith won’t find it difficult at all if the trial is in DC. If the government admitted their corruption and lies about Trump a DC jury would still convict. This will hardly be a fair trial or jury of Trump’s peers. It will be a jury of known Trump haters. The best Trump can hope for is a judge that follows the law and throws the whole thing out of court, but where you going to find an honest judge in DC?
Sorry, Trumps’ peers are his haters. The dumbass hired them.
It’s hard to muster up any sympathy for the guy.
Instead I appreciate that he pisses off all the right people. Now we know who they are.
Did Chris Christie just eat the Ukrainian leader?
oh sorry, I meant meat…
oh mEEt.
Oh goodie! What a crock of shit all this will be AGAIN. Didn’t this crock of shit only take place like yesterday?
Important dates in the 2024 presidential race
Oh common, besides those trivial things everything is going great.
Watching the Biden regime hang for their crimes will be a thrill for many millions of people. Not just Americans either.
…which is why it’s
NEVER GONNA HAPPEN.
Orange SOB is going to pound him in the ass federal prison and Malania
will get conjugal visits if Jim is worried about that. Moreover, I doubt that
Jim can visit Orange SOB in federal pound him in the ass prison.
Clearly, it looks like both Orange Bastard & Jim Kunstler are very worried
about undoubted prison time given that severity of the federal crimes against
the state legislature on Capital Hill in D.C..
No amount of posturing will undo the fact that Orange Criminal is going to jail.
Sorry, Jim, but your guy is going to the BIG House to do time.
:-)’
MOU
“state legislature on Capital Hill in D.C.”
– MOU
Capitol Hill (plus it is the US Congress of course not a state legislature)
Also, could you show on the dolly where the Golden Golem of Greatness touched you?
I think they’ll just kill him. No man. No problem.
Of course there’s nothing to say they couldn’t do both.
The CS, yep, Killing has never gone out of style.
Everything that the democrats are doing is a disgrace and an insult to the people of America.
As is everything the Republicans are doing.
We are a nation of cucks. It isn’t even debatable.
Trump-Lindsey Graham 2024 for $100.
I expect one of the large companies will buy some of the assets, but not the company. As the author says, no one wants to buy those burdens. That’s what comes with a Teamster-organized pension fund and all the other problems including a mismanaged company.
Somewhere north of 5 million illegals have already passed into the U.S. since Joe Biteme took office. There is not enough housing, jobs, schools, medical, or any resource available for this huge influx and there is no real plan other then population reduction to relieve any of the burden. The sanctuary city crybabies like the NY City Mayor are screaming for assistance. This is rapidly coming to a city/town near you.
We are on our own from here. Without a complete cleaning house in DC, there is no real hope left of anything getting better any time soon.
Down here in Texas we are enjoying former Texas Governor Rick Perry’s border wall keeping Americans out.
Dates back to 2009, Perry’s WALL:
May 19, 2009
WICHITA FALLS, TX—Calling it an essential step toward securing the Texas border and protecting his people’s way of life, Gov. Rick Perry announced Tuesday the completion of a 1,953-mile wall designed to keep out millions of unwanted Americans.
According to Perry, the 75-foot-high barricade running along the northern boundary is the culmination of more than 160 years of escalating tensions between Texas and the United States.
Though a protective barrier has been under consideration for decades, the Texas Legislature voted unanimously to begin construction on the project immediately following the 2008 presidential election.
“As governor, it is my responsibility to do whatever’s necessary to maintain the territorial integrity of Texas,” Perry told reporters during a press conference held inside a sniper tower overlooking Oklahoma. “If you are a Texas citizen, you shouldn’t have to worry about some American coming in here, using your goods and services, and taking away your job.”
“Let the record show I have nothing personal against Americans,” Perry added. “I just think they should stay in America, where they belong.”
The wall is comprised of six security layers: a razor-wire fence equipped with motion sensors, surveillance cameras, and guard towers; a 70-foot-wide trench with expert marksmen stationed along its perimeter; a roadway patrolled by armed vehicles equipped with synchronized electromagnetic wave gradiometers to detect Americans attempting to tunnel their way into Texas; and a second, third, and fourth fence.
The final section of the barricade, a reinforced concrete enclosure containing the city of Austin, will be finished by August 2009.
“These Americans are destroying the moral and social fabric of our state,” said Rep. Chris Turner, who added that he worries when he looks around Texas and sees people from places like Pennsylvania, Iowa, and Vermont. “The man who used to repair my truck was replaced by some mechanic who moved in here from Kansas. Lately I can’t go to the store or the bank without running into all kinds of these foreigners. This wall is the only hope we have of keeping Texas safe.”
“The truth is, Americans are just different from us,” Turner added. “We don’t even speak the same language.”
According to Texas Army National Guard Brig. Gen. Tom Alford, Americans will only be permitted to cross the border if they have immediate family living in Texas, in which case they can apply for a 90-minute monitored visitation to be held inside a checkpoint detention facility.
However, Alford stressed that any American attempting to transport barbecue sauce, beef jerky, belt buckles, or longhorn cattle back to the United States will face the death penalty.
Thus far, a majority of Texas citizens support the border wall, with nearly 8 million signing up to join a coalition of Minutemen that will guard the fence.
“These good-for-nothing Americans want to come in here and wait in the same lines as me, watch the same movies, and eat at the same restaurants,” El Paso resident and border patrol volunteer Larry Carlile told reporters. “Who do they think they are? I’d never dare waltz into America and act like I owned the place. That country’s a godforsaken hellhole, anyway.”
“Round ’em up and get ’em out,” Carlile added. “Go back to Seattle or whatever you call it.”
Joe Biden – Oligarch. Bona fide member of The Liars Club, complete liar. Supports LGBTQ agenda. Not going to jail.
Donald Trump – Autocrat/Oligarch. Bona fide member of The Liars Club, complete liar. Supports LGBTQ agenda. Entertains Log Cabin Republicans. Not going to jail.
https://banned.video/watch?id=6445599c131fc27a70fabf62
Can’t wait for the fireworks.
Read This from the above words.
“The only open question around all of these things —a presidential scandal, the Ukraine war, an economic train wreck, political show trials — is how much civic upheaval there might be on-the-ground across the land while all this plays out… ”
” and the Glory of The Lord shone ’round about them , and they were sore afraid , and the Angel said unto them fear not , for I bring you tidings of great JOY, which will be unto all people , for today unto you , this day in the city of David , a savior is born , ‘Tis CHRIST THE LORD ,…….”
On one hand , Linus is a timid child , holding his security blanket, but he is given courage , by grace, to spread the message of the Gospel. The last shall be first , and the first shall be last.