Guest Post by Jim Kunstler
“The word misinformation literally just means being wrong, and disinformation is lying. That’s all they mean. There’s no extra meaning to them. And so, misinformation is entirely subjective. It’s literally an opinion.” — Michael Schellenberger
If you are shocked and bewildered that totalitarian tyranny creeps through our country without opposition, the reason is simple: there is no official opposition. The capture of government looks nearly complete by a party that lusts to punish its citizens for the pleasure of watching them suffer, while it steals everything they’ve worked for and forecloses their future. At least half the country objects to this. Where is a party that stands for them?
In the natural order of the American system, a Republican Party would have stepped up to check the wretched excesses of a Democratic Party bent on breaking everything that has allowed people to thrive in this land: property law, economic liberty, free speech, now even your physical health. This Labor Day Monday is the last moment in this epic political psychodrama that the Republican Party has an excuse to kick back and do nothing about the parade of insults flung in the nation’s face by persons who believe in nothing, and who will stop at nothing.
These insults lately include especially the perversion of law to harass and hinder political opponents, the prosecution of a foreign war by proxy in a corner of the world where America has no explicable national interest, the deliberate failure to defend the country’s borders against hordes of invaders, the rigging of elections with ballot fraud and hackable machines, the censorship of information of all kinds, and the weaponization of public health authority against the people. These are all campaigns carried out by the Democratic Party.
This fall season will be a dreadful time of testing whether the country can endure any more of this. Congress is back in session this week. Congress is the only place in the federal government where an opposition party has the authority to direct events. Mr. Comer who chairs the House Oversight Committee has assembled enough evidence of bribery and treason for Speaker Kevin McCarthy to commence an impeachment inquiry right away into the conduct of President “Joe Biden.”
I’ve used quotation marks around Mr. Biden’s name since he ascended magically to this office in 2021 because it is obvious that he is only pretending to run the executive branch, and has been since day one on January 20, 2021. His March 5, 2020, Super Tuesday victories, after a drubbing in the Iowa Caucuses (4th place) and New Hampshire primary (5th place), had an odor of supernatural contrivance. His campaign from “the basement” was a joke, and it’s still entirely possible, despite three years of massive gaslighting, that his victory in the 2020 election was a fraud.
I believe the reason “Joe Biden” was installed in the White House was to allow Barack Obama to run the executive branch and all its agencies in secret from his headquarters across town in the DC Kalorama district, and the reason he is allowed to do this is because the Democratic Party has committed so many crimes against the country that a tremendous effort had to be made to cover them up, or else scores of figures in high places could have been subject to investigation and prosecution, including Mr. Obama.
It’s also possible that an impeachment inquiry in the House will lead to evidence of Mr. Obama’s role in the Biden family’s bribery adventures abroad, including the participation in one way or another of high diplomatic officials under Mr. Obama such as US Ambassadors to Ukraine Jeffrey Pyatt and Marie Yovanovitch — as well as their nefarious roles in the first impeachment of Donald Trump. Expect former Secretary of State John Kerry to surface in that mix, too. His stepson, Christopher Heinz was in business for a time with Hunter Biden and Devon Archer during the Burisma caper.
You might hear a lot about the coming debt ceiling crisis again starting this week. The debt ceiling has to be raised by the end of the month or the government supposedly runs out of money to pay for all the things that government wastes our money on, from underwriting drag-queen story hours to paying the pensions of retired Ukrainian government officials. Wouldn’t that actually be a fine opportunity for some vigorous de-funding of government activities, such as the DOJ’s special prosecutor operation, Homeland Security’s censorship office, every dollar apportioned to Ukraine, the FBI’s continuing Jan 6 witch-hunt, the Department of Health and Human Services Covid-19 hoodoo, and probably a hundred other trespasses against the public’s sense of decency and good faith?
Or else, isn’t the country ripe for a new party that actually represents the interests of the country? More than a year remains before the 2024 election — if it is even allowed to happen. We can’t go on with no party opposed to the degeneration and destruction of the thing known as the USA. Take this final day-off of the summer to think about that. And think about the emblematic frozen face of Senate Minority leader Mitch McConnell, a human deer-in-the-headlights waiting to collide with an implacable force. You are that force.
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TPTB only ever get the evil genius mastermind kill all humanity stuff right.
Anything else is an endlessly bursting cornucopia of incompetence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bon_Scott
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQluGs2SFRs
The answer isn’t creating a new party hoping they’ll be the ones to rescue us.
People need to take back their country themselves and focus on self-reliance instead of putting power in the hands of any party that’ll eventually get it’s joy from torturing us.
True, we could elect a farm animal for President in 2024 and nothing would change as long as CONgress exists in it’s current form…we need a revolution.
Elect Camacho in ’24.
We already had our Camacho moment. Bathhouse Barry the Manchurian Mambo Queen of Community Organizing.
The risk of going full clown is that half plus one of Our Democracy of Hoi polloi wouldn’t notice.
Worse, they believe him to be a savior, usurped by the Orange Emperor of Hate & Triggering.
We are in the great interregnum of potato et al, there is no going back, even to Camacho II.
The tree is very thirsty.
I’ve read it several times and still laugh every time-the second sentence in the first paragraph. Full clown and Hoi Polloi are put together very nicely in paragraph two. You need to write more Dangerous Variant.
It’s what plants crave ,brawndo lol
did that in 2020.
I saw a pup fox on the road today eating something someone had thrown out of their vehicle. No harm as I recall waiting in line at the entrance to Rocky Mountain National Park up there around Estes Park , Colorado one time.
I was on the passenger side and had finished a banana throwing the peel out on the shoulder of the road entrance to RMNP, from the Estes Park side. Unbelievable the drivers in the vehicles behind me that started honking horns and not just one! Idiots! While Texans can be filthy maggots, in Texas banana peels are biodegradable as they “add” to the soil.
Do you throw dirty disposable diapers out the window also? Certain groups do.
“Ok”, not that you mentioned Trump , still, I don’t think Trump enjoys torturing people so much and debatable, he just likes to make fools of people including his own ilk he is too much into “me” to comprehend. Freaking sad does not cover it.
190,000,000 “strong” and I could be nasty what TDS really stands for.
Implacable force?
There’s nothing in history’s forecast indicating a groundswell of resistance to our national decline. Stick a fork in it.
All current indicators predict a Zionista Hava Nagila around our tombstone.
Our body politic IS the Neocon party. It has fists elbow deep in the Donkey and the Elephant. Their puppet show has a predictable curtain call. Lights out; party over.
“..and it’s still entirely possible, despite three years of massive gaslighting, that his victory in the 2020 election was a fraud.” NO it’s NOT “entirely possible”. It fucking happened, get it? That’s the kind of wishy-washy bullshit message the republican’ts use to excuse themselves from doing anything about it. There will be no free and fair elections in the USSA any more. Period… Chip
Not like people haven’t been warned, continuously
A few years ago we visited the hundred years old family cemetery up on a mesa; the inscriptions on some of the graves were hilarious-like the dude with a wife buried to each side of his grave-he’s probably still smiling from 6 feet down. None though, were as spot on as Mr. Grigsby’s inscription.
Only ONE thing can change our course.
All GOOD PEOPLE of America to realize TODAY, you and I have nothing more to LOSE.
……………………………And FIGHT LIKE HELL!
(It will never happen, collectively we are cowards).
There is an easier way. Just quit complying with anything demands. If nobody plays there is no game. Perhaps the first step is to stop funding your enemy. Stop paying all the extortion taxes they demand you pay. They’ll run out of money in a day.
If they bring violence to the table, and they will, they release all hell in retribution back onto them. Until then, don’t be baited into something stupid.
First Rule of Fight Club: Do Not Fall for the Demoralization Program
Resistance is Everything
https://elizabethnickson.substack.com/p/first-rule-of-fight-club-do-not-fall?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=30495&post_id=136651624&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email
Disobedience as self-defense.
https://www.sheldrake.org/research/morphic-resonance/introduction
Started reading your link on Morphic resonance, and Charles Darwin’s work came up. Had to stop after the first paragraph. That man has single handedly destroyed modern science with his evolution bullshit. Don’t care what else he had else to say.
“In the beginning…”
Emerson ,Lake and Palmer ….
“In the beginning…”
Bases are loaded at the bottom of the ninth inning.
How many outs?
Two out.
I don’t know if Evolution is the answer to every life form but it definitely exists and explains a lot whereas Genesis is definitely not science or 100% valid. A good Scientist wouldn’t call Genesis total BS like you call the good Science of Evolution BS. Science is being destroyed by paid leftist on purpose.
They will “never” run out of money as long as they can just print all they want. Look at Zimbabwe. We are heading there fast. Get your wheelbarrows ready for a trip to the store for a loaf of bread. They have a plan for that too. Digital currency and a “MARK” (chip)
They may not “run out” but no one will take their Trillion Zimbuck fiat for payment, and absolutely no foreign entity will accept it for balance of trade or other payment, so in effect it will run out.
Got to question this. What leads you to think it?
I don’t see any serious pushback for past violence, so why would you think it would happen in the future?
I’m getting a bit old to climb walls. You have my support though. gopherit.
I’ll be trapping those little bastards about another month totally in control. Little bastards. The place use to look like a WWI and II land mine field.
This is where politics (which I gave up on 40 years ago) may provide a valuable catalyst for real change. A Kennedy/Ramaswamy breakaway candidacy would perhaps cause the globalists to crash the entire decrypt democracy scam. What then follows will be unpleasant but necessary. From the ashes, a new day will dawn.
Voting doesn’t matter, the narrative does.
because if our hopem story times are better the people will vote for the lessor evil ones.
None more deluded than political story time believers.
Apparently, you missed my point. It’s not at all about voting, which is hopeless. It’s about a tipping point, however created, that comes from enough people realizing that democracy is a con. There’s no ‘hopium’ about that. We’re going to go through a miserable time like a drug addict in cold turkey. My ‘hopium’ is that it happens soon. Let’s get the revolution started.
I guess I don’t get your point on the effectiveness of participating in ANY of the political story time messaging. Whether its booby jr, tRump, deSanta etc, they are ALL offered up ‘solutions’ for those participating in the game. Its all BS and even acknowledging them is the same as giving credence to the system.
Where we agree is that there is likely a messy revolution of sorts that will take place, sooner would be better than later. IMO, going along with the party hopeful dream teams narratives etc, is only prolonging the inevitable.
My position has been all along, let’m burn it to the ground, because they will.
When the enemy is in the process of destroying himself, don’t interrupt.
We have to fight and maybe less burns to the ground. I believe Sun Tzu said an evil man will let a place burn to the ground if he can rule over the ashes. The story line of things like “Atlas Shrugged”illustrate that point realistically.
CC, no pun, gopherit. There are 190,000,000 that will give up that government check. So Trump may be Selected and the 190,000,000 with say YAY!
Sponges on the left of me
Sponges on the right
The nature of the beast
(No Mises or anything, ok?)
Voting only matters, when it is backed by the threat of violence. Freedom and sovereignty is for the brave, not the cowards… Government is only responsible, when it fears the people…
That’s not really satire. That is in fact the actual thought process of most people on the right, including apparently Trump himself.
Delusional? Grasping for straws? Trump peeps?
That sounds very Masonic. No thanks.
Kennedy and somebody, not WEF Vivek.
…ALL 57 states?
Big Mike will waltz in. Barry will be appointed Bathhouse Czar and will be busy with his inspection program. Big Mike will be quite pleased never to see the c-sucker again.
Party like it’s 3,999-BCE!
●Beer and Taxes
The priest-kings set up an early system of taxation to feed their workers. Every family living within the protection of the city had to contribute a part of what they grew to the temple. The temple would then use what they’d earned to feed their priests, their craftsmen, and their traders.
Beer was usually how people were paid. In Sumer, beer wasn’t just a way to get a drunk. It was as thick as a milkshake and loaded with nutrients. More often than not, it would be served as the main course of a meal. That it got you drunk was just an added bonus.
The oldest depiction of beer-drinking shows people sipping from a communal vessel through reed straws. ( Brauerstern)
The other way the temple would tax you was to call you in to work on public building projects. People would be called out of their homes and forced to spend a few months upgrading the temple or building new city walls. And soon, through the power of conscripted labor, these cities became the safest places on earth.
●Life Inside and Outside the City Walls
The city walls served two purposes. Ostensibly, they were a way to keep the people safe. They protected them against the neighboring cities, where warlords were starting to wrestle power from the priests and invade their neighbors. But in practice, they also served a second purpose. They made a thick, clay wall that divided the rich from the poor .
https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-important-events/life-sumer-sumerian-history-civilization-0010079
“Or else, isn’t the country ripe for a new party that actually represents the interests of the country?”
PM? Better odds of inventing/discovering the secret to Perpetual Motion
Yep. New party. Ok, tried that, been there , done that.
The old proverbial “waste your vote”, “doesn’t stand a chance”. I suppose truth in those. I “wonder” why? However , while “voting” obviously means nothing anymore , to “vote” inside the box is only continued support of the two party dupe.
The Hanging Party ?
A uni party of crooks that has to vote for term limits on themselves? Maybe an active and ongoing campaign where people threaten to hang them all is in order. maybe that would grab their attention and get some change.
“Or else, isn’t the country ripe for a new party that actually represents the interests of the country?”
The country has been ready for at least two new parties for a long time. The uni-party Democrats and Republicans haven’t represented anything other than their own interests, and the interests of a few special interest groups, for many decades. But we aren’t going to get any new parties. The uni-party has a complete lock on politics at all levels, especially at the federal level. They have completely brainwashed the sheeple to think they are wasting their votes if they vote for any third-party candidates. Of course, now that they have perfected election fraud it wouldn’t matter even if significant numbers of people did vote for third-party candidates, because the uni-party would still “win”. But it might have made a difference if the sheeple had started voting for third-party candidates several decades ago.
Still, my play. Hoping the rest catch on.
I notice “tRump” and “Trump” mentioned in the comments as well as Kunstler mentioning “Trump” in the article. I don’t think people can argue that many parents are concerned about what their kids are being introduced to in public schools and who knows the reality a number of perverted teachers in the private schools as well, said Christian schools or simply “private”.
I have a question for Kunstler seeing as how many folks are concerned with “woke”, drag queens, transgenders , queers, gays, lesbians , bisexuals , fags etc. etc. having influences on how youth develop their world views and crazy ideas about altering their genders. My question, has Kunstler , seeing as he seems supportive of Mr. Trump, EVER pointed out Mr. Trump and wife Melania hosted a Log Cabin Republican LGBT Gala at Mar-a-Lago in November 2021? Perhaps so but I have serious doubts Kunstler ever mentioned the event.
Does Mr. Trump get another “pass”? I’m guessing his followers are giving a pass on the jab and lockdowns that began around March 10, 2021 as well. So what is it Trump followers , concern yourself that your kids or grandkids are being taught faggotry in the schools and you “complain” and talk about it yet sell your soul to this man who obviously is not in objection? Wait, I suppose he will gaslight the LGBT subject like he has done recently with masking and jab mandates talk and flip on the LGBT subject as he often does other subjects. Has he reversed on the subject of eminent domain for private gain? I have doubts on that yet no doubts if he thought his followers had actually opened their eyes to his support of such he would flip that too.
As far as I’m concerned accommodating events that represent the gay movements is as bad as having a tranny teacher tell students it’s “ok” to be the gender one desires if the the gender given by God is not suitable. Chances are Kunstler and Mr. Trump followers will remain in total denial about November 2021 at Mar-a-Lago. November 2021 is not a first either these Trump people have shown support for LGBT, the “T” representing transgender of course. Melania, Jared and Ivanka Kushner and Mr. Trump himself have long had affections for LGBT.
Incidentally, how comical speaking with a devout Mr. Trump fan I asked if he thought the 2016 (S)election was legitimate and not “rigged” reminding him Mr. Trump had mentioned long ago “elections are rigged”. Laud help US “of course it was legitimate” the man said. He went on to explain that the “vote” count was totally correct and that Republican “voters” came out in force to assure there would be no Hillary. I believe Hillary herself is gone as far as any future political office but of course her mouth will be in diarrhea mode just as Mr. Trumps. “We showed them”, the man told me.
Trump again huh. Show on your body where the bad man touched you.
Ignore Mr, “FUD” the troll.
You know what TDS stands for, right? Do I have to be vulgar about it? If you wish let me know.
Fuck off troll.
Now children…
Gay pride much?
BP needs to start charging a monthly fee. A sliding scale – that increases with your downvotes.
I don’t know for sure that the 2016 election was rigged, but it was rigged if that was necessary to get a Trump “win”, because he was the preferred candidate of TPTB in 2016. The elections aren’t necessarily rigged if the preferred candidate will win an honest election, but if the preferred candidate will lose an honest election then the elections are definitely rigged. But I suspect the 2016 election was rigged because I think Trump would have lost an honest election. (Incidentally, candidates aren’t even allowed to make it to a general election unless they are acceptable to TPTB, so that if the preferred candidate loses for some reason the winner will still be someone who is acceptable to them. TPTB would have been able to work with a Hillary win in 2016, but it would have set back their scamdemic plans by at least a year.)
I’ve not heard anyone explain “it” better. ok/s ( but not really)
Convince the 190,000,000 his was not “rigged” then prove it and I’ll buy you a biscuit and gravy meal at Whataburger, any chain in East Texas or Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. I’m getting to where I don’t prefer longer drives though.
Trump said it and when Trump says it people better believe it, “elections are rigged”. This is a “leader”? How about a total “cry baby”. Reality , the flawed human condition.
This guy is better suited for a straight jacket, a psycho…gaslighting what he did to the country, lockdowns, masking, jabs saved millions. Laud have mercy on US.
Half the country has their thumb up their ass and even the ones that see what’s happening are too weak and self centered to stand against it. Most of the citizens only care about making money, taking trips and posting on FB.
The citizens made their bed.
The ones who are too self centered were taught that way. This did not happen overnight.
a new party? Auntie will consider this a challenge.
“What difference does it make now?”
Biden isn’t in charge, nor is Butt Pirate Obama, Biden’s jewish cabinet is.
Trump was no different.
All jewish historical claims are lies.
All jewish influence is negative.
All jews are Israel-Firsters and America-Lasters.
All jews are anti-White by birth.
The Chou Bai Din cabinet being all Hebra1c is strictly a cohencidence.
Obviously “our government” is f’d up regardless. It’s the WHOLE THING including the brat from Queens. Thank you.
Revolt. Uh, bugs, well, stand in line with a mask or eat bugs. Trump, WEF, no way Jose!
“You are that force”. Please allow me to correct you, “You could be that force”. At present we have the government that we have allowed and we will continue to have until “that force” makes itself felt.
One of the things we can do is stop using the socialists’ lexicon.
It is the Democrat party, not the Democratic party. There is nothing democratic about the Democrat party.
There is no such thing as a transsexual. There is a mental disorder that allows the affected person to think they can be a different sex, but we should choose to call it what it is, a mental disorder. They are not transsexuals, they are mentally ill persons.
There are no “elites” running the country or anything else. There are power hungry narcissists trying to corrupt everything and seize all power, wealth and resources for themselves. They are not elite. They are a minority of mentally ill people (Beginning to see the pattern here).
Remember the old anti-drug slogan, “Just Say No”?. Time that we American Citizens use that phrase every time the mentally ill want us to do something.
No. Two letters. Short word. Potentially big impact.
I will not comply.
I want someone in the highest office of this country supposedly that is ok with LGBT. Needless to say, ok/s.
Laugh of the day: President Sniffer claiming that Bad Man Orange never built anything.
Let that one sink in.
Of course, Sniffer can take credit for building one of the most corrupt countries of all time-and in record time. We suppose that’s worth something to someone.
Link? Honestly I’d like to read. FJB, FDT.
At least there is a name? LMAO…I’m game for the link game. lol
Politics won’t save us!
Keep in mind that politics is DOWNSTREAM from culture – it’s the output from the alimentary canal of our national life and society – shall I say ‘shoveling manure’?
Whoever controls our CULTURE…controls everything else…..it’s a spiritual battle and our churchians lost it long ago. In fact, probably most of them are literally servants of DaSynagogue of Satan! Just judging by their fruits!
Don’t think so?
Read – https://crushlimbraw.blogspot.com/2023/08/deception-is-not-exception-in-this.html?m=0 – deception is not an exception in this world…..it is DaRule!
If you study American history along with that of Western Civilization, it is crystal clear that its success and failures coincide with those of Christianity vs. Churchianity…….all under the radar of our civilization’s attention, depending on which is dominant at any time.
Remember how you get the attention of a mule? A two by four between DaEyes!
We DaMule…..and it’s coming!
THE SPIRITUAL FOUNTAINHEAD
Flowing Downstream…
The Culture
The Politics
The Economics
Wow…Why I hang here…everyone above had me hanging onto and thinking about their interactions and opinions…CARRY ON!!!
This is my opinion, regardless so called known “political party”, the two party dupe, the LP, the Greens, the ones people might recognize, all four are full of gays. Yep, this country is gay. Good grief, Bud Light!?
Links please if in disagreement debating a case why the country is not gay. I’m always open for discussion.
If you are shocked and bewildered
Not for a long time Jim. I grew out of “it” or “it” grew out of me.
The criminal culture of corruption in our Government and the loser/thug culture pushed by the music and entertainment industry appeal to many lower-class folks with no morals or values and the state of the country is the result. Just watch YouTube shorts and listen to the way everyone talks and the language used. It’s depressing for me. I am thankful I live in a small and slightly religious town with somewhat normal people.