Guest Post by Jim Kunstler
“The statement that “Joe Biden wasn’t involved in Hunter Biden’s business,” is absurd in its face. Joe Biden was Hunter Biden’s business.” —Margot Cleveland
Understand: no amount of political blustering will bring this gaslit nation into daylight when there is no more money and no more credit and no feasible way to feed the blob that ate our government. The equation is simple. Our country can’t handle normal interest rates; and the value of the dollar can’t withstand more ultra-low interest rates. Someone, please, ask Congress to stop screwing that pooch over there!
Oh, and that “can” we’ve been kicking down the road turns out to be a rusty old 50-gallon drum. Somebody has stuffed America into it and is fixing to drop us overboard beyond the continental shelf off the Jersey Shore. Can that be stopped, too?
So, here at week’s end we see these two rather momentous issues juxtaposed: the battle over how to finance that blob-infested monster in DC; and the battle to expose the crimes of a real-life Manchurian Candidate president. Neither battle is going all that well for the minority of citizens who want to live in a pro-reality society. If we follow the fiscal trend, all the tax revenue we can grudge up will barely cover the annual interest on our $30+trillion debt. If we can’t boot out the brain-dead cat’s paw in the White House, then say goodbye to the rule of law and liberty with it.
The people we elect to Congress don’t want to be accountable for specifically authorizing spending on the blob’s multitudinous pet projects. So, they depend on multi-thousand-page omnibus bills nobody can ever scrutinize, and continuing resolution dodges to postpone any necessarily painful action on a budget. Therefore, a dissenting coterie in the House proposes to play hard-ball over de-funding the blob, that is, a government shutdown of unknown duration, until gaslight is replaced by sunlight. The blob itself sends out a frantic S.O.S. Don’t let these white supremacist, “far-right” MAGA nut-jobs drag us out of the comfortable warm, moist darkness we thrive in — perfect conditions for continued blob growth!
After all, these Congresspersons have their lobbyist-doners to answer to, and they’d better come up with the right answer — or else their chance of eventually retiring as multi-millionaires, like Nancy Pelosi did, might slip away. Of course, the joke would be on them (and the rest of us) if it eventually costs a million dollars for a slice of pizza when they try to cash-out. Or is there some dirty secret involved here — for instance, that the blob has also taken over whatever remained of the US economy, too. So that defunding the blob also blows a hole in that putative economy? Or maybe not. Maybe the regular economy can breathe a little again with the blob’s boot off its neck. Let’s go ahead and shut off the flow for a week or two, see what happens.
I imagine some of you took in the opening of House Oversight’s impeachment inquiry, or at least enjoyed a few choice tidbits on Web video. Chairman Comer (R-KY) tried to proceed gingerly, so as to not appear vicious, and called onstage three witnesses to establish an upright basis for the exercise. Alas, they were led by the earnest but equivocating GWU law professor Jonathan Turley, straining so hard to be above reproach that he seemed to levitate out of his seat. The Democrat minority were allowed to invite their own shill, one Michael J. Gerhardt, a law prof from North Carolina, who was there to make the gaslight flicker, and sho’nuff did.
Ranking (minority) Member Jamie Raskin immediately tried to distract the proceeding with a call to subpoena Rudy Giuliani — supposedly to impugn the process. The majority briskly tabled Raskin’s motion. The old trouper has been worked over pretty severely by a lawless DOJ the past three years, had his client correspondence stolen by the FBI, his law license suspended by a malign New York Bar Association… but don’t forget he is an experienced and resourceful federal prosecutor himself. He spent many months beating the thickets of corruption in Ukraine for then-President Trump, and certainly knows more about what went on in that grubby money laundry than practically anyone. Bring him on. I’d like to see ol’ Rudy joust with the likes of Cori Bush (D-CA) , AOC (D-NY), and Kweisi Mfume (D-MD).
The New York Times pushed the leitmotif of their narrative this morning: there’s no evidence that “Joe Biden” committed any impeachable offenses.
That wasn’t the point of Mr. Comer’s opening exercise, which did not include what are called “fact witnesses” — exactly what The New York Times pretended to not understand. The point was to open this ugly business delicately, with some decorum. It will be interesting to see how long the news media can keep pretending there’s nothing to see in the Biden family’s global business doings when a firehouse of evidence is turned on them. You can be sure the committee is sitting on some items we have not heard about.
There’s reason to be discouraged that the people we elect can bring the two great issues of the moment — the blob’s budget and the impeachment of “Joe Biden” — to satisfactory conclusions. They are arguably pseudopods of that very blob, whose very existence is being threatened now, and they have to worry about their shots at becoming multi-millionaires, too. The weeks ahead will inform us if there’s anything that can be salvaged of our federal government or whether we must make other arrangements.
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Jim wrote
“The weeks ahead will inform us if there’s anything that can be salvaged of our federal government or whether we must make other arrangements.”
Monty, I choose Door number Two, time to make other arrangements.
A slave may not leave. A free man may. Secession is a human right:
The Declaration of Independence
In Congress July 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America.
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.-That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,-That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles sand organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.-Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free People.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
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A three or four way race for the Presidency, one divided generationally, geographically and ideologically, reminds us of the last time we got a Clinton in the White House. Then as now, it was the only way a Clinton could be elected. It also reminds us of the last time we had a serious four-way race with a large party experiencing its own destruction/rebirth, in 1860.
What came after Bill Clinton’s election were small wars overseas, limits on federal spending, and saxophones. After Lincoln’s 1860 election, our divided angry nation blew up, with other countries choosing sides, and sending aid to the American combatants on both sides. If and when another such fight starts here, we will receive little sympathy from the rest of the world. Perhaps they will send bits of aid, and chat over cocktails about a world made better as we fight to the last American.
If history rhymes, and some say it does, we will have our own Gromyko in 2025. Soon after, and sooner than many think, we’ll watch our country, and also the world, decentralize in powerful ways that the angry mutterers in both parties cannot understand. Entropy comes from the Greek entropia, meaning “a turning towards transformation.” It’s coming to America – and that’s not a theory.
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Thanks. Always liked Kwiatkowski’s stuff.
I rarely agree with anyone’s “prediction” and I don’t think that the Hillary wing will get it but I agree with the timeline 100%. There is a war going on on the top and it’s Obama vs Clinton.
Obama’s stooges are leaving the WH and Clinton goes to visit Jill.
The problem is that Joe is a liability and being close to him is a kind of political suicide.
I don’t doubt that Hilary may want to run. She may even start the prep when Joe is ousted but overall I think that Obama’s (or rather his handlers) win thus and Big Mike will be crowned.
It’s because the times are a -changing fast and the Clinton faction was extremely wounded while Obamas stayed in power and build the political capital.
“It’s a NEW CAR!!! Yes, the 1981 Ford Pinto…”
Well, you can’t have that, but if you’re an american citizen you are entitled to:
A heated kidney shaped pool,
A microwave oven–don’t watch the food cook,
A dyna-gym–I’ll personally demonstrate it in the privacy of your own home,
A kingsize titanic unsinkable molly brown waterbed with polybendum,
A foolproof plan and an airtight alibi,
Real simulated indian jewelry,
A gucci shoetree,
A year’s supply of antibiotics,
A personally autographed picture of randy mantooth
And bob dylan’s new unlisted phone number,
A beautifully restored 3rd reich swizzle stick,
Rosemary’s baby,
A dream date in kneepads with paul williams,
A new matador,
A new mastadon,
A maverick,
A mustang,
A montego,
A merc montclair,
A mark iv,
A meteor,
A mercedes,
An mg,
Or a malibu,
A mort moriarty,
A maserati,
A mac truck,
A mazda,
A new monza,
Or a moped,
A winnebago–hell, a herd of winnebago’s we’re giving ’em away,
Or how about a mcculloch chainsaw,
A las vegas wedding,
A mexican divorce,
A solid gold kama sutra coffee pot,
Or a baby’s arm holding an apple?
~The Tubes
Any chainsaw other than Stihl sucks. Husqvarna may be ok. The others suck.
Auntie’s old Sears and Roebuck Craftsman 18″ bar has worked fantastic for 20 years.
What do you want from life.
That LIVE album is great.
I’ve got my first check for a total of thirteen thousand US dollars. I am so energized, this is whenever I first really acquired something. I will work much harder now and I can hardly hang tight for the following week’s installment. Go to the Home tab for more detail. I highly recommend everyone to apply.. www.Payathome7.com
Are ya ChatGPT, or ESL, Nance?
blithering idiot what ever one.
Seems to be a common there here…..
For 98% of the pop, if it ain’t on TV, it doesn’t exist.
He who controls the bully pulpit, controls this world system.
My vote is for “other arrangements.”
‘Other arrangements’ are necessary, if it’s no too late.
“The continuation of politics by other means.” That is what is meant by “other arrangements.” Prepare for it. The Senate is refusing to consider any bill containing border security or closing the border, but insists on more for Ukraine. All but around ten R Senators are globalist/communist filth. Just look at the pathetic Cocaine Mitch with his Chicom Bitch. What in the hell are they thinking?
It just occurred…they are going to stage Joey’s assassination!
It’s so obvious.
I think they will get his son first.
Joey must first change his second. kamala goes, then joe, giving door #3 the POTUS
How about F*** delicately. Drop the hammer.
“. . . Rudy Giuliani . . . The old trouper . . .”
Don’t forget that Rudy was involved in the cover-up of 9/11. He might not have known about it in advance, but he was certainly involved in the cover-up after it happened. There is no way the cover-up could have been successful without his complicity.
Legally risky:
There is no way the cover-up could have been successful without his complicity.
A rather strong assertion which strays awfully close to libel and slander.
Legally safer:
There is no way-I can find, that the cover-up could have been successful without his complicity.
Jes sain, the internet is forever…as long as it has a power supply.
It is feasable that some crazy in gov might get wild ideas about going after everyone who spoke into awareness things that had been covered over online.
Another way to insult a famous person is to use nicknames, but never their whole name.
It’s not libel or slander if it is true. And what I said about Rudy is true. But regardless of whether or not it was true, it is pretty unlikely that a prosecutor would ever come after me. I am far too small of a fish. If I had my own podcast with thousands of listeners, or I had thousands of followers on Twitter, they might want to come after me someday to set an example. But they aren’t going to come after a nobody like me.
What is true about that goon is he is or was a cross dressing fag that likes Donald Trump who happens to be ok with LGBT. Trump, LGBT for the “vote”, Log Cabin Republicans, gay as hell.
I’ll believe it when I see it.
This subject matter is just another distraction for armchair warriors to snuggle up to and feel warm and fuzzy about a potential, very low probability smack against someone in the Uniparty. No different than the Jan 6 committee hearings. All officers (Congress, Exec, DOJ, etcc) of the U.S., Inc are on-board with a uni-agenda and their second more important role is to play actors and twist, tie and lie about all things relevant. Thus many are stupified or proceed with false information.
The truth of the matter is that we are proceeding at high speed to a national disaster culminating from no rule-of-law, endless immigration of terrorists and those that hate USA, bolshevik jews in key pivotal positions of power both in big business and government, financial terrorism and fraud on a grand scale by the jew banksters, USD dying, mega-debt, clueless and complacent americans (a majority!), election stealing and many false flags (e.g., lahaina). this is all being directed by your deadly group of khazar (mongol turks) who present themselves as god chosen people who have corrupted this country and its leaders to the core. And this isn’t their first rodeo either….read up on the Bolshevik revolution or watch the film, Europa the Last Battle (used to be the Final Battle but the PTB changed the name to confuse researchers.
These impeachment hearings will result in nothingness. Just a major distraction and churn. You should be thinking about what happens when the gov shutdowns and the oct4 emerg warnings that’ll distribute on every device possible.
Stop paying attention to this drivel. its just monkey business. They’re setting the hook into you again to dragged you to irrelevancy. Wake up for gawd sakes.
“The weeks ahead will inform us if there’s anything that can be salvaged of our federal government…”
No, the weeks, months and years ahead will only present the same .gov kabuki theater that informs us that the facts don’t matter.
What has already passed determines this country’s future, not Hail Mary salvage shenanigans by congress.
Sanford and Son wouldn’t disgrace their truck by hauling our Banana Republic to the dump.
Auntie needed that.
Eventually, TPTB will feed Biden to the sharks. Biden is too mentally diminished to be able to figure this out.