Party, Party !

Guest Post by Jim Kunstler

Of course, you already sense that the 2024 election will be a freaky event, if it happens at all. If it’s not America’s last election altogether, it may be the last one that follows the traditional format that has signified stability in our country’s high tide as a great power: that is, a contest between Republicans and Democrats. Both parties are likely to crash and burn in the year ahead, along with a whole lot of other things on the tottering scaffold of normal life.

Have you lost count yet of the number of things in our country that are broken? The justice system. Public safety. Education. Medicine. Money. Transportation. Housing. The food supply. The border. The News business. The arts. Our relations with other countries. That’s just the big institutional stuff.  At the personal scale its an overwhelming plunge in living standards, loss of incomes, careers, chattels, liberties. . .  poor health (especially mental health). . . and failing confidence in any plausible future.

The reasons behind all that failure and loss are pretty straightforward. The business model for operating a high-tech industrial economy is broken. That includes especially the business model for affordable energy: oil, gas, nuclear, and the electric grid that runs on all that. We opted out of an economy that produced things of real value. We replaced that with a financial matrix of banking fakery. That racket made a very few people supernaturally wealthy while incrementally dissolving the middle-class. We destroyed local and regional business and scaled up what was left into super-giant predatory companies that can no longer maintain their supply chains. Fragility everywhere in everything.

Bad choices all along the way, you could say, but perhaps an inexorable process of nature. Things are born, they grow, they peak, they decline, they die. The difference this time is the scale of everything we do is so enormous that the wreckage is also epic. It’s happening in Western Civ at the moment, led by its biggest nation state, us, the USA, but it will eventually go global, spread to the BRICs and the many countries that will never actually “develop.”

I started writing about the fiasco of suburbia decades ago, and now the endgame of that living arrangement is in view. The dissolving middle class has gotten priced-out of motoring. Motoring is the basis of the suburban living arrangement. No motoring, no suburbia. It’s that simple. There was widespread belief among idealistic reformers that suburbia could just be “retrofitted” for “smarter” daily life, but that dream is over. The capital (money) is not there to fix it, and there’s no prospect that we’ll somehow come up with it as far ahead as we can see.

So far, the collapse of suburbia has happened in slow motion, but the pace is quickening now and it’ll get supercharged when the bond markets go down, as they must, considering the country’s catastrophic fiscal circumstances. That will produce exactly the zombie apocalypse telegraphed in all those movies and TV series over recent years: normality overrun by demonic hungry ghosts. Every day in suburbia will be Halloween, and not in a fun way.

All this is apprehended to some degree by the increasingly frightened public, though they have a hard time articulating it within any of the popular frameworks presented by politics, religion, or what appears lately to be extremely corrupt science. The people see what’s coming but they can’t make sense of it, and the stress makes a great many of them insane. Without a way to construct a coherent view of reality, or tell the difference between what’s real and what’s not, they behave accordingly: anything goes and nothing matters.

In the face of all this the two big political parties are helpless and clueless. The Democrats have made themselves into a giant feedback loop amplifying the poor mental health of their constituents. They are in CrazyLand, where there are no boundaries anymore, and to insist that there should be is an affront that gets you cancelled. They are in upside-down inside-out world. Hillary Clinton demonstrated this perfectly the other day on ABC’s The View when she accused her party’s opponents of trying to “do away with elections, trying to do away with the opposition, and do away with a free press….” It’s hard to imagine a more impressive lack of self-awareness.

And, of course, they are the party of “Joe Biden,” the moneygrubbing ghoul pretending to be president and pretending to run for another term — with hard evidence of his crimes publicly unspooling day by day now. The Democratic Party will not survive after an election that he runs in, and there is plenty of reason to believe that his regime might cancel or postpone the election on account of some contrived “emergency.”

The Republican Party is also badly splintered. Forces in the party are trying like hell to dissociate from Donald Trump, despite his clear domination in the polling. And another faction led informally by Rep. Matt Gaetz and new speaker Mike Johnson is in active rebellion against the GOP blob cabal around deposed speaker Kevin McCarthy, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, and the evanescent uber-fool, Mitt Romney.

You may have seen candidate Vivek Ramaswamy go after Republican Party chair Ronna McDaniel (Mitt’s niece) in this week’s debate, a pretty savage attack, but well-earned. Ms. McDaniel has a unique libido for losing elections. She has especially helped deploy money from the GOP campaign war chest against candidates in her own party. The perfidy is quite out of this world. And it looks like the Matt Gaetz / Mike Johnson faction is good and goddam sick of it, too.

The net result of all this internal strife is a party that can’t function as an opposition to the Democratic Party of Chaos. So, chaos reigns for now. Chaos at the border. Chaos in foreign wars. Chaos in government finance. Chaos in the streets and the stores. Chaos in the school curricula. Chaos in the kids’ minds. Chaos in the household. Chaos in the supply chains. You can expect the chaos to really amp up when the financial markets blow and every household mired in debt faces its own margin call — along with every business in America.

Meanwhile, Mr. Trump slogs through an Okeefenokee Swamp of tribulations laid before him like the supernatural character he is. If he gets to the nomination despite it all, and happens to win the election, if there is one, every reptile and rodent will get bum-rushed out of the party and it will be transformed into something new. If not, the brand is finished and many in it will be looking to start a completely different brand.

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Anonymous
Anonymous
November 10, 2023 10:08 am

“Election” (wink)

foot in the forest
foot in the forest
  Anonymous
November 10, 2023 7:26 pm

“Fair”[nod}

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Anonymous
November 11, 2023 8:45 am

(((“a financial matrix of banking fakery”)))

Saxons Wrath
Saxons Wrath
  Anonymous
November 11, 2023 9:16 am

You misspelled “Selection”…

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Saxons Wrath
November 11, 2023 3:15 pm

You misspelled: “pre~selection”

Todd Packer's Mentor
Todd Packer's Mentor
November 10, 2023 10:08 am

“So, chaos reigns for now. Chaos at the border. Chaos in foreign wars. Chaos in government finance. Chaos in the streets and the stores. Chaos in the school curricula. Chaos in the kids’ minds. Chaos in the household. Chaos in the supply chains. You can expect the chaos to really amp up when the financial markets blow and every household mired in debt faces its own margin call — along with every business in America.”
Tikkun olam at work.
Did this fucking guy do a follow up to his “Jews have fucked up America for all time” article?

Tex
Tex
  Todd Packer's Mentor
November 10, 2023 4:29 pm

It’s frightening how KAOS is so rampant like being on steroids! It’s everywhere. It’s in The State of Israel, everywhere. Where is Maxwell Smart and CONTROL when needed?

kfg
kfg
  Tex
November 11, 2023 6:16 am

Trapped in the Cone of Silence.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  kfg
November 11, 2023 3:15 pm

Not the craw, The Craw!

zappalives
zappalives
November 10, 2023 10:11 am

It takes a village to do all those killings on the HAGS face.

Billy the Kid
Billy the Kid
  zappalives
November 10, 2023 1:11 pm

Alot of money and foolish dangerous mentally ill killers that people like her and Bill are very good at convincing to do their dirty work.

Glock-N-Load
Glock-N-Load
November 10, 2023 10:12 am

Purely corrupted government.

piearesquared
piearesquared
November 10, 2023 10:21 am

“If he gets to the nomination despite it all, and happens to win the election, if there is one, every reptile and rodent will get bum-rushed out of the party and it will be transformed into something new.”

Trump will get the nomination, and he will win the election, but every reptile and rodent will not get bum-rushed out of the party. He will continue to fill up the swamp with more swamp creatures, just as he did in his first term. Or actually I should say his handlers will continue to fill up the swamp with more swamp creatures. Trump is just a puppet, as are most presidents.

Wishful Thinking. Otherwise
Wishful Thinking. Otherwise
  piearesquared
November 10, 2023 12:18 pm

“as are most ALL presidents.”

FIFY

ray
ray
  piearesquared
November 10, 2023 12:40 pm

Donald Trump cannot even stand up to his own princess daughter and tell her ‘no’. But he’s gonna clean house? lol

The Central Scrutinizer
The Central Scrutinizer
  ray
November 11, 2023 4:15 am

excellent observation!

Saxons Wrath
Saxons Wrath
  ray
November 11, 2023 5:02 pm

My
Ass
Got
Arrested…

MAGA defined properly…

Nelson Muntz
Nelson Muntz
  piearesquared
November 10, 2023 3:53 pm

Yay! another four years of Jared Kushner “leading the USA”! Trust the Plan!

Tex
Tex
  Nelson Muntz
November 10, 2023 4:40 pm

The embassy will be moving from Jerusalem to D.C. as a front for appeasing the duped while the masterminds will be in their bunkers at Mar-a-Lago entertaining gays from the US and The State of Israel. Gay ole times ahead folks. Robert Jeffress of First Baptist Dallas will be one of the keynote speakers at $10,000 per plate “fund raisers” at Mar-a-Lago while Paula White once again Trump’s religious advisor, encourages those watching her evangelical TV presentations to send $1000 to Mar-a-Lago in order to be “saved”.

Bill
Bill
  Tex
November 10, 2023 9:27 pm

Joel might get pissed if that happens.

Arnalo
Arnalo
  Nelson Muntz
November 10, 2023 9:26 pm

Time to see if Jared will sell me a franchise to peddle those funny caps they wear.

The Central Scrutinizer
The Central Scrutinizer
  Nelson Muntz
November 11, 2023 4:16 am

We’re fooked. ” ha ha”

Diogenes' Dung
Diogenes' Dung
November 10, 2023 10:32 am

A completely new ‘American’ brand?

Under what sun?

Sam ‘ole, same ‘ole, is all we’re gonna get, renamed by the Woke Marketing Department to fool most of the people all the time.

Reaching escape velocity from this country’s political insanity isn’t possible for a polity that caters to purple-haired lard-asses who parrot whatever lies show up on their phone’s newsfeed.

We’ll get the government we deserve, under a Pol Pot figurehead sporting a swastika lapel pin.

KJ
KJ
  Diogenes' Dung
November 10, 2023 12:41 pm

Rainbow lapel pin.

poordude
poordude
November 10, 2023 10:40 am

I keep seeing people claim the Ukraine government is corrupt. Maybe they are. But the American government is unbelievably corrupt. It is right in front of our faces every day now.

"Maybe they are" 🤣
"Maybe they are" 🤣
  poordude
November 10, 2023 12:30 pm

“I keep seeing people claim the Ukraine government is corrupt”

Thank You so much! Have NOT laughed that hard in QUITE some time!

Simplecarpenter
Simplecarpenter
  "Maybe they are" 🤣
November 11, 2023 2:35 am

But are they in fact more corrupt than the US Federal Government ?

" more corrupt than the US Federal Government ?"
" more corrupt than the US Federal Government ?"
  Simplecarpenter
November 11, 2023 3:19 pm

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Simplecarpenter
Simplecarpenter

Zack Lee …well Hungary aint lookin too bad so almost, and I saw a video of a polish leader sayin ” not only no but hell no we aint gonna overrun our country with a buncha people who’s religion / worldview is exactly antithetical to the founding principles of his country and he was quite unapologetic about it so ?

Harrington Richardson: Call Him "Weimar Joe"
Harrington Richardson: Call Him "Weimar Joe"
  poordude
November 10, 2023 1:06 pm

I’m in Illinois which is rated the #2 most corrupt state. The crap going on in DC and with Biden et al makes anything that happens here look like tiddly winks. I guess the difference is that when political crooks get caught in Illinois they actually get prosecuted.
I am thinking the hand off of city government from Congress to the local incompetents may have provided the perfect environment for corruption to be hard to prosecute. If Congress were again the city council of DC it would be pretty hard to dodge responsibility.

ILuvCO2
ILuvCO2
November 10, 2023 10:44 am

“Motoring is the basis of the suburban living arrangement. No motoring, no suburbia. It’s that simple.”

No motoring my ass. That is not what is going to get folks into your 15 minute cities Jim. I’ll take rural for the win.

Trapped in Portlandia
Trapped in Portlandia
  ILuvCO2
November 10, 2023 1:01 pm

Now, now, now, Mr. CO2, let’s not bad mouth the 15-minute city concept. Here in my fine town it is working well. The tent dwellers, who make up the majority of downtown residents have everything within a 15-minute stroll from their humble abodes. Their fentanyl dealer is 5-minutes away, the free lunches and dinners offered by various Progressive non-profits are no more than a 10-minute walk. If they happen to overdose, the cops will bring the Narcan within minutes. If they are cold they can get blankets and sweatshirts from another non-profit nearby. Our new downtown residents even have a daycare facility where they can go to recreate, get a shower, and slump down on some couches to enjoy TV.

I just can’t understand how you can think rural living beats this.

Nelson Muntz
Nelson Muntz
  ILuvCO2
November 10, 2023 3:55 pm

Might be a good time to invest in a horse, donkey or burro.

Tex
Tex
  Nelson Muntz
November 10, 2023 8:50 pm

I seriously considered a horse and wagon. Problem is I cannot take on another mouth to feed. It’s only 11 miles to wal marts but who knows BLM may burn that down plus will wal marts still be able to stock crap processed foods? Will wal marts bring the goods in with horse and wagon? And 11 miles in a wagon when SHTF, no telling what neighbors can be trusted then. Could be like the old movies where people hijacked others returning from the general store if there is one with the provisions, the outlaw types. As far as possibly being able to go somewhere horse and wagon makes sense but how “safe”.

Lots to think about , what if?

The Central Scrutinizer
The Central Scrutinizer
  Tex
November 11, 2023 4:22 am

11 miles on horse and wagon? I PROMISE you you’ll find out what sort of neighbors you have before your first round trip is complete. Your horse will be found in their cook pots and your scalp upon their lodge poles.

welcome to fucking 1883!

Tex
Tex
  The Central Scrutinizer
November 11, 2023 10:32 am

Why I’m scrapping the idea and perhaps trying to make it like Clint.

anon a moos
anon a moos
  Tex
November 11, 2023 10:44 am

get a minigun, problem solved.

eckbach
eckbach
  Tex
November 11, 2023 6:49 pm

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Wanksy
Wanksy
November 10, 2023 11:11 am

The entire point of all this was to lead the people waaaay out on a branch, then cut off the branch.

The new branch speaks Spanish.

Bill
Bill
  Wanksy
November 10, 2023 9:30 pm

and arabic.

Aunt Acid
Aunt Acid
  Bill
November 11, 2023 8:49 pm

and Haitian Creole. Plus FJB.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Aunt Acid
November 11, 2023 9:49 pm

And FJB to you also!

NtroP
NtroP
November 10, 2023 11:13 am

Classic Kunstler, always with a little bit of hopium near the end. I don’t give a flying fuck if he’s a Jew, or that he used to be a libtard. I look forward to his missives every Friday and Monday, and get more truth there twice a week than you would on CNN or MSNBC in two fuckin’ years!

Lee Harvey Griswald
Lee Harvey Griswald
  NtroP
November 10, 2023 11:47 am

“…get more truth there twice a week than you would on CNN or MSNBC in two fuckin’ years!”

That’s a pretty low bar, but yeah Kuntsler has come around almost a 180 from his previous self.

KJ
KJ
  Lee Harvey Griswald
November 10, 2023 12:42 pm

Once a jew, always a jew.

Tex
Tex
  KJ
November 10, 2023 8:52 pm

Yep, once a democrat , always a democrat. Wish TrumpToads would let that sink in.

eckbach
eckbach
  Tex
November 11, 2023 6:54 pm

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Anonymous
Anonymous
  KJ
November 11, 2023 9:49 pm

Once an inbred cracker…

flash
flash
  Lee Harvey Griswald
November 10, 2023 12:49 pm

A jester plays to his market, bruh… anything else is ‘tarded .

Bill
Bill
  Lee Harvey Griswald
November 10, 2023 9:31 pm

What happened? Did he get a real day job?

Nelson Muntz
Nelson Muntz
  NtroP
November 10, 2023 3:58 pm

JHK goes astray from time to time, like in his last few posts, but he seems to be attuned to feedback that is directed his way. I’m glad to see him back to making sense again.

Anonymous
Anonymous
November 10, 2023 11:18 am

“Have you lost count yet of the number of things in our country that are broken?”

…and the evanescent uber-fool, Mitt Romney.

Broken.

Evanescence

“Wake Me Up! Save Me From the Nothing We’ve Become”

“There’s just too much that time cannot erase…”

Great Selections, Thank You!
Great Selections, Thank You!
  Anonymous
November 10, 2023 12:36 pm

“…and the evanescent uber-fool, Mitt Romney.”

Bill
Bill
  Great Selections, Thank You!
November 10, 2023 9:34 pm

Truth be told, his dog still likes him. At least at kibble time.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Administrator
November 10, 2023 12:19 pm

This ^^^
-The NYPD got ahold of Weiner’s laptop.
A number of their personnel supposedly found a file labeled INSURANCE,
which Anthony labeled a video reportedly showing Hill and Huma doing some
viciously sick things to a young female child. In all likelihood on Jeffrey’s island.
Without going into detail, it basically exposes the child sacrifice and adrenochrome
conspiracy theories as yes, horrific truths that were to be kept silenced and hidden, at all costs, from anyone who didn’t participate in the reported rituals. The Club.
The effect: Something like 9 detectives from the NYPD committed suicide when this broke about 3 years ago, give or take. Also heard was the content is so upsetting it left many witnesses in the NYPD unable to sleep at night.
So, one question is, did they really off themselves, upset about the video, and frustrated at being stonewalled from prosecuting the guilty parties, where nobody would ever be held accountable?
Or, were all witnesses of the video put on a list, where they were Arkancided?

Joey Jo Jo Shabadoo
Joey Jo Jo Shabadoo
  Anonymous
November 10, 2023 6:53 pm

I will take Arkancided for $200, Alex.

cz
cz
  Administrator
November 10, 2023 12:24 pm

hope someone finds it/posts it.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  cz
November 10, 2023 1:43 pm

Know what ya mean, but then again, hopefully no one has it:

@ 3:50
.

Bill
Bill
  cz
November 10, 2023 9:36 pm

Where the hell’s Elon when we need him?

mark
mark
  Bill
November 11, 2023 11:12 am

Here he is Bill:

ELON MUSK Wears Halloween Costume Called ‘The Devil’s Champion’ Complete With An Upside-Down Christian Cross In The Head Of Baphomet

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https://www.nowtheendbegins.com/elon-musk-twitter-devils-champion-halloween-costume-upside-down-cross-baphomet-neuralink/

Freemason Satanist Technocrat Elon Musk: The New Idol of the Christian Right

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Administrator
November 10, 2023 2:53 pm

Earth-shattering news: People’s Billionaire, Elon “Free Speech” Musk, has blocked that Twitter/X page. Go figya . . .

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Anonymous
November 10, 2023 4:17 pm

Now it’s back.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Anonymous
November 10, 2023 5:22 pm

Wait: everything’s OK: the fact-Cheka assures us it’s a . . . wait for it . . . vast, right-wing, deep-fake conspiracy theory:
https://www.google.com/search?q=huma+hillary+snuff&sca_esv=581345929&source=hp&ei=NaxOZbGxFsr_ptQP7-eI0Aw&iflsig=AO6bgOgAAAAAZU66RbnP1aa7hQPijLnHdPoCescFVtPE&ved=0ahUKEwjxn8WZu7qCAxXKv4kEHe8zAsoQ4dUDCAw&uact=5&oq=huma+hillary+snuff&gs_lp=Egdnd3Mtd2l6IhJodW1hIGhpbGxhcnkgc251ZmZIAFAAWABwAHgAkAEAmAEAoAEAqgEAuAEDyAEA&sclient=gws-wiz#ip=1
Whew, that’s a relief. Just another misogynist, out to keep a woman from descending to the throne of hell in the Oval Office.

Walter
Walter
  Anonymous
November 10, 2023 9:38 pm

She can’t wait to burn the chair Bill was sitting in when the chubby Jewess got him off.

Will the Scot
Will the Scot
  Anonymous
November 11, 2023 6:19 pm

Media is calling Hellarie’s smut film a Deep Fake.

the 'clinton' Body Count? Hardly.
the 'clinton' Body Count? Hardly.
November 10, 2023 12:15 pm

ALL perpetrated by the SAME entity that “Cut her Mic” And told her “Too Bad, Sooo Sad, barry soetoro IS our boy.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/jun/04/barackobama.hillaryclinton

Gaping sphincter
Gaping sphincter
November 10, 2023 12:23 pm

I mailed my nipsco bill in Munster ,Indiana on the first of November . I’m old fashioned still pay by check and mail .It took 9 days for nipsco which is in Merrillville about 15 miles away to register my check as payment . I don’t know but you would think with all these minority hires at the post office and nipsco they could do a little better.

Bill
Bill
  Gaping sphincter
November 10, 2023 9:42 pm

Better? You mean like set a new record of something like 23 days?

Will the Scot
Will the Scot
  Bill
November 11, 2023 6:21 pm

They are still finding WW2 postcards behind Post Office filing cabinets.

Poolside at the Decline
Poolside at the Decline
  Gaping sphincter
November 11, 2023 5:27 pm

In the 80s I lived in rural New Hampshire. At the time I don’t think there was a minority resident in the state (sure seemed that way). Certainly there were no elected Democrats @ the state or federal level. My experience w government (when you could find it) was very positive.

    some examples:

1) put an inquiry to the NH Sec’y of State in the mail on Monday. Got a handwritten response in the mail on Wednesday.
2) Sign at the town dump (painted on plywood). “Welcome to the *** town dump” Federal Funds-$0; State Funds-$0; County Funds-$0.
3) no building permits required in my town.
4) No state income tax; no sales tax.

I look back on that time & location with great fondness and sadness.

Anonymous
Anonymous
November 10, 2023 12:25 pm

The witch wants me to believe she wanted to give Donald Trump a chance and support him as President??!! I call BS – She attacked him and denied he’d won as well as continuing to condemn his supporters.

Tex
Tex
  Anonymous
November 11, 2023 10:38 am

Rumor is “they” all slept around together. Per the tabloids at the grocery checkout lines and Dr. Ruth “they” literally were f’ing friends.

Johnnie Gray
Johnnie Gray
  Tex
November 11, 2023 11:35 pm

Looking for the side-by-side photos of Web Hubbell and Chelsea (remember, Web was the only one of the jailed Little Rock crowd that Willy Jeff refused to pardon).

Swrichmond
Swrichmond
November 10, 2023 12:29 pm

The dissolving middle class has gotten priced-out of motoring.

I know you hate the suburbs. Everyone knows that. I would wish to point out that the “pricing out” has been a forced rather than a natural process.

flash
flash
November 10, 2023 12:42 pm

That’s capitalism , bruh… the weak are weeded out of the market…only the strong can and should survive…get strong or get gone…ain’t no free ride here….reeee

You may become broke , homeless and reviled because of your White race, but at least you still got your Constitution, bruh…thay cain’t take that away….as long as you stand with Israel.

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Goat!
Goat!
  flash
November 10, 2023 2:05 pm

As far as the picture goes, been there done that. As far as it being capitalisms, it is just about anything but. Kabbalism (economy) maybe.

flash
flash
  Goat!
November 10, 2023 4:15 pm

Same thing , by the same people.

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Tex
Tex
  flash
November 10, 2023 9:00 pm

Holy smokes! Is that Jared on the right? One of two without “the hat”. Dudes better get with the program for photos like this. Send the hats before the next photo.

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Bill
Bill
  Tex
November 10, 2023 9:45 pm

They probably munched down on some ham sandwiches from Roy Rogers after the photo op.

Tex
Tex
  Bill
November 11, 2023 11:14 am

Chances are they ate the ham sandwiches then lied about it. I say that because joos ain’t supposed to eat pork. Lies, don’t eat pork, probably don’t eat catfish like they don’t eat crab. Just saying, goes back to Leviticus.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Tex
November 11, 2023 3:54 pm

Jewish family in the neighborhood when I was a kid. Everytime Grandma (an Orthodox Jew) visited they had to get the ham and other forbidden stuff out of the kitchen fridge and take it to the basement fridge.

Botched_Lobotomy
Botched_Lobotomy
November 10, 2023 1:04 pm

ARE YOU NOT YET ENTERTAINED?

Billy the Kid
Billy the Kid
November 10, 2023 1:07 pm

As always , a great article and truthful up until the Trump bit. That Pied piper isn’t saving shit.

Goat!
Goat!
  Billy the Kid
November 10, 2023 1:57 pm

“like the supernatural character he is. “

Bill
Bill
  Billy the Kid
November 10, 2023 9:47 pm

Iffff he gets elected, I wouldn’t blame him for declaring Martial Law on Day 1 and then going after every name on his list.

The Central Scrutinizer
The Central Scrutinizer
  Bill
November 11, 2023 4:26 am

Not one single chance in all of Hell that ANY of that is going to happen.

jus sayin…

Poolside at the Decline
Poolside at the Decline
  Bill
November 11, 2023 5:13 pm

There is no constitutional mechanism for suspending the constitution.

Jackson
Jackson
  Poolside at the Decline
November 11, 2023 11:37 pm

We seem pretty close to where adherence to constitutional mechanisms will be a forgotten concept.

m
m
November 10, 2023 1:11 pm

“It’s happening in Western Civ at the moment … but it will eventually … spread to the BRICs

LOL, yes the coming collapse here in Russia is already palpable 😂 🤣

Balbinus
Balbinus
November 10, 2023 2:00 pm

Democrats! Republicans! Same crap! Different pile! America, you no longer have a choice now that the Uniparty is in power. The only choice we have left is what was provided for us in the second amendment.

Bill
Bill
  Balbinus
November 10, 2023 9:47 pm

Choose your calibers carefully.

YourAverageJoe
YourAverageJoe
  Bill
November 11, 2023 7:23 am

A .22lr to the head can cause some real problems.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  YourAverageJoe
November 11, 2023 11:46 am

A grocery store employee was accidentally killed while placing grocery sacks in a customers back seat where the customer had placed a chambered .22 rifle. Shot right in the head and instantly dead. The story is the customer had a dog in the car and it became “excited” as the grocery store employee began placing the groceries. The dog was bouncing back and forth from front seat to back seat and somehow caused the rifle to discharge.

Tex

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Anonymous
November 11, 2023 3:56 pm

Even a .22 short would do the job if it hit just the right spot; quiet too.

Tex
Tex
  Balbinus
November 11, 2023 11:36 am

That be correct and a reason I decided not to “vote” in Texas’ Nov. 7 proposition “election”. I could write a book about Texas propositions. They ALL pass! For the most part they do.

Prop 4 sounds wonderful increasing the homestead exemption on the public school portion of property taxes but it falls miserably short in eliminating property taxes. Plus, while Texas property owners will see a reduction in that school tax, the school districts still will depend on the revenues “lost” but they are not “lost” as the state will make up the difference with it’s yuuuge budget surplus. Me thinks sales taxes will be increased at some point to handle the “loss”.

The whole deal based on pure “libertarian” political thought is if one votes “yes” to any proposition that gives government yet more power over its subjects. No matter how good a proposition “sounds” they give more power and in all likelihood the power to require more $$$ from some source.

Prop 4 is only an appeasement and “voters” never ask enough questions. With all the $$$ coming into Texas from places like California, what makes me think Prop 4 “savings” will vanish in the near future. Ok, so big deal, property evaluations cannot be raised by more than 20% but that is not forever, more like one year if I recall. Matters not I recall exactly, the 20% stipulation is absolutely temporary. Again, Prop 4 does not even touch the surface in eliminating property taxes. And what is “wrong” with those with dependent children paying for that public school “education”. Doing so might possibly result in those with school age dependents to take an interest what goes on in the public school realm and perhaps lessen the number of turnip heads that system is turning out into the wild.

Side note: must have multi billion dollar high school football stadiums and sports “complexes”. I like the HS football game but just totally turned off by the jocks that insist on the architectural design of HS football stadiums being “politically correct” in keeping up with the Jones with the expenditures. But you know, residents approve this stuff with the local school district bond “elections”.

Jdog
Jdog
November 10, 2023 2:10 pm

Elections in the US are an illusion. Everything the people in the US they think they know is an illusion, controlled by government. You do not know the truth about anything, all you know is what the government arranges for you to know.
Back in the 60’s they had a science fiction show on TV called the Outer Limits, in the opening of the show they used to say,
“There is nothing wrong with your television. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are now controlling the transmission. We control the horizontal and the vertical. We can deluge you with a thousand channels or expand one single image to crystal clarity and beyond”.
The US government now controls the narrative, they control the information, and they control the media. They will control what you think and what you believe.
You have no say in what they do, and you have no say in your own life. You are livestock, and you are being raised for the benefit of privileged class.

Balbinus
Balbinus
  Jdog
November 10, 2023 4:54 pm

Well said Jdog!

Tex
Tex
  Jdog
November 10, 2023 9:07 pm

I remember that show!

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Jdog
November 11, 2023 5:16 pm

“Elections in the US are an illusion. ”
—-
“Politics is the entertainment division of the military industrial complex.”
~Frank Zappa

MASTER OF UNIVERSE
MASTER OF UNIVERSE
November 10, 2023 3:38 pm

Orange Psychopath Confidence Manchild Psychopath has 96 felony indictments
to get through before he could be elected as Arsehole-in-Chief of the D.C. Whore
House of Horrors. Jim knows that Orange effin’ Fuckup is nowhere near worthy
of being elected as Arsehole-in-Chief of the D.C. Whore House of Horrors and
his continual griping ad nauseam MoM is utterly boring to all his readers throughout
the world.

Biden may be senile with a smattering of Early Onset Dementia, but Orange Psychosis
Psychopath is rotted far beyond that spectacle of embarrassment and likely has
far more problems due to his rotten personality and anger issues run amok.

It’s dead, Jim.

Get over it, too.

MOU

Enumclaw Olympian
Enumclaw Olympian
  MASTER OF UNIVERSE
November 10, 2023 4:03 pm

If you had a tiny fraction of Jim’s enthusiastic readers to bore…

…you could afford to ‘Master‘ my donkey’s Universe.comment image

K-Dog
K-Dog
  Enumclaw Olympian
November 10, 2023 5:09 pm

Really? Kunstler is the king of fake comments. He trolls himself. Real people, a handful and many of his trolls of the sanctioned kind, allowed to comment until they disagree with the lord of the manor. I see you are in Enumscratch, close to me. You should visit: The Doomstead Diner

Anonymous
Anonymous
  K-Dog
November 10, 2023 5:32 pm

M.O.U. is a ZH termite who probably is a reincarnation of Million Dollar Bonus.

MASTER OF UNIVERSE
MASTER OF UNIVERSE
  Anonymous
November 10, 2023 5:50 pm

Zero Hedge’s Million Dollar Bonus had wit, style and gifted
intelligence compared to me. I’m not a tenth as smart as MDB
was and never could be. MDB was funny, too. I’m never funny
and couldn’t possibly hit funny if I tried.

MDB would want you bitch slapped for comparing me to him.

It’s no wonder why you are anonymous, imbecile.

P.S. The goddamned Tyler(s) booted me off ZH two years ago, tarded
sandwich eater-Boi.

MOU

Brad Long
Brad Long
  MASTER OF UNIVERSE
November 10, 2023 7:49 pm

You are right. You are not funny.

flash
flash
  K-Dog
November 10, 2023 5:52 pm

lol…RE still kicking it, then?

Scraped this from some 10’000 word comment , back in the day… rings true, still.

The monetary system we have is predicated on Growth. Without Growth, you cannot pay Interest on the Money created to represent resource Wealth, which is the real Capital. You constantly have to extract more resources, burn more Oil etc in order for the monetary system to work.
There is nothing any individual or even any whole society could have done to stop this process as long as we worked with Capitalism, the Credit Markets and Debt based money. It was Baked in the Cake from the beginning.
RE

Simplecarpenter
Simplecarpenter
  K-Dog
November 11, 2023 2:55 am

Somewhere in the vicinity of Tahuya here lol . Glad I don’t reside on that side of The Narrows

flash
flash
  Enumclaw Olympian
November 10, 2023 5:48 pm

Master of the Amazing Cock Swallow seems more fitting

YourAverageJoe
YourAverageJoe
  MASTER OF UNIVERSE
November 11, 2023 8:03 pm

I remember you on ZH.
I think in the world outside ZH you claimed to be a man of the cloth or something to that effect….
Or was that Dutchboy2015?

Anonymous
Anonymous
November 10, 2023 4:26 pm

While you are distracted , internet chaos next week.

https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-398244A1.pdf

Balbinus
Balbinus
  Anonymous
November 10, 2023 5:13 pm

Making the internet unusable will bring about plan B. Devices get tossed off an 80 foot cliff into 35 feet of water and 6 to 8 feet of gooey mud. I still remember living without everything except electricity and I’m sure I can do it again.

flash
flash
  Balbinus
November 10, 2023 5:56 pm

Living without electricity is doable. Living with a coddled American women without electricity prolly gone be rough…just sayin’… no facebook posting of fur babies and your phat breakfast for you darling…..reeeee….of with his head.

YourAverageJoe
YourAverageJoe
  flash
November 11, 2023 7:30 am

It will be tough on them.
If you have the means to make your own you can be the harem master.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  flash
November 11, 2023 5:36 pm

That might be the simplest and fastest test of a woman you are considering making a wife. ” Will you live with me off grid without social media?”

YourAverageJoe
YourAverageJoe
  Anonymous
November 11, 2023 8:07 pm

HahahahahahhAaa

Denk
Denk
  Anonymous
November 11, 2023 11:41 pm

Is that same as “will you be happy not having a telephone to call your Mom every day”?

K-Dog
K-Dog
November 10, 2023 4:57 pm

I started writing about the fiasco of suburbia decades ago, and now the endgame of that living arrangement is in view.

Yes, Kunstler wrote about it and then he switched into a Clot Shot crazy Maga nutjob because he thought it would be more lucrative. That turning out to be a bad decision, why not try out collapse again?

snarevox
snarevox
November 10, 2023 5:43 pm

why would they cancel the election, they just let 81 million new democrats in last night…

Two if by sea.
Two if by sea.
November 10, 2023 7:14 pm

RFK Jr.’s Promise on Veterans Day

YourAverageJoe
YourAverageJoe
  Two if by sea.
November 11, 2023 8:09 pm

I quite caring yesterday.
Now I just drink and surf the web for the latest news on the progressing societal leprosy and say: huh.

James
James
November 10, 2023 8:08 pm

Seriously?:

HORROR: Tennessee College Student Fatally Shot in the Head by Man Released For ‘Incompetence to Stand Trial’ in Connection to Other Shooting

Keep loading up and practicing,it IS going to get worse!

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Read article and then tell me I am the insane one instead of the court/docs ect.

Fine,deadly insane/hold forever!

Zulu Foxtrot Golf
Zulu Foxtrot Golf
November 10, 2023 9:11 pm

Hitlery for worm food. Fuck prison. Prison would be too good for that godless demon whore.

ZFG, out.

YourAverageJoe
YourAverageJoe
  Zulu Foxtrot Golf
November 11, 2023 8:14 pm

I’ve given up on her getting the horrible death she and her loving husband earned.
I go fishing now.

Bill
Bill
November 10, 2023 9:15 pm

Pretty soon gonna have to turn her over and start using her butt cheeks.

The Central Scrutinizer
The Central Scrutinizer
November 11, 2023 4:13 am

Let the GOP die. It represents nothing more than false hope at this point.

Swimming is always harder with rocks in your pockets.

YourAverageJoe
YourAverageJoe
November 11, 2023 7:11 am

The new conservative party should be called “Whigs”.

The Central Scrutinizer
The Central Scrutinizer
  YourAverageJoe
November 11, 2023 8:12 am

We got too many wiggers as it is already.

Anonymous
Anonymous
November 11, 2023 10:11 am

Cloward and Piven

Tex
Tex
November 11, 2023 10:34 am

“Anybody but Hillary”. F Hillary. Kill me with the jab. Thanks Trump.

Gaping sphincter
Gaping sphincter
November 11, 2023 11:49 am

You know it’s bad when it’s easier to cash a hundred dollar bill at an automated checkout than with a “human “lol.

Anonymous
Anonymous
November 11, 2023 11:51 am

Welcome to the real world!

Jdog
Jdog
November 11, 2023 12:31 pm

At some point there is going to have to be a war, and we will have to kill all the woke…..

YourAverageJoe
YourAverageJoe
  Jdog
November 11, 2023 8:18 pm

Too much effort.
Bend their pliable minds into killing each other.
China 1965-66 style.

L
L
November 11, 2023 4:22 pm

“We opted out of an economy that produced things of real value.”

I take issue with this statement. The globalists decided that America had to be brought down, that’s why this happened. I’ve always thought that it was a singularly bad idea.

Simplecarpenter
Simplecarpenter
  L
November 11, 2023 6:11 pm

No , I think Kunstler is hitting on to something important about the social science portion of economics , People just love love love the idea of “easy money” and as long as they can exist in their compartmentalized moral hazard incentive bubbles their gonna say ” well by golly I really am creating something of real value hear cuz otherwise why would they pay me ?”(to do whatever the fuck it is they do all day long ) They ( the globalists ) may have created the absurd option to reality but its the average rank and file dumb ass who forgot to” caveat his emptor” if your pickin up what I’m puttin down. “If it sounds too good to be true[?? ???????? ?? ] ?Ever heard that ? Or ever heard that one of the prices of liberty is self accountability ?

Spiker
Spiker
  Simplecarpenter
November 11, 2023 11:45 pm

When American jobs started going away American culture and American values started spiraling downward.

Poolside at the Decline
Poolside at the Decline
November 11, 2023 5:03 pm

“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.”
~ Frank Zappa

gadsden flag
gadsden flag
November 11, 2023 5:59 pm

your government:

“whoa, we sure have an immigrant problem. we can’t tell who is who. hey joe conservative we know you are concerned about the border and illegitimate voters and crime just like we are and that is a normal reaction. fear not, we have a solution. we are going to issue everyone in the us an electronic ID so we can better track and deport all of those people we illegally imported. yeah, that’s the ticket”.

somewhere in a cornfield:

“click, rack, click”

problem, reaction, solution

gadsden flag
gadsden flag
November 11, 2023 6:25 pm

we pretend to vote, and they pretend to be elected.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  gadsden flag
November 11, 2023 7:19 pm

gf, truer words were never spoken.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Anonymous
November 11, 2023 11:46 pm

or, and they pretend to count our votes.

eckbach
eckbach
November 11, 2023 6:35 pm

“Kunstler” Is that a portmanteau of Kunt & Hustler

Anonymous
Anonymous
  eckbach
November 11, 2023 9:54 pm

portmanteau
In English: “lexical blend” or “mashup”

Anonymous
Anonymous
  eckbach
November 11, 2023 11:47 pm

Story’s about Hillary, isn’t it?

WestcoastDeplorable
WestcoastDeplorable
November 11, 2023 9:23 pm

I seriously believe ’24 is an “all or nothing” roll of the dice. God help us!