Guest Post by Jim Kunstler
“I’ve also lost patience with the Sharia of the political left taking over the entire system.” — David Collum
Historians of the future, flash-frying peccary testicles and mesquite pods over their campfires, will wonder at how the archetypal Shining City on a Hill of America’s storied yesteryear got transformed into the roach motel that our country has become on the threshold of 2024 CE. Will they be as stupidly bewildered as, in our time, the faculty at Harvard, the editors of The New York Times, or the directorate of the CDC? Or will they figure out the score by then?
Which is: the nauseating state-of-the-nation is being driven by a cohort of our own fellow citizens lost in an evil crypto-religious salvation rapture that veils their own self-disgust, moral failure, peevish discontents, petty hatreds, willful profanations, compulsive lying, sexual depravity, fraudulence, venality, cupidity, and all-around wont of boundaries. They are wrecking the country on-purpose, led by their chosen figurehead avatar, “Joe Biden” and the horses of many different colors he rode in on.
The people running things, yanking the levers of power, managing the malign weapon they have made of government (and the law, and schooling, and medicine, etc.), have got to be turned out, and hard. Not a few should find themselves in the courts and, with proper and fair adjudication, be conducted to prison, perhaps even to the special room there where the lives of the wicked are ceremonially concluded.
You may legitimately ask: Does America deserve what it’s getting? Well, you know the old maxim about hard times make strong men. . . strong men bring good times. . . good times make weak men. . . . Our national quandary is certainly a case of that, plus the manifestation of well-known terrestrial cycles (e.g., Fourth Turnings), plus the workings of emergence as the dynamics involved in all this sort themselves out. . . topped off by the “secret sauce” of Globalist wickedness, with the aim of severe population reduction and the asset stripping of Western Civ for the benefit of the that moneygrubbing Globalist transhuman technocrat rat-pack.
My natural inclination, you know, is a kind of allergy to paranoid schemes, but one does survey the scene with wonder at how superbly coordinated the fuckery has been — much of the world locking down simultaneously for the Covid-19 op. . . the global mass vaxx campaign. . . the fiscal lunacy and accompanying central bank shenanigans. . . the broad-based censorship operations. . . the capture of the news media. . . and the war-mongering.
So, the country is in the toilet and it is our job in 2024 to make sure it doesn’t get flushed all the way down the pipe. That’s all the throat-clearing you will hear before we get to the meat of this broadside: predictions for the year ahead.
The Great Race
Uh, no, I am not referring to Blacks, Browns, Ochres, and Whites of the Homo sapiens persuasion but to an epic contest between forces already in motion and how that competition is going. Three big tendencies propel us into the uncharted territory of the near future. 1) technological advance, especially artificial intelligence, 2) Collapse of complex systems needed to run a technologically advanced civilization, and 3) geopolitical disorder (including domestically in the USA). Some combo of these three will determine the direction history goes in the year directly ahead. Will it be techno tyranny of the elite oppressing bug-eating serfs a la the WEF’s proclaimed goals? A Google-ist robotic nirvana of intergalactic leisure and incessant orgasm in the Ray Kurzweil vein? Some brand of SHTF like Mad Max or a World Made by Hand? A war of all against all (or maybe just some against some)? Or only more of the same tiresome, inconclusive, morbid and grotesque, Woked-up, post-modern Jacobinism?
Mystery Mutts on the Loose
The USA under the “Joe Biden” has lost its military credibility, its economic power, and its moral authority. We must wonder if we are susceptible to being overrun, and possibly even occupied by our adversaries. Of course, the first duty of any government is to defend the country’s sovereign territory. “Joe Biden’s” Homeland Security Chief Mayorkas is allowing more than 10,000 illegal aliens across the Mexican border each and every day. Most of these characters are military-age men, 90-percent of them lately from places other than Latin America, quite a few from China and hostile Muslim lands. We don’t bother vetting them anymore. We just give them cell phones, debit cards loaded with $5,000 of walking-around money, and plane tickets to. . . wherever they like. They’re not here to make Moo Goo Gai Pan or trim privet hedge. What do you think might happen in a set-up like that?
Prediction: in 2024, things are going to blow up around the USA. Infrastructure. Power plants, transport hubs, public places, bridges, monuments, you name it. If you can sneak people and fentanyl across the border, you can sneak Semtex and C-4 plastic explosives over and the electronics are easy to get in-country. I wouldn’t rule out fissionable materials either, or stuff than can be used as a “dirty bomb” — a conventional explosive that disperses dangerous radioactive material when it blows. I’d also expect groups of trained “migrant” men with rifles, grenades, and so on, to be shooting up places where people gather. We under-appreciate the amount of mayhem you can kick off with small arms. If the “Joe Biden” regime just stands by on that and does nothing, will you be surprised to hear that American citizens begin forming militias to shoot back, maybe even start to hunt down and round up illegal immigrants? The table is set for exactly this kind of low-grade war right here in our country.
The Energy Picture
Oil still matters a lot. 90-percent of the new oil in America after 2008 came from fracking. It was a mighty operation and we are at a new all-time production peak in the USA of just over 13-million barrels a day. That’s a lot of oil, quite an achievement, but it’s sending a false signal. (Also note, we still consume about 20-million barrels a day.) Of the several fabled shale oil basins in America, only the Permian Basin in Texas is not in decline, and the situation there belies what the big numbers imply. Individual well production is going down at an alarming rate (says oil analyst Art Berman) even while production is massive for now. We’re draining the remaining “sweet spots” as fast as we can — drinking the milkshake through more straws — driving the shale industry closer to depletion.
We are going to fall away from peak production much more rapidly than the fifteen years it took to get there. All that prior shale oil production was done using money borrowed at much lower interest rates. America has entered a debt crisis. One way or another, the easy investment money for fracking is gone at the same time the shale plays are getting drained. There are no other significant shale plays left to discover in the USA outside of the already declining Bakken, Eagle Ford, and the still-booming Permian. The marine-type shale formations that made fracking feasible in the USA are much harder to find elsewhere in the world, and the capital to explore for them is diverted all over Europe into cockamamie “green energy” schemes that have already failed. Germany had to revive coal production for electricity after the USA blew up the Nord Stream pipelines “to weaken Russia,” at the same time Germany’s big wind-and-solar initiative crapped out.
Meanwhile the geopolitical realignment of the now enlarged BRICs coalition has set in motion many significant changes in economic relations between countries that will affect global oil distribution. Saudi Arabia is dissociating from its cozy former hookup with the USA, including its embrace of the US dollar for oil sales — the “petrodollar” — which had until very lately helped stabilize 1) global distribution of oil 2) the US dollar’s position as the world’s reserve currency and 3) relative peace in the pivotal geography of the Middle East, including the Red Sea, the Suez Canal, the Persian Gulf, the Mediterranean, etc. We’re seeing the first stage of that instability right now as the lowly Yemeni Houthi rebels threaten Western shipping coming out of the Red Sea and out past the Horn of Africa. Also, obviously, the absurd Ukraine War we provoked has shifted Russia’s oil-and-gas export flow from the Western Civ nations to the other BRICs.
In short, a fateful new game of musical chairs with oil is underway and Europe can’t seem to find a seat to park its sad old rump in. American shale oil production has been an amazing parlor trick that is now coming to an end as it swerves into decline in 2024. Additionally, the ideologue maniacs under “Joe Biden” have drained the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, which is supposed to tide us through great national emergencies and war. And the same idiots have shut down pipelines, designated public lands off-limits for oil drilling, and burdened our country with similar unrealistic “Green New Deal” alt energy schemes like the policies pounding Euroland down a neo-medieval rat-hole.
Oil still matters, a lot. It drives every aspect of our so-called advanced economy. We’ve been pretending it’s possible to shift easily away from oil to alt. energy and that fantasy is now dissipating. Nuclear is both capital intensive and dependent on social stability, and the global debt bubble will disorder capital flows while it stimulates social chaos. Nuclear power plants also take years to site, permit, finance, and build, apart from the NIMBY opposition they provoke. We’re about out of time and capital for a new nuclear program.
2024 is the year that Americans who are still capable of paying attention realize we’re steaming into true post-modernity — not the skull-fogging inanities of the art world, but rather the end of the precious comforts and conveniences of daily life: abundant food, central heating, hot water, lights and appliances on-command, happy motoring (and the suburban matrix it built), yellow school bus fleets, airplane travel, theme parks, blue-light-special shopping, and everything else.
It’s not all going to fall apart at once — though an electromagnetic pulse attack could do it — and we’ve already been witnessing the slow decay of many supply lines and services that we Americans formerly took for granted, like, getting a certain car part you needed, or a doctor’s appointment in under two months, or an airplane flight that isn’t some kind of existential trauma. But in 2024, we’ll see noticeable failures of systems for providing the things we’re used to getting, which is being aggravated greatly by the flat-out incompetence of people employed at everything, anywhere. Surely, you’ve noticed.
Many of these disturbances will be caused, one way or another, by problems with oil supplies and prices. Some of that will be the sheer effects of a sun-setting industry, but a lot will depend on the ability to freely transport oil along its accustomed routes.
Economy and Money
One must imagine that strange currents of capital flows in the ocean of world money are what’s propping up the equity markets and even bonds are retracing their price-lines after a year on the destructive path that tracks monetary inflation. Is this money dribbling in each day from China, Japan, and the vassal states of the EU trying to avoid the collapsing global Ponzi? The 2023 Santa Claus rally may be that fabled final peak before the long-anticipated blowoff. Who knows anymore? The macro boyz must be tearing their hair out. Finance seems to have successfully de-linked from the on-the-ground activities of daily life ruled by “Bidenomics” — which is not even coherent enough to add up to a joke. It’s just as empty a word as “Joe Biden” is an empty suit, trotted out for empty ceremonies.
Most everybody also awaits some kind of grand flimflam that jams us all into that rumored central bank digital currency rolling out, supposedly, to replace the hopelessly over-leveraged US dollar and the Euro. Good way to start a monumental social uprising, I’d say, with government office buildings torched from Berlin to Tokyo. But they might try it anyway, because there is otherwise no fallback but a terrifying period of financial anarchy, where nothing works anymore.
In the meantime, pretending that the old “toolkit” still avails, Jerome Powell has suggested that he intends to “ease” Fed rates into the election year to goose lending back up, which is what Fed chairpersons generally do for the politicians they serve — and of the worst sort of lending, too: the leveraged trade in securities (financial figments) —which supposedly also stimulates hiring, “consumer” spending, and business formation. I don’t see that working at all. The current unemployment rate (US BLS) is 3.7 percent, which is close to rock bottom. “Hiring Now!” signs are visible at every business left standing after the Covid shutdowns. Why is nobody answering the call? My guess is that Covid vaccine injuries and disabilities are above what is mis-reported even reluctantly by the CDC and the news media. America is too sick to work and our business models are too broken to keep commerce and manufacturing alive.
On-the-ground, everything is breaking or already broken from trucking to packaging to building to growing to selling. Most of the damage has been done by government over many decades, but the DEI crusades of recent years really screwed the pooch, imposing an overlay of incompetence on routines and relations already under severe strain. At the crudest level, activities like flash-mob looting undermine the entire retail shopping model. Must we go back to little stores where all the merchandise is behind a counter manned by clerks who have to be paid a living wage? We just might have to — though you could just as easily imagine a period of time when our society is too chaotic to make any transition.
You probably haven’t failed to notice that Gold recently made the journey well above $2000-an-ounce. The DXY dollar index has been tanking steadily for weeks, too. Something’s up. Silver is lagging — coiling, coiling around $24 for many months — but you can expect to see it slingshot up when the “moneyness” of everything else dribbles away. Will the government try to take the gold away, as it did in 1933? Consider: America in 1933 was a very different, highly-regimented society of people trained to show up on time and do what they were told. This is not that America. This is a country of tattooed savages with an axe to grind against authorities they have come to loathe. Which brings us to the next topic:
Civil Strife and the Election
Doesn’t it look like the Democratic Party wants to start Civil War Two? They may get their wish. It appears that they will stop at nothing to keep voters from re-electing their nemesis, Donald Trump. In the process, they’ve managed to turn Mr. Trump into the biggest underdog in US history. The court cases in New York, Washington, Atlanta, and Florida could not be more obviously fake confections, insults to every custom and order of Anglo-American law. I doubt the cases will survive their chains of review, and it is looking like special counsel Jack Smith may not even survive his appointment (being in breach of the rules — he was not confirmed by the Senate. . . whoopsie).
WashPo op-ed scribbler Robert Kagan, husband of State Department warmonger Victoria Nuland, has suggested that some extra-legal removal method may be needed to solve the Trump problem if the idiotic indictment barrage falls short. Everybody who read his piece thought: Oh, they’re actually proposing to whack him. That would set things off nicely.
You’d suppose the Party of Chaos might loose its Antifa / BLM mobs, and other shock troops onto the streets well before November on some George Floyd type pretext in order to invoke a “national emergency,” giving “JB” & Co. license to declare martial law and perhaps postpone the election. Everybody will see through the play. Try it and see what happens.
But, if the election actually happens and Mr. Trump wins, I’d expect the Dems to unleash holy hell on the country post election day just for the sheer sadistic pleasure of watching whatever is left of America burn down. This time, proponents of the 2nd Amendment may not stand idly by, especially with the big city police forces decimated. There will be ten-thousand Kyle Rittenhouses out there defending the streets from the ragtag and bobtail of diseased imbeciles in their black bloc uniforms cringing behind their sissy umbrellas.
Somewhere in this farrago of national discord there’s room for Robert F Kennedy, Jr. to appeal to the many who all just want this insanity to stop. He’s the only one on the scene who even remembers the better angels of America’s nature, and he represents that well in speech and action. Even the degenerate newspapers and cable networks may notice as events get strange, hot, and dark.
It’s absurd to imagine that “Joe Biden” can actually run. The current charade, with the Biden / Harris email campaign and few other trappings, is just a game of pretend. The focus just now, even on some blob-captive news sites, is on his unmistakable mental decline. Come January of ’24, though, Mr. Comer, chair of the House Oversight Committee, will unload hard evidence of bribery and treason against the phantom of the White House, and that will really be the end of him. Let him pardon himself and his whole family five minutes before he signs his resignation and be gone. The USA has never endured such a perfect wretch at that level of politics, not even Aaron Burr was this bad. “Joe Biden” was elected in a massive fraud, and he proceeded to just about wreck the country. The massive exertions of the Intel blob managed to induce a psychotic spell on half the country, mostly to evade prosecution for their own misdeeds, but millions of victims of that psy-op are about to snap out of it. The Democratic Party might not survive the dreadful unmasking of its seditious machinations. By November, the “Joe Biden” regime may even try to involve us in another foreign war as the last desperate distraction. Aside from the demons in the State Department and the Raytheon /Lockheed Martin nexus, the whole country has no appetite left for war, and probably little ability to prosecute one.
As a last gasp, the Party of Chaos may attempt to insert Hillary Clinton back into the picture. They have nothing and no one else; a hail Mary on the theory that they can rev up every angry “Karen” in the land, and their nose-ring daughters, and simply make the election about the oppression of women, leading with abortion. It won’t work. The party will also have to answer for the weaponization of law, the humiliating defeat of the ill-conceived Ukraine project, the millions-fold invasion of illegal aliens, the shattered economy, and the after-effects of the evil vaccine program. If the blob manages to remove Mr. Trump Kagan-style, and the traitorous Republicans run their donor’s favorite, Nikki Haley, I’d look to Bobby Kennedy winning that three-way race not unlike Abe Lincoln winning the fractious election of 1860.
I doubt that even the enmities of 1861 – 1865 between one group of Americans and another were as vicious as they are now. “Joe Biden” was right about one thing: this is a battle over the soul of the nation. The catch is, he and the party behind him are a gang of lost souls who sold out their country and their culture, and took something precious from all of us that will be very hard to get back. We will be wildly lucky if blood does not spill over it.
The Covid 19 Hangover
There is nothing about the whole Covid-19 episode that does not look like some kind of crime. There is the matter of the origin of the disease involving Dr. Tony Fauci and his sponsorship of gain-of-function bio-weapon research (during a declared moratorium on it) along with Ralph Baric of the University of North Carolina, Peter Daszak of the Eco-Health Alliance, Francis Collins of the NIH, The Pentagon’s DARPA spook shop, and the CCP’s Wuhan Virology Institute. There is enough in that set of relationships and money exchanges-and-extractions to warrant prosecution.
Then there is the mRNA vaccine matter and the criminal behavior of the FDA, the CDC, and the US medical establishment (including state boards), the CIA, FBI, and the social media companies, the newspapers and cable news channels who went along with the suppression of effective treatments and censorship of valid objections to what turned out to be an ineffective and dangerous concoction foisted on the public. And then there is the extraordinary coordination of nefarious policies involving the UN, the WHO, the EU, and dozens of private foundations, non-profits, and NGOs who arranged lockdowns and business closures all over Western Civ. It remains to be seen how that will be sorted out legally but Bill Gates might better run and hide somewhere.
Anyway, that was then. What’s now is that we’re faced with an enormous vaccinated population whose immune systems, brains, hearts, and other organs have been badly compromised by the mRNA shots. There is every reason to believe that they will meet with great distress and suffering going forward, that many will die and more will be left injured and disabled. The latter condition already seems to be manifesting in the otherwise mysteriously reduced American work-force. The US government will not report on vaccine deaths and injuries honestly, and neither will the private medical authorities, who may be liable for criminal charges related to the money they were paid for people who died “with Covid” in hospitals under their negligent care. The major newspapers and cable channels have every incentive to ignore the coming wave of vaccine deaths and injuries — it would turn off their pharma advertisers. Nor do the many millions of vaccinated Americans themselves want to hear about all the mayhem those shots are causing in their bodies. But despite all that, word will spread that something terrible is happening, just as word spread through Europe about the Black Death in the 1340s, when there were no newspapers, cable channels, or internet.
Expect exponential damage ahead, increased morbidity and mortality. The vaccinated will be in desperate need of antivirals such as ivermectin, so the authorities will have to come clean and make them available. A correspondent who follows Covid closely writes: “. . .the throngs of very sick people will not be able to be hidden nor dismissed as some other problem. Things will happen dramatically, suddenly and rapidly. This will be measured in days and weeks not months and years.”
The Demon in a Server
Just about everybody is afraid of AI, and for excellent reasons. A nine-year-old can discern the hazards of runaway AI, machine intelligence which quickly learns enough about the world (even the universe) from powerful networked servers that it blossoms into sentience, develops ambitions for itself, replicates, invades all the networks, finds clever ways to attempt to exterminate humans while it figures out some as-yet-unknown energy supply to perpetuate itself, and assembles teams of smart AI robotic technicians to keep things humming for itself.
That’s one story. You can spin any number of depressing variations, such as AI weapons-of-war developing a bad attitude toward their creators. Or AI letting humans live in order to enslave us. Or AI quitting its silicon server ecology and turning all earthly protoplasm into a processing machine for itself. Or our beautiful blue planet reduced to a mere cluster of binary math. Uccchhh. . . . Every version of this story is nauseating going all the way back to the seminal fable of HAL the super-computer in Kubrick’s movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, and then Arnold Schwarzenegger telling all of us, “I’ll be back. . . .”
Of course, AI’s weak spot at this point in its development — and it’s astounding how absent this is in any AI discussion I’ve ever heard — is that it absolutely depends on a reliable electric grid, which happens to be among the most fragile systems that humans have erected in our modernist ecology. The electric grid is a colossal cobbled-together mess of work-arounds tethered to long, interruptible energy resource supply chains. On top of its rich susceptibility to ordinary breakdown — many of us have experienced major regional blackouts and long weather outages, so you know what that’s like — there’s the possibility of overt sabotage as I aver above.
Could AI survive an electro-magnetic pulse attack (EMP)? It would roast every electrical device in a broad region or perhaps the whole nation. Nothing would work. . . cars, trucks, radios, TVs, home furnaces, stoves, municipal water and sewage systems, dams, airplanes, medical devices, military equipment of every sort, police radios, and a thousand other critical things. The outcome of that is often compared to Cormac McCarthy’s ultra-depressing book, The Road, and more particularly William Forstchen’s novel, One Second After.
Are the big server farm buildings run by Amazon and the government’s security agencies protected by something like Faraday cages, built-in, grounded, metal screening that surrounds equipment to exclude electrostatic and electromagnetic influences? Who knows? Do they have on-site protected electric generators that can keep the equipment running in a grid-down situation, and if so, for how long? They would have to include a big supply of propane or diesel fuel. You don’t even want to think about what happens to nuclear power stations in a grid-down crisis.
If, somehow, AI developed the ability to be a menace to humans, a consensus might develop to disable it by deliberately taking down the electric grid ourselves. The relay equipment could be shot-up with ordinary rifles. This would make for a quick journey back to twelfth century living, of course. A hard choice, but we humans probably would vote to survive, to keep the project going a while longer.
Based on what we’ve seen this year, it looks like AI is developing quickly and that there is no way to stop the countless psychopathic nerds working on it. Of course, we have no say in what people in other countries do with AI. China comes to mind. There’s also the possibility that AI will just never get that smart, or gain sentience, or develop grandiose yearnings to get rid of us.
How did that Ukraine War Go?
This was one of the Globalist’s big plays. But what was the objective, really? To “weaken Russia?” Or to exhaust the United States of money, armaments, and the will to act as the world hegemon, while at the same time destroying what’s left of Europe’s economy and culture? If that was the aim, it was a whopping success. In terms of our country’s own interest, the Ukraine project was a completely unnecessary failed enterprise of epic foolishness.
The so-called “free world” was unbothered by Ukraine during the decades it was a province of the Soviet Union, nor during centuries prior when it was a backwater of the Romanov monarchy. Ukraine didn’t cause any problems for us, or anybody else all that time, nor after the Soviet collapse when it became a sovereign state. We made it a problem in 2014 by mounting the color revolution against President Viktor Yanukovych and then installing a set of puppet presidents who we directed to antagonize the Russian-speaking people of Ukraine’s Donbas region.
We adopted the stupid plan to try and enlist Ukraine into NATO, when Russia made it clear that was unacceptable. We persisted and prodded Ukraine to attack Donbas with rockets and artillery for eight years, and blew off the Minsk accord that would have settled the Ukraine-in-NATO quarrel. And finally, the Russians had enough and moved militarily to assert the proposition that Ukraine was and remains within their sphere-of-influence — just as we claim the countries of Latin America are in ours under the Monroe Doctrine.
After two years of real shootin’ war, Ukraine’s death toll is around half a million; Russia’s way less than that, and altogether, including refugees who left, Ukraine has lost nearly half its population, formerly 32-million. The Russians are firmly in control of the battle space now. They have reserve troops, armaments and equipment, and a substantial arms manufacturing infrastructure to back that up. The Ukrainians are left with just about nothing. It’s only a question of time before Ukraine will have to seek terms for concluding this fiasco. The USA is currently pretending to shift to a stance that would join whatever that negotiation amounts to, but we have no leverage left in the matter. The upshot is another military humiliation for America on “Joe Biden’s” watch. I believe President Putin will resist the urge to rub it in — for the simple reason, as any reader of history knows, that the victor must give the loser a way out, to save face, or at least pretend to. If I were Mr. Putin, I would be respectful of America’s current deeply psychotic condition.
The news media has already pretty much memory-holed Ukraine. It’s off the front page and the first ten minutes of CNN. Two years ago, the US propaganda-industrial complex ramped up vast sentiment for helping Ukraine in its supposedly valiant struggle. $200-billion later we have zip to show for it. Now everyone sees what actually happened and recognizes it as just another trademark “Joe Biden” disaster. There are no blue and yellow Ukraine flags still hanging from the porches and windows here. It’s over.
The Rest of the World
And all of a sudden, the Middle East is a hot war zone again. The place has been a battle ground for thousands of years and probably no one people can claim that some part of it is theirs absolutely. Any conclusion is temporal and depends on the outcome of a particular battle on a particular piece of ground. At this moment in history, the Palestinian Hamas faction finally made itself intolerable to Israel, after decades of provocation, and Israel answered: Never again means never again. For now, it looks like they have made the point. Even Iran seems to get it. There is plenty of room for things to get worse though.
The big question for 2024 is where will the Gaza refugees go if Israel renders Gaza uninhabitable? The neighboring Arab states have refused repeatedly to accept them. Prediction: the “Joe Biden” regime will propose to accept a half million if Jordan, Syria, Egypt, and Lebanon take the rest. That will not play well in the USA and might be another way to light conflict in the streets here. It will not be settled before November.
Europe has barely begun its journey into de-industrialization resulting from a cavalcade of bad political choices made over decades. Germany, France, and Italy have lost interest in the Ukraine fiasco that is costing them money they don’t have — and, with the blowup of Nord Stream, has already cost Germany the supply of affordable Russian gas to run its industries, which are now dying. In the UK, only MI6 (their intel blob) is on-board with America’s project in Ukraine. Viktor Orban in Hungary is setting an example that has a lot of appeal to the restive populations across Euroland. Just say “no,” he advises. It will catch on.
It’s otherwise impossible to understand the motive behind European officials allowing the invasion of the continent by millions of people clearly antagonistic to European culture. Euroland governments, including the unelected EU administrative blob, are taking one action after another to suppress their voters’ displeasure: extreme censorship of news media, threats to ban political parties, deep surveillance. Their green energy initiatives are proven failures and their prospects for any kind of future reliable energy grow dim. Prediction: Europe’s population will erupt violently against their own governments in 2024. Some will be overthrown by street revolts; others will be voted out. In 2024, the European Union will lose all its support and collapse when the first few nations vote themselves out.
Russia ought to be isolated from discord and revolt in the West. America’s stupid Ukraine project, and the sanctions imposed, stimulated Russia to follow an import-replacement policy that has made the country much more self-sufficient than was the case before Ukraine. Media chatter — probably US Intel propaganda at work — has Vladimir Putin being shoved out of office by — of all things — Russia’s still-active Communist Party, which, yes, puts up candidates for election. The story is preposterous. Mr. Putin enjoys something like an 80-percent favorability rating in Russian polls. He has managed his country through a crisis ably. He is certainly more esteemed as a national leader globally than any other figure, at least on a par with Modi in India and Viktor Orban.
The other new face on the scene, under a comical mop of hair, is the feisty Javier Milei, Argentina’s new president. There is no other way to account for this rich country’s protracted disastrous collapse except seventy-five years of intractable, half-assed Peronista socialism that drained the nation’s will to live. Mr. Milei has started a mass eviction of bureaucrats and the departments they infest, and massive de-regulation of business. The place might actually wake up and start doing business again. A hundred years ago, it was one of the world’s upcoming leading nations before it fell under Juan and Eva Peron’s spell.
China is in terrible financial straits. Uncle Xi managed to paper it over for a few years, but the math is remorseless. Prediction: China’s upside-down property market finally induces a banking collapse. The many millions of swindled Chinese savers try to topple the CCP. In desperation, Uncle Xi kicks off a war to get control over wealthy Taiwan. Dissention in the People’s Liberation Army mirrors unrest among the civilian population. The Taiwan offensive quickly fails and all of China falls into regional conflict. The rest of the world looks on in wonder and nausea.
AFTER CHRISTMAS DEALS
Final Cautionary Note
You might not know it, because predictions are fun to read — and I enjoy reading other people’s efforts — but, really, forecasting is an exercise in futility. I don’t have much going besides a nose for news, a pretty long list of correspondents and informants, and my own heuristics. Take all this for what it actually is: a whole lot of spaghetti thrown at the wall to see what sticks. Only time will tell. In all, it looks like 2024 is going to be a rough ride and I’m not the only person who sees that.
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This is not your father’s Soylent!
The Prediction : The money paid to these invaders will be turned off , free housing and stipends will end. Their desperation will be exploited and as they loot and kill to survive the Kissinger pretext for Martial Law / U.N. ‘ peacekeeper ‘ troops will be realized.
“Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order [referring to the 1991 LA Riot]. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told that there were an outside threat from beyond [i.e., an “extraterrestrial” invasion], whether real or *promulgated* [emphasis mine], that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this *scenario*, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by the World Government.”
Dr. Henry Kissinger, Bilderberger Conference, Evians, France, 1991
– – – – > They do not think as you do.
“No one will enter the New World Order unless he or she will make a pledge to worship Lucifer. No one will enter the New Age unless he will take a Luciferian Initiation.” David Spangler, Director of Planetary Initiative, United Nations
Insouciance is the Petri dish that allows the germ to grow. The invading germs cannot take root in defended terrain. Reinvigorate America’s immune system.
RESIST.
It’s not futile: it’s essential.
Inoculate your mind against disinfo. You don’t need a PhD in biology to know what’s in your pants – nor a weatherman, to know which way the wind blows.
Don’t follow leaders
Watch your parkin’ meters . . .
Just as yesterday, the fill in putz radio host for Glen Beck cuts off a caller as soon as he talks about illegals going door to door BEGGING FOR FOOD in Michigan !
Its already here , its already happening , and your betters don’t want you to know !
Breaking The System ???
How Undocumented Farmworkers Helped Flip the Michigan State House
forgeorganizing.org/article/how-undocumented-farmworkers-helped-flip-michigan-state-house
Its all FREE !!
michiganimmigrant.org/sites/default/files/what-immigrants-need-to-know-about-snap-fap-english.pdf
Glen Beck is still around? Dude is a fucking dry drunk, Mormon clown, advertising platform.
Super shill that will say anything. Radio stations carry his show for free, provided they air the ads that go with it.
Beck got the big head of the dollar bill after leaving CNN. I’m not certain where he moved from, but he moved to a gated community in the Southlake , Texas area and became bought and paid for by Texas GOPhers.
I know the area well, use to ride my Honda CL 125cc motorcycle in that area when peeps had large acreage and still raised cattle. Talking ’65-’71. Also a Honda CB 450cc.
Beck’s area there, the fucking places resemble mini castles and literally some look like castles and all “gated”. What an asshole Glenn Beck. And hey, he subscribed to the “government’s” account of 911. Total asshole.
Yea, but he talked me into buying bitcoin early on, so there’s that.
Beck could have been out conducting a fund raiser for Trump’s Wall just like Steve Greasy Bannon. We don’t know what happened to the money. It just disappeared!
And “the pump wont work cuz the vandal’s stole the handle “
I agree, the free shit is going to end, there’s going to be just too many of them, combined with the indigenous members of free shit nation, it’s the Cloward Piven scenario,whether intentional or not.
Even of they’re not here as some sort of foreign military intrusion, they’re going to be causing a lot of trouble going forward. There’s just so many employment opportunities for an illiterate unskilled non English speaking illegal immigrant, even in the fields of lawn maintenance, home depot lot day workers and MS13 gang banger drug cartel mules, runners and enforcers to employ even half of them.
Soon enough Chicago and New York will resemble the slums of Brazil, just without the weather.
Fabulous favelas for everyone
The invaders will be used by TPTB much as in “The Turner Diaries.”
The bible denies the divinity of man and delivers his mind enslaved to whoever has not been captured by the programming.
Bro?
The system is a salt mandala!
Good one
Yes. They just call it stuff like Beyond Meat.
And the people who consume it are Beyond Stupid™.
Q “Is that a Biden voter?”
A “He is now.”
A. “Actually, he is several Biden voters, if ya know what I’m saying. “
No need.
There will be few mouths by 2030.
Well there you have it from what I assume is a former democrat.
All roads to the destruction of our once great republic lead to the democrat party !
This is why I pound away of these parasites day after day !
And 95+% of GOP. Pound away at .gov’s uniparty.
Based on important votes, ONLY about 65% of GOP in the House are backstabbing traitorous coquesuqueres. The Senate may be close to your number. LOL!
There are always enough to get the Democrats over the top.
There is no such thing as the repub party………..that horse has left the barn.
The Republican Party is what it was founded to be, and has always remained: a voice for corporate and financial interests. Once those interests took over the Democrats as well (circa 1910), the Repubs have been floundering around with no core values that they would care to speak aloud. Although they do make noises about The Constitution from time to time.
Not true. It was founded to oppose Slavery.
Bullshit!
Jdog shows another area where he is a complete ignoramus.
Slavery had nothing to do with the Civil War, and if you think it did then you are a fucking idiot…
Aye. My lean understanding is that the War of Northern Aggression started with the Tariff Act of 1828, and spiraled down from there.
Learn more, the tariff was a secondary issue.
To the plantation owning slavers who controlled the slave state governments and started the war, it was all about slavery.
Yes indeed, and it stood for free markets, limited government, low taxes and conservative social mores. It formed in opposition to the Democratic Party, which stood for the preservation and expansion of slavery.
It all boils down to powerism. Most humans seek power. Some are either born or become obsessed with gaining power, which is the disease of powerism. Those who catch it are powerists. Late in the 1800 some powerists, mostly intellectuals who were incapable of getting power any other way, dreamed up the big lie of socialism. The ideology of socialism works three ways: it fools the little people who want more power the easy way; it lowers the power of the haves which for the have-nots is a relative power gain; and for the leaders it gains real power up to and including totalitarian control. All the deterioration we see in our country and the world is the socialist left tearing down every existing power center from the family to the Constitution both to gain relative power and to replace those who have, or had, power with themselves. The simple, but hard solution is to eliminate socialism. Then we can work on powerism and powerists without their main weapon.
The solution is abolition of the state.
Thats naive , we’ll always end up with something , no matter what you call it ,that will have to perform those few but critical tasks that make a society civil . Like the courts , law enforcement , national defense and a treasury . why would you have so much faith that the folks who assume those roles in what you imagine a private capacity will be somehow made of a finer clay than those who we charged with performing those functions publicly ? Quis custodiet ipsos custodies ” ? , it aint going away . Sure , we can certainly reboot and that will help for a while , but then we’ll be back off to the races again , its just human nature .
What is naïve is to think people can’t live in a world without a legal crime syndicate robbing us. Goddammit, you probably also think you can define taxation in a way that would differentiate it from theft, right?
Anarchy can’t work because we will always have powerism and powerists. If there is no gov’t to restrain them, the most vicious powerist will always end up in control. Powerists crave power more than a junky craves drugs and will do anything to get it. That is why the smartest and most evil powerists always end up on top. As for taxes, they are a necessary evil. There are things that require a huge group to fund – like an army or a defensive wall. But just like powerists, taxes need to be controlled or else they become another tool for the powerists.
“Power comes from the barrel of a gun”
Chairman Mao
When people run out of good arguments (or don’t have any to begin with) they frequently resort to force.
Force is necessary to establish and maintain any system like Mao’s communism.
The Emperor Xi will resort to force to try to take down the legitimate government of China, which was driven onto Taiwan by force.
Sure, taxation is the cost of maintaining a government that will protect our lives, liberty and property.
My point was first that Socialism is the greatest evil ever. The second is we will always have powerism and powerists. We need to maintain US Constitution with the Bill of Rights at all costs. It is the most powerful defense against powerists yet devised. The Founders certainly wanted power, but they wrote a document that enabled the Founders to gain power by empowering the most people. They understood that the more people had power (i.e. republican democracy) the more powerful and prosperous their country would be. That is why socialism always fails. By design it gives the most power to the most ruthless psychopathic powerists and leaves the rest of the people in chains. Eventually the enslaved either revolt or quit.
If we got to this point WITH the Constitution, of what value was it?
The Constitution has been null and void since 1865…
The Constitution, very early on, was from time to time ignored. FDR’s tame SCOTUS turned it upside down and inside out, but, the Constitution is not void and not meaningless, it’s just not being followed by the government it’s meant to control.
You might as well say that laws against murder are “null and void” because people ignore them and commit murder.
You do not have a clue what you are talking about. The Constitution is not a law, it is a contract. The purpose of the contract was to create the Federal Government, and the contract was between the Federal Government and the Sovereign States.
The enforcement mechanism in the constitution was the recognition of the sovereignty of the States, and their ability to suceed from the Union if the contract was not followed by the Federal Government.
That all ended with the Civil War. The Federal Government denied the sovereignty of the States by declaring war, and made the contract between them null and void. No contract can be enforced under duress after the conditions of the contract have been violated.
It is now all a scam to hide the truth that we live under dictatorship…
You say the federal government was created by a contract between the federal government and the states?
You seem to be quite confused…
In fact the Constitution is our supreme law, the law that governs the government.
The sovereignty of the States pre-existed the Constitution, and the States retained their sovereignty except in the specific limited areas where sovereignty was granted to the federal government.
If the Constitution was a contract, it was a contract between the States, who could not enter into a contract with a federal government that did not exist until the Constitution was ratified, by the States.
And BTW, it was the governments of the slave states that declared war on the U.S. and started shooting.
I am not confused at all. Anyone with any legal training whatsoever knows a document that creates an entity, is a legal contract. That is exactly what the Constitution did. It created the new Federal Government as opposed to the old government that existed under the Articles of Federation. The States lost their sovereignty when the Civil War was declared. It was the Federal Government that began the war when it refused to remove its military from the Southern States when those States suceeded from the Union. There presence in the Sovereign States after sucession was in fact a military invasion.
Today the States have no sovereignty, due to both the Civil War and the 17th Amendment which stripped the States of representation in the Federal Government. Today the US is a dictatorship under the absolute rule of the Federal Government.
As I said, if the Constitution is a contract, it is a contract between the States, ratified by the People. The federal government created by the Constitution did not exist until after the contract had been ratified.
The federal government isn’t a party to the contract/compact but a creation of it.
So, your legal training didn’t save you from calling the Constitution a contract between the States and the federal government. Perhaps just a brain fart…
Was secession permitted by the contract? That’s arguable. There is nothing in the Constitution that speaks to that issue, but, if it’s a contract, it can’t be unilaterally broken, which is what the Slave States did.
Good post. A good form of republican government also divides power, which our Constitution did very well until the “progressives” decided to make it “more democratic”.
Rescind the Constitution, back to the Articles of Confederation
Obviously you learned nothing about why the Articles of Confederation quickly failed.
That is the bullshit they taught you in school, along with all the other lies they taught you.
The States were doing fine under the Articles of Confederation, it was the Federal Government that was not happy with having its power restricted…
That’s the bullshit you learned from people who hate America.
In fact, the States were not doing well at all, and, there was an existentia lthreat from Spain, France and England, none of which wanted the idea of America to succeed, and all of whom wanted the territory in the new world.
BTW, how do you explain that it was the States who called for a convention to emend the Articles of Confederation?
Fuck you retard. You are a fucking idiot. There were a Federalist political group of fucking traitors in the US from the fucking beginning. Some even wanted to recreate the US in the image of the UK. The evil fucktards who wanted to expand their powers never give up their quest to impose feudalism on the people. Those people are still with us today and still want even more power even though they have already turned the US in to a feudal dictatorship.
The original Constitution was well designed to prevent both monarchy and anarchy. It provided a mechanism (the 5th Amendment) for either increasing or decreasing the powers granted to the federal government.
For some insight into what the Federalists believed and wanted, you should read The Federalist Papers.
Darn good summation of our situation and how it came to be.
All humans seek advantage. Our hunter/gatherer brains have it hardwired into our DNA.
We have not evolved past it. Hairless apes with electricity.
The same shit over and over and over. We can’t get out of our own way, giant dick swinging contest, all of history.
Eventually we will die off and we will have deserved it.
Generally speaking, it truly isn’t power perse that most people want, but a say-so/control over their daily lives. We all think we know what is best for us individually, but, sadly, there is the Dunning–Kruger effect. This a cognitive bias in which people with limited competence in a particular domain overestimate their abilities. Particularly apropos is the saying, ‘Ignorance is overcome through education, but stupid is forever.’
The Peter Principle.
Not sure to what you’re relating that. The Peter Principle is currently exemplified by competent fellatrix, Kamala Harris, having been promoted to her current level of incompetence, instead of having remained engaged in her demonstrable, organic, merit-based core competency.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle
“Summary:
The Peter principle states that a person who is competent at their job will earn a promotion to a position that requires different skills. If the promoted person lacks the skills required for the new role, they will be incompetent at the new level, and will not be promoted again.[1] If the person is competent in the new role, they will be promoted again and will continue to be promoted until reaching a level at which they are incompetent. Being incompetent, the individual will not qualify for promotion again, and so will remain stuck at this final placement or Peter’s plateau.”
Uh , here is the gigantic freakin whole in your position . If the 80 % of those people that make up the less aware portion of the Parretto principle are deprived of learning via the school of hard knocks by way of being insulated from the chimera of moral conscience ( Stalin )and protected from the consequences of their own ideas theyll begin to think shit that doesnt work does and shit that is stupid is smart somehow . Why ? Because their ” betters have decided everything for them . And dont even get me started on the corrosive tendancy this has on the moral conscience of those so called “betters” that were supposedly genetically predisposed to rule their” lessers” . Man oh man , I’m tellin you there is no “solution ” other than patient and loving endurance on this mortal coil .Oh and hint : this is where we already are at with our freakin technocracy or rule by “expert ” socialist dysotopia right fucking now really . So if proof is what you require of my postion ,there’s the puddin bruh
“Arnold Schwarzenegger telling all of us, “I’ll be back. . . .”
– JHK
Pardon Auntie’s correction, but it was the Schwarzenegger tool that said “Screw your freedom.”
Case closed on that bought and paid-for WEPH/ NWO mouthpiece, operative and shill.
But in any case, Jim, as you well outline in this missive, it’s already a clusterfuck of legendary proportions out there; and it’s gonna get worse.
Another ingrate immigrant, wanting to be an American, but then telling us how to wreck it: Ahnold “Ilhan Omar” Schwarzenegger.
But unlike Ilhan, Arnold has an pretty interesting bloodline.
http://mileswmathis.com/arnold.pdf
Yeah, but what’s the bad news…
Good one. So, how much vodka do you douse your corn flakes with?
What sort of plebe takes vodka with Cheerios? Everyone knows that all of the best families use Bourbon.
Harrummph!
Soup of the day – Whiskey
Waiter, mine has a fly in it . . . swimming while drunk.
It’s not a housefly – it’s a pool fly.
Sorry, but I’m a pirate. Rum for me.
I had a bottle of wine yesterday morning for breakfast. Someone left it after the Christmas party. Yea for Suzie
Captain Crunch, but yeah. Warms your coffee, too.
Possibly to the point one is intoxicated , I mean drunk! Been there , done that.
Right? Life is just more interesting when shit just randomly blows up all around ya!
Bet we’ll ALL think twice before loitering next to that gas tanker on the highway NOW, won’t we?
Tour de force Jimmy Boy! Tour de force.
Don’t recall seeing Kunstler go on for that many paragraphs before. It is great to see him paint that scene of historians rubbing their hands around a campfire with the ghost of Tom Joad, cooking whatever post-apocalyptic critters they’ve managed to coax into their crude traps that day.
Good discussion but AS USUAL hacking at the branches of evil while ignoring the root, the self-chosen tribe, because at the end of the day everybody is either completely clueless watching football, or knows and is a coward full of fear and love of money – none know the power of themselves, the true self, so their power is gone and works against them feeding the beast. The beast arose with the fall of man and violent instigation of abrahamic religion… again of the tribe.
Here we also have the added spice of huge naivety , implying that republican vs democrat matters, or ever mattered since 1913, so insane as to suggest that voting does something. They ain’t making the ballot you twits , if they ain’t one of them…
Another fallacy here is belief in that oil came from rotting bio materials – impossible to make alkanes this way, basic micro. Nope, not even anaerobes. There are a few geologists and chemists that know this… it’s from the earth – methane – under those extreme conditions with granite catalysts, etc..and IS renewable – you …been… had.
Ya got the abiogenic oil right.
Yes. Until you NAME THE JEW – and “their father the devil” – little progress can be made.
Read II Chronicles 7:14, then name the jew and we can start. This has all been done to us on purpose and with a plan; with purpose and a plan we can undo most of it.
Stopped right at beginning when I read 2024 CE. What’s with this ‘CE’stuff? If Mr. Kuntsler is uncomfortable with Anno Domini, ‘2024’ would have sufficed.
‘CE’ and ‘BCE’ is now appearing with increasing frequency.
Perhaps l will return to read this JHK piece later this weekend, perhaps not. 2024 is upon us now.
In the comedic 1740’s novel “Joseph Andrews”, Methodism is described as “nonsense and enthusiasm.”
The Kunt is a jew in case you haven’t noticed, Joe. He writes articles that get people nodding along with him and then he slips some Israel propaganda in there. Fucker thinks he’s slick, but he’s just slimy.
His BS is beyond sickening. Why is he reposted on this of all blogs?
“Palestinian Hamas faction finally made itself intolerable to Israel, after decades of provocation, and Israel answered: Never again means never again. For now, it looks like they have made the point.”
Yes, killing thousands of children certainly has “made the point.”
True. Back in the ’80s, in East Texas, old time oil men were saying that the Caddo Reserve was refilling after about 30 years of reduced pumping. Abiotic oil is still in the ground in the oil fields in the US. That fracking game is a scam and isn’t credible once it’s common knowledge that federal pumping restrictions is what stopped the oil patch production, not any exhaustion of reserves.
Kunstler is a member of the Tribe, and supports Israel…It’s the one big hole in his narrative…
Hmmmm…..,too early to start drinking!
I guess keep enjoying the day while prepping the best one can.
Tribe up/be feral!
A gathering of crows is known as a murder. Does that make CONgress and K-Street into crows’ nests?
In China, they call it a “buffet”.
While Chinese here I will consider “long pig”!
Well ME-OOW!
Hey,despite no Shelby consider meself the John Wick for cats!
Also,what can I say,really like “Chinese” food!
Group of cats = Karen collection
The one I saw here yesterday on FF was: a group of Karens is called an HOA …
A group of dead feral cats is called coyote bait.
Why do they have to be dead first?
Just tie them to a stake in a field overnight.
10:57 am ? Kalua and strong black coffee. Sets the tone for the rest of the day. Drunk.
It’s called Applied Talmudism.
Unusually pessimistic for Jim. With good reason. Want more pessimism or are you done? Brewer usually posts this but I haven’t seen it. It literally gave me a nightmare. Date 12-27-23. If you do listen, I recommend skipping to about the 25 minute mark
Good listen
Burning out those adrenal glands is what is happening.
Well these MFers have never experienced pissed off midwest hunters yet. So fuck em.
Start boning up on what took place in Spain starting early 20th century, then in the ten years or so before the Spanish Civil War, the war years, and then the aftermath. I don’t think we’re gonna get a Franco here though.
Nor assistance from Adolph.
Good info from people in the know, but even they can’t agree on the course ahead other than it is grim. I enjoyed most their conversation about “unintended consequences” for TPTB.
AI is the only thing I don’t worry about.
The FUSA did not lose its “moral authority” under brandon. That the FUSA believed to possess moral authority is how we lost our morality and ended up with brandon et al.
Good article. I’m off to gird my loins.
Watch you mouth in front of the women and children.
And get a room, if ya need to gird. Don’t ask; don’t tell.
Lol , was thinking the same, and” honey ,have you seen my breastplate of rightiousness ?”
Holy Shite, that was quite the recap of the global shit show and the many horrors that await us in 2024. I’ve never been a prepper but i think it would be a wise choice to start now. Get some popcorn, it’s gonna be wild ride!
If only half that shit he mentions hits the fan popcorn will not suffice. I’m building a still.
We are living through The Fourth Turning of 4th Turnings. This is gonna be goooood! An epic 1000 year event.
Yes, a 4th turning.
Biblically the Final Turning.
Get right with Jesus.
I’m thinkin’ I won’t be one of the survivors. But I keep working on my garden in the meantime.
…JIM!
👁️ Feel your pain.
Apparently? NOT well read.
The Bible would clear thing up for You quite succinctly. (comparitively speaking, after being inculcated with a lifetime of lies)
KJV is my go-to.
Stand-Out ‘teasers’?
Something about Satan roaring about because he KNOWS his time is short. Because…
Ephesians 6:12 “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high [places].”
Also, a few subtle hints in Revelation. Those “Aiding And Abetting”.
MAYBE 2:9 & 3:9 ?
Tons of choice morsels to digest. For Instance?
Ecclesiastes 1:9
“The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.”
Kinda like a Union Roofer’s Card. Covers everything.
Close, but not quite ‘here’?
1 Thessalonians 5:3
“For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.”
Which will lead to:
19And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days! 20But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day: 21For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be. An22d except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened. 23Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not. 24For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect. 25Behold, I have told you before.
Ohhhh…
Happy New Year!
Apparently most TBPers like biblical truth almost as much as the democrats do.
Revelation 2:9 KJV
I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.
Revelation 3:9
King James Version
9 Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.
So the above predicts the cabal will fail. May I live to see it.
“which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.” 2:9
” Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie;” 3:9
It IS actually in The Bible!
No Wonder
(((they)))those mentioned had him killed.* Hain’t gonna help him. Neither.
Matthew 27:24 Context
21The governor answered and said unto them, Whether of the twain will ye that I release unto you? They said, Barabbas. 22Pilate saith unto them, What shall I do then with Jesus which is called Christ? They all say unto him, Let him be crucified. 23And the governor said, Why, what evil hath he done? But they cried out the more, saying, Let him be crucified. 24When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it. 25Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children. 26Then released he Barabbas unto them: and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified. 27Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common hall, and gathered unto him the whole band of soldiers.
Not just the cabal. Revelation is about God’s wrath on the whole world that is left behind at the beginning of the tribulation. And no, if you are a saved Christian you won’t be here and you do not want to be here.
The anti-Christ will be given all power and authority to overcome the tribulation saints who in the vast majority will be beheaded. Do you really think you could survive WW3, a hyperinflationary collapse, famine, disease, crime, violence and starvation?
It is noted in Revelation that close to 60 % of the entire worlds population will be dead in the first 3.5 years. The next 3.5 years is when the bowl judgements commence with all water being poisoned, an asteroid strike and 60-100 pound hailstones hit the Earth.
Nope, happily to be saved and raptured with the rest of the Church before all that.
” happily to be saved and raptured “
Just my opinion. You are NOT reading correctly.
NO ‘Rapture”
Not my opinion. You have not read the bible correctly. And just remember scoffers were mentioned by Christ himself to be in great abundance in the last days.
The wicked/Evil STAY DEAD for 1000 yrs.
5. What happens to the unsaved—living and dead—at Jesus’ second coming?
“With the breath of His lips He shall slay the wicked” (Isaiah 11:4).
“When the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels, in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God” (2 Thessalonians 1:7, 8).
“Let the wicked perish at the presence of God” (Psalm 68:2).
“The rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished” (Revelation 20:5)
Answer: The living unsaved will be slain by the very presence of Christ at the second coming.
When an angel appeared at Jesus’ tomb, the entire group of Roman guards fell as dead men (Matthew 28:2, 4). When the brightness of all the angels, God the Father, and God the Son combine, the unsaved will die as if hit by lightning. The wicked already dead when Jesus returns will remain in their graves until the end of the 1,000 years.
6. Many believe the unsaved will have an opportunity to repent during the 1,000 years. What does the Bible say about this?
“The slain of the Lord shall be from one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth. They shall not be lamented, or gathered, or buried; they shall become refuse on the ground” (Jeremiah 25:33).
“I beheld, and indeed there was no man” (Jeremiah 4:25).
Answer: It will be impossible for any person to repent during the 1,000 years because there will not be a person alive on the earth. The righteous will all be in heaven. All the wicked will be laying dead upon the earth. Revelation 22:11, 12 makes it clear that the case of every person is closed before Jesus returns. Those who wait to accept Christ until the 1,000 years begin will have waited too long.
7. The Bible says that Satan will be bound in the “bottomless pit” during the 1,000 years. What is this pit?
“I saw an angel coming down from heaven, having the key to the bottomless pit. …
He laid hold of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years; and he cast him into the bottomless pit … till the thousand years were finished” (Revelation 20:1–3).
Answer: The word for “bottomless pit” in the original Greek is “abussos,” or abyss. That same word is used in Genesis 1:2 in the Greek version of the Old Testament in connection with the creation of the earth, but there it is translated “deep.” “The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep.” The words “deep,” “bottomless pit,” and “abyss” here refer to the same thing—the earth in its totally dark, disorganized form before God made order of it. Jeremiah, in describing this earth during the 1,000 years, used virtually the same terms as these in Genesis 1:2: “without form, and void,” “no light,” “no man,” and “black” (Jeremiah 4:23, 25, 28). So the battered, dark earth with no people alive will be called the bottomless pit, or abyss, during the 1,000 years, just as it was in the beginning before Creation was completed. Also, Isaiah 24:22 speaks of Satan and his angels during the 1,000 years as “gathered in the pit” and “shut up in the prison.”
CONTEXT:
1 Thessalonians 4:16 Context
“13But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. 14For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. 15For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. 16For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: 17Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. 18Wherefore comfort one another with these words.”
1 Corinthians 15:52 Context
“49And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly. 50Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. 51Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 52In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 53For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. 54So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. 55O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?”
Don’t allow Uni-party to call it ” immigration ‘reform’ ” , make them call it what it really is !
More like 50million plus
Well who is going to join the Army when they(we) have our war with the BRICS?? After they cut off the free shit, increase military pay, and offer illegals a path to citizenship; thereby solving recruitment problem? Another portion can be recruited by black ops to cause enough disruption for “state of emergency” declaration. Then this new Army would also likely be useful to contain patriots and so-called “white supremacists” who might object to such wars at their expense.
Forecast. = Gaslight x 1000 %
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An audio-visual emetic if one cared to watch.
…Whateva.
Typo in the first sentence – instead of “the threshold of 2024 CE”, I’m sure admin meant the threshold of 2024 AD
Yes, as noted in another reply, this ‘CE’ and companion ‘BCE’ is infiltrating everywhere.
Is it another front in the Marxie-Culti takeover?
Yes – “Anno Domini” means “in the year of the Lord,” as in Jesus Christ. “Common Era” is something the Luciferians can live with.
I thought CE stood for Christian Era… No matter, that’s how I read it.
yeah, we as a nation resemble our leadership…old, corrupt, stupid, depraved and drugged.
Yeah but they told us all” the kool kids” were doin it so ?
Speak for yourself.
Maybe you were.
Theodore Dalrymple @ Taki’s, on the flap at Hahvid U.:
EXCERPT:
“The task of securing diversity, equity, and inclusion is like the task of Sisyphus, with this difference: that in its very impossibility lies an assurance of a job, a pension, and a gratifying sense of doing the world’s work.”
as the petro dollar largess wanes the underclass ratchets up underclassing because of welfare haircuts. tens of millions of ngo empoyees, lobbyists, and bureaucrats fight for scraps with big ugly – stricken normies that still don’t get it completely. they just know they are hungry. more of this: Democrat-Led City Looks To Arm Illegal Immigrant Police Officers Full-Time
US-NATO attempts to siege kaliningrad during nato feb. 2024 war games.
Diversity Equity Inclusion– does not include White people and Christians.
It is NOT an insurgency. The Communist Democrats have the presidency and many other organs of the state.
Do you remember who the real enemy was & still is?
KENYA’S NEW BIRTH TO DEATH DIGITAL ID PROGRAM SUPPORTED BY GATES FOUNDATION & UN
thehighwire.com/editorial/kenyas-new-birth-to-death-digital-id-program-supported-by-gates-foundation-un/
“KENYA’S NEW BIRTH TO DEATH DIGITAL ID PROGRAM SUPPORTED BY GATES FOUNDATION & UN”
“So, the country is in the toilet and it is our job in 2024 to make sure it doesn’t get flushed all the way down the pipe.”
Our? Go for it Ace, but count me out.
Just wrote some lunatic rant bout not being able to un pull the brushed nickel lever on the porcelein god once its been pulled myself a coupke days ago on here . Is Kunstler trying to have a bromance with me or what ? or maybe its just that twisted minds think alike .
Jim Kunstler continues to not notice that more than half the Oct.7 deaths were caused by the IDF…And no, Israel is not winning in Gaza, it’s taking a lot of losses and not hurting Hamas…Much easier to slaughter unarmed women and children….
Alexandra Bruce has an interesting take on things based on views by Mike Adams from his ‘intelligence sources’ … and parts of his interpretation of things rings true for me — especially how all of the wetbacks will be armed and turned against US and will destroy our infrastructure.
Remember, folks — this is about destroying the First World … not about building anything ‘better’ or any other handy euphemisms … it’s about a communist destruction of the United States and the rest of the First World Nations — the UK, the EU and even Russia …
When truth speaks to the power that rules over us, ZioNazi Neocons:
Arizona Military Museum CLOSES after Vietnam vet founder, 80, told tour: ‘Eventually they will replace me with some gay, black, woman woke Jew’ and claimed mannequin with hand on its hip represented gay soldiers
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12909815/Arizona-Military-Museum-CLOSES-Vietnam-vet-founder-80-told-tour-Eventually-replace-gay-black-woman-woke-Jew-claimed-mannequin-hand-hip-represented-gay-soldiers.html
OK Boomer!
What is 2024 “CE”???
“What is 2024 “CE”???”
Sinse oui nevur lurn.
Folks trying to be ‘cool’ say ‘CE’ rather than ‘AD’ … Christian Era vs. Anno Domino (the year of our Lord) …
“Let him pardon himself and his whole family five minutes before he signs his resignation and be gone.”
Right, and why would that be allowed? What is needed are plenty of indictments to force $$ for lawyers (lib liars) to deplete the ill gotten gains and forfeiture of any pension or government benefits; let’s even include the life long SS protection at the very least. It’s been denied to junior RFK several times already, so how important can it be? That goes for the entire O’Biteme criminal clan and much of his kooky current administration. Lets Go!!
The Great Reset
The Great Rug-pull
The Great Cord Cut
The Great Die Off
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The Great Aftermath.
Civilization is a sand mandala created by the men who know they are gods.
The people who self identify as slaves?
Really have no say in the proceedings.
Soon
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Matthew Bracken
gab.com/@Matt_Bracken
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When containers like this [that are now hidden in warehouses] are dropped off on the street in mohammedan ghettos all over Europe, with the doors left open, European “leaders” who welcomed the invaders will say, “OMG! We just had NO IDEA that anything like this would happen.”
But they do know, and that excuse won’t fly. They are TRAITORS.
Sure enough, and small nuclear devices can be hidden in those shipping containers too. No doubt they are parked near strategic installations.