“. . . the Democrat Party. . . are morally bankrupt nincompoops who have been beaten by the establishment like the rented mules they are. “ —Kurt Schlichter on X
The key point here is that declassifying these docs (very publicly) allows acceleration of grand jury proceedings, with any luck enabling indictments before midterms, which would IMO be quite energizing for the base of normal people who are sick of these thieving criminals, foreign and domestic, making a mockery of our self-governance and sovereignty. We live in hope.
The “influence” of the Deep State must be overcome before any attack on its constituents will happen. This is the very frustrating truth. Seventy years of Leftist control of DC, yes, 70 years, have honed the skills of the Deep State to block populist movements, like Trump. It is still the Deep State against the people.
I remember Clinton and Elain Gonzalez. Do you? Remember Clinton and his Gestapo in action at Waco? How about the Govt shooting deadly terrorists armed with deadly babies at Ruby Ridge? Ike built that.
It is possible to rise above Elephants vs. Donkeys and analyze the situation and, going on past performance, one could realistically predict bupkis indictments by Nov. 3 (a mere 3.5 months away).
Trump came off like an babbling, incoherent dolt last night. The curtain was pulled back and what the American public saw was a man lost in his own world of megalomania and self-righteousness that he could only hear the words that were at the back of his throat. Despite the best efforts of the pro-Trump media, Trump's cognitive decline was there for all of us to see. The fact that you still defend him tells me everything I need to know about your mental state.
Where the hair splits, is that the DOJ, the extended judiciary and the civilian court system are all legally 'tricked out' to say whatever the highest bidder wants, with dragging on kangaroo courts till the end of the next millennium; defiantly mocking US. Alternatively, these prosecutions must [legally] be forwarded to the military system. Quick justice, sentencing and punishment meted out (gavel crack, "Next!") hundreds and thousands a day...who doesn't love efficiency? (That's the only military I agree to fund.)
It's not about the fence; it's about effective mobilization against the black-pill brigade while demoralizing the other side and, God willing, instituting more effective procedures with controls/oversight to reduce cheating as much as possible (whether or not the SAVE Act can be passed).
Please understand they are still trying to turn people to the dark side not understanding that the vast majority of people have already made up their minds.
Why else would 90% of stories about Trump be negative, even when provably incorrect or downright lies?
The vast majority of people are sheep. That's why we are lucky to get a 50% turn out. If people cared they'd vote out these corrupt thieves. That's why nations collapse and revolutions occur.
I would not write off that large a percentage of We the People as oblivious. I don't know anyone who isn't aware. Not that there aren't plenty of dolts out there.
"It would seem appropriate, first, to demand that the Taliban government of the poor and wretched nation of Afghanistan produce the terrorist Osama Bin Ladin and his assistants and place them in the hands of NATO authorities within a very brisk time frame. Failure to comply ought to result in the complete destruction of Kabul and other Taliban-controlled towns.
Second, the people of Iraq should be warned to depart their capital city, Baghdad, which should then be completely destroyed.
The nation of Israel should begin immediately the deportation of Palestinians from the West Bank to the Kingdom of Jordan. The people of Gaza Strip should be transported to Egypt, and the Gaza incorporated into the state of Israel.
The government of Syria should be notified to begin evacuations of Damascus pending its destruction within a short time frame. Ditto Tripoli, capital of Lybia."
" 'Very good! Keep fooling the naive Americans they will swallow the Commie Jewish crap what Soros (Schwartz) of Hungary whispers into the Kenyan Messiah ears!
Luckily we got rid of the Judeobolsheviks like you so keep feeding Das Kapital to the idiots.
Go Sarah! Go Sarah! Ignore the Commie Jews! They destroyed every host country on earth next will be the USA and Israel. (Jstreet Obamabots)'
'HI JIM , I AM MINDY AND I AM NOW A SOPHMORE AT THE U . I READ THE ZESTY, NAZI HATE MAIL SECTION OF YOUR SELF FUNDED WEBSITE AND YOU ARE ONE INSECURE LITTLE GUY. ALOT OF YOUR READERS LIKE SOME BUT NOT ALL OF YOUR DRIVEL BUT THAT DOESNT MEAN THAT THEY GO TO NEO NAZI MEETINGS IN IDAHO . YOU ARE A ZIONIST JIM AND YOU KNOW IT. JUST AS ISRAEL OVER REACTS TO PALESTINIANS, LEBANESE AND LETS NOT FORGET PEACE FLOTILLA HUMANITARIANS =========== EVERYONE WHO GIVES NEGATIVE FEEDBACK TO JHK IS TO BE OUTED AS A JEW HATER. NOT SO YOU SLIMY LITTLE NO TALENT POSEUR. ONE DOES NOT HAVE TO HATE JEWS TO DISLIKE YOU. PS, I LIKE YOUR POUF TAKE ON ARCHITECTURE .VERY PISS ELEGANT.'
Unfortunately, your writing is becoming unreadable. I figured that the only kind of person who would actually believe the baloney you're spewing is someone who was saturated with Zionist propoganda, somewhere along the line.
Let me say that again: based on your writing, I hypothesized that you were probably absorbing Zionist propoganda somewhere -- which probably meant that you were Jewish, since Jews are obviously more exposed to Zionist propoganda, at least of the flavor that comes out in your writing.
Bingo! Wikipedia says you were born to Jewish parents in New York City.
I hope you have higher aspirations in life than to be a parrot for Zionist propoganda.
I would say no. How can a country that have no right to exist have a right to defend itself?
You know very well what happened in 1948. Or should know. I refer you to Israeli historian Ilan Pappé.
The Jews massacred and expelled 800 000 Palestinians, the rightful owners of the country. Therefore Israel has no right to exist. It is built on a crime.
Of course, ordinary dumbass Yanks don't have a clue about this. How could they? Living inside the Jewish owned American media bubble.
Oh, so that's a conspiracy theory? With no basis in reality?'
'...Concerning your comments on Israel: By your reasoning, if a neighbor's dog shits on your lawn you would be justified in blowing up the poor animal with a rocket launcher while the neighbor's children watched. And if that didn't teach the fuckers a lesson you would shoot all his friends in their sleep as well...
Why don't you take some of your shekels and go buy yourself a conscience...'
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'...Jim, do you really want to publish my letter so that you can look like an even bigger horse's ass than you already are?
Besides, I don't really go on the internet very much as I have a LIFE and cant be bothered to cross swords with a puny little shit fountain like yourself.
Your letters will only be returned unopened.
Take a chill pill dude, then go get your gun and pose in front of the mirror and keep telling yourself:
"I am one of the chosen people....I am one of the chosen people....I am one of the chosen people.........."
Toodles ! ....... Victoria
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'Dear Jim,
Well it does look like the Zionists will no longer be able to 'use up' America for its insane and bullshit policies in the Middle East. I predict that America will be liberated from Jewish control very soon.
'It amazes me that you can be such a keen observer of human affairs on one level and be so catastrophically ignorant and misinformed when it comes to the mid-east. Idiot savant comes to mind. . . . NOT wipe out the Jews! Just that festering pustule on the rectum of the Earth, Israel.'
'Is it because you're Jewish that you heap your contempt on what are principally the victims? It certainly appears so. And, if it is so, don't you think your credibility has been flushed down the toilet?'
'You are so absolutely wrong about the nature of Hezbollah and the roots of the ongoing anti-semetic ethnic cleansing policy of the Israelis that you now have zero credibility. You are a member of the Death Party like so many others in the US Empire.'
'Wow! Looks like the NEOCON Rightwing has finally found their Peak Oil point man, and his name is James Howard Kunstler. . . . Listen up Israel! With friends like JHK, who needs enemies? He's willing to put a knife in your back too!'
'It's such a shame that with all your intelligence and insight you can't muster the clarity of mind required to rise above primitive tribal loyalty. The recent war crimes of the Israeli government (as distinct from 'the Jews', so don't even go there) are manifestly obvious to the most casual objective observer. In your 14 August essay you sound like nothing more than the basest, racist neocon hack.
'You know what you sound like? Just another dumb fucking American who thinks its government's primary interest lays in something other than self preservation - no matter how many people get slaughtered along the way.'
Excellent essay! Seems like Microsoft was the landing pad for more than a few miscreants… I wonder what operating system every government computer runs on…. 🤔 Why, oh why, does Gonorrhea Gates have to have his meddlesome monkey-poxxed paws in everything?
The other day Warren Buffet commented on his decision to have his estate distributed to charities of his children's choosing, cancelling his previous decision to allow the Gates Foundation to do it. He said no one bats a thousand at judging character.
Perhaps. Howard, his son who was Sheriff down in Decatur, Illinois isn't a sheltered wimp like a lot of rich kids and if you see what he did charity wise in the Decatur area, I think he may surprise to the upside. Fingers crossed.
Yup. The Insiders/Elites/Connected/DeepStaters/Uber-Wealthy/PuppetMasters/fill-in-the-blankers all will sell their own mothers down the river if it's costing them money or power.
I will be shocked (and happily so) if Trump's efforts deliver real, positive results in the long term, within the U.S. political and legal system that's been warped beyond recognition. After all, Trump is on the inside and has been his whole life. But maybe he's got an axe to grind, and we'll see if he jackslaps some people around and makes things right.
Many Democrats are actually resisting the Israeli take over of America while only one or two Republicans are. But what Mr Kunstler says is all true nonetheless. Basically each party is a disaster and what the other party says about them is the case.
Gates is not alone in that regard. Few of the Tech oligarch's are worthy of anyone's praise. They all have one passion in mind......themselves, their wealth and how to get more of it in order to bend the world to their will and treason is the way to power for them..
OMG, we agree. In one statement. Why do the Silicon Valley geniuses go Democrat and inhabit California? Guess where their money comes from. Follow the money.
Hmmm, interesting thought. Now that half the Dems have gone insane and become anti-Israel, will the potential loss of Jewish sources of capital change some “hi-tech” minds?
The greatest source of capital is the USG. Democrats are addicted to government graft and the Tech Oligarch's are the same. Ask yourself why Trump committed $500B for the billionaires in tech to build out dat centers and put the tax payer on the hook for something only they might profit from?
If we worked together (like they do), we wouldn't need their capital. It's the obsession with money and only money that has damned us. They never forget about their own collective well being like we do.
To some degree Ford broke away from that system and didn't need their money. Capital was draining away from NY, so they created the Federal Reserve to bring it all back.
And I just uninstalled a half-dozen POS add-ons, games I don't want, won't play, ain't interested in. I was watching "The Day the World Stopped" (the inspiration for "The Day the World Stood Still" which was inspiration for the Keanu Reeves one) that we are all most familiar with) and noticed the old-timey monitors, clunky things. You know, nobody had even thought of a computer virus then. The utter nonsense that passes for entertainment. Searching for the truth amongst the lies? Now? Don't get me started. It makes my blood pressure go up.
And what it gets its tentacles into does not function as it ought. This kind of one-two punch (stuff I don't want that is also stuff that doesn't work) is an integral part of societal demoralization. Microsoft Word and Excel are the only games in town. (Google Docs are just knock-offs.)
What occurred in 2020 was not merely a matter of alleged voter fraud, but an attack on the very foundations of our constitutional republic. When bureaucrats within government agencies withhold critical information from the President, they effectively aid efforts by foreign actors to undermine the nation. This extends well beyond the realm of ordinary law enforcement; it constitutes what I believe is an existential threat to the country. In my view, there is no meaningful distinction between foreign adversaries and those within the United States who knowingly act in concert to subvert the integrity of our elections.
Given these circumstances, I believe the President should invoke his executive authority under a declared national emergency to ensure that every vote cast is lawful and genuine. Those who vehemently oppose such measures, I contend, are constructively aligning with forces that seek to weaken the Republic. In my opinion, extraordinary military tribunals may represent the most expedient means of rooting out the internal threat.
me too. let us remember, Pres DJT is not running again. that gives him a lot of freedom to upset the apple cart. will he? I prefer to believe he believes that if not him then never and the whole USA experiment is over. while he is at it, I hope he revokes the licenses of NBC, CBS, ABC. they are part of the coup. and the coup is not just to fight DJT. It is to bring down the USA as we know it. (I know this sounds over the top. but mark my words.)
These broadcast networks should have their over the air spectrum licenses revoked. They can continue cable but the reason they have these Billions of Dollars worth of free spectrum is to report or convey to the people on things like Presidential speeches.
TO THIS DAY, no one has explained why all the networks were covering the Butler PA speech out of the blue, and why did NBC supposedly have an ultra high speed camera for a normally uncovered event???????
Going another direction, why don't these people all say, absolutely let us have a revisit or recounts and PROVE what wing nuts 2020 critics are, proving us wrong so they can mock and deride even more. Seems like a bunny shot if it is so absolutely false as they proclaim. The NYT did a forensic recount of 2000, only to prove to their disappointment that GWB won Florida by only hundreds of votes. Why so little enthusiasm when the margin of victory was supposedly millions? They all know and many were involved in the lies and the coverups. As they say "prove me wrong."
The Leftist hold on the nationwide Deep State is a monopoly on power. The federal judge hold on decision making is choking any counter movement. It is, Constitutionally the job of SCOTUS to stop this phony hold. With Roberts and Barrett in there, it is not going to happen.
You aren't blessed with seeing former WR Nate Burleson (because CBS thought it needed a black football player on its morning show, a la Michael Strahan on ABC), Orca's bff Gail King, and whoever occupies the third chair telling us testosterone levels are immaterial in men and that Trump doesn't know the truth about anything. Personally, I kind of wish Ed Reed had rung Burleson's bell a few times -- it might've knocked some sense into him.
FYI, I only see this crap because my wife insists on watching the local CBS affiliate every weekday morning. Between them and the dwarf the local station has delivering the "news," it drives me nuts, leading to "stop texting or you'll be late." I want to say, 'It's that, or I hurl something at the tv,' but that would get me into more trouble.
Ha, back in the 60s, the fans of the Denver Broncos hated Howard Cosell on MNF. A sharp entrepeneuer sold a bunch of Cosell nerf bricks to throw at the TV when he was on.
However, I am concerned. Is the next generation strong enough and anti-Deep State enough carry the torch against the communists? When Trump leaves, will the door be opened?
Have you heard Mark Halperin predicting Bernie Sanders will run? Says age is against him, but as far as Dems are concerned, it will be the only strike against him.
Revoking broadcast licenses would display a remarkable contempt for the First Amendment. That would be a very bad move.
It is so childish. Anytime anyone does something disfavored, little boys and girls scream for those accused to be punished. And, since their efforts are so ham-fisted, punishment rarely ensues.
They don't want to weaken our existing government. They want to overthrow it with a communist revolution funded by China, much of Ametica's own plutocracy, and a good many Islamist VIPs and governments.
No, that is not "neocon-Zionism." It is an alliance between the US and a key nation in the Middle East for important strategic reasons. . . so cut the bullshit.
The bull shite is contained within your argument and your propaganda in support of Israel ethnic cleansing enabled, as usual, by the USA. That is an alliance of criminal governments. Your snarling riposte reminds me of the Polish proverb......"The Jew cries out in pain as he strikes you with his fist." And the other hand is on your wallet.
They're not the same people. And I'm not in a good enough mood to be polite to anyone who believes the Jews all need to die because they're evil, other than that Gid intentionally puts tbem in a position to be a stumbling block to the rest of humanity so we don't all kill one another.
Dude, I don't care if you are polite, but I do care when you put words into my comment that are not there. I said nothing about all Jews needing to die. I made an accurate observation of the methods of deceit. You are suggesting they represent the salvation of mankind, the only people standing in the way of peaceful harmony, hardly a sane observation.
God did not put Jews in a position to be a stumbling block for the rest of humanity by keeping us from killing each other, but rather they insidiously enable chaos that leads to this outcome.
Well Marxism was an earlier project of theirs, but now it's getting in the way of their newer, sleeker model. Many Jews are still involved in it as well as countless White idiots. They don't realize that it achieved its purpose and should now fade away in favor of direct Globalism with rule by the Chosen.
Not so much a project, but rather a criminal enterprise wrapped in the cloak of political ideology. Yes, there are plenty of white idiots, but Fellow Travelers seems to encompass the whole spectrum of idiots without singling out just one racial group.
I see the cold water crowd is here early to try to take the heat off and make everybody think that this is going away. I think the same people that have buckets of cold water to throw on the election theft. Need to remember the guy that Trump was millimeters away from being killed just two years ago. I wouldn’t bet on this being a big yawn. I agree this is the first bid and the best bid Trump is going to offer.
Thanks James for working overnight to give a good analysis!
That round didn't miss its target; it hit Trump, but not fatally. That around half the populace of this country is angry that Trump survived tells you all you need to know about the character of those people, and demonstrates how much trouble we're in.
This is what ten years of endless bad press and lies does: it twists people up to the point that they do not know what is real and what is fake, noos.
Look at how many people are rooting for a terrible government in Iran that has literally murdered tens of thousands of patriotic Iranians demanding a fair government shot in the face, arrested, jailed, tortured, and murdered.
This abuse also happens to the entire immediate family wives, kids, cousins, grannies, and grampas.
They denounce one country for fighting terrorists and raise up Iran, which has complete control of its country but can't handle even peaceful protest.
Warped beyond belief.
The RED Green alliance on display again.
The commies "useful idiots" helped turn Iran into a theocracy and then were murdered for their trouble.
And what the Warners and Soroses and Newsoms and Pelosis and Sir Cumference Pritzkers and the rest don't realize is, their bodies will end up in the same mass graves as the rest of us should their team win. "And the beturbaned bald whore Ilhan Omar shall inherit Minnesota."
It's the new Somalia that you worked so hard to build. Not you personally, but many liberal Jews and White Christians. If you don't believe me, just compare their flag to Minnesota's flag. That's no coincidence, it's destiny!
That wasn't me, that was Soros and Soetoro. Thanks to them, we got alias "Ilhan Omar" marrying her brother, fucking a married staffer on her desk, being married to at least two men at once, and the destruction of the Twin Cities while the bribe-taking governor and his imbecile wife keep the windows open so they can enjoy the sounds and aromas of rioting and police stations and businesses burning and people being murdered for being white.
You believe any goddamned lie that furthers the destruction of this country. I don't know whether you're some early-20s college boy who hasn't experienced lufe, or if you're somebidy who feels you shoukd be rounding third and headed for home (great riches) without doing anything for it; either way, Marxism results in death and poverty, despite what that asshole Sanders and his acolytes in the media want you to believe.
You mean the pollsters who get everything wrong? Lying scum. Polls are not about reflecting opinions, they’re about shaping narratives and influencing opinion. Shows how smart you are that you believe them.
Corey Comperatore’s family might have disagreements with that false flag theory, as might David Dutch and James Copenhaver.who have lasting injuries from that shooting that didn’t happen.
Nobody shot Trump. His minders pushed him up in full view to do the ridiculous Iwo Jima pastiche for the hero worshippers, without checking if there were other shooters (in other words they KNEW because they arranged it all). Security people don't do that. EVER.
No, moron! A gun is capable of more than one shot, especially an AR15. I realize you can’t comprehend more than one thing at a time, but jeez you’re stupid.
There was definitely something wrong with Butler, but more like a failed inside job. Ballistics are notoriously difficult on moving targets, and unlike Trumps speech yesterday all the networks were covering him as if they had been told his head was going to explode.
Let's put you on a stage and have someone take a shot at you with a rifle, and take a chunk out of your ear as your head turns. Would that be fake too?
You mean its not completely reasonable that the SS just didn't "do" slopey roofy-ish surfaces, because well they are high above the ground , and all slopey like ?
Thanks for correcting me. I was searching for the right word and chose wrong. Yet.............inside job, then who was in on it and why? Both Biden and Trump's administrations seemed to have buried this. It begs the question, why.
Just the kind of pathetic, scabrous response one expects from fanatics.
I don't have a dog in the fight. I don't live in your country. I know what's coming next. You will fall for that too.
The Iwo Jima pastiche was truly convincing. 🤣🤣 They just shoved him up there in full view without checking where there might be other shooters. I guess there's nothing you won't fall for.
I'll text a friend who hunted bad guys in the mountains of Afghanistan with his spotter and ask how quickly a sniper team can locate and eliminate all threats in an area similar to where Trump was shot. I'd think it would be faster in a relatively flat area than mountainous areas, though trees and buildings might affect that.
Speaking of fanatics, for someone who claims to not care, you sure seem intent on ensuring the genuinely bad people defeat, maybe even exterminate anyone to the right of Joe Stalin living in the US. I guess that makes you the pogrom pompom girl.
This place is full of such bright and informed sparks that all they can do is insult people. You carry on Dianne, dear. I won't be descending to your level.
Even if you believe NOTHING ELSE from Trump's speech last night, a quarter of a million foreigners on the voter rolls of just FOUR STATES should alarm you. If it doesn't, you've got a problem. From those stats, one can easily assume that at least half a million people nationwide are not eligible to vote in states that do not require any identification. That is literally a national disgrace.
The estimate is that California alone has two million illegal aliens living in it.
Many of those applied for and got a driver's license under the Motor Voter ID Act.
When the driver's license is applied for, they are signed up to vote automatically unless they hit the decline button.
The first year alone, California crowed about signing up over 300,000 people.
When this was started, they used a matrícula consular card, which at the time had no safety nets and could have any name and their picture on it.
Mexico supposedly fixed this issue, but at one time they were catching illegals with multiple cards.
They were used to turn on power, which they never bothered to pay the bill, and when the electric company turned off the power for lack of payment, they just pulled another card out and got it turned back on.
Once the driver's license was established, they just needed a bill sent via snail mail.
I believe it's safer to say that at least 5 million voters are ineligible, since absolutely NONE of the blue states would let their voter rolls be audited.
Probably, but I’m just going by the receipts we have at the moment. We’ll get the rest of them; I’m sure they’re in the millions. And there’s no argument for them at all. There’s no justification. Whether they actually do vote or not. Having foreigners on the voter rolls opens up an entry point for anyone from anywhere to pad, in the name of, which was how Pratt was dropped from 2nd to 3rd in LA’s mayoral mail-in ballot count.
That was kind of my thinking as well . The number the president cited was from states that are willing to comply with reasonable oversight and safeguards . The visible tip of an enormous iceberg .
As I've said begore, I got into trouble at my polls one time after moving because I pulled out my ID and showed it to a poll worker. You would've thought I'd pulled out a copy of the Bible at a meeting of the Church of Satan from their reaction. Same thing happened a few years ago because I wore an Oakland A's hat to the polls: the elephant embroidered on the hat along with the "A's" logo was "electioneering." They told me to take off the hat or come back later. I turned it inside-out, took my ballot, and voted. (The A's have gad an elephant as a symbol for over a century, ever since John McGraw said Connie Mack's team, then located in Filthydelphia, was "a white elephant.")
Why do you think they label themselves as sanctuary states? Politically, power in a republic depends on population. You want power? Bring in people that believe as you do.
They know that it is a felony, and dread being caught and chucked out of Murica! After all, what's in it for them in voting and taking that risk? Zippo!
Bringing in illegal people that believe as you do to vote is a non sequitur.
"After the 2016 election, the Brennan Center for Justice, which advocates for voting rights, surveyed local election officials in 42 jurisdictions with high immigrant populations and found just 30 cases of suspected noncitizens voting out of 23.5 million votes cast, or 0.0001%.
An audit in Georgia showed 20 suspected noncitizens on the rolls out of 8.2 million registered voters (0.00024% of the state's list). Nine had a history of voting and all 20 were referred to law enforcement.
While the conservative Heritage Foundation has actively promoted claims about the risk of noncitizens voting, its own data suggests how rare these cases are. The Washington Post reviewed a Heritage database of voter fraud cases and found only 85 cases relating to allegations of noncitizens voting between 2002 and 2023.
A widely contested 2014 paper by researchers at Old Dominion University has fueled exaggerated claims about noncitizen voting rates. The study, which was led by political scientist Jesse Richman, drew its conclusions from an online survey known as the Cooperative Election Survey. A small number of respondents had indicated they were noncitizens and that they had voted. Richman’s paper used that data to estimate that 6.4% of noncitizens voted in 2008. But that estimate immediately came under fire. The developers of the CES survey wrote a rebuttal, detailing how Richman’s research was methodologically unsound because the small subset of people who reported being noncitizen voters could easily have been citizens who had simply selected the wrong box.
Nevertheless, Trump seized on and distorted Richman’s estimates to fuel false claims in 2016 that millions of noncitizens had illegally voted. In the aftermath, some 200 political scientists wrote an open letter rejecting the 2014 paper. That didn’t stop the website "Just Facts" from publishing a report in May based on the paper’s discredited estimates. That report made the disputed claim that 10% to 27% of noncitizens are illegally registered to vote, which went viral on X and was cited in congressional testimony.
Richman has since revised down his estimate for national noncitizen voter registration rates to just under 1%, and participation to half a percent.
By focusing on baseless allegations about noncitizens voting in the upcoming election, Trump and his allies appear to be laying the groundwork for potentially contesting the election.
"You can absolutely bet if Trump loses, he will claim there was widespread noncitizen voting without any evidence whatsoever," David Becker, the executive director of the Center for Election Innovation and Research, told NPR in September. "And that is going to incite anger and potentially violence."
Most liberals are scared shitless of making sense, or voting laws. This isn't about illegals. I mean, most dead people on voter rolls don't vote either. Especially the dead dead ones. Why are they there?
Well, I'll use the most recent LA mayoral race as an example. You mail out the ballots to EVERYONE on the voter rolls, dead, living, legal, illegal, and moved out of state, whether they asked for them or not. 23 million ballots are mailed out; 16 million statewide voters voted on Election Day. Of the 16 million, 6 million by mail-in. That leaves millions of ballots floating about the state. Ballots are harvested by canvassers in apartment lobbies where postmen leave stacks. Names without addresses are gathered. Signatures without verification. Mail-in ballots are then counted after election day. 5 weeks to count the ballots. Wow. And you're telling me 200 fucking political scientists are cool with that? This shit is crazy. Nobody should be cool with that. Then people like you say you can't prove anything. Well, isn't that the God damned point? Not to be able to prove a damn thing?
Look, one vote, one person on Election Day. Liberals will transform overnight; they will begin listening to the people. Right now, they are running a scam, and they got half the country covering for them.
But my comment was to debunk JohnAZ's claim that "Politically, power in a republic depends on population. You want power? Bring in people that believe as you do."
Bringing in aliens to pad the vote is male bovine excrement. Widespread noncitizen voting has been soundly debunked by the examples I quoted.
You know nothing about what is going on in the US, you ignorance is growing. Your credibility is approaching zero. Good advice, shut up about things you know nothing about. Turn around, worry about NZs future, and mind your own damn business.
Here is the rub. Who sets the standards for the country? Who makes the laws? Who defines what treason is? Those same halls of government. The same people that are protecting their DC hegemony by killing the SAVE attitude. The worst offenders are the RINOs.
The uni-party is real and is a subset of the workings of the Deep State. Again, the Deep State’s unifying dogma is the preservation and ascendency of the federal government. The Deep State contains elements from both parties but is Federalist in culture, so It is centered to the Left, desiring central control. Its ascent accompanies the ascent of the Lefty-left democratic socialists. In 1955, these people would be inhabiting the slammer for treason.
President Trump looks tired, hope he hangs in. Response to speech last night was as anticipated, but Sen. Mark Warner and Rhino Sen. Thom Tillis were insufferable. One of them made comment (can't remember which one) that China's possession of 220-million voter registrations, plus social security files ...was "public Information". Smug Sen. Tillis (especially) deserves a knuckle sandwich.
Interesting how willing they all are to dismiss this information but jumped all over the Russian collusion hoax like hobos fighting over a ham sandwich.
That's an inaccurate take on it. There's nobody questioning that we have foreign adversaries trying to impact our elections by any means necessary, but what nobody has provided is evidence that votes have been changed by foreign actors. One of the documents released by Trump actually highlights and states that.
Yes...we need to ensure fair, free, accurate elections, but there's zero evidence that we haven't been having those. There are plenty of "claims" but no evidence to back it up.
Trump's speech alluded to issues but stopped far short of proving them.
One problem with your statement, there is zero evidence that the elections are fair, citizen only based. The investigations were halted in 2021 by Deep State judges, so we never heard if there were “problems”. Your argument is only half true.
There were 3 wall-to-wall audits of swing state election results...and found zero evidence of anything nefarious.
Oddly...those audit results didn't tamp down the conspiracy theories one bit.
Is the issue the facts themselves or that people ignore them because they don't WANT to believe them?
If you guys had evidence that was compelling...then I would start to question things, but every single rabbit hole you guys mention...I go down and find them to be BS.
So they recounted the fake ballots three times? BFD! Oddly, counting the same ballots over and over doesn’t mean a thing. There were also over 1000 sworn affidavits (under penalty of law) of illegal handling of ballots that that were ignored.
Isolated cases of voter fraud do occur. People have been prosecuted for casting illegal ballots or voting improperly. But isolated fraud is a completely different claim from saying the 2020 election was stolen by widespread fraud. That extraordinary claim requires extraordinary evidence.
Instead, the evidence usually presented consists of hundreds or thousands of affidavits. An affidavit is simply a sworn statement that someone believes they saw something. It is not proof that election fraud actually occurred. Courts still have to determine whether the witness is credible, whether they actually observed what they think they observed, and whether their testimony establishes illegal conduct rather than a misunderstanding.
Rudy Giuliani repeatedly presented election-fraud allegations that courts found unsupported, and his conduct later became a basis for disciplinary proceedings that resulted in the loss of his New York law license.
Many of the major claims made in Georgia, Arizona, and other states were investigated through recounts, audits, or official reviews and did not substantiate claims of outcome-changing fraud. That doesn't mean every election is perfect—it means allegations still have to be backed by evidence.
Even 2,000 Mules, which was widely cited as proof of massive ballot trafficking, unraveled. Its distributor, Salem Media, apologized, stopped distributing the film, and removed it from its platforms after one of the people portrayed sued for defamation.
If someone wants to claim the election was stolen, they need to present verifiable evidence that withstands scrutiny—not just allegations, affidavits, or theories that fall apart when investigated.
Reminds me of the MAGAs who I have argued with for years about Russia election interference. When I bring to their attention that Trump's campaign team met secretly with Russians and gave them a thumbdrive with polling data on it....the MAGA response? Polling data is public information.
If it was public information and not nefarious...why did they meet with the Russians in secret? Why did they lie under oath about it?
Just be consistent and I would respect the arguments...but you guys are NOT.
Part of the reason Trump enjoys so much support these days is because it is both much easier and much more fun to believe him... than to do the most basic investigation.
(But basic investigation is getting easier. Jeff acknowledges using AI to get his info. Such results should be taken with a grain of salt, but usually they're very solid these days. Usually AI provides citations for its summaries... and if anything looks incorrect in the AI summary it's worth looking at the citations.)
The beliefs of most people in this comment section on the topic of election fraud and the Russia investigation are a swamp of misinformation, disinformation, nonsense and (in rare cases) misleading facts.
Yes. Since Trump's arrival...it seems like the "Grandpa screaming from the Porch" has become a reality. Nobody needs any qualifications to have an opinion no matter how ludicrous.
The other thing impacting this is that people are getting wealthy from this crazy train. There's little incentive for the right wing media types to tell the truth when skirting it is much more lucrative.
Nope, the reason why he won and continues to win is that there is no alternative. Pockets of America may be falling under the influence of global socialists but the mainstream is anti-socialist. As long as the lefty idiots hold the reins in the DNC, MAGA will prevail.
I followed the Russian investigation very closely. I used AI to get today's details since I thought that would be more accurate than my failing mind.
Rather than "time on my hands"...I would couch it as having the proper priorities since there's a HECK of a lot of bad information going around...which poisons people's minds...and then they end up rejecting the truth.
Literally...people call the Russian thing a hoax when nothing could be further from the truth and that really pixxes me off.
What about the sources that disagree with your POV, aren’t they telling their edition of the truth and just as reliable?
The Truth? No such thing, just opinion. With all the bias that goes with it.
Along with Russia, Russia, Russia goes Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine with Joe, Victoria and Hunter. Russia has been shown to be BS by many witnesses, Ukraine is a proven and documented fact.
Take political bias out of it, which is the Truth?
" C'mon man " I was actually just being a smartass , no need to read anything more into it . Don't you remember the line from the movie " The Demolition Man " ? Its a future dystopian work , and so I use that line to describe the ultimate end or crony corporatization we are headed headlong into oif we don't decentralize both the State and the dwindling number of corporations that exersize near monopoly powers in our so called free markets . Both are bad ,and for my money both walk hand in hand with each other . Other than that I was totally just clownin' ,I do that a lot because I try not to take myself too seriously .
Your assuming that any of of us believe even your first assertion ,let alone the assertion that follows from it . I don't believe any of that , sounds like a Russia, Russia, Russia (made up BS ) hangover to me . Prove it .
We've covered this ground already I believe, Ben....but in case we haven't...here's my response:
You're asking a rhetorical question, not an honest one.
The Steele dossier isn't a single factual claim that can be answered "yes" or "no." It's a collection of intelligence reports containing dozens of separate allegations. Some have since been corroborated, some remain unverified, and some have not been substantiated. That's the nature of raw intelligence.
I'm pretty sure that my research of the Steel Dossier exceeds yours, but please...if I'm wrong...feel free to demonstrate it.
Here's an example using a dossier related UK court case that you probably weren't even aware existed. It is the UK defamation case brought by Webzilla against Christopher Steele's company (Orbis) accusing him of defaming them when he said that Russia used their IT infrastructure to attack the DNC. During that litigation, Orbis presented Anthony Ferrante—a former FBI cyber official and former Director for Cyber Incident Response at the National Security Council—who concluded there was technical evidence that infrastructure associated with Webzilla had been used in Russian cyber operations. He did not conclude the company knowingly participated, but did show evidence that their IT infrastructure had been used...citing IP addresses and other IT forensic evidence.
I cite this case because it demonstrates that what Steele put in the dossier wasn't just fabricated bullshix. This particular claim about Webzilla's IT infrastructure being used by Russia was found to be true. Damn...that's some serious fabricated BS isn't it? He must know something worthy of listening if he nailed that incredibly narrow detail about Webzilla.
So instead of asking whether "the Steele dossier" is true, tell me which specific allegation you want to discuss. That's how serious people evaluate evidence—not by pretending an entire intelligence file can be reduced to one word.
Pshaw was the wordle word the other day and sent players into an uproar that it wasn’t a real word. Until your comment, I hadnt heard it used since I was a kid in the late 70s or 80s. Excellent.
Thank you Mr Kunstler. You are the best writer on Substack. Hashem is with the righteous of the world. But you are His spokesperson. We will be victorious in regaining our freedom. It may take time. But time is all we need. Trump is indeed the ultimate American brave determined HERO. GOD BLESS THE UNITED STATES AND ALL THE GOOD CITIZENS WHO ARE PRAYING TO GOD FOR SUCCESS.
What kind of deranged "God" would bless a nation that has been at war killing folk for the entire 250-years of its existence, Catherine?
And supplies bombs to a foreign war criminal, knowing full well he is going to drop them on kids and women, hospitals and refugee camps?
Turn on Al Jazeera! American bombs are being used today to re-bomb Gaza. No shit! You know, the remaining starving and sick folks sheltering in the rubble from the last bombing!
Christians believe that God has planned everything, and that includes planning for some people to go to hell, and there's nothing you can do about it, since that would go against God's plan.
“Did Jesus resurrect?” “Yep!” “Is he still alive?” “Yep!” “Cool, then can I see him?” “We’ll, it’s complicated…”
“God wants to get to know you!” Bro….like he created me! WTF.
People put in far too much effort to still end up being wrong.
The God excuse: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument.
“These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.” - 'American Crisis No. 1' published 12/19/1776 - Thomas Paine
Rubio outlined the landscape the violent leftwing terrorists use to undermine free nations: the funding, the training, the logistics, the media, academia and fellow traveller politicians who hate America. He's calling for a 911-type response to eradicate Communism/Socialism/Progressivism from America and like-minded nations.
A recent Stanford/Rutgers study posed politically controversial questions to six major AI brands and analyzed the political slant of each set of responses. It found that eighty per cent of the time Open AI presents only left-leaning views. At the other end of the spectrum, it found that Google AI offers both sides of an issue ninety-three per cent of the time.
So I just asked Google AI “how the SAVE Act would effect voting in America” and a host of one-sided responses popped up, asserting that the act is an evil attempt to wreck our democracy by keeping responsible citizens from voting.
I then changed my query to “what voting and ballot counting abuses is the SAVE Act designed to correct” and still got nothing but a list of reasons why the SAVE Act should be defeated.
No matter how I reworded my query, I could not elicit a response that would recognize the SAVE Act as a legitimate measure to correct identifiable abuses.
As a United State citizen I must have a legal photo ID to buy alcoholic beverages, or tobacco products, or to drive a motor vehicle, to apply for taxable employment, or open a bank account. Yet the opponents of the SAVE Act are determined to protect the right of anyone, explicitly including illegal aliens, to vote for our elected officials without the system having a clue as to who actually cast the vote.
The outrage is not just that the current widespread abuses of our citizen’s right to vote delegitimize the process; it’s that they are designed to do so.
Is that the "failing Communist country" that is well on its way to replacing the US as the next hegemon, Ben? Eating that failing capitalist countries lunch by all criteria.
For 60 years, the Chinese economy has been crashing every year, every month, every week, every news edition. It will never happen.
However, US Banks are failing left and right... LOL!
1990. The Economist. China's economy has come to a halt.
1996. The Economist. China's economy will face a hard landing
1998. The Economist: China's economy entering a period of sluggish growth.
1999. Bank of Canada: Likelihood of a hard landing for the Chinese economy.
2000. Chicago Tribune: China currency move nails hard landing risk coffin.
2001. Wilbanks, Smith & Thomas: A hard landing in China.
2002. Westchester University: China Anxiously Seeks a Soft Economic Landing
2003. KWR International: How to find a soft landing if China..
2004. The Economist: The great fall of China?
2005. Nouriel Roubini: The Risk of a Hard Landing in China
2006. International Economy: Can China Achieve a Soft Landing?
2007. TIME: Is China's Economy Overheating? Can China avoid a hard landing?
2008. Forbes: Hard Landing In China?
2009. Fortune: China's hard landing. China must find a way to recover.
2010. Nouriel Roubini: Hard landing coming in China.
2011. Business Insider: A Chinese Hard Landing May Be Closer Than You Think
2012. American Interest: Dismal Economic News from China: A Hard Landing
2013. Zero Hedge: A Hard Landing In China 2014. CNBC: A hard landing in China.
2015. Forbes: Congratulations, You Got Yourself A Chinese Hard Landing ….
2016. The Economist: Hard landing looms for China
2017. National Interest: Is China's Economy Going To Crash?
2020. Economics Explained: The Scary Solution to the Chinese Debt Crisis
2021. Global Economics: Has China's Downfall Started?
2022. Cathie Wood: China’s COLLAPSE Is FAR Worse Than You Think
2022. Business Basics: China’s Economic Crisis, GDP is Crashing.
It appears likely that China may soon blow up the US business model for AI, by providing a similar or superior product at lower cost, while using a small fraction of the energy to do it.
Since speculation on fabulous AI cost savings has caused the market lemmings to continued to jack up the Dow, pricking that bubble may have catastrophic consequences for our economy.
"As a United State citizen, I must have a legal photo ID to buy alcoholic beverages, or tobacco products, or to drive a motor vehicle, to apply for taxable employment, or open a bank account. Yet the opponents of the SAVE Act are determined to protect the right of anyone, explicitly including illegal aliens, to vote for our elected officials without the system having a clue as to who actually cast the vote."
Do you think the average Murican has even seen Monty Python, Howard?
Actually, I think another John Cleese scene could be used to describe Murica ~ taunting the English knights!
You don't frighten us, English pig-dogs! Go and boil your bottom, sons of a silly person. I blow my nose at you and all your silly English k-nnnnniggets.
I don't wanna talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper! I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!
The level of discourse in the home of the brave and the land of the free!
The trouble is, "conservative AI" is just an adversary for "Liberal AI," when what we need is Objective AI. But, since AI is nothing more than some subset of recorded human discourse, run through a blender and sold as a Smoothie™, that may be too much to ask for.
From a Facebook post, Clayton Wood makes a point of noting that there are many states that don’t even check IDs. Quoting He said:
“Here is the bar with no doorman, by name. These are the states, plus Washington D.C., that let a voter cast a regular ballot at the polls with no documentation of any kind, photo or otherwise:
California
Illinois
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Minnesota
Nevada
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
Pennsylvania
Vermont
Washington D.C.
Look at that list. Some of the most consequential states in the country for deciding who runs Washington do not ask a single voter to prove who they are before handing them a ballot.” Unquote.
Analyses in 2026 estimate that roughly one third of the U.S. population lives in states where no ID document is required at the polls, with the rest under some form of ID rule, from “just sign an affidavit” to strict photo ID.
Now set that beside ordinary life in America. You are routinely asked to show government‑issued ID in order to:
- Buy alcohol or tobacco
- Enter a bar or 21+ venue
- Board a commercial flight
- Check into a hotel
- Rent a car
- Open a bank account or cash certain checks
- Pick up some prescriptions
- Buy a firearm or ammunition
- Rent an apartment or apply for a mortgage
- Set up many utilities in your name
- Start a job and complete the I‑9 form
- Pick up certain packages from the post office or delivery services
- Buy some over‑the‑counter medicines and “age‑restricted” products
- Enter many government buildings or secure facilities
- Donate blood or adopt a pet
In other words, we treat identity verification as a completely normal, almost trivial expectation for an enormous range of activities that are, frankly, of far less civic consequence than choosing who writes the laws and commands the military.
And yet, when the conversation turns to voting, we are told—almost always by Democrats and progressive advocacy groups—that asking for an ID at the polls "is a grave threat to turnout and an unacceptable barrier for poor and minority voters." The same adults who somehow manage to obtain ID to fly, bank, work, sign leases, buy alcohol, pick up meds, and navigate every other corner of modern life are suddenly presumed incapable of producing that same ID to cast a ballot once every year or two. We accept the premise that ID is a reasonable cost of participating in basic commerce, but an intolerable burden when it comes to exercising the most basic act of self‑government.
If the “no ID needed” standard is so essential to protect participation, why not apply it consistently? Why not abolish ID checks for flying, for buying alcohol, for firearms purchases, for employment verification, for banking and housing, and for every other item on that list? No one serious is proposing that, because we all instinctively understand that identity matters, that fraud and abuse are real risks, and that a modest documentation requirement is a reasonable safeguard. The fact that this common sense evaporates the moment we reach the voting booth tells you that the debate is not really about capacity or burden; it is about preserving a system whose laxity and asymmetry just happen to benefit one side of our politics.
This is a truly preposterous way to run a republic and needs to stop. The Save America Act must become law without further delay.
A lot of data to show that Blue states remain Blue states by manipulating elections and influence the federal government accordingly. With state’s right what they are, it is legit. So how do you show the fools, the gimmes in the Blue states that their political views will lead to their downfall?
"A lot of data".... come on John, you have to do better than that!
Better question..." How do you show the fools, the vampire blood sucking capitalists in all states, that their political views are leading to their downfall?
There are days I really want to say eff it to all this, but something inside just will not let me walk away in a trance, which is what I think our enemies would like us to do. Right?
Walk away, like a sleep walker who knows not what he is doing and will piss in the trash can in the bathroom instead of the toiltet because he is sleeping walking through life.
Some of us can't be content with that way of life.
This all about this phony concept of "freedom" Americans cling to.
"an unacceptable barrier for poor and minority voters" WTF!
It's all bullshit!
The US is full of unacceptable barriers for poor and minority folk.
And nobody gives a damn about that.
Democratic principles are reflected in all ELIGIBLE citizens being equal before the law and having equal access to legislative processes. Can't prove you are ELIGIBLE (and have only voted once) ~ There's the door! Fuck right off!
I agree the Save America Act must become law.
So the US joins the club of all other functional Democracies...erm....Republics. LOL
Having tracked this hoodwinkery more closely than most in my circle of friends/acquaintances, I don't think any of it will amount to much. The deep state is simply more entrenched than most people's minds can reconcile. Plain and simple: normal people aren't wired for deception at that level. We all deceive when it suits us, but not with the calculation and willingness that politicians and spooks bring to it.
Trumps association with Palantir, pump n’ dump crypto scams, and using the wars to make money for insiders while draining the SPR are adding to the skepticism of 18 months with zero heads on spikes. If the man dies then does that mean we are going to being ruled by a transhumanist technocracy with based memes?
I fear so. According to Musk, nearly a billion humanoid robots will exist in this country in five years not to mention the singularity movement. With Peter Theil’s powerful influence (including his bestie, J D Vance) on the president, I’m beginning to wonder how much power our president actually has, despite his insistence our country is the most powerful, richest and whatever his favorite adjectives: incredible, awesome and more incredible.
Perhaps we have one more human president in future. But these AI fascist billionaires (from our taxes) all have built bunkers for themselves with hydroponic gardens. Wonder why that is?
The key point here is that declassifying these docs (very publicly) allows acceleration of grand jury proceedings, with any luck enabling indictments before midterms, which would IMO be quite energizing for the base of normal people who are sick of these thieving criminals, foreign and domestic, making a mockery of our self-governance and sovereignty. We live in hope.
The “influence” of the Deep State must be overcome before any attack on its constituents will happen. This is the very frustrating truth. Seventy years of Leftist control of DC, yes, 70 years, have honed the skills of the Deep State to block populist movements, like Trump. It is still the Deep State against the people.
Exactly right.
Ike warned us, but knew that nothing could stop the swamp at that time.
I remember Clinton and Elain Gonzalez. Do you? Remember Clinton and his Gestapo in action at Waco? How about the Govt shooting deadly terrorists armed with deadly babies at Ruby Ridge? Ike built that.
"Ike built that."
WTF?
You're losing me here.
No way can you put the blame for any part of Elián González, Waco, or Ruby Ridge on Ike.
Randy Weaver's family was murdered by that gutless bastard Lon Horiuchi.
That punk was an FBI sniper and the FBI was around long before Ike became President.
Remember Obama's use of the IRS to crush the Tea Party movement. Yet who was punished?
"enabling indictments before midterms" .... bbwwwahhhaa. Surely you jest
Frank-- You must think that remark makes you sound smart.
No, it makes him a realist!
No, it makes him a tool of the left, just like you and that pretend "Combat Foto" clown.
Am loving watching all you lefty whack-jobs crying in your latte's.
It is possible to rise above Elephants vs. Donkeys and analyze the situation and, going on past performance, one could realistically predict bupkis indictments by Nov. 3 (a mere 3.5 months away).
Methinks we're not in D vs R country anymore Dorothy.
TRUMP: "WE TOOK OUT 99% OF IRAN'S MISSILES" - THEN 7 COUNTRIES GOT HIT - w/ Gerald Celente
"Trump promised no nore war"
https://www.youtube.com/live/H6aa0V29eaU?si=z3iulgw1IsulZWnk
I'll take that bet.
It highlights his job at Dewey, Soakum and Howe.
Dilley, Dally, Dolittle, and Stahl?
What's that ? Must be a government contracted consulting firm ? Lol ." Dewey, Cheatem And Howe " was a private sector Law Firm .
Exactly.
Trump came off like an babbling, incoherent dolt last night. The curtain was pulled back and what the American public saw was a man lost in his own world of megalomania and self-righteousness that he could only hear the words that were at the back of his throat. Despite the best efforts of the pro-Trump media, Trump's cognitive decline was there for all of us to see. The fact that you still defend him tells me everything I need to know about your mental state.
Hilary, didn't they tell you to stop sending these unauthorized comments from the home?
Hum...I thought that might be George W. Bush trying to relevant again.
He sure knows all about being a "babbling, incoherent dolt".
😉
It has all the earmarks of Bill.
Oh Snoo!
It's Snee, Jarek, Snee!
Can't tell if this is Jill or Big Mike.
Trump once admitted that to the extent he reads, he mostly reads about himself.
Like yourself huh?
https://www.kunstler.com/p/acceleration/comment/296800471
Well, how else is he going to know about all the bad things he has been doing?
So the alternative to his message is that our elections are totally on the up and up eh ? Who's the babbling and incoherent dolt now Georgie boy ?
You underestimate Trump. Of course there will be indictments before the midterms.
Where the hair splits, is that the DOJ, the extended judiciary and the civilian court system are all legally 'tricked out' to say whatever the highest bidder wants, with dragging on kangaroo courts till the end of the next millennium; defiantly mocking US. Alternatively, these prosecutions must [legally] be forwarded to the military system. Quick justice, sentencing and punishment meted out (gavel crack, "Next!") hundreds and thousands a day...who doesn't love efficiency? (That's the only military I agree to fund.)
In this case, the indictments won't matter for the election results; there is no one still on the fence.
It's not about the fence; it's about effective mobilization against the black-pill brigade while demoralizing the other side and, God willing, instituting more effective procedures with controls/oversight to reduce cheating as much as possible (whether or not the SAVE Act can be passed).
Please understand they are still trying to turn people to the dark side not understanding that the vast majority of people have already made up their minds.
Why else would 90% of stories about Trump be negative, even when provably incorrect or downright lies?
The vast majority of people are sheep. That's why we are lucky to get a 50% turn out. If people cared they'd vote out these corrupt thieves. That's why nations collapse and revolutions occur.
I would not write off that large a percentage of We the People as oblivious. I don't know anyone who isn't aware. Not that there aren't plenty of dolts out there.
"It would seem appropriate, first, to demand that the Taliban government of the poor and wretched nation of Afghanistan produce the terrorist Osama Bin Ladin and his assistants and place them in the hands of NATO authorities within a very brisk time frame. Failure to comply ought to result in the complete destruction of Kabul and other Taliban-controlled towns.
Second, the people of Iraq should be warned to depart their capital city, Baghdad, which should then be completely destroyed.
The nation of Israel should begin immediately the deportation of Palestinians from the West Bank to the Kingdom of Jordan. The people of Gaza Strip should be transported to Egypt, and the Gaza incorporated into the state of Israel.
The government of Syria should be notified to begin evacuations of Damascus pending its destruction within a short time frame. Ditto Tripoli, capital of Lybia."
~ James Howard Kunstler,
https://www.kunstler.com/p/the-clusterfuck-nation-chronicle-240?utm_source=publication-search
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Hate Mail Sent to Jim
https://web.archive.org/web/20160421044235/http://kunstler.com/Grunt_hate_mail.html
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" 'Very good! Keep fooling the naive Americans they will swallow the Commie Jewish crap what Soros (Schwartz) of Hungary whispers into the Kenyan Messiah ears!
Luckily we got rid of the Judeobolsheviks like you so keep feeding Das Kapital to the idiots.
Go Sarah! Go Sarah! Ignore the Commie Jews! They destroyed every host country on earth next will be the USA and Israel. (Jstreet Obamabots)'
– Danubius Rex
belawer@freemail.hu
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'HI JIM , I AM MINDY AND I AM NOW A SOPHMORE AT THE U . I READ THE ZESTY, NAZI HATE MAIL SECTION OF YOUR SELF FUNDED WEBSITE AND YOU ARE ONE INSECURE LITTLE GUY. ALOT OF YOUR READERS LIKE SOME BUT NOT ALL OF YOUR DRIVEL BUT THAT DOESNT MEAN THAT THEY GO TO NEO NAZI MEETINGS IN IDAHO . YOU ARE A ZIONIST JIM AND YOU KNOW IT. JUST AS ISRAEL OVER REACTS TO PALESTINIANS, LEBANESE AND LETS NOT FORGET PEACE FLOTILLA HUMANITARIANS =========== EVERYONE WHO GIVES NEGATIVE FEEDBACK TO JHK IS TO BE OUTED AS A JEW HATER. NOT SO YOU SLIMY LITTLE NO TALENT POSEUR. ONE DOES NOT HAVE TO HATE JEWS TO DISLIKE YOU. PS, I LIKE YOUR POUF TAKE ON ARCHITECTURE .VERY PISS ELEGANT.'
grater57835@mypacks.net
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'Hi Jim,
Unfortunately, your writing is becoming unreadable. I figured that the only kind of person who would actually believe the baloney you're spewing is someone who was saturated with Zionist propoganda, somewhere along the line.
Let me say that again: based on your writing, I hypothesized that you were probably absorbing Zionist propoganda somewhere -- which probably meant that you were Jewish, since Jews are obviously more exposed to Zionist propoganda, at least of the flavor that comes out in your writing.
Bingo! Wikipedia says you were born to Jewish parents in New York City.
I hope you have higher aspirations in life than to be a parrot for Zionist propoganda.
We'll see.'
Nate
nate@nateandryoko.com
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From: lennart080@hotmail.com
Subject: Israel, right to defend itself?
Date: January 12, 2009
'Israel, right to defend itself?
I would say no. How can a country that have no right to exist have a right to defend itself?
You know very well what happened in 1948. Or should know. I refer you to Israeli historian Ilan Pappé.
The Jews massacred and expelled 800 000 Palestinians, the rightful owners of the country. Therefore Israel has no right to exist. It is built on a crime.
Of course, ordinary dumbass Yanks don't have a clue about this. How could they? Living inside the Jewish owned American media bubble.
Oh, so that's a conspiracy theory? With no basis in reality?'
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Deborah Frisch (dfrisch@pobox.com) wrote:
'...Concerning your comments on Israel: By your reasoning, if a neighbor's dog shits on your lawn you would be justified in blowing up the poor animal with a rocket launcher while the neighbor's children watched. And if that didn't teach the fuckers a lesson you would shoot all his friends in their sleep as well...
Why don't you take some of your shekels and go buy yourself a conscience...'
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'...Jim, do you really want to publish my letter so that you can look like an even bigger horse's ass than you already are?
Besides, I don't really go on the internet very much as I have a LIFE and cant be bothered to cross swords with a puny little shit fountain like yourself.
Your letters will only be returned unopened.
Take a chill pill dude, then go get your gun and pose in front of the mirror and keep telling yourself:
"I am one of the chosen people....I am one of the chosen people....I am one of the chosen people.........."
Toodles ! ....... Victoria
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'Dear Jim,
Well it does look like the Zionists will no longer be able to 'use up' America for its insane and bullshit policies in the Middle East. I predict that America will be liberated from Jewish control very soon.
Yours,
Thomas'
Pochariwww.worldaffairsmonthly.com
--pochari@worldaffairsmonthly.com
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'I pray Iran shuts off the oil supply. I pray Amerika is shut down. Fuck Amerika. Fuck Israel.'
-- indydoug@knac.com
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'James I bought your book, but I did not know you are a total ZIONIST POODLE!'
-- skimick@hotmail.com
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'Isn't it about time for you to don your kevlar yarmulke, your best earring, and man the duty bunk in Haifa, Jimbo?'
--bill@home.com
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'It amazes me that you can be such a keen observer of human affairs on one level and be so catastrophically ignorant and misinformed when it comes to the mid-east. Idiot savant comes to mind. . . . NOT wipe out the Jews! Just that festering pustule on the rectum of the Earth, Israel.'
-- jmirving@connectnc.net
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'Is it because you're Jewish that you heap your contempt on what are principally the victims? It certainly appears so. And, if it is so, don't you think your credibility has been flushed down the toilet?'
--ccm@ccountry.net
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'You are so absolutely wrong about the nature of Hezbollah and the roots of the ongoing anti-semetic ethnic cleansing policy of the Israelis that you now have zero credibility. You are a member of the Death Party like so many others in the US Empire.'
--karlof1@actionnet.net
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'Wow! Looks like the NEOCON Rightwing has finally found their Peak Oil point man, and his name is James Howard Kunstler. . . . Listen up Israel! With friends like JHK, who needs enemies? He's willing to put a knife in your back too!'
--gryphon@tripleaspect.com
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'It's such a shame that with all your intelligence and insight you can't muster the clarity of mind required to rise above primitive tribal loyalty. The recent war crimes of the Israeli government (as distinct from 'the Jews', so don't even go there) are manifestly obvious to the most casual objective observer. In your 14 August essay you sound like nothing more than the basest, racist neocon hack.
Such a shame...'
David Orr
--davidorr@mchsi.com
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'You know what you sound like? Just another dumb fucking American who thinks its government's primary interest lays in something other than self preservation - no matter how many people get slaughtered along the way.'
-- aaron.horne@shaw.ca"
How do you control the shanking in your boots and the wetting of your depends?
Do answer this question yourself please.
The sarcasm was fine. Nothing is likely to happen in the form of indictments.
Google and follow and read: Gary Berntsen cia, Martin Rodil, author Ralph Pezzullo book "Stolen Elections".
These guys explain the corruption in the voting machines and the cats behind it.
Great article JHK. Thanks for helping our nation couurse correct.
Belling- I absolutely LOVE your screen name. I wonder how many people even know what it refers to.
A fable...............
A most instructive one.
Grimms far better!
Col. Towner-Watkins made that point, as well.
Excellent essay! Seems like Microsoft was the landing pad for more than a few miscreants… I wonder what operating system every government computer runs on…. 🤔 Why, oh why, does Gonorrhea Gates have to have his meddlesome monkey-poxxed paws in everything?
The other day Warren Buffet commented on his decision to have his estate distributed to charities of his children's choosing, cancelling his previous decision to allow the Gates Foundation to do it. He said no one bats a thousand at judging character.
It will just go to a different group of anti-human, progressive "charities."
Perhaps. Howard, his son who was Sheriff down in Decatur, Illinois isn't a sheltered wimp like a lot of rich kids and if you see what he did charity wise in the Decatur area, I think he may surprise to the upside. Fingers crossed.
I mean, he was going to give it to Bill Gates, and is only now not doing so because of a sex scandal, not for ideological reasons.
A scandal reveals flaws. Some serious ones were exposed here.
Billy had a pretty bad std.
Yup. The Insiders/Elites/Connected/DeepStaters/Uber-Wealthy/PuppetMasters/fill-in-the-blankers all will sell their own mothers down the river if it's costing them money or power.
I will be shocked (and happily so) if Trump's efforts deliver real, positive results in the long term, within the U.S. political and legal system that's been warped beyond recognition. After all, Trump is on the inside and has been his whole life. But maybe he's got an axe to grind, and we'll see if he jackslaps some people around and makes things right.
But I ain't holding my breath.
If I want someone to lead the charge, I might pick the one that the opposition has spent twenty years trying to destroy. Trump.
Many Democrats are actually resisting the Israeli take over of America while only one or two Republicans are. But what Mr Kunstler says is all true nonetheless. Basically each party is a disaster and what the other party says about them is the case.
Tell us Bill Gates is way out the door without telling us Bill Gates is way out the door, Warren Buffet.
Interesting! Good to see that people are finally seeing past the millions of PR dollars he spent on creating his innocuous “Mr Rogers” persona!
Yes, you can always rely on Bill Gates and Microsoft for theft, crime (Win 11) and treason.
Gates is not alone in that regard. Few of the Tech oligarch's are worthy of anyone's praise. They all have one passion in mind......themselves, their wealth and how to get more of it in order to bend the world to their will and treason is the way to power for them..
OMG, we agree. In one statement. Why do the Silicon Valley geniuses go Democrat and inhabit California? Guess where their money comes from. Follow the money.
Hmmm, interesting thought. Now that half the Dems have gone insane and become anti-Israel, will the potential loss of Jewish sources of capital change some “hi-tech” minds?
The greatest source of capital is the USG. Democrats are addicted to government graft and the Tech Oligarch's are the same. Ask yourself why Trump committed $500B for the billionaires in tech to build out dat centers and put the tax payer on the hook for something only they might profit from?
No, because the rich jews appear to be self-hating and crazy.
A la better to rule in hell than serve in heaven.
No. Not since our president has made them into deities: Peter Theil (Palantir),
If we worked together (like they do), we wouldn't need their capital. It's the obsession with money and only money that has damned us. They never forget about their own collective well being like we do.
To some degree Ford broke away from that system and didn't need their money. Capital was draining away from NY, so they created the Federal Reserve to bring it all back.
My new phone came with three Microsoft apps already on it. I just now uninstalled the two that I could uninstall, and disabled the third one.
Thank you, Mr. Kunstler, for motivating me to do that!!
Yes, Microsoft, like Google, really does try to get its tentacles into absolutely everything.
Uninstalling garbage is SOP for any new (and you gotta watch they don't try to install more BS in updates!) technology platform.
And I just uninstalled a half-dozen POS add-ons, games I don't want, won't play, ain't interested in. I was watching "The Day the World Stopped" (the inspiration for "The Day the World Stood Still" which was inspiration for the Keanu Reeves one) that we are all most familiar with) and noticed the old-timey monitors, clunky things. You know, nobody had even thought of a computer virus then. The utter nonsense that passes for entertainment. Searching for the truth amongst the lies? Now? Don't get me started. It makes my blood pressure go up.
And what it gets its tentacles into does not function as it ought. This kind of one-two punch (stuff I don't want that is also stuff that doesn't work) is an integral part of societal demoralization. Microsoft Word and Excel are the only games in town. (Google Docs are just knock-offs.)
What occurred in 2020 was not merely a matter of alleged voter fraud, but an attack on the very foundations of our constitutional republic. When bureaucrats within government agencies withhold critical information from the President, they effectively aid efforts by foreign actors to undermine the nation. This extends well beyond the realm of ordinary law enforcement; it constitutes what I believe is an existential threat to the country. In my view, there is no meaningful distinction between foreign adversaries and those within the United States who knowingly act in concert to subvert the integrity of our elections.
Given these circumstances, I believe the President should invoke his executive authority under a declared national emergency to ensure that every vote cast is lawful and genuine. Those who vehemently oppose such measures, I contend, are constructively aligning with forces that seek to weaken the Republic. In my opinion, extraordinary military tribunals may represent the most expedient means of rooting out the internal threat.
me too. let us remember, Pres DJT is not running again. that gives him a lot of freedom to upset the apple cart. will he? I prefer to believe he believes that if not him then never and the whole USA experiment is over. while he is at it, I hope he revokes the licenses of NBC, CBS, ABC. they are part of the coup. and the coup is not just to fight DJT. It is to bring down the USA as we know it. (I know this sounds over the top. but mark my words.)
These broadcast networks should have their over the air spectrum licenses revoked. They can continue cable but the reason they have these Billions of Dollars worth of free spectrum is to report or convey to the people on things like Presidential speeches.
TO THIS DAY, no one has explained why all the networks were covering the Butler PA speech out of the blue, and why did NBC supposedly have an ultra high speed camera for a normally uncovered event???????
Going another direction, why don't these people all say, absolutely let us have a revisit or recounts and PROVE what wing nuts 2020 critics are, proving us wrong so they can mock and deride even more. Seems like a bunny shot if it is so absolutely false as they proclaim. The NYT did a forensic recount of 2000, only to prove to their disappointment that GWB won Florida by only hundreds of votes. Why so little enthusiasm when the margin of victory was supposedly millions? They all know and many were involved in the lies and the coverups. As they say "prove me wrong."
The Leftist hold on the nationwide Deep State is a monopoly on power. The federal judge hold on decision making is choking any counter movement. It is, Constitutionally the job of SCOTUS to stop this phony hold. With Roberts and Barrett in there, it is not going to happen.
I’m no Barrett fan, but this literally Roberts’ job.
They seem to be walking hand in hand, IMO.
Okay, but my point was that supervision of judges is the job of the Chief Justice. That’s Roberts, not Barrett.
Yes, why don't they want to prove us wrong? Because, they know they cheated! 81 million votes, my a$$.
Correct no way there are 81 million people stupid enough to vote for Joe Biden.
NBC is the worst: Jimmy Fallon, Seth Myers, Chuck Todd, Sat. Night LIve (not funny any more)
What about MSDNC and all the lying lunatics presenting there?
right. both of their viewers can do without.
You aren't blessed with seeing former WR Nate Burleson (because CBS thought it needed a black football player on its morning show, a la Michael Strahan on ABC), Orca's bff Gail King, and whoever occupies the third chair telling us testosterone levels are immaterial in men and that Trump doesn't know the truth about anything. Personally, I kind of wish Ed Reed had rung Burleson's bell a few times -- it might've knocked some sense into him.
FYI, I only see this crap because my wife insists on watching the local CBS affiliate every weekday morning. Between them and the dwarf the local station has delivering the "news," it drives me nuts, leading to "stop texting or you'll be late." I want to say, 'It's that, or I hurl something at the tv,' but that would get me into more trouble.
Ha, back in the 60s, the fans of the Denver Broncos hated Howard Cosell on MNF. A sharp entrepeneuer sold a bunch of Cosell nerf bricks to throw at the TV when he was on.
More trouble with the help meet? The so called wife?
Are you sure that DJT is not running again? FYI - That's not what Miriam Adelson says (speaking of internal threats seeking to weaken the Republic).
I'd take the bet. He is 80 yrs old, a target, etc. and likely he would be ruled ineligible by SCOTUS. Adelson will find someone else.
However, I am concerned. Is the next generation strong enough and anti-Deep State enough carry the torch against the communists? When Trump leaves, will the door be opened?
"the communists"...Jeez man you are a joke!
Have you heard Mark Halperin predicting Bernie Sanders will run? Says age is against him, but as far as Dems are concerned, it will be the only strike against him.
Revoking broadcast licenses would display a remarkable contempt for the First Amendment. That would be a very bad move.
It is so childish. Anytime anyone does something disfavored, little boys and girls scream for those accused to be punished. And, since their efforts are so ham-fisted, punishment rarely ensues.
They don't want to weaken our existing government. They want to overthrow it with a communist revolution funded by China, much of Ametica's own plutocracy, and a good many Islamist VIPs and governments.
On the left you have Bolshevism and on the right you have neocon-Zionism, they are the same people playing both sides with the same goal in mind.
No, that is not "neocon-Zionism." It is an alliance between the US and a key nation in the Middle East for important strategic reasons. . . so cut the bullshit.
The bull shite is contained within your argument and your propaganda in support of Israel ethnic cleansing enabled, as usual, by the USA. That is an alliance of criminal governments. Your snarling riposte reminds me of the Polish proverb......"The Jew cries out in pain as he strikes you with his fist." And the other hand is on your wallet.
They're not the same people. And I'm not in a good enough mood to be polite to anyone who believes the Jews all need to die because they're evil, other than that Gid intentionally puts tbem in a position to be a stumbling block to the rest of humanity so we don't all kill one another.
Dude, I don't care if you are polite, but I do care when you put words into my comment that are not there. I said nothing about all Jews needing to die. I made an accurate observation of the methods of deceit. You are suggesting they represent the salvation of mankind, the only people standing in the way of peaceful harmony, hardly a sane observation.
God did not put Jews in a position to be a stumbling block for the rest of humanity by keeping us from killing each other, but rather they insidiously enable chaos that leads to this outcome.
Well Marxism was an earlier project of theirs, but now it's getting in the way of their newer, sleeker model. Many Jews are still involved in it as well as countless White idiots. They don't realize that it achieved its purpose and should now fade away in favor of direct Globalism with rule by the Chosen.
Not so much a project, but rather a criminal enterprise wrapped in the cloak of political ideology. Yes, there are plenty of white idiots, but Fellow Travelers seems to encompass the whole spectrum of idiots without singling out just one racial group.
So you're for making America an Israeli colony via the melding of our militaries? It's what Gid wants, right? Cuz you are all so peaceful.....!
there used to be a word (and repercussions) for people with the government that aided foreign governments in their efforts to damage our nation.
Where are you on the merging of our military with Israel's military?
Lugh-- That's not happening. Just your talking point.
NO
Nothing restores faith in a system of government more than an emergency declaration followed by anecdotal "evidence" of a threat.
I see the cold water crowd is here early to try to take the heat off and make everybody think that this is going away. I think the same people that have buckets of cold water to throw on the election theft. Need to remember the guy that Trump was millimeters away from being killed just two years ago. I wouldn’t bet on this being a big yawn. I agree this is the first bid and the best bid Trump is going to offer.
Thanks James for working overnight to give a good analysis!
Many of those same DNC operatives believe the subsonic round that missed by millimeters was a false flag.
That round didn't miss its target; it hit Trump, but not fatally. That around half the populace of this country is angry that Trump survived tells you all you need to know about the character of those people, and demonstrates how much trouble we're in.
This is what ten years of endless bad press and lies does: it twists people up to the point that they do not know what is real and what is fake, noos.
Look at how many people are rooting for a terrible government in Iran that has literally murdered tens of thousands of patriotic Iranians demanding a fair government shot in the face, arrested, jailed, tortured, and murdered.
This abuse also happens to the entire immediate family wives, kids, cousins, grannies, and grampas.
They denounce one country for fighting terrorists and raise up Iran, which has complete control of its country but can't handle even peaceful protest.
Warped beyond belief.
The RED Green alliance on display again.
The commies "useful idiots" helped turn Iran into a theocracy and then were murdered for their trouble.
And what the Warners and Soroses and Newsoms and Pelosis and Sir Cumference Pritzkers and the rest don't realize is, their bodies will end up in the same mass graves as the rest of us should their team win. "And the beturbaned bald whore Ilhan Omar shall inherit Minnesota."
They should all be interred in the Strait of Hormuz.
It's the new Somalia that you worked so hard to build. Not you personally, but many liberal Jews and White Christians. If you don't believe me, just compare their flag to Minnesota's flag. That's no coincidence, it's destiny!
That wasn't me, that was Soros and Soetoro. Thanks to them, we got alias "Ilhan Omar" marrying her brother, fucking a married staffer on her desk, being married to at least two men at once, and the destruction of the Twin Cities while the bribe-taking governor and his imbecile wife keep the windows open so they can enjoy the sounds and aromas of rioting and police stations and businesses burning and people being murdered for being white.
Those "commies".....jeez, this is so childish!
Good for you; picking up Commie is a pejorative.
There is hope you might one day grow up enough to have a clue.
Naw, who are we trying to kid?
Bringing the comment section down to your gutter level, my friend.
Go try this approach at the local biker bar!
Nah....better not. They will punch your lights out when you tell them "there is hope you might one day grow up enough to have a clue"
What you deserve.
BTW, using "Commie" pejoratively just shows your lack of education.
I think that number is much lower. The bigger number is the 60% who believe he was in on it.
Opinion devoid of fact.
Take your complaint to the pollsters, Ben.
You believe any goddamned lie that furthers the destruction of this country. I don't know whether you're some early-20s college boy who hasn't experienced lufe, or if you're somebidy who feels you shoukd be rounding third and headed for home (great riches) without doing anything for it; either way, Marxism results in death and poverty, despite what that asshole Sanders and his acolytes in the media want you to believe.
The same pollsters who had Hillary winning in a landslide.
You mean the pollsters who get everything wrong? Lying scum. Polls are not about reflecting opinions, they’re about shaping narratives and influencing opinion. Shows how smart you are that you believe them.
Corey Comperatore’s family might have disagreements with that false flag theory, as might David Dutch and James Copenhaver.who have lasting injuries from that shooting that didn’t happen.
The 'shooting' of Trump and the real shooting of someone else are not the same thing.
How are they not the same thing? The shooter got off multiple shots before he was taken out.
Nobody shot Trump. His minders pushed him up in full view to do the ridiculous Iwo Jima pastiche for the hero worshippers, without checking if there were other shooters (in other words they KNEW because they arranged it all). Security people don't do that. EVER.
all that from a single bullet?
Crooks shot eight bullets in six seconds before he was killed.
No, moron! A gun is capable of more than one shot, especially an AR15. I realize you can’t comprehend more than one thing at a time, but jeez you’re stupid.
There was definitely something wrong with Butler, but more like a failed inside job. Ballistics are notoriously difficult on moving targets, and unlike Trumps speech yesterday all the networks were covering him as if they had been told his head was going to explode.
Phil!
Butler was served up to the masses. Butler - get it?
Butler, PA was phonier than a $3 bill.
Sure.
Let's put you on a stage and have someone take a shot at you with a rifle, and take a chunk out of your ear as your head turns. Would that be fake too?
Seditionist asshole.
BTW,U-Bob, the wife of the man who was actually killed now senses this was a false flag event. Interesting, yes?
I believe she said “inside job,” meaning not “fake” but that there was a conspiracy to kill Trump that included people in government.
You mean its not completely reasonable that the SS just didn't "do" slopey roofy-ish surfaces, because well they are high above the ground , and all slopey like ?
Thanks for correcting me. I was searching for the right word and chose wrong. Yet.............inside job, then who was in on it and why? Both Biden and Trump's administrations seemed to have buried this. It begs the question, why.
I suspect Trump knows more about Butler than he lets on, and is saving it for later.
So he was murdered -- by whom? The Secret Service? The Company? The Feebs?
You tell me, U-Bob, you seem to have all the answers.
Jared Kushner ( kidding ) ?
Are you really kidding?
He got the Hollywood makeup while he was under the table. Get a grip. I have no dog in the fight.
A jole in the ear, blood on him, and you have no dog in the fight, but you believe the leftist conspiracy bullshit? Have a cucumber so you can GFY.
Just the kind of pathetic, scabrous response one expects from fanatics.
I don't have a dog in the fight. I don't live in your country. I know what's coming next. You will fall for that too.
The Iwo Jima pastiche was truly convincing. 🤣🤣 They just shoved him up there in full view without checking where there might be other shooters. I guess there's nothing you won't fall for.
I'll text a friend who hunted bad guys in the mountains of Afghanistan with his spotter and ask how quickly a sniper team can locate and eliminate all threats in an area similar to where Trump was shot. I'd think it would be faster in a relatively flat area than mountainous areas, though trees and buildings might affect that.
Speaking of fanatics, for someone who claims to not care, you sure seem intent on ensuring the genuinely bad people defeat, maybe even exterminate anyone to the right of Joe Stalin living in the US. I guess that makes you the pogrom pompom girl.
"I don't live in your country."
Best news I've heard all day.
Only one word,
Bullshit.
Apparently she has lost function in her prefrontal cortex.
Must’ve been the jab she took that bad Orange Man forced on her. …Oh wait, that was Biden. 😉
This place is full of such bright and informed sparks that all they can do is insult people. You carry on Dianne, dear. I won't be descending to your level.
Only for True Believers and hero worshippers. And the extraordinarily naive.
GB, I have talked with you for years. What happened to your sense, why have you become a prisoner of the nutcases?
That's the worst strawman argument that I've seen in a long, long time.
You Democrats used to be such good liars. You aren't even trying now.......the press have turned you complacent and mistake prone. Lie better.
Don't encourage the children of the Father of Lies to engage in his favorite activity.
Thanks for proving my point. Cold water…
On this issue the finger never points to the real culprits.
Mr. Kunstler, this is another stellar article by you. Great summary, thank you!
Even if you believe NOTHING ELSE from Trump's speech last night, a quarter of a million foreigners on the voter rolls of just FOUR STATES should alarm you. If it doesn't, you've got a problem. From those stats, one can easily assume that at least half a million people nationwide are not eligible to vote in states that do not require any identification. That is literally a national disgrace.
The estimate is that California alone has two million illegal aliens living in it.
Many of those applied for and got a driver's license under the Motor Voter ID Act.
When the driver's license is applied for, they are signed up to vote automatically unless they hit the decline button.
The first year alone, California crowed about signing up over 300,000 people.
When this was started, they used a matrícula consular card, which at the time had no safety nets and could have any name and their picture on it.
Mexico supposedly fixed this issue, but at one time they were catching illegals with multiple cards.
They were used to turn on power, which they never bothered to pay the bill, and when the electric company turned off the power for lack of payment, they just pulled another card out and got it turned back on.
Once the driver's license was established, they just needed a bill sent via snail mail.
Every other proper democracy in the World has voter ID.
As I said, Murica is one never ending Monty Python sketch.
The Ministry of Silly Walks!
I believe it's safer to say that at least 5 million voters are ineligible, since absolutely NONE of the blue states would let their voter rolls be audited.
Probably, but I’m just going by the receipts we have at the moment. We’ll get the rest of them; I’m sure they’re in the millions. And there’s no argument for them at all. There’s no justification. Whether they actually do vote or not. Having foreigners on the voter rolls opens up an entry point for anyone from anywhere to pad, in the name of, which was how Pratt was dropped from 2nd to 3rd in LA’s mayoral mail-in ballot count.
That was kind of my thinking as well . The number the president cited was from states that are willing to comply with reasonable oversight and safeguards . The visible tip of an enormous iceberg .
As I've said begore, I got into trouble at my polls one time after moving because I pulled out my ID and showed it to a poll worker. You would've thought I'd pulled out a copy of the Bible at a meeting of the Church of Satan from their reaction. Same thing happened a few years ago because I wore an Oakland A's hat to the polls: the elephant embroidered on the hat along with the "A's" logo was "electioneering." They told me to take off the hat or come back later. I turned it inside-out, took my ballot, and voted. (The A's have gad an elephant as a symbol for over a century, ever since John McGraw said Connie Mack's team, then located in Filthydelphia, was "a white elephant.")
Some cat lady poll workers flipped out on my father in law for pulling out his ID too.
I yanked my "real ID" and tried to show it last two times they just don't bother to look up.
The Ministry of Silly Walks....John Cleese nailed Murica!
Why do you think they label themselves as sanctuary states? Politically, power in a republic depends on population. You want power? Bring in people that believe as you do.
Most illegal aliens are shit scared of voting.
They know that it is a felony, and dread being caught and chucked out of Murica! After all, what's in it for them in voting and taking that risk? Zippo!
Bringing in illegal people that believe as you do to vote is a non sequitur.
"After the 2016 election, the Brennan Center for Justice, which advocates for voting rights, surveyed local election officials in 42 jurisdictions with high immigrant populations and found just 30 cases of suspected noncitizens voting out of 23.5 million votes cast, or 0.0001%.
An audit in Georgia showed 20 suspected noncitizens on the rolls out of 8.2 million registered voters (0.00024% of the state's list). Nine had a history of voting and all 20 were referred to law enforcement.
While the conservative Heritage Foundation has actively promoted claims about the risk of noncitizens voting, its own data suggests how rare these cases are. The Washington Post reviewed a Heritage database of voter fraud cases and found only 85 cases relating to allegations of noncitizens voting between 2002 and 2023.
A widely contested 2014 paper by researchers at Old Dominion University has fueled exaggerated claims about noncitizen voting rates. The study, which was led by political scientist Jesse Richman, drew its conclusions from an online survey known as the Cooperative Election Survey. A small number of respondents had indicated they were noncitizens and that they had voted. Richman’s paper used that data to estimate that 6.4% of noncitizens voted in 2008. But that estimate immediately came under fire. The developers of the CES survey wrote a rebuttal, detailing how Richman’s research was methodologically unsound because the small subset of people who reported being noncitizen voters could easily have been citizens who had simply selected the wrong box.
Nevertheless, Trump seized on and distorted Richman’s estimates to fuel false claims in 2016 that millions of noncitizens had illegally voted. In the aftermath, some 200 political scientists wrote an open letter rejecting the 2014 paper. That didn’t stop the website "Just Facts" from publishing a report in May based on the paper’s discredited estimates. That report made the disputed claim that 10% to 27% of noncitizens are illegally registered to vote, which went viral on X and was cited in congressional testimony.
Richman has since revised down his estimate for national noncitizen voter registration rates to just under 1%, and participation to half a percent.
By focusing on baseless allegations about noncitizens voting in the upcoming election, Trump and his allies appear to be laying the groundwork for potentially contesting the election.
"You can absolutely bet if Trump loses, he will claim there was widespread noncitizen voting without any evidence whatsoever," David Becker, the executive director of the Center for Election Innovation and Research, told NPR in September. "And that is going to incite anger and potentially violence."
https://www.npr.org/2024/10/12/nx-s1-5147789/voting-election-2024-noncitizen-fact-check-trump
Most liberals are scared shitless of making sense, or voting laws. This isn't about illegals. I mean, most dead people on voter rolls don't vote either. Especially the dead dead ones. Why are they there?
Well, I'll use the most recent LA mayoral race as an example. You mail out the ballots to EVERYONE on the voter rolls, dead, living, legal, illegal, and moved out of state, whether they asked for them or not. 23 million ballots are mailed out; 16 million statewide voters voted on Election Day. Of the 16 million, 6 million by mail-in. That leaves millions of ballots floating about the state. Ballots are harvested by canvassers in apartment lobbies where postmen leave stacks. Names without addresses are gathered. Signatures without verification. Mail-in ballots are then counted after election day. 5 weeks to count the ballots. Wow. And you're telling me 200 fucking political scientists are cool with that? This shit is crazy. Nobody should be cool with that. Then people like you say you can't prove anything. Well, isn't that the God damned point? Not to be able to prove a damn thing?
Look, one vote, one person on Election Day. Liberals will transform overnight; they will begin listening to the people. Right now, they are running a scam, and they got half the country covering for them.
All too true.
But my comment was to debunk JohnAZ's claim that "Politically, power in a republic depends on population. You want power? Bring in people that believe as you do."
Bringing in aliens to pad the vote is male bovine excrement. Widespread noncitizen voting has been soundly debunked by the examples I quoted.
You know nothing about what is going on in the US, you ignorance is growing. Your credibility is approaching zero. Good advice, shut up about things you know nothing about. Turn around, worry about NZs future, and mind your own damn business.
For once, wait for the DOJ to investigate Trump’s claims instead of just shooting your mouth off. You know nothing.
Our halls of government reek of treason yet no noose is filled.
Here is the rub. Who sets the standards for the country? Who makes the laws? Who defines what treason is? Those same halls of government. The same people that are protecting their DC hegemony by killing the SAVE attitude. The worst offenders are the RINOs.
It's the Uni-Party. Can't tell one from the other any longer. The swamp has been toxic dump for so long.
The uni-party is real and is a subset of the workings of the Deep State. Again, the Deep State’s unifying dogma is the preservation and ascendency of the federal government. The Deep State contains elements from both parties but is Federalist in culture, so It is centered to the Left, desiring central control. Its ascent accompanies the ascent of the Lefty-left democratic socialists. In 1955, these people would be inhabiting the slammer for treason.
"the Lefty-left democratic socialists" WTF? Do you hear yourself, John?
Look up "deranged" in the dictionary, Mate!
Amen. I yearn for just one perp walk!
Very poetic .
President Trump looks tired, hope he hangs in. Response to speech last night was as anticipated, but Sen. Mark Warner and Rhino Sen. Thom Tillis were insufferable. One of them made comment (can't remember which one) that China's possession of 220-million voter registrations, plus social security files ...was "public Information". Smug Sen. Tillis (especially) deserves a knuckle sandwich.
Interesting how willing they all are to dismiss this information but jumped all over the Russian collusion hoax like hobos fighting over a ham sandwich.
That's an inaccurate take on it. There's nobody questioning that we have foreign adversaries trying to impact our elections by any means necessary, but what nobody has provided is evidence that votes have been changed by foreign actors. One of the documents released by Trump actually highlights and states that.
Yes...we need to ensure fair, free, accurate elections, but there's zero evidence that we haven't been having those. There are plenty of "claims" but no evidence to back it up.
Trump's speech alluded to issues but stopped far short of proving them.
One problem with your statement, there is zero evidence that the elections are fair, citizen only based. The investigations were halted in 2021 by Deep State judges, so we never heard if there were “problems”. Your argument is only half true.
"The investigations were halted in 2021 by Deep State judges"....
Yep! The Ministry of Silly Walks!
The whole world is laughing its ass of at Murica!
There were 3 wall-to-wall audits of swing state election results...and found zero evidence of anything nefarious.
Oddly...those audit results didn't tamp down the conspiracy theories one bit.
Is the issue the facts themselves or that people ignore them because they don't WANT to believe them?
If you guys had evidence that was compelling...then I would start to question things, but every single rabbit hole you guys mention...I go down and find them to be BS.
Sorry...that's simply the truth.
So they recounted the fake ballots three times? BFD! Oddly, counting the same ballots over and over doesn’t mean a thing. There were also over 1000 sworn affidavits (under penalty of law) of illegal handling of ballots that that were ignored.
Isolated cases of voter fraud do occur. People have been prosecuted for casting illegal ballots or voting improperly. But isolated fraud is a completely different claim from saying the 2020 election was stolen by widespread fraud. That extraordinary claim requires extraordinary evidence.
Instead, the evidence usually presented consists of hundreds or thousands of affidavits. An affidavit is simply a sworn statement that someone believes they saw something. It is not proof that election fraud actually occurred. Courts still have to determine whether the witness is credible, whether they actually observed what they think they observed, and whether their testimony establishes illegal conduct rather than a misunderstanding.
Rudy Giuliani repeatedly presented election-fraud allegations that courts found unsupported, and his conduct later became a basis for disciplinary proceedings that resulted in the loss of his New York law license.
Many of the major claims made in Georgia, Arizona, and other states were investigated through recounts, audits, or official reviews and did not substantiate claims of outcome-changing fraud. That doesn't mean every election is perfect—it means allegations still have to be backed by evidence.
Even 2,000 Mules, which was widely cited as proof of massive ballot trafficking, unraveled. Its distributor, Salem Media, apologized, stopped distributing the film, and removed it from its platforms after one of the people portrayed sued for defamation.
If someone wants to claim the election was stolen, they need to present verifiable evidence that withstands scrutiny—not just allegations, affidavits, or theories that fall apart when investigated.
But their BS makes for great laughs on these right-wing comment threads, Jeff. Some of these commentators here are deranged! LOL
You are a "commie", you know that eh!
Reminds me of the MAGAs who I have argued with for years about Russia election interference. When I bring to their attention that Trump's campaign team met secretly with Russians and gave them a thumbdrive with polling data on it....the MAGA response? Polling data is public information.
If it was public information and not nefarious...why did they meet with the Russians in secret? Why did they lie under oath about it?
Just be consistent and I would respect the arguments...but you guys are NOT.
More fake news.
U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee Report (Volume 5, 2020) - GOP led; Marco Rubio - Acting Chair for the Report
*Identified Konstantin Kilimnik as a Russian intelligence officer.
*It found that Paul Manafort repeatedly shared internal Trump campaign polling data and campaign strategy with Kilimnik.
*It concluded that Manafort's actions represented "a grave counterintelligence threat."
If you want to call that fake news...then Rubio has some 'splaining to do...
Wow, you pulled this out? You must have lots of time on your hands.
Part of the reason Trump enjoys so much support these days is because it is both much easier and much more fun to believe him... than to do the most basic investigation.
(But basic investigation is getting easier. Jeff acknowledges using AI to get his info. Such results should be taken with a grain of salt, but usually they're very solid these days. Usually AI provides citations for its summaries... and if anything looks incorrect in the AI summary it's worth looking at the citations.)
The beliefs of most people in this comment section on the topic of election fraud and the Russia investigation are a swamp of misinformation, disinformation, nonsense and (in rare cases) misleading facts.
Yes. Since Trump's arrival...it seems like the "Grandpa screaming from the Porch" has become a reality. Nobody needs any qualifications to have an opinion no matter how ludicrous.
The other thing impacting this is that people are getting wealthy from this crazy train. There's little incentive for the right wing media types to tell the truth when skirting it is much more lucrative.
Nope, the reason why he won and continues to win is that there is no alternative. Pockets of America may be falling under the influence of global socialists but the mainstream is anti-socialist. As long as the lefty idiots hold the reins in the DNC, MAGA will prevail.
I followed the Russian investigation very closely. I used AI to get today's details since I thought that would be more accurate than my failing mind.
Rather than "time on my hands"...I would couch it as having the proper priorities since there's a HECK of a lot of bad information going around...which poisons people's minds...and then they end up rejecting the truth.
Literally...people call the Russian thing a hoax when nothing could be further from the truth and that really pixxes me off.
Jeff
You mention the truth.
Whose truth?
Who are the sources you believe?
Why?
What about the sources that disagree with your POV, aren’t they telling their edition of the truth and just as reliable?
The Truth? No such thing, just opinion. With all the bias that goes with it.
Along with Russia, Russia, Russia goes Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine with Joe, Victoria and Hunter. Russia has been shown to be BS by many witnesses, Ukraine is a proven and documented fact.
Take political bias out of it, which is the Truth?
Not as much "time on his hands" as you and your partner in crime, Ben R.
Don't you have a tax payer funded chemo treatment to pilfer more tax funds?
Talk about a complete waste of money.
All news is "fake" in our State Media world.
Yes , and all restaraunts are Taco Bell .
Come on man, gross generalizations are the modus operandi in this right-wing nut job comment thread.
In criminal investigations, a suspect's modus operandi is the distinct pattern or method they use to commit crimes, avoid detection, and escape.
" C'mon man " I was actually just being a smartass , no need to read anything more into it . Don't you remember the line from the movie " The Demolition Man " ? Its a future dystopian work , and so I use that line to describe the ultimate end or crony corporatization we are headed headlong into oif we don't decentralize both the State and the dwindling number of corporations that exersize near monopoly powers in our so called free markets . Both are bad ,and for my money both walk hand in hand with each other . Other than that I was totally just clownin' ,I do that a lot because I try not to take myself too seriously .
Your assuming that any of of us believe even your first assertion ,let alone the assertion that follows from it . I don't believe any of that , sounds like a Russia, Russia, Russia (made up BS ) hangover to me . Prove it .
Like I responded to Ben R:
U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee Report (Volume 5, 2020) - GOP led; Marco Rubio - Acting Chair for the Report
*Identified Konstantin Kilimnik as a Russian intelligence officer.
*It found that Paul Manafort repeatedly shared internal Trump campaign polling data and campaign strategy with Kilimnik.
*It concluded that Manafort's actions represented "a grave counterintelligence threat."
If you want to call that fake news...then Rubio has some 'splaining to do...
Jeff the un-original believes the Russia Russia Russia narrative to this day.
This despite all the evidence put forward because "BUT TRUMP, ORANGEMAN BAD!"
Exactly.
Ah...the old Tag Team!
The meaning of TAG TEAM is a team of two or more professional wrestlers who spell each other during a match.
Ah the old leftist idiot has zero real response so he resorts to this tripe.
I just responded to JohnAZ with how I followed the facts/truth to become suspicious of Trump's Russia/Putin relationship.
Feel free to correct anything in that post that you think isn't the truth or a fact.
Question to you.
Was the Steele dossier accurate?
Yes or no.
We've covered this ground already I believe, Ben....but in case we haven't...here's my response:
You're asking a rhetorical question, not an honest one.
The Steele dossier isn't a single factual claim that can be answered "yes" or "no." It's a collection of intelligence reports containing dozens of separate allegations. Some have since been corroborated, some remain unverified, and some have not been substantiated. That's the nature of raw intelligence.
I'm pretty sure that my research of the Steel Dossier exceeds yours, but please...if I'm wrong...feel free to demonstrate it.
Here's an example using a dossier related UK court case that you probably weren't even aware existed. It is the UK defamation case brought by Webzilla against Christopher Steele's company (Orbis) accusing him of defaming them when he said that Russia used their IT infrastructure to attack the DNC. During that litigation, Orbis presented Anthony Ferrante—a former FBI cyber official and former Director for Cyber Incident Response at the National Security Council—who concluded there was technical evidence that infrastructure associated with Webzilla had been used in Russian cyber operations. He did not conclude the company knowingly participated, but did show evidence that their IT infrastructure had been used...citing IP addresses and other IT forensic evidence.
I cite this case because it demonstrates that what Steele put in the dossier wasn't just fabricated bullshix. This particular claim about Webzilla's IT infrastructure being used by Russia was found to be true. Damn...that's some serious fabricated BS isn't it? He must know something worthy of listening if he nailed that incredibly narrow detail about Webzilla.
So instead of asking whether "the Steele dossier" is true, tell me which specific allegation you want to discuss. That's how serious people evaluate evidence—not by pretending an entire intelligence file can be reduced to one word.
I'll continue to be underwhelmed, until I see Julian assange testify before a grand jury. Oh pshaw!
Pshaw was the wordle word the other day and sent players into an uproar that it wasn’t a real word. Until your comment, I hadnt heard it used since I was a kid in the late 70s or 80s. Excellent.
Thank you Mr Kunstler. You are the best writer on Substack. Hashem is with the righteous of the world. But you are His spokesperson. We will be victorious in regaining our freedom. It may take time. But time is all we need. Trump is indeed the ultimate American brave determined HERO. GOD BLESS THE UNITED STATES AND ALL THE GOOD CITIZENS WHO ARE PRAYING TO GOD FOR SUCCESS.
What kind of deranged "God" would bless a nation that has been at war killing folk for the entire 250-years of its existence, Catherine?
And supplies bombs to a foreign war criminal, knowing full well he is going to drop them on kids and women, hospitals and refugee camps?
Turn on Al Jazeera! American bombs are being used today to re-bomb Gaza. No shit! You know, the remaining starving and sick folks sheltering in the rubble from the last bombing!
A bloody cruel God, eh!
What? Turn on…what? That’s your source of truth?
Nope, but they sometimes have video of a stray dog in Gaza walking around with a dead child's arm in their Mouth.
Thanks Uncle Sam.
Idolatry is next to sodomy.
God is not mocked.
GO GET A SHOWER YOU STINK
Christians believe that God has planned everything, and that includes planning for some people to go to hell, and there's nothing you can do about it, since that would go against God's plan.
“Did Jesus resurrect?” “Yep!” “Is he still alive?” “Yep!” “Cool, then can I see him?” “We’ll, it’s complicated…”
“God wants to get to know you!” Bro….like he created me! WTF.
People put in far too much effort to still end up being wrong.
The God excuse: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument.
Yes...I'm sure you know all about sodomy.
“These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.” - 'American Crisis No. 1' published 12/19/1776 - Thomas Paine
Marco Rubio's speech earlier in the day was bigger than Trump's speech.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyOpJvROK10
Rubio outlined the landscape the violent leftwing terrorists use to undermine free nations: the funding, the training, the logistics, the media, academia and fellow traveller politicians who hate America. He's calling for a 911-type response to eradicate Communism/Socialism/Progressivism from America and like-minded nations.
911-type response. GW Bush....."go shopping!"
While I shock and awe a country that had nothing to do with it!
A recent Stanford/Rutgers study posed politically controversial questions to six major AI brands and analyzed the political slant of each set of responses. It found that eighty per cent of the time Open AI presents only left-leaning views. At the other end of the spectrum, it found that Google AI offers both sides of an issue ninety-three per cent of the time.
So I just asked Google AI “how the SAVE Act would effect voting in America” and a host of one-sided responses popped up, asserting that the act is an evil attempt to wreck our democracy by keeping responsible citizens from voting.
I then changed my query to “what voting and ballot counting abuses is the SAVE Act designed to correct” and still got nothing but a list of reasons why the SAVE Act should be defeated.
No matter how I reworded my query, I could not elicit a response that would recognize the SAVE Act as a legitimate measure to correct identifiable abuses.
As a United State citizen I must have a legal photo ID to buy alcoholic beverages, or tobacco products, or to drive a motor vehicle, to apply for taxable employment, or open a bank account. Yet the opponents of the SAVE Act are determined to protect the right of anyone, explicitly including illegal aliens, to vote for our elected officials without the system having a clue as to who actually cast the vote.
The outrage is not just that the current widespread abuses of our citizen’s right to vote delegitimize the process; it’s that they are designed to do so.
Howard AI is only as good as the sources they use to teach it and the biases built into programming it.
A well-reasoned post.
Thanks.
We should never have used voting machines built in what amounts to a failing Communist country.
Is that the "failing Communist country" that is well on its way to replacing the US as the next hegemon, Ben? Eating that failing capitalist countries lunch by all criteria.
For 60 years, the Chinese economy has been crashing every year, every month, every week, every news edition. It will never happen.
However, US Banks are failing left and right... LOL!
1990. The Economist. China's economy has come to a halt.
1996. The Economist. China's economy will face a hard landing
1998. The Economist: China's economy entering a period of sluggish growth.
1999. Bank of Canada: Likelihood of a hard landing for the Chinese economy.
2000. Chicago Tribune: China currency move nails hard landing risk coffin.
2001. Wilbanks, Smith & Thomas: A hard landing in China.
2002. Westchester University: China Anxiously Seeks a Soft Economic Landing
2003. KWR International: How to find a soft landing if China..
2004. The Economist: The great fall of China?
2005. Nouriel Roubini: The Risk of a Hard Landing in China
2006. International Economy: Can China Achieve a Soft Landing?
2007. TIME: Is China's Economy Overheating? Can China avoid a hard landing?
2008. Forbes: Hard Landing In China?
2009. Fortune: China's hard landing. China must find a way to recover.
2010. Nouriel Roubini: Hard landing coming in China.
2011. Business Insider: A Chinese Hard Landing May Be Closer Than You Think
2012. American Interest: Dismal Economic News from China: A Hard Landing
2013. Zero Hedge: A Hard Landing In China 2014. CNBC: A hard landing in China.
2015. Forbes: Congratulations, You Got Yourself A Chinese Hard Landing ….
2016. The Economist: Hard landing looms for China
2017. National Interest: Is China's Economy Going To Crash?
2020. Economics Explained: The Scary Solution to the Chinese Debt Crisis
2021. Global Economics: Has China's Downfall Started?
2022. Cathie Wood: China’s COLLAPSE Is FAR Worse Than You Think
2022. Business Basics: China’s Economic Crisis, GDP is Crashing.
Don't believe the hype
It appears likely that China may soon blow up the US business model for AI, by providing a similar or superior product at lower cost, while using a small fraction of the energy to do it.
Since speculation on fabulous AI cost savings has caused the market lemmings to continued to jack up the Dow, pricking that bubble may have catastrophic consequences for our economy.
"As a United State citizen, I must have a legal photo ID to buy alcoholic beverages, or tobacco products, or to drive a motor vehicle, to apply for taxable employment, or open a bank account. Yet the opponents of the SAVE Act are determined to protect the right of anyone, explicitly including illegal aliens, to vote for our elected officials without the system having a clue as to who actually cast the vote."
Yep! The Ministry of Silly Walks!
The World is laughing its ass off, Howard!
La Marche Futile.
hahahahaha....... exactly!
Do you think the average Murican has even seen Monty Python, Howard?
Actually, I think another John Cleese scene could be used to describe Murica ~ taunting the English knights!
You don't frighten us, English pig-dogs! Go and boil your bottom, sons of a silly person. I blow my nose at you and all your silly English k-nnnnniggets.
I don't wanna talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper! I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!
The level of discourse in the home of the brave and the land of the free!
What a strange person.
Gab AI is said to be a conservative.
The trouble is, "conservative AI" is just an adversary for "Liberal AI," when what we need is Objective AI. But, since AI is nothing more than some subset of recorded human discourse, run through a blender and sold as a Smoothie™, that may be too much to ask for.
From a Facebook post, Clayton Wood makes a point of noting that there are many states that don’t even check IDs. Quoting He said:
“Here is the bar with no doorman, by name. These are the states, plus Washington D.C., that let a voter cast a regular ballot at the polls with no documentation of any kind, photo or otherwise:
California
Illinois
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Minnesota
Nevada
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
Pennsylvania
Vermont
Washington D.C.
Look at that list. Some of the most consequential states in the country for deciding who runs Washington do not ask a single voter to prove who they are before handing them a ballot.” Unquote.
Analyses in 2026 estimate that roughly one third of the U.S. population lives in states where no ID document is required at the polls, with the rest under some form of ID rule, from “just sign an affidavit” to strict photo ID.
Now set that beside ordinary life in America. You are routinely asked to show government‑issued ID in order to:
- Buy alcohol or tobacco
- Enter a bar or 21+ venue
- Board a commercial flight
- Check into a hotel
- Rent a car
- Open a bank account or cash certain checks
- Pick up some prescriptions
- Buy a firearm or ammunition
- Rent an apartment or apply for a mortgage
- Set up many utilities in your name
- Start a job and complete the I‑9 form
- Pick up certain packages from the post office or delivery services
- Buy some over‑the‑counter medicines and “age‑restricted” products
- Enter many government buildings or secure facilities
- Donate blood or adopt a pet
In other words, we treat identity verification as a completely normal, almost trivial expectation for an enormous range of activities that are, frankly, of far less civic consequence than choosing who writes the laws and commands the military.
And yet, when the conversation turns to voting, we are told—almost always by Democrats and progressive advocacy groups—that asking for an ID at the polls "is a grave threat to turnout and an unacceptable barrier for poor and minority voters." The same adults who somehow manage to obtain ID to fly, bank, work, sign leases, buy alcohol, pick up meds, and navigate every other corner of modern life are suddenly presumed incapable of producing that same ID to cast a ballot once every year or two. We accept the premise that ID is a reasonable cost of participating in basic commerce, but an intolerable burden when it comes to exercising the most basic act of self‑government.
If the “no ID needed” standard is so essential to protect participation, why not apply it consistently? Why not abolish ID checks for flying, for buying alcohol, for firearms purchases, for employment verification, for banking and housing, and for every other item on that list? No one serious is proposing that, because we all instinctively understand that identity matters, that fraud and abuse are real risks, and that a modest documentation requirement is a reasonable safeguard. The fact that this common sense evaporates the moment we reach the voting booth tells you that the debate is not really about capacity or burden; it is about preserving a system whose laxity and asymmetry just happen to benefit one side of our politics.
This is a truly preposterous way to run a republic and needs to stop. The Save America Act must become law without further delay.
A lot of data to show that Blue states remain Blue states by manipulating elections and influence the federal government accordingly. With state’s right what they are, it is legit. So how do you show the fools, the gimmes in the Blue states that their political views will lead to their downfall?
"A lot of data".... come on John, you have to do better than that!
Better question..." How do you show the fools, the vampire blood sucking capitalists in all states, that their political views are leading to their downfall?
And its basically every left-shit hole state in the country with the worst one of all, Massachusetts, leading the way.
"basically every"~ indicating you don't know the number.
And based on your ignorant biases you just pulled this outa your ass!
Also implying that all left States are "shit holes" ~ is leading the Jury.
In a Court of Law, no Judge is going to allow you to get away with that bullshit!
rd3,
There are days I really want to say eff it to all this, but something inside just will not let me walk away in a trance, which is what I think our enemies would like us to do. Right?
Walk away, like a sleep walker who knows not what he is doing and will piss in the trash can in the bathroom instead of the toiltet because he is sleeping walking through life.
Some of us can't be content with that way of life.
Thanks for noticing.
The Frame Grabber
Marc
Great comment, my man. Nailed it.
This all about this phony concept of "freedom" Americans cling to.
"an unacceptable barrier for poor and minority voters" WTF!
It's all bullshit!
The US is full of unacceptable barriers for poor and minority folk.
And nobody gives a damn about that.
Democratic principles are reflected in all ELIGIBLE citizens being equal before the law and having equal access to legislative processes. Can't prove you are ELIGIBLE (and have only voted once) ~ There's the door! Fuck right off!
I agree the Save America Act must become law.
So the US joins the club of all other functional Democracies...erm....Republics. LOL
Having tracked this hoodwinkery more closely than most in my circle of friends/acquaintances, I don't think any of it will amount to much. The deep state is simply more entrenched than most people's minds can reconcile. Plain and simple: normal people aren't wired for deception at that level. We all deceive when it suits us, but not with the calculation and willingness that politicians and spooks bring to it.
Nothing will happen; nothing will change; the show must go on.
So original and surprising, Mun's Frolick!
Trumps association with Palantir, pump n’ dump crypto scams, and using the wars to make money for insiders while draining the SPR are adding to the skepticism of 18 months with zero heads on spikes. If the man dies then does that mean we are going to being ruled by a transhumanist technocracy with based memes?
I fear so. According to Musk, nearly a billion humanoid robots will exist in this country in five years not to mention the singularity movement. With Peter Theil’s powerful influence (including his bestie, J D Vance) on the president, I’m beginning to wonder how much power our president actually has, despite his insistence our country is the most powerful, richest and whatever his favorite adjectives: incredible, awesome and more incredible.
Perhaps we have one more human president in future. But these AI fascist billionaires (from our taxes) all have built bunkers for themselves with hydroponic gardens. Wonder why that is?
Black pilled folks are passive types and a danger to the Republic!