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rural counsel's avatar

So the federal politicians who were going to debate state-by-state election fraud deep-sixed the whole thing because there were people demonstrating their unhappiness with election fraud?

Cowards or traitors. Or both.

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JohnAZ's avatar

Add on, state by state the judiciary shut down every investigation of the election fraud situation, dismissing every single case nation-wide. Add on the obvious Deep State collusion, which included Dems, Pelosi, and RINOs, Pence, that organized the entire day to rid themselves of opposition from the states. The amount of control the Left had and still has in this country is disconcerting. The cause? BushX2 and the RINO segment of the Deep State.

Sidebar - The Trump gang is not innocent of Deep State influence. A legitimate obstacle to the Deep State was eliminated when Musk and DOGE were shut down by the Trump Cabinet not wanting their budgets and head counts deduced. Holy cow, you were not serious about cutting back the bureaucracy, were you? That need-for-power syndrome in DC is a freedom killer. It is also the reason that government should never be trusted, just tolerated and controlled.

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Ron Anselmo's avatar

JAZ - the problem, as I see it is that *tolerate* infers consent.

Add Seth Rich to the list of dead men who tell no tales.

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JohnAZ's avatar

Agreed, government is concentrated power, and power is inherently evil.

It is also a necessity when more than one person is involved, so it must be controlled to stop its evil. Our problem today is that it is out of control because of the government controlled dependence of the people.

Sidebar- Healthcare is in the crosshairs right now. Do we want the government to control the medical and pharmaceutical industry? The continuing draw of medicine into socialism depends on the legislative reaction to the subsidies. IMHO, this country needs to figure out how to make the market work with healthcare. At the dependence level today, it maybe impossible. Lots of people about to get hurt imminently, whatever happens.

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Dennis L. Merwood's avatar

"this country needs to figure out how to make the market work with healthcare"

Dozens of other countries have already figured this out, my friend.

All Americans have to do is pull their heads out of their ass, drop their foolish pride, and adopt a hybrid of these successful healthcare models to suit their demographic.

This "not invented here" male bovine excrement is an anchor around America's neck.

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MarshaLouise's avatar

Agreed. It seems as if they don’t want a workable system or they’d look at what works well elsewhere. In spite of all the crazy stories, mostly isolated, the system in Canada has much going for it. Too often people confuse the success of the healthcare system with the corruption and instability of the government itself.

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Mike Ware's avatar

Both

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Mike Ware's avatar

I’m thankful for the update Mr Kunstler, but not very hopeful about the full story being revealed/released. Blondi and KASH looked pitiful at the presser. I guess we’ll have to wait another 5yrs, if ever, to find out the details.

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Pnoldguy's avatar

Or, 60 like the JFK assassination!

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Mike Ware's avatar

Yes, that’s more than likely going to be the end result. Same with the Kirk assassination. The people in DC are corrupt to the core.

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P. Robert Thorson's avatar

Yeah, this little "subplot" of the January 6th mischief brings to mind the immortal words of HRC: "What difference, at this point, does it make?"

The guilty know they have the luxury of a Teflon coating....

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el puma's avatar

Go easy on Bondi and Patel. It's all about timing.

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Mike Ware's avatar

Yeah, hard NO on that.

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MarshaLouise's avatar

Yes, so much praise and self-congratulatory vibes when the next steps, why? and how?, have not even been addressed. Surely with finding and tracking all those little parts of bomb assembly they’d have found who was behind the effort and how it was meant to affect the election, as that was the crux of the matter at hand. Yet no suspicions. Never a mention of Christopher Wray who had to know everything since it was all an inside job by his FBI. One doesn’t have to be Sherlock Holmes (or Mike Benz) to see what was really intended that day.

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Kalihi Valley Druid's avatar

Another suspect with no internet history who we barely know anything about. Apparently we live in a nation of Oswalds.

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Greg K's avatar

He walks like a woman?

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Val Vadeboncoeur's avatar

Exactly. It wasn't this guy.

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CC's avatar

Neighbors have testified he has ‘shortened legs’ and perhaps some sort of handicap which would affect his gait…

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Mike Ware's avatar

Thanks CC, I hadn’t heard that?

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Thomas Madden's avatar

Be prepared for nothing to happen at all. By January, the only person arrested/charged/investigated for this matter will be the bomber himself. Kash Patel and Pam Bondi will TALK a lot about the big, serious consequences that are Just About To Happen. . .and Pelosi, Kamala Harris, the former FBI personnel involved in this will all be left alone. And you, James Kunstler, will post yet another article about how we are in Days of Thunder, and waves of indictments against corrupt Democrats are coming, Real Soon. Yawn. . .

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James Howard Kunstler's avatar

If you think your cynicism helps, Thomas Madden, you're mistaken.

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Mike Ware's avatar

It’s not cynicism if it’s true. And it more than likely is. Is it paranoia if they’re really out to get you?

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Occam's avatar

What will be missing:

Perp walks

Fixing the voting system

People (other than the patsy) being held responsible for their traitorous actions

Reform of the FBI

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JohnAZ's avatar

Well, in his defense, he has to follow the Constitution and its lawyer base, right? Other wise, he is a fascist dictator destroying our freedom and democracy, right?

If anything, what we are observing is how deeply in control the Deep State is in this country. I agree with your four needs to put controls on this pathetic government but, tell me how to do it when the controllers of the changes needed shut down any attempt to change anything. Why change, they are winning as this country is rapidly changing into a Gimme socialist state.

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Dennis L. Merwood's avatar

"this country is rapidly changing into a Gimme socialist state."

LOL, Americans have no idea what a true socialist state is!

How about adopting China's Socialist/Free Market model?

China has built huge success by merging socialism and the free market. This hybrid model, sometimes called free market socialism, has fueled one of the most remarkable economic transformations in history. Instead of abandoning socialist principles, China reshaped them to harness market forces while retaining state control over key sectors. The result is a system that has driven rapid growth, reduced poverty, and maintained political authority.

And has resulted in China becoming the new world hegemon.

Understanding how this model works offers valuable insight into the future of global economics and the possibilities of hybrid socialist economic structures.

https://exploringsocialism.com/free-market-socialism-china/

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JohnAZ's avatar

One problem, China is failing in the debt market, just as fast as we are. The reset that is coming because people are too demanding of their governments is going to affect the USA, Europe and BRICS+. China owns a big piece of us and we own a big piece of China due to our corporations providing labor for their people. China is being successful at manipulating our government so why should they go to war with us?

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Occam's avatar

Agreed. The deep state remains a problem, for sure.

And game theory dictates that you're best off trying to get your own piece of the corruption pie.

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John Schrauth's avatar

The behavior of the Scottish "nobles" in "Braveheart" is an example of what people in all times are up against.

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JohnAZ's avatar

Feudalism, the rule of the few over everything. The Deep State is trying to destroy de-centralization into rule of the few. One of my questions is, Is this a mental illness?

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Mitch's avatar

the central power grab started with the Civil War and Reconstruction legislation, continued on with activist courts, so it's been a long road to Federal tyranny.

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Thomas Madden's avatar

I got a fundraising text from the Trump administration yesterday urging me to give it money so it could fix the voting system. This nonsense works on gullible people, who really believe the lies about the Big Things that are About To Happen to hold corrupt Democrats accountable. . .things that Trump has no intention of following through on, of course. Geez, this is the guy who promised to put Hillary in jail if he was elected, back in 2015 and 2016. . . remember Trump leading crowds of supporters chanting "Lock Her Up". . .such a huge lie.

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From the Beach...🌞🇧🇷🏖️🌊🐬🌎😎's avatar

The entirety of what you narrate today, JHK, is a wake up call to America. You recite the truth. The dots are connecting. Wray is an imposter to the office he occupied. If not the approval architect to the pipe bomb plot and the J6 entrapment at the Capitol, each is connected to the other, certainly a compliant foot soldier. And his lies in giving testimony at Congressional Hearings under oath and recorded are certainly noteworthy and further supeanoed testimony under oath. The real dark face in the woodpile for me is Mike Pence, a compliant foot soldier of the UniParty deep state blob who sold our Trump on the Covid scam and the election verification. " I chose the Constitution," said Mike. No you didn't Mike. You chose deep state lies on both matters. You should be ashamed of yourself. But you are not espousing your faux Christian values. You are the enemy, Mike. Integrity is not in your vocabulary.

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RickyRitardo's avatar

"dark face in the woodpile" That's quite the politically correct euphemism there FOB.

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William Wallace's avatar

Integrity isn’t his strong suit that’s for sure!

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JohnAZ's avatar

One sentence.

The Deep State is winning.

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Howard Skillington's avatar

Visiting aliens must be mystified by the disconnect between what most Americans submit to believing and the evidence that is in clear view.

It’s not that those who construct The Narrative are ingenious. They are ludicrously inept. There never was any reason to believe that Iraq had WMDs. The 911 narrative requires literally dozens of impossibilities to have taken place. Senile Joe’s “election” was stolen in front of our eyes. The Warren Report with its “Magic Bullet” would insult the intelligence of an eight year old. January Sixth was an obvious sting operation, designed to identify and then hunt down as many core Trump supporters as possible.

Why does the general public accept these colossal tissues of lies?

It’s not because the liars are clever; it’s because the resources of the Deep State narrative enforcement apparatus are so overwhelming that the lies needn’t be convincing.

Here, again, Brian Cole could have been identified in a few hours by any rookie investigator. The connections which Jim has laid out for us are there for all to see. Surely, this brings down the House of Cards, right?

I doubt it. People believe The Narrative because they have been trained to do so, and letting go of it would be scary. It’s rather like the doctrine of Biblical Inerrancy. If a single verse is seen as patently false, the whole edifice crumbles. Better to continue to look the other way, and pretend that it is all true.

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rd3's avatar

"People believe The Narrative because they have been trained to do so, and letting go of it would be scary."

Yep. I had to go fix something at an apartment I own the other day, and when I went in, there was my divorced, Leftist, 70-something, cat lady tenant sitting on her couch ingesting MSNBC nightly news. She has coexist and rainbow flag stickers on her Subaru. No lie.

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Miryamnae's avatar

I just passed her on the road again…

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Mike Ware's avatar

Yes rd3, another reason why I got out of the real estate business. Seriously, I wish you luck if you ever need to evict her.

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rd3's avatar

She's a friend of my wife's family and had nowhere to go when her shiftless husband split. I partially-subsidize her existence by charging her $300/month less than I should, but I view it as my good deed for the month. She's been in there for a decade now.

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Val Vadeboncoeur's avatar

I'm not buying this, James. You've neglected to mention that the bomb planting suspect has recently been identified as a female DC police officer who subsequently has gotten a job at the CIA. THIS guy is clearly NOT the person in those videos. That person does, indeed, look like a woman. The A.I. gait technology scan also identified a slight limp, invisible to the naked eye, that is another identifier since the DC cop in question had previously broken her leg. Plus, Nancy Pelosi was in charge of the DC police at the "fedsurrection" and the only person killed on that day was shot by a DC police officer. So, you're way too quick support of this false narrative is making you look pretty sus right now. It wasn't THIS guy. THIS guy was identified NOW because they need to bury the internet-spreading story that the female cop did it. That's why this guy was "found" now.

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James Howard Kunstler's avatar

Val V -- the FBI has had two weeks to evaluate whether the pipe bomber was a woman and it looks like they concluded it was not.

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Charting The Fourth Turning's avatar

And you're gonna fold on taking their word that easily, Jim? Did you read Baker's full report?

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Val Vadeboncoeur's avatar

So, you trust this FBI? I do not. The FBI has been crooked from Day One of its inception. Gait analysis is a very real thing. We've droned people for decades based on it. They're "found" this guy now because they want to bury the narrative of this ex-cop being the perp. He's another Richard Jewell type. The indictment they put out is flimsy as all hell. Her "alibi" is laughable. A video of playing with someone else's puppies is not proof of anything.

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Leany's avatar

Julie Kelly was on The Blaze story about the female police officer. She took it apart line by line. The woman, since the story broke, has an air tight alibi. Julie is a very thorough investigator.

Check out her X account

https://x.com/julie_kelly2

This guy Cole's dad is a Bail Bondsman - his son, Jr., described as simple minded works for him. The father does work to release illegals held by ICE. The father has worked with Civil Rights lawyer Ben Crump.

Ben Crump if you will recall was the guy who brought in a "False witness" into the Trayvon Martin case who claimed she was an ear-witness in order to prosecute George Zimmerman. The witness claimed she was Trayvon's girlfriend. None of it was true (BTW, Pam Bondi approved the false witness - which is why so many folks had problems when Bondi was put up as AG.)

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JohnAZ's avatar

Ben Crump has shown up at every race baiting situation since.

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Mike Ware's avatar

Thank you Leany, for reminding folks what Bondi “accomplished” as Florida AG. If it weren’t for her ridiculous behavior, Zimmerman would have never been charged, and his life ruined. She’s a complete tool of, and for, the deep state. She’s been an embarrassment and a complete failure thus far. Lots of sturm and drang accomplishing nothing of value.

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Charting The Fourth Turning's avatar

Julie Kelly is nothing more than a stenographer for the establishment.

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James Howard Kunstler's avatar

Charting -- That must make you an errand boy for the blob.

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Charting The Fourth Turning's avatar

Ha-ha... good one, Jim. Fair enough, but unfortunately, I'm nothing more than an old dried-up, ordinary average guy, with an eye for truth and justice. Any, you sir, are a shining light in that domain. Any disagreements I may have with your assessments are in the utmost good faith. Thank you for your work, Jim, and have a good Holiday Season.

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Charting The Fourth Turning's avatar

Bingo! They buried and suppressed the female Capitol Police officer's evidence with everything they had, then spun it, and did their best to debunk it. Julie Kelly is not to be trusted.

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JohnAZ's avatar

That is why the nation’s capital needs to be moved away from the Gimme East Coast.

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Mike Ware's avatar

Excellent response Val! Thanks for posting

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Pnoldguy's avatar

Correct Thomas, because 34,000 of the same FBI corrupters are STILL in the "new" FBI doing their best to destroy any Trump plans.

You can't drain a swamp with swamp people.

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JohnAZ's avatar

Musk tried and was expelled.

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John Seaman's avatar

Great article by Kunstler showing why Jan 6 needs to be part of the overarching conspiracy case in Fl as it just an overt act of the conspiratorial agreement by Obama, Hillary, Biden and ilk in their ten year continuing conspiracy plan to stay in power and enrich themselves and their friends at the public expense in their effort to destroy Trump and transform America into a Marxist state. The modus operandi of manufacturing of evidence and hoaxes are no longer in doubt from creating the ruse that Trump and members of his team colluding with the Russians, framing of Flynn by FBI, manipulation of the ICA by Brennan at the direction of Obama, first impeachment trial, hiding of Hunter laptop; letter from 51 members of the IC claiming the laptop was Russian interference, Jan 6th FBI hiding Antifa role of planning violence on Jan 6th from the Trump admin, second impeachment trial destruction of evidence, four coordinated cases targeting Trump using Lawfare, cover up of Biden mental issues ending in the latest hoax the video of the seditious six calling for the military to disobey lawful orders from the President of the U.S. all establishing a pattern of a long running seditious conspiracy.

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NY Nanny's avatar

Very nice list of atrocities.

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Mike Ware's avatar

Indeed it was!

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Occam's avatar

I look forward to learning all about it.

And nothing being done now that they have their patsy.

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pyrrhus's avatar

It's long been known that hundreds of federal agents, including military, were in the J6 crowd, especially the instigators...The Capitol Police rehearsed the whole thing weeks before...Everyone involed in planning this trap for the Trump followers, demonstrating on the People's property, not Congress's, should be jailed, and the worst of them hanged....Including Pelosi...

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Danimal28's avatar

Yep, the fake pipe bombs were the backup plan in case 'incitement' didn't work. Check out the timing:

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/08/06/reminder-the-parliamentary-motive-behind-the-j6-fedsurrection/

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Casey Jones's avatar

"...ponder who, by name, will be held responsible for it..."

If the name isn't "Nobody," I have a bottle of decent Scotch for ya.

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Thomas Madden's avatar

Exactly.

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PaxAlto's avatar

Jake tapper called this guy "White," Comey's and Leticia James' cases were thrown out. THERE WILL BE NO JUSTICE BECAUSE OUR GOVERNMENT/MEDIA have the integrity of a urine-soaked sheet of toilet paper.

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Charting The Fourth Turning's avatar

Uh... Whatever happened to the bombshell breaking story by Matt Baker from the Blaze a couple of weeks ago?

BREAKING: "According to Baker's 5-year-long investigation, former U.S. Capitol Police officer, Shauni Rae Kerkhoff, is a high-probability match to the unidentified pipe-bomb suspect seen on surveillance video on Jan. 5, 2021. Kerkhoff, who served four and a half years on the Capitol Police force before leaving in mid-2021 for a security position later described by the CIA as “campus security,” was matched through a forensic gait-analysis software tool that compared her stride to the suspect’s.

The software used in the analysis placed the match at 94%; however, the forensic analyst who conducted the review estimated the similarity to be closer to 96%-98%. Several intelligence officials who reviewed the findings concurred, according to the report.

Interestingly, Kerkhoff’s residence in Alexandria, Va., appeared to be monitored by law enforcement officers last week - as Blaze News’ editor in chief, Christopher Bedford, said police pulled him over after stopping to observe the home and later released."...

..." FBI Surveillance Near Suspect in 2021

The new analysis has revived scrutiny of the FBI’s handling of the case. Former FBI Special Agent Kyle Seraphin told Blaze News that, in the days immediately after Jan. 6, he and his team conducted surveillance “one door away” from the residence now tied to the suspected individual. He says the team was pulled off the assignment without explanation, and requests to interview a person linked to the suspect’s movements were denied."...

..."The FBI tied a SmarTrip Metro card allegedly used by the suspect to an Air Force civilian employee. Agents conducted two days of surveillance but were instructed not to interview him, Seraphin said. The bureau has not addressed the claim publicly.

A Career in Law Enforcement and Security

Kerkhoff, 31, is a former Division 1 athlete from Ohio who played goalkeeper at Temple University and later for the Columbus Eagles Football Club. A significant leg injury in college required surgery and left her with a slight limp - an element noted by the gait analyst who reviewed her movements from Capitol Police security footage.

Kerkhoff joined the U.S. Capitol Police in 2018. She served in the Civil Disturbance Unit and was a training officer for crowd-control munitions deployed on Jan. 6. Blaze News also reported this week that surveillance video shows Kerkhoff and other officers firing “less-lethal” rounds that struck multiple individuals above the waist on the Capitol’s West Plaza.

She left the force months after the riot and later worked in security at the CIA."...

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