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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.

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.

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.

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.

Ron Anselmo's avatar

The healthcare solution is so simple, people can't wrap their heads around it.

Ready? Next Tuesday morning, at 9:00 am, everyone call and cancel their health insurance. Problem solved. Next.

I'm tired of the willing and compliant *victims* telling me it can't be done. It's a fucking phone call. Do it.

Think it all the way through. Those who say something can't be done, need to stop interrupting those who are doing it.

Dennis L. Merwood's avatar

Right on Ron!

In New Zealand there is nothing stopping Kiwi's having Private Insurance and Private Hospitalization.

Very few can afford it. Only the rich. All the other Kiwis go with their Government Single Payer System. Much like Canada's.

It works and NZ's pay half for their healthcare than Yanks do. With medical outcomes as good or better. By cutting out the middleman.

Somebody, I think it was Matt Taibbi, called the American Healthcare Insurance Companies bloodsucking vampires. Who work their hardest NOT to pay your medical bills.

Not one person in New Zealand goes bankrupt with medical bills. Canada also, if I am right.

Ron Anselmo's avatar

Dennis - it's a step in the right direction, eliminating the predatory private sector monopoly on captive consumers, but government has no business in healthcare or any other business for that matter. My suggestion means going completely bare.

The free market is the answer, and I mean a true free market. It really is that simple.

Oh, then we won't be able to afford medical care. Really? When Little Johnny breaks his arm, it won't cost the negotiated, fixed cost per procedure *cost* of $27K.

Doctor A will set his arm for $750, but wait, Doctor B is having a slow month, he'll set it for $450. See how that works?

Real simple, it's called a free market, doctor/patient relationship. Fuck all the other useless ticks. They aren't needed. It's so far beyond the absurd, people can't figure it out.

Sue Don Nim's avatar

I live in Canada, and you're a retard. Canada's health care is unobtainable rationed garbage. You die before you get treated.

Upstream's avatar

I'm not clear on this. Very few in NZ can afford to go private, so the private insurers aren't competition for the public option but the public option is still half of what ours costs? So why is that? Hospital costs? Labor costs?

Lugh's avatar

Yes, that's called the Calcutta solution. The Elite are perfectly fine with people dying on the streets, Ron.

Your beloved Olden Days? People took care of each other. And people often died young and in terrible pain.

Scott's avatar

That's mostly due to poor technology in the olden days not lack of means to pay a doctor.

Ron Anselmo's avatar

Janos, how many of the Elite can trace their wealth to the healthcare industrial complex? Quite a few, I think. I say we allowed them to get there. Our bad.

Yes, people did take care of each other and still do. The compassionate practitioners are still out there, despite constant regulatory pressure or worse.

To your point of people dying young and in pain. Of course, the two are not mutually exclusive. Many did die young. Today though, many die older and as a result, in much more pain.

We have to wring out that last dollar.

Vegan Shark's avatar

"The healthcare solution is so simple, people can't wrap their heads around it."

I'm a simpleton. I can't wrap my head around your solution.

So the public conducts a controlled demolition of the insurance industry. Medical practices and hospitals get the message: they won't be paid for treatments formerly billed to insurance companies. They eliminate all but the most urgent medical procedures. Patients not on Medicare or Medicaid can whistle for help with their ailments.

Are you suggesting that Congress will rush through reforms to expand government-administrated coverage to everybody, not just illegal migrants? Reality check: healthcare legislation brings out the serial killer in our legislators under even the best circumstances. When the situation is fugazi, it will be ten times worse.

I'm for looking at all potential solutions to the healthcare mess, but sabotaging the existing system to leave a gaping hole is not a sensible first step.

Ron Anselmo's avatar

"They eliminate all but the most urgent medical procedures." ~ Vegan Shark

See? You nailed it, you're not a simpleton. If I am in a car accident, or cut my hand off with a chainsaw, by all means, take me to the hospital.

Short of that, stay the fuck away from me, stop demanding premium payments, let me invest my dollars in my own healthcare, diet and lifestyle choices. Keep government (Congress) out of it. Period.

Why is it so hard to understand that they are the problem? How many of the 535 will lose sleep tonight over YOUR healthcare? Let me help you out. Zero.

The gaping hole? Stop burying alternative/natural medicines. They work. Every single pharmaceutical is a synthetic copy - patented, don't you know - that exists in the natural world.

My father nearly died, hospitalized for 3 weeks, and he's not out of the woods yet, from a raging infection as a result of removing what we used to call *age spots*. A real *urgent procedure*, because the dermatologist's kids need new shoes.

Mike Simmons's avatar

Imagine how much automobile insurance would cost if it covered oil changes, spark plugs, windshield wipers and tires.

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.

Ben's avatar

No.

What Americans need to do is get government completely out of health care since everything it touches turns to absolute shit and the cost go through the roof.

Dennis L. Merwood's avatar

Male bovine excrement. NASA. A combined government/private industry joint venture sent men to the moon.

"Everything it (gubmint) touches turns to absolute shit and the cost go through the roof" is ridiculous.

The Federal Highway Administration is another case that proves this is crapola.

dancingtime's avatar

We used to have the best healthcare in the world. Three things ruined it: Insurance, specialization, and government interference.

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.

alwayscurious's avatar

There is no success in Canada's healthcare system when thousands die every year waiting for months for care and where over 20,000 Canadians die under their assisted by government and medical people "do no harm" evil MAID program. That is 1 out of 5 deaths over our northern border are helped to kill themselves because they cant afford rent, are depressed, sick and generally feel like a burden to their families. That system is in place in Europe and it is satanic; we don't want it here in the US.

edited correction added: just over 5% as of 2024, 1/20 not 1of 5

However, the groups supportive of the movement are highly motivated, politically connected and have expansionist goals.

This post is excellent on the topic,

https://www.thebureau.news/p/from-exception-to-routine-why-canadas

also this,

Canadian Medical Assistance in Dying: Provider Concentration, Policy Capture, and Need for Reform

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15265161.2024.2441695#abstract

Dennis L. Merwood's avatar

Obama game within inches of adopting a pretty decent Healthcare Plan, but in his weakness fell over and adopted Mitt Romney's Republican Plan ~ Obamacare. Pfffft!

A total sellout to the insurance and pharmaceutical industry!

Mike Simmons's avatar

Until we can distinguish between shitty healthcare insurance and actual healthcare, the nationalizing of US healthcare and pharmaceutical industries will continue apace.

elysianfield's avatar

Ron,

"Tolerate" neither confers, nor infers consent. It means, at the base level, that I won't kill you. I will suffer your existence.

To suggest that most employees steal at a tolerable level does not offer consent. If they are caught stealing, they are not forgiven, but rather arrested, or terminated.

Ron Anselmo's avatar

E - I see your logic, but if we tolerate being governed, in a way we are opposed to, worse than inferring consent, it indicates consent.

It's like Eddie Murphy in 48 Hours, telling Nick Nolte he wasn't going to fall for a banana in his tailpipe. He was adamant and would not tolerate it.

On employee theft, you and I both know, as co-partners in the Bringing Reno Project, that we will in no way tolerate employee theft. Our waiting list of employee candidates will be a mile long.

Lugh's avatar

With women and minorities, you get what you put up with. With government too if you going from more to less freedom.

A new non-Marxist IRA is forming. It has said that Irish politicians are legitimate targets.

Ron Anselmo's avatar

Good on the Irish! Conor McGregor leading the way, I hope.

Rick's avatar

DOGE is still on going. Trump and his wrecking ball continue to expose and dismantle the Government fraud. Have you not seen what's occurred w/ SNAP? The Minnesota Somalia fraud etc? You-all are always ignoring the Wins

bill “TX Sasquatch”'s avatar

Wow, you're right. Look at everyone going prison.!! (NONE)

Rick's avatar

You mean like Epstein? Ghislane? Sam Bankman Fried? Retard!

JohnAZ's avatar

Inundated with Deep State Bs, it is hard sometimes. Good statement.

JohnAZ's avatar

BTW, Musk left because he could not handle the inertia of the government, as he is used to action.

Beth Nicolaides's avatar

I thought that he agreed to step back after six months.

JohnAZ's avatar

He did, I believe but I do think he was asked to leave early as things he really wanted to streamline bit down hard on all the empires. Remember, from his perspective, he left because of Trump spending way too much in the BBB.

wkenn's avatar

There is a 130 day cap on a special government employee, which described what he was doing and applicable terms of employment.

Rick's avatar

Just giving them enough rope to hang themselves....Pun intended

dancingtime's avatar

Musk and DOGE were on a time-limited contract. Some members of DOGE are still there and operating, as I understand.

Jim Hogue's avatar

Wait . . . it wasn't Venezuela?

Meanwhile, Thanks, Jim, for this important take on the J6 events and the pipe bomb. So much here in a carefully thought-out and knowledgeable report.

James Mead's avatar

AND

Coward s And Traitors

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.

Pnoldguy's avatar

Or, 60 like the JFK assassination!

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.

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....

el puma's avatar

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

Mike Ware's avatar

Yeah, hard NO on that.

Lugh's avatar

Slow means no. Fights are typically won by a sucker punch followed by a flurry of blows. Blitzkrieg. What the Nazis did to take power. What the Bidenites did. What Trump did not do.

Granny62's avatar

I’m not so sure. They are making definitive statements regarding many things ( Butler, CK) declaring lone suspect found , case closed - don’t ask questions. If it’s good enough for Trump it’s good enough for you. But the problem is, there are too many questions that need to be answered.

ezinmn's avatar

That's right mi Amigo. We're just getting started.

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.

Mike Ware's avatar

Thank you Marsha, Bondi and Patel are pitiful shills. Sorry if that hurts some feelings, not really. People need to get their heads out of their posterior’s and WAKE UP!

ezinmn's avatar

So we just arrest the Pipe Bomber, pat ourselves on the back, and then move on to the next limited hangout? I believe we're just getting started and the best is yet to come.

Mike Ware's avatar

Thanks for that link Granny62, very interesting and disheartening. But doesn’t surprise me in the least. Blondi and Patel are either incompetent or in way over their heads, or both.

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.

Letsrock's avatar

They ALL need to be chilling in GITMO awaiting military tribunals. Ovomit, Biden, Clinton, Holder, Jarrett, Rice, Fauci, Gates, Mayorkas, Blinken, Garland, Cheney, Pelosi, Schiff, Newsom, Pence, Waters, James, Plaskett, Willis, et al...

JohnAZ's avatar

One sentence.

The Deep State is winning.

From the Beach...🌞🇧🇷🏖️🌊🐬🌎😎's avatar

I take no exception to your observation, Sir .

RickyRitardo's avatar

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

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.

Letsrock's avatar

More like a nation of MKU bot plants.

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.

Ben's avatar

Adding in the war crimes hoax of blowing up drug running boats everyone complaining about it is a Democrat or a supporter hoping to damage Hegseth and Trump.

If this was still the Obama regime there would be crickets if not outright cheers like when Obama droned a 16 year old American kid to death going after his terrorist daddy.

Liber8or's avatar

The left-wing media never stops. And now A.I. "news" has made things even worse.

Letsrock's avatar

Or drowned his chef.

rd3's avatar

The chef just decided on a midnight paddleboarding trip around the island. He couldn't swim or even doggy paddle, but the moon was bright and the moment overtook him.

Ben's avatar

He had a leash it is almost impossible to drown unless he fell and hit his head. The floatation device he was attached to would make it very hard to die.

Letsrock's avatar

He swam proficiently.

rd3's avatar

Maybe a rogue wave

Letsrock's avatar

Yeah named Ovomit

NY Nanny's avatar

Very nice list of atrocities.

Fight the Good Fight's avatar

Nice review of the bidding. Makes my head spin.

Feel a bit queasy now. If it all makes ME feel sick,

and I've been down these rabbit holes for years,

forgive me if I cannot imagine any normie taking

any of this information and digesting it in any meaningful way.

Not gonna happen. Ever.

John Seaman's avatar

Sorry you been beaten down by the media lies over the last ten years because that what they want citizens to be jaded and lose interest. The good news is the truth is coming out which will be evidence based not opinion rumors or The good news is the truth is coming out, which will be evidence-based, not opinion, rumors, or innuendos.

Letsrock's avatar

What's so good about it if there's no accountability?

John Seaman's avatar

That the purpose of the GJ in Ft Pierce investigate and hold people accountable

Greg K's avatar

He walks like a woman?

Val Vadeboncoeur's avatar

Exactly. It wasn't this guy.

CC's avatar

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

Mike Ware's avatar

Thanks CC, I hadn’t heard that?

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. . .

James Howard Kunstler's avatar

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

ezinmn's avatar

Just because the government was corrupt over the past 60 years doesn't mean they will be corrupt forever. Things change. I believe the Trump folks mean business and will do whatever is in their power to bring accountability to the system. They know it is our country's last best chance to preserve the nation. A nation of cynics will not move this process forward, but only even a small group of Patriots will carry the load and determine our destiny.

TomNearBoston's avatar

Things do change, and pendulums swing. Hope springs eternal.

However, corruption in govt did not start with JFK being erased by CIAMI6Mossadincahootswithmafiaetc. There is plenty of evidence that bankers have been setting up eager, pliable men in govts to go to war going back centuries. The evidence to the contrary generally amounts to being called "cynical" or, after 1967, a "conspiracy theorist."

So waiting for the pendulum to swing back to "good honest government" anywhere feels a lot like waiting for this pesky stretch of Earth having gravity to pass by.

I sincerely hope I am wrong.

ezinmn's avatar

There is a spectrum on the good/evil scale that man chooses to walk along. I believe we have some say in the matter and in the leaders we choose, choices that alter the trajectory we’re on.

TomNearBoston's avatar

That is very well put. My only caveat to add would be that we need to also be aware that we might only be given the illusion of choice in a system in which real power is weilded by some who never stand for election or reelection.

Upstream's avatar

Perhaps our constitutional system has a number of opponents, both external and internal. Perhaps they have achieved a level of control now that is quite far advanced. Maybe Trump's players keep hitting walls when tries to advance them.

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?

MarshaLouise's avatar

In spite of what feels like slow motion, I agree we are onto something of substance and, though it might not be in the burn bags, there’s good evidence lurking somewhere which will unravel all of the deceit and corruption of the former FBI. Brian Cole Jr. may be the answer. I believe he’s been arrested, so, a start!

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

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.

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.

John Schrauth's avatar

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

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?

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.

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/

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?

Dennis L. Merwood's avatar

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?

2008 The Economist: 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

Lugh's avatar

Don't buy the lie

Millions now living

Will never die.

There will be no more sea. We will farm the sea bottoms!

Lugh's avatar

The GOVERNMENT is trying to stop China's social decline. The endless entitled whores who refuse to marry, becoming cat ladies as men ignore their insane demands. The men becoming wimps or "grass boys" as they are called in Japan. The diseases of prosperity, of Capitalism sans human values.

Lugh's avatar

I don't care if a cat is black or white as long as it catches mice.

Deng Ming Dao

John does care. He is still infected by the Capitalist mind virus.

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.

MarshaLouise's avatar

This overarching kindness (characteristic of Trump) left many disappointed, but would putting Hillary in prison have been enough to settle and cure what the Deep State has done? It must be rooted out…and time is often the best help in unraveling that whole problem.

Letsrock's avatar

I wish they'd declare her dead already and stop w the parade of doubles.

Beth Nicolaides's avatar

I do not remember Trump's quips as being literal promises; it was just his rhetorical style. Anyhow, there was no apparatus in place willing to indict the old bag.

If you don't like Trump, support it with a real reason, not performative obtuseness about what he supposedly promised. That's just dumb.

Letsrock's avatar

Words matter. Otherwise don't say them.

Thomas Madden's avatar

"what he supposedly promised"? Give me a break. He said, again and again, that if he was elected he would Put Hillary in Jail. She would need a Presidential Pardon after he was elected. He was going to "Lock Her Up". And then, a couple months after he was elected, he went on 60 minutes and told the world that "the Clintons are good people". Freaking lie after lie with this man. . .

Rosemary B's avatar

Hillary has pretty much put herself in jail

Thomas Madden's avatar

She is laughing at people who actually believed Trump was going to take action against her, and hold her accountable for her many crimes.

Letsrock's avatar

No that's just her doubles.

Dennis L. Merwood's avatar

Since 1800, over 700 proposals to reform the voting system have been introduced in Congress. None of these proposals have received the approval of two-thirds of Congress and three-fourths of the states required to amend the Constitution.

The goal post to change the voting system was set too high by the framers.

Like 2A, another bad idea Americans are stuck with. And will never be changed

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.

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.

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?

Granny62's avatar

Two weeks? They have had 5 years!

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.

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.)

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.

Lugh's avatar

Zimmerman should be part of the Trump administration. He is a hero.

JohnAZ's avatar

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

Charting The Fourth Turning's avatar

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

James Howard Kunstler's avatar

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

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.

Granny62's avatar

Don’t you find it strange that they would suddenly “find” the pipe bomber right after the Blaze report? These guys are great reporters too, JJ doesn’t own the alone.

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.

JohnAZ's avatar

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

Brian's avatar

Awaiting the “manifesto” by this “lone nut.”

Mike Ware's avatar

Excellent response Val! Thanks for posting

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.

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.

Miryamnae's avatar

I just passed her on the road again…

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.

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.

Lugh's avatar

Watch a green lights. It's very subtle, but most people don't want to be the first to go. They may be getting it wrong. Maybe the light really isn't green. Or maybe green now means stop. Just like the Democrats used to be red and the Republicans blue.

Kathy S.'s avatar

Hitler and Goebbels had it: Make the lie big enough and outrageous enough, and repeat it loud enough and often enough... and the people will believe it.

Lugh's avatar

Yes, they copied the Jews.

el bicho palo's avatar

so you have been told

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...

Jim Arneal's avatar

Of course there were federal agents in the crowd. Mostly off-duty military and police officers who… politically identified with Trump. There’s the explanation. It’s not complicated, it’s not interesting, but worst of all for many… it’s not a good look for Trump.

JR Ewing's avatar

All of that plus the psy-op that went on for years that was intended to convince normie Americans of the false premise of that day.

The whole thing - from the advent of Covid all the way through the Jack Smith prosecutions - was a seditious conspiracy inculcated and conducted by the CIA.

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.

JohnAZ's avatar

Musk tried and was expelled.

John Schrauth's avatar

I concluded some time ago that the "fedsurrection" goal was to prevent the objections from being entertained which had substantial evidence behind them. I also have a strong inclination to believe the VP, Pence, was to his eternal disgrace involved in the scheme up to his eyeballs.

NY Nanny's avatar

RIGHT THE HELL ON about that miserable POS Judas Pence.

Liber8or's avatar

Yes indeed. Add Ted Cruz and Rand Paul to that list.

Ben's avatar

Ted Cruz is a frenemy.

Rand Paul is like every other libertarian they all come off wishy washy and kind of nutty.

Max liberty for all with minimal government intrusion.

Laudable goals until you look at just how out of control everything would be.

For this to work one must have a very moral society where people just do the right thing and that is not what we have in 'Murica at this time and I doubt it really exists anywhere.

Kathy S.'s avatar

Maybe... or maybe he's just the ultimate coward. The proactively malicious villains in the world only get away with their evil because of all the passive cowards.

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."...

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/

john galt's avatar

The most pressing danger our nation faces is not China, Russia, NK, or any of the leftist rogue nations, but our very own Demoncrap Party and its corrupt adherents. There is nothing these evil cretins will not do for power and graft, including destruction of our nation and its culture and citizens, so long as they are on top of the rubbish heap remaining. Not more dangerous than the CPUSA since they are ideologically aligned with them and work in lock step. The Demoncraps are also aligned with the cartels importing the drugs killing over 100K per year and the outstanding chances of bribery of many Demoncrap politicians should be investigated. Just as the Communist Party has been banned in other nations, the Demoncrap Party should, after thorough investigations and trials, be banned as an existential threat to our Republic.