Everything makes sense once you realize that approximately half (or more) of the people sitting in Congress--Senate and House both--are not interested in the good of the country and are motivated exclusively by self-interest, which encompasses 1) their retention of power, and 2) personal wealth. They can't have 2) without 1), so they are doing whatever it takes to assure re-election. If that requires importing a new group of voters, that's fine by them. If that means eventual destruction of the country, that's fine as well, because by the time that happens, their personal wealth will have provided them with a handy escape route elsewhere. For the rest of us who can't (or choose not to) leave, that's tough. Sucks to be us.
The US Senate became impotent when it was taken from the states and given to the people. It is nothing more than a glorified House of Representatives. The 17th amendment should be repealed.
Why stop there? The Second Amendment is a notoriously poorly drafted law, with terrible consequences for American society. You all should get rid of it.
Of course it's a law. That's what the U.S. constitution is, the overarching legal document that sets the terms for all law in the USA. Your comment is a shining example of exactly why the second amendment is a bad law: because people don't think of it as a law enacted by men, they think of it as holy scripture.
I'll clue you in on something: the people of the USA are no threat to its government. If they were, would Trump, Rubio, Hegseth and the rest have dared to start a war with Iran after campaigning against foreign wars? They do these things because they understand there is no threat to them no matter how much they lie to the rubes. And if they ever do really feel threatened, no one in power will give half a second's thought to any provision of the constitution, second amendment or otherwise. They'll just gun you down in the street and saying "fucking bitch" afterward. We saw it happen very recently in Minneapolis. That was them, demonstrating the truth of what I'm saying. They just dress it up as being about illegal aliens because that plays so well with the rubes. It's about you, the second you really step out of line.
Well, he's Canadian, so that kind of goes with the territory. They don't have a right to keep and bear arms, but they do have the right to have a doctor kill them if they feel a bit out of sorts.
Start with the dependent clause: "A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State". Does the word 'state' refer to any particular one of the thirteen original colonies (the states)? To each of them severally, to all of them together? Does it refer to the State as a concept, meaning government in general? That would have to include the federal government as well. It's far from clear which particular, discrete entity or entities the word is meant to refer to. That's poor drafting: ambiguity, uncertainty, doubt.
Notice also that this is in the context of "the security of" a "free state". By what textual evidence (I mean the actual words on paper, not your personal interpretation) does that mean the people of that state, i.e. the security of ordinary citizens? It would make at least as much sense, perhaps more, to say it means the security of the state, which could very well mean its security against its own citizens. By the 19th century, there were "free states" as opposed to "slave states", where slavery was practised. Could this have been interpreted to mean the constitution protected free states against the slave states? I know how dumb that sounds, but language is slippery and lawyers are relentless. Everyone benefits when the law is clear. There's nothing on paper to say what the vague phrase "security of a free state" is meant to protect and what it isn't. More poor drafting: more ambiguity, uncertainty, doubt.
Now the main clause: "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." Historically, the phrase "the people" has a particular meaning in the USA. If you get charged with littering, your case will be constituted as "The People vs. Cosmo T Kat". Here "the people" means the prosecution, representing the public interest in punishing antisocial conduct. The wording of the second amendment doesn't make clear whether "the people" means "the public interest", which is safeguarded by government, or if it means ordinary people's right to keep and bear arms. Obviously plenty of people think it does mean the latter, but I repeat, that's their interpretation. What's on paper doesn't make it clear one way or the other. That's a poorly drafted law.
Absolutely. It exists in present form not in the manner laboriously negotiated through the traditionally hot and humid summer months in Philadelphia.
It could (the Convention) be described as a 'sort of coup', because the original intent was to fix the Articles of Confederation. After some attempts they scrapped the Articles and started over.
The House of Representatives was a popularly elected body whose seats were based on population. The Senate was designed to be an equalizer. It was to be controlled by the individual state legislatures who would choose and send two Senators each to the bicameral legislative body.
This is often referred to as the Connecticut Compromise.
Things weren't really going well, the convention almost dissolved. The Compromise (under various names) is considered by many as one which saved the convention.
This compromise not only saved the convention but shaped American federalism by balancing popular sovereignty with state sovereignty.
The Seventeenth Amendment undid this delicate balance.
"Because among all the broken institutions in our country, Congress is the worst."
YES! It is. The US Congress is a failure of epic and colossal proportions. It is an utter joke. The "representatives" who get into Congress are prohibited from thinking for themselves and always vote along party lines, regardless of what their constituents back in their districts want. So these fuckers in Congress spend their time on their committees holding "hearings" where they verbally abuse some poor sucker who answered the summons to come to Congress so they can get a sound byte on Tic Tok or Instagram. They don't listen to each other, they care not about listening to each other. They do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING that benefits the American people. I can't think of one thing the failed Congress has done that personally benefits me.
The US Congress is nothing more than a bickering boys and girls club of grifters and criminals.
Americans should be pissing razorblades in anger at the abject failure that is the US Congress. Instead of pointing fingers at Trump, Biden, Obama, and Bush they should be pointing fingers at Congress and demanding more from their legislature. Afterall, Congress controls the purse, Congress makes law (not the President) and Congress can override a Presidential veto.
Unfortunately, so many people are caught up in TDS and BDS that they ignore the gigantic pile of stinking shit that is the US Congress. Congress needs to be reformed from top to bottom. I propose the following:
1. A national lottery of native born net tax paying US citizens.
2. Drafted in said lottery for 1 legislative term consisting of one 3 month legislative session in Washington.
3. Once session is finished, representative returns to their job in their district. No more full time Congressional careers.
4. Increase the size of the Congress to 2,000, 4,000 or more representatives so improve the representation of the people.
Mr. Kunstler blames the SCOTUS when they gave corporations campaign contributions. He's right but I also believe Congress was ruined when legislators became a full time career instead of public service.
Excellent post. I believe that the ruin started when people realized they could vote themselves piles of other peoples money and wealth. As Franklin warned, the end of the Republic.
The Federal Register is the document that catalogs and records all Federal Legislation. It is a voluminous document consisting of thousand and thousand of pages.
There are so many laws passed by "congress" that the average American commits 2 felonies per day and doesn't even know about it. Add to that all the state laws, county laws and city laws........well, you get the picture.
Most legislation is bought and paid for (and written) by corporate interests. Think big tech and big pharma and it has nothing to do with protecting America.
Citizens United went the way it did because a) the Supreme Court found that corporations are people 200 years ago, and b) unions and similar organizations had been funding the Democrats for decades, so Citizens United was supposed to level the playing field. Plus, since John Roberts was involved, you can bet there was a payoff somewhere regarding the ruling.
I have not deep dived the Epstein file dumps because I need to sleep well enough to function at work but I do believe John Robert's is a pedophile. This would explain some of his rulings. Blackmail controls many in Congress and elsewhere.
How about the corrupt bribery operations of undeclared foreign agents (disguised as PACs) that are so heavily influencing "the gigantic pile of stinking shit that is the US Congress"??
"Everything makes sense once you realize that approximately half (or more) of the people sitting in Congress--Senate and House both--are not interested in the good of the country and are motivated exclusively by self-interest, which encompasses 1) their retention of power, and 2) personal wealth."
As a non-certified un-license historian I have to say, Thus It Has Ever Been.
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Is This Man the Second Biggest Traitor in US History?
Wilson and Thee Roosevelt got the ball rolling, then FDR, the murderous racist El BJ, Bubba, the Islamist racist Soetoro, and the senile drunk Biden just took the ball down the field.
FDR died on my birthday, the Civil War started on my birthday, Yuri Gagarin the first man into space on my birthday.... actually a Russian you could really like he was non-political and very friendly and didn't seem to have any fervor for his shitty government.
As a personal point of pride, I have no equivocation ....FDR dying on my birthday is an added bonus every year I blow out a few extra candles telling him "Where you are residing, you don't need any more fire my dude! "
🔥I'm sure a cabin on the shores of the lake of fire has done wonders for his polio..... and the homosexual demons probably give him quite a workout every day....,, such is death‼️
The purveyor of the 'screw deal'
"We have nothing to fear… Oh wait a minute I'm stuck in hell for eternity, what am I saying FFS‼️"
True, there have always been self-seekers and traitors in our midst, but their numbers have grown almost geometrically, possibly now become overwhelming. It remains to be seen whether our country can survive.
My Bible tells me it won't. Doesn't mean you quit fighting or don't put up a gallant effort....
For Christ's sake, when you have a pope or let's say popes, who don't even study the Bible or give enough of a shit to follow it....
Then surely your leaders are of a similar character or even lesser,
We are getting a biblical lesson now with a man we have voted for three times in a row.
Apparently, to his detriment and ours, he can't humble himself, even after being shot in the head. Recently, he was unfortunately joking about whether he was going to wind up in hell or not. I would say I'm baffled, but Satan is no fool. He knows where the draft comes in on your door and he'll start right in that tiny spot with his crowbar.
He doesn't need to fully corrupt you just a little bit.
I pray for TRUMP, Trump is not my savior or yours and we are learning a big lesson here you cannot put your faith in Kings or concubines....
Even the Arab states (and Iranian population) are thanking Israel for their intervention. How does it feel to have your wn bias be so thwarted that you cannot even understand what’s going on??
What are you talking about? They responded instantly as soon as they were given the greenlight it was party on.....
They revel and wallow in this kind of bullshit so let's stop calling this a one-sided thing either way......
Everybody has the capability to be a Nazi of one form or another...... there is no difference making evil decisions about your behavior whether you're wearing a suit and tie or your groveling in the dirt... fucking, killing and eating children..... then burning down their homes.
It won't make a dime's difference when it comes to your judgment that's why you're looking at two groups of losers, and they're gonna be judged for the same crimes you were either the planner or the player none of them get out of here alive..... they're facing eternal death.
To pull off shit like this that's absolutely satanic in nature and it's going to bar you from entering heaven. Not to mention the faith that both of these groups are following is utter horseshit anyway..
One is made up of whole violent cloth plagiarized from the two larger religions before it. The other one is not only forsaking their savior but developing their own God complex.… to rule the world… Like Satan's actually gonna get out of their way that's a laugher. This isn't Babylon part Deux but they can't get their heads out of their asses.
I find both sides at fault. It certainly does look like a stand down. There's no getting around the information leaking out and the timing alone is insane.
Do not for one minute think that excuses the fucking behavior from the howler monkeys crossing into Israel..... possibly Netanyahu gave them their moment and they sure as fuck went hog wild cause that's who they are..,,. The depravity was off the charts, the eageress to do it, the amount of tools of pure violence they had with them and the creepy shit they were instantaneously doing....... bringing the depths of hell straight up to the surface of the Earth. If you're gonna pick a side here, remember this… One of the few times you can actually believe people who are prone to lying and do it all too easilyis when they show you who they are.
The only thing they didn't do was boil the Jews but more than likely they would tell you they don't taste good. Apparently they missed the email from Epstein.
Here's the good news. Christ is going to have a reckoning with both sides when he comes back.
I wouldn't want to be in their shoes. They'll be shitting themselves senseless when the judgment comes down for their behavior. It's nothing to laugh about. It's nothing to take solace in. It's not our revenge.
Try to imaginary eternity and then see what you're gonna do about. Making sure yours Isn't that horrific… I'll say it again...
Life in the US is unaffordable, our cities are crumbling, unaccountable elite predators at the helm. So what we really need is another regime change war in the Middle East? More death, destruction, higher prices for everyone, and billions, probably trillions, tossed into an abyss. Shouldn't our beef be with our own regime?
Actually, the end is closer than you think. Read my next comment below this one.. we are told not to pick the time and day of Christ's return,but meanwhile the UN has their shitty agenda 2030 coming up very close. God has his plans, and Satan is gnashing his teeth because he knows his days are numbered. Looking at events going on with the WEF and all this other horseshit. Destroying genitals destroying the family destroying the church building AI erasing humans.
Read up and you'll see that Satan's only goal is to get as many people in hell as he can and destroy man the one thing God calls his greatest creation.
We are fervently, trying to destroy something really ugly in Persia right now (for the record there is no Iran and no Iranians. These people are shoving the Persians off their own land. Just like Palestine another place that never existed… Palestine was a Roman word and rather derogatory for the land where the Jews live) just as we fight battles here on earth. God has been clashing with Satan since the falling.
I like your comment nomad but here's the deal and it's hard for people to embrace this. Sometimes I can't get this through my head.
It's all gonna crash. Nothing in that Bible that's been predicted has ever not followed through. Fortunately, yet, unfortunately for us as odd as that sounds. I don't think man has the capability to change God's mind, especially with the pattern of behavior. The Bible was written for many reasons and one of them is to warn you right now there is only one way out.... I've watched this over the decades as well just when you think the left can't get any crazier they sit around holding each other's beer and the circle jerk rolls on and on and on circling down the drain. You don't have to go with it.
I meant what I said above. I don't like it, but I have to live it and I'm gonna follow what Christ tells me and that is to hold onto him and it doesn't mean there won't be trials and there won't be pain and maybe even death. But I'm not gonna forsake him for the antichrist, for the beast, for Satan for the love of Epstein. It's not gonna happen.
By studying fervently more in my Bible I am prepared for what's coming, whether I like it or not. Are you talking about this stuff with my mother when I was 13. Now I just go back and study deeper for greater understanding just like reading a plumbing manua. I'm also prepared to open my mouth and tell people the good news at the same time I fight it and I continue to vote and do the things that I can.
It's weird when people say you should be blessed to live in these times and in a way we are, but you were designed to be here no matter what you think. There is not a lot of time left.
The Bible tells me not to pick a time and a day and I'm not doing that, but it tells me to keep my eye out for the signs and they are everywhere and this is a snowball rolling down a hill. It might hit a tree and deflect and slow down briefly, but it's gonna pick up speed again. We're gonna see a lot of shit happening fast before we go.
I'm gonna say it again. Find Christ explore what he offers you, make your decision, save your eternity. It's not about this place. I can't stand it here either day by day. It's like carrying an anvil around. When I cope with a savior and I move forward that's real progress not that horseshit coming from the left side of insanity down there in Washington.
Trump is taking on the Blob - which includes nefarious US machinations in Iran keeping tensions high - and we simply need to support him and his crew which know exactly what they are doing.
Ah, yes. Trump playing his genius three-dimensional chess against the nefarious forces of ‘The Blob’, like some superhero doll with articulated limbs, now with a cape that magically wards off all moral concerns like wholesale grifting and hand-drawing nude girl Epstein birthday cards.
"The Congress of our time is demonstrating that we might not be worthy of governing ourselves. We are at a cycle-low for public rectitude..." Yes, but why?
Citizens United was but a symptom of the underlying problem when the modern world meets the democratic process. Why does more money for the campaign mean a more likely success as a candidate? Because the voters respond to ads instead of doing a little research and critical thinking.
Trump has been a great disappointment so far. He has caved on nearly every major issue, and his base is leaving him in droves.
He has alienated actual "MAGA" typess like Greene and Carlson, and is losing support among those who joined him from across the aisle (see Gabbard).
Rightfully so. We've had support for quaxxines, mass murderers from Pfizer and ISIS in the White House, new wars, and no action whatsoever on the pollutants being sprayed in our skies on a daily basis.
And, of course, he is entirely owned by Israel. We have foreign agents in the WH and at the highest positions in government.
I'm one of the voters disappointed. I would rather Isreal fall, than send one more dime, bullet or boot to the middle east. That's the only reason I voted. I've never voted before, actually. I voted because I thought he might just be narcissistic enough to avoid war just to be know as the president of peace. Solutions won't come from online discourse I am afraid.
Stalin's well-known statement about elections being decided "not by those who cast the votes, but those who count the votes" likely has a corollary: "what matters is not who the voters vote for, but who controls the choices they are given." Biden and/or Harris vs. Trump--great choice there, as it seems to be turning out.
Replying to Tx: Firstly “OF WHICH there is no shortage these day;” hate to correct a self inflated booby… oh now that’s a lie. Begs the question who you would have instead as vaunted leader for our times?
The words "well meaning" have no, well, meaning when applied to Donald Trump. The concepts of altruism or earnest effort toward a consistent goal don't exist in his world view. This is what makes JHK and MAGA's devotion to him as some kind of protagonist for their goals so hilarious: Trump himself has no goals, only appetites.
DJT is well meaning, and has a plan. It's a plan quite obvious to those who understand the world around them. You just can't see it and probably wouldn't understand it if you could. Enjoy living under the communist Carney.
I see you are back using your 5D chess gambit again: Be patient while the grand scheme unfolds. Full disclosure, I voted for our 5D chess champ. No, sorry, he’s not playing 5D chess – he’s barely able to struggle through a 2-D backyard game of checkers. Let’s face it, he lied to us big time during his campaign and he is currently failing our country Bigley. Sometimes you just have to know when it’s time to cut your losses short.
The JW post hurts. We cannot continue to lose soldiers. He'll come back I'm sure.
I believe the investigations into Fulton County in Georgia and Maricopa County in Arizona and other states will greatly accelerate over the next few weeks in order to expose the Big Steal in 2020 and demonstrate how Mail-In Ballots and foreign intervention have corrupted our voting system. This then will put extreme pressure on traitors like Thune and others who seek to block Trump's effort to take the country back. The time is now to pass the SAVE America Act.
It will be interesting to see how the Blue States respond to a SAVE America Law. Will they resist its implementation by still allowing Mail-In ballots, for example? What will the government's response be if they do resist? Could a state's right to seat US House and Senate members be forfeited? What if a Republican-leaning Congressional District within a Blue "resistor" State chooses to follow the tenants of the SAVE America Law? Will their elected House member be eligible to serve?
The flipside of Trump Derangement Syndrome, is this belief that Trump is doing his best to wage a noble and heroic fight, the only one with the cojones who can save Western civ. (Maybe the reality is that he's just compromised by the Adelson's money and possibly Epstein's videos?). It's very similar to the belief in hope and change Obama, a cult that just couldn't see how useless and destructive his administration was. How he protected and bailed out the banksters that crashed the economy, and the Bush/Cheney illegal war regime, from accountability. Maybe that was really his main job. Trump is a mental and moral midget and it should be clear to all by now he takes his orders from Bibi. If only we could kick aipac out of our politics and cut off the billions in welfare to Israel, then we might actually have some America first policies.
"If only we could kick aipac out of our politics and cut off the billions in welfare to Israel, then we might actually have some America first policies."
And get rid of the foreign psychotic war criminal Bibi.
Exactly. I watched my "side" become complete hypocrites over Obama, and that madness has never been shaken off. Now many of the Trump folk are the same way. I've been reading JHK since 2005 and tried to remember how he felt about the Iraq War. Found an interesting letter posted to him by an old reader about the underlying neocon beliefs of JHK, which seem fully validated since 10/7. The whole CF project in hindsight looks like delusional promises made of "vindication" to people rightfully critical of progressive overreach, while quietly fundamentally reasserting neocon hegemony in key areas.
We definitely need to cut the grifter money flowing into Washington. Leaders in Congress and Senate should not be "Dual Citizens" and carry 2 passports. This practice has been going on since Christmas Eve in 1913 when the Federal Reserve Act was singed into law in secret.
Did you know that there is actually NO government information about Congressional ‘dual citizens’??? Anything you read about that comes from internet opinion (and the assumption that if you’re Jewish, you’re automatically an Israeli citizen, which is total BS. Maybe actually look up what it takes to become an Israeli citizen, as in how long you have to live there to become one. Let me know when your Jewish Congressmen have disappeared for years.
Noted. So allow me drop the term "Dual Citizen" and let's pass The "Dual Loyalty Disclosure Act" (H.R. 2356), introduced in the 119th Congress (2025-2026), which proposes amending the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require candidates for the U.S. House or Senate to disclose any foreign citizenship they hold. It aims to ensure transparency regarding potential foreign allegiances. Source: Congress.gov | Library of Congress.
This bill was also introduced in 2023…HR946. Still sitting around without being passed. And frankly I wish it would pass, so all the internet BS about all these ‘Israeli citizens’ sitting in Congress would end.
Jewish and Christian Zionists seem to think that this war is all about the final battle of good and evil in Armageddon. Well, who knows, maybe it is, but what they likely have wrong is who they think is on the “Good“ side and who they think is on the “evil“ side.
Only Biblical zealots are talking about ‘end times’. On a more secular note, how about just getting rid of Islamic radicals that are disrupting western countries and the MIddle East?
It’s impossible to reform the evil out of what is fundamentally evil. “Reform” is the mask they hide behind until they quietly outnumber you. Then it’s you that must “reform”, i.e submit (or die).
I used to believe in Santa Clause too so there is some bliss in ignorance. After 9/11, when GWB proclaimed their religion was one of peace I decided to read their playbook for myself. It’s anything but.
There is a book I highly recommend. It is entitled "World Made By Hand" and is about what happened to the United States after some sort of indeterminant war in the Middle East.
Mr Kunstler, I have long anticipated receiving your Monday emails. I love your wit, style and find your observations provide a genuine touch stone for me. Quite often, I forward these gems onto friends with similar interests. While I agree with your concerns for getting the SAVE Act passed in the Senate along with righting the wrongs of the corrupt law fare waged against President Trump, I am not optimistic with regard to the Iran situation. What started out as it will probably be over in a few days, then a few weeks, then maybe a few months and now rumblings of boots on the ground, American boots in fact horrifies me. It's like de ja vu all over again!! Our track record stinks since the 40's. Hanging by my thumbs in praying for a miracle.
Sorry pal but you’re on the wrong side of history on this one. Your nation has been hijacked by the only terrorist in the middle east, namely Israel. Your President and the batshit crazy mob around him have pulled you into a quagmire unlike any other. He’s already trying to convince you that high oil prices are fine and that is just the beginning. Iran will NOT lose. Good luck.
So you possess neither foresight nor patience. Apparently, you've only briefly studied one side of theirstory. There's nobody named McNamara in this "crazy mob"....... You might want to hold your fetid breath for a little while.
Flaws, warts and all whatever, dollars to donuts there are far better people running this operation right now than you've seen since your days in Carters brand laderhausen. If they succeed, no worries, you'll go right on bitching..... more sullen than ever. There's some progress for ya!
Among others, you bring to mind that what's his name General McGregor, or whatever constantly on TV constantly wringing his hands, clutching his pearls, but never scratching his balls to find out if he can come up with a solution for anything. Naysayers are a dime a fucking dozen. It must hurt to watch a president you don't care for and we don't find perfect who actually has the fucking nards to go put an end to this fucking dribble that has accomplished nothing but spilling blood for years, destroying Persia and the Kurds simultaneously costing the world in lives, blood, and treasure endlessly.
So sit there on your couch, watch your MS never or whatever the hell you watch with all these fucking clowns, shake your Stalinist fist.... (Pro Tip: pull it out of your ass first) they're not quite a 'mob' on your side they're not that sophisticated...
just a "Bakers Doesn't" of assholes spread over a handful of occult riven shows ever earnestly interviewing somebody at just an arm's-length from the prevaricators of the eternal bullshit in the "Middle East" whatever that is..... it's actually the DIDDLE East they can't keep their fucking hands off the Bacha Bazzi boys.... or the seven-year-old girls on their way to Madrassah.
Kunstler says the chaos around the Iran war and American politics is not the end of the story — it is the messy birth of a new order. Much of the outrage, he argues, is driven less by strategy and more by hatred of Trump, even when his actions disrupt both Iran’s power structure and entrenched political rackets at home. Iran’s ruling clerics, in his view, have long fueled regional chaos through proxies and nuclear blackmail, and the confrontation now unfolding is the inevitable result. At the same time, the United States faces its own internal disorder — broken elections, corporate money flooding politics, and institutions losing legitimacy. Kunstler’s message is simple: this moment may look like collapse, but it is really a brutal passage through chaos on the road back to order.
Talk about all the broken institutions in our country, Congress just left on another week of vacation as security lines grind to a halt at airports. The Jacobin leaders on the left, Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries, have become insufferable. I can no longer watch TV as Schumer and Jeffries gloat and smile at the chaos and misery they are causing. There must be a special place in hell for these two idiots.
The Iranians who were persecuted by the Mullahs are correct in their statements that Iran has been at war with the West and the US in particular since they took over the whole country 50 years ago or so. It is just that our politicians have been too stupid or too frightened politically to do what was necessary to cut their balls off. What truly emboldened Sadaam (spelling) was how successful Iran had been at blackmailing the West so he wanted in on the action. HIs only screw up was letting it be known he wanted to kill Bush #1 and this got him killed----eventually but.....both Bushs had no guts for really taking on the Iranians because they were frightened of the blowback they would get from the Euros and others who were making tons of money off all of the sanctions and those people did not want to lose their lucrative $billions. Remember the mayor of London who during this time was ( I assume it was true) making $millions off helping the Iraq government evade sanctions so he was against the war.? I am sure it was the same with many of our own gutless politicians and Congress critters .
Yes, I am afraid that Israel has way too much power over our politicians with its well oiled political contribution schemes and blackmailing by Mossad and it is true we are giving Israel way too much taxpayer money when they are rich in their own right but........Iran is telling us to our faces they want to kill us all and at least Israel's ultimate goals do not align 100% with ours it is a damn site closer to what we are wanting that the death of America.
Trump has big balls and is trying to make it safer for America and,..,,.., the world and is willing to take on the real problems rather than sit by and watch us die a slow death of 1000 cuts. And......I applaud him for saying (or yelling) THOSE PEOPLE ARE CRAZY!!!!!! Truer words have never been spoken in a State of the Union message.
Everything makes sense once you realize that approximately half (or more) of the people sitting in Congress--Senate and House both--are not interested in the good of the country and are motivated exclusively by self-interest, which encompasses 1) their retention of power, and 2) personal wealth. They can't have 2) without 1), so they are doing whatever it takes to assure re-election. If that requires importing a new group of voters, that's fine by them. If that means eventual destruction of the country, that's fine as well, because by the time that happens, their personal wealth will have provided them with a handy escape route elsewhere. For the rest of us who can't (or choose not to) leave, that's tough. Sucks to be us.
John Thune and Chuck Shumer are the pointed tips of the turd that is the United States Senate.
The US Senate became impotent when it was taken from the states and given to the people. It is nothing more than a glorified House of Representatives. The 17th amendment should be repealed.
Agreed. The IRS and the Fed should be disbanded and the Sixteenth Amendment repealed, as well.
There's a guy who knows his Constitution!
Why stop there? The Second Amendment is a notoriously poorly drafted law, with terrible consequences for American society. You all should get rid of it.
The Second Amendment is not a law. It is a charge against government to never trifle with a standing, God given, inalienable Right.
Stay up north, enjoy your servitude.
well said.
Of course it's a law. That's what the U.S. constitution is, the overarching legal document that sets the terms for all law in the USA. Your comment is a shining example of exactly why the second amendment is a bad law: because people don't think of it as a law enacted by men, they think of it as holy scripture.
I'll clue you in on something: the people of the USA are no threat to its government. If they were, would Trump, Rubio, Hegseth and the rest have dared to start a war with Iran after campaigning against foreign wars? They do these things because they understand there is no threat to them no matter how much they lie to the rubes. And if they ever do really feel threatened, no one in power will give half a second's thought to any provision of the constitution, second amendment or otherwise. They'll just gun you down in the street and saying "fucking bitch" afterward. We saw it happen very recently in Minneapolis. That was them, demonstrating the truth of what I'm saying. They just dress it up as being about illegal aliens because that plays so well with the rubes. It's about you, the second you really step out of line.
You’re a fucking idiot. 👆
Well, he's Canadian, so that kind of goes with the territory. They don't have a right to keep and bear arms, but they do have the right to have a doctor kill them if they feel a bit out of sorts.
Sir,
Well said. Thank you.
Poorly drafted in what way?
Start with the dependent clause: "A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State". Does the word 'state' refer to any particular one of the thirteen original colonies (the states)? To each of them severally, to all of them together? Does it refer to the State as a concept, meaning government in general? That would have to include the federal government as well. It's far from clear which particular, discrete entity or entities the word is meant to refer to. That's poor drafting: ambiguity, uncertainty, doubt.
Notice also that this is in the context of "the security of" a "free state". By what textual evidence (I mean the actual words on paper, not your personal interpretation) does that mean the people of that state, i.e. the security of ordinary citizens? It would make at least as much sense, perhaps more, to say it means the security of the state, which could very well mean its security against its own citizens. By the 19th century, there were "free states" as opposed to "slave states", where slavery was practised. Could this have been interpreted to mean the constitution protected free states against the slave states? I know how dumb that sounds, but language is slippery and lawyers are relentless. Everyone benefits when the law is clear. There's nothing on paper to say what the vague phrase "security of a free state" is meant to protect and what it isn't. More poor drafting: more ambiguity, uncertainty, doubt.
Now the main clause: "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." Historically, the phrase "the people" has a particular meaning in the USA. If you get charged with littering, your case will be constituted as "The People vs. Cosmo T Kat". Here "the people" means the prosecution, representing the public interest in punishing antisocial conduct. The wording of the second amendment doesn't make clear whether "the people" means "the public interest", which is safeguarded by government, or if it means ordinary people's right to keep and bear arms. Obviously plenty of people think it does mean the latter, but I repeat, that's their interpretation. What's on paper doesn't make it clear one way or the other. That's a poorly drafted law.
Absolutely. It exists in present form not in the manner laboriously negotiated through the traditionally hot and humid summer months in Philadelphia.
It could (the Convention) be described as a 'sort of coup', because the original intent was to fix the Articles of Confederation. After some attempts they scrapped the Articles and started over.
The House of Representatives was a popularly elected body whose seats were based on population. The Senate was designed to be an equalizer. It was to be controlled by the individual state legislatures who would choose and send two Senators each to the bicameral legislative body.
This is often referred to as the Connecticut Compromise.
Things weren't really going well, the convention almost dissolved. The Compromise (under various names) is considered by many as one which saved the convention.
This compromise not only saved the convention but shaped American federalism by balancing popular sovereignty with state sovereignty.
The Seventeenth Amendment undid this delicate balance.
"Because among all the broken institutions in our country, Congress is the worst."
YES! It is. The US Congress is a failure of epic and colossal proportions. It is an utter joke. The "representatives" who get into Congress are prohibited from thinking for themselves and always vote along party lines, regardless of what their constituents back in their districts want. So these fuckers in Congress spend their time on their committees holding "hearings" where they verbally abuse some poor sucker who answered the summons to come to Congress so they can get a sound byte on Tic Tok or Instagram. They don't listen to each other, they care not about listening to each other. They do ABSOLUTELY NOTHING that benefits the American people. I can't think of one thing the failed Congress has done that personally benefits me.
The US Congress is nothing more than a bickering boys and girls club of grifters and criminals.
Americans should be pissing razorblades in anger at the abject failure that is the US Congress. Instead of pointing fingers at Trump, Biden, Obama, and Bush they should be pointing fingers at Congress and demanding more from their legislature. Afterall, Congress controls the purse, Congress makes law (not the President) and Congress can override a Presidential veto.
Unfortunately, so many people are caught up in TDS and BDS that they ignore the gigantic pile of stinking shit that is the US Congress. Congress needs to be reformed from top to bottom. I propose the following:
1. A national lottery of native born net tax paying US citizens.
2. Drafted in said lottery for 1 legislative term consisting of one 3 month legislative session in Washington.
3. Once session is finished, representative returns to their job in their district. No more full time Congressional careers.
4. Increase the size of the Congress to 2,000, 4,000 or more representatives so improve the representation of the people.
Mr. Kunstler blames the SCOTUS when they gave corporations campaign contributions. He's right but I also believe Congress was ruined when legislators became a full time career instead of public service.
Excellent post. I believe that the ruin started when people realized they could vote themselves piles of other peoples money and wealth. As Franklin warned, the end of the Republic.
Congress is one giant parasite that sucks the lifeblood of the people and shits out legislation as its waste.
The Federal Register is the document that catalogs and records all Federal Legislation. It is a voluminous document consisting of thousand and thousand of pages.
There are so many laws passed by "congress" that the average American commits 2 felonies per day and doesn't even know about it. Add to that all the state laws, county laws and city laws........well, you get the picture.
Most legislation is bought and paid for (and written) by corporate interests. Think big tech and big pharma and it has nothing to do with protecting America.
Citizens United went the way it did because a) the Supreme Court found that corporations are people 200 years ago, and b) unions and similar organizations had been funding the Democrats for decades, so Citizens United was supposed to level the playing field. Plus, since John Roberts was involved, you can bet there was a payoff somewhere regarding the ruling.
I have not deep dived the Epstein file dumps because I need to sleep well enough to function at work but I do believe John Robert's is a pedophile. This would explain some of his rulings. Blackmail controls many in Congress and elsewhere.
Whatever they have on JR it is bad enough that that piece of shit in a black robe has betrayed his country, his oath, his people and his posterity.
Ditto the radical left activists Bulldyke Kagen, Kunta-Ketangi and Sick pig Soto-scum.
Barrett may be guilty of illegal adoptions too...
Right Canker…do we need to see another hearing, ever? Bubba chuckled while leaving his deposition, Hillary threw some plates. Over.
Time to bring back the far more effective RENDITIONS...
But not until Orange Caligula, who serves a foreign nation... resigns in disgrace for his war crimes.
How about the corrupt bribery operations of undeclared foreign agents (disguised as PACs) that are so heavily influencing "the gigantic pile of stinking shit that is the US Congress"??
"Everything makes sense once you realize that approximately half (or more) of the people sitting in Congress--Senate and House both--are not interested in the good of the country and are motivated exclusively by self-interest, which encompasses 1) their retention of power, and 2) personal wealth."
As a non-certified un-license historian I have to say, Thus It Has Ever Been.
Example
Is This Man the Second Biggest Traitor in US History?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UP73bHekj0M&t=71s
Mar 8, 2026 #CivilWar #military #CivilWarhistory
Was John B. Floyd, Secretary of War under President James Buchanan, one of the greatest traitors in American history?
In my mother's opinion, FDR was one of our greatest traitors...
Wilson and Thee Roosevelt got the ball rolling, then FDR, the murderous racist El BJ, Bubba, the Islamist racist Soetoro, and the senile drunk Biden just took the ball down the field.
My grandmother, aunt, and mother, thought so, too.
FDR died on my birthday, the Civil War started on my birthday, Yuri Gagarin the first man into space on my birthday.... actually a Russian you could really like he was non-political and very friendly and didn't seem to have any fervor for his shitty government.
As a personal point of pride, I have no equivocation ....FDR dying on my birthday is an added bonus every year I blow out a few extra candles telling him "Where you are residing, you don't need any more fire my dude! "
🔥I'm sure a cabin on the shores of the lake of fire has done wonders for his polio..... and the homosexual demons probably give him quite a workout every day....,, such is death‼️
The purveyor of the 'screw deal'
"We have nothing to fear… Oh wait a minute I'm stuck in hell for eternity, what am I saying FFS‼️"
True, there have always been self-seekers and traitors in our midst, but their numbers have grown almost geometrically, possibly now become overwhelming. It remains to be seen whether our country can survive.
Well the size of government has grown, so to stands to reason. My point is People/Politicians don't change.
My Bible tells me it won't. Doesn't mean you quit fighting or don't put up a gallant effort....
For Christ's sake, when you have a pope or let's say popes, who don't even study the Bible or give enough of a shit to follow it....
Then surely your leaders are of a similar character or even lesser,
We are getting a biblical lesson now with a man we have voted for three times in a row.
Apparently, to his detriment and ours, he can't humble himself, even after being shot in the head. Recently, he was unfortunately joking about whether he was going to wind up in hell or not. I would say I'm baffled, but Satan is no fool. He knows where the draft comes in on your door and he'll start right in that tiny spot with his crowbar.
He doesn't need to fully corrupt you just a little bit.
I pray for TRUMP, Trump is not my savior or yours and we are learning a big lesson here you cannot put your faith in Kings or concubines....
Escape elsewhere? Where else is there to go?
Thank you James. One of the beacons of sanity in a dark world.
ridding the Middle East of its chief chaos agent.
You are referring to Israel, right?
No, Iran.
Tee hee.
Tee hee
Even the Arab states (and Iranian population) are thanking Israel for their intervention. How does it feel to have your wn bias be so thwarted that you cannot even understand what’s going on??
October 7?
Oct 7 - STAND DOWN order!
More internet anti-Israel BS
Why did it take so long to respond?
What are you talking about? They responded instantly as soon as they were given the greenlight it was party on.....
They revel and wallow in this kind of bullshit so let's stop calling this a one-sided thing either way......
Everybody has the capability to be a Nazi of one form or another...... there is no difference making evil decisions about your behavior whether you're wearing a suit and tie or your groveling in the dirt... fucking, killing and eating children..... then burning down their homes.
It won't make a dime's difference when it comes to your judgment that's why you're looking at two groups of losers, and they're gonna be judged for the same crimes you were either the planner or the player none of them get out of here alive..... they're facing eternal death.
To pull off shit like this that's absolutely satanic in nature and it's going to bar you from entering heaven. Not to mention the faith that both of these groups are following is utter horseshit anyway..
One is made up of whole violent cloth plagiarized from the two larger religions before it. The other one is not only forsaking their savior but developing their own God complex.… to rule the world… Like Satan's actually gonna get out of their way that's a laugher. This isn't Babylon part Deux but they can't get their heads out of their asses.
I find both sides at fault. It certainly does look like a stand down. There's no getting around the information leaking out and the timing alone is insane.
Do not for one minute think that excuses the fucking behavior from the howler monkeys crossing into Israel..... possibly Netanyahu gave them their moment and they sure as fuck went hog wild cause that's who they are..,,. The depravity was off the charts, the eageress to do it, the amount of tools of pure violence they had with them and the creepy shit they were instantaneously doing....... bringing the depths of hell straight up to the surface of the Earth. If you're gonna pick a side here, remember this… One of the few times you can actually believe people who are prone to lying and do it all too easilyis when they show you who they are.
The only thing they didn't do was boil the Jews but more than likely they would tell you they don't taste good. Apparently they missed the email from Epstein.
Here's the good news. Christ is going to have a reckoning with both sides when he comes back.
I wouldn't want to be in their shoes. They'll be shitting themselves senseless when the judgment comes down for their behavior. It's nothing to laugh about. It's nothing to take solace in. It's not our revenge.
Try to imaginary eternity and then see what you're gonna do about. Making sure yours Isn't that horrific… I'll say it again...
for eternity.
Ah 13 year olds!
Life in the US is unaffordable, our cities are crumbling, unaccountable elite predators at the helm. So what we really need is another regime change war in the Middle East? More death, destruction, higher prices for everyone, and billions, probably trillions, tossed into an abyss. Shouldn't our beef be with our own regime?
♠️ You're in the end times.... it will have to play out. Nothing's gonna stop it..
Find Christ and hunker down.
Meanwhile, up there in the article, James brought in that three word chunk of ancient advice: 'embrace the suck'❗️
I don't know bro, we've been in "embracing the suck" mode for like the last 30-40 years, and no end in sight.
It's not called The Long Emergency for nothing!
Actually, the end is closer than you think. Read my next comment below this one.. we are told not to pick the time and day of Christ's return,but meanwhile the UN has their shitty agenda 2030 coming up very close. God has his plans, and Satan is gnashing his teeth because he knows his days are numbered. Looking at events going on with the WEF and all this other horseshit. Destroying genitals destroying the family destroying the church building AI erasing humans.
Read up and you'll see that Satan's only goal is to get as many people in hell as he can and destroy man the one thing God calls his greatest creation.
We are fervently, trying to destroy something really ugly in Persia right now (for the record there is no Iran and no Iranians. These people are shoving the Persians off their own land. Just like Palestine another place that never existed… Palestine was a Roman word and rather derogatory for the land where the Jews live) just as we fight battles here on earth. God has been clashing with Satan since the falling.
I like your comment nomad but here's the deal and it's hard for people to embrace this. Sometimes I can't get this through my head.
It's all gonna crash. Nothing in that Bible that's been predicted has ever not followed through. Fortunately, yet, unfortunately for us as odd as that sounds. I don't think man has the capability to change God's mind, especially with the pattern of behavior. The Bible was written for many reasons and one of them is to warn you right now there is only one way out.... I've watched this over the decades as well just when you think the left can't get any crazier they sit around holding each other's beer and the circle jerk rolls on and on and on circling down the drain. You don't have to go with it.
I meant what I said above. I don't like it, but I have to live it and I'm gonna follow what Christ tells me and that is to hold onto him and it doesn't mean there won't be trials and there won't be pain and maybe even death. But I'm not gonna forsake him for the antichrist, for the beast, for Satan for the love of Epstein. It's not gonna happen.
By studying fervently more in my Bible I am prepared for what's coming, whether I like it or not. Are you talking about this stuff with my mother when I was 13. Now I just go back and study deeper for greater understanding just like reading a plumbing manua. I'm also prepared to open my mouth and tell people the good news at the same time I fight it and I continue to vote and do the things that I can.
It's weird when people say you should be blessed to live in these times and in a way we are, but you were designed to be here no matter what you think. There is not a lot of time left.
The Bible tells me not to pick a time and a day and I'm not doing that, but it tells me to keep my eye out for the signs and they are everywhere and this is a snowball rolling down a hill. It might hit a tree and deflect and slow down briefly, but it's gonna pick up speed again. We're gonna see a lot of shit happening fast before we go.
I'm gonna say it again. Find Christ explore what he offers you, make your decision, save your eternity. It's not about this place. I can't stand it here either day by day. It's like carrying an anvil around. When I cope with a savior and I move forward that's real progress not that horseshit coming from the left side of insanity down there in Washington.
Trump is taking on the Blob - which includes nefarious US machinations in Iran keeping tensions high - and we simply need to support him and his crew which know exactly what they are doing.
Ah, yes. Trump playing his genius three-dimensional chess against the nefarious forces of ‘The Blob’, like some superhero doll with articulated limbs, now with a cape that magically wards off all moral concerns like wholesale grifting and hand-drawing nude girl Epstein birthday cards.
Eye roll.
There is no genius in common sense. You need to get over the 'game' the rest of the government has been playing for decades to steal your wealth.
Don - Anyone else doing this?No, they are taking their % of your money.
https://coffeeandcovid.substack.com/p/gentlemens-agreements-sunday-march
"The Congress of our time is demonstrating that we might not be worthy of governing ourselves. We are at a cycle-low for public rectitude..." Yes, but why?
Citizens United was but a symptom of the underlying problem when the modern world meets the democratic process. Why does more money for the campaign mean a more likely success as a candidate? Because the voters respond to ads instead of doing a little research and critical thinking.
Why can't a huge percentage of kids graduating from High school read at a level equal to their grade or in some cases at all?
Because they don't have to.
Told a grandkid he needed to read more. He said he did... he listens to books on his cellphone.
That might partially true, but this has been a theme for the last fifty years.
I knew kids in high school that could barely read.
We have some friends that pulled their kids out of public school early and entered them into a home school club.
Their kids are smart, articulate, informed, and polite the opposite of some of the kids I know in public schools still.
Citizens United was not a "symptom" of anything, it was the endpoint of a decades-long effort to achieve exactly what the Supreme Court delivered.
https://the.levernews.com/master-plan/
...instead of doing a little research and critical thinking.
Sorry Jim.
Trump may be well meaning but there is no getting over the fact that he is essentially an American imbecile. Which there is no shortage of these days.
He has thrust the empire into one of the greatest rope-a-dope conflicts of all times. As only an imbecile can do.
That is not to fault him for all the domestic problems in the US. That is more attributable to the mass of morons that inhabit the country.
George Carlin summarized it more succinctly: Garbage in, garbage out.
American Imbecile? Surely, then, you must believe that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were significantly worse?
Comparing shit with other shit just proves the American crisis.
Trump has been a great disappointment so far. He has caved on nearly every major issue, and his base is leaving him in droves.
He has alienated actual "MAGA" typess like Greene and Carlson, and is losing support among those who joined him from across the aisle (see Gabbard).
Rightfully so. We've had support for quaxxines, mass murderers from Pfizer and ISIS in the White House, new wars, and no action whatsoever on the pollutants being sprayed in our skies on a daily basis.
And, of course, he is entirely owned by Israel. We have foreign agents in the WH and at the highest positions in government.
LOL…Greene and Carlson are not, nor ever were, MAGA. Carlson is connected to the CIA, FFS
They most certainly were, but MAGA, as we have seen, is something that shifts with the winds.
We have returned to Uniparty politics; directed by corporate criminals and banksters.
Carlson the paid shill?
Well Tx if not Trump/MAGA who?
This is what I keep coming back to; who else has national viability?
I'm one of the voters disappointed. I would rather Isreal fall, than send one more dime, bullet or boot to the middle east. That's the only reason I voted. I've never voted before, actually. I voted because I thought he might just be narcissistic enough to avoid war just to be know as the president of peace. Solutions won't come from online discourse I am afraid.
Stalin's well-known statement about elections being decided "not by those who cast the votes, but those who count the votes" likely has a corollary: "what matters is not who the voters vote for, but who controls the choices they are given." Biden and/or Harris vs. Trump--great choice there, as it seems to be turning out.
Perhaps getting rid of Islamic radical operatives that were working on a nuclear bomb might have been a sensible thing to do??
Replying to Tx: Firstly “OF WHICH there is no shortage these day;” hate to correct a self inflated booby… oh now that’s a lie. Begs the question who you would have instead as vaunted leader for our times?
Donald Trump? Well-meaning?
The words "well meaning" have no, well, meaning when applied to Donald Trump. The concepts of altruism or earnest effort toward a consistent goal don't exist in his world view. This is what makes JHK and MAGA's devotion to him as some kind of protagonist for their goals so hilarious: Trump himself has no goals, only appetites.
DJT is well meaning, and has a plan. It's a plan quite obvious to those who understand the world around them. You just can't see it and probably wouldn't understand it if you could. Enjoy living under the communist Carney.
I see you are back using your 5D chess gambit again: Be patient while the grand scheme unfolds. Full disclosure, I voted for our 5D chess champ. No, sorry, he’s not playing 5D chess – he’s barely able to struggle through a 2-D backyard game of checkers. Let’s face it, he lied to us big time during his campaign and he is currently failing our country Bigley. Sometimes you just have to know when it’s time to cut your losses short.
James Woods certainly has, just over the SAVE ACT bullshit from Thune.
The JW post hurts. We cannot continue to lose soldiers. He'll come back I'm sure.
I believe the investigations into Fulton County in Georgia and Maricopa County in Arizona and other states will greatly accelerate over the next few weeks in order to expose the Big Steal in 2020 and demonstrate how Mail-In Ballots and foreign intervention have corrupted our voting system. This then will put extreme pressure on traitors like Thune and others who seek to block Trump's effort to take the country back. The time is now to pass the SAVE America Act.
It will be interesting to see how the Blue States respond to a SAVE America Law. Will they resist its implementation by still allowing Mail-In ballots, for example? What will the government's response be if they do resist? Could a state's right to seat US House and Senate members be forfeited? What if a Republican-leaning Congressional District within a Blue "resistor" State chooses to follow the tenants of the SAVE America Law? Will their elected House member be eligible to serve?
The flipside of Trump Derangement Syndrome, is this belief that Trump is doing his best to wage a noble and heroic fight, the only one with the cojones who can save Western civ. (Maybe the reality is that he's just compromised by the Adelson's money and possibly Epstein's videos?). It's very similar to the belief in hope and change Obama, a cult that just couldn't see how useless and destructive his administration was. How he protected and bailed out the banksters that crashed the economy, and the Bush/Cheney illegal war regime, from accountability. Maybe that was really his main job. Trump is a mental and moral midget and it should be clear to all by now he takes his orders from Bibi. If only we could kick aipac out of our politics and cut off the billions in welfare to Israel, then we might actually have some America first policies.
"If only we could kick aipac out of our politics and cut off the billions in welfare to Israel, then we might actually have some America first policies."
And get rid of the foreign psychotic war criminal Bibi.
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That won't solve the issues in the middle east.
Israel is not the problem.
Sunni vs Shite is and when they don't have Jews in their own country to hate then they will return to murdering each other in mass.
A nuclear armed Iran with intercontinental missiles...Do the math you are a reasonably smart person.
Exactly. I watched my "side" become complete hypocrites over Obama, and that madness has never been shaken off. Now many of the Trump folk are the same way. I've been reading JHK since 2005 and tried to remember how he felt about the Iraq War. Found an interesting letter posted to him by an old reader about the underlying neocon beliefs of JHK, which seem fully validated since 10/7. The whole CF project in hindsight looks like delusional promises made of "vindication" to people rightfully critical of progressive overreach, while quietly fundamentally reasserting neocon hegemony in key areas.
We definitely need to cut the grifter money flowing into Washington. Leaders in Congress and Senate should not be "Dual Citizens" and carry 2 passports. This practice has been going on since Christmas Eve in 1913 when the Federal Reserve Act was singed into law in secret.
Did you know that there is actually NO government information about Congressional ‘dual citizens’??? Anything you read about that comes from internet opinion (and the assumption that if you’re Jewish, you’re automatically an Israeli citizen, which is total BS. Maybe actually look up what it takes to become an Israeli citizen, as in how long you have to live there to become one. Let me know when your Jewish Congressmen have disappeared for years.
Noted. So allow me drop the term "Dual Citizen" and let's pass The "Dual Loyalty Disclosure Act" (H.R. 2356), introduced in the 119th Congress (2025-2026), which proposes amending the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require candidates for the U.S. House or Senate to disclose any foreign citizenship they hold. It aims to ensure transparency regarding potential foreign allegiances. Source: Congress.gov | Library of Congress.
This bill was also introduced in 2023…HR946. Still sitting around without being passed. And frankly I wish it would pass, so all the internet BS about all these ‘Israeli citizens’ sitting in Congress would end.
Jewish and Christian Zionists seem to think that this war is all about the final battle of good and evil in Armageddon. Well, who knows, maybe it is, but what they likely have wrong is who they think is on the “Good“ side and who they think is on the “evil“ side.
Only Biblical zealots are talking about ‘end times’. On a more secular note, how about just getting rid of Islamic radicals that are disrupting western countries and the MIddle East?
First the crazy shite one and then the sunni ones.
That will require far more than Americans and the Kurds.
A reformation in Islam is required.
It’s impossible to reform the evil out of what is fundamentally evil. “Reform” is the mask they hide behind until they quietly outnumber you. Then it’s you that must “reform”, i.e submit (or die).
There are those that do not believe this they of course also believe big government is here to help.
I used to believe in Santa Clause too so there is some bliss in ignorance. After 9/11, when GWB proclaimed their religion was one of peace I decided to read their playbook for myself. It’s anything but.
One need only read the Koran.
It never mentions loving anyone but Allah.
The rest is conquering and war.
There is a book I highly recommend. It is entitled "World Made By Hand" and is about what happened to the United States after some sort of indeterminant war in the Middle East.
Based Kunstler-enjoyer.
The best. I couldn't put it down. I had to keep reading all four books and was sorry that there wasn't a fifth.
Current events seem like we are in the prequel, maybe 10 to 15 years before the series starts.
Mr Kunstler, I have long anticipated receiving your Monday emails. I love your wit, style and find your observations provide a genuine touch stone for me. Quite often, I forward these gems onto friends with similar interests. While I agree with your concerns for getting the SAVE Act passed in the Senate along with righting the wrongs of the corrupt law fare waged against President Trump, I am not optimistic with regard to the Iran situation. What started out as it will probably be over in a few days, then a few weeks, then maybe a few months and now rumblings of boots on the ground, American boots in fact horrifies me. It's like de ja vu all over again!! Our track record stinks since the 40's. Hanging by my thumbs in praying for a miracle.
Thank you for the thoughtful post.
Sorry pal but you’re on the wrong side of history on this one. Your nation has been hijacked by the only terrorist in the middle east, namely Israel. Your President and the batshit crazy mob around him have pulled you into a quagmire unlike any other. He’s already trying to convince you that high oil prices are fine and that is just the beginning. Iran will NOT lose. Good luck.
So you possess neither foresight nor patience. Apparently, you've only briefly studied one side of theirstory. There's nobody named McNamara in this "crazy mob"....... You might want to hold your fetid breath for a little while.
Flaws, warts and all whatever, dollars to donuts there are far better people running this operation right now than you've seen since your days in Carters brand laderhausen. If they succeed, no worries, you'll go right on bitching..... more sullen than ever. There's some progress for ya!
Among others, you bring to mind that what's his name General McGregor, or whatever constantly on TV constantly wringing his hands, clutching his pearls, but never scratching his balls to find out if he can come up with a solution for anything. Naysayers are a dime a fucking dozen. It must hurt to watch a president you don't care for and we don't find perfect who actually has the fucking nards to go put an end to this fucking dribble that has accomplished nothing but spilling blood for years, destroying Persia and the Kurds simultaneously costing the world in lives, blood, and treasure endlessly.
So sit there on your couch, watch your MS never or whatever the hell you watch with all these fucking clowns, shake your Stalinist fist.... (Pro Tip: pull it out of your ass first) they're not quite a 'mob' on your side they're not that sophisticated...
just a "Bakers Doesn't" of assholes spread over a handful of occult riven shows ever earnestly interviewing somebody at just an arm's-length from the prevaricators of the eternal bullshit in the "Middle East" whatever that is..... it's actually the DIDDLE East they can't keep their fucking hands off the Bacha Bazzi boys.... or the seven-year-old girls on their way to Madrassah.
Wrong side of history? Have you been alive the past 50 years?
I guess you can also add Iran and the Arab countries to your ‘hijacking’ scenario, as they are thanking Israel for its intervention in Iran.
Kunstler says the chaos around the Iran war and American politics is not the end of the story — it is the messy birth of a new order. Much of the outrage, he argues, is driven less by strategy and more by hatred of Trump, even when his actions disrupt both Iran’s power structure and entrenched political rackets at home. Iran’s ruling clerics, in his view, have long fueled regional chaos through proxies and nuclear blackmail, and the confrontation now unfolding is the inevitable result. At the same time, the United States faces its own internal disorder — broken elections, corporate money flooding politics, and institutions losing legitimacy. Kunstler’s message is simple: this moment may look like collapse, but it is really a brutal passage through chaos on the road back to order.
— Lone Wolf
Talk about all the broken institutions in our country, Congress just left on another week of vacation as security lines grind to a halt at airports. The Jacobin leaders on the left, Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries, have become insufferable. I can no longer watch TV as Schumer and Jeffries gloat and smile at the chaos and misery they are causing. There must be a special place in hell for these two idiots.
There is
The Iranians who were persecuted by the Mullahs are correct in their statements that Iran has been at war with the West and the US in particular since they took over the whole country 50 years ago or so. It is just that our politicians have been too stupid or too frightened politically to do what was necessary to cut their balls off. What truly emboldened Sadaam (spelling) was how successful Iran had been at blackmailing the West so he wanted in on the action. HIs only screw up was letting it be known he wanted to kill Bush #1 and this got him killed----eventually but.....both Bushs had no guts for really taking on the Iranians because they were frightened of the blowback they would get from the Euros and others who were making tons of money off all of the sanctions and those people did not want to lose their lucrative $billions. Remember the mayor of London who during this time was ( I assume it was true) making $millions off helping the Iraq government evade sanctions so he was against the war.? I am sure it was the same with many of our own gutless politicians and Congress critters .
Yes, I am afraid that Israel has way too much power over our politicians with its well oiled political contribution schemes and blackmailing by Mossad and it is true we are giving Israel way too much taxpayer money when they are rich in their own right but........Iran is telling us to our faces they want to kill us all and at least Israel's ultimate goals do not align 100% with ours it is a damn site closer to what we are wanting that the death of America.
Trump has big balls and is trying to make it safer for America and,..,,.., the world and is willing to take on the real problems rather than sit by and watch us die a slow death of 1000 cuts. And......I applaud him for saying (or yelling) THOSE PEOPLE ARE CRAZY!!!!!! Truer words have never been spoken in a State of the Union message.