I graduated from high school in 1968 – the most polarized time in this nation’s history, until today. I studied politics in college and have always had strongly-held political views, but when my daughter was a child I did not try to inculcate her with my own political philosophy. Instead, I pointed out that human beings are not intelligent enough to ever get things “right” for any length of time. On any given subject our species will inevitably swing between one stupid extreme and its opposite. If, as a society, we seem to have something figured out, it’s just at the optimal point in the pendulum swing at the present moment, having left one excess and on the way to its obverse.
Given this immutable law of human nature, it’s hardly to be expected that either of our political parties can be right for very long before going off the rails in one stupid direction or another. History confirms this fact, regardless of where you think “right” lies. The Republicans gave us Union martyr Lincoln, and Teapot Dome grifter Harding; the Democrats, National Bank nemesis Jackson, and bank whore Obama.
If you have always felt that you had your political compass fixed, but are increasingly feeling lost at sea, that’s because we are in the midst of a fundamental reorientation of our political landscape – a sea change.
If someone had predicted eight years ago, or even four, that Dick Cheney would ever back a Democratic presidential candidate and, in the same year, RFK Jr. would side with the Republican, they would have been laughed off the stage.
Aren’t Republicans supposed to be the authoritarians? Then why are the Democrats putting the foundation for totalitarian control of our lives in place? Aren’t Democrats supposed to defend our civil liberties? Then why are their leaders intent upon revoking our inalienable right to Free Speech?
Sea Change? Change is often unwelcome and seldom easy. Blame Bill Clinton, who tap-danced circles around the Republicans and stole the center (actually, well right of center) from them. With the heart of their ideological territory lost, the Party of Lincoln were pushed ever further to the right, until they risked falling off the edge of the earth. Equally significant, Clinton abandoned the working classes for the deeper pockets of a growing “professional class,” creating a new donor base that has since embraced the deepest pockets of all: Silicon Valley. (It’s the donors, stupid.)
To this day party dinosaurs like Mitch McConnell are by-God not going to be out-conservatived. What has changed is a younger generation of Republicans like J.D. Vance and Josh Hawley, who are increasingly independent of the fossils, and embarked upon reinventing the party. Vance is not alone in actually caring about working people, and trying to readdress their increasingly dire needs. Not incidentally, that’s where the votes are going to be.
Will they prevail, as the Old Guard dies off? Too soon to tell, but an intriguing possibility, and plausible cause for hope for the future.
Perhaps more significant than migrating politicians is the wave of formerly liberal commentators. Our own James Howard Kunstler professes to being a life-long registered Democrat. Others, including Max Blumenthal, Jimmy Dore, Glenn Greenwald, Chris Hedges, Aaron Mate, Matt Taibbi, and Bret Weinstein are all now resolute critics of the Democratic Party. Clayton Morris and Tucker Carlson both left Fox News to attack the Official Narrative from their own perspective. And, of course, two powerful voices of opposition, Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr., former contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination, are now both
Democrat persona non grata.
When lost at sea you can never know where the ship is going to come ashore, or if it will founder on the rocks, but the landscape will certainly soon be different – and just possibly much improved.
Democrats were the biggest slave owners, that says it all, not that the North didnt have em too, but the most ardent for slavery were democrats and they still are today
I agree but let me tell you a story that orally given to my great-great grandfather form his father.
In 1854 my great-great-great grandfather came to the US from Ireland. He got a job building railroads out in the US West.
Well when thy came where they had to blast rock for the train track tunnels it was a tricky job back then so many workers got killed or maimed in the blastings.
There were three principal ethnic groups that worked on the railroad-Irish, Chinese Coolies and black slaves.
When there was blasting the boss would send only Irish or Chinese-because if they died they didn't get paid on Friday-if the black slave died it was a loss property around $2k.
I live in this country because my great grandfather's brother died in a dynamite accident, working in a stone quarry in England. My great grandfather then came to the US to work in another quarry, cutting stone for the Erie Canal.
The problem is that the narrative has it that 'blacks had it bad' and 'whites had it good'-and, on the average correct-but the stories like mine and yours illustrate that the Woke narrative is much too simple and Manichean like all their values.
Being from Massholechusetts I was never taught that there may have been other valid viewpoints about the Civil War 1 (given our probable future and the real possibility of future uncivil wars, I'm numbering them).
1968 was the year I blew my chance at a comfy academic position at a second-rate Cali State College by getting involved in the Fresno Resistance and, at one rally, publicly eating my draft card with catsup on it. "Destruction of United States Gubmit Property", a Five-and-Dime. So I absquatulated, became a political exile, ending up in dour Vancouver-by-the-Void.
The fevered emotions ran high. The shit-kicking San Joaquin Valley cowboys who made up the majority of the student body were not amused. George Murphy and S.I. Hayakawa were for a crackdown. Bobby Kennedy intersected a fast-moving projectile in L.A.
One of the Vietnamese students I had been assigned to shepherd (they were, by the way, the ones that radicalized me against the US intervention) was Nguyen Thai Binh, first showcased by Jane Fonda and other antiwar stars before being discarded. He became famous for trying to hijack a 747 at Tan Son Nhut Airport (eggs wrapped in tinfoil). An American shot him and they dumped his body onto the runway. He is now a national martyr in Vietnam; schools and roads are named after him.
If you recall, President Eisenhower reminded/warned us about the MIC as he left Office. Nope. Vietnam was a continuing action, of constant "actions" that spread far and wide. What irks the h**l out of me is how it was all couched in "democracy". And, being good, decent, honest, and innocent/ignorant of how degenerate that government was, we cheered for democracy.
Jack Kennedy was as you say, that is, until his "come to Jesus moment" at American University. His statement that we are all mortal still sends shivers down my spine.
Sigh, if its any consolation you are certainly not alone in this category-my older son and I watched "Am I a Racist" last week-he's not Woke-but he hides it.
But when we went back to his place after the movie when he parked the car, he looked me in the eyes so solemnly I thought he was going to tell me he has 'cancer' but he demanded, that I tell Liz , his wife-high school teacher'- we saw 'Saturday Night" -as she is very, very Woke.
My young son, he's not Woke at all , but he is a laze about still at home at 27 drinking beer, smoking weed and eating on Dad and Mom's tab-I don't know what is worse...
Sounds like my nephew. "His dad ruined him" my sister says. So at 30, he's allowed to sponge off them both, not have a job, etc. Sure. How was he "ruined"? Well, his dad was emotionally unavailable. The horror! Yet, millions like him are able to work and run their own lives. He's even blessed with a high IQ. The problem there is that my sister is a toxic codependent who thinks that her family would die on the spot if she's not there catering to them. Something is very wrong in our society. She's not an outlier, IOW, she is typical.
We really lucked out. All six of our kids (ages 50-23) are conservatives. A few of them had brief moments of “teenage liberalism”...but they grew out of it LOL!!
I think it was Winston Churchill that said, “If you’re not a liberal when you’re young, you have no heart. If you’re not a conservative when you’re old, you have no brain.”
Haha!!! Same here. You didn’t steer your daughter in a political direction. But, I did.
I was an active conservative and enlisted my kids in campaigns . I figured it backfired which accounts for at least one of my kids becoming radically liberal.
No matter the approach, we probably have little influence on our children because our society has much more.
Well you are honest and authentic, obviously, and I bet it was diflicult socially, economically even to make the conversion-so you aren't a coward either.
I was born in 1968. In downtown Chicago, actually, during the chaotic Democratic Convention.
So here’s one brutal GenX take on your generation: you’re all haunted. Unable to detangle yourselves from the political traumas and skepticism of the 60s and 70s. And now, to be honest, you’ve lost your edge, and it’s becoming painfully obvious that retirement does not agree with you. Or rather, the kinds of retirement you’re living are sorting and cleaving you from mainline society.
We don’t know what to do with you. But we still admire you and wish you’d stop poisoning yourself with garbage media infotainment, parroting the political nonsense there, and feeling like everything in the news is about prosecuting the debates of your day in perpetuity.
Because it isn’t. And, sorry, but it’s no longer about you.
Nothing like learning from your elders, and respecting them. You're not much younger than me Paul, but I for one appreciate the wisdom being handed down to me by thoughtful, experienced people who share this wisdom with those who follow. As for all time, healthy societies will always look to, and learn from, older and wiser individuals such as many of those on this site, and provide them the dignity their years deserve.
Welp Paul P. both Jim Kunstler and I were born in 1948 and I don't think we'd agree that we are "poisoning [ourself] with garbage media infotainment...".
When Jim was my age, he was lucid enough to criticize it. Now, sometimes, he sounds afflicted by it. And while it's regrettable to read that result of that devolution at times, he has a good audience, that, I hope and imagine, it helping pad his retirement. So maybe he is out to demonstrate that there is something virtuous to the PT Barnum's strategy of fleecing suckers?
Howard, outstanding comment. The talented Mr. Clinton really did scramble the tokens on the game board, didn't he? If you had more time or space, I'm sure you would have included a paragraph on the possible effects of mass illegal immigration on the American electorate--not only in election years to come but also three and half weeks from now.
Lawyers probably have more power and influence in the U.S. than in any other country. Whatever their party affiliation (or none), they are an elite class.
Hence all the pseudcons who say, "We're a nation of immigrants! More more more! As long as they're legal." That word legal bathes their gray cells like a shot of Johnnie Walker Black.
Whenever a public figure is accused of, or charged with, a crime the first words out of his mouth are not, "I behaved according to the highest moral principles." No. They are, "I didn't do anything illegal." As if that's all that matters.
That may be our biggest problem. The fact that everything is run by Lawyers, most of whom are pure shysters. It really pisses me off to be required to read some legal document that is 10 pages long and could have been covered quite well with one short paragraph.
I wasn’t politically aware when I graduated from high school in 1968, but I can’t imagine it compares to our current situation. It’s hard to know what you didn’t experience. However, too many adult Americans reside in the same place I did at age 18. However, unlike my young self, they vote.
As a protester I was just a foot soldier, but we manned the barricades, protesting the war in Vietnam, saw students murdered at Kent State by the National Guard. The country was coming apart. But I agree that today is worse, because we still had resilient institutions, economy, and infrastructure then, to carry on with after things settled down. Now all of that is gone.
I was class of 1978 and had the Good fortune to Graduate in 1974 from Edison Jr. High-school where they actually taught young men Metals class, Drafting, Wood Working as they taught young Ladies Home Economics, Cooking, Arts & Crafts. Some guys in our High Speed, The Pekin Chinks (Now politically Corrected to Dragons) had Shotguns or .22 Rifles on racks in the back window of their pickup truck. Nobody EVER got shot. We learned Power Mechanics and More Wood Working. When we left dchool, we went to work in a Trade and made good money while continuing to learn instead of racking up unsustainable debt. Our parents bought a 14 acre farm for $19k wiyh a 6 bedroom house, a large barn and pump house. Life was hard work but we were strong and up to the task. Today, too many migrate to the cities so they can be closer to hospitals in case they get sick. The hope and change promised by Free Trade, Free Health Insurance, Free College and Free stuff never happened and is on it's way to Extinction. #DefundTyranny #ResumeAmericanIndependenceAndDominanceOrExpectToDieCommunist #FreedomIsNotFree
Harding himself was honest, aside from his inability to keep his pants on (though compared to Bubba, FDR, JFK, and LBJ, he was a virgin); he just had some crooks in his administration, just like Grant, Nixon and Trump.
There are plenty of Obama's Army, ready, energetically willing and able to do their job, which is the keep the steal in motion, no matter, what ever cost.
10/11/24: Can anyone think of a satisfactory explanation as to how Kookamunga Harris passed her law school and law license exams? The person I see today can barely figure out how to open a box of Wheaties...
She didn’t have to pass. She had tone, and thick knee skin. Get you anywhere in liberal college world. Look at the fucking cunts teaching these colleges now. The men are all communist cucks, and aren’t getting any at home, so having a student with skills in bed? Pass pass pass!
Maybe the California Bar Exam consists of questions regarding how to perform sex acts on married people. No way in hell she could pass the New York Bar.
10/13/24: It was a one-question exam, and you have identified its content. However, there was a bonus question: "Identify the chemical ingredients of Gov. Newsom's hair gel," (his election to that office having been rigged 20 years in advance), which ,if answered correctly, resulted in an automatic seat on the California State Supreme Court.
I live in Western Wisconsin near the Minnesota border. We have had no less than four people knock on our door handing out Trump leaflets. I’ve assured all four that we will be voting on election day and voting for Trump. I have never in my life seen this many people Canvas like they are doing this year. The only thing that makes me sad is they should have a better record of recording which houses have been hit so they don’t waste their time coming back again and again.
Funny that. I live a few miles south of you, signs for Dem candidates outnumber Republicans five or six to one. I see canvassers daily walking around with Dem candidate literature, most of 'em are at least 50 if not 60 years old (I'm 76) so the disparity must be something to do with rural vs. not-so-rural perhaps?
Whatever the case, I'm voting straight Republican once again this year, just like in 2020 and in 2016. I graduated high school in 1967, voted Democrat until McCarthy got screwed at Chicago.
THAT showed me how things were going to be from then on and I'm sad to say "I could have told you so!" even then.
I am due East of St. Paul. When I moved here in 2006, the area was 75% conservative. We even had a local newspaper that was decent and fairly balanced. Now, it’s more 50-50 and it will fall to the way of MN if people don’t wake up soon.
“and do it all right in America’s face as if to say: we can do whatever we want. . . to get whatever we want. . . and you can’t stop us”. This is exactly how they believe and what they are doing. It’s been evident for a long time. If you push back, well, they will shut you up one way or another. Just watch what has been going on for years and What do you think you are going to do about it? What do you think you can do about it?
EXACTLY! They are spitting in our faces and giving us the double middle finger salute just by putting up these execrable candidates- FJB and Kamala.
They are so sure that they can cheat their way to "winning" this election that it didn't matter to them who they ran for office. I don't know which choice was more brazen, the dementia patient in the basement or the cheap whore of color.
Not to mention the traitors and incompetents that are on Trump's team, pretending to be working for him. If the election is stolen, there are many of them that are to be blamed.
I still cannot believe that FJB has been allowed to remain in office, after his admission to bow out of the race. Not that Khmer Rouge Harris is any better, BTW. It's the principle of the thing.
Emerald Robinson is all over Twitter/X claiming that the RNC including Lara Trump, Whatley and some of their top people are not doing anything about election integrity and trying to stop the Steal.
If the election was held today and there was no cheating, there absolutely no doubt that Pres. Trump would win in landslide.
The most important thing that the Trump Team has to work on is stopping the flood of fraudulent BALLOTS that they are going to inject into the system unless the RNC wakes the hell up.
This is the most effective group out there and they have put together all the data that shows exactly where the bad ballots are and how to stop them. This is URGENT.
They're trying. There is a small army of lawyers fanned out across the swing states doing whatever they can to stop the steal in 2024. It's very difficult to stop leftists governors and secretaries of state from allowing bad actors to inject fraudulent ballots into the system.
Illegals are being registered to vote, and the bad actors are voting on their behalf. The leftist state leaders likely just look the other way, with the excuse of plausible deniability. They know it's happening but don't do what needs to be done to stop it.
If you're really concerned, get involved at your local level by joining your local GOP party, door knocking, contributing money, etc. Join TrumpForce47.com Some of the media personalities do a great job of eliciting fear and anger, but without action on the part of civilian patriots, the real job of winning elections will not happen. I believe that there are hundreds of thousands of patriots doing what they can to stop the steal and secure a win for Donald Trump in 2024.
The minions of evil do not know they are evil. They are deluded to believe they are RIGHT! Kamala is a classic psychopath who has no clue she is a moron. I will always believe Trump won in 2016 because people were keeping their mouths shut and lying to the pollsters so the Dims believed they were a shoe in but also they didn't know how much to cheat. This time they will pull out the stops and even if there are more votes than we have population they will swell up in indignation and ask, 'waddayagonnadoaboutit?'
I can’t help but wonder if they don’t care that the stealing/cheating is obvious. They can act with impunity. After all, they have stuffed all government agencies with their agents and have no respect for that old rag the constitution. They own the USofA now. The mission is complete.
They do think they have it wrapped up. However, what they have no clue about is that they are not really in control. I am a realist. I prefer tough truth over sweet lies any day. However, I also know that there is a grander plan and while I am ever watchful with eyes wide open, I am not discouraged. They can kill my body but not my soul. I think we are truly on the brink of major change, one way or the other. I am prepared emotionally, physically and spiritually. I just posted in my substack regarding this phenomenal statistic that most Christians do not vote. This baffles me.
On brink of major change for sure! The drumming of words such as The Great Reset... New Golden Age...BRICS (replacing dollar)...CBDC (replacing dollar)...One World Order (UN AGENDA 2030) Rule...Replacing our Constitution with a Digital Constitution...🥁🥁🥁ing getting more intense, louder.
True. They are following their playbook "Rules for Radicals". Do the dirty deed, then worry about the consequences later. Don't think they worry much though, with WEF, Soros, Clinton Foundation & Global elites all having their backs.
No she is not a psychopath. Look up the definition. Now 'Son of Sam' that was a psychopath. Psychopaths are not a problem. They are too crazy to do much damage.
It's the sociopaths you have to be worried about. And the DC government at its higher levels is full of them. As are the (mainly) Democrat state governors.
It's a rare sociopath who is a moron. Maybe none.
I do think you are right in your conjecture that evil persons do not know they are evil. This is one of the biggest contradictions in human affairs.
I love your reference to "The Death of Stalin". Unfortunately for America, I doubt that there a general in the armed services with the competence and prestige of Georgi Zhukov to pull off a successful coup. Note Zhukov's critical role in getting rid of the most malign character in the Politburo after Stalin's death. If, as JHK suggests, America could see a military takeover, are any of its military leaders actually capable of such an action?
I highly doubt it. Obama got rid of anyone who might have been a threat. What you have now are careerists who only care about their careers and living la dolce vita.
The real problem in the military is Article 92 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ). It requires all in uniform to obey LAWFUL orders only. I went through boot camp in 1971, which was after the My Lai event, and we all understood clearly that we must disobey unlawful orders.
It's hard to say how many NCOs and junior officers still embrace that tenet, but no senior or general officer with the sense God gave an ordinary rubber duck can rely on troops blindly obeying any order. I think there would be widespread mutiny if anything nefarious were to be attempted.
I believe the US government mandated covid shots for all military personnel knowing that the toughest of the bunch would refuse, thereby eliminating them as a source of internal resistance should said nefarious actions take place.
Love your writing, Jim, but you have REALLY got to stop with the talking and dreaming of prison for any of these gormless clowns running our imperial gaslighting authoritarian government. It isn’t going to happen. Not a single person will face a single minute of prison or a single dime of wealth forfeiture, because they’ve rigged the system to escape accountability - or so that accountability is now a thing that isn’t even considered at all. Don’t forget that some of histories worst mass murderers - Pol Pot, Stalin, Ho Chi Minh etc. - died peacefully at home. You really think a bunch of gormless warmongering liar bureaucrats are gonna get tried and sent to a supermax? Not a chance.
One small quibble, not disagreeing with you, not at all.
Did any of you know we had one of the world's greatest heros quietly hiding here in America?
I saw a picture of her humble home with a dirt driveway in small town in Wisconsin. She was checking her mailbox and glaring at the camera- some jerkoff drove by so he could get a picture and post it on social media.
I speak to you of one of the most noble women who has ever lived: Stalin's daughter.
I think her name was Anna.
It was she who blocked the door to his office for 10 hours as he strangled to death on his own tongue, his face turning black as he lay paralyzed on his own desk. She resolutely refused entry to any and all officers, making sure that no rescue would come until the monster, her father, was dead.
Such steel! Such justice! Surely she deserves a shrine and a statue befitting a hero of mankind.
Nonsense. Stalin’s daughter’s name was Shetland. She was a very troubled soul, and didn’t have the kind of power to be able to prevent anyone from entering Stalin’s office. By the time of his death, their relationship was already shaky, following Stalin many disappointments with his unstable daughter.
Yes, but hell is forever. No water in hell, no rest, no mercy of any kind, no light, just darkness, torment and screaming, the endless nonstop screaming of all those trapped in it for eternity. That's what's waiting for them.
My mother has been a lifetime JFK Democrat, and to this day does not understand how the party that she was partial to morphed into the party that it has become. I believe there are millions of JFK Democrats, who still believe that their party will miraculously drift back into what it once was. And for that reason continue to support their party.
"That is probably the point where blue America finds out exactly what the Second Amendment was designed for."
Modern Americans are cowards, by and large it seems. We talk a big game, but our comforts are too great to lose. "All experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are suffer able, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed." The government is bankrupting us and flooding the country with millions of barbarians. Our currency is worthless, our economy is stagnant and probably shrinking, our so-called leaders are now breaking the fourth wall, our enemies are rehearsing in their own version of the Spanish Civil War and armed to the teeth, and our children's minds are being poisoned daily. Anyways, did you watch baseball playoffs last night?
My (bad, I guess) analogy is that in many ways they are not pretending any longer or at least are badly keeping up appearances. The mask and the gloves are off. The irreality we are presented is becoming common knowledge (in the sense that you know that I know, I know you know that I know and so on) regarding the production the 'blob' is putting on.
No thank you. My cash is spent on ever more expensive goods and is better used feeding my infant and children the cost of which, by the way, has not jumped but pole vaulted (by design) in price between my first and most recently born. To my enthusiastic enjoyment, my creepy Uncle, Sam, who checks my web history and looks ay my texts over my shoulder, still takes much my worthless money. He does this despite knowing the fed can simply make more appear as if by magic. At any rate, do you remember when people were demanding heads on a stick over two shilling for a pound of tea? As I recall the cheap tea bit is in the old testament, so the cheap dinosaur squeezings must be in the new.
On a completely unrelated note do they still teach hyperbole in school?
I think the Peter Principle needs a female archetype to enact it for historical reference. This drunken halfbreed hyena of a high speed train wreck oughta do the trick!
Seems like most of the Dems who wish to be POTUS in the near term want Kamalama Ding Dong to crash and burn. The logic is simple - if she wins, her administration will be a chaotic nightmare, but she would run for re-election with virtually no chance of success, pushing out the Shapiro, Newsome and other Democratic POTUS candidates to 2032, at which time they would face an incumbent Republican with a newly revised electoral map, minimizing the chance of Democratic success. They certainly prefer a Harris failure today giving them a chance to run in 2028 against someone other than Trump.
I agree with you. I don’t believe this talk about being so scared they can’t think straight. I do believe they are concerned about Trump getting back into the WH. He will go scorched earth on them. He has a lot on them but I think their arrogance won’t allow them to even consider it. They’ve got this and continue to laugh at him over dinner and wine. Only the very best of course.
Frankly my dear, I don't believe The Donald has a scorched earth bone in his body. Or huevos. If he had had some huevos in 2020, he'd have stopped the Steal.
It is difficult to get a clear "read" on many, or even ANY of their actions.
I recall in 2020, some guy on the street came up to Biden, questioning him about something (I do not recall any of that) ... I DO remember Biden telling the guy, he knew he was not going to win the election. It was that clear even at this moment in 2020.
agree. My husband worked for many many years at defense and the pentagon.
My hubbs won some award (twice actually) for doing some great job. "The Federal 100"
Yeah, nice dinner, and a big heavy award to dust or throw at someone, All kinds of political people go to those things just for the free dinner, comedy speaker.
Biden was at one of those dinners. I met him at this gigantic desserts table. He creeped me out so much. I knew it was him and ugh I kept my distance. He was there leering at women.
They have managed to do so for the past 10 years. I remember reading that the reason they let Trump in, in 2016, was because they thought Hillary Clinton's secrets were out. But then they were able to do damage control on them. I'm not even sure which secrets they were. It might be hearsay. But Clinton threw a massive hissy, that is well-documented, and she was told she'd be installed, and it was changed at the last minute. This is why I see this all as theater. Also, her hubs is the one who asked Trump to run in the first place. They ran in the same circles and their daughters are besties. I am not convinced that Trump is against them.
TRMR. Ask Diddy what he knows about Cankles’ extra curricular, and outside the box, activities. If you can get a frank response it will make a donkey puke.
If that ever got out - whoo hooooo. I wonder how with so many people involved, we still can't get video! That is amazing to me. I think though, it exists, and hopefully someday it'll get out. I think that's why they were so quick to speed up "deep fakes" then CONDEMN it so that when the real thing gets out they can claim they are all deep fakes.
"It must be deeply demoralizing to be used like that in front of the whole world."
Oh, Jim, you give Kamala WAY too much credit. I doubt she is self-aware enough for it to even register.
She may be the hollowest person ever to run for president. There's just no there there. She makes that piece of puffery Barack Obama look profound by comparison.
Puffery cannot look as arrogant and miserable as Obama. Just looking at Kamala's facial, neck, and shoulder tension makes me want to go to a chiropractor. Killary's face is nothing if not A Masque of Misery. And don't forget Ben Bartee's classic, "The Physical Decay of War Pig Victoria Nuland Is Truly Shocking":
I feel sorry for them. So shallow, arrogant, trying to stay puffed up in their hollow shells & living in darkness. God says to let Him have the revenge. Their day is coming, like ours, to stand before the Lord.
Jim—poignant, as always. Thank you. (And I hope to be in position soon to enjoy your writings via an annual subscription amount that reflects the value (for me) of your writing—which is considerable. Peace
(And the following Chesterton quote came to mind immediately reading the line about the veep hitting the bottle.)
"Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable. Never drink when you are wretched without it, or you will be like the gray-faced gin-drinker in the slum; but drink when you would be happy without it, and you will be like the laughing peasants of Italy. Never drink because you think you need it, for this is rational drinking, and the way to death and hell. But drink because you do not need it, for this is irrational drinking, and the ancient health of the world."
That a freakin' kangaroo court showing! The sentencing judge called her a "charlatan" - really? I don't even know much about the trial, but all I could see in the summary was that she questioned the veracity of the 2020 election and that she is a Trump supporter. So to me that immediately smacks of "political hit." And of course, also using her for a warning to others.
"WHERE WERE THE BIG GUNS of some GOP groups and the RNC who raise countless Millions of Dollars on ‘Election Integrity’??? They willingly ignored the root findings of Election Malfeasance which is ‘THE ALGORITHM’ unmasked and brought to our awareness by the sacrifice of Clerk Peters".
Sea Change
I graduated from high school in 1968 – the most polarized time in this nation’s history, until today. I studied politics in college and have always had strongly-held political views, but when my daughter was a child I did not try to inculcate her with my own political philosophy. Instead, I pointed out that human beings are not intelligent enough to ever get things “right” for any length of time. On any given subject our species will inevitably swing between one stupid extreme and its opposite. If, as a society, we seem to have something figured out, it’s just at the optimal point in the pendulum swing at the present moment, having left one excess and on the way to its obverse.
Given this immutable law of human nature, it’s hardly to be expected that either of our political parties can be right for very long before going off the rails in one stupid direction or another. History confirms this fact, regardless of where you think “right” lies. The Republicans gave us Union martyr Lincoln, and Teapot Dome grifter Harding; the Democrats, National Bank nemesis Jackson, and bank whore Obama.
If you have always felt that you had your political compass fixed, but are increasingly feeling lost at sea, that’s because we are in the midst of a fundamental reorientation of our political landscape – a sea change.
If someone had predicted eight years ago, or even four, that Dick Cheney would ever back a Democratic presidential candidate and, in the same year, RFK Jr. would side with the Republican, they would have been laughed off the stage.
Aren’t Republicans supposed to be the authoritarians? Then why are the Democrats putting the foundation for totalitarian control of our lives in place? Aren’t Democrats supposed to defend our civil liberties? Then why are their leaders intent upon revoking our inalienable right to Free Speech?
Sea Change? Change is often unwelcome and seldom easy. Blame Bill Clinton, who tap-danced circles around the Republicans and stole the center (actually, well right of center) from them. With the heart of their ideological territory lost, the Party of Lincoln were pushed ever further to the right, until they risked falling off the edge of the earth. Equally significant, Clinton abandoned the working classes for the deeper pockets of a growing “professional class,” creating a new donor base that has since embraced the deepest pockets of all: Silicon Valley. (It’s the donors, stupid.)
To this day party dinosaurs like Mitch McConnell are by-God not going to be out-conservatived. What has changed is a younger generation of Republicans like J.D. Vance and Josh Hawley, who are increasingly independent of the fossils, and embarked upon reinventing the party. Vance is not alone in actually caring about working people, and trying to readdress their increasingly dire needs. Not incidentally, that’s where the votes are going to be.
Will they prevail, as the Old Guard dies off? Too soon to tell, but an intriguing possibility, and plausible cause for hope for the future.
Perhaps more significant than migrating politicians is the wave of formerly liberal commentators. Our own James Howard Kunstler professes to being a life-long registered Democrat. Others, including Max Blumenthal, Jimmy Dore, Glenn Greenwald, Chris Hedges, Aaron Mate, Matt Taibbi, and Bret Weinstein are all now resolute critics of the Democratic Party. Clayton Morris and Tucker Carlson both left Fox News to attack the Official Narrative from their own perspective. And, of course, two powerful voices of opposition, Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr., former contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination, are now both
Democrat persona non grata.
When lost at sea you can never know where the ship is going to come ashore, or if it will founder on the rocks, but the landscape will certainly soon be different – and just possibly much improved.
Democrats were the biggest slave owners, that says it all, not that the North didnt have em too, but the most ardent for slavery were democrats and they still are today
And Kamala's family was the biggest slaveholder om Jamaica.
Such a long post. I can see why you missed the Typo.
Cumala
What are the sources of your statement that Harris family was the biggest slaveholder? Never read or heard this anywhere else.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton_Brown
https://www.jamaicaglobalonline.com/kamala-harris-jamaican-heritage/
The sources are legion, mostly based on these and genealogy researchers.
I agree but let me tell you a story that orally given to my great-great grandfather form his father.
In 1854 my great-great-great grandfather came to the US from Ireland. He got a job building railroads out in the US West.
Well when thy came where they had to blast rock for the train track tunnels it was a tricky job back then so many workers got killed or maimed in the blastings.
There were three principal ethnic groups that worked on the railroad-Irish, Chinese Coolies and black slaves.
When there was blasting the boss would send only Irish or Chinese-because if they died they didn't get paid on Friday-if the black slave died it was a loss property around $2k.
So there are many nuances.
I live in this country because my great grandfather's brother died in a dynamite accident, working in a stone quarry in England. My great grandfather then came to the US to work in another quarry, cutting stone for the Erie Canal.
The problem is that the narrative has it that 'blacks had it bad' and 'whites had it good'-and, on the average correct-but the stories like mine and yours illustrate that the Woke narrative is much too simple and Manichean like all their values.
That's horrible, but some elites tend to feel entitled to treat people in abusive ways.
Darlin, The northerners shipped slaves from Africa to the Carribean for years after the civil war.
Yep, the War of Northern Aggression was only to force a one government rule, just like they are trying to do now to the world.
Being from Massholechusetts I was never taught that there may have been other valid viewpoints about the Civil War 1 (given our probable future and the real possibility of future uncivil wars, I'm numbering them).
And take away states rights
The Arabs were the biggest slave traders and they preferred white meat.
They as just do good at lies and deception. Gaslighting and projection. Foolery and coersion.
"They are just so good at lies and deception..." like my spell checker
1968 was the year I blew my chance at a comfy academic position at a second-rate Cali State College by getting involved in the Fresno Resistance and, at one rally, publicly eating my draft card with catsup on it. "Destruction of United States Gubmit Property", a Five-and-Dime. So I absquatulated, became a political exile, ending up in dour Vancouver-by-the-Void.
The fevered emotions ran high. The shit-kicking San Joaquin Valley cowboys who made up the majority of the student body were not amused. George Murphy and S.I. Hayakawa were for a crackdown. Bobby Kennedy intersected a fast-moving projectile in L.A.
One of the Vietnamese students I had been assigned to shepherd (they were, by the way, the ones that radicalized me against the US intervention) was Nguyen Thai Binh, first showcased by Jane Fonda and other antiwar stars before being discarded. He became famous for trying to hijack a 747 at Tan Son Nhut Airport (eggs wrapped in tinfoil). An American shot him and they dumped his body onto the runway. He is now a national martyr in Vietnam; schools and roads are named after him.
Exciting times. Another realm of reality.
If you recall, President Eisenhower reminded/warned us about the MIC as he left Office. Nope. Vietnam was a continuing action, of constant "actions" that spread far and wide. What irks the h**l out of me is how it was all couched in "democracy". And, being good, decent, honest, and innocent/ignorant of how degenerate that government was, we cheered for democracy.
JFK was all over the place, once saying that we should disarm in favor of the United Nations. Very, very philosophically immature.
Jack Kennedy was as you say, that is, until his "come to Jesus moment" at American University. His statement that we are all mortal still sends shivers down my spine.
Is your daughter Woke or is she following your sage advice?
Of course not, Drew. My daughter is woke as hell, and her father is an idiot.
Sigh, if its any consolation you are certainly not alone in this category-my older son and I watched "Am I a Racist" last week-he's not Woke-but he hides it.
But when we went back to his place after the movie when he parked the car, he looked me in the eyes so solemnly I thought he was going to tell me he has 'cancer' but he demanded, that I tell Liz , his wife-high school teacher'- we saw 'Saturday Night" -as she is very, very Woke.
My young son, he's not Woke at all , but he is a laze about still at home at 27 drinking beer, smoking weed and eating on Dad and Mom's tab-I don't know what is worse...
Sounds like my nephew. "His dad ruined him" my sister says. So at 30, he's allowed to sponge off them both, not have a job, etc. Sure. How was he "ruined"? Well, his dad was emotionally unavailable. The horror! Yet, millions like him are able to work and run their own lives. He's even blessed with a high IQ. The problem there is that my sister is a toxic codependent who thinks that her family would die on the spot if she's not there catering to them. Something is very wrong in our society. She's not an outlier, IOW, she is typical.
"Ditto" on not alone.
What's worse? Having parents who allow him to do that.
It's just a matter of time for the older. Hopefully sooner, or he'll squander his whole life being cucked by her.
We really lucked out. All six of our kids (ages 50-23) are conservatives. A few of them had brief moments of “teenage liberalism”...but they grew out of it LOL!!
I think it was Winston Churchill that said, “If you’re not a liberal when you’re young, you have no heart. If you’re not a conservative when you’re old, you have no brain.”
He admitted in his memoirs that the real reason for WW2 was that Germany wouldn't renounce its sovereignty in favor of the nascent New World Order.
How did you manage that????? Even though it’s too late for me I’d still like to know. Maybe I can practice on my grandchildren.
That's pretty poignant!
Haha!!! Same here. You didn’t steer your daughter in a political direction. But, I did.
I was an active conservative and enlisted my kids in campaigns . I figured it backfired which accounts for at least one of my kids becoming radically liberal.
No matter the approach, we probably have little influence on our children because our society has much more.
Homeschool. Peer pressure is the surrounding family. 🤷
Research suggests that by age ten our kids are more influenced by their peers than they will ever be by adults again,
Thre is no solver bullet in this paradigm
Peer pressure/Tribal Unity is SO powerful. I was a Democrat until 2019. I don’t brag about that, or my change.
Welcome to the deprogrammed world. It is glorious, indeed.
Well you are honest and authentic, obviously, and I bet it was diflicult socially, economically even to make the conversion-so you aren't a coward either.
Glad you are on our side now
Appreciate your honesty. I had that same question.
I wondered the same thing.
Wow, this Skillington guy even outbloviates RS. Not that he's wrong, just overly wordy.
What superfluous part should I have omitted?
Zero
I was born in 1968. In downtown Chicago, actually, during the chaotic Democratic Convention.
So here’s one brutal GenX take on your generation: you’re all haunted. Unable to detangle yourselves from the political traumas and skepticism of the 60s and 70s. And now, to be honest, you’ve lost your edge, and it’s becoming painfully obvious that retirement does not agree with you. Or rather, the kinds of retirement you’re living are sorting and cleaving you from mainline society.
We don’t know what to do with you. But we still admire you and wish you’d stop poisoning yourself with garbage media infotainment, parroting the political nonsense there, and feeling like everything in the news is about prosecuting the debates of your day in perpetuity.
Because it isn’t. And, sorry, but it’s no longer about you.
Oh how precious. Go outside and play and let the grownups talk
Paul P Westhelle, courtesy of ChatGPT
Nah. I have toe fungus. Pretty sure that disqualifies me.
Nothing like learning from your elders, and respecting them. You're not much younger than me Paul, but I for one appreciate the wisdom being handed down to me by thoughtful, experienced people who share this wisdom with those who follow. As for all time, healthy societies will always look to, and learn from, older and wiser individuals such as many of those on this site, and provide them the dignity their years deserve.
And after the revolution they are the first to get their throats cut
Welp Paul P. both Jim Kunstler and I were born in 1948 and I don't think we'd agree that we are "poisoning [ourself] with garbage media infotainment...".
When Jim was my age, he was lucid enough to criticize it. Now, sometimes, he sounds afflicted by it. And while it's regrettable to read that result of that devolution at times, he has a good audience, that, I hope and imagine, it helping pad his retirement. So maybe he is out to demonstrate that there is something virtuous to the PT Barnum's strategy of fleecing suckers?
Howard, outstanding comment. The talented Mr. Clinton really did scramble the tokens on the game board, didn't he? If you had more time or space, I'm sure you would have included a paragraph on the possible effects of mass illegal immigration on the American electorate--not only in election years to come but also three and half weeks from now.
Just legalize the illegals. Presto! Somali and Haitian primitives would suddenly become as Americans as you or I. This was George Bush Jr's solution.
Lawyers probably have more power and influence in the U.S. than in any other country. Whatever their party affiliation (or none), they are an elite class.
Hence all the pseudcons who say, "We're a nation of immigrants! More more more! As long as they're legal." That word legal bathes their gray cells like a shot of Johnnie Walker Black.
Whenever a public figure is accused of, or charged with, a crime the first words out of his mouth are not, "I behaved according to the highest moral principles." No. They are, "I didn't do anything illegal." As if that's all that matters.
That may be our biggest problem. The fact that everything is run by Lawyers, most of whom are pure shysters. It really pisses me off to be required to read some legal document that is 10 pages long and could have been covered quite well with one short paragraph.
George Bush Jr. was a dimwit, alcoholic - one an alcoholic, always an alcoholic.
Insightful synopsis. Thank you.
I wasn’t politically aware when I graduated from high school in 1968, but I can’t imagine it compares to our current situation. It’s hard to know what you didn’t experience. However, too many adult Americans reside in the same place I did at age 18. However, unlike my young self, they vote.
As a protester I was just a foot soldier, but we manned the barricades, protesting the war in Vietnam, saw students murdered at Kent State by the National Guard. The country was coming apart. But I agree that today is worse, because we still had resilient institutions, economy, and infrastructure then, to carry on with after things settled down. Now all of that is gone.
And you were against those institutions back then, right? Marxism is a disease, a mind virus, just like Feminism or Libertarianism.
Tulsi is WEF 'young global leader'. She's a Trojan Horse - imho.
Noe. Tulsi is authentic. There was no place for her with the Dems and she retains her integrity with the Republicans.
The Dems suing to keep RFKJR OFF the ballot in some states while suing to keep him ON in others finally makes sense: https://x.com/thelastrefuge2/status/1847215489186988412?s=43&t=-eDDmxb9gSDxiUXuEV2zTA
I was class of 1978 and had the Good fortune to Graduate in 1974 from Edison Jr. High-school where they actually taught young men Metals class, Drafting, Wood Working as they taught young Ladies Home Economics, Cooking, Arts & Crafts. Some guys in our High Speed, The Pekin Chinks (Now politically Corrected to Dragons) had Shotguns or .22 Rifles on racks in the back window of their pickup truck. Nobody EVER got shot. We learned Power Mechanics and More Wood Working. When we left dchool, we went to work in a Trade and made good money while continuing to learn instead of racking up unsustainable debt. Our parents bought a 14 acre farm for $19k wiyh a 6 bedroom house, a large barn and pump house. Life was hard work but we were strong and up to the task. Today, too many migrate to the cities so they can be closer to hospitals in case they get sick. The hope and change promised by Free Trade, Free Health Insurance, Free College and Free stuff never happened and is on it's way to Extinction. #DefundTyranny #ResumeAmericanIndependenceAndDominanceOrExpectToDieCommunist #FreedomIsNotFree
And we are at an unfortunate point in history where both of the major parties of the United States are left-of-center, wrong, and retarded.
Other non-fossils come to mind like Jordan, Stefanik, Mace, etc
Harding himself was honest, aside from his inability to keep his pants on (though compared to Bubba, FDR, JFK, and LBJ, he was a virgin); he just had some crooks in his administration, just like Grant, Nixon and Trump.
As you probably know, the record for crooks in an administration is Reagan's.
Feel sorry for your daughter!
It's a play, and you are in the cheap seats.
"I graduated from high school in 1968 – the most polarized time in this nation’s history, until today"
More polarized than the War Between the States?
Let’s not be counting those chickens before they’re hatched , folks. Keep the pedal to the metal.
Oh indeed
There are plenty of Obama's Army, ready, energetically willing and able to do their job, which is the keep the steal in motion, no matter, what ever cost.
10/11/24: Can anyone think of a satisfactory explanation as to how Kookamunga Harris passed her law school and law license exams? The person I see today can barely figure out how to open a box of Wheaties...
If a bird had Kamalamadingdong's brain it would fly backwards
10/11/24: The interior space of any bird's head would be too large for Kamala's "brain."
She didn’t have to pass. She had tone, and thick knee skin. Get you anywhere in liberal college world. Look at the fucking cunts teaching these colleges now. The men are all communist cucks, and aren’t getting any at home, so having a student with skills in bed? Pass pass pass!
10/13/24: "Summa Come Laude," printed on the diplomas (protected against bad weather on graduation days by being wrapped in unfurled condoms).
Maybe the California Bar Exam consists of questions regarding how to perform sex acts on married people. No way in hell she could pass the New York Bar.
10/13/24: It was a one-question exam, and you have identified its content. However, there was a bonus question: "Identify the chemical ingredients of Gov. Newsom's hair gel," (his election to that office having been rigged 20 years in advance), which ,if answered correctly, resulted in an automatic seat on the California State Supreme Court.
Supposedly her charm, youth and lovely laugh .... And some gentleman professors who were susceptible to thar sort of thing
I live in Western Wisconsin near the Minnesota border. We have had no less than four people knock on our door handing out Trump leaflets. I’ve assured all four that we will be voting on election day and voting for Trump. I have never in my life seen this many people Canvas like they are doing this year. The only thing that makes me sad is they should have a better record of recording which houses have been hit so they don’t waste their time coming back again and again.
Funny that. I live a few miles south of you, signs for Dem candidates outnumber Republicans five or six to one. I see canvassers daily walking around with Dem candidate literature, most of 'em are at least 50 if not 60 years old (I'm 76) so the disparity must be something to do with rural vs. not-so-rural perhaps?
Whatever the case, I'm voting straight Republican once again this year, just like in 2020 and in 2016. I graduated high school in 1967, voted Democrat until McCarthy got screwed at Chicago.
THAT showed me how things were going to be from then on and I'm sad to say "I could have told you so!" even then.
Grifters, all of 'em.
Which of you lives in or near LaCrosse, out of curiosity? I understand that part of Wisconsin is heavily Democrat, but I don't understand the reason.
I am due East of St. Paul. When I moved here in 2006, the area was 75% conservative. We even had a local newspaper that was decent and fairly balanced. Now, it’s more 50-50 and it will fall to the way of MN if people don’t wake up soon.
10/13/24: Bad habit. And dead people voting.
Agrred
+1 Exactly.
Long ago, Kamala was a pretty girl with a law degree. That pretty much sums up everything the woman has going for her, all past tense by the way.
In all my 58 + years, I have never before seen someone so incapable occupying such a large stage.
“and do it all right in America’s face as if to say: we can do whatever we want. . . to get whatever we want. . . and you can’t stop us”. This is exactly how they believe and what they are doing. It’s been evident for a long time. If you push back, well, they will shut you up one way or another. Just watch what has been going on for years and What do you think you are going to do about it? What do you think you can do about it?
EXACTLY! They are spitting in our faces and giving us the double middle finger salute just by putting up these execrable candidates- FJB and Kamala.
They are so sure that they can cheat their way to "winning" this election that it didn't matter to them who they ran for office. I don't know which choice was more brazen, the dementia patient in the basement or the cheap whore of color.
Not to mention the traitors and incompetents that are on Trump's team, pretending to be working for him. If the election is stolen, there are many of them that are to be blamed.
I still cannot believe that FJB has been allowed to remain in office, after his admission to bow out of the race. Not that Khmer Rouge Harris is any better, BTW. It's the principle of the thing.
I like that, "whore of color." That's a new one. You could put any description in there in front of "of color."
"...or the cheap whore of color."
Nanny,
To be fair, and accurate, she was never cheap.
Emerald Robinson is all over Twitter/X claiming that the RNC including Lara Trump, Whatley and some of their top people are not doing anything about election integrity and trying to stop the Steal.
If the election was held today and there was no cheating, there absolutely no doubt that Pres. Trump would win in landslide.
The most important thing that the Trump Team has to work on is stopping the flood of fraudulent BALLOTS that they are going to inject into the system unless the RNC wakes the hell up.
This is the most effective group out there and they have put together all the data that shows exactly where the bad ballots are and how to stop them. This is URGENT.
https://www.stopbogusballots.com/
They're trying. There is a small army of lawyers fanned out across the swing states doing whatever they can to stop the steal in 2024. It's very difficult to stop leftists governors and secretaries of state from allowing bad actors to inject fraudulent ballots into the system.
Illegals are being registered to vote, and the bad actors are voting on their behalf. The leftist state leaders likely just look the other way, with the excuse of plausible deniability. They know it's happening but don't do what needs to be done to stop it.
If you're really concerned, get involved at your local level by joining your local GOP party, door knocking, contributing money, etc. Join TrumpForce47.com Some of the media personalities do a great job of eliciting fear and anger, but without action on the part of civilian patriots, the real job of winning elections will not happen. I believe that there are hundreds of thousands of patriots doing what they can to stop the steal and secure a win for Donald Trump in 2024.
The minions of evil do not know they are evil. They are deluded to believe they are RIGHT! Kamala is a classic psychopath who has no clue she is a moron. I will always believe Trump won in 2016 because people were keeping their mouths shut and lying to the pollsters so the Dims believed they were a shoe in but also they didn't know how much to cheat. This time they will pull out the stops and even if there are more votes than we have population they will swell up in indignation and ask, 'waddayagonnadoaboutit?'
I can’t help but wonder if they don’t care that the stealing/cheating is obvious. They can act with impunity. After all, they have stuffed all government agencies with their agents and have no respect for that old rag the constitution. They own the USofA now. The mission is complete.
They do think they have it wrapped up. However, what they have no clue about is that they are not really in control. I am a realist. I prefer tough truth over sweet lies any day. However, I also know that there is a grander plan and while I am ever watchful with eyes wide open, I am not discouraged. They can kill my body but not my soul. I think we are truly on the brink of major change, one way or the other. I am prepared emotionally, physically and spiritually. I just posted in my substack regarding this phenomenal statistic that most Christians do not vote. This baffles me.
I have all manner of Christian friends and relatives - from Latin Mass Catholics to Southern Baptist. Trust me, they all vote.
Good to hear!
On brink of major change for sure! The drumming of words such as The Great Reset... New Golden Age...BRICS (replacing dollar)...CBDC (replacing dollar)...One World Order (UN AGENDA 2030) Rule...Replacing our Constitution with a Digital Constitution...🥁🥁🥁ing getting more intense, louder.
True. They are following their playbook "Rules for Radicals". Do the dirty deed, then worry about the consequences later. Don't think they worry much though, with WEF, Soros, Clinton Foundation & Global elites all having their backs.
No she is not a psychopath. Look up the definition. Now 'Son of Sam' that was a psychopath. Psychopaths are not a problem. They are too crazy to do much damage.
It's the sociopaths you have to be worried about. And the DC government at its higher levels is full of them. As are the (mainly) Democrat state governors.
It's a rare sociopath who is a moron. Maybe none.
I do think you are right in your conjecture that evil persons do not know they are evil. This is one of the biggest contradictions in human affairs.
I love your reference to "The Death of Stalin". Unfortunately for America, I doubt that there a general in the armed services with the competence and prestige of Georgi Zhukov to pull off a successful coup. Note Zhukov's critical role in getting rid of the most malign character in the Politburo after Stalin's death. If, as JHK suggests, America could see a military takeover, are any of its military leaders actually capable of such an action?
Certainly, none at the top…
I highly doubt it. Obama got rid of anyone who might have been a threat. What you have now are careerists who only care about their careers and living la dolce vita.
The real problem in the military is Article 92 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ). It requires all in uniform to obey LAWFUL orders only. I went through boot camp in 1971, which was after the My Lai event, and we all understood clearly that we must disobey unlawful orders.
It's hard to say how many NCOs and junior officers still embrace that tenet, but no senior or general officer with the sense God gave an ordinary rubber duck can rely on troops blindly obeying any order. I think there would be widespread mutiny if anything nefarious were to be attempted.
I believe the US government mandated covid shots for all military personnel knowing that the toughest of the bunch would refuse, thereby eliminating them as a source of internal resistance should said nefarious actions take place.
When in doubt, just think of Admiral Levine. Their presence negates our entire System and Way of Life. If
Love your writing, Jim, but you have REALLY got to stop with the talking and dreaming of prison for any of these gormless clowns running our imperial gaslighting authoritarian government. It isn’t going to happen. Not a single person will face a single minute of prison or a single dime of wealth forfeiture, because they’ve rigged the system to escape accountability - or so that accountability is now a thing that isn’t even considered at all. Don’t forget that some of histories worst mass murderers - Pol Pot, Stalin, Ho Chi Minh etc. - died peacefully at home. You really think a bunch of gormless warmongering liar bureaucrats are gonna get tried and sent to a supermax? Not a chance.
One small quibble, not disagreeing with you, not at all.
Did any of you know we had one of the world's greatest heros quietly hiding here in America?
I saw a picture of her humble home with a dirt driveway in small town in Wisconsin. She was checking her mailbox and glaring at the camera- some jerkoff drove by so he could get a picture and post it on social media.
I speak to you of one of the most noble women who has ever lived: Stalin's daughter.
I think her name was Anna.
It was she who blocked the door to his office for 10 hours as he strangled to death on his own tongue, his face turning black as he lay paralyzed on his own desk. She resolutely refused entry to any and all officers, making sure that no rescue would come until the monster, her father, was dead.
Such steel! Such justice! Surely she deserves a shrine and a statue befitting a hero of mankind.
Yes, As a native Wisconsinite, I knew about her living somewhere around here years ago.
Nonsense. Stalin’s daughter’s name was Shetland. She was a very troubled soul, and didn’t have the kind of power to be able to prevent anyone from entering Stalin’s office. By the time of his death, their relationship was already shaky, following Stalin many disappointments with his unstable daughter.
Yes, but hell is forever. No water in hell, no rest, no mercy of any kind, no light, just darkness, torment and screaming, the endless nonstop screaming of all those trapped in it for eternity. That's what's waiting for them.
My mother has been a lifetime JFK Democrat, and to this day does not understand how the party that she was partial to morphed into the party that it has become. I believe there are millions of JFK Democrats, who still believe that their party will miraculously drift back into what it once was. And for that reason continue to support their party.
Spot on, i see it all the time here in the islands, they just dont get it
"That is probably the point where blue America finds out exactly what the Second Amendment was designed for."
Modern Americans are cowards, by and large it seems. We talk a big game, but our comforts are too great to lose. "All experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are suffer able, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed." The government is bankrupting us and flooding the country with millions of barbarians. Our currency is worthless, our economy is stagnant and probably shrinking, our so-called leaders are now breaking the fourth wall, our enemies are rehearsing in their own version of the Spanish Civil War and armed to the teeth, and our children's minds are being poisoned daily. Anyways, did you watch baseball playoffs last night?
All true revolutions are started by a few patriots with the flame of freedom in their hearts.
"now breaking the fourth wall"
This is golden.
I do wonder if an adequate response can be attained in adequate time.
Tripp, could you elaborate on “the fourth wall” ?
According to my AI assistant, The fourth wall is an imaginary wall that separates the audience from the actors in a performance.
So we are all being brought into the fray?
My (bad, I guess) analogy is that in many ways they are not pretending any longer or at least are badly keeping up appearances. The mask and the gloves are off. The irreality we are presented is becoming common knowledge (in the sense that you know that I know, I know you know that I know and so on) regarding the production the 'blob' is putting on.
No thank you. My cash is spent on ever more expensive goods and is better used feeding my infant and children the cost of which, by the way, has not jumped but pole vaulted (by design) in price between my first and most recently born. To my enthusiastic enjoyment, my creepy Uncle, Sam, who checks my web history and looks ay my texts over my shoulder, still takes much my worthless money. He does this despite knowing the fed can simply make more appear as if by magic. At any rate, do you remember when people were demanding heads on a stick over two shilling for a pound of tea? As I recall the cheap tea bit is in the old testament, so the cheap dinosaur squeezings must be in the new.
On a completely unrelated note do they still teach hyperbole in school?
I think the Peter Principle needs a female archetype to enact it for historical reference. This drunken halfbreed hyena of a high speed train wreck oughta do the trick!
Seems like most of the Dems who wish to be POTUS in the near term want Kamalama Ding Dong to crash and burn. The logic is simple - if she wins, her administration will be a chaotic nightmare, but she would run for re-election with virtually no chance of success, pushing out the Shapiro, Newsome and other Democratic POTUS candidates to 2032, at which time they would face an incumbent Republican with a newly revised electoral map, minimizing the chance of Democratic success. They certainly prefer a Harris failure today giving them a chance to run in 2028 against someone other than Trump.
Yes, but can the cadre of criminals risk what may come of their fate over the next four years? I believe that is the thrust of James missive.
They seem to have the judicial system locked up so maybe they aren't are worried about retrobution as they are about losing power and therefore money.
I agree with you. I don’t believe this talk about being so scared they can’t think straight. I do believe they are concerned about Trump getting back into the WH. He will go scorched earth on them. He has a lot on them but I think their arrogance won’t allow them to even consider it. They’ve got this and continue to laugh at him over dinner and wine. Only the very best of course.
Classic arrogant delusion. The upside is that is often the thing that does in those who believe they are little g gods.
Frankly my dear, I don't believe The Donald has a scorched earth bone in his body. Or huevos. If he had had some huevos in 2020, he'd have stopped the Steal.
It is difficult to get a clear "read" on many, or even ANY of their actions.
I recall in 2020, some guy on the street came up to Biden, questioning him about something (I do not recall any of that) ... I DO remember Biden telling the guy, he knew he was not going to win the election. It was that clear even at this moment in 2020.
Biden has been in mental decline for years. He hardly knows where he is.
agree. My husband worked for many many years at defense and the pentagon.
My hubbs won some award (twice actually) for doing some great job. "The Federal 100"
Yeah, nice dinner, and a big heavy award to dust or throw at someone, All kinds of political people go to those things just for the free dinner, comedy speaker.
Biden was at one of those dinners. I met him at this gigantic desserts table. He creeped me out so much. I knew it was him and ugh I kept my distance. He was there leering at women.
He does have some high functioning moments I've noticed.
Thanks for stating the obvious.
They have managed to do so for the past 10 years. I remember reading that the reason they let Trump in, in 2016, was because they thought Hillary Clinton's secrets were out. But then they were able to do damage control on them. I'm not even sure which secrets they were. It might be hearsay. But Clinton threw a massive hissy, that is well-documented, and she was told she'd be installed, and it was changed at the last minute. This is why I see this all as theater. Also, her hubs is the one who asked Trump to run in the first place. They ran in the same circles and their daughters are besties. I am not convinced that Trump is against them.
TRMR. Ask Diddy what he knows about Cankles’ extra curricular, and outside the box, activities. If you can get a frank response it will make a donkey puke.
If that ever got out - whoo hooooo. I wonder how with so many people involved, we still can't get video! That is amazing to me. I think though, it exists, and hopefully someday it'll get out. I think that's why they were so quick to speed up "deep fakes" then CONDEMN it so that when the real thing gets out they can claim they are all deep fakes.
"newly revised electoral map"
God, but you're hopeful. Good luck with that.
I love your nickname for the Kameltoe! Brilliant.
"It must be deeply demoralizing to be used like that in front of the whole world."
Oh, Jim, you give Kamala WAY too much credit. I doubt she is self-aware enough for it to even register.
She may be the hollowest person ever to run for president. There's just no there there. She makes that piece of puffery Barack Obama look profound by comparison.
Puffery cannot look as arrogant and miserable as Obama. Just looking at Kamala's facial, neck, and shoulder tension makes me want to go to a chiropractor. Killary's face is nothing if not A Masque of Misery. And don't forget Ben Bartee's classic, "The Physical Decay of War Pig Victoria Nuland Is Truly Shocking":
https://thedailybell.com/all-articles/news-analysis/the-physical-decay-of-war-pig-victoria-nuland-is-truly-shocking/
These fuckers are the poster children of mental illness.
"32 days...32 days...32 days...".
[Some time later]
"Who fucked with my teleprompter?".
HRC awaits like a Vampire at the bloodbank
I almost feel bad for them, you know, except for all the evil.
Never feel bad for them- they want to kill us.
You can never hate these people enough.
I don't.
I feel sorry for them. So shallow, arrogant, trying to stay puffed up in their hollow shells & living in darkness. God says to let Him have the revenge. Their day is coming, like ours, to stand before the Lord.
And why aren't actions taken by a mortal manifestations of God's revenge?
Jim—poignant, as always. Thank you. (And I hope to be in position soon to enjoy your writings via an annual subscription amount that reflects the value (for me) of your writing—which is considerable. Peace
(And the following Chesterton quote came to mind immediately reading the line about the veep hitting the bottle.)
"Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable. Never drink when you are wretched without it, or you will be like the gray-faced gin-drinker in the slum; but drink when you would be happy without it, and you will be like the laughing peasants of Italy. Never drink because you think you need it, for this is rational drinking, and the way to death and hell. But drink because you do not need it, for this is irrational drinking, and the ancient health of the world."
–G.K. Chesterton, Heretics
In the denouement they will "Tina Peters" all contenders.
https://joehoft.com/the-disgusting-abandonment-of-tina-peters/
That a freakin' kangaroo court showing! The sentencing judge called her a "charlatan" - really? I don't even know much about the trial, but all I could see in the summary was that she questioned the veracity of the 2020 election and that she is a Trump supporter. So to me that immediately smacks of "political hit." And of course, also using her for a warning to others.
"WHERE WERE THE BIG GUNS of some GOP groups and the RNC who raise countless Millions of Dollars on ‘Election Integrity’??? They willingly ignored the root findings of Election Malfeasance which is ‘THE ALGORITHM’ unmasked and brought to our awareness by the sacrifice of Clerk Peters".
WHERE WAS DONALD TRUMP?