Mad to the Max
“I don’t understand why it’s so difficult for the press to have a consistent narrative about how dangerous Trump is.” — Hillary Clinton
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If anything like civil war ignites in this country, the sides will not be the political Red and the Blue but the sane and the insane. Now it happens, unfortunately, that the insane are driving the engine of government. They have been at war with the people of this land for years, depriving them of livelihoods, stuffing them into prison, breaking the social contract, wrecking the country’s relations with the rest of the world, and belaboring the peoples’ minds with one insulting absurdity after another.
They comprise a bizarre coalition of the permanent bureaucracy, the Democratic Party, and the news media. The permanent bureaucracy includes its own machine for making war on citizens: the intel blob, whose tentacles reach into other agencies: Homeland Security, the State Department, the so-called Justice Department, the Pentagon, the myriad Public Health offices, and the shadowy clique that stands-in for a disabled president in the White House.
You can tell they are insane because they are driven by a single motivation: to remain in power for no other purpose than to escape responsibility for their many crimes against the people. This is insane behavior because it depends on the proposition that reality does not matter, that reality is optional, that there is no such thing as truth, and if it happened to exist, to be a thing, it would have no greater value to the human project than its opposite, untruth.
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The greatest absurdity of the moment is the idea that Americans might desire to continue under the rule of this evil coalition devoted to unreality and untruth, that is, to vote for candidates of the Democratic Party. Its greatest crimes, of course, are the lawless measures taken to pervert the very elections that might allow them to retain power in office.
Some of it is well-hidden and abstruse, such as the machinations of election lawfare manager-in-chief, Marc Elias, who for many years has used the courts and the state legislatures to fiddle election rules that make it impossible to account for who is actually casting the votes. This, you understand, is insane. What sovereign people would seek to institutionalize election fraud?
Some election crime is just in your face. The open border policy may have many nefarious angles, but an obvious one is stuffing the voter rolls with live bodies that have names attached, which can be bundled and harvested in ballot form like so many sheaves of oats. No one is fooled by this. Yet the Democratic Party has its heavy hand on the lever of power that controls entry to the country. Alejandro Mayorkas, the Secretary of Homeland Security, allows this to happen and bullshits Congress in open committee hearings. Congress has impeached him for this affront and the Democratic majority Senate has declined to hold the attendant trial — because stuffing the voter rolls with illegal immigrants allows them to remain in power.
The remedies for this dastardly mess are pretty simple and straightforward: return to paper ballots cast on one election day, requiring voter ID that amounts to proof of citizenship. Everything else — computerized (hackable) ballot-counting machines, mail-in ballots, early voting, automatic voter registration by means of other government transactions that have nothing to do with elections (motor-voter acts) — only insures election fraud. Sane people do not seek to defraud themselves.
It is widely suspected by the not-insane that even the attempt at massive voter fraud may not avail to put over the paramount candidate of the insane: Veep Kamala Harris. Nobody believes that she is capable of being president. But the insane don’t seek a capable president — in fact, the opposite. They want a president who can only function with direction and management of the blob, by the blob, and for the blob. The blob’s motives, besides seeking to avoid responsibility for its prior crimes, are a license to commit new crimes, especially crimes that expand the many perquisites and privileges of being in power. These include the fortunes to be made in control of the nation’s wealth, and the sadistic pleasure derived from punishing and humiliating their not-insane opponents. For instance, running the insane Ukraine war, with its fabulous kickbacks for the military contractors and office-holders. . . and making you witness more drag queen story hours.
Due to the possibility that sane citizens, despite calculated election fraud, might elect Mr. Trump, who opposes all that psychotic, criminal nonsense, the coalition of the permanent bureaucracy, the Democratic Party, and the news media appears to have few options left besides murdering Mr. Trump. The first two would-be assassins show a train of association with the intel blob. Thomas Crooks (or, at least one of his many cell phones) traveled repeatedly to a downtown DC building adjacent to the FBI HQ; Ryan Wesley Routh has alleged links to the Arlington, Va., Maximus Company, a CIA cut-out — perhaps explaining how the otherwise indigent Routh funded his global travels. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla) disclosed yesterday that the DHS knows of five assassination teams targeting President Trump, three connected with foreign governments, two domestic.
The most mystifying element in the coalition of the insane is the news media — that is, the cable news networks plus The New York Times / WashPost axis —who have tirelessly broadcast the mantras that Mr. Trump seeks to quash our democracy and that he is a new Hitler who must be stopped at all costs. The inflammatory barrage has had an obvious effect. But the mystery is: what’s in it for these news companies to go along with their insane and desperate partners: the blob and the Dems?
What’s in it for Joe Khan, Executive Editor of The Times? His paper lies and spins unreality incessantly. He surely makes a comfortable salary, but he can’t be getting rich. . . that is, really rich. . . millions. Apparently, he publishes unreal stories because he’s insane. He believes things that are not true. Nor are his reporters getting really rich. They just appear to be blinded by sheer hatred — rising to insanity — and perhaps also by the lurking fear that their many published lies, dating back to RussiaGate, will eventually disgrace them professionally if allowed to be pursued and revealed by the sane.
The temperature is rising in this political crucible. Something is going to melt down. It’s looking pretty clear now who can take the heat, and who can’t.
For new Substack readers who have not seen the actual person (me) lurking behind this blog, here is my interview Monday 9/19 with the Swiss national Piero San Giorgio:
In their 1997 book The Fourth Turning William Strauss and Neil Howe identified a generational sequence that has held true in Western Civilization for several hundred years, resulting in a societal crisis every fourth generation. And here we are, in the middle of another Fourth Turning, likely to reach critical mass some time between November 5th and January 20th.
A critical feature of each Fourth Turning in US history has been the emergence of a “Gray Champion” – a member of the elder generation who is able to carry the nation on his back through the crisis.
Strauss and Howe emphasize that there is no guarantee that a gray champion will appear at all, or that he will be the person we need to survive the crisis. The only viable candidate who has applied for the job this time is Donald J. Trump. Yes, he is an asshole, and unable to keep himself from saying stupid things when he opens his mouth. Can he possibly be our Gray Champion?
As ridiculous as his verbal stream of consciousness generally is, his first instincts regarding existential matters, from endless wars and undefended borders to Covid and CBDCs are often sound.
Consider what the role of Gray Champion requires in these times. Trump has a monstrous ego and the hide of a rhinoceros. In the face of the colossal state forces arrayed against him, clearly they are necessities. I believe another critical attribute is a vindictive spirit. Inaugural speeches always blather on about “bringing us all together.” That ain’t gonna happen this time, so there’s no point making mouth noises about it. Half the country has been indoctrinated with a fatally perverse and false set of ideas. They can’t be accommodated; they must be defeated and expunged.
If Trump manages to get back into the Oval Office and take on the evil Security State it will not be a tidy affair but, rather, a political Armageddon with lots of collateral damage. Anyone would be crazy to wish for such a thing, but it’s either that or CWII.
Kudos to Kunstler in laying out and exposing the crime of the century to the public of the Machiavellian Conspiracy to transform America into a Marxist state. Kunstler using common sense looking through the prism of how absurd this all is by framing the battle between the sane and the Insane, good versus evil. The insane being a bizarre coalition of the permanent government bureaucracy, the Democratic Party, and the news media all driven by a single motivation: to remain in power for no other purpose than to escape responsibility for their many crimes against the people.