“Trump has done so much damage to libtardery that the Democrats will need a decade of uninterrupted power to undo it, which they're not going to get.” —Matt Forney on X
Deep State defined: "...those who are refusing to support any type of political activities on the part of the Trump administration." That's the quiet part out loud but the part that is still not admitted that you allude to: those who happily supported any type of political activities on the part of the Biden administration
Deep state defined by me is the term given by MAGAs to explain anything governmental that doesn’t go the way you think it should…regardless of any related facts, norms or extenuating circumstances.
An apt response to yours. The Deep State and the GOVERNMENT are comprised of people just like you and me...except they work in government paid position. Yes...toward the top there are those politically motivated and this occurs on both sides of the political fence.
Rather than speak generally, feel free to bring up a specific action that you deem was a "Deep State" move only fueled by a desire to thwart Trump and let's see how it goes.
Operation Crossfire Hurricane was built on the premise of Russia Collusion originated by the Hillary Clinton campaign. All accusations were bogus. Comey ran with it.
Former Obama CIA chief, John Brennan, just this week said there are “legions” of intelligence and justice officials working to obstruct and cancel anything Trump proposes. No CIA official has ever publicly voiced this type of threat before.
I would define the Deep State as the coordinated attempt by the DOJ/FBI/CIA to remove an elected President. This conspiracy involved government intelligence agencies acting above, around and below the legal system without any oversight from any other branch of government.
As Comey explained to Congress in 2020, he didn't follow legal precedent and inform Congress that he was investigating a Presidential candidate because it was a "sensitive" matter.
Additionally, what would you call an agency, namely the National Security Division of the DOJ, that states as policy that it is not subject to oversight by the Inspector General as outlined by Sally Yates in July 2015:
It has nothing to do with MAGA except that "MAGA" is the excuse. Members of the executive branch that chose whether or not to perform their duty irrespective of the political leanings of their superiors is wrong. The fact that you don't get it is more of an indication of your tawdry concept of governance than its facial depiction of your ignorance.
It's really funny how MAGA simply take it for granted there's no such thing as legitimate disagreement with their agenda. And you wonder why people call you fascists.
I remember a post of yours from a bit ago where you wrote meaningly that you expected good things to come out of a judicial process, because rules of evidence would come into play. Indeed they do in a court of law, which are capable of dispelling vast quantities of political fog. Just think how the Trump campaign went to court 62 times to contest the outcome of the 2020 election and lost 61 times.
The solitary win was a narrow technical result in Pennsylvania that did not affect the outcome. That's an unimpressive .016 batting average. But you continue to swallow and promote the debunked loser's narrative, spewing the fog back out to the credulous and the blind.
I don't understand how you can think Biden legitimately won by 81 million votes. And how those winning vote margins were all in even numbers for each state. It must have been magic!
Legitimately explain your disagreement with closing the borders to any and all illegal entry. And why you're at it, explain legitimately why taxpayers should fund the NGOs and their exorbitant salaried employees that spent hundreds of millions of dollars to encourage and facilitate a de facto invasion of the US during the Biden Administration. You don't have any idea what fascist is do you?
First of all, make sure you know what my position is before you criticize it. What makes you think I'm against the USA closing its borders if it wants to? That's not what I would do, which means I disagree with the policy, but they're your borders so whatever. On the other hand, if people within the USA who don't want its borders closed happen to win an election and enact their policy instead of yours, that's legitimate also. Elections have consequences.
Which is the point, of course. Elections have consequences, and to fascists that means they can't be allowed. Kunstler has literally declared in clear English that democracy in the USA needs to end, and as far as I can tell most people here either vehemently agree or have no objection. Hence, my observation: in the MAGA mind, there's no such thing as legitimate disagreement, only force. That's fascism, and your agenda doesn't justify the unjustifiable; it's the motive for the crime.
Next of all make sure you know my position before you call me a fascist. I disagree with the idea that a sovereign nation can't close its borders to unlimited illegal invasion. I disagree with your position so you call me a fascist. You state that fascists, meaning Trump supporters, don't want to allow elections. Let's see your documented proof where anyone says we shouldn't have elections.
Elections have consequences. Donald Trump won the 2024 election. You've got to live that. Better luck next time.
You Leftists live in another reality in your own minds. Explain how open borders benefit the US. Just documented facts please. You've worn out the fascist thing so try so other hyperbole.
Well, let's see. Let's start with this very web blog, What evidence is there that this is a fascist space for fascist opinions?
Here's Kunstler on April 27: "When [Obama] repeats the shibboleth 'our democracy' he means simply the Lefty-left’s malevolent will to power". Translation: there is no such thing as legitimate opposition to MAGA. https://www.kunstler.com/p/a-feral-and-savage-party
Kunstler on April 3: "Norm Eisen founded or is associated with several swamp NGOs active in Trump-hunting operations ... all posing as anti-autocracy operations." Can't have that... says the autocrat. The principle again: no such thing as legitimate opposition. https://www.kunstler.com/p/the-red-line
Or how about this post, where Kunstler expends (yes, I counted) 936 words pouring derision on American democracy by his pet tactic of putting it in scare quotes over and over: https://www.kunstler.com/p/when-they-say-democracy-they-dont Once again, the message: There is no such thing as legitimate opposition to MAGA's agenda, or to Donald Trump. No such thing.
If you deserve being spared the label "fascist", you can simply say you agree that opposition to Trump can be legitimate, and that this applies to the actual opposition he has experienced (such as it is). But if you're only going to double down on the slanted, partisan narrative that Kunstler peddles, save your breath -- the shoe fits.
Alberta has oil sands, not tar sands. Alberta is keen to explore for more & export a ton of its oil & gas but the stupid Liberal government of Clown-car Carney has shut down all pipelines.
The easiest way for Alberta oil to reach the Pacific markets (and even California) would be a pipeline directly west.
Unfortunately the Stuck-on-Stupid BC voters keep electing NDP governments that vehemently oppose this. Alberta’s only relief will come when they declare independence. A new pipeline directly south will make them rich.
"The easiest way for Alberta oil to reach the Pacific markets (and even California) would be a pipeline directly west, administered by the United States Marine Corps."
An excellent summary of the situation. As an aside, I'm surprised there is no mention of the absolute knee slapper of Mr. Obama decrying the "politicization of the DOJ."
If I were the head of the FBI, I would want to know exactly who in the FBI was talking with Comey, and what was being said, likewise with Brennen / CIA. Benedict Arnold is alive and well. This isn’t a typical ex-coworker situation - this is collusion.
I think you can pretty much bet the FBI know who both of them and everybody else they suspect are talking to, with and about. Funny how we make that assumption without thinking twice. A forked-tongue enemy is only revealed when they get cocky and let slip the secret part out loud - which the DEMs seem to do obsessively. As we've seen throughout history (which we will try NOT to repeat~!), hatred is a losing paradigm.
Who doesn’t maintain relationships with those you used to work with? As long as they aren’t sharing classified info…there’s nothing against the law or morally wrong with this.
Do you think that perhaps they talked about how many times Trump’s name showed up in the Epstein files?
"...that Covid was a trip laid on the nation by its own Deep State (mainly the CIA), in concert with the rogue Democratic Party, for the express purpose of queering the 2020 election."
Let me fix that for ya:
"...that covid was a trip laid on NATIONS..."
Plural.
Several.
WW.
Deep States in every one of them.
"Liberal parties" in every one of them.
Seems more like an international cabal issue to yes, apply serious fuckery to the 2020 election, because [they] could NOT have the reckoning ball, aka Trump administration, coming into Power, however, the insidious destination of this world wide 'event' had far more sinister schemes afoot than the stolen election alone.
Just thought I'd clarify that with the loud HONK HONK of the mighty cobra chicken!
Covid certainly was a political maneuver, not a serious disease. It was nothing but a nasty strain of the Flu. I knew it was a fraud at the very beginning for the following reasons:
1. The PCR test was proven an inaccurate and unreliable test.
2. The virus magically behaved itself at Walmart, Home Depot and Amazon warehouses but it was naughty and infected people at churches, gyms and restaurants.
3. Cloth masks unable to filter water vapor in one's breath was expected to filter air laden in miniscule tinier than air viruses?
4. Elites not abiding the virus related mandates (see Pelosi and Gavin Newsom).
5. The push to use an untested, unproven vaccine that, for some reason, was exempt from the "side effects" disclaimers you hear on all the big pharma medical ads permeating streaming television services these days.
6. The practical disappearance of the annual flu virus.
I will admit that during the first few weeks of the covid fraud I was a little worried but once the "6 foot separation" mandate came out from all the health "experts" I was done with all of it.
The media is currently trying to hump up the Hantavirus and make it the next big pandemic. Not going to happen. Only one strain of Hantavirus can pass from human to human and that isn't an easy transmission. You literally need to be swapping spit with an infected and symptomatic person to do that.
"Peak Oil", and all the numbers that don't pencil out, is coming back home to roost with a vengeance. The game of musical chairs is now getting serious, and somebody (or everyone) has to take a significant cut to their standard of living.
We may have the politicians aligning this way or that, but the mad scramble for lifeboats and "every man for himself" doesn't look too far off. We're about to have our priorities reassigned regardless of our plans.
If by "lifeboats" you mean different and completely realistic new sources of energy, your previous administration was funding wind and solar and your current one has cut that off. The self-own, it burns!
Europe is having problems precisely in proportion to how much it's following the Trump agenda.
The USA's problem is that it's completely captured by the entrenched oil interests who won't stand for any competition even as their business model careens head-on into its unavoidable endpoint.
Europe's problem is that it either can't or won't separate from the US and pursue an independent path. They could be buying cheap gas from Russia to keep the lights on while they go full-bore on building wind, solar and nuclear. (Germany in particular made the ill-advised decision to close all their nuclear capacity, which they're going to have to reverse.) Instead they suck up to Big Daddy, buying Texas LNG for eight times as much. Don't expect me to defend foolishness.
Germany closed their nuclear facilities as part of their "Green Agenda". Their legally binding target is for net carbon neutrality by 2045. Germany's energy problems are the result of going all in on "sustainable" energy. Germany is the model for the new green energy agenda.
Are you admitting that they're having energy problems? If so, you're admitting that the "green" energy agenda sucks.
Is this another dimension comment? You'd have to be blind to not see what is going on in Europe. With your frame of mind, we should go back to the caves maybe?
"What's going on in Europe" -- referring to what, exactly? Not a useful comment if you can't be specific.
I'll take a guess, though, that you're promoting the white-replacement horseshit. If that's the case, allow me to opine that white replacement is horseshit. Fresh and fragrant horseshit, right from the south end of a northbound mare.
The "lifeboats" reference is just a metaphor of the scramble that's now on for maintaining and/or expanding (thank you AI) energy supplies. Think deck on the Titanic when the groaning of the hull and bow down attitude became obvious to the crew and passengers. Basic physics and a couple of napkins can help demonstrate that currently deployed "green" energy sources like wind and solar are woefully inadequate to keep things rolling along. But it won't be long before even oil and gas costs and supplies are limiting factors for "modern" standards of living.
No administration can address predicaments like problems and expect to solve anything.
This is self-defeating loser thinking. When your energy supply is in jeopardy, the thing to do is to (A) secure that supply, (B) secure a separate supply, and/or (C) both.
At this very minute, we're witnessing Donald Trump in the midst of spectacularly doing the *opposite* of plan A by an ill-advised war on Iran that he has very clearly lost and cannot possibly recover the status quo ante. The USA is *maybe* 350 million people on a planet of 8 billion, and thanks to Trump all 8 billion of us have now received a kick in the pants to get serious about plan B instead.
Given how Trump has actually cancelled plan-A programs instituted by his predecessor in office and gone all-in for the fossil fuel industry, whose end is rapidly approaching, what he is actually doing isn't any of plans A, B or C. He's enacting plan D: do nothing while you continue to collect your winnings, and "plan" (if that's the word) to be out of office or dead by the time the USA hits the wall, and gets left behind by the world and by history.
Stupidity, lies, and hubris have a way of getting sorted out, gravitationally, like idiot rogues flinging themselves from an airplane -- without parachutes.
Anyone else notice that one side of James Comey’s entire face is droopy. Bell’s Palsy? I’d be shocked if he took the jab, but maybe he did. Good. I hope he shambles quickly to a slow, painful death.
It must be another day ending in Y, because today's post is yet another tissue of wrongheadedness and delusion. There's some fun to be had picking it apart, but the RVO part of DARVO (Deny, Accuse, Reverse Victim and Offender) has to come first.
Kunstler: "There’s Canada, of course, and its tar sands, but the Great White North these days leans rather hostilely towards its neighbor to the south (us)." Yes, that tends to happen when your chief executive brings two centuries of peace and mutual respect to a crashing halt by declaring you the 51st state and referring to your prime minister as "governor". The USA has bombed countries flat for showing not even a tenth as much disrespect.
Then there's Kunstler's complete failure to understand the moment, caused by his boomer-brained attachment to the dying fossil fuel narrative. The "scramble for what's left" is yesterday's news and only the backward-looking are much bothered with it. Forward-looking countries, like China, are building solar and wind infrastructure that will ensure they still have energy to work with. The USA, meanwhile, is completely captive to an industry that is petering out because they lack both the political will and the basic common sense to prepare for a future that might actually work. At this point in history, to make fossil fuels the end-all and be-all of your policy outlook even as you admit that its failure is inevitable is to willingly hang a millstone around your neck as you wade into the deep water. It's a fate I hope Canada can still avoid.
Hate to pop your bubble, pal, but in the not too distant future the sun is going to lose a third of its power. And those solar panels with which everyone loves to cover productive farmland will be smashed by the 100-lb hailstones that will come.
That might happen, but I doubt that is going to happen in our lifetimes. The sun still has millions of years of fuel left to burn. At least that is what I have read.
That's truly alarming news, Kathy. Truly. Which astrophysicist warned you that the sun's output is going to drop by a third? Is habitable zone in solar orbit going to move away from the Earth, or is the Earth going to move farther from the sun? Or are we talking about a nuclear winter scenario? I love science, please share with me how you know this is going to happen and what's going to cause it.
The Bible warned me, Northrup. No amount of wind and solar will stop it. I agree with you that oil is running out. After all, it's made of the bodies of millions of people and animals that died in the flood. So there is a finite supply. But the present earth has come to the end of its shelf life.
"After all, it's made of the bodies of millions of people and animals that died in the flood."
Sorry, but I laughed out loud at this comment.
Oil isn't made from a bunch of rotten, decomposing bodies. Sorry. Not buying that one.
There are theories out there that the Earth produces the stuff. Deep down in the mantle where the pressure and heat are sufficient to cause chemical reactions resulting in raw petroleum. Don't know if they are true or not but I don't buy the claim that all oil deposits were once mass graves of people and dinosaurs.
How do you explain oil deposits miles under the deep ocean floors?
So you say these words, and what I hear is: "It's easier for me to imagine the end of the world than the end of fossil fuels." This has been my problem with the peak-oil narrative all along, even as I've nodded in vigorous agreement where that narrative was accurate.
If you want to shrug your shoulders and embrace failure, feel free. I can think of 8 billion people who might want a wee bit more out of that for their future, and their children's.
Then allow me to eliminate confusion and restate it: "Boomer-brained". Backward-looking. Out of step with the times. Everything is changing, except Kunstler's expectations. His analysis is terrible because he can't change his mind or change the subject, nevermind the facts.
Yes, and the one thing I kept thinking the whole time is, "Okay, what about other energy sources then?" The book was at best half-useful. The other half was simply an exercise in solipsistic doomerism: the end of petroleum is the end of the world, full stop. That was simply and always just a symptom of Kunstler's lack of imagination...
... That, and his nihilistic hatred of modernity. Kunstler hates happy motoring and he hates consumerism. Well and good, lots of people hate both. But what's more, he hates the very kind of society that makes those things possible, and he's increasingly made no bones about the fact that his "world made by hand" is simply an expression of his desire to roll back history to a simpler time. A time when there were no happy motorists, when men were in charge, when there was no clamour of politics, and everything was settled in a way that warms his particular heart in his particular way.
That's the seed that fascism always grows from, and Kunstler is a fascist if I ever heard of one. Yes, I mean it. No, I'm not simply using the word as a club. The charge has substance and I make it in good faith and a full heart.
You sound pissed off and petulant in your posts. If you don't like the comments posted or the editorial written, maybe you should go to a site with which you agree.
I can do both, as can you. If you want a site where you never, ever have to hear from someone who disagrees with you, there's always Fox News. Muting or blocking me is also an option. I won't be offended.
No mention of nuclear, which should have been (and still could be) the energy for fixed (and battery viable) applications. Oil becomes too valuable to be a fuel long before it runs out.
This is as close as you've come lately to the guy I've read for the past 25 years. You still seem woozy from all MAGA flag-waving, but it at least appears as though the insightful lands of The Long Emergency and the World Made by Hand are returning to the map with this post.
In the long game, the FBI and CIA are STILL staffed with tens of thousands of the SAME PEOPLE being exposed as seditious. All of the expose' currently happening AFTER the statute of limitations runs out just screams political theatre and promises of accountability ..... someday.
From China’s perspective, the US is on a similar circling-the-drain trajectory as Europe. China can live without US soybeans, but not without the flow of oil which Iran will likely continue to control.
Even setting oil aside, China has invested a great deal in constructing the beginnings of a North-South commercial corridor connected with Iran, including rail lines which the US has been assiduously destroying in its bombing missions over Iran.
China has always played the long game, and humoring Mr. Trump into believing we that we may be getting on the same team makes sense. Actually doing so makes little sense for the future of China, some form of BRICS alliance, and the Global South, where the future actually lies.
"Iran has allowed some Chinese vessels to pass through the Strait of Hormuz following diplomatic overtures from China’s government, semiofficial Iranian news agencies reported on Thursday. ...
"The Trump administration has been pressing China to use its leverage with Iran to help reopen the strait, which is a main shipping route for oil from the Persian Gulf.
"Fars and Tasnim, two semiofficial Iranian news agencies, said Iran had approved the passage of some Chinese vessels under rules set by Tehran for managing traffic in the waterway.
"Fars reported that the crossings had begun on Wednesday night, following a diplomatic outreach by China’s foreign minister and its ambassador to Iran. It said the move was rooted in the two countries’ strategic partnership."
Trump's big plan was to try to jawbone the Chinese into putting pressure on Iran. Instead, Iran and China worked things out between themselves. The Chinese have clean sailing ahead after Trump's disastrous blunder that has queered things for most every country on earth, and most every country on earth understands that.
Has anyone seen anything on claims the ocean floor between South America and Africa is one enormous oil field? It might take a moon shot level of tech and innovation to operate such a project but "where there's a will..."
Deep State defined: "...those who are refusing to support any type of political activities on the part of the Trump administration." That's the quiet part out loud but the part that is still not admitted that you allude to: those who happily supported any type of political activities on the part of the Biden administration
Don't you mean the Obiden Autopen administration?
Deep state defined by me is the term given by MAGAs to explain anything governmental that doesn’t go the way you think it should…regardless of any related facts, norms or extenuating circumstances.
That's a pretty lame-ass definition.
An apt response to yours. The Deep State and the GOVERNMENT are comprised of people just like you and me...except they work in government paid position. Yes...toward the top there are those politically motivated and this occurs on both sides of the political fence.
Rather than speak generally, feel free to bring up a specific action that you deem was a "Deep State" move only fueled by a desire to thwart Trump and let's see how it goes.
Operation Crossfire Hurricane was built on the premise of Russia Collusion originated by the Hillary Clinton campaign. All accusations were bogus. Comey ran with it.
Former Obama CIA chief, John Brennan, just this week said there are “legions” of intelligence and justice officials working to obstruct and cancel anything Trump proposes. No CIA official has ever publicly voiced this type of threat before.
I would define the Deep State as the coordinated attempt by the DOJ/FBI/CIA to remove an elected President. This conspiracy involved government intelligence agencies acting above, around and below the legal system without any oversight from any other branch of government.
As Comey explained to Congress in 2020, he didn't follow legal precedent and inform Congress that he was investigating a Presidential candidate because it was a "sensitive" matter.
Additionally, what would you call an agency, namely the National Security Division of the DOJ, that states as policy that it is not subject to oversight by the Inspector General as outlined by Sally Yates in July 2015:
Comey's definitely not going to want to discuss some "sensitive matters" that happen to him in prison.
It has nothing to do with MAGA except that "MAGA" is the excuse. Members of the executive branch that chose whether or not to perform their duty irrespective of the political leanings of their superiors is wrong. The fact that you don't get it is more of an indication of your tawdry concept of governance than its facial depiction of your ignorance.
You should read Shadowland.
It's really funny how MAGA simply take it for granted there's no such thing as legitimate disagreement with their agenda. And you wonder why people call you fascists.
Disagreement is one thing; sedition is quite another.
I remember a post of yours from a bit ago where you wrote meaningly that you expected good things to come out of a judicial process, because rules of evidence would come into play. Indeed they do in a court of law, which are capable of dispelling vast quantities of political fog. Just think how the Trump campaign went to court 62 times to contest the outcome of the 2020 election and lost 61 times.
https://www.justsecurity.org/95313/trump-trials-court-jury/
The solitary win was a narrow technical result in Pennsylvania that did not affect the outcome. That's an unimpressive .016 batting average. But you continue to swallow and promote the debunked loser's narrative, spewing the fog back out to the credulous and the blind.
I don't understand how you can think Biden legitimately won by 81 million votes. And how those winning vote margins were all in even numbers for each state. It must have been magic!
Legitimately explain your disagreement with closing the borders to any and all illegal entry. And why you're at it, explain legitimately why taxpayers should fund the NGOs and their exorbitant salaried employees that spent hundreds of millions of dollars to encourage and facilitate a de facto invasion of the US during the Biden Administration. You don't have any idea what fascist is do you?
The SPLC people told him it's anyone who disagrees with whatever their grift of the day happens to be.
First of all, make sure you know what my position is before you criticize it. What makes you think I'm against the USA closing its borders if it wants to? That's not what I would do, which means I disagree with the policy, but they're your borders so whatever. On the other hand, if people within the USA who don't want its borders closed happen to win an election and enact their policy instead of yours, that's legitimate also. Elections have consequences.
Which is the point, of course. Elections have consequences, and to fascists that means they can't be allowed. Kunstler has literally declared in clear English that democracy in the USA needs to end, and as far as I can tell most people here either vehemently agree or have no objection. Hence, my observation: in the MAGA mind, there's no such thing as legitimate disagreement, only force. That's fascism, and your agenda doesn't justify the unjustifiable; it's the motive for the crime.
Next of all make sure you know my position before you call me a fascist. I disagree with the idea that a sovereign nation can't close its borders to unlimited illegal invasion. I disagree with your position so you call me a fascist. You state that fascists, meaning Trump supporters, don't want to allow elections. Let's see your documented proof where anyone says we shouldn't have elections.
Elections have consequences. Donald Trump won the 2024 election. You've got to live that. Better luck next time.
You Leftists live in another reality in your own minds. Explain how open borders benefit the US. Just documented facts please. You've worn out the fascist thing so try so other hyperbole.
Well, let's see. Let's start with this very web blog, What evidence is there that this is a fascist space for fascist opinions?
Here's Kunstler on April 27: "When [Obama] repeats the shibboleth 'our democracy' he means simply the Lefty-left’s malevolent will to power". Translation: there is no such thing as legitimate opposition to MAGA. https://www.kunstler.com/p/a-feral-and-savage-party
Kunstler on April 3: "Norm Eisen founded or is associated with several swamp NGOs active in Trump-hunting operations ... all posing as anti-autocracy operations." Can't have that... says the autocrat. The principle again: no such thing as legitimate opposition. https://www.kunstler.com/p/the-red-line
Or how about this post, where Kunstler expends (yes, I counted) 936 words pouring derision on American democracy by his pet tactic of putting it in scare quotes over and over: https://www.kunstler.com/p/when-they-say-democracy-they-dont Once again, the message: There is no such thing as legitimate opposition to MAGA's agenda, or to Donald Trump. No such thing.
If you deserve being spared the label "fascist", you can simply say you agree that opposition to Trump can be legitimate, and that this applies to the actual opposition he has experienced (such as it is). But if you're only going to double down on the slanted, partisan narrative that Kunstler peddles, save your breath -- the shoe fits.
You seem like a retard and a mental pervert and you think like a dumb nigger.
Not a useful comment. Do better.
Who’s Agenda Norty?
Legitimate disagreement doesn't mean turning the country into a quasi-Marxist dictatorship.
Alberta has oil sands, not tar sands. Alberta is keen to explore for more & export a ton of its oil & gas but the stupid Liberal government of Clown-car Carney has shut down all pipelines.
The easiest way for Alberta oil to reach the Pacific markets (and even California) would be a pipeline directly west.
Unfortunately the Stuck-on-Stupid BC voters keep electing NDP governments that vehemently oppose this. Alberta’s only relief will come when they declare independence. A new pipeline directly south will make them rich.
Alberta: America’s 51st state? You never know. Trump is way ahead of all of us and he always sticks the landing.
They don't need to be the 51st state; the Republic of Alberta will work just fine.
Canadians appear to be even more stupid than American Democrats.
this really needs to be studied, but I tend to agree.
"The easiest way for Alberta oil to reach the Pacific markets (and even California) would be a pipeline directly west, administered by the United States Marine Corps."
Finish your thought.
An excellent summary of the situation. As an aside, I'm surprised there is no mention of the absolute knee slapper of Mr. Obama decrying the "politicization of the DOJ."
If I were the head of the FBI, I would want to know exactly who in the FBI was talking with Comey, and what was being said, likewise with Brennen / CIA. Benedict Arnold is alive and well. This isn’t a typical ex-coworker situation - this is collusion.
I think you can pretty much bet the FBI know who both of them and everybody else they suspect are talking to, with and about. Funny how we make that assumption without thinking twice. A forked-tongue enemy is only revealed when they get cocky and let slip the secret part out loud - which the DEMs seem to do obsessively. As we've seen throughout history (which we will try NOT to repeat~!), hatred is a losing paradigm.
At one time, I supported a site in an FBI building, and all the G/S and higher that rated a teevee always had CNN on.
Very telling as to which way the FBI as an agency leans.
Who doesn’t maintain relationships with those you used to work with? As long as they aren’t sharing classified info…there’s nothing against the law or morally wrong with this.
Do you think that perhaps they talked about how many times Trump’s name showed up in the Epstein files?
That's absurd. . . nobody at the agency should be taking his calls. Not while he is subject to a criminal federal indictment.
Not only absurd, but direct contact with a known felon is grounds for losing one's security clearance.
Boy, you guys are really hung up on Trump's name in the Epstein files. But no one else.
TDS is a terrible condition rendering one incapable of seeing anything else.
"...that Covid was a trip laid on the nation by its own Deep State (mainly the CIA), in concert with the rogue Democratic Party, for the express purpose of queering the 2020 election."
Let me fix that for ya:
"...that covid was a trip laid on NATIONS..."
Plural.
Several.
WW.
Deep States in every one of them.
"Liberal parties" in every one of them.
Seems more like an international cabal issue to yes, apply serious fuckery to the 2020 election, because [they] could NOT have the reckoning ball, aka Trump administration, coming into Power, however, the insidious destination of this world wide 'event' had far more sinister schemes afoot than the stolen election alone.
Just thought I'd clarify that with the loud HONK HONK of the mighty cobra chicken!
Covid certainly was a political maneuver, not a serious disease. It was nothing but a nasty strain of the Flu. I knew it was a fraud at the very beginning for the following reasons:
1. The PCR test was proven an inaccurate and unreliable test.
2. The virus magically behaved itself at Walmart, Home Depot and Amazon warehouses but it was naughty and infected people at churches, gyms and restaurants.
3. Cloth masks unable to filter water vapor in one's breath was expected to filter air laden in miniscule tinier than air viruses?
4. Elites not abiding the virus related mandates (see Pelosi and Gavin Newsom).
5. The push to use an untested, unproven vaccine that, for some reason, was exempt from the "side effects" disclaimers you hear on all the big pharma medical ads permeating streaming television services these days.
6. The practical disappearance of the annual flu virus.
I will admit that during the first few weeks of the covid fraud I was a little worried but once the "6 foot separation" mandate came out from all the health "experts" I was done with all of it.
The media is currently trying to hump up the Hantavirus and make it the next big pandemic. Not going to happen. Only one strain of Hantavirus can pass from human to human and that isn't an easy transmission. You literally need to be swapping spit with an infected and symptomatic person to do that.
I won't be duped again.
"Peak Oil", and all the numbers that don't pencil out, is coming back home to roost with a vengeance. The game of musical chairs is now getting serious, and somebody (or everyone) has to take a significant cut to their standard of living.
We may have the politicians aligning this way or that, but the mad scramble for lifeboats and "every man for himself" doesn't look too far off. We're about to have our priorities reassigned regardless of our plans.
If by "lifeboats" you mean different and completely realistic new sources of energy, your previous administration was funding wind and solar and your current one has cut that off. The self-own, it burns!
How is that working out for Europe?
Europe is having problems precisely in proportion to how much it's following the Trump agenda.
The USA's problem is that it's completely captured by the entrenched oil interests who won't stand for any competition even as their business model careens head-on into its unavoidable endpoint.
Europe's problem is that it either can't or won't separate from the US and pursue an independent path. They could be buying cheap gas from Russia to keep the lights on while they go full-bore on building wind, solar and nuclear. (Germany in particular made the ill-advised decision to close all their nuclear capacity, which they're going to have to reverse.) Instead they suck up to Big Daddy, buying Texas LNG for eight times as much. Don't expect me to defend foolishness.
Northrup Frye Cook — better get back to your flat-top and flip some flapjacks. . . you know jack-shit about global politics.
Methinks Mr. Fry Cook is a bot... nobody can be that stupid.
You'd be surprised.
I'll pit my knowledge against yours anytime, anywhere, Mister Social Critic.
I think Jim's been at it longer than you have, buddy.
Nobody cares about you FAGGOT. Get lost shit eating nigger bitch!
Germany closed their nuclear facilities as part of their "Green Agenda". Their legally binding target is for net carbon neutrality by 2045. Germany's energy problems are the result of going all in on "sustainable" energy. Germany is the model for the new green energy agenda.
Are you admitting that they're having energy problems? If so, you're admitting that the "green" energy agenda sucks.
Is this another dimension comment? You'd have to be blind to not see what is going on in Europe. With your frame of mind, we should go back to the caves maybe?
"What's going on in Europe" -- referring to what, exactly? Not a useful comment if you can't be specific.
I'll take a guess, though, that you're promoting the white-replacement horseshit. If that's the case, allow me to opine that white replacement is horseshit. Fresh and fragrant horseshit, right from the south end of a northbound mare.
The "lifeboats" reference is just a metaphor of the scramble that's now on for maintaining and/or expanding (thank you AI) energy supplies. Think deck on the Titanic when the groaning of the hull and bow down attitude became obvious to the crew and passengers. Basic physics and a couple of napkins can help demonstrate that currently deployed "green" energy sources like wind and solar are woefully inadequate to keep things rolling along. But it won't be long before even oil and gas costs and supplies are limiting factors for "modern" standards of living.
No administration can address predicaments like problems and expect to solve anything.
This is self-defeating loser thinking. When your energy supply is in jeopardy, the thing to do is to (A) secure that supply, (B) secure a separate supply, and/or (C) both.
At this very minute, we're witnessing Donald Trump in the midst of spectacularly doing the *opposite* of plan A by an ill-advised war on Iran that he has very clearly lost and cannot possibly recover the status quo ante. The USA is *maybe* 350 million people on a planet of 8 billion, and thanks to Trump all 8 billion of us have now received a kick in the pants to get serious about plan B instead.
Given how Trump has actually cancelled plan-A programs instituted by his predecessor in office and gone all-in for the fossil fuel industry, whose end is rapidly approaching, what he is actually doing isn't any of plans A, B or C. He's enacting plan D: do nothing while you continue to collect your winnings, and "plan" (if that's the word) to be out of office or dead by the time the USA hits the wall, and gets left behind by the world and by history.
Stupidity, lies, and hubris have a way of getting sorted out, gravitationally, like idiot rogues flinging themselves from an airplane -- without parachutes.
Splat goes the weasel.
So, the left is responsible for the deaths of tens of millions around the world in order to keep Trump out of the White House.
Graham Platner and his beloved artist/hero would be so proud.
Anyone else notice that one side of James Comey’s entire face is droopy. Bell’s Palsy? I’d be shocked if he took the jab, but maybe he did. Good. I hope he shambles quickly to a slow, painful death.
It must be another day ending in Y, because today's post is yet another tissue of wrongheadedness and delusion. There's some fun to be had picking it apart, but the RVO part of DARVO (Deny, Accuse, Reverse Victim and Offender) has to come first.
Kunstler: "There’s Canada, of course, and its tar sands, but the Great White North these days leans rather hostilely towards its neighbor to the south (us)." Yes, that tends to happen when your chief executive brings two centuries of peace and mutual respect to a crashing halt by declaring you the 51st state and referring to your prime minister as "governor". The USA has bombed countries flat for showing not even a tenth as much disrespect.
Then there's Kunstler's complete failure to understand the moment, caused by his boomer-brained attachment to the dying fossil fuel narrative. The "scramble for what's left" is yesterday's news and only the backward-looking are much bothered with it. Forward-looking countries, like China, are building solar and wind infrastructure that will ensure they still have energy to work with. The USA, meanwhile, is completely captive to an industry that is petering out because they lack both the political will and the basic common sense to prepare for a future that might actually work. At this point in history, to make fossil fuels the end-all and be-all of your policy outlook even as you admit that its failure is inevitable is to willingly hang a millstone around your neck as you wade into the deep water. It's a fate I hope Canada can still avoid.
Northrup Frye Cook — You're seriously misinformed.
This is a worthless comment unless and until you explain how.
Hate to pop your bubble, pal, but in the not too distant future the sun is going to lose a third of its power. And those solar panels with which everyone loves to cover productive farmland will be smashed by the 100-lb hailstones that will come.
That might happen, but I doubt that is going to happen in our lifetimes. The sun still has millions of years of fuel left to burn. At least that is what I have read.
That's truly alarming news, Kathy. Truly. Which astrophysicist warned you that the sun's output is going to drop by a third? Is habitable zone in solar orbit going to move away from the Earth, or is the Earth going to move farther from the sun? Or are we talking about a nuclear winter scenario? I love science, please share with me how you know this is going to happen and what's going to cause it.
The Bible warned me, Northrup. No amount of wind and solar will stop it. I agree with you that oil is running out. After all, it's made of the bodies of millions of people and animals that died in the flood. So there is a finite supply. But the present earth has come to the end of its shelf life.
"After all, it's made of the bodies of millions of people and animals that died in the flood."
Sorry, but I laughed out loud at this comment.
Oil isn't made from a bunch of rotten, decomposing bodies. Sorry. Not buying that one.
There are theories out there that the Earth produces the stuff. Deep down in the mantle where the pressure and heat are sufficient to cause chemical reactions resulting in raw petroleum. Don't know if they are true or not but I don't buy the claim that all oil deposits were once mass graves of people and dinosaurs.
How do you explain oil deposits miles under the deep ocean floors?
So you say these words, and what I hear is: "It's easier for me to imagine the end of the world than the end of fossil fuels." This has been my problem with the peak-oil narrative all along, even as I've nodded in vigorous agreement where that narrative was accurate.
If you want to shrug your shoulders and embrace failure, feel free. I can think of 8 billion people who might want a wee bit more out of that for their future, and their children's.
There's some vegetation in there, too.
If you like, I can get more graphic.
Ya just couldn’t help yourself. Ya had to name call with “ boomer brained”. Ruined your whole comment.
Then allow me to eliminate confusion and restate it: "Boomer-brained". Backward-looking. Out of step with the times. Everything is changing, except Kunstler's expectations. His analysis is terrible because he can't change his mind or change the subject, nevermind the facts.
"The Long Emergency" (2005) by James Howard Kunstler.
Read it. Paid for it. Got the T-shirt. Your point?
In 2005 it was a forward-thinking book because the whole concept of "peak oil" hadn't been popularized yet.
Yes, and the one thing I kept thinking the whole time is, "Okay, what about other energy sources then?" The book was at best half-useful. The other half was simply an exercise in solipsistic doomerism: the end of petroleum is the end of the world, full stop. That was simply and always just a symptom of Kunstler's lack of imagination...
... That, and his nihilistic hatred of modernity. Kunstler hates happy motoring and he hates consumerism. Well and good, lots of people hate both. But what's more, he hates the very kind of society that makes those things possible, and he's increasingly made no bones about the fact that his "world made by hand" is simply an expression of his desire to roll back history to a simpler time. A time when there were no happy motorists, when men were in charge, when there was no clamour of politics, and everything was settled in a way that warms his particular heart in his particular way.
That's the seed that fascism always grows from, and Kunstler is a fascist if I ever heard of one. Yes, I mean it. No, I'm not simply using the word as a club. The charge has substance and I make it in good faith and a full heart.
You sound pissed off and petulant in your posts. If you don't like the comments posted or the editorial written, maybe you should go to a site with which you agree.
I can do both, as can you. If you want a site where you never, ever have to hear from someone who disagrees with you, there's always Fox News. Muting or blocking me is also an option. I won't be offended.
No mention of nuclear, which should have been (and still could be) the energy for fixed (and battery viable) applications. Oil becomes too valuable to be a fuel long before it runs out.
If everyone goes nuclear, then there's no more leverage for nations to use against each other. And that's no fun. So no one will go nuclear.
This is as close as you've come lately to the guy I've read for the past 25 years. You still seem woozy from all MAGA flag-waving, but it at least appears as though the insightful lands of The Long Emergency and the World Made by Hand are returning to the map with this post.
In the long game, the FBI and CIA are STILL staffed with tens of thousands of the SAME PEOPLE being exposed as seditious. All of the expose' currently happening AFTER the statute of limitations runs out just screams political theatre and promises of accountability ..... someday.
From China’s perspective, the US is on a similar circling-the-drain trajectory as Europe. China can live without US soybeans, but not without the flow of oil which Iran will likely continue to control.
Even setting oil aside, China has invested a great deal in constructing the beginnings of a North-South commercial corridor connected with Iran, including rail lines which the US has been assiduously destroying in its bombing missions over Iran.
China has always played the long game, and humoring Mr. Trump into believing we that we may be getting on the same team makes sense. Actually doing so makes little sense for the future of China, some form of BRICS alliance, and the Global South, where the future actually lies.
As Trump Meets Xi, Iran Lets Chinese Ships Through Strait of Hormuz
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05/14/us/trump-news#iran-strait-hormuz-china-ships
"Iran has allowed some Chinese vessels to pass through the Strait of Hormuz following diplomatic overtures from China’s government, semiofficial Iranian news agencies reported on Thursday. ...
"The Trump administration has been pressing China to use its leverage with Iran to help reopen the strait, which is a main shipping route for oil from the Persian Gulf.
"Fars and Tasnim, two semiofficial Iranian news agencies, said Iran had approved the passage of some Chinese vessels under rules set by Tehran for managing traffic in the waterway.
"Fars reported that the crossings had begun on Wednesday night, following a diplomatic outreach by China’s foreign minister and its ambassador to Iran. It said the move was rooted in the two countries’ strategic partnership."
Trump's big plan was to try to jawbone the Chinese into putting pressure on Iran. Instead, Iran and China worked things out between themselves. The Chinese have clean sailing ahead after Trump's disastrous blunder that has queered things for most every country on earth, and most every country on earth understands that.
Northrup— You have no idea how this will work out. I'd advise you to wait forty-eight hours before opening your cloacal vent to opine.
"I'd advise you to wait forty-eight hours before opening your cloacal vent to opine."
Excellent! Advice we should all accept.
That sounds like a threat. You really, really just can't take being disagreed with, can you? What a delicate doily.
Well, neither can you.
Venezuela can produce 3-4 million barrels a day within a decade. Ousting Maduro was a BFD as the vegetable used to say.
Has anyone seen anything on claims the ocean floor between South America and Africa is one enormous oil field? It might take a moon shot level of tech and innovation to operate such a project but "where there's a will..."
And a preamble to another deep horizon event.
Netflix will make the sequel and Elliot Page will take Mark Wahlberg's part.
Lean on Iran to stop screwing around and come to terms with the US — give up the enriched uranium and stop laying jihad on everybody near and far.
Number of Iranians killed by Americans since 1980:4000
Number of Americans killed by Iranians since 1980:1000
So who are the Jihadists here?
Iran should only give up their enriched uranium when Israel gives up their nuclear bombs.
A human laboring under the very illusion he decries. The Reality of Human Arrogance.
One of the reasons Iran carefully calibrates the attacks of its multiple proxies surrounding Israel is because of Israel’s arsenal.
But arrogant fools can’t reason their way out of the paper bag they’ve enclosed their heads in blocking their senses and chocking off oxygen.