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Kunstler: On the Beach
Comes August now, the month of vacancy, idleness, the slap and hiss of waves on sand, furtive romance on the dunes, perhaps, sweet corn, country roads, and county fairs, and more furtive romance, perhaps, on a blanket in the high meadow under a blood moon — and respite from the hellish host of foolish ideas, dark trends, and bad faith driving life in this demolition derby of a nation.
If one word defines the preoccupying affairs of the USA these days it’s tiresome. The entire population seems to be enacting the old myth of Sisyphus, every, man, woman, child, swamp-creature, and non-binary child-of-God in the land, legal and undocumented, pushing that boulder uphill to the tippy top, only to have it roll back down to the bottom… repeat ad infinitum.
Take Mr. Robert Mueller, for example, the sphinx-like figure looming over the political landscape with his lawyer’s attaché case full of radioactive secrets. He has already done yeoman’s service in his mission by indicting two dozen Russian Facebook trolls and Internet hackers — who will never be extradited or set foot in a US courtroom, sparing taxpayers the expense of trying them (and testing the theory of “collusion” with the current POTUS). It’s a little hard to picture old horse-face popping a third beer at the clambake, let alone the stories he might tell around the fire (with necessary redactions). When he awakes hung over in the sand the next morning to the shrieking gulls, next to someone not-his-wife, will he be overwhelmed with regret for a year spent chasing gremlins from the Kremlin? The public appears to be good and goddamn sick of him. Even The New York Times has stopped squealing about Russia. Standing by for September histrionics….
Have we reached Peak Sexual Confusion in America? Maybe it’s time we stopped handing out brownie points to people who don’t agree with some of the fundamental conditions of being a mammal, such as the apportionment of X and Y chromosomes. Of course the big idea behind that is the crypto-Gnostic wish to transcend nature, human nature especially, and fly away to the liberating vales of some boundary-less utopian ether where nobody has to be anything in particular — or else in a constant state of transformational flux, like the computer-graphic imagery that saturates our movies. Life without boundaries, I think we’ll discover, is not the Great Idea it’s been cracked up to be. I suspect the groups behind this fad are finally fresh out of new astonishments.
Had enough reverse racism? I know I have. All this howling about the horror of the white patriarchy. It will be interesting to see how the world gets on when that force of wickedness is finally vanquished. No more annoying string quartets, tedious dental implants, boring brass bushings, or hopeless theories of surplus value. Thank God for that. The unburdened public can finally give its full attention to hair care and dieting. When women and people-of-color fill all the seats in congress we can look forward to the glorious day when the USA is run as well as Baltimore.
The buzzword harkening to Democratic Party big dawgs on the Hampton lawns and the briny bluffs of Martha’s Vineyard is Universal Basic Income, the suddenly amazing proposal to put the whole country on welfare. I’m all for it — as long as we can get the Martians to pay for it. Why not? A thousand bucks a month just for walking-around money? Wahoo! You could help pump the GDP a little more by taking that dough to the nearest casino and investing it in the excellent economy-building activity known as blackjack. With a little luck, you might increase your nut sufficiently to get that longed-for sex reassignment surgery, to correct the clerical error that the stork made when you were dropped down the chimney.
Well, these are, after all, only my own personal August fantasies. I await September with as much excitement as all y’all. But I’m not going anywhere. I’m lashing myself to the mast and awaiting heavy seas.
128 Comments on "Kunstler: On the Beach"
GregT on Thu, 2nd Aug 2018 2:34 pm
“BTW, it has been a week and a half since you gave us a proper comment.”
Us?
You know you have severe mental problems Davy, when you start referring to yourself in the plural form.
Please go and get some badly needed professional psychiatric help.
GregT on Thu, 2nd Aug 2018 3:49 pm
“Delusional Davy “Bony joe is your sock, Boney Juan and you had your sock discussing homosexual topics. Nothing wrong with that other than you then act as though you are monogamous with a wife of 30 years. Is boney now your secret lover or maybe your fantasy lover.”
Honestly Davy, can you not see how completely bizarre, dysfunctional, and convoluted your delusions have become?
You need help buddy, in a big way.
Davy on Thu, 2nd Aug 2018 5:31 pm
Look in the mirror idiot. Pretty much most of your contributions here is “completely bizarre, dysfunctional, and convoluted”. There are ways to solve this issue but group censorship is not one of them. It has not worked and it will not work and will only causes discomfort for other members. You gangbangers could give a shit though. Continue with your trolling and you will be disrespected, narcissistic weirdo.
GregT on Thu, 2nd Aug 2018 5:46 pm
“Continue with your trolling and you will be disrespected, narcissistic weirdo.”
You have been disrespectful of others here on a continual basis going on five years now Davy.
Other than your constant plugging up of this forum with your incessant unadulterated bullshit, I could give a crap what you think.
Get help, psycho boy.
Makati1 on Thu, 2nd Aug 2018 6:27 pm
Reading your comments, JuanP and GregT, I see that Davy and his sock puppets are more delusional than ever. A “postal” event is in his future, or a total nervous breakdown and mental hospitalization. I hope the latter so no one but himself is hurt. We shall see.
JuanP on Thu, 2nd Aug 2018 6:30 pm
Delusional Davy “You gangbangers could give a shit though. Continue with your trolling and you will be disrespected, narcissistic weirdo.”
The board’s “moderator” and “qualifier” provides us with some of his “balancing” opinions that help “neuter the radical extremist anti-Americans”
ROFLMFAO!
Makati1 on Thu, 2nd Aug 2018 8:54 pm
Breaking up…America’s 2nd Civil War.
“You also believe that the United States has between fifteen and thirty years before it breaks apart due non-white immigration and racial strife….
…More or less, although the actual trigger for the political breakup is going to be economic in nature, so the effects of mass immigration and the increased racial and religious strife are merely going to multiply the consequences of the inevitable economic breakdown and ensure the shattering of the single polity into what could be anything from five to several hundred pieces….
…the USA is not a nation, it is an empire held together by the threat of military force…
“Why can’t the mixed whites in America band together as white and form a new nation and a new identity?” you answered “Because they all have different traditions.”…
… I am far from the only one who expects the next American civil war to be worse than its predecessor….
…our divisions are so deep and fundamental that Americans cannot even agree on what marriage is or what a man or a woman is.
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2018/08/02/breakup/#more-180680
Slip slidin’…
Boney Joe on Thu, 2nd Aug 2018 11:11 pm
DavyDonaldTurd (DDT) is always right and everybody else wrong. Prima facie demonstrates the insanity of DDT’s arguments- pure looney tunes.
Cloggie on Thu, 2nd Aug 2018 11:38 pm
… I am far from the only one who expects the next American civil war to be worse than its predecessor….
1776: 2 million European colonialists (“Americans”)
1.5 million anti-British
0.5 million pro-British
Combatants:
France: 23 million
Britain: 11 million
Killed in action:
French: 13,894
Colonialists: 4,435-6,824
British: 1,240
Germans mercenaries: 1,200
According to today’s standards, ridiculously low numbers.
https://deepresource.wordpress.com/2014/11/25/the-second-american-revolution/
The “American Revolution” was essentially part of World War 0, that was fought out world-wide between Britain and France (“Seven Years War”)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Years%27_War
In 2018: 330 million Americans, divided 50/50 over “white right” and “racially mixed left”. Centers of gravity: right in the Heartland, left in both coastal areas. In 1776 the battle cry/propaganda line was: “no taxation without representation”. The real reason: a group of locals wanted to take over the tax farm from the British. Normally they would have lost, but they got decisive help from outside, the French (troops) and the Dutch (weapons/money), who resented that Britain had taken over most of North-America and was becoming too powerful within Europe and needed a hair-cut.
CW2 would be much more like WW1/WW2 were in Europe, with potentially hundreds of thousands if not millions killed. CW2 could be triggered if the hero of the white deplorables, Trump would be impeached or even murdered. Another trigger could be if after Trump the Democrats would push through a basic income for all, after the motto: “and we made the whites pay for it”. Yet another trigger could be a financial collapse. Yet another trigger could be developments in South-Africa, where an anti-white genocide is looming, which would discredit once and for all the US-led drive for multi-racialism, the American flavor of communism.
Again, help (weapons deliveries and eventually mercenaries) from populist-run continental Europe (Paris-Berlin-Moscow = 640 million) could make the difference in defeating Washington and help the break-up of the country realized.
Makati1 on Fri, 3rd Aug 2018 12:22 am
US Civil War 1:
US population = 21 million
Total deaths = 620,000 (~3% of the population)
Length of time = About 4 years
Civil War 2:
US population = About 326 million
Total deaths = At 3% of population, maybe 9 million
Length of conflict = Skirmishes already started but duration time unknown. The breakup of the Us is the most likely result.
Black vs White vs Latinos vs republicans vs democrats vs gays vs heteros vs gender unknowns vs rich vs poor vs snowflakes vs Boomers vs millennials vs generation X vs Protestants vs Catholics vs Jews vs Mormons vs Muslims vs Red vs Blue vs … and on and on. So many variables. So much hate/jealousy/greed. The power keg is about to blow. 2018? 2019? 2020? We shall see.
Cloggie on Fri, 3rd Aug 2018 12:35 am
You are right, you have the War of Independence/American Revolution and then there is the Civil War. You were referring to the Civil War.
In recent examples of (near) breakup like Yugoslavia (26m), Iraq (30m), Syria (20m), Ukraine (40m), numbers all top of my head, casualties are estimated to be resp. 200k, 1.5m, 500k, 30k.
Davy on Fri, 3rd Aug 2018 5:09 am
The US will could be the last to go down and you anti-Americans can’t stand it. There are so many competing interest groups, regions, and ethnicities in the US you are not going to see a civil war with two sides attacking each other. Europe is more likely to turn on itself. Asia is in overshoot to its carrying capacity and once the food runs low could very well turn on itself with county on country. It is more likely a global civil war and you extremist anti-American dismiss that. It is always the US. Look in the mirror extremist.
MASTERMIND on Fri, 3rd Aug 2018 6:53 am
Clogg
Europe is going to collapse and have a civil war much sooner than the US..They are the worlds second largest oil importer with a global shortage coming..the us only imports 10 percent of are oil and we have the Saudi’s and Iraq to make sure our supplies are refiled..You and Asia does not..
Lmfao!
Economic growth ie collapse by 2028
MASTERMIND on Fri, 3rd Aug 2018 6:55 am
Clogg
Europe Economic Growth (GDP)
1973 5.4 %
1989 3.3%
2001 2%
2016 1.6%
2028 0% = Economic Collapse
Source: Harvard
Political Instability and Economic Growth – (Alesina, 1996) Journal of Economic Growth
https://www.scribd.com/document/384373317/Political-Instability-and-Economic-Growth-Alesina-1996
Source: World Bank
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.KD.ZG?locati&locations=EU
Newfie on Fri, 3rd Aug 2018 9:00 am
“furtive romance” ? Was any of that same-sex ? (JHK is a homophobe)
The Newfie on Fri, 3rd Aug 2018 9:43 am
“the [US] only imports 10 percent of [our] oil.”
The US consumes 20 million barrels per day.
It produces 10 million barrels per day.
The shortfall is 10 million barrels per day.
That is the amount the USA imports.
MASTERMIND on Fri, 3rd Aug 2018 11:30 am
Newfie
The US imports around 10 million barrels a day but they refine it and turn around and export around 8 million of those 10 million barrels..to sell back..You have to look at our “Net oil imports”..
Cloggie on Fri, 3rd Aug 2018 12:46 pm
Clogmeister, sir,
Europe Economic Growth (GDP)
1973 5.4 %
1989 3.3%
2001 2%
2016 1.6%
2028 0% = Economic Collapse
Source: Harvard
Political Instability and Economic Growth – (Alesina, 1996) Journal of Economic Growth
https://www.scribd.com/document/384373317/Political-Instability-and-Economic-Growth-Alesina-1996
Source: World Bank
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.KD.ZG?locati&locations=EU
Liar.
Your link says nothing about 2028. And 2017 is 2.2% growth.
Worldbank singing the praise about Europe:
http://pubdocs.worldbank.org/en/465111512062598806/Global-Economic-Prospects-Jan-2018-Europe-and-Central-Asia-analysis.pdf
Growth in the Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region is estimated to have accelerated from 1.7 percent in 2016 to 3.8 percent in 2017, up from 2.5 percent expected in June 2017. The recovery was broad-based and supported by revitalized domestic demand and robust external demand. Growth is expected to moderate to 2.9
percent in 2018 and stabilize at 3 percent in 2019-20
These higher growth rates in the seventies can be perfectly explained from much hugher birthrates, see:
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bevolking_van_Nederland
See column “bevolkingsgroei” = population growth.
You do understand what a “baby boomer” is, now don’t you millimind?
Haha, the millimind sucker caught off-guard once again.
MASTERMIND on Fri, 3rd Aug 2018 1:28 pm
Clogg
Europe Economic Growth (GDP)
1973 5.4 %
1989 3.3%
2001 2%
2016 1.6%
2028 0% = Economic Collapse
Source: Harvard
Political Instability and Economic Growth – (Alesina, 1996) Journal of Economic Growth
https://www.scribd.com/document/384373317/Political-Instability-and-Economic-Growth-Alesina-1996
Source: World Bank
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.KD.ZG?locati&locations=EU
You are not reversing a forty year trend..and when the oil shortage hits Europe is history..It would be a miracle to make it to 2028..
https://imgur.com/a/pYxKa
Sorry you fat ugly slob no womans wants to love..
lmfAO!
MASTERMIND on Fri, 3rd Aug 2018 1:31 pm
Clogg
Your major industries have been off-shored thanks to global capitalism..And your major natural resources have all been mostly extracted ie North Sea, Netherlands Nat Gas reserves…Etc..your region is taking in more than enough migrants to keep the population levels in check..that is why they are doing it.
MASTERMIND on Fri, 3rd Aug 2018 2:18 pm
Clogg
Look at the fifth chart on my manifesto
https://imgur.com/a/pYxKa
you can easily see that Europe will have zero or negative growth within a decade..And low growth leads to collapse..
Cloggie on Fri, 3rd Aug 2018 2:49 pm
https://cleantechnica.com/2018/08/03/bnef-heralds-1-terawatt-of-wind-solar-generation-capacity-worldwide/
Cumulative installed solar and wind worldwide surpassed 1 TW last June.
Anonymouse1 on Fri, 3rd Aug 2018 2:54 pm
Should be more than enough juice to send you back to the parallel earth you came from, right cloggen-fraud?
Davy on Fri, 3rd Aug 2018 3:40 pm
Here is the last real comment from Asperger:
Anonymouse1 on Sat, 28th Jul 2018 2:02 pm.
Wow, how many days will he go before he contributes more than his usual troll grunts. Don’t worry, your cousin greygohr, will be along shortly to defend your extremist honor as always.
GregT on Fri, 3rd Aug 2018 4:36 pm
I am sure that Anonymouse1 cares as much about your little documentation project as anybody else does Davy.
MASTERMIND on Fri, 3rd Aug 2018 4:39 pm
Anonymouse1
If we could only turn cloggs hate into energy we could power the entire world..
Davy on Fri, 3rd Aug 2018 4:46 pm
I could give a shit what the gang thinks gregger. If you care about your perceived intelligence level then I think my project is working out fine. If you don’t then that proves my other point of the lack of intelligence from the gang.. Either way I win. Man up and be intelligent. You are nearly as bad as Asperger. Greggie, spend less time trolling and more time contributing and people will have a higher opinion of you.
GregT on Fri, 3rd Aug 2018 4:58 pm
“I could give a shit what the gang thinks gregger. ”
Other than in your delusional mind, there is no gang Davy.