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Kunstler: Rock The Vote
It warmed my heart to read in The Wall Street Journal that Hillary Clinton is preparing to re-enter the Washington DC swamp from her deluxe exile in the woods of Chappaqua, New York, and make another run for the White House — though it’s hard to calculate how many porters in sandals and loincloths will be required to lug all her baggage around the campaign trail. Will hubbie hit the hustings with her? That would be rich. I can just imagine the pussy-hatted legions shrieking #MeToo at every stop. Surely there is no better way to put the Democratic Party out of its misery.
The post-election melodramas in Georgia and Florida grind on, despite the various rules and laws about deadlines for certifying ballots and accounting for their origin. What is a ballot after all but a mere scrap of paper, easily reproducible, and interchangeable. Sometimes, they make strange journeys out of election headquarters in trucks and SUVs, seeking fun and excitement, and they have been known to mysteriously turn up by the hundredweight in broom closets where they retreat to caucus. Only one thing is certain: the ballot fiasco is a billable hours bonanza for DC lawyers arriving on the scene to sort things out — which they may not manage anyway.
If the vote count somehow remains in favor of the provisional winners — Republicans Rick Scott, Ron DeSantis (Fla), and Brian Kemp (Ga) — you can be sure we’ll be in a frenzy of sore loserdom that will make the Medieval ergot outbreaks of yore look like episodes of Peewee’s Playhouse. If the provisional votes get overturned, the attorneys billable hours will quickly exceed the national debt, and we’ll find ourselves in a new era where the free citizens of this republic can‘t be trusted to the simple task of counting ballots, or even holding elections in the first place.
This epic confusion is of a piece with a prediction I made about what happens to government in The Long Emergency: it becomes impotent and ineffectual, and can no longer be depended on to carry out the simplest tasks. The process goes from the top down. At each step, the public loses faith that government can accomplish anything. The Trust Horizon shrinks away from distant authorities… the DC Swamp, the state capitals, and soon the people don’t believe anything or anyone they can’t reach by throwing a rock.
And so we enter a new stage of collapse. It will be made very much more emphatically worse as the money issues underlying this American malaise unravel in the months ahead. The reason that nothing will be done is that nothing can be done about the country’s intractable technical bankruptcy. The wealth we assumed was there is a fiction and will be expressed in plunging asset values, especially stocks and real estate. And any attempt to “fix” that by the Federal Reserve and its TBTF handmaidens moving to stop losses will only redirect the destruction to the currency itself. When citizens trust neither government nor their money, really bad things happen.
This polity is too far gone in lying to itself for official corrections to avail. Sometimes the only corrective is sheer failure. At least it presents the option of starting over. Of course, Mr. Trump made the fatal mistake of claiming ownership of a “miracle” economy that is about to get stranded on the beach like a dying grunion. His inclination, I’m sure, will be to pretend loudly that nothing is wrong — even as the new model pickup trucks gather dust unsold on the car lots, and the “for sale” signs multiply on lawns everywhere, and the pink slips land at the cubicle work-stations, and the skeleton crews of waiters stand around the empty Olive Gardens and Chipoltles playing liar’s poker with their depreciating dollars.
Meanwhile, the new Democratic majority congress prepares to ramp up its longed-for multi-committee inquisition against Trump and Trumpism, and the Republican Senate will counter-punch with binders of criminal referrals against the superstars of the Resistance. C-Span will be livelier and more colorful than the WWE Wrestlemania round-robin, midget division.
121 Comments on "Kunstler: Rock The Vote"
I AM THE MOB on Thu, 15th Nov 2018 8:43 am
Older men declare war..But its the youth that must fight and die..
-Hoover
Davy on Thu, 15th Nov 2018 8:50 am
“German NWO outlet der Spiegel is pushing Michelle Obama as 2020 Dems candidate;”
LOL, what a joke
Davy on Thu, 15th Nov 2018 8:52 am
“Older men declare war..But its the youth that must fight and die..”
Older men realize how horrible war is and younger men see it romantically. Kind of like you MOB and your collapse fantasy of killing whities and breeding their daughters
Davy on Thu, 15th Nov 2018 8:56 am
OH, and the other EXIT:
“Italian Yields Spike After Salvini Advisor Warns Italy Will Exit Eurozone If League Wins Majority”
https://tinyurl.com/y95r9rrj
“As if there wasn’t enough non-stop chaos out of the UK as the fate of Brexit and Theresa May is being decided on twitter, between flashing red Bloomberg headlines, and media speculation and rumors, moments ago Italy decided to remind everyone just how unstable its own political situation is, when Claudio Borghi, chief economic advisor to Italy’s de facto leader Salvini, said that the EU has used “made-up numbers” in judging Italy’s budget (the EU has effectively accused Italy of doing the same), and then asked if the EU would have the “courage” to sanction Italy. As a reminder, the last time a populist European played chicken with the EU, the ECB promptly caused Greek banks to be shuttered indefinitely and Varoufakis’ political career was promptly over. Maybe this time it will be different. But what really spooked markets, and caught traders’ attention, was the following headline from Reuters: BORGHI, CHIEF ECONOMIC ADVISOR TO SALVINI: IF THE LEAGUE GETS A MAJORITY IN THE NEXT ELECTIONS ITALY WILL EXIT THE EUROZONE”
Cloggie on Thu, 15th Nov 2018 11:29 am
The end is in sight for May:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6392515/Furious-Tory-MPs-vow-call-no-confidence-vote-Brexit-plan.html
The EU would be insane if they would negotiate from scratch again, just dictate the terms.
Default WTO + 39B + blockade if they don’t pay (they won’t, which is an excellent opportunity to loot UK assets like BA, Shell HQ, banks, traffic hubs, etc. (Versailles 2.0))
Additionally, Xerox Canada and Norway deals and Remain plus no rebates and euro obligatory.
No negotiations. Pick and choose.
Davy on Thu, 15th Nov 2018 11:36 am
aren’t you a prick! LOL, let that dripping hatred out why don’t you.
Cloggie on Thu, 15th Nov 2018 12:22 pm
Scotland smelling its opportunity to break with London… in order to Remain:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/nov/15/sturgeon-brexit-chaos-makes-independence-case-stronger-every-day
Cloggie on Thu, 15th Nov 2018 12:30 pm
“let that dripping hatred out why don’t you.”
How can you say that? I LOVE Europe and I smell the chance of a rebirth.
I AM THE MOB on Thu, 15th Nov 2018 1:27 pm
Clogg
There is no rebirth..Europes compound GDP growth has been contracting for forty years..And you are the worlds seconds largest oil importer, with a global oil shortage coming soon..
You are dead region walking..
I AM THE MOB on Thu, 15th Nov 2018 1:28 pm
Davy
Tell your wife I was asking about her..And bring me a pair of her panties while you are at it..
Davy on Thu, 15th Nov 2018 2:07 pm
MOB, she prefers men not boys. LOL
GetAVasectomyAndLetTheHumanSpecieDie on Thu, 15th Nov 2018 2:50 pm
The White Man is not longer the king of the mountain. I will repeat because some Whites don’t get it. White are not in charge of Western nation. Whites are now the slave of the majority: mulatto people. Whites people are only good as money slave and nothing else.
THis PD in STEM talk about it. He is a Whites talented that has give up of Western nation like I did. I am now waiting for mulatto to take over the leadership of Western nations and make them better. Come mulatto you can do it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bjh6ygLuKvg
Эй, братья, пожалуйста, ударьте антиамериканскую собаку, которую я сделал из гранитного форума on Thu, 15th Nov 2018 2:55 pm
gettard, whites used to be on tv constantly 24/x7 on all the channels. now they’re maybe 15% of the time. i agree this means they’re no longer king of teh mountain but i’m a tard and that’s my conclusion. you’re the lion of white supremacy, surely you must conclude the “essense” of the white men is what makes him great. in that regard, no TV programming could change “muh bodily fluid” of whites.
Cloggie on Fri, 16th Nov 2018 12:21 am
“We can rescue Europe, it seems to me, only if we can recover the project that Charles de Gaulle wished to place at its heart, and which was effectively scotched by Jean Monnet – the project of a Europe of Nations.”
Jean Monnet was an anti-German US c*ck-sucker, where de Gaulle disliked Anglos and was oriented towards Germany and Russia.
One of my most favorite historians, David Irving, once revealed that Roosevelt and Churchill were on the verge of ordering de Gaulle’s murdering, nota bene during the war. There is absolutely a good reason why de Gaulle was lacking on the famous Yalta photos, he was correctly seen as the enemy by the Alllies.
De Gaulle knew exactly what was going on and what game the Anglos and Soviets were playing, namely conspiring together against Europe and that Germany was largely innocent for the war to happen.
De Gaulle needed the Anglos to get his country back, but already during the war he was dreaming of a future anti-Anglo alliance France-Germany-Russia (after communism of course):
Moi je dis qu’il faut faire l’Europe avec pour base un accord entre Français et Allemands. (…) Une fois l’Europe faite sur ces bases (…), alors, on pourra se tourner vers la Russie. Alors, on pourra essayer, une bonne fois pour toutes, de faire l’Europe tout entière avec la Russie aussi, dut-elle changer son régime. Voilà le programme des vrais Européens. Voilà le mien”.
Charles de Gaulle (1949)
https://www.paris-berlin-moscou.org/nouvelle-actualite-de-paris-berlin-moscou/
European cooperation came in waves: EGKS > EEC > EC > EU
The EU doesn’t need to be an endpoint of European development and could very well be replaced by a Euro-Siberian confederation of nations, rather than the “United States of Europe” superstate, the European left wants:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/07/martin-schulz-united-states-of-europe-germany-sdp
The strongest proponent of a European confederation is Vladimir Putin:
https://deepresource.wordpress.com/2014/09/19/putin-confirms-ambition-paris-berlin-moscow-alliance/
I wouldn’t mind if the EU were to be replaced with such a confederation and that Brussels would be abandoned and shifted Eastwards, for instance Prague as the capital of Euro-Siberia.
The rise of China as well to become the next #1 as well as the demise of white America, will make it necessary for Europeans to come together and contain an all-powerful China.
makati1 on Fri, 16th Nov 2018 1:01 am
Cloggie, I don’t see China being “contained” by anyone. How many countries have tried … and failed? All that I am aware of. Ditto for Russia. Being number one makes it uncontainable, at least in our lifetime.
Accommodation/diplomacy is the way to co-exist. America has forgotten those methods in its obsession to dominate and is one cause of its downfall.
“US Has Killed More Than 20 Million People in 37 “Victim Nations” Since World War II”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-has-killed-more-than-20-million-people-in-37-victim-nations-since-world-war-ii/5492051
I AM THE MOB on Fri, 16th Nov 2018 2:01 am
Mak
The Chinese “economic miracle” is built on a mountain of debt. As Chinese GDP grew over 12-fold in 20 years to $12.24 trillion at the end of 2017, credit in the Chinese financial system grew over 40-fold, taking the debt-to-GDP ratio from 100% to 400%, if one counts the shadow banking system. Shadow banking credit aggregates are omitted from official statistics, but they add at a minimum 100% to the total debt to GDP ratio for China (see this Brookings Institution paper).
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/chinas-coming-recession-has-pushed-oil-below-60-2018-11-13?link=sfmw_fb
China is headed for total bankruptcy..and they are the worlds largest oil importer with a global oil shortage headed their way..
Growing demand for oil will lead to shortage and high prices in 2020s
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2185046-growing-demand-for-oil-will-lead-to-shortage-and-high-prices-in-2020s/
HAHA! Too late Slant eyes!
Cloggie on Fri, 16th Nov 2018 2:10 am
Over the past 500 years China was too weak and no match for European and Japanese imperialism.
That is now going to change. They have adopted western success formulaes like capitalism, science and technology and can now beat us (individually) on sheer numbers and low wage industriousness.
Perhaps you need to refresh you concept of “containment”, a very American concept, successfully applied against the USSR:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Containment
It simple means “keeping in check”, not destruction. The EU and Russia together have the power to contain China, after the immanent Balkanization of the US.
I AM THE MOB on Fri, 16th Nov 2018 2:25 am
Clogg
The EU is headed for economic collapse soon..And they are the worlds second largest oil importer with a global shortage headed their way..And Russia has a GDP the size of Italy and they are peaking soon..
You are just a stupid old man who uses wish thinking..Just like stupid old mak as well..
makati1 on Fri, 16th Nov 2018 2:54 am
Cloggie, I don’t think Russia wants to “contain” China. It wants trade and China’s backing against the US. China is the future, not the EU or the US, and Russia knows it.
BTW: Note how MOB regresses to his immature 9 year old persona when he knows he cannot win. Age and experience mean nothing to snowflakes like him who plan on suicide when the going gets rough. He will be some huge black guy’s bitch as he will not even have the courage to pull the trigger as someone else here has recently said. lol
Davy on Fri, 16th Nov 2018 5:36 am
“Cloggie, I don’t think Russia wants to “contain” China. It wants trade and China’s backing against the US. China is the future, not the EU or the US, and Russia knows it.”
Russia is terrified of China who are you kidding. Russia’s population is declining with a vast territory with an Asia that has a huge population with desires and needs of affluence. It is only a matter of time before they look north. What do you think they are thinking billy mak? You are really bent on your Asiaphilia. Russia’s alliance with China is a matter of convenience and that is it.
Cloggie on Sat, 17th Nov 2018 3:59 am
Russia is terrified of China who are you kidding. Russia’s population is declining with a vast territory with an Asia that has a huge population with desires and needs of affluence. It is only a matter of time before they look north. What do you think they are thinking billy mak? You are really bent on your Asiaphilia. Russia’s alliance with China is a matter of convenience and that is it.
Exactly right.
Russia is just as afraid of China as white America is afraid of the rising tide of color in the US.
Consequence: both Russia and Heartland will fall into our European hands like ready-fried chickens.
[insert vile Natzi laughter here]
The Mother Civilization, well, being the Mother Civilization once again.
[Now where is my 19th century top hat?]