[AdamB]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Revi', 'I') really like his take on things. I think Peak Oil peaked in 2008, so maybe it's not as popular as it once was.

[AdamB]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '
')Is there any doubt that the Democratic Party will be blamed for the government shutdown brought on by the DACA showdown? They insisted on a DACA deal that would have enabled everybody-and-his-uncle in a DACA person’s family to migrate to this country, a formula known as chain migration. Did they really believe that would go over? Or is it just more identity politics posturing? I’m not the first observer to point out that it looks like the Democratic Party puts the interests of non-citizens above everybody else in the country. That’s what will be remembered about this gambit at the polls in November. It also looks like an engineered misdirection away from the more ominous fast-developing story about political corruption at the highest level of the Justice Department and its subsidiary, the FBI. Unlike the allegations in the slow-cooking Russian Collusion story .

[asg70]

Sounds like Kunster has gone full alt-right.

Whither peak-oil, Mr. Kunstler?

[AdamB]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', ' ')
For those of us who are not admirers of President Trump, it’s even more painful to see the Democratic opposition descend into the stupendous dishonesty of the Russian Collusion story. When the intelligentsia of the nation looses its ability to think — when it becomes a dis-intelligentsia — then there are no stewards of reality left. Trump is crazy enough, but the “resistance” is dragging the country into dangerous madness. It’s hard not to be impressed by the evidence in the public record that the FBI misbehaved pretty badly around the various election year events of 2016. And who, besides Rachel Maddow, Anderson Cooper, and Dean Baquet of The New York Times, can pretend to be impressed by the so far complete lack of evidence of Russian “meddling” to defeat Hillary Clinton? I must repeat: so far. This story has been

[asg70]

At what point do we just stop listening to this guy if all he has to talk about is petty party politics with a right-wing slant? Stick a fork in him--he's done.

[charmcitysking]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('asg70', 'A')t what point do we just stop listening to this guy if all he has to talk about is petty party politics with a right-wing slant? Stick a fork in him--he's done.

[asg70]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('charmcitysking', 't')hat doesn't invalidate his commentary on American civil and political society.

[AdamB]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '
')It is the super-duper quandary of the moment: choose between the oafish, charmless, and possibly not-so-stable-genius Leader-of-the-Free-World… and a security state that will do whatever it takes to get rid of him, for instance, engineering a nationwide hysteria over Russia. Has anyone else noticed how odd it is that the so-called “Resistance” has all along included the state security apparatus in its every sordid iteration — the CIA, the NSA, the FBI, and God knows how many others among the touted “seventeen security agencies” who supposedly ginned up the Russian Meddling story on behalf of the Democratic National Committee. Movements that affect to be revolutionary don’t usually turn to the secret police and their equivalents for aid and comfort. The Resistance pulled out all the stops last week in its shrieking denunciation of the Nunes Memo, and the various complaints had one

[MD]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AdamB', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '
')It is the super-duper quandary of the moment: choose between the oafish, charmless, and possibly not-so-stable-genius Leader-of-the-Free-World… and a security state that will do whatever it takes to get rid of him, for instance, engineering a nationwide hysteria over Russia. Has anyone else noticed how odd it is that the so-called “Resistance” has all along included the state security apparatus in its every sordid iteration — the CIA, the NSA, the FBI, and God knows how many others among the touted “seventeen security agencies” who supposedly ginned up the Russian Meddling story on behalf of the Democratic National Committee. Movements that affect to be revolutionary don’t usually turn to the secret police and their equivalents for aid and comfort. The Resistance pulled out all the stops last week in its shrieking denunciation of the Nunes Memo, and the various complaints had one

[asg70]

It's all petty politics and not even a single mention of the word 'oil', you know, that thing he used to warn us was gonna send us back to the proverbial "world made by hand".



It's a sign that peak-oil is very deep into snooze-bar territory. Of course, he won't actively acknowledge this.

[MD]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('asg70', 'I')t's all petty politics and not even a single mention of the word 'oil', you know, that thing he used to warn us was gonna send us back to the proverbial "world made by hand".

It's a sign that peak-oil is very deep into snooze-bar territory. Of course, he won't actively acknowledge this.

[AdamB]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '
')Remember that one from 1996? Funny, that was the American mainstream media bragging, after the fact, about our own meddling in another nation’s election. WASHINGTON — A team of American political strategists who helped [California] Gov. Pete Wilson with his abortive presidential bid earlier this year said this week that they served as Russian President Boris N. Yeltsin’s secret campaign weapon in his comeback win over a Communist challenge. —The Los Angeles Times, July 9, 1996 The beauty in Robert Mueller’s indictment of thirteen Russian Facebook trolls is that they’ll never face trial, so Mr. Mueller will never have to prove his case. In the new misrule of law made popular by the #Me Too movement, accusations suffice to convict the target of an investigation. Kind of sounds like going medieval to me, but that’s how we roll now in the Land of .

[Outcast_Searcher]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('AdamB', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '
')Remember that one from 1996? Funny, that was the American mainstream media bragging, after the fact, about our own meddling in another nation’s election. WASHINGTON — A team of American political strategists who helped [California] Gov. Pete Wilson with his abortive presidential bid earlier this year said this week that they served as Russian President Boris N. Yeltsin’s secret campaign weapon in his comeback win over a Communist challenge. —The Los Angeles Times, July 9, 1996 The beauty in Robert Mueller’s indictment of thirteen Russian Facebook trolls is that they’ll never face trial, so Mr. Mueller will never have to prove his case. In the new misrule of law made popular by the #Me Too movement, accusations suffice to convict the target of an investigation. Kind of sounds like going medieval to me, but that’s how we roll now in the Land of .

[Plantagenet]

Kunstler is right again.

We've seen months of aggressive investigation of Trump including illegal wiretaps by the FBI, DOJ and now we see Mueller and his team trying to trip up every R they can find and we wind up with nothing indicating collusion occurred between Trump and the Russians.

Meanwhile, the collusions of the Ds with the Russians is pretty clear---Hillary and Obama and the DNC paid big bucks to FusionGPS who paid big bucks to Chistopher Steele who went to Russia and brought back Russian disinformation to smear Trump, and then sent the phony report to the FBI while simultaneously leaking it to everyone in the MSM.

But somehow Mueller doesn't see collusion when the Ds collude with the Russians to disrupt the US election process. Its only collusion if Trump did it----which apparently he didn't.

The whole Mueller-FBI-DOJ investigation is nothing but a partisan witch trump hunt----and they can't catch the witch trump.

SHEESH!

[jedrider]

I can't get myself to read this week's Kunstler's column. He seems to be repeating himself a lot without adding anything new. Maybe, that's the road we're on, like a skipping vinyl record, and we will just lose focus in the process as in "What is that song of "Collapse and Fall of Empires" anyway?

I don't care if the Russians influenced the last election anyway. However, we do have laws of treason and if people in the current administration get exposed, then it couldn't happen to any more deserving bunch of guys.

[P.S. I mostly read his column for the responses he gets from his readers.]

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jedrider', 'w')e do have laws of treason and if people in the current administration get exposed, then it couldn't happen to any more deserving bunch of guys.

[Tanada]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jedrider', 'I') can't get myself to read this week's Kunstler's column. He seems to be repeating himself a lot without adding anything new. Maybe, that's the road we're on, like a skipping vinyl record, and we will just lose focus in the process as in "What is that song of "Collapse and Fall of Empires" anyway?

I don't care if the Russians influenced the last election anyway. However, we do have laws of treason and if people in the current administration get exposed, then it couldn't happen to any more deserving bunch of guys.

[P.S. I mostly read his column for the responses he gets from his readers.]

[ralfy]

More like a skipping record with erratic speed but ultimately slowing down.

[charmcitysking]

Kunstler's social commentary is on point but his continuing claims of not being a Trump supporter are quite superficial.

[AdamB]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '
')Perhaps because a weary public was underwhelmed by his indictment last week of thirteen ham sandwiches with Russian dressing, Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller has returned to an old baloney sandwich with American cheese named Paul Manafort, and slathered on some extra mayonnaise to lubricate his journey to federal prison. The additional charges specify tax evasion and money-laundering shenanigans around Manfort’s activities in Ukraine between 2006 and 2015, a period that included the USA’s active participation in the overthrow of Ukraine’s elected president, Victor Yanukovych, who had declared a desire to join the Russian Customs Union instead of being shanghaied into an expanded NATO. Scrupulous observers may note that all this took place well in advance of the 2016 US presidential election, when Manafort was candidate Donald Trump’s campaign manager for several months before being thrown overboard for reasons still publicly unknown — ..