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Kunstler: Out Out, Damned Email!
The mighty Shakespeare in his direst night sweats could not have conjured up the Clinton family in all their sharp angles and dark corners, but we can try to reconstruct the scene last week on Loretta Lynch’s plane out on the Phoenix airport tarmac. Former president Bill steps aboard:
Loretta: What the fuck are you doing here?
Bill: I just had to tell you what Charlotte did last week.
Loretta: Who the fuck is Charlotte?
Bill: Our grand-kid. She’s turning into a good little earner.
Loretta: We can’t meet like this. We’re about to depose your wife.
Bill: Charlotte gave a speech to the whole Citibank C-suite.
Loretta: I don’t give a fuck. Get off my plane right now!
Bill: Well, I don’t know if ‘speech’ is the right word. She gurgles nice.
Loretta: I guess you didn’t hear me.
Bill: She pulled in fifty grand for that. Of course it was a hundred percent remitted to the foundation. Well, bye now. (Exits plane).
I have a theory about the Clinton family dynamic. Bill does not want Hillary to win because he doesn’t want to live in the White House again. For sure he does not want to live with The Flying Reptile, but he especially doesn’t want to be on display in that fishbowl where folks pretty much can see what you’re up to 24/7. For one thing, “The Energizer” can’t discreetly come and go. But he certainly doesn’t want to concern himself as “First Husband” or “First Gentleman” (title TBD) with deciding which fabric to choose in replacing the East Room draperies. So Bill decided to fix things for sure with that innocent visit to the US Attorney General’s airplane to talk about grand-kids.
It seems to be working. If there was any question that Loretta Lynch could just sit on her hands about Hillary’s email investigation through the November election, it went up in a vapor last week. It also left FBI director on the hot seat because now he will have to either cough up a referral to Justice Department prosecutors, or he’ll have some ‘splainin to do in the heat of a presidential election campaign. If you thought Watergate was a ripe peach, this one is beginning to look like a stinking durian (Durio zibethinus).
Both The New York Times and the WashPo are spinning the Hillary email scandal as being about security protocols, which is to say they are deliberately putting too fine a point on the matter as a ruse to deflect from the deeper issue: namely, did Hillary as Secretary of State use her office to shovel money from sources in foreign lands into her family foundation? It sure looks that way if you match the contributions from foreign lands to the arms sale deals she approved as part of her official duties. In any case, whatever connection there might be between those arms deals and the foundation revenue, is there not under any circumstances some obvious conflict of interest (and legal liability) about a secretary of state doing personal business with foreign governments?
This matter is swelling like an abscess ready to burst just as the Hon (?) Debbie Wasserman Schultz whacks the gavel to open the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. Meanwhile, Bernie’s troops will be ready to rock and roll both inside and outside the convention, with perhaps some diversionary skirmishes by the Black Lives Matter cadres. Throw in another “Lone Wolf” massacre, say, at a cheese-steak stand and you can kiss the Democratic Party goodbye.
Note that this convergence of bad karma will take place against the background of deteriorating events on the banking scene. The European banks in particular are melting away to nothing while European Union officials wring their hands in prayer. You can bet it’s going to affect all the global banks, daisy-chained as they are in counterparty obligations. Somewhere in a dark subterranean chamber, the magma of financial derivatives is getting ready to blow.
Happy Independence Day everybody! Who needs space aliens when we’ve got Hillary and Trump?
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Thursday July 7 — The Book House, Stuyvesant Plaza, Albany, New York
Friday July 8 — Battenkill Books, Cambridge, New York
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Saturday July 16 — Northshire Books, Saratoga Springs, New York
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15 Comments on "Kunstler: Out Out, Damned Email!"
joe on Mon, 4th Jul 2016 10:29 am
Yeah, when the US and Turkey decided to give the old Saddamists a bunch of trucks and Libyas arsenal (and a black flagged make over), they couldnt leave anyone credible alive to tell the tale of how the US elites were not finished with Iraq got a second crack at the whip. Beware when Greeks come bearing gifts. So it was for ISIS. Zawahiri warned them, but they wanted to trying Caliphism a go. The rest they say is history. Allot of patriots died because Billary and the Neocons and whoever else crazy f88ks wanted to jump on the bandwagon decided the best way to help America was to blow up the middle east and split the Ukraine into pieces. Now their fabulous EU is at risk and TRUMP is knocking at the door. What a way to shit on the job that LINCOLN did!
penury on Mon, 4th Jul 2016 12:09 pm
Neither Trump nor Hillary can be singled out as the problem at this time. The majority of U.S. citizens supported the wars, and continue to support the wars. The lies told by both parties are exactly the same. The next President will not do anything to rock the boat. They are too aware of the cure for disregarding their masters wishes. RIP JFK.
Anonymous on Mon, 4th Jul 2016 12:38 pm
Isnt that that the truth pen. Being an anti-war (president), is not physically possible in the amerikan empire. Any ‘prez’ that genuinely attempted to rein in the war-machine would soon be safely dead, and a more suitable replacement found. Being uS ‘president’ has few qualifications. But the most important one is, is to simply do and say whatever the deep state tells you to. Obomber and the simple-minded Bush-the-even-Dumber are perfect examples of deep state obedient meat puppets.
Plantagenet on Mon, 4th Jul 2016 1:19 pm
Nice to see Kunstler blowing the whistle on the Clinton Crime family.
Cheers!
joe on Mon, 4th Jul 2016 3:22 pm
People didnt support the Iraq war. Millions marched against it. Everyone knew what would happen, Saddam went on Iraqi national tv and explained how the war would go, and guess what, it happened!
Ghaddafi said he was the only one holding back bandits and al qaeda, he was right! Libya no longer exists as a country, its a mesh of different islamist groups mixed with some western special forces and some oil deals. Its a disaster. Millions of immigrants pouring across the sea paying gangsters to get them into a Europe thats bending under the weight of the elites indifference to legitimate native concerns. People claim its racism but its not. Theres no jobs, no growth, the streets are filling up with useless people being paid social welfare to keep the peace. Its a joke.
Germany and France have to cough up an extra 20bln a year now. Think the EU will last? Whoes gonna pay the tax hike for that? VW, German workers, they are the only ones who can afford it.
penury on Mon, 4th Jul 2016 4:07 pm
Joe, which Irag war are you referencing? The last large million person march to protest war was Vietnam. We always hoped to get enough protesters to make a difference what we found was indifference. Under Bush 2, protests were held, very muted with the election of Obama, all protest ceased immediately, anti-war Legislators and others became instant “war hawks” because a “Nobel Peace Prize” winner was elected. 8 wars later you can see how that worked out. Please tell me if the million person protest was in the U.S. or Europe.
JuanP on Mon, 4th Jul 2016 10:26 pm
Obombo, the bomber must go! Anyone but Hillary! Yankees go home! Go Trump, the clown! The USA is a bad joke and getting worse every day.
theedrich on Tue, 5th Jul 2016 6:16 am
The majority loves to elect criminals. Detroit (Kirkpatrick) and Washington, D.C. (Berry) are only two of the most obvious examples. The masses know quite well that Clitory is corrupt and a fraud who will probably destroy the country financially and maybe even in war, but they hate White men with carefully camouflaged blind fury, as was proved by the last two elections, and that hatred overpowers any possible scruples they may have. In the shadows behind the Demonic Party are both sanguinary dictators of el Tercer Mundo and the stateless moguls who need homogenized zombies to solidify their control. Parasitism on falsehood-swallowing White hosts is the aim of both types. And the Clintons have promised to later accede to their donors’ demands for cash on the barrelhead now.
The minorities could not care less what civilizational collapse means. They think of it as revolutionary fun, as in Russia in 1917 or France in 1789 (or maybe Venezuela today). The genosuicidists among the Whites also revel in the same prospect, as evidenced by the words and actions of various university presidents. The intelligentsia is all aflutter with hopes of a new Red revolution, especially given the vast sums of money donated to the Clinton Foundation.
Leaders in this massive death march are the Ashkenazim. During the period roughly from 700 to 1700, the medieval Catholic Church forbade Christians from engaging in intellectually demanding money-lending, which was considered usury, but allowed the European Jews (the Ashkenazim) to engage in it. Given the living conditions of the Middle Ages, the stupid Jews died off, while the capable ones survived and propagated their own kind. This process raised the average Ashkenazi IQ about half a point per century, so that today it stands about 112-115. But the critical factor is the high end of the bell curve, above 140, where the doctors, lawyers, scientists, etc., flourish. There are about six times per thousand more Ashkenazim in this range than ordinary Whites. The critical biochemical here is glucosylceramide, which aids dendritogenesis, but in excessive amounts leads to Tay-Sachs and other life-terminating and -deforming maladies. (See Natural History of Ashkenazi Intelligence by Gregory Cochran, Jason Hardy and Henry Harpending, Department of Anthropology, University of Utah). Thus today we have Georg Sörös, the Bronfmans and other high-end creatures manipulating the Western world with their hatred. (And those who do not think the Jews have hatred and contempt for Whitey simply have had no contact with them, or are willfully blind.)
The presidentess-to-be is the marionettess of these oligarchs. She will fulfill their wishes to the letter. And the lemmings far below will have no idea what is about to happen to them.
penury on Tue, 5th Jul 2016 10:54 am
As predicted the Dems have found that Hillary was simply ignorant when she violated thirty laws (some of them written while she was SOS), and no successful hacking of her E mails occurred. i presume that is why Congress is discussing asking Russia for their copies of her e-mails. If this does not highlight the corruption in this country I suppose her receipt of donations from foreign govs is put down for “that is outside our remit” so it will be ignored.
ghung on Tue, 5th Jul 2016 11:04 am
FBI director doesn’t recommend charges against Hillary Clinton but calls her ‘extremely careless’
“(CNN)FBI Director James Comey said Tuesday that he would not recommend charges against Hillary Clinton for her use of a private email server while she was secretary of state — but he added Clinton and her aides were “extremely careless” handling classified information…..
…Comey said of the 30,000 emails that Clinton’s team turned over to the State Department, 110 emails in 52 email chains were determined to have contained classified information “at the time they were sent or received,” Comey said. Eight of those chains contained information considered “top secret,” the highest level of classification.”
As someone who held a top-secret clearance for a time, I can state that this would be a career-ending ‘mistake’ for anyone else in such a position. No excuses, no second chances; you’re out.
So, we have one presidential candidate who is a total flim-flam buffoon who can’t be trusted on any level, and another who clearly can’t be trusted with our national security, according to the FBI.
Pretty f#cking awful.
ghung on Tue, 5th Jul 2016 11:09 am
penury; “…and no successful hacking of her E mails occurred…”
That wasn’t determined. Indeed, according to the statement, the system in question was so poorly secured there would likely be no evidence that competent, “sophisticated” hackers had accessed these emails.
onlooker on Tue, 5th Jul 2016 11:46 am
Impunity reigns throughout the entire system
HARM on Tue, 5th Jul 2016 11:57 am
Kunstler’s satiric send-up of the Clinton-Lynch meeting wasn’t too bad, but I’m surprised he passed up on the obvious opportunity to land some jabs on Bill’s infamous womanizing. After all Loretta’s a younger woman…
JuanP on Tue, 5th Jul 2016 12:38 pm
I never doubted for a second that Hillary, the CUNT, would get away with this. The Clintons have been getting away with torture, rape, theft, illegal wars, and murder for decades. Anyone who expected different is living in la la land. I don’t think any of us here will be surprised by this.
I am afraid she will be the next US president, but I hope with all my heart that she will not. Hillary, the CUNT, is an extremely dangerous person, probably the most dangerous person living in the world right now. She is a narcissistic, sadistic CUNT.
roccman on Wed, 6th Jul 2016 4:12 pm
“The presidentess-to-be is the marionettess of these oligarchs. She will fulfill their wishes to the letter. And the lemmings far below will have no idea what is about to happen to them.” Yup
some have said the shadow is quite feminine in nature.