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Kunstler: A Quandary
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 thing in common: a complete lack of interest in the facts of the matter, in particular the shenanigans in the upper ranks of the FBI. Give a listen, for instance, to last Thursday’s Slate’s Political Gabfest with David Plotz, John Dickerson, and Emily Bazelon, the three honey-badgers of Resistance Radio (like the fabled honey-badgers of the veldt, they don’t give a shit about any obstacles in pursuit of their quarry: Trump). They’ve even been able to one-up Nassim Taleb’s defined category of “intellectuals-yet-idiots” to intellectuals-yet-useful-idiots.
The New York Times, with its termite-mound of casuistry artists, managed to concoct a completely inside-out “story” alleging that the disclosure in the Nunes memo of official impropriety at the FBI was in itself an “obstruction of justice,” since making the FBI look bad might impede their ability to give Trump the much wished-for bum’s rush from the White House.
There was already enough dishonesty in our national life before the Left side of the political transect decided to ally itself with the worst instincts of the permanent Washington bureaucracy: the faction devoted to ass-covering. The misconduct at the FBI and DOJ around the 2016 election is really quite startling. How is it not disturbing that Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohr brokered the Steele Dossier between the Fusion GPS psy-ops company and the FBI, when Fusion GPS was employed by the Clinton campaign, and Ohr’s wife worked for Fusion GPS? How is it okay that this janky dossier was put over on a FISA court judge to get warrants to surveil US citizens in an election campaign? How was it okay for Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe’s wife to accept $700,000 from the Clinton family’s long-time bag-man, Terry McAuliffe, when she ran for a Virginia State Senate seat, a few months before McCabe assumed command of the Hillary email investigation? How was it not fishy that FBI Deputy Assistant Director of the Counterintelligence Division, Peter Strock, and his workplace girlfriend, FBI lawyer (for Andrew McCabe), Lisa Page appeared to plot against Trump in their many cell-phone text exchanges?
These allegations look really bad, and it should be no surprise that they’ve prompted a massive ass-covering campaign by the FBI and especially their allies at the official Resistance news outlets. And, of course, lastly and most perplexingly there is the unappetizing figure at the center of this circus, President Trump himself, the avatar of wished-for return to American greatness, who is looking more and more like Melville’s awful and enigmatic White Whale pursued by single-minded mad men — and, remember, despite all the bloody ire, abuse, and harrassment heaped upon him by the vengeful Ahab, Moby Dick ended up smashing the whaling ship Pequod, and swimming away to legend.
As I have suggested previously, this whole tiresome shootin’ match of counter-allegation and propaganda about Russian Meddling will probably be superseded by upsets in the financial markets. Last week’s market action was a downer for sure. The melodrama of imploding valuations and counterparty obligations has just begun. It’s going to continue through the year, and the nation will face some truly existential dilemmas that may actually require some attention.
Hope you all enjoyed the giant Zumba class led by Justin Timberlake in last night’s Superbowl halftime show. It made me nostalgic for Janet Jackson’s wardrobe malfunction of yesteryear.
77 Comments on "Kunstler: A Quandary"
Darrell Cloud on Mon, 5th Feb 2018 1:32 pm
If Trump cannot take this over the top he himself will be taken out by the very agencies that have him under attack. Collapse the economy and the Dems will arise from the dead and take over. Trump will be the first President in American history to be impeached and convicted.
When he is done, the Marxists will come for us.
Pete on Mon, 5th Feb 2018 1:45 pm
Kunstler is about as predictable (and boring) as broken clock. And Darrell, what Marxists are you talking about? The ones hiding under your bed?
Darrell Cloud on Mon, 5th Feb 2018 1:56 pm
No Pete, I am talking about the Marxists that have pushed the mime for the last one hundred years that human beings are a tabula rasa. They assert that with the right inputs from the omnipresent, omnipotent state, humanity can be perfected. I am talking about the Progressives that have dominated American politics since Woodrow Wilson. They gave us the war to end all wars, the Federal Reserve and the federal income tax. With these interventions they have given us never ending war, a currency that is borrowed into existence, and the exponential growth of government. Socialism is Marxism without the secular religion of communism.
Sissyfuss on Mon, 5th Feb 2018 2:50 pm
Be prepared for President Grifter to tell us that no, the stock market isn’t tanking. It’s just making room for the next wonderful beautiful sky rocketing rise. After all, everything he touches turns to gold plated feces.
MASTERMIND on Mon, 5th Feb 2018 3:13 pm
Darell
Who’s ready for spring?
https://imgur.com/a/xRcGl
deadly on Mon, 5th Feb 2018 3:26 pm
Minus 1175 today and the downside seems unstoppable.
A lot of foam and froth in those highflying numbers. The algos got the message to sell. The exit doors flew open. lol
At a loss of 4 percent per day, it will take less than 24 days for a crash to settle the dust, if that is what is happening.
Trump will be the last of our worries.
The trouble will just be beginning.
MASTERMIND on Mon, 5th Feb 2018 3:33 pm
Its Midnight on the Titanic!
Banks, Movies, Restaurants, Auto Sales, Farmers,Smart Phone Sales, Retail, all collapsing!
DerHundistlos on Mon, 5th Feb 2018 3:52 pm
Kunt’s predictions have proven to be less accurate than someone blindfolded throwing darts at a board.
He comes off like a spurned lover now that he’s persona non grata on college campuses. And he desperately needs a girlfriend.
dave thompson on Mon, 5th Feb 2018 4:05 pm
Darrell you are overlooking the corporate overlords that own and operate the entire world, it is call fascism.
onlooker on Mon, 5th Feb 2018 4:13 pm
In the end they’re is nothing really tangible about the State or Corporations. They are the constructs of feverish minds chained to an obsession with money and power and perpetuated by those same types of minds.
Boat on Mon, 5th Feb 2018 4:26 pm
Except for our exceptional growing list of US billionaires who have pledged at least 50% of their wealth on their death to causes helping humanity. Try a google.
Boat on Mon, 5th Feb 2018 4:30 pm
Lets not forget the growing list of US corporations going 100% percent renewable. In time this will cut into the 500 billion in health care costs caused by FF. Exceptional companies doing their part in site of the cheeto.
Cloggie on Mon, 5th Feb 2018 4:36 pm
This could explode before the US: South-Africa.
South-Africa is crumbling. The Boers of mostly Dutch descent have been killed by the hundreds. “Plaasmoorde” (place murders, that is farms that are being raided). Multi-ethnic societies function nowhere, not in Iraq, nor in Syria, Yugoslavia, USSR, Ruanda, Palestine, the list goes on.
https://www.geenstijl.nl/5140590/trailer-binnen-5-jaar-burgeroorlog-in-zuid-afrika/
This will be the fate of the West: descending in total chaos of interethnic violence.
MASTERMIND on Mon, 5th Feb 2018 4:45 pm
Boat
Charity creates a multitude of sins..
-Oscar Wilde
MASTERMIND on Mon, 5th Feb 2018 4:47 pm
Boat
Renewable s are a scam!
UC Davis Study: It Will Take 131 Years to Replace Oil with Alternatives (Malyshkina, 2010)
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es100730q
University of Chicago Study: predicts world economy unlikely to stop relying on fossil fuels (Covert, 2016)
https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.30.1.117
Solar and Wind produced less than one percent of total world energy in 2016 – IEA WEO 2017
https://www.iea.org/publications/freepublications/publication/KeyWorld2017.pdf
Fossil Fuel Share of Global Energy since 1990 – BP 2017
https://imgur.com/k7VecMq
Davy on Mon, 5th Feb 2018 4:49 pm
Kunstler is dead on with his synapsis. The lying left is a wounded animal now. This is the most corrupt I have ever seen this country. It is amazing the filth Obama presided over. Yet, all we hear is Trump noise. Trump may be a fool but the Democrates are disgusting.
Davy on Mon, 5th Feb 2018 4:54 pm
Neder, In the last two hundred years where has the worst violence been? Right, in your back yard. Maybe you are so vocal about your multiethnic apocalypse becuase you hiding from this fact. Europe could turn on itself very easily for the smallest of reasons once things start coming apart. You are lying to yourself.
joe on Mon, 5th Feb 2018 5:07 pm
Been sayin it for years guys, the last 10 years didn’t happen, we never got out of 2008, cause all they did was buy time with debt. You can’t do that. The system needs reform not tax breaks. Peak oil is still here. Impeaching trump won’t make a difference, if anything the Dems will only add to the coming chaos if they don’t stop their witch hunt. The Reps and Dems should immediately call a halt to this war and focus on how to solve the spiraling debt problem.
MASTERMIND on Mon, 5th Feb 2018 5:11 pm
I stopped reading Kunt when he started going off the rails about the “Deep State” and Hillary’s uranium one scandal…And his old town is never going to be rebuilt! Poor guy! I Wouldnt be surprised if he pulled a Ruppert he is the near term!
onlooker on Mon, 5th Feb 2018 5:25 pm
Boat, it wouldn’t be those same Billionaires who have their money parked in all those secret tax havens around the world. Miracles do happen though.
onlooker on Mon, 5th Feb 2018 5:33 pm
You can’t solve the Debt problem Joe. Because it is a product of our FF energy sources no longer giving us the same bang for the buck. It is also a prodcut of a deeply dysfunctional predatory financial system in whose participants and Managers are NOT interested in reforming but in perpetuating to continue robbing from us and the General productive Economy.
Mad Kat on Mon, 5th Feb 2018 5:40 pm
Joe, I doubt that there is a way to solve the debt problem other then a total crash that destroys the system. So be it. I’m waiting
Cloggie on Mon, 5th Feb 2018 5:41 pm
“Neder, In the last two hundred years where has the worst violence been? Right, in your back yard.”
Yes and you f* caused it as I have explained to you time and time again and you had nothing substantial to say against it:
https://documents1940.wordpress.com/2017/10/13/ww2-for-dummies/
Darrell Cloud on Mon, 5th Feb 2018 5:41 pm
Dave I am aware of the esoteric differences between fascism and Marxism. What we have is a rather interesting blend. There is no doubt that the banking cartel has the world by the throat. They have established a corporatocracy. The political class on the other hand has verbally embraced socialism with welfare, Medicare, Obama care, public pensions and social security. The social justice warriors have captured the department of education and cultural Marxism is taught in our schools. Every little kid is bombarded with the mantra that he can be anything he wants to be. No child left behind means the class never leaves the start line.
I once had a great government teacher who drew the lines of left and right as a circle. He said where the two lines butted up against the body politic there was little difference between fascism and communism. Both had their concentration camps and both had their purges. If you find yourself on your knees with a gun to the back of your head it makes little difference if the bullet going through your brain is a 9mm parabellum or a 7.62 nagant.
MASTERMIND on Mon, 5th Feb 2018 5:48 pm
Study 4: Limits to Growth was Right. Research Shows We’re Nearing Global Collapse (Turner, 2014)
Pg 14, The close alignment between the LTG BAU scenario and observed developments over the last four decades, as well as the correspondence in the underlying dynamics described above, portend of potential global collapse. Although the general commentary on the LTG describes collapse occurring sometime mid-century (and the LTG authors stressed not interpreting the time scale too precisely), the BAU scenario implies that a relatively rapid fall in economic conditions and the population could be imminent. Indeed, other aspects of oil supply constraints explored in the following, indicate that the ongoing economic downturn of the GFC may be representative of an imminent BAU style collapse.
http://sustainable.unimelb.edu.au/sites/default/files/docs/MSSI-ResearchPaper-4_Turner_2014.pdf
Existing oil reserves are scheduled to begin a catastrophic crash within 1 to 3 years. When it hits the economic and social damage will be catastrophic. The end of Western Civilization, from China to Europe, to the US, will not occur when oil runs out. The economic and social chaos will occur when supplies are merely reduced sufficiently….
https://imgur.com/a/6dEDt
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v481/n7382/full/481433a.html
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421509001281
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030142151300342X
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016236114010254
http://www.geo.cornell.edu/eas/energy/the_challenges/peak_oil.html
http://www.energybulletin.net/sites/default/files/Peak%20Oil_Study%20EN.pdf
http://www.scribd.com/document/367688629/HSBC-Peak-Oil-Report-2017
Davy on Mon, 5th Feb 2018 5:50 pm
“Yes and you f* caused it”
What a whining dog. Accept responsibility for your sins. You have proved nothing with your fake history revisions. All you have proven is the massive lie you live in.
DerHundistlos on Mon, 5th Feb 2018 5:55 pm
Davy, tell us something we don’t already know. It matters not the veracity of information just so long as it’s an attack on the Democrats. I remember you writing with the greatest of indignation outrage over PizzaGate and Seth Rich. Never mind both fake news stories were dreamed up by the Republicons. Oops, I forgot your proclamations that you’re as fair and balanced in your criticisms as Fox Noise.
“Don’t piss down my back and tell me it’s raining.”
Cloggie on Mon, 5th Feb 2018 6:01 pm
Kunstler is spot on. You don’t have to be a fan of Trump to see the machinations of the left. They can’t accept an election result and claim the moral high ground and organize the “resistance” against the non-certified intruder. Darrell has it right with his fear for “marxism”. After Trump the country will descend into chaos when the left-right antagonism will go in the overdrive, with strong racial undertones. The deep state elite has planned for what is coming for decades. They intentionally pushed for third world immigration to acquire a third world proletariate with which they hope to smash whitey and make him powerless for good. They openly admit it what they intend to do:
https://documents1940.wordpress.com/2017/10/13/ww2-for-dummies/
But they know they are playing with fire and the Trump presidency was absolutely not part of the desired script. Trump is doing a lot preparatory work in attacking the media, the attack dog of the deep state.
Cloggie on Mon, 5th Feb 2018 6:03 pm
Sorry wrong link:
https://documents1940.wordpress.com/2017/09/27/paul-krugman-white-americans-are-losing-their-country/
Davy on Mon, 5th Feb 2018 6:04 pm
Der hund, the protection you give to criminality is disgusting. What is going on is a constitutional crisis and you are in denial. Go ahead and get rid of Trump. I could care less but stop this denial of these horrible things the democrats have done.
Cloggie on Mon, 5th Feb 2018 6:09 pm
“What a whining dog. Accept responsibility for your sins. You have proved nothing with your fake history revisions.“
Ok, I gave you the true story. Why don’t you provide an alternative reading of events? Note that Davy will never make a single positive statement anout WW2… because he knows he will be teared in pieces. He is the typical drive-by shooter, launching smears and then run.COWARD. But the time that little guys like you can claim anything you like about history as long as it makes you look good, those times are long gone. The tables have been turned.
Davy on Mon, 5th Feb 2018 6:25 pm
Neder, your history revisions are not legitimate. If they were the world would be different. The world isn’t different except in your mind. I don’t buy MS history either but your version is part of a sick mind.
Cloggie on Mon, 5th Feb 2018 6:34 pm
“I don’t buy MS history either but your version is part of a sick mind.”
So what do you buy? Be a man and stick your neck out and paint a picture in a few sentences.
Here is my short version: since 1933 the (jewish dominated) Roosevelt government worked systemetically towards instigating war in Europe, based on an overwhelming oil-based economy of 29% global GDP. The aim was to colonize Europe in cooperation with that other jewish-run operation the USSR. In Britain they had the half-American traitor Churchill willing to do the bidding of international jewry to instigate a war in Europe.
That’s my story.
What is your story. Now don’t chicken out as usually but paint a picture. Of you go.
tic-toc-tic-toc
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/03/world/middleeast/israel-airstrikes-sinai-egypt.html
Cloggie on Mon, 5th Feb 2018 6:36 pm
You thought IS was defeated? Think again.
They moved to the Sinai where they are bombarded by Israel, apparently with Cairo consenting:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/03/world/middleeast/israel-airstrikes-sinai-egypt.html
Anonymouse1 on Mon, 5th Feb 2018 6:57 pm
Its synOpsis, dumbass. Synapsis, is something completely different. Won’t bother with an explanation, too many long words you wouldnt understand in any event. But, when your target audience consists of a retard, and….another retard, they wouldn’t know the difference either.
JH Wyoming on Mon, 5th Feb 2018 7:00 pm
More and more in recent years Kunstler has gravitated to making political comments vs. the peak oil type he use to. And how someone like JHK can have a blind spot when it comes to the election meddling the Ruskies did, is remarkably astounding. Maybe that’s the same reason he has to self publish now – they realized he was losing it.
Davy on Mon, 5th Feb 2018 7:11 pm
Mousie, thanks for the scrutiny it means you read everything I say. That was an Iphone issue I believe but good job spending so much time in my control.lol. You have yet to say anything intelligent like your cousin greggie. You are Irrelevant until you do.
Anonymouse1 on Mon, 5th Feb 2018 7:44 pm
Naw, its a dumbass issue. I don’t think the latest dumbass firmware update resolves the issue, so, you’re still pretty much SoL.
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dumbass.
TheNationalist on Mon, 5th Feb 2018 7:46 pm
To say that some wealthy don’t run child prostitution rings is a bit naive to say the least Der Hundistlos?
I’m not sure what you are saying?, do you deny there existence in cities like Washington or can you not believe that some politicians would be involved?
Not really a conspiracy theory is it.
Mad Kat on Mon, 5th Feb 2018 8:37 pm
“It’s just a function of what people choose to do when they’ve spent their life working, and then finally, once they have the means to, choosing a lifestyle they’d always dreamed of.
Lots of sunshine, temperate climate, crashing waves, white sandy beaches. We homo sapiens flock to it.”
https://capitalistexploits.at/2018/02/figuring-die-happily/
” Say NO more often. Most of everything out there is a waste of your time. Learn to check it fast. I shared some more personal thoughts on this a while ago.
Leverage the skills and talents of those who have what you haven’t. Rambo works for movies, not so much in real life.
Don’t beat dead horses. People rarely change and there are 7 billion of them out there. Don’t waste your time with those who’re not helping you.
And coupled with the last one, make sure you help those you can.
You’ve one life. Live it like you mean it. This means finding your passion. If you can make a living out of it great. If not (because let’s face it, it can be hard), make sure you dedicate enough time to it to ensure contentment.
Decimate, kill, and annihilate distractions: TV, video games, social media isht, conversations with morons. Treat them as your enemy. The time people spend on absolutely worthless crap is criminal.
Three really important ones: read, read, and read.
Take time to stop and just think. Every day. An absolute minimum of 30 min. An hour is preferable.”
Good advice.
Mad Kat on Mon, 5th Feb 2018 8:41 pm
Cloggie, I agree with your last few posts totally. Davy has no ammunition to fire back except immature putdowns and name calling. Hard to defend the Jew owned America and it’s drive to rule the world by killing it.
fmr-paultard on Mon, 5th Feb 2018 8:48 pm
i’m no longer a conspiratard and this is in contrast to my earlier years. i now learn that the muslim world is maximum conspiratard. i want to disassociate myself from that manure slush
MASTERMIND on Mon, 5th Feb 2018 8:55 pm
Madkat
You would believe cloggs links to a random blog! You are so dumb you believe anything!
JuanP on Mon, 5th Feb 2018 8:57 pm
The Democrats are more corrupt than Trump. Trump is just a megalomaniac fool. Clinton is evil. Give me the fool every day. Trump makes me laugh a lot, Clinton is repulsive and makes me sick. A stock market readjustment would be welcome; the longer we wait the worse it will be. I think we should blame Putin and the Russians for it, they are obviously behind it.
I spent the day clearing brush, growing organic food, and teaching others how to do it. I also ordered 50 chicks from McMurray today. I will start selling free range organic eggs in a few months.
JuanP on Mon, 5th Feb 2018 9:00 pm
Micromind, I can’t even imagine how dumb you must be to think that you are smart and educated! Your calling other people dumb is really funny! LOL!
Boat on Mon, 5th Feb 2018 9:40 pm
Clog,
There has been a lot of action in Syria since Putin declared victory and claimed to take his troops home. Kinda like Bush Jr claiming mission accomplished. ISIS is in around 32 countries and don’t have one. Sharia lovers like some here don’t get it. It’s a global war.
joe on Mon, 5th Feb 2018 11:37 pm
I.S is nowhere near beaten. The Kurds under American and British control allowed most of the I.S. leadership to leave Raqqa where they escaped into the Syrian desert and could be anywhere by now. A veil/beard and a nose job can buy you a new life in some parts of the world.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/raqqas_dirty_secret
ISIS could have ended last year, but Trump, wishing for a quick victory (just like Assad) allowed his enemies to leave to fight another day. They will also make useful enemies one day. My enemies enemy is my friend. Anyway, with the dow jones average dropping over 1000 points due to fears of mild interest rate hikes we might see just how fragile and precarious the so called recovery was. Trump bought the peak, now he owns the dip.
Boat on Mon, 5th Feb 2018 11:48 pm
Joe,
Putin, the undisputed leader of the world on this site claimed victory. Putin owns the conflict.
Now them Kurds seem extremely resilient. Putin made a mistake by not supporting them. Lets call that mistake the future Putin noose. As in, bring them troops back cause them Kurds will be hanging around.
MASTERMIND on Tue, 6th Feb 2018 12:13 am
JuanP
“You’re” calling…You dumb uneducated prick! Down go dry off your back! Its soaking wet!
Cloggie on Tue, 6th Feb 2018 12:25 am
AfD visits Crimea, says it is not occupied, wants to see anti-Russian sanctions lifted:
https://www.n-tv.de/politik/Regierung-kritisiert-Krim-Besuch-der-AfD-article20269677.html
German government denounces visit. Too bad for Merkel, but Russia is going to be Europe’s next ally “after the break” and the immanent end of US empire/West. Expect operations in North-America by the 700 million of “Paris-Berlin-Moscow” after the descend of North-America into chaos and civil war to separate warring factions and integrate heartland into “Huntingtonian culture circle”. 1776 revisited on an XXL scale.
https://www.amazon.com/End-American-Era-Geopolitics-Twenty-first-ebook/dp/B000XUDGTY/ref=sr_1_1