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Kunstler: Fall of the Great Pumpkin
Welcome to the witching month when America’s entropy-fueled death-wish expresses itself with as much Halloween jollity and merriment as the old Christmas spirit of yore. The outdoor displays alone take on a Babylonian scale, thanks to the plastic factories of China. I saw a half-life-size T-Rex skeleton for sale at a garden shop last week surrounded by an entire crew of moldering corpse Pirates of the Caribbean in full costume ho-ho-ho-ing among the jack-o-lanterns. What homeowner in this sore-beset floundering economy of three-job gig-workers can shell out four thousand bucks to decorate his lawn like the set of a zombie movie?
The overnight news sure took on that Halloween tang as the nation woke up to what is probably a national record for a civilian mad-shooter incident. So far, fifty dead and two hundred wounded at the Las Vegas at the Route 91 Harvest Festival (one up in fatalities from last year’s Florida Pulse nightclub massacre, and way more injured this time).
The incident will live in infamy for maybe a day and a half in the US media. Stand by today as there will be calls far and wide, by personas masquerading as political leaders, for measures to make sure something like this never happens again. That’s rich, isn’t it? Meanwhile, the same six a.m. headlines declared that S &P futures were up in the overnight markets. Nothing can faze this mad bull, apparently. Except maybe the $90 trillion combined derivatives books of CitiBank, JP Morgan, and Goldman Sachs, who have gone back whole hog into manufacturing the same kind of hallucinatory collateralized debt obligations (giant sacks of non-performing loans) that gave Wall Street a heart attack in the fall of 2008.
Europe’s quaint doings must seem dull compared to the suicidal potlatch of life in the USA, but, believe me, it’s a big deal when the Spanish authorities start cracking the heads of Catalonian grandmothers for nothing more than casting a ballot. The video scenes of mayhem at the Barcelona polls looked like something out of the 1968 Prague uprising. And now that the Catalonia secession referendum passed with a 90 percent “yes” vote, it’s hard to imagine that a good deal more violent mischief will not follow. So far, the European Union stands dumbly on the sidelines. (For details, read the excellent Roel Ilargi Meijer column on today’s TheAutomaticEarth.)
Next in the cavalcade of October traumas: the USA versus the nuclear weapons ambitions of North Korea. This has been ramping up all year, of course, but it looks to be headed for a climax now that the Golden Golem of Greatness is at the helm. Most astounding, though, is America’s new method for conducting the most sensitive matters of foreign policy. The day after Secretary of State Rex Tillerson declared that his office was in contact with North Korean officials, the Secretary’s boss, You-Know-Who, tweeted out: “I told Rex Tillerson, our wonderful Secretary of State, that he is wasting his time trying to negotiate with Little Rocket Man.”
Could this possibly be a cleverly orchestrated good cop / bad cop effort to bamboozle Kim Jung-un? Or is the US government just completely dysfunctional? Or maybe something else is afoot. Under normal circumstances, Mr. Tillerson would just resign after such a gross insult, but we must suppose that a patriotic sense of duty compels him to remain in office in case the need suddenly arises in this witching month to run over Mr. Trump with the 25th amendment — the clause in the constitution that allows a consensus of a pretty small number of national political leaders to toss out a sitting president on the grounds of derangement and incompetence. Stay tuned on that one.
Finally — well, who know what else may pop up now — there is the matter of Puerto Rico. Halloween there is not like New England, with our nippy fall mornings, steaming mugs of hot cider, and quickening fall color. It will remain 90-degrees-plus down there in the fetid, stinking ruins, with lots of still-standing water, broken communications, shattered supply lines, and very little electricity. FEMA and the US Military may be doing all they can now, but they must be on watch for the ominous blossoming of tropical disease epidemics. The story there is far from over. Trump travels there this week. That may be exactly the moment that the Deep State moves to take him down.
209 Comments on "Kunstler: Fall of the Great Pumpkin"
Davy on Wed, 4th Oct 2017 10:42 am
Love it, kicked your ass good didn’t I grehg! Now all you are doing is whining and crying any chance you get. What a pussy. You used to have a backbone and tried very hard to maintain that fake respectable persona. I knew eventually I would get under your slimy sicko skin and have you show your true personality. LOL
fmr-paultard on Wed, 4th Oct 2017 10:53 am
according to eurotard gospel the whole earth is against the us. i couldn’t be more true.
now the tiny island country of vanautu is breaking diplomatic relation with america.
we’re doomed
GregT on Wed, 4th Oct 2017 11:07 am
“you do not know the truth and you love in denial. It is my duty to the truth.”
Says the delusionalist, who constantly makes shit up in his sick and twisted little mind.
MASTERMIND on Wed, 4th Oct 2017 11:11 am
makati1 = The craziest man on earth. Next to the NRA president.
GregT on Wed, 4th Oct 2017 11:26 am
“we are becoming warped because we are not accepting a new reality that is going to happen routinely now.”
No delusionalist, it is the warped enabler fucks such as yourself, who believe that people must accept these heinous acts, rather than changing the culture of violence, murder, and destruction, that is responsible for them.
Davy on Wed, 4th Oct 2017 11:42 am
grehg, on a scale of 1 to 10, how bad was that ass kicken!! Double LOL
fmr-paultard on Wed, 4th Oct 2017 11:48 am
i remember a trek ep. where tard extermists got together and figured out everything then they ended up blowing up the outpost.
here we have tard extremist eurotard predicted the end of america. we’re doomed
GregT on Wed, 4th Oct 2017 11:49 am
My neighbour’s wife and her girlfriends were at that music festival, and watched close up as people were being gunned down and dying. She is more than just a bit upset, you sick fuck, she will never be the same again. Ever. She is a complete basket case.
Davy on Wed, 4th Oct 2017 11:58 am
grehg, did you discuss your agreement with Deagel dot com with her and it’s solution to what you extremist anti-Americans think is the American problem. Did you tell her you yourself are a gun freak and it appears you are losing it as we speak. WhAt a sicko! Anything you say at this point is suspect to advance you sick agenda of anti-Americanism. You are a moral criminal and hide it with hypocrisy.
GregT on Wed, 4th Oct 2017 12:13 pm
There is nothing more anti-American, than not understanding why billions of people all around the world, are extremely upset over mass murder on American soil. At a music festival no less.
You are in desperate need of serious psychological intervention.
Cloggie on Wed, 4th Oct 2017 12:23 pm
“we’re doomed”
No you silly, uncle Europe is going to take care of you. No worries.
Davy on Wed, 4th Oct 2017 12:50 pm
grehg, I am very happy I cracked your personality. You have lost it. Over the last few weeks you went from whining “respect me becuase I am so respectable” to a an overt vicious hateful person. Mind you that is your true self but you hid it in the lie you embody. I cracked that fake facade and you now stand exposed you slimy piece of shit.
Apneaman on Wed, 4th Oct 2017 1:36 pm
clog, “No you silly,”. For real? My ex-wife used to say that “you silly” to me.
Like I’ve been saying – closet homosexual. Soooooo obvious. It’s a Nazi thing methinks.
fmr-paultard on Wed, 4th Oct 2017 2:05 pm
money check
power check
fame NOT check
Do not grab it President Trump, resign instead!
Do not grab the guns!
fmr-paultard on Wed, 4th Oct 2017 2:07 pm
forgot something near and dear to President Trump.
P*ssy grabbed
apologies for this.
money check
power check
p*ssy grabbed
fame NOT check
GregT on Wed, 4th Oct 2017 2:11 pm
“I cracked that fake facade and you now stand exposed you slimy piece of shit.”
I do not for one second find mass murder on American soil acceptable, and completely understand why people find it to be so upsetting.
You are the one who is totally fucked in the head.
Get help.
Davy on Wed, 4th Oct 2017 2:34 pm
Deagel dot com says you are a lying prick. It’s already documented here on PO dot com that you agree with the assessment. You are mad-cat1 biggest supporter. You are a flaming anti-American prick. This makes you a closet mass murder. Oh, no, dumbass, you would never do the dirty part of it. You think you are too respectable for that. No you would condone it and lend support so others could end the America we have today violently. You are a disgusting example of a lying human piece of shit.
GregT on Wed, 4th Oct 2017 2:46 pm
I do not for one second find mass murder on American soil acceptable, and completely understand why people find it to be so upsetting.
You are the one who is totally fucked in the head.
Get help, before you hurt somebody. You sick fuck.
GregT on Wed, 4th Oct 2017 2:52 pm
You wil NEVER get me to agree with you.
Davy on Wed, 4th Oct 2017 3:31 pm
Sicko, then explain your support of Deagel dot com! Mad-cat1 is in full support of Deagel dot com and you are fully supportive of mad-cat1. Sicko
GregT on Wed, 4th Oct 2017 4:01 pm
Your continued psychological and emotional deterioration, and your constant delusional accusations, have been a form of entertainment here over the last few years. Very sad, but hilarious at the same time. You have crossed the line whack job. I will not sit back and say nothing at all, while anyone tells me that they don’t understand why people get upset about the mass murder of innocent people. No matter where they live. I will never find that to be acceptable. Go fuck yourself.
Davy on Wed, 4th Oct 2017 4:26 pm
Your continued denial of your dysfunctional fraud of a life system is disgusting. You give moral acquiescence to a policy that calls for the elimination of the US as we know it which entails 280MIL dead. Deagel dot com fits your solution to the American problem and by extention modernism. You want to save the planet through mass murder and American mass murder is particuliarly convenient. You are a monster inside grehg. On the outside which is your other life, you give an aura of respectability. This is why you are so dangerous. You are all about the means justifies the end so mass murder of Americans is ok to save the planet. Several other disgusting anti-Americans are much the same but at least they are honest. Mad-cat1 is your inspiration and you give him undying support and have now for years. You two are the duo of death.
Cloggie on Wed, 4th Oct 2017 4:48 pm
Barcelona, the next Grozny?
We are entering a period of war in the first world itself, both in Europa and America. The western elite wants to wipe out European man. European man is going to hit back. It has been peace for too lang already.
https://altright.com/2017/10/04/colbert-drops-mask-and-gloats-about-end-of-white-majority-in-america/
makati1 on Wed, 4th Oct 2017 5:43 pm
Greg, Davy is one whom we will be reading about, going crazy and shooting up a crowd or his family, if he has one. His delusions and insanity are growing as can be obvious as read in the above posts. Unbelievable!
Most Americans have been brainwashed into thinking deaths are just “collateral damage”, Something that happens to someone else, far away. It is coming home. They have nowhere to run now.
Insanity is spreading. As stress increases, these type of events will happen more and more. They don’t know how to handle stress except with drugs as many have never had to deal with it. More signs of the collapse.
makati1 on Wed, 4th Oct 2017 5:49 pm
“grehg, on a scale of 1 to 10, how bad was that ass kicken!! Double LOL”
“I cracked that fake facade and you now stand exposed you slimy piece of shit.”
“You are a disgusting example of a lying human piece of shit.”
“Sicko, then explain your support of Deagel dot com!”
Does that sound like a rational adult or a 12 year old bully?
Davy on Wed, 4th Oct 2017 6:00 pm
Mad-cat1, this site has been lowered in standard by your extremism. We should be talking about problems common to all of us and all we get is your polarization. This has been your policy since day one you came to the board. I have neutered you for the most part but at a cost for everyone else. I have made offers to you for moderation but you have no interest in moderation. You want to be the leading voice of hate. You are a disgusting failure that wants that failure for everyone else. You are an old man living a lie and wanting everyone to believe you are special and one that should be emulated. You could care less about others. What you care about is your self-advancement. Since you are old and losing your faculties you also hope others will die along with you. You feel comforted that others much younger will also perish in your doom world. You promote the version of a life of no hope mainly because you have no hope so you want other to have none. There is a definition for your type and that is a psychopath.
Boat on Wed, 4th Oct 2017 6:02 pm
mak,
Learn to Google, the 70’s – 90’s were more violent. You are the epitomy of fake news, outrageous claims, all agenda driven. Basically a sorry excuse for a human being.
Crime in the United States has been recorded since colonization. Crime rates have varied over time, with a sharp rise after 1963, reaching a broad peak between the 1970s and early 1990s. Since then, crime has declined significantly in the United States,[1] and current crime rates are approximately the same as those of the 1960s
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_the_United_States
Davy on Wed, 4th Oct 2017 6:13 pm
Mad-cat1, go back to the very beginning of the thread between grehg and I. You will then see that he started it. I told him if he stalks and pricks me I will attack him with an eye for an eye. This is what he is getting. This is also what you have been getting now for 4 years. Moderate and compromise or prepare for battle dumbass. You can play your games all you like but that is the reality I have given you now for 4 years uninterrupted. I have made it clear I would like to see more balance and respect on this board. You have rejected that multiple times. So your games of whining and blaming are a joke mad-cat1. They are more an attention getter. You must be a very lonely old man to make such a big seen like you do. It is all about you isn’t it. Your whole life has been all about you and now you are in a foreign country all alone and that is where you belong. An old man fading away in a foreign land all alone is what you deserve.
Boat on Wed, 4th Oct 2017 6:15 pm
clog,
Cloggie on Wed, 4th Oct 2017 4:48 pm
Barcelona, the next Grozny?
We are entering a period of war in the first world itself, both in Europa and America.
The action appears to be happening in the EU. You don’t get it. Sports is bigger here than politics. As long as our 60″ carries a huge variety of entertainment along with 10’s of thousands of events filled with sports spectacular and teeming adoring fans, we will be appeased.
makati1 on Wed, 4th Oct 2017 6:28 pm
Boat, I lived the 60s, 70s, 80s. I was an officer in the National Guard when the riots were going on. I do not remember deaths in any great numbers. Certainty not like recent events. And they are just beginning. The fall of America is well under way.
I do not remember there being 33,000 gangs in the US, with over 1.4 million members in the 60s.
https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/violent-crime/gangs
I do not remember there being anywhere near the widespread use of drugs as there is today in the US.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-leads-the-world-in-illegal-drug-use/
There are now more guns than people in the United States.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/10/05/guns-in-the-united-states-one-for-every-man-woman-and-child-and-then-some/?utm_term=.07199cbc4971
Google your world and get educated Boat. The above stats tell the tale.
makati1 on Wed, 4th Oct 2017 6:34 pm
LOL Davy, every post you make proves our assertion that you are a spoiled 12 year old and not a rational adult. You cannot check your emotions. You revert to making up shit about us, call us names, use any putdown you think might work and yet you keep failing at your attempts.
Frustrating isn’t it? Your BP must be all over the charts. Early death from heart failure? I plan to continue living the good life here for many more years. And it is the good life. If for no other reason than it is not being lived in the American Police State. True freedom is great! Try it sometime, if you dare. LOL
Davy on Wed, 4th Oct 2017 6:39 pm
Always the same lame response mad-cat1. At least show some creativity. Your wasting space with your repetitive puke. I have heard the same comment 20 times.
makati1 on Wed, 4th Oct 2017 6:47 pm
“”Freedom Insurance” Has Never Been More Crucial – How To Get A Second Passport”
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-10-04/freedom-insurance-has-never-been-more-crucial-how-get-second-passport
“The biggest threat to your personal freedom and financial security is the government, hands down.
Today, skyrocketing government debt is only making that threat worse. In the US, the bill amounts to more than $167,509 per taxpayer.
At some point soon—in a desperate attempt to squeeze citizens for every penny—politicians will try to further restrict people’s movements. They may even prohibit people from leaving outright.”
makati1 on Wed, 4th Oct 2017 6:48 pm
Resd your own posts, Davy and see how many times you ‘cut and paste’ old putdowns, names, etc. You are the one who is in a worn rut that goes nowhere.
Davy on Wed, 4th Oct 2017 6:57 pm
Sure getting under your skin and on your most commented on list this evening..it does sounds familiar. Lol.
GregT on Wed, 4th Oct 2017 7:04 pm
“You two are the duo of death.”
Paranoid delusions. Yet when there is a mass murder in the US, you question why people get upset.
What a fucking wack job.
makati1 on Wed, 4th Oct 2017 7:07 pm
First 9 months of 2017: (US)
-11,572 gun deaths
-23,365 gun injuries
-271 mass shootings
-1,508 unintentional shootings
-2,971 kids/teens shot
https://www.globalresearch.ca/another-day-another-u-s-mass-shooting/5611836
Yep! Amerika is going down and it will be from inside.
Davy on Wed, 4th Oct 2017 7:07 pm
The dog answer to his name. Lol
makati1 on Wed, 4th Oct 2017 7:45 pm
Davy, you really do need help. You need someone to help you to see your insanity. It is blatantly obvious to others here.
Davy on Wed, 4th Oct 2017 7:51 pm
Look in the mirror
GregT on Wed, 4th Oct 2017 8:21 pm
i agree wholeheartedly. You’re in dire need of help, and your condition continues to get worse.
GregT on Wed, 4th Oct 2017 8:25 pm
“You don’t get it. Sports is bigger here than politics. As long as our 60″ carries a huge variety of entertainment along with 10’s of thousands of events filled with sports spectacular and teeming adoring fans, we will be appeased.”
It is you who doesn’t get it Boat, as per usual. That would be called circus. All empires degrade to that level, right before they collapse. Those who ignore history, are doomed to repeat it.
GregT on Wed, 4th Oct 2017 8:29 pm
Cue the delusional, exceptionalist, mass American murder apologist, in 5,4,3,2,1………
Boat on Wed, 4th Oct 2017 9:25 pm
mak,
From 1980 to 1990 31,000 to 38,000 gun deaths were typical. You cry wolf because your a box of rocks. Your numbers show a 50 percent drop. lol Please learn to research a little. It’s not that hard. You can find plenty wrong with the US without blatantly being wrong.
https://www.infoplease.com/us/mortality/deaths-firearms-1979-2010
In 1970 there were about 205 million in the US.
In 2017 that number is close to 327 million. Gun deaths dropping dramatically while adding over 30 percent population is not the best way to describe US collapse. lol You guys doing the wild weed song? Take a trip and never leave the farm.
makati1 on Wed, 4th Oct 2017 9:48 pm
Boat…9 months. Not a year, and your numbers come from where? Oh, 2010. Do you know it is 2017? A lot has changed on 7 years. Please do some REAL research if you want to look intelligent.
Americans own 48% of the civilian owned guns worldwide.
The US makes up less than 5% of the world’s population but has 31% of the globe’s mass shooters.
Gun homicide rates are over 25 times higher in the US than in any other high income country.
http://q13fox.com/2017/10/04/how-us-gun-
culture-compares-with-the-world-in-5-charts/ Posted 12:18 PM, October 4, 2017, by CNN Wire
Google is a resource, IF properly used.
GregT on Wed, 4th Oct 2017 10:10 pm
Is Las Vegas the worst mass shooting in US history? It’s surprisingly complicated.
“The short version: It was definitely the deadliest mass shooting in recent history. But if you look further back in the US’s past, the real answer depends on how you define a mass shooting.”
“In 1873, an all-black militia defended a local courthouse in Colfax, Louisiana — fearing, at the height of racial tensions after the Civil War, that white supremacists were about to topple the regional government, which was evenly split between white and black citizens at the time. Soon after, a mob of more than 150 white men — made up of Southern Democrats, former Confederate soldiers, members of the Ku Klux Klan, and the paramilitary White League — surrounded the courthouse and attacked. Three white men and as many as 150 black men died, according to Smithsonian.com.”
“Another example: The 1917 East St. Louis Massacre — a white-led race riot — left at least 39 black people and nine white people dead, according to official estimates. But as Smithsonian.com noted, it’s widely believed that more than 100 black people were killed during the three-day massacre.”
“There are many such events throughout American history, from the destruction of “Black Wall Street” in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to the 1919 mass lynching in Arkansas. After the Civil War and during the ensuing 100-year struggle for basic civil rights protections, white groups often lashed out in violence to try to assert their control of the South — and a lot of people, particularly black Americans, died.”
“Before that, there were also horrific attacks on Native American populations, such as the Sand Creek Massacre. (Although many of these events can be seen as acts of war.)”
So yah Boat, things are definitely getting better. Mass murdering isn’t so much racial or politically motivated as it was in the past, but rather something to do while wiling away the time, on a Sunday night.
GregT on Wed, 4th Oct 2017 10:32 pm
Link;
https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/10/2/16401510/las-vegas-shooting-deadliest
Or perhaps Mr. Paddock was just bored, because he didn’t have a 60″ screen to keep him mesmerized?
makati1 on Wed, 4th Oct 2017 10:38 pm
America is a nation of killers. It is common throughout all of America’s history. Not that most Americans even know their own history, or want to. The internet is for social fluff and propaganda, not reality, as far as Americans are concerned.
dionisio on Wed, 4th Oct 2017 11:19 pm
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. I just made that up. Seriously, it’s D H Lawrence.
GregT on Wed, 4th Oct 2017 11:22 pm
Boat, and the sick delusional exceptionalist, are not indicative of the entire American population Makati. There are still tens of millions of truly exceptional American people, of all races, and of all walks of life.