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Kunstler: If You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It

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Various readers, fans, blog commenters, Facebook trolls, and auditors twanged on me all last week about my continuing interest in the RussiaRussiaRussia hysteria, though there is no particular consensus of complaint among them — except for a general “shut up, already” motif. For the record, I’m far more interested in the hysteria itself than the Russia-meddled-in the-election case, which I consider to be hardly any case at all beyond 13 Russian Facebook trolls.

The hysteria, on the other hand, ought to be a matter of grave concern, because it appears more and more to have been engineered by America’s own intel community, its handmaidens in the Dept of Justice, and the twilight’s last gleamings of the Obama White House, and now it has shoved this country in the direction of war at a time when civilian authority over the US military looks sketchy at best. This country faces manifold other problems that are certain to reduce the national standard of living and disrupt the operations of an excessively complex and dishonest economy, and the last thing America needs is a national war-dance over trumped-up grievances with Russia.

The RussiaRussiaRussia narrative has unspooled since Christmas and is blowing back badly through the FBI, now with the firing (for cause) of Deputy Director Andrew McCabe hours short of his official retirement (and inches from the golden ring of his pension). He was axed on the recommendation of his own colleagues in the FBI’s Office of Professional Responsibility, and they may have been influenced by the as-yet-unreleased report of the FBI Inspector General, Michael Horowitz, due out shortly.

The record of misbehavior and “collusion” between the highest ranks of the FBI, the Democratic Party, the Clinton campaign, several top political law firms, and a shady cast of international blackmail peddlars is a six-lane Beltway-scale evidence trail compared to the muddy mule track of Trump “collusion” with Russia. It will be amazing if a big wad of criminal cases are not dealt out of it, even as The New York Times sticks its fingers in its ears and goes, “La-la-la-la-la….”

It now appears that Mr. McCabe’s statements post-firing tend to incriminate his former boss, FBI Director James Comey — who is about to embark, embarrassingly perhaps, on a tour for his self-exculpating book, A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership.

A great aura of sanctimony surrounds the FBI these days. Even the news pundits seem to have forgotten the long, twisted reign of J. Edgar Hoover (1924 – 1972), a dangerous rogue who excelled at political blackmail. And why, these days, would any sane American take pronouncements from the CIA and NSA at face value? What seems to have gone on in the RussiaRussiaRussia matter is that various parts of the executive branch in the last months under Mr. Obama gave each other tacit permission, wink-wink, to do anything necessary to stuff HRC into the White House and, failing that, to derail her opponent, the Golden Golem of Greatness.

The obvious lesson in all this huggermugger is that the ends don’t justify the means. I suspect there are basically two routes through this mess. One is that the misdeeds of FBI officers, Department of Justice lawyers, and Intel agency executives get adjudicated by normal means, namely, grand juries and courts. That would have the salutary effect of cleansing government agencies and shoring up what’s left of their credibility at a time when faith in institutions hangs in the balance.

The second route would be for the authorities to ignore any formal response to an evermore self-evident trail of crimes, and to allow all that political energy to be funneled into manufactured hysteria and eventually a phony provocation of war with Russia. Personally, I’d rather see the US government clean house than blow up the world over an engineered hallucination.

Kunstler



131 Comments on "Kunstler: If You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It"

  1. MASTERMIND on Tue, 20th Mar 2018 9:17 am 

    If Trump imposes large tariffs against China.

    Does that mean Trump and Ivanka products will cost more?

  2. MASTERMIND on Tue, 20th Mar 2018 9:27 am 

    Chuck E. Cheese’s Fight

    https://i.imgur.com/BSjtH4X.gifv

  3. Pat on Tue, 20th Mar 2018 10:33 am 

    the oil is racing to 70$ and heading to 150$. where is mad cat… the world is at last stages of human oil civilazations, there will be no normal BAU going in future and the readjustments will be catastrophic, disaster will end global economy. Make no mistake renewables, electric will be nrw economy engine is just BS……PREPARE……..

  4. MASTERMIND on Tue, 20th Mar 2018 10:58 am 

    Pat

    Yes that is true. But dont say that stuff around here. Because the trolls will come out of the woodwork.

  5. JuanP on Tue, 20th Mar 2018 11:47 am 

    Micromind “And they get huge tax breaks that come out of my fucking pay check.”
    Your ignorance is worse than your stupidity. I never got a tax break. I don’t even know what the fuck you are talking about. And I have never received a penny from the US government and never will. I don’t even intend to collect the benefits that I might be legally entitled to. I have paid my way in cash all my life with my own money and I have paid taxes on every penny I made in the USA. I have been paying taxes to the US government for 28 years. I do that because I am a law abiding US resident. As a foreigner I do not have to pay taxes to the US government on the income I make abroad or the property I own outside the USA. I have very little doubt that you will never pay the US government more than a small fraction of the taxes I’ve paid. Your lack of understanding of the USA’s economic and political systems is shameful. You truly are pathetic, Imaginary Neuron. Now I have to go back to helping others. I will be back to hassle you after dark. LOL! Thanks for all the free entertainment you provide, fool! Fucking with you is more fun than going out!

  6. JuanP on Tue, 20th Mar 2018 11:53 am 

    Micromind, It is truly pathetic to blame innocent people you don’t even know for your unfortunate circumstances. If you spent more time working and less here you might be able to improve your circumstances. Go to school and get an education or get a job, man! Even washing dishes or mowing lawns would be better than wasting your life here; there is nothing wrong with doing honest work, no matter how humble. I washed dishes for a day and mowed lawns as a kid and I am proud of it. Have you ever done anything useful in your life? Bye!

  7. DerHundistlos on Tue, 20th Mar 2018 12:27 pm 

    @ MASTERMIND

    Mobs enjoy a whipping boy. I think you’re just as frustrated with “the norm” as am I.

  8. GregT on Tue, 20th Mar 2018 12:55 pm 

    “the oil is racing to 70$ and heading to 150$. where is mad cat… the world is at last stages of human oil civilizations”

    The last time oil approached $150, all it did was brought more oily stuff online, and MadKat has moved to the farm, far far away from ‘human oil civilizations’.

  9. MASTERMIND on Tue, 20th Mar 2018 1:10 pm 

    JuanP

    I have worked since I was 13 years old. And have college education from Michigan. And work a full time job as a scientist at a major university. And I never got exempt from income taxes like you migrants have for over a decade. And free cars and food stamps. You should be thanking me for paying for your welfare in this country. You dumb ignorant parasite!

  10. MASTERMIND on Tue, 20th Mar 2018 1:15 pm 

    Greg

    That oily stuff that was brought online was mostly junk. Not all energy is equal. And since the oil price spiked in 2004. The global economy has gone into another great depression. So next oil spike it will most likely collapse… Along with your state of mind and your nonsense religious fundamentalist cult of preppers. Without the rule of law and a prosperous society in place. Its fight club and you are dead fucking meat.

  11. MASTERMIND on Tue, 20th Mar 2018 1:17 pm 

    Greg

    Gasoline at 1.55$ per litre (5$ a gallon) in BC as prices continue to rise

    http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/british-columbia/people-are-shaking-their-heads-record-highs-on-the-way-for-b-c-gas-prices-analyst-warns-1.4583461

    Damn sucks to be you guys! Better tell your president cuck to go dress up again and visit the arabs in the middle east this time!

  12. MASTERMIND on Tue, 20th Mar 2018 1:18 pm 

    The Middle Class Might Nearly Disappear In The Next Decade

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/patrickwwatson/2018/03/08/the-middle-class-might-nearly-disappear-in-the-next-decade/#34488336251e

  13. Davy on Tue, 20th Mar 2018 1:19 pm 

    “MadKat has moved to the farm, far far away from ‘human oil civilizations’”

    Billy 3rd world might be in a assisted care back in the states after losing his mind or bodily functions. Maybe his boyfriend kicked him out and he is homeless on the crowded streets of Manila slumming it. Who cares his disgusting influence here is over!

  14. MASTERMIND on Tue, 20th Mar 2018 1:37 pm 

    Davy

    Great points! Good riddance to that asshole! He wasn’t even smart enough to know what a reliable source was. And was a major tin foil hatter like Greg…Typical idiot boomer.

  15. Cloggie on Tue, 20th Mar 2018 1:40 pm 

    Billy 3rd world might be in a assisted care back in the states after losing his mind or bodily functions. Maybe his boyfriend kicked him out and he is homeless on the crowded streets of Manila slumming it. Who cares his disgusting influence here is over!

    Last time I checked he had more friends than you, meathead. The only friend you have is the disgusting millimind, who constantly gloats about the demise of white America and repeatedly has announced that he wants to rape Taylor Swift brutally. With friends like that, meathead, you need no enemies.

  16. Cloggie on Tue, 20th Mar 2018 1:45 pm 

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHauqfjRqso

    Vladimir Putin yesterday on reconciliation between Russia and Germany:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHauqfjRqso

    At [1:28] he repeats again the message that can only be interpreted as “Paris-Berlin-Moscow”.

  17. Cloggie on Tue, 20th Mar 2018 1:52 pm 

    Last weekend in Germany, thousands on the street, despite severe frost, to protest against Merkel.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaREWyi_6bc

    These are scenes equivalent to Germany-1989. The Merkel regime, the US empire, the West, multicult, aber about to be demolished.

  18. MASTERMIND on Tue, 20th Mar 2018 1:58 pm 

    Clogg

    All I know is if Taylor wont swallow and wants to “Shake it off”…Ill put it on a spoon for that bitch! Seize the fucking means!

  19. Davy on Tue, 20th Mar 2018 2:12 pm 

    Shut up nedernazi. I have a life and you have nobody. You are just a lonely old Man that when you die nobody will claim you. They will donate your remains to science and some Muslim premed student will laugh at the swastika tattoo on your ass. Maybe you will bite the dust soon. It will sure clean things up. It is a disgrace to have a dedicated bigot posting here.

  20. GregT on Tue, 20th Mar 2018 2:16 pm 

    “Who cares his disgusting influence here is over!”

    Well at least you now admit that BillT is influential. That’s a good start Davy.

    And Davy, Makati1 promised you he’d be back soon. You would be the main reason why he enjoys posting here so much buddy.

  21. GregT on Tue, 20th Mar 2018 2:33 pm 

    “It is a disgrace to have a dedicated bigot posting here.”

    Bigot:

    noun
    a person who is intolerant toward those holding different opinions.

    Projecting again Davy?

  22. Davy on Tue, 20th Mar 2018 2:34 pm 

    Buddy, are you whining? It’s so sad now that your best friend is gone. You must be heartbroken. Man up greggie and stand on you own two feet. You relied on billy 3rd world for a backbone and now he is gone.

  23. Cloggie on Tue, 20th Mar 2018 2:36 pm 

    All I know is if Taylor wont swallow and wants to “Shake it off”…Ill put it on a spoon for that bitch! Seize the fucking means!

    Davy and millimind, a match made in heaven.

    I have a life and you have nobody.

    You know very little about my private life and relationships, it is assumptions only. I never was so stupid to discuss those details here in this snake-pit. I was told that you have a sugar-daddy relationship with somebody who could be your daughter? Correct? Credit card-based fling?

  24. Davy on Tue, 20th Mar 2018 2:40 pm 

    It won’t be long and the Canadian weasel will chime in with his juvenile language. You know narrativeman stupidity talk. I love kicking a mouse nest, spitting on pricks and slapping Nazies. Oh and finally gloating over vanquished asshole enemies. LMFAO. What ever happened to Billy 3rd world….

  25. Davy on Tue, 20th Mar 2018 2:44 pm 

    Sure neder Nazi, whatever you say. You have to admit the Muslim woman premed student looking at the dead lifeless swastika on your donated to science ass is a good one. Lol.

  26. Cloggie on Tue, 20th Mar 2018 2:48 pm 

    Putin no longer made responsible for Trump victory?

    Now they have found a new culprit: Facebook!

    http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzpolitik/donald-trump-und-der-facebook-skandal-um-cambridge-analytica-a-1199047.html

    50 million Facebook accounts were hacked and allegedly used to mysteriously “influence” Facebook sheep.

  27. Cloggie on Tue, 20th Mar 2018 2:51 pm 

    You have to admit the Muslim woman premed student looking at the dead lifeless swastika on your donated to science ass is a good one. Lol.

    Laughing and promoting your own sorry attempts at humor are just sad.

    I have no tattoos, that’s for NWO trash.

  28. GregT on Tue, 20th Mar 2018 2:52 pm 

    You would be the biggest bigot here Davy. How many times have you heard the phrase; “Everybody is entitled to their own opinions”?

    No matter how much of your usual noise that you make, you aren’t going to stop anyone else from forming their own opinions.

    That would simply be more evidence of your paranoid, delusional, messed up psychological state.

  29. Davy on Tue, 20th Mar 2018 2:55 pm 

    Lighten up Nazi. How are we supposed to know if you are lying or not here in the snake pit? You might have a chip implant so you gain access to secret Nazi gatherings.

  30. Davy on Tue, 20th Mar 2018 2:57 pm 

    greggie, explain to us about Hitler being a victim becuase he didn’t want war. Geeze, this is too much fun!!!

  31. Davy on Tue, 20th Mar 2018 2:59 pm 

    Where are you weasel jump on in here to the snake pit. Let’s see what you are made of….wack-jobs….

  32. Cloggie on Tue, 20th Mar 2018 3:07 pm 

    greggie, explain to us about Hitler being a victim becuase he didn’t want war. Geeze, this is too much fun!!!

    What is your proof that Hitler wanted war, meathead?

    https://documents1940.wordpress.com/2017/09/25/chamberlain-and-the-forrestal-diaries/

    https://documents1940.wordpress.com/2017/09/25/time-life-the-american-century/

    https://documents1940.wordpress.com/2017/09/26/justice-jackson-has-to-admit/

    https://documents1940.wordpress.com/2017/09/25/bullitt-reveals-in-april-1939-that-war-has-been-decided-upon/

    How many cities did Germany bomb in America?
    How many American women did Germans rape?

    Little lying empire Dave will not engage in a debate because he knows he will get his ass kicked if he does.lol He has absolutely nothing other than the tired old empire lies.

    But tell us meathead… why is America in decline?

    http://peakoil.com/publicpolicy/why-is-america-in-decline

  33. Anonymouse1 on Tue, 20th Mar 2018 3:08 pm 

    Exceptionalist turd. Have you made up your mind yet as whether you are going to have mushmind be ‘Australian’, or from ‘Michigan’?I know questions like this take a lot more of your limited mental energy(and time) than doing say, actual work on your make-believe farm. All the cheerleading and back-slapping from mushmind however, is piling it on pretty thick dont you think.

    And its NAZIS dumbass, not Nazies. Damn are you ever stupid. You and boatwetard should start you own blog where are you ragae against all the ‘raciests’ and ‘Nazies’ to your hearts content.

  34. Anonymouse1 on Tue, 20th Mar 2018 3:16 pm 

    Oh, good, its cloggen-cohen with more of his always on-topic World War Two commentary. Complete with web-links, naturally.

  35. Cloggie on Tue, 20th Mar 2018 3:17 pm 

    Let’s see what you are made of….wack-jobs….

    Here we are Davy-boy.
    Let’s have it!
    The showdown.
    High noon! LOL

    What’s your proof that Hitler wanted war for territorial conquest?

    There isn’t any. And the gentleman who was in the best position to judge that, because he had access to all the archives of vanquished Germany, said so:

    https://documents1940.wordpress.com/2017/09/26/justice-jackson-has-to-admit/

    Now don’t run like a weasel, Davy. Don’t be such a wack job.

  36. Cloggie on Tue, 20th Mar 2018 3:20 pm 

    Oh, good, its cloggen-cohen with more of his always on-topic World War Two commentary. Complete with web-links, naturally.

    It was meathead who brought up Hitler, against your advice not to do so. Because even you realize that I am right and that the exceptionalist has no case.

    Perhaps you would like to come to the aid of your exceptionalist buddy? No?

  37. Davy on Tue, 20th Mar 2018 3:27 pm 

    LMFAO, the board lunatics are swarming. All it takes with the weasel is a few words and he jumps at the bait. What a pussy. Weasel, how many years did your mom breast feed you? Do you squat to piss? When you JO do you fantasize about greggie?

  38. MASTERMIND on Tue, 20th Mar 2018 3:29 pm 

    John McCain blasts Trump for congratulating Putin on winning ‘sham election’

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/john-mccain-blasts-trump-for-congratulating-putin-on-winning-sham-election/ar-BBKtPZc

    Putin is turning into another Hitler! he is just one false flag away from being hit with a nuclear first strike!

  39. Cloggie on Tue, 20th Mar 2018 3:36 pm 

    https://pixel.nymag.com/imgs/daily/intelligencer/2017/01/20/20-trump-putin-lepen.w1200.h630.jpg

  40. Cloggie on Tue, 20th Mar 2018 3:40 pm 

    Millimind’s tribe managed to sick the Americans against Germany in thirties.

    Now they try to do the same with Russia.

    And Millimind’s tribe destroyed your country, European-America!

    http://www.kevinmacdonald.net/immigration.pdf

  41. MASTERMIND on Tue, 20th Mar 2018 3:41 pm 

    Clogg this is what would happen to you if you left your keyboard!

    This is how you treat a Fascist!
    https://i.imgur.com/PVa60tN.gifv

    Richard Spencer gets blasted by AntiFa!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlUxCsQMuwY

    “I hesitate to say this, but, Antifa is winning.” -Richard Spencer
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFT9UHytoxI&feature=youtu.be&t=14m21s

  42. Cloggie on Tue, 20th Mar 2018 3:41 pm 

    LMFAO, the board lunatics are swarming. All it takes with the weasel is a few words and he jumps at the bait. What a pussy. Weasel, how many years did your mom breast feed you? Do you squat to piss? When you JO do you fantasize about greggie?

    Don’t weasel yourself out of an answer, coward.

    What is your proof that Hitler wanted war for territorial conquest?

  43. Anonymouse1 on Tue, 20th Mar 2018 3:44 pm 

    Not entirely true clogg-berg. The exceptionalist does have a case, a mental case. Or a basket case, or a nutcase, if you prefer. So, in a roundabout way, he does a case. He is an untreated one.

  44. Cloggie on Tue, 20th Mar 2018 3:49 pm 

    “I hesitate to say this, but, Antifa is winning.” -Richard Spencer

    He is referring to the level of violence Antifa is willing to exercise to stop people from exercising their constitutional right to gather and peacefully demonstrate.

    He absolutely does not say that the American left is winning. Thank God there are 300 million fire arms in the US, mostly in the hands of Constitutionalists, to defend themselves.

    Victory of the Right over the Left is not necessary, just separation. Give the big cities to Antifa and the invaders and the Heartland to the Right, everybody happy.

    Oh and the Greater European alliance is coming, millimind:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7i7d2mZC6rQ

    And we want the Heartland back.

  45. Davy on Tue, 20th Mar 2018 4:00 pm 

    Nedernazi, have you ever read history or do you just make it up?

  46. MASTERMIND on Tue, 20th Mar 2018 4:01 pm 

    Clogg

    You will never win the battle because people on the right are total white trash imbeciles. Too much imbreading (cousin marriages) has lowered their IQ’s..The only reason they stock so many guns is because they are afraid of their own shadows. And when the oil crisis hits in a few the government will send the national gurad to send in food and water to the cities. People in rural areas like Kunstler will be left to die or they will have to migrate into the cities and become homeless or whatever. Its going to be hilarious when all the refugee hating Americans become refugees themselves! Same with European trash like yourself!

  47. Cloggie on Tue, 20th Mar 2018 4:02 pm 

    Nedernazi, have you ever read history or do you just make it up?

    What’s your proof that Hitler wanted war for territorial conquest? Don’t weasel out, answer the question.

  48. GregT on Tue, 20th Mar 2018 4:05 pm 

    “And when the oil crisis hits in a few the government will send the national gurad to send in food and water to the cities.”

    And where do you believe that the national gurad is going to send the food and water from MM?

  49. Cloggie on Tue, 20th Mar 2018 4:11 pm 

    greggie, explain to us about Hitler being a victim becuase he didn’t want war. Geeze, this is too much fun!!!

    And again meathead must admit defeat, as always!

  50. Cloggie on Tue, 20th Mar 2018 4:20 pm 

    https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/video174699953/WELT-Trend-Grosse-Mehrheit-der-Deutschen-stimmt-Seehofers-Islam-Aussage-zu.html

    76% of the Germans agree with minister of the interior Seehofer that the Islam does NOT belong to Germany.

    Bye-bye multicult empire. Let America become a third world country all by itself… until the inevitable breaking point.

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