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Kunstler: Is Thinking Cancelled?
Everything’s in play now. Consensual reality is on the run — the old certainties of US history and the receding promises of the future sink into a fiery sludge of the corona virus present. Things happen without apparent consequence. Authority is on the lam. Coercion stalks the land rooting out thought-crime. Fantasies and delusions rush into the space that reason has vacated in fear of its life. Maybe better not think at all. But you can’t help it, can you? To be human is to be dogged by your own thoughts.
One thought I can’t help thinking is that the failure to resolve the dishonest operations of RussiaGate is a big part of what drove authority and responsibility, those two sentinels of sanity, AWOL. The crimes of officers in the FBI, DOJ, CIA, and other agencies go unadjudicated while clear evidence of their seditious misdeeds has been publicly documented and widely published. It seems as if this great matter of attempting to overthrow the president has come down to the sheer will of William Barr and John Durham daring to ignite the engines of consequence, and you wonder if they have any idea how their stalling damages the national psyche.
General Flynn, the American Dreyfus, remains twisting slowly in the wind despite the DOJ dropping charges against him. Judge Emmet Sullivan is busy destroying the credibility and authority of the federal bench with bad faith procedural shenanigans underwritten by Ben Wittes’s Lawfare claque of Beltway shysters maneuvering in the background to protect Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Is it not past time for the DC Circuit Court of Appeals to force Judge Sullivan to end the case, or admonish and remove him?
Beyond all the legalese bullshit, an innocent man’s life is stuck unfairly and unjustly in limbo after three years of a malicious prosecution. Why has the attorney general not preferred charges against Gen. Flynn’s chief prosecutor, Brandon Van Grack — or, for that matter, against Robert Mueller, Andrew Weissmann and the whole Special Counsel staff — for withholding evidence and plenty of other obvious prosecutorial mischief? Mr. Barr has stated plainly more than once that the agency he took charge over in 2019 “us[ed] the criminal justice process as a political weapon.” Is that against the law or not? Does it injure this society to leave that question unanswered, month after month?
In a better society, the newspapers would have rushed to Gen. Flynn’s defense. Except our leading newspapers are so vested in years of their own untruth that they don’t dare to cover the story. Where is the consequence for Dean Baquet, editor of The New York Times, since Times staffer Bari Weiss disclosed his failure to control the ideological bullying, coercion, and hostility to fair play in his newsroom? Mr. Baquet has not just wrecked an institution; he’s made the whole business of covering reality look like a hustle. Does The New York Times’s board of directors not care about its reputation? Maybe the message is: why should anyone care about his or her reputation? And what kind of culture grows out of that code?
The mayors of New York, Chicago, Seattle, Los Angeles, New York, Minneapolis, Portland, Atlanta, and Washington DC have all allowed rioting, looting, property destruction, and arson to reign in their streets, and entertained measures to defund and hogtie the police, or abolish them altogether. These are all Democratic Party-controlled cities with Democratic mayors.
Do you suppose that voters have had a good look at these scenes and concluded that the Democratic Party is perhaps uninterested in civil order? And for what purpose, exactly? Does it reflect badly on President Trump that the murder rate under Bill de Blasio and Lori Lightfoot is suddenly off-the-charts while they are busy undermining police authority and its ability to protect the public? What do you make of St. Louis Chief Prosecutor (effectively DA) Kim Gardner moving to prosecute Mark and Patricia McCloskey for defending their house against a mob that threatened to burn it down? Missouri governor Mike Parson declared over the weekend that he’ll pardon the couple in short order if they are charged — at last, an unequivocal and decisive action on behalf of sanity.
There will be a whole lot more in the way of real-life problems to make the American people crazy in the months ahead. We have not even cleared up the affronts to decency and reason that happened before the corona virus landed and began destroying millions of lives and livelihoods. The siren call from anarchy is already blaring. Is there anything about this republic that you think is worth defending? Is thinking cancelled?
92 Comments on "Kunstler: Is Thinking Cancelled?"
Abraham van Helsing on Mon, 20th Jul 2020 4:11 pm
BBC Newsnight now: Oxford has produced very promissing vaccine.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-53469839
Elsewhere similar progress is being reported.
UK Gov ordered 100 million units.
Anonymouse on Mon, 20th Jul 2020 4:57 pm
I hope you are first in line to get a dose cloggedanus. The UK simply cannot afford to be without its most profligate windbag, troll and all around promoter of britains most important and trusted jews source.
The daily mail.
I am actually surprised you linked something other than your usual trailer trash tabloid . Are they asleep at the ‘Mail’ on this breaking story? I hope you’ve sent the DM hundreds of emails to let them how it makes you look to have to link something other than the DM, or, Alex Jones.
makati1 on Mon, 20th Jul 2020 5:48 pm
Thinking for yourself, and acting on your decisions, has been dead for most in Amerika for many years. The education system killed it. All that is left are a few who still can reason and see reality. The rest are government directed drones? Serfs? Tax slaves? Other…?
The few Amerikans who can still think independent of the propaganda/brainwashing are getting out, if they can, the ones who cannot leave are hunkering down in their bunkers, hoping for a better future. Sorry! Not going to happen. Sigh!
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makati1 on Mon, 20th Jul 2020 5:48 pm
Thinking for yourself, and acting on your decisions, has been dead for most in Amerika for many years. The education system killed it. All that is left are a few who still can reason and see reality. The rest are government directed dron</b.
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Anonymouse on Mon, 20th Jul 2020 4:57 pm
I hope you are first in line to get a dose cloggedanus. The UK simply cannot afford to be without its most profligate windbag, troll and all around promoter of britains most important and trusted jews source.
The daily mail.
SocialRevolutionComing on Mon, 20th Jul 2020 6:32 pm
Kunster:Is there anything about this republic that you think is worth defending? Is thinking cancelled?
Question should have been:Is there anything about Western civilization that you think is worth defending? Is thinking cancelled?
Let Western civilization:Canada, UK, France, Germany and son on, die and do everything you can to accelerate its death. It is not worth saving.
Europe went full retard on green energy. They will raise taxes and so on, they are going full communist. It is in french put here it is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18uFYAduNVE
I cannot take this whole world seriously anymore. Theatre and tragedy of the absurd.
Duncan Idaho on Mon, 20th Jul 2020 6:49 pm
‘Fascism Coming to a City Near You’: Trump Pledges to Deploy Secret Police Units to Major US Cities
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/07/20/fascism-coming-city-near-you-trump-pledges-deploy-secret-police-units-major-us
Hint:
It’s here
Abraham van Helsing on Mon, 20th Jul 2020 11:02 pm
EU has achieved agreement on both the Corona fund as well as a doubling of the EU budget for the coming years and that Poland and Hungary can’t just abolish an independent judicial as they please.
This summit was a big success for the Dutch pm Rutte, who sharpened his profile. There was a lot of door slamming, shouting, but in the end reason prevailed. No “balkanization whatsoever. The Netherlands has taken over the role of Germany of being the champion of fidcal responsibility in the EU.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8542919/Fury-EU-summit-leaders-discuss-Europes-possible-680-billion-Covid-rescue-fund.html
https://nos.nl/artikel/2341348-europese-leiders-bereiken-na-vier-dagen-onderhandelen-akkoord-op-eurotop.html
Abraham van Helsing on Mon, 20th Jul 2020 11:10 pm
“Fascism Coming to a City Near You’: Trump Pledges to Deploy Secret Police Units to Major US Cities“
Absolutely, the joint is going to be split up. The US are over as is being announced in hundreds of sources…
https://youtu.be/Hmi4BC-S7-s
…and it is going to be a mix of WW3 (SCS) and CW2. Two Anglo centuries are coming to and end and so will be globalism. Be prepared for the new racism (it’s the old one). The jewish carrier of the globalist=communist virus will lose all stature of global prominence.
Abraham van Helsing on Mon, 20th Jul 2020 11:27 pm
“I hope you are first in line to get a dose cloggedanus. The UK simply cannot afford to be without its most profligate windbag, troll and all around promoter of britains most important and trusted jews source.“
Hey look, we have a citizen of Wakanda in our midst:
https://www.rt.com/usa/495109-nfac-black-militia-blm/
“Leader of radical black-only militia NFAC ‘believes in violence’ & wants a real-life Wakanda for every black person in America“
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wakanda
“A highly developed country, Wakanda is the most technologically advanced nation on the planet.”
In line with general black potential they are going to stun the world! Expect black wind mills, black moon and mars landings and of course black autonomous driving and shit. Baggy pants unite under the inspiring leadership of weeping Kanye West!
@ChildrenOfTheHumanRace
Davy on Tue, 21st Jul 2020 4:12 am
‘Fascism Coming to a City Near You’: Trump Pledges to Deploy Secret Police Units to Major US Cities”
Idaho, your people are fascist and whiners. You whine when fascism is confronted.
Davy on Tue, 21st Jul 2020 4:15 am
“No “balkanization whatsoever. The Netherlands has taken over the role of Germany of being the champion of fidcal responsibility in the EU.”
Oh dear, the cloggo passed judgement that all is good full steam ahead. Nothing was solved cloggo, just more governmental decline by committee. The people will decide if there is balkanizaion not the politicians. Euros are having their own CW2 and cloggo is in denial.
Davy on Tue, 21st Jul 2020 4:17 am
“Absolutely, the joint is going to be split up. The US are over as is being announced in hundreds of sources…”
BS, cloggo, a few of the blue urban areas are suffering the consequences of bad Democratic power tactics. This is backfiring on them and it will show at election time. People are becoming afraid of the Democrats. An election will sort this out not your fantasy CW2.
Davy on Tue, 21st Jul 2020 4:20 am
“Leader of radical black-only militia NFAC ‘believes in violence’ & wants a real-life Wakanda for every black person in America“
Whats new cloggo, that has been a goal of the black radicals for years. Not going to happen so why are you talking about it? #Anglo derangement#
Abraham van Helsing on Tue, 21st Jul 2020 6:33 am
“Oh dear, the cloggo passed judgement that all is good full steam ahead. Nothing was solved cloggo, just more governmental decline by committee.”
What the hell does that mean? They just doubled the EU budget from 1 to 2% EU GDP.
And they printed a few hundred billion out of thin air to help out Spain and Italy. Against what the majority of the rubes love to think, not a single euro comes from the coffers in Berlin or The Hague, it all comes from Frankfurt-ECB. And since the EU enjoys low inflation it can easily afford this jew tip of 390B = 1.6% EU GDP to counter a real crisis like Corona. The EU simply works. Money, Britain won’t touch. No reserve currency worth mentioning.
Reserve currency share Euro-Dollar = 1:3
https://static.seekingalpha.com/uploads/2020/1/3/saupload_Global-Reserve-Currencies-share-all_2014-2019-Q3.png
We don’t own the reserve currency (yet), but already 20%. So a little of that fresh money’s generated inflation will leak away to the rest of the world. At the moment CW2 will begin in the US, the dollar is finished and Europe and increasingly China will own the reserve currencies. All thanks to the existence of the EU (“governmental decline by committee” according to our uninformed “intellectual” from the Ozarks).
“The people will decide if there is balkanizaion not the politicians.”
That’s right, US whites will start CW2, after being provoked enough by BLM looting, anarchy, toppled statues, anti-white bullying, excessive reparations, you name it. A war in the SCS could very well push white America over the edge.
“Euros are having their own CW2 and cloggo is in denial.”
This is such a dull and dumb remark. Just shooting back, without any relation to reality. Questions:
– What was European “CW1”?
– Who will be fighting “CW2”?
– Can you produce anything like this, related to Europe?
https://documents1940.wordpress.com/2018/06/11/cw2-brewing/
Don’t expect any answers, he doesn’t have any.
Abraham van Helsing on Tue, 21st Jul 2020 6:56 am
The standard British views regarding Europe:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8542919/Fury-EU-summit-leaders-discuss-Europes-possible-680-billion-Covid-rescue-fund.html#comments
“EU leaders agree £680billion Covid bailout package after marathon four-day negotiation that saw Emmanuel Macron ‘slam table’ and Angela Merkel storm out in frustration”
Marduk1, Singapore, Singapore, 4 hours ago
You see. None of the EU nations can support themselves now Britain is going. Remainers should take the knee in front of Brexiteers daily for 3 years and clap them when they come home every evening from work.
Pro: 154
Con: 25
You can’t get more delusional and self-absorbed than this. These people cannot produce a home-grown car, have tremendous trade deficits, have mediocre GDP/capita, below Denmark, Switzerland, Holland, Germany, Sweden, Austria, Finland, Belgium, France…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)_per_capita
…yet they think the EU will collapse without them.
Black Swan 2.. , Cygnus Atratus, United Kingdom, 9 hours ago
Brilliant…Brexit 100% correct..this ship is going down…
Pro: 1112
Con: 437
Wishful thinking. Despite half a century membership of the European project, they have fallen back to their default position: Europe unity is something that needs to be destroyed, if necessary with the US. Not going to happen this time. Instead their country is going to be taken apart:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8541277/Nicola-Sturgeon-receives-50th-birthday-card-branding-Boris-Johnson-class-clown.html
“Nicola Sturgeon’s husband proudly shows off a birthday card branding Boris Johnson a ‘first class clown’ as Scotland’s First Minister turns 50”
They already lost London to Islam.
ajblack, Salford, United Kingdom, 10 hours ago
And the house starts to crumble …
Pro: 882
Con: 432
More juvenile wishful thinking, no reason stated why that would happen, just after the EU budget has been decided upon for 7 years to come and an aide package was constructed for the garlic belt.
Det Sgt MikeHunt, Hell, United Kingdom, 6 hours ago
Weren’t we clever to get out of this mess?
Pro: 262
Con: 12
Emm, you are NOT out yet. Wait until the real no deal Brexit results come in. Expect Nigel Farage to get the tar-and-feather treatment by 2023.
Abraham van Helsing on Tue, 21st Jul 2020 7:13 am
The US 60% share reserve currency means 35-40% (undeserved) GDP. Just print money like madmen (“we print, you work”). If the EU and US will swap roles, which is what I expect will happen, the UK will miss out on that 35-40% extra GDP. That can not really be compensated by those shabby 350 million/week Brexit bus lunacy:
https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2017/02/08/09/gettyimages-576855020-0.jpg
We all remember the days when the Dutch had the reserve currency and didn’t know what to do with all that cash, other then spend it on great art and architecture:
https://documents1940.wordpress.com/2018/03/10/the-netherlands-in-the-17th-century/
2030 GDP:
PBM: 40T
Heartland: 7T
Abraham van Helsing on Tue, 21st Jul 2020 7:46 am
German press jubilant about the outcome of the summit:
https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/soziales/warum-deutschland-der-wirtschaftliche-gewinner-des-eu-gipfels-ist-a-e3d73454-4e53-45ce-8ab6-af7f6e50090d
“Frankreichs Präsident Macron, Bundeskanzlerin Merkel: Auf dem Weg zur tripolaren Weltordnung”
(Macron and Merkel on their way to a TRI-POLAR WORLD ORDER EU-China-USA)
Apparently, according to the former US deep state outlet der Spiegel, the West no longer exists. Vassals no more, Trump or no Trump. Even if Trump will be gone, America will no longer be the overlord of Europe. That is not to say that Europe could not become the overlord of (T)rump-America some day, but acknowledging the possibility of white America having enough of diversity and CW2, is still a bridge too far for der Spiegel, that would like to adhere to the moral excellence of their multicultural views (if they only knew).
Sissyfuss on Tue, 21st Jul 2020 8:55 am
Kuntski has become a Republican apologist over the last few years as the World Made By Hand becomes reality. He’s too rich now to identify with the Democrats.
Abraham van Helsing on Tue, 21st Jul 2020 12:04 pm
European newspapers:
“The British are back! This time they drive on the right side of the road and speak Dutch.”
https://twitter.com/sterrelindhout/status/1285297183491751947/photo/1
The Germans are glad that the Dutch do their bidding. “More Rutte is good for Europe”.
https://twitter.com/noorlanderarjan/status/1285121592629100546?s=20
“Better that 27 politicians go at each others throat rather than 450 million Europeans.”
Meanwhile things have settled and everybody is relieved that an accord has been reached. No complainers, not the Italians, not the Dutch, not the French, not the Germans.
SocialRevolutionComing on Tue, 21st Jul 2020 12:14 pm
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Davy on Tue, 21st Jul 2020 12:16 pm
‘(Macron and Merkel on their way to a TRI-POLAR WORLD ORDER EU-China-USA)”
Oh dear, cloggo is mentally masturbating again. Cloggo tell us more about the Eurotard Army and when you are going to have a reserve currency. While you are at it tell us about the wine and cheese you eat and the beautiful places you people visit and hang out in for a month out of the year. You eurotards do little work and a lot of talking.
Duncan Idaho on Tue, 21st Jul 2020 12:22 pm
“Police activity is being reported at Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder’s farm in Perry County and the U.S. Attorney’s office said it is holding a 2:30 p.m. press conference today related to $60 million in bribes paid to a state official and associates,” reported Laura Bischoff from the Columbus Bureau. “FBI Special Agent in Charge Chris Hoffman and U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio David DeVillers are expected to brief the press on a federal racketeering case, a news advisory says.”
Typical Repug–
We will see
https://www.alternet.org/2020/07/fbi-agents-descend-on-gop-ohio-house-speakers-farm-report/
Could be minor- ripping off the public
Duncan Idaho on Tue, 21st Jul 2020 12:36 pm
One more try:
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcQmnMW9LEyaH4Qm3bswqdrYWiPP0FIqdPEjIA&usqp=CAU
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Davy on Tue, 21st Jul 2020 12:42 pm
Woke backlash is gaining steam:
“Red Bull Fires “Woke” Diversity Directors Who Tried To Push For BLM Support”
https://summit.news/2020/07/20/red-bull-fires-woke-diversity-directors-who-tried-to-push-for-blm-support/
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/red-bull-fires-woke-diversity-directors-who-tried-push-blm-support
“Red Bull has fired two ‘diversity directors’ who tried to force the company into virtue signaling about Black Lives Matter while also dissolving several ‘culture teams’ who were pressuring Red Bull to take a more aggressive ‘woke’ political stance. Stefan Kozak, its North America chief executive, and Amy Taylor, its North America president and chief marketing officer, have both left the Austrian drinks company after they tried to create a schism within the business about its supposed “inaction on the Black Lives Matter movement.” According to the Wall Street Journal, “Ms. Taylor had been working on diversity and inclusion efforts within the company with Mr. Kozak’s support for several years but was met with opposition when she began advocating for Red Bull to be more overt in its support of racial justice in the last month, according to people familiar with the matter.” Citing insiders, the Business Insider reports that the firings were a retaliation against efforts by Kozak and Taylor to create internal tension around “diversity issues” and pressure the company to make more diversity hires. Red Bull also “cut or dissolved entertainment and culture teams in Canada, the UK, and Austria and canceled most of its major cultural events.” According to employees, these “culture teams” were “the most vocal about racial justice matters” and were therefore fired as a punishment for trying to force Red Bull into a political direction it didn’t want to take.”
Davy on Tue, 21st Jul 2020 12:48 pm
“Buchanan: Rising Diversity Is Joe Biden’s Worry”
https://buchanan.org/blog/rising-diversity-is-joe-bidens-worry-too-138950#more-138950
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/buchanan-rising-diversity-joe-bidens-worry
“But Joe Biden and his generation of Democrats have their own problem. Even as people of color make up a growing share of the nation, around 40%, they are an even larger, and still growing, share of the Democratic base. Without the huge majorities Asians, Blacks and Hispanics give them, Democrats could not win the White House. Yet, in this year’s primaries, the six top finishers in delegates were Biden, Bernie Sanders, Mike Bloomberg, Elizabeth Warren, Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar. All are white, as are the two top Democratic leaders in the House, Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer; the two top Democratic leaders in the Senate, Chuck Schumer and Dick Durbin; and the overwhelming majority of the 47 Democratic senators and 24 Democratic governors. Democrats may prattle on about their glorious “diversity,” but a closer look reveals a predominantly white senior officer corps, atop an army of minorities, whose shock troops are the Black Caucus, Black Lives Matter, antifa and The Squad, the latter consisting of four women of color… There is something else of interest here. While the statues being torn down in the revolution of the Democratic left are a variety of explorers, conquerors, colonists, missionaries, Confederates and presidents, all appear to have one thing in common. All are white men. The Democratic left wants to terminate the succession of white folks making the history of the country.”
Davy on Tue, 21st Jul 2020 12:52 pm
“Egypt’s Parliament Approves Ground Troop Deployment To Back Haftar In Libya”
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/egypts-parliament-approves-unprecedented-troop-deployment-back-haftar-libya
“On Monday Egypt’s parliament voted to approve sending its armed forces to fight “criminal militias” and “foreign terrorist groups” on a “Western front”. Previously Egypt has only flown sorties over neighboring Libya, however, this would mark the first ever direct ground intervention.”
Davy on Tue, 21st Jul 2020 12:56 pm
“Dear Black Lives Matter Supporters, Chicago’s Latest Riot Is On You”
https://wirepoints.org/dear-black-lives-matter-supporters-chicagos-latest-riot-is-on-you-wirepoints/
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/dear-black-lives-matter-supporters-chicagos-latest-riot-you
“You have to hand it to Black Lives Matter Chicago. Friday evening played out beautifully, as they must see things. From inception through execution, they got exactly the results they seek, including violent confrontation with the police, more chaos, more division, yet a mostly sympathetic or indifferent response from officeholders and the media. BLM needed help to pull that off. That help has been coming from countless individual supporters, proud to show their allegiance with signs in their manicured yards. Dozens of major corporations have followed the herd sending money to BLM. Blame those supporters, not just BLM rioters themselves, for the violence. Standing up for racial equality under the BLM banner may have earlier been an excusable error, but not anymore. What happened in Chicago’s Grant Park on Friday is the best illustration yet, as we will explain. What are BLM supporters thinking? Maybe some have missed how thoroughly the evidence has been compiled that BLM is violent, Marxist, antisemitic, anti-family and just plain nuts with demands like entirely abolishing the police, prisons and the entire Illinois Department of Corrections. But it’s far more likely that most would say – and you often hear this – that it’s not the organization but the “movement” they support. Black Lives Matter is also just a phrase in the movement for racial justice, they say. But that’s precisely the problem, and it’s BLM’s secret sauce for stoking violence and pursuing its revolution. The phrase is melded with the organization and its violent agenda. You’re for racial justice, aren’t you? Sending a check to BLM or putting up a sign proves it. Just don’t dare question either the movement or the organization. The severity of the consequences of questioning either one ensures that there’s no place for nuance so, whether intentional or not, the BLM phrase will continue to be conflated with the BLM organization. The end result is disastrous. No major officeholder or media in Illinois, to my knowledge, has challenged anything about BLM. Tens of millions of dollars have been donated to BLM by America’s biggest companies on down – the very companies that would be confiscated if BLM had its way. Not a word of criticism has been directed to BLM for its role in Friday’s riot. Here is what happened Friday, showing BLM’s role and why BLM can assume it has a green light to do more of the same. It was very different from what’s being described in most news stories. During the week prior, BLM Chicago heavily promoted what they called a Black, Indigenous Solidarity Rally, under their own name and using hashtags like #Fuck12Friday. Beyond their primary message about abolishing the police and prisons, they tried to broaden their base a bit by bringing in some Native Americans with calls to decolonize Zhigaagoong, their word for Chicago. They demand that all land east of Michigan Avenue be “rematriated” to, well, it’s not entirely clear which of the many tribes that inhabited that land at one time or another would get it.”
Ghung on Tue, 21st Jul 2020 1:03 pm
Trying to figure out when Kunstler lost it. Reading back in time, he used to be reasonably unbiased; analytical even. Over time he was just generally entertaining but still worth a read. Then something pushed him over the deep end.
Anyone who chooses one party over the other these days is either being well paid or is fucking insane. Probably both in Kunstler’s case.
Abraham van Helsing on Tue, 21st Jul 2020 1:13 pm
“Trying to figure out when Kunstler lost it. Reading back in time, he used to be reasonably unbiased; analytical even. Over time he was just generally entertaining but still worth a read. Then something pushed him over the deep end.”
That “something” is the malicious behavior of the Democratic Party. Don’t take it from me, just read Kunstler’s articles.
Ghung on Tue, 21st Jul 2020 1:24 pm
While at the same time ignoring the insane and corrupt behavior of the Republican party? Sorry. I’m a hardcore Independent. And, yes, I still read Kunstler, and a lot of other people, but I certainly don’t let them do my thinking for me. You?
Partisans have a problem: People like me.
Davy on Tue, 21st Jul 2020 1:40 pm
“Sorry. I’m a hardcore Independent.”
Pleeaase. LOL
But I do admire your renewable and homesteading knowledge.
Abraham van Helsing on Tue, 21st Jul 2020 1:59 pm
“While at the same time ignoring the insane and corrupt behavior of the Republican party? “
The competition admittedly isn’t stiff.
“but I certainly don’t let them do my thinking for me. You?“
Let me assure that mr Kunstler would not approve of my line of independent thinking.
Abraham van Helsing on Tue, 21st Jul 2020 2:09 pm
Marshall Cohen: “’Things could get very ugly’: Experts fear post-election crisis as Trump sets the stage to dispute the results in November“
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/20/politics/disputed-election-crisis-trump/index.html
“There’s a significant scope for an unprecedented post-election crisis in this country,” said Larry Diamond, an expert on democratic institutions at the conservative-leaning Hoover Institution.“
(Larry Diamond, where do they get these names?)
“”There is deep skepticism and concern, across the political spectrum, about how this election is going to unfold,” said Joe Goldman“
The Cohen’s, Diamond’s and Goldman’s are clearly nervous.
They should be. Michael Moore’s “Joe Blow” could revolt.
Ghung on Tue, 21st Jul 2020 2:22 pm
“”There is deep skepticism and concern, across the political spectrum, about how this election is going to unfold,” said Joe Goldman“
The Cohen’s, Diamond’s and Goldman’s are clearly nervous.
They should be. Michael Moore’s “Joe Blow” could revolt.
Here in this part of Trump Nation, I know plenty of folks who still think Covid-19 is a left-wing hoax, won’t ever wear masks, believe everything Trump says, and absolutely won’t accept Trump not winning at least one more term as President.
Abraham van Helsing on Tue, 21st Jul 2020 4:34 pm
in UK academia, free speech has certainly be cancelled:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8544279/University-lecturer-73-sacked-telling-colleague-positive-stereotypes.html
“University lecturer, 73, sacked for telling colleague ‘Jewish people are the cleverest in the world’ and ‘Germans are good engineers’ says he is victim of ‘woke’ university culture which is ‘obsessed with racism’ as he launches appeal against ruling“
BBC Newsnight busy preparing for the degradation of Churchill. “He wasn’t too nice for Indians in 1943 and he was a racist”. That settles it then.
Duncan Idaho on Tue, 21st Jul 2020 4:50 pm
Unplug the Freak Show ?
https://pressrun.media/p/unplug-the-freak-show-trumps-pandemic
Abraham van Helsing on Tue, 21st Jul 2020 4:56 pm
“Trump admits coronavirus will ‘probably, unfortunately’ get worse before it gets better“
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-coronavirus-briefing-today-press-conference-covid-a9631316.html
Second wave is looming everywhere. Allowing people to mass travel again was wrong. Opening pubs was wrong. When temperatures go down, expect the virus to return with a vengeance.
Duncan Idaho on Tue, 21st Jul 2020 4:57 pm
“It turns out that a president is actually necessary to activate the federal government in an emergency. We had an absurd orange circus clown instead.”
https://digbysblog.net/2020/07/we-blew-it-and-we-knew-it-at-the-time/
makati1 on Tue, 21st Jul 2020 6:20 pm
Ghung, there are no two parties, just one with different ways of doing the same shit at the command of their owners, the multi-nats. The whole government is a herd of whores for the MIC and their cousins the alphabet gang.
Amerika is gone. What remains is just a country full of brain-dead serfs and a few rebels who will be allowed to ‘protest’ to give the illusion of ‘democracy’ and ‘freedom’. Even that will soon end with the total subjugation of the tax slaves by the Police State. I’m glad I no longer inhabit Amerikan shores.
Davy on Tue, 21st Jul 2020 6:22 pm
“After Slamming Western Media “Hype”, Chinese Officials Issue Highest Flood Alert As Three Gorges Dam Pushed To Limits”
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/china-flood-waters
“The Huaihe River Commission of the Ministry of Water Resources issued its highest flood alert Monday after the water level on the major river, located between the Yellow and the Yangtze Rivers, reached dangerous levels. The water level at the Wangjiaba hydrological station on the Huaihe River reached 29.7 meters on Monday, well above the danger level of 27.5 meters. The 1,000-kilometer river is a major waterway in China, is facing grim flooding risks over the next three days for parts of Shanxi, Henan, Shandong, Anhui, and Jiangsu provinces. Massive flooding upstream on the Yangtze River has also caused concern that the Three Gorges Dam, the largest hydroelectric power station in the world, is being pushed to the limit under the strain of massive flows of water. Many regions along the Yangtze River have flooded in the past week due to torrential rains this monsoon season. At the moment, at least 400 Yangtze tributary rivers have overflowed, with at least a hundred dead and 15 million people evacuated from their homes in July alone. Rainfall totals in China are about 12% higher than the last monsoon season. The economic damage is already in the billions of dollars, according to government estimates the previous week. We noted last week rising floodwaters on the Yangtze River had caused fears the Three Gorges Dam has failed to prevent flooding downstream.”
REAL Green on Tue, 21st Jul 2020 7:13 pm
What does Three Gorges Dam have to do with the lack of intelligent thinking in America Davy?
zero juan on Tue, 21st Jul 2020 7:18 pm
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Duncan Idaho on Tue, 21st Jul 2020 7:20 pm
“It’s Like Stop and Frisk Meets Guantanamo Bay.”
https://buzzflash.com/articles/why-the-federal-cops-in-portland-are-all-about-election-day
Duncan Idaho on Tue, 21st Jul 2020 7:23 pm
Trump threatens to veto troops’ pay to protect memory of dead traitors
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/7/21/1962302/-Trump-threatens-to-veto-troops-pay-to-protect-memory-of-dead-traitors
JuanP on Tue, 21st Jul 2020 7:24 pm
listen to Duncan cry
JuanP on Tue, 21st Jul 2020 7:30 pm
Dumb fuck Duncan, this is about reneaming bases. God you are an idiot and your article a disgrace to journalism:
Trump threatens to veto troops’ pay to protect memory of dead traitors
Impeached president Donald Trump, loser of the 2016 popular vote, has issued a formal veto threat of the National Defense Authorization bill if it includes a provision requiring that all military installations carrying the names of Confederate generals be renamed. In other words, Trump is threatening the livelihoods of currently serving troops in order to protect the memory of dead traitors who fought to destroy the United States. There’s nothing this man won’t do to prove his racist, white supremacist red, including trying to incite a new civil war by sending federal troops to occupy the nation’s cities. The White House calls the renaming provision “part of a sustained effort to erase from the history of the Nation those who do no meet an ever-shifting standard of conduct.” The thing is, treason has always been treason. It was treason in 1865, it’s treason now. Then it devolves into some serious bullshit, suggesting that “loud voices in America” will use this provision. They are “demanding the destruction or renaming of monuments and memorials to former Presidents,” part of a “new left-wing cultural revolution.” Stephen Miller wrote this one, you can tell. The Senate adopted the amendment, offered by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, in committee on a voice vote, which meant no one in the Republican-majority committee had a problem with it. The Department of Defense itself says, basically, “good idea.” Retired military leaders agreed. The current head of the Joint Chiefs, Gen. Mark Milley, called for the base renaming in the strongest terms. “[T]hose officers turned their back on their oath,” he said of the Confederate generals whose names are still on the bases. “It was an act of treason, at the time, against the Union, against the Stars and Stripes, against the US Constitution.” Treason. Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley said a few weeks ago that the Senate could override a veto, and that’s probably still true. No Republican senator is going to want to be accused of depriving the troops of their pay in the middle of a global pandemic and three months ahead of a general election.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/7/21/1962302/-Trump-threatens-to-veto-troops-pay-to-protect-memory-of-dead-traitors
Duncan Idaho on Tue, 21st Jul 2020 7:32 pm
“Keep in mind that Ron Johnson is easily the dumbest Senator and that includes James Inhofe. He might even be the dumbest ever.”
https://digbysblog.net/2020/07/the-dumbest-senator-of-all/
JuanP on Tue, 21st Jul 2020 7:34 pm
Judicial Watch Sues FBI, DOJ, DNI for Records On Obama WH Meeting On Flynn
During that meeting in the White House then Obama, Rice, former Vice President Joe Biden, Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, FBI Director James Comey, CIA Director John Brennan and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper allegedly discussed Flynn, as well as the dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele. Years long investigations by Congress, the DOJ Inspector General and journalists revealed that Steele’s dossier was filled with false information, as well as disinformation planted by Russia’s GRU to sow chaos in the United States 2016 election. The dossier was also paid for by Hillary Clinton’s campaign, as well as the Democratic National Committee, which commissioned a pseudo research firm Fusion GPS to hire Steele. Moreover, the research firm, along with Steele, leaked the false information on Trump and his campaign through main stream media outlets. Judicial Watch stated in their press release that “at least two records describing the meeting – a January 20, 2017, memo Rice sent to herself and a set of notes taken by FBI counterespionage chief Peter Strzok – have been declassified and made public. Sally Yates also detailed the meeting to Robert Mueller’s investigation.” Judicial Watch filed the lawsuit after the DOJ, FBI, and ODNI failed to respond to identical May 20, 2020, FOIA requests for: All records regarding the January 5, 2017, meeting at the White House between former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, former CIA Director John Brennan, former Director James Comey, President Obama, and others. This request includes all records created in preparation for, during, and/or pursuant to the meeting, as well as any and all related records of communication between any official or representative of the Department of Justice and any other individual. The meeting took place just two weeks prior to Trump’s inauguration. Judicial Watch last week released mails between Strzok and former FBI lawyer Lisa Page which included a frantic exchange between top bureau officials in the days prior to and following Trump’s inauguration discussing a White House counterintelligence briefing that could “play into” the FBI’s “investigative strategy.” In May 2020, Judicial Watch received the “electronic communication” (EC) that officially launched the counterintelligence investigation, termed “Crossfire Hurricane,” of President Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. The document was written by Strzok.
https://saraacarter.com/judicial-watch-sues-fbi-doj-dni-for-records-on-obama-wh-meeting-on-flynn/