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Kunstler: Let the Games Begin!
Hot air balloons may be crashing in Texas, but in Philadelphia last week sainted Hillary, draped in spotless white privilege robes, floated through the glassiest ceiling of all on mighty gusts of saccharine gas. The good wife… the good mother… tireless fighter for the rainbow outcasts and gender martyrs of this patriarch-plagued republic, she pledged both continuity and change to the credulous faithful as history yanked her above the gurgling cesspits of allegation, suspicion, and distrust that lo, these many months, had come to be her natural haunt.
The cameras cut to poor brooding Bernie seated just above the delirious groundlings, frowny-faced, arms crossed, brow beetled beneath his white Corinthian curls, perhaps suffering the effects of cheese-steak poisoning. He’d endorsed Saint Hillary with all the passion of a Seventh Avenue soft goods jobber hawking last-year’s resort-wear, and the next day he would up-and-quit the Democratic Party — as if that was not sending a message to the true believers.
Yet another email maelstrom almost spoiled the gala, this one revealing the strings and levers pulled by the DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz in violation of the Party fairness charter. She was axed in a New York minute, and the whole country — including the ADD-afflicted news media — dropped the story to behold the awesome ascension of She-Whose-Turn-It-Is. All except the arch-boor Trump who cracked that maybe Russia could find those 20,000 emails missing from I’m-With-Her’s fabled server. The entire nation, including the aforementioned Special Needs news media, actually missed the point of the gag — which was: how lame are the US security agencies if they couldn’t find those emails but Russia could? And how come nobody raised that question?
Julian Assange then appeared, Jacob Marley-like, to warn the minions of Hillary that he had portfolios full of interesting material yet to dump, and would take his sweet time choosing the opportune moment to do it. How Hillary must wish she could send a Navy SEAL team into Ecuador’s London embassy to ventilate that hacker-rat! It will be fun waiting for Julian to make his move, and to see how much Xanax Hillary will require in the meantime. The DNC coronation show will prove to be only temporary relief from the phantoms and revenants of misdeeds past.
The distraction du jour is whether Trump has become an agent of Russia. Notice that this line of intel comes direct from the neo-con central agitprop desk. This unofficial US War Party representing the amalgamated war industries has been busy demonizing Russia throughout the current presidential term. Not all Americans are so easily gulled, though. Those who know history understand, for instance, that the Crimea has been a province of Russia almost continually for hundreds of years — except the brief interval when the ur-Ukrainian Soviet leader, Nikita Khrushchev one drunken evening gave it away to the then-Soviet region of Ukraine in a fit of sentimentality, assuming it would remain a virtual property of Greater Russia forever. Notice, too, that since Russia annexed it in 2014 (being the site of its only warm water port and major naval stations) not even the US neo-con war party has been able to make a credible case for fighting over it. Instead, they’ve resorted to name-calling: Putin the “thug,” Putin the “worst political gangster in the world.” This is exactly the brand of foreign policy that Hillary will bring to the Oval Office.
Not that Donald Trump offers a coherent alternative. The reasonable suspicion persists that he doesn’t know his ass from a hole in the ground vis-à-vis how the affairs of the world actually work. For him it’s all same as tough-talking the sheet-rocker’s union. Then, of course, Trump had to immediately step in dog-shit by bad-mouthing the mother of an American army hero who-just-happened-to-be of the Mohammedan persuasion. Trump for practical purposes is a child and a reasonable case is not hard to make for denying him presidential power.
And so the great disaster movie of 2016 commences: Godzilla Versus Rodan the Flying Reptile. Which one will survive to completely destroy the sclerotic remains of our nation? The good news is that voters are moving to the Third and Fourth party nominees, Gary Johnson (Libertarian) and Jill Stein (Green) in droves, herds, flocks, porpoise pods, and stampedes. Perhaps both of these relatively sane candidates will show enough polling strength to make it into the Great Debates. Won’t that be fun?
36 Comments on "Kunstler: Let the Games Begin!"
penury on Mon, 1st Aug 2016 2:10 pm
I am really sorry, but the results are already announced. The queen has been appointed to oversee the collapse of the former empire.
JuanP on Mon, 1st Aug 2016 2:48 pm
Americans, beware of the big, bad Russians! LOL! Anyone but Hillary! Trump for president! Trump, Trump, Trump! Let’s make America great!
Now, I will go work for free the rest of the afternoon to make this fucked up place a teeny, tiny bit better! My wife and I have decided to plant and gift 2,000 seedlings to our community gardens’ members this year; each member will get an assortment of up to ten free plants in September at the beginning of the gardening season. This is all part of our giving back to Americans before we leave the country for good.
Jerry McManus on Mon, 1st Aug 2016 3:29 pm
Why do I feel like this exact same conversation, “look at the evil politicians, they gonna ruin everything”, has been going on for decades now, at least since Reagan as far as I can remember, and it will probably still be going on decades from now.
At least until the lights go out.
“Circus Sideshow” doesn’t even begin to describe what a colossal waste of time our reality TV style politics has become.
Davy on Mon, 1st Aug 2016 4:05 pm
One man’s circus sideshow is another mans pig trough. The more ridiculous the show the better the viddles that end up in the trough. This is part of the reason Billery is getting away with murder. The system is completely corrupted and everyone knows it but few want to change it because they are at the trough too. It will be interesting when the trough is empty and the pigs are a squealin what the circus is then.
Plantagenet on Mon, 1st Aug 2016 4:45 pm
Jill Stein, the presidential nominee of the Green Party, is pretty good on both the peak oil and climate change issues.
http://www.ontheissues.org/2016/Jill_Stein_Energy_+_Oil.htm
Apneaman on Mon, 1st Aug 2016 5:21 pm
Here planty, I just read this sad piece about your home state. Forget about politicians planty – gotta look out for yourself now.
The Front Lines of Climate Disruption: Alaskans Witness Collapsing Mountains, Shattered Lives
“The impacts of anthropogenic climate disruption (ACD) across Alaska are devastating to witness.
In late June, due to glaciers melting at unprecedented rates, the side of a mountain nearly a mile high in Alaska’s Glacier Bay National Park, which had formerly been supported by glacial ice, collapsed completely. The landslide released over 100 million tons of rock, sending debris miles across a glacier beneath what was left of the mountain.
This is something that has been happening more often in recent years in the northernmost US state. While Alaska’s local conservative media often tend to feign ignorance of the cause of such phenomena, what’s causing it is all too clear. The state has been hitting and surpassing record temperatures over the last year, and the same can be said for the globe. It’s plainly obvious why ice is melting at record rates.”
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/37042-the-front-lines-of-climate-disruption-alaskans-witness-collapsing-mountains-shattered-lives
peakyeast on Mon, 1st Aug 2016 5:23 pm
I agree with plant here… While I havent read other stuff about Jill – this should be enough to discard both Trumph and Hillary.
If there is an actual choice besides democrats and republicans – I wonder why not everybody try those instead of voting the same again and again and expecting another result than before.
Plantagenet on Mon, 1st Aug 2016 5:30 pm
@apey.
Yes, you are right. Alaska is being seriously impacted by the warming climate. Its a catastrophe.
But the impact of global warming won’t be restricted just to high latitude areas. Its going to be catastrophic for many areas.
For instance, you live in Vacourver BC, don’t you? I hate to have to tell you this, but there are also glaciers in BC that are melting, and there are also countless deltas and beaches in BC that are going to be submerged by rising sea level. In fact parts of Vancouver are built on a river delta—this means parts of your own home town are eventually going to be underwater as glacier melt causes sea level to rise by 3-7 m over the next century.
While BC’s local media and business establishment often tend to feign ignorance of the cause of such phenomena, what’s causing it is all too clear. The province has been hitting and surpassing record temperatures over the last year, and the same can be said for the globe. It’s plainly obvious why ice is melting at record rates.”
Cheers!
sidzepp on Mon, 1st Aug 2016 6:20 pm
This is a prelude of a Queen Hillary presidency. This policy began with her wandering husband in ’98, when in response to the embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania, cruise missiles were sent in Afghanistan and Sudan. We sent a message to those enemies that we could get them anywhere. Of course we know what the response was. The Obama administration has resorted to the same policy. And surely, the Empress, will resort to the same type of response. Will it be Algeria, Pakistan, Iran. Can hardly wait and see.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-36941934
JuanP on Mon, 1st Aug 2016 6:24 pm
Plant, What Jill Stein says makes too much sense and that is whu she doesn’t stand a chance in hell of being elected. I wish we lived in a world where that could happen!
From the article Plant linked to “OBAMA: One of the challenges over the last decade is we’ve done experiments in nation building in places like Iraq and Afghanistan. And we’ve neglected, for example, developing our own economy, our own energy sectors.” I couldn’t help but laugh atreading Obama calling what we’ve done in Afghanistan and Iraq “experiments in nation building” when all we did was completely destroy those countries in a permanent and irreversible way. Obama is a motherfucking liar and a conceited prick!
Go Trump! Anyone but Hillary!
Apneaman on Mon, 1st Aug 2016 6:37 pm
Gee, thanks planty. I wasn’t aware of that since I know almost nothing about AGW. If only I put more time and effort into researching.
Plantagenet on Mon, 1st Aug 2016 6:44 pm
You’re welcome, Apey. I’m always glad to help. And again, I appreciate your efforts to tell me about AGW in Alaska, even though I know quite a bit about Alaska and AGW.
Thanks again!.
Cheers!
Plantagenet on Mon, 1st Aug 2016 6:48 pm
@Juan P.
Allow me to complement you on your excellent analysis of Obama’s statements on “nation building” and your insightful summary of his character.
Cheers!
Apneaman on Mon, 1st Aug 2016 8:14 pm
Planty, I don’t recall you being so thoroughly convinced of the severity of AGW when I first showed up around here. Maybe I’m not remembering correctly. Yeah that’s it.
Anonymous on Mon, 1st Aug 2016 8:39 pm
You made a bit of an error there Juan. You are feeding plantadopes ‘obama’ fixation. He thinks you agree that someone called ‘obama’ had anything to do with the empires criminal actions in those nations. Fair to criticize the meat-puppet obama for his words, but plantaidiot there thinks that ‘obama’ personally lead his empire into those criminal wars. I know, and most others here know full well ‘obama’, is just a figurehead, and a weak one at that, but in plantys world, ‘obama’ is the ringleader and mastermind of the merikan empire and all its misdeeds.
Personally, I dont even pay attention to flowery, but self-aggrandizing exceptionalist rhetoric any longer since it does not bear the slightest relation to reality.Difference is, I know obomber is a puppet-plant and his child-like (ie amerikan) view of the world, cant process that simple fact.
And now it thinks you agree with it…
makati1 on Mon, 1st Aug 2016 9:55 pm
‘IF’, and that is a mighty big word, the US makes it thru the next 4 years as a semi-free nation, I will be surprised. I see a dictatorship in reality, supported by a police state Hitler and Goebbels would have given their right arm to have had in pre-WW2 Germany. It will likely be given birth by the collapse of the financial system and economy which is long overdue.
That assumes that Russia and China do not decide they have had enough and turn most US cities into radioactive glass some night. Both scenarios are possible at this point and becoming more and more likely as time move on.
Warmonger supreme or the billionaire with unknown ideas. What a choice!
Anyone but Hillary!
jedrider on Mon, 1st Aug 2016 10:10 pm
Harking back to the Titanic analogy: We are electing the leader of the deck chairs. Why does it matter how they get arranged?
Go Speed Racer on Mon, 1st Aug 2016 11:33 pm
Trump is crazy. Lets vote for him.
“burn it all down, man”.
makati1 on Tue, 2nd Aug 2016 12:21 am
Trump is a perfect example of typical Americans today. I say, give him a chance to take the Us in a new direction and away from war. How can he screw up America anymore than it already is?
makati1 on Tue, 2nd Aug 2016 12:26 am
jedrider, I would say YOU are choosing between the leader of the deck chairs and the arrogant captain that wants to continue the current BAU journey at full speed, and damn the icebergs (wars) ahead.
I’m not in this game as I know that my vote is meaningless, if I were to vote, which I am not. We are moving into uncharted territory as a nation and world. Buckle up!
Kenz300 on Tue, 2nd Aug 2016 7:52 am
The top 1% want it all….. and the RepubliCON party will give it to them………..
What do RepubliCONS believe…….. depends who is paying….. follow the money……. fossil fuels….. oil, coal natural gas…, nuclear, NRA………the top 1%
Are RepubliCONS the real EVIL DOERS………..they want to end Social Security, Medicare and access to contraception…….
RepubliCONS are the reason the middle class is shrinking……
Kenz300 on Tue, 2nd Aug 2016 7:52 am
The top 1% want it all….. and the RepubliCON party will give it to them………..
What do RepubliCONS believe…….. depends who is paying….. follow the money……. fossil fuels….. oil, coal natural gas…, nuclear, NRA………the top 1%
Are RepubliCONS the real EVIL DOERS………..they want to end Social Security, Medicare and access to contraception…….
RepubliCONS are the reason the middle class is shrinking……
PracticalMaina on Tue, 2nd Aug 2016 7:55 am
Makati, I don’t want a president as reckless as yours, if forced, I will take the psycho we know over the psycho we do not.
Are the locals tense?? Or do they buy into the war on drugs hype enough to overlook these crimes? What kind of ally leadership is the US working with these days?
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/choirgirl-22-killed-bullet-head-during-rodrigo-dutertes-state-sponsored-butchery-1573470?utm_source=yahoo&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=rss&utm_content=/rss/yahoous/news&yptr=yahoo
PracticalMaina on Tue, 2nd Aug 2016 8:02 am
Not saying the US is any better, but I thought this kind of violence would have a little bit more trouble flying outside the US, or the ME.
makati1 on Tue, 2nd Aug 2016 8:27 am
Practical, first he is not MY president. He is the president of the Philippines, where I happen to reside. What kind of war do YOU prefer? A war on drugs or a war on the rest of the world like the Us has been pursuing, killing hundreds of thousands of innocent men, women and children over the last few years?
Are you aware that there are about 50 drug related killings in the US everyday? And that does not include death by use, which exceeds 120 more per day. Totals up to about 60,000 deaths per year in the Us. I would say that Duterte has a long way to go to match that record. And, keep in mind that he has the support of the rest of the government. He is not a dictator. He was elected on the promise to clean up the corruption and drug dealing in the Philippines. If the people didn’t support him, he would not last long.
Not saying that some innocent people will not be caught up in the clean up, but, I doubt if there are any really “innocent” people killed. Who is to say that that “Choir girl” was not a drug pusher? After all, age is not an indication of innocence.
And consider the source of the article you reference. A corporate owned, ad dependent, for profit, mouthpiece for the elite.
BTW: YOUR ‘psycho’ is likely to start a nuclear war. I prefer a drug cleanup to being radiated in my sleep or dying of a radiation caused cancer.
PracticalMaina on Tue, 2nd Aug 2016 8:47 am
I prefer no war, even though the US likes to keep at least 2-6 going at a time.
People getting blasted on the street does not seem like corruption getting resolved, seems like a convincing argument to pay protection money..
I know living in the US right now I cant throw stones. But I just never really expected drugs to be such a powerful target of public opinion in the Philippines.
joe on Tue, 2nd Aug 2016 8:54 am
Americans a talking as if there is a choice. That’s the first lie. But then theres supposed to be the checks and balances. Thats the place that
Americans need to be going to war for. Sadly its the side that is most forgotten now. With Islamic extremeism, there is democratic extremeism. But to rule, a king must be in check. It should a choice of which seasoned personality will preside over a functioning Senate, the Eisenhower warning has been forgotten now. Imagine a sitting President like Hillary telling
America that she is utterly under the influence of bankers and military men, the Presidency is a joke, its so stupid now that even the average joe can see it, and people are scared. Its all well and good to shout down trump. It feels good to be morally superior than him, but Khans wife’s job was to stay quiet and stand by her man. A real glass ceiling. None of this bickering will make Jihadism go away. The muslim population is too big in the West. We are all India now.
ghung on Tue, 2nd Aug 2016 9:19 am
joe said; “It feels good to be morally superior than him, but Khans wife’s job was to stay quiet and stand by her man.”
Yet another unsupported statement on this forum.
makati1 on Tue, 2nd Aug 2016 9:34 am
Practical, the US wimpy “war on drugs” has only produced an even greater supply and problem at a huge cost in tax money and death in the US. The numbers I quoted were from a recent article on the internet but is supported by many more sources.
Who do you pay “protection” to when anyone can take you out and walk away without prosecution? “Protection” is what he is trying to get rid of. When you know that ANYONE can take you out if they find out you are dealing, it should make you think twice about dealing.
Will his method work? Only time will tell, but if it throws the ‘fear of God’ into someone thinking about dealing or using illegal drugs, it is a good thing, isn’t it?
“In 2000, Americans spent about $36 billion on cocaine, $10 billion on heroin, $5.4 billion on methamphetamine, $11 billion on marijuana, and $2.4 billion on other substances.” I’m sure it is much higher now.
“The survey, which asked participants about their lifetime cocaine, marijuana, tobacco and alcohol use, found that 16.2% of people in the United States have used cocaine at some point during their lives. This rate was almost four times the rate of the second-place country, New Zealand, where 4.3% said they had tried cocaine.
The researchers also found that 42.4% of people in the United States reported marijuana use during their lifetime. New Zealand was second with 41.9%, but the two countries were far ahead of the other 15 in lifetime marijuana use.
https://www.verywell.com/us-has-highest-levels-of-illegal-drug-use-67909
I’m sure that the Ps is high on the list, but New Zealand? That was a surprise! I learn something new everyday.
PracticalMaina on Tue, 2nd Aug 2016 9:49 am
Sounds like Salem, I want your land….you crack dealer you.
Come to think of it, bring this policy to the US, any public official who has funded South American drug organizations with the purchase of coke go straight to jail for life, sorry Bush and Rush.
Those numbers are very low for marijuana I would guess, they cant let the people know how much funding was going to cartels from a harmless plant that has many medical benefits.
I didn’t realize it was a citizen carrying out the execution, I figured it was like a local police chief or something.
peakyeast on Tue, 2nd Aug 2016 11:24 am
The war on drugs are arguably more destructive than letting it be free.
But it sure gives powers to crazy powermongers and psychos that want to decide how other people should live their life. – Included in this arguments for complete surveillance, harsh incarcerations.
And the ways the war is fought is like giving a ½ dose antibiotics to an infected patient – with regular intervals: It streghtens and gives money and power to organized criminal organisations (besides the governments).
Besides that it makes sure the drugs are mixed with poisons, varying quality, and involves normal people with evil people. .. The prohibition are causing the problems AND killing people. Its fucking crazy.
Doing the same again and again and again and expecting a new results is the definition of pure stupidity.
https://mic.com/articles/110344/14-years-after-portugal-decriminalized-all-drugs-here-s-what-s-happening#.I2OCk5X1N
.5 on Tue, 2nd Aug 2016 12:55 pm
Kooks talking politics instead of kook oil. A refreshing change, but still kooky, right you retarded numb nuts? Cussing is easy right Ape?
LOL, maroons clustered in a tiny doom shack.
Apneaman on Tue, 2nd Aug 2016 1:12 pm
Hillary Trots Out The Billionaires
“I give up. If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em.
Do you really care about alarming temperature anomaly data? Astonishing heatwaves, forest fires and accelerating ice melt? Or “zombie” deforestation emissions and the accompanying extinctions? Failing orangutan conservation?
No way! Nobody cares anymore, if they ever did. Not even me!
The human triumph is complete. Mindless foolishness rules everywhere you look. Flatland über alles!
I can’t swim upstream against that all-powerful current. I know a trend I can’t buck when I see one Smiley_glasses
So let’s talk about Hillary, who is fast becoming one of my favorite subjects. The thing is, she was here in Pittsburgh this last weekend, and who did she campaign with?”
http://www.declineoftheempire.com/2016/08/hillary-trots-out-the-billionaires.html
“Flatland über alles!”?
Dave Cohen wrote three very nice essays [Adventures In Flatland], using neuroscience research findings, psychological, sociological research, history and pretty much most of what in known/proven regarding human behaviour, to explain why the humans can’t stop their destructive and suicidal growth obsession or admit it nor acknowledge the consequences.
Adventures In Flatland
This is Part I of a three-part essay summarizing my work on DOTE.
http://www.declineoftheempire.com/2014/10/adventures-in-flatland.html
Apneaman on Tue, 2nd Aug 2016 2:12 pm
.5, “cussing”? What the fuck, did you just come from binge watching Andy Griffith? Them days is over MoFo and I’m assuming you’re merican, so isn’t swearing and a cussing protected as free speech under your constitution? I thought George Carlin already went through the whole swear words thing back in the 1970’s.
pointless .5, take a look at the address bar on your browser (should be near the very top of the page) See the part that says – /publicpolicy/kunstler-let-the-games-begin/? /publicpolicy means that is the topic the article falls under. Did not know that huh? Take a look on the home page and you will see a drop down box that says “Select Category”. That means topic or subtopics. There is, Alternative Energy, Business, Consumption, Environment, General Ideas, Geology, Production, Public Policy. I guess you did not notice that either and thought since the site is called Peak Oil that was the only thing anyone was allowed to talk about. Well then, that explains your disappointment eh? You one of those guys that is big on “the rules” Since you brought up what you believe to be two rule violations in one little comment – Off topic and Cussing. Fuck your rules and fuck you too. I will do and say anything I please and there is nothing you can do about it. Least not legally. Let me take a guess here. A little profiling. You are a white male, conservative and American. How did I do? C’mon back and explain to me what is wrong with cussing. How do words matter? You know how people rightly talk about PC being used as a form of control (both teams use it)? So is the frowning upon and banning of so called swear words and taking god’s name in vain god damnit! Trying to police what people say is as old as language itself. I bet you would make a good little fascist or lieutenant in the American Taliban.
George Carlin – 7 Words You Can’t Say On TV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyBH5oNQOS0
PracticalMaina on Tue, 2nd Aug 2016 2:34 pm
Yeah guys, quit being kooky doomers, with your “numbers” and “science”.
makati1 on Wed, 3rd Aug 2016 12:57 am
Practical, It is anyone, not just the police or the military, but the neighbor or even another drug dealer who is getting rid of the competition. Could get interesting.