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Kunstler: Risings and Fallings

Public Policy

In the corkscrewing anguish of the social sequester, with careers, savings, futures, and dreams whirling down the drain, voices rise above the din of conflicting statistics to ask: what is going on here? To some, it looks like a deliberate attempt to demolish what’s left of the economy for political advantage. Clouds of suspicion gather over the two medical superstars of the Daily Briefing show, Doctors Fauci and Birx, as they somewhat sheepishly revise their numbers for contagion and death downward and attempt to “balance” the formula of modeled projections versus mitigation efforts. Was the stay-at-home panic necessary, after all? Will it save the day or kill off modern life as we knew it?

Well, everyplace else in the world was shutting down, weren’t they? Did they all go off their rockers, too? At least a hundred doctors died in Italy heroically tending the stricken, so they say. South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore opted for flat-out medical Gestapo action. Britain, Spain, France, and Germany about the same, but minus testing at the grand scale and tracing of contacts. Honestly, how is it possible the whole planet punked itself?

I certainly don’t know the answer to all this, though readers are twanging on me to declare the whole Covid-19 story “a hoax,” which I’m not ready to do. I do know this: America has become utterly intolerant of uncertainty. And in the absence of certainty, that age-old human cognitive skill called pattern recognition, which has made us such a successful species, kicks into high gear scanning the field-of-view for answers. Any string-of-dots that affords even the slimmest plausibility goes on the table for review, including a lot of stories tagged as “conspiracy theories.”

I know this, too: the financial side of the gasping global economy was running off the rails well before Covid-19 flew out of its bat-cave into somebody’s soup bowl… or out of China’s Wuhan virus lab, if that’s how you like it… or before it seeped out of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s ark of world-saving secrets. In the USA and Europe, finance had come to mostly eclipse every other human endeavor of wealth production ­– with the catch that finance actually didn’t produce any real wealth, it only winkled and swindled wealth (or the mere ghosts of wealth) with its asset-stripping magic, from the places where wealth once did truly dwell. Or else it ginned up abstruse rackets that attempted to replace the utility of money with sheer math. Or, when all else failed, it just resorted to plain old accounting fraud… until, finally, there was so much there not actually there, that the whole holographic fantasy flickered out.

The pre-Easter bear market rally on Wall Street has been a wonder, don’t you think? As the numbers of able-bodied people out-of-work rocketed up past ten million during the same period, the stock indexes shot up three, five, six percent a day? Say, what? You’re telling me that’s based on the prospect of magnificent earnings in the third quarter? With every business on God’s green earth writhing in the dust like squashed bugs? And every supply line for basic goods and the gazillion spare parts for everything… all choked off?

And meanwhile, the American public sequesters and festers, waiting for those $1,200 checks that will fix… everything! Let’s face it: this is a twilight zone between stupor and fury. Nobody is paying anything to anyone. All obligations are suspended: salaries, rents, mortgages, bills, loans, bets, and vigs, all up in the air somewhere, but definitely not moving to their assigned destinations. The velocity of money is zero and all the various new term facilities and structured vehicles conjured by the Federal Reserve and Congress amount to a mere shadow of money moving ­– even though they are represented by trillions of brand-new alleged dollars. For every ten points that the Standard & Poor’s rose this week, somewhere down the line as many hedge funders will be dribbled like so many basketballs to the hoop of judgment.

The nation now has the long Easter weekend to stew and ruminate over its fate with spring achingly vivid and beckoning beyond the grim, streaked windows of sequestering. Those little cans of Easter Spam with pineapple rings won’t offer much consolation, combined with the abject discovery that even Netflix only has so many sequels to Frozen for children going catatonic with ennui. Kids are generally not so excited by stock and bond markets, but that’s probably where the genuine melodrama picks up on Monday. The weeks ahead there will give the phrase down-to-earth a whole new meaning.

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154 Comments on "Kunstler: Risings and Fallings"

  1. Abraham van Helsing on Fri, 10th Apr 2020 4:16 pm 

    “Czech nudists told to wear face masks by police“

    https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/czech-nudists-virus-police/index.html

    Czechs not taking any chances.

  2. Abraham van Helsing on Fri, 10th Apr 2020 4:20 pm 

    “We hope you will fly with us again!”

    “Airline pilots are losing their flying skills while grounded”

    https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/pilots-recency-flying-hours/index.html

  3. Apolitical on Fri, 10th Apr 2020 4:22 pm 

    Sick and tired of debating politics. Totsiens.

  4. Apolitical on Fri, 10th Apr 2020 4:26 pm 

    I cannot change what is out of my control.

  5. makati1 on Fri, 10th Apr 2020 6:05 pm 

    He asks some important questions that we may never know the answers to. This virus thingy is the biggest pile of elite bullshit/power grab yet. If you think the world will go back to the pre 2020s lifestyle, you are a dreamer.

  6. Duncan Idaho on Fri, 10th Apr 2020 6:16 pm 

    Trump’s top henchmen lie as easily as they breathe

    https://digbysblog.net/2020/04/trumps-top-henchmen-lie-as-easily-as-they-breathe/

  7. Joe D. on Fri, 10th Apr 2020 6:47 pm 

    “though readers are twanging on me to declare the whole Covid-19 story “a hoax,””, that’s because Kunstlers readers are idiots.

  8. Go Speed Racer on Fri, 10th Apr 2020 6:51 pm 

    This is the good stuff.
    At least 150 proof:

    #dempanic
    https://twitter.com/hashtag/dempanic

    #filmmyhospital
    https://twitter.com/hashtag/filmmyhospital

    #arrestfauci
    https://twitter.com/hashtag/arrestfauci

    #plandemic
    https://twitter.com/hashtag/plandemic

    If you’re not a liberal, check those out.

  9. makati1 on Fri, 10th Apr 2020 7:19 pm 

    It IS a Hoax, Joe. Anyone not brainwashed and is still able to think for themselves can see it. A power grab, nothing more. It is a small the normal flu deaths every year. Not to mention the very fuzzy numbers of deaths attributed to the new flu. All fake both ways. Pure bullshit.

    “…(WHO) estimates that the flu kills 290,000 to 650,000 people per year.”

    https://www.health.com/condition/cold-flu-sinus/how-many-people-die-of-the-flu-every-year

    About 107,000 SUPPOSED COVID-19 deaths so far, so this year may be at the top of the range. So what? How many will die from suicides from losing their homes, jobs, etc? 10,000 more? 100,000 more? These will not be counted but are preventable if there had not been the power grab lock-down destroying economies.

    Tuberculosis kills ~1,800,000 people every year. Why don’t we shut everything down to cure it?

    And then there is the really preventable deaths by STARVATION estimated at more than 9,000,000 ( NINE MILLION ) per year. Why is that allowed to happen? Maybe that is part of the plan to cull the human herd?

    This COVID-19 scam is pure bullshit!

  10. Kevin Cobley on Fri, 10th Apr 2020 7:21 pm 

    Kunstler’s trip to Alex Jones Town with his half baked conspiracy hypothesis (I won’t even bother to call them “theories”) about deep state control of the US, weirdo views about the effects on society of sexual politics .
    It’s clear that the corporate conglomerates control both American politics and Government policy.
    Kunstler needs to go back to where he came from and discuss the declining availability of energy in the US.
    It’s clear the car is dead as a transport option, they can’t be sustained. No more money to throw at them, their fuels or their infrastructure.
    We need that funding to apply to health/education of moron America/housing.
    Any attempt to resuscitate Wall Street/the Auto industry with EV’s will fail, they have the same problem as oil fuelled vehicles no resource base that can sustain them.

  11. makati1 on Fri, 10th Apr 2020 7:57 pm 

    The Deep State DOES control the US and has for decades, if not a century or more. Anyone who does not have his head up his ass knows this. If you don’t like the truth, then deny it, but you cannot hide from it or its consequences. You are about to experience them big time. Be patient.

    The US is toast. The Great Leveling is in full swing. This time it will NOT go back to BAU. Not even close. Buckle up! The ride is going to be hell!

  12. asg70 on Fri, 10th Apr 2020 8:28 pm 

    “Kunstler needs to go back to where he came from and discuss the declining availability of energy in the US.”

    Amen. And in the meantime, this site should stop featuring him.

  13. Davy on Fri, 10th Apr 2020 8:37 pm 

    “This COVID-19 scam is pure bullshit!”

    So true makato. So true.

  14. makati1 on Fri, 10th Apr 2020 9:52 pm 

    “The EU is now obviously collapsing before our eyes while the United States teeters on the Tipping Point of total disintegration. Russia and China will emerge from this crisis as world leaders in responsible social policies far more rapidly than anyone imagines.”

    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/united-states-european-union-have-failed-audit-pandemic

    Teetering? Nope! Falling like Humpty Dumpty.

  15. Theedrich on Fri, 10th Apr 2020 10:15 pm 

    “Let us DIE to make men free” – Suicide verse from the “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” used to encourage the self-extermination of Whites to replace themselves with Negroids in the American War between the States of 1861-65.  This motto has become the regnant idea of American political evangelism.  Its preceding verse was the religious basis and justification for the implied death command:  “As He [= Jesus Christ] died to make men holy.”  This same mythopœic ideation has been used with increasing virulence ever since.  It has now blossomed darkly to become the primary criterion for all political action, statements and judgements excreted by the elites of whatever profession, especially — but not exclusively — by the power-mad Left.

    On the underlying religious motivation:  in terms of comparative religiology, Christ is the morphic field of homo sapiens, just as his storied mother, Mary, has become the new persona of the morphic field of the Earth or Great Mother (Gaia, etc.) found in many religions.  (On morphic fields, see Rupert Sheldrake’s Morphic Resonance: The Nature of Formative Causation and, as regards Christ, Carl Gustav Jung’s analysis of Christ as a symbol of the Self.)  What is important in this sociobiological development is not the conscious explanations, justifications and rationalizations of talking heads, analysts and politicians, but the unconscious currents and drives of the human species.  The globalist oligarchs of the Davos type imagined that, with their ultra-cybernetic control over economies and propaganda, that they could rule the earth.  We now see the results of their business-as-usual, money-is-all plans and operations.  The Earth Mother has deflated their balloon with a bat out of hell.

    Yes, O anti-White, American genosuicidist:  to “make men free,” go ahead and die.

  16. thunderf00t on Fri, 10th Apr 2020 10:52 pm 

    Theedrich on Fri, 10th Apr 2020 10:15 pm

    “Let us DIE to make men free” – Suicide verse from the “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” used to encourage the self-extermination of Whites to replace themselves with Negroids in the American War between the States of 1861-65. This motto has become the regnant idea of American political evang

    rejection of (((supremetard))) so soon? even when the supremacy of science hasn’t done finished locking up humanity for beervirus

    reminds me of 3/11 fuku when active crisis was going on, innernets was full of discussion minimizing disastrous effect of nukular and new ideas sprung up defending and augmenting the safety record and design of safer nukular

    it never ends

  17. makati1 on Fri, 10th Apr 2020 11:39 pm 

    Theedrich, it only proves the ignorance and dumbed down brain-washing of the masses.

    I think we are in the beginning stages of WW3, which will be a war of finances, economies, cyber attacks, biological attacks and other less obvious means. I also expect it to progress to actual military adventures. I only hope it stops short of nukes.

  18. Go Speed Racer on Sat, 11th Apr 2020 1:29 am 

    #scamdemic

    https://twitter.com/hashtag/scamdemic

  19. Davy & Go Speed Racer on Sat, 11th Apr 2020 3:56 am 

    Hey Speeder,

    Great minds hate alike, which is why I adore you with every fibre of my being almost, but not quite, to the level of my Ebony Twink, Pablo. If it’s any consolation, Speeder, you’re a close second!!!

    I’m with Davy on this one. I hope Trump turns himself into a dictator so that he can send all the democrats to Auschwitz in railroad cars.” ~~~Speeder~~~

    Gee, thanks speeder. I quoted you verbatim. Now JuanP can’t claim we are not on the same page.

  20. Abraham van Helsing on Sat, 11th Apr 2020 8:37 am 

    Pope calls into Italian tv-show, celebrates health workers as “soldiers of love”:

    https://www.welt.de/vermischtes/article207202923/Corona-Krise-Papst-ruft-ueberraschend-in-TV-Sendung-an-Moderatorin-ergriffen.html

  21. Rudy Gulliani on Sat, 11th Apr 2020 10:41 am 

    Newsflash!: The great golden golum of greatness Lord Trump has the liquid farts from corvid 20and will soon no longer be king of usa.
    Long live the Trump!
    Newsflash !: toilet paper to cause end of the world soon due liquid farts

  22. Davy on Sat, 11th Apr 2020 10:44 am 

    Preposterous! Outrageous!, how dare you insult out lord and country usa!
    You must be dutch or mexican or a really mean ex american living in the Phillipines!

    I do not approve of this blasphemy, no siree not one little bit!

  23. Davy on Sat, 11th Apr 2020 10:46 am 

    I also have the liquid farts and no toilet paper

    god help us!

  24. JuanP on Sat, 11th Apr 2020 10:47 am 

    Preposterous! Outrageous!, how dare you insult me! I am afraid to comment on the moderated side now that Davy is there
    I must be south murican pussy or a really insane dumbass living in the Miami Beach!

    I cannot help this mental illness, I am sick

  25. JuanP on Sat, 11th Apr 2020 10:49 am 

    oh thats terrible! Im so sorry Davy

    I know I insult you constantly like a crazed fanatic but secretly I think you are a super great guy!

    I know that myself and MOB and Van Hellsing wish a quick recovery from the liquid farts.

  26. JuanP on Sat, 11th Apr 2020 10:49 am 

    I also have the liquid farts and no toilet paper in my run down Miami Beach condo

    I wish I had god to help me!

  27. Abraham van Hellsing on Sat, 11th Apr 2020 10:54 am 

    I also have the liquid farts. But unlike your shithole towns where all the woman are fat and smell like fish we have toilet paper.
    Us dutch are very clever like that, did I ever tell you how great I am?
    yeah Im really great, yeah like totally!

  28. I AM THE MOB on Sat, 11th Apr 2020 11:00 am 

    Hey guys just a quick question,

    are farts suppose to have lumps in them?

    I woke this morning and couldnt taste or smell anything and now this 🙁

  29. Davy on Sat, 11th Apr 2020 11:02 am 

    Sorry y’all. We lost are widdle mind again…

  30. shortonoil on Sat, 11th Apr 2020 11:17 am 

    Yes it is a hoax, but if they hadn’t done it the entire system would have flown apart. The store shelves would have been bare.

    The economy was headed for the biggest train wreck in history. Some one had to put on the brakes before it wound up in the abyss.

  31. Davy on Sat, 11th Apr 2020 12:09 pm 

    So true short. So true.

  32. JuanP on Sat, 11th Apr 2020 12:12 pm 

    Sorry y’all. juanPee and I lost are widdle mind again…

  33. JuanP on Sat, 11th Apr 2020 12:12 pm 

    very true short. very true.

  34. Abraham van Helsing on Sat, 11th Apr 2020 1:25 pm 

    Donnie just… errr… “nailed” it:

    https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1248619884688199682?s=20

    https://youtu.be/SJUhlRoBL8M

  35. Davy on Sat, 11th Apr 2020 1:38 pm 

    I am the Pink Poodle. And I like to pretend I am JuanP.

    JuanP is my idle.

  36. JuanP on Sat, 11th Apr 2020 2:37 pm 

    I am the Pink Poodle. And I like to pretend I am JuanP sometimes and sometimes others.

    JuanP is a pussy so I try tnot to be him too much.

  37. I AM THE MOB on Sat, 11th Apr 2020 2:56 pm 

    The reason people can’t get test. (selection bias)

    They test from town to town. And this gives the illusion that something is growing “exponentially”.

    Don’t believe me? Next stop is the midwest of America! See you there!

  38. I AM THE MOB on Sat, 11th Apr 2020 3:24 pm 

    Bill Gates is a wimp. Early stages dementia

  39. I AM THE MOB on Sat, 11th Apr 2020 3:43 pm 

    American’s don’t need to go to Church for Easter Sunday anymore. They have their new God. Coronavirus.

  40. I AM THE MOB on Sat, 11th Apr 2020 3:49 pm 

    I had two relatives that died a long time ago of “coronavirus”. Of course, back then we just called it old age.

  41. Abraham van Helsing on Sat, 11th Apr 2020 4:17 pm 

    Several central European countries will begin to ease the lockdown:

    https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/11/health/european-countries-reopening-coronavirus-intl/index.html

  42. I AM THE MOB on Sat, 11th Apr 2020 4:40 pm 

    Abe

    All they are doing is testing people more and more. And making it seem like its growing “exponentially”.

    They are just cooking the books. Its all fake.

    Just people who are normally diing usually from what they call “old age”.

    Watch and learn

  43. Duncan Idaho on Sat, 11th Apr 2020 5:30 pm 

    Sadism, crime and a love of lies: What 3,500 lawsuits reveal about Trump’s true nature

    https://www.alternet.org/2020/04/sadism-crime-and-a-love-of-lies-what-3500-lawsuits-reveal-about-trumps-true-nature/

    You will get socio/psychopaths like the Fat Boy with late stage capitalism.

  44. Duncan Idaho on Sat, 11th Apr 2020 5:35 pm 

    Rich Owners of Medical Staffing Companies Who Cut Doctor Pay Now Want a Bailout

    https://truthout.org/articles/rich-owners-of-medical-staffing-companies-who-cut-doctor-pay-now-want-a-bailout/

  45. I AM THE MOB on Sat, 11th Apr 2020 6:04 pm 

    BREAKING NYT: CORONAVIRUS STARTED IN EUROPE!

    Ewww..Yuk..

    Nobody is going to want to travel there anymore.

    LOL

    Its who counts the votes or tests..

    SOrry clog

  46. Abraham van Helsing on Sat, 11th Apr 2020 6:16 pm 

    “Nobody is going to want to travel there anymore.“

    Excellent, Europe for Europeans only.

    Seriously, you’re too dumb to understand the real meaning, or more likely malicious:

    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/08/science/new-york-coronavirus-cases-europe-genomes.html

    “Most New York Coronavirus Cases Came From Europe, Genomes Show“

    Wuhan —> Europe —> UK —> US

    The article didn’t say at all that corona started in Europa, only the NYC cases.

    Inbred liar.

  47. Duncan Idaho on Sat, 11th Apr 2020 6:27 pm 

    “Frustration is brewing among some of the President’s aides that wealthy outside voices are pushing their own agendas — with their own portfolios and companies in mind — rather than what may be best for the country.”

    Hint:
    Listen to scientists, not bankers.

  48. thunderf00t on Sat, 11th Apr 2020 6:34 pm 

    im very despondent because the state of society and humanity we are in today. i don’t bother to change my underwear and i advise u the same, there is no point.

    china will take over. i was young stupid and ignorant i should had listented to supertard makako a long time now. it’s too late now

    i can’t move to china because i’m very old and gona die of beervirus anyways.

    i have no economic future because “great leveling” supertard makat said

    the opportunities are in far east i should’d moved there a long time ago but i did not listen.

    im so stupid

    china is first world nation with respect for law and human rites. it has the #1 HGI which is scale developed by a muzzie and he put all muzzies nations #1 HGI human developnent index. Amerika is bottom HGI

    all i have is love for grater supremacist muzzies bag day feb12021. this will bring me fortune and beter future.

    shout out of little small big brother joe supertard.
    supertar edrich has the most high english . his high english is most difficult for me to understand. nobody is smarter than supertar theedrich

    there are number of people who begin to speak low english and unfortuantely they bring muzzie love to low english. i love low english but now they ruin it

  49. thunderf00t on Sat, 11th Apr 2020 6:42 pm 

    when whitey supertartd president trump used low english and said

    muzzie died like a dog

    at this point i associated high english with intelligence because darkie supertard muzzie long legged mack daddy hussein omama used it exclusively

    whitey supertard tom holland use high english exclusively but he love muzzies less. i hate him, he broke my theory concerning high english ad muzzie love

    but back to low english. i realized then whitey supertard trump is smart for using low english. earlier i appoited him supertard. i’m proud i did as i’m proud i appointed little small big brother joe supertard

  50. makati1 on Sat, 11th Apr 2020 6:53 pm 

    This whole shebang is about the elite power players and more $$$ and control. The suspect at the top of the list is Bill “I wanna kill the world” Gates. Too bad he will not be a death statistic from his virus. He and Kissinger are proof that only the good die young.

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