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Kunstler: The Cheeto Cometh

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I dunno about you, but I rather enjoy watching the praetorian Deep State go batshit crazy as the day of Trump’s apotheosis approacheth. I imagine a lot of men and women running down the halls of Langley and the Pentagon and a hundred other secret operational redoubts with their hair on fire, wondering how on earth they can neutralize the fucker in the four days remaining.

What’s left in their trick-bag? Bake a poison cheesecake for the inaugural lunch? CIA Chief John Brennan has been reduced to blowing raspberries at the incoming president. Maybe some code cowboys In the Utah NSA fortress can find a way to crash all the markets on Friday as an inauguration present. What does it take? A few strategic HFT spoofs? There will be lots of police sharpshooters on the DC rooftops that day. What might go wrong?

Civil War Two is underway, with an interesting echo of Civil War One: Trump dissed Civil Rights sacred icon Georgia congressman John Lewis, descendant of slaves, after said icon castigated Trump as “not a legitimate president.” That now prompts a congressional walk-out of the swearing-in ceremony. The New York Times is acting like a Manhattan socialite in a divorce proceeding, with fresh hysterics every day, reminding readers in a front-page story on Monday that “[Martin Luther] King’s birthday falls within days of the birthdays of two Confederate generals, Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson.” Jeez! Who you gonna call? Ghostbusters?

There’s not much Trump can do until Friday noon except tweet out his tweets, but one can’t help but wonder what the Deep State can do after that magic moment passes. I’ve maintained for nearly a year that, if elected, Trump would be removed by a coup d’état within sixty days of assuming office, and I still think that’s a pretty good call — though I hope it doesn’t come to that, of course. My view of this was only confirmed by Trump’s performance at last week’s press conference, which seemed, shall we say, a little light on presidential decorum.

Perhaps it befits this particular Deep State to go down in the manner of an opéra bouffe. History repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce, old Karl Marx observed. What does the Union stand for this time? The rights of former SEC employees to sell their services to CitiBank? The rights of competing pharma companies to jack the price of insulin up from $20 to $250 a vial? The rights of DIA subcontractors to sell Semtex plastic explosives to the “moderate” jihadis of the Middle East?

So the theme of the moment is that Donald Trump is a bigger crook than the servants and vassals of the Deep State. He ran for president so he could sell more steaks and whiskey under the Trump brand. He’s in violation of the emoluments clause in the constitution. Well, I’m not aware that George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, or Andrew Jackson put their slaves in a blind trust after they became president. Anyway, at this point in our history, nobody can beat the Deep State for financial turpitude, certainly not a single real estate and hotel magnate.

I guess the big question is whether the Deep State — and, yes, Virginia, the Deep State does exist, unlike Santa Claus — will tear the country apart in the attempt to defend all its ill-gotten perquisites and privileges. The public at large is restive, eager to get on with the job of deconstructing the matrix of racketeering that adds up to the immiserating culture we live in, a society where health insurance company presidents make $40 million a year while ordinary people lose their homes because a $5,000-deductible health insurance policy doesn’t cover the cost of treating a routine tonsillectomy.

I didn’t vote for the Cheeto-head sonofabitch, but it will be interesting to see what he does between noon and six p.m. Friday, if he survives the festivities.

Kunstler



84 Comments on "Kunstler: The Cheeto Cometh"

  1. makati1 on Mon, 16th Jan 2017 7:52 pm 

    JHK shares most of my thoughts on the coming destruction of the FSA from within. That is why I no longer reside there and never will.

    The warm-up acts are about over. The real show is about to begin. I’m glad I have a seat in the upper balcony, well away from the action on stage.

  2. Denial on Mon, 16th Jan 2017 8:25 pm 

    No Kunstler is totally wrong here the deep state is the one the got Trump elected not because he is more controllable than hillary but because middle america no thinks the system works…..

  3. jjhman on Mon, 16th Jan 2017 9:05 pm 

    Here’s a thought:

    The Repubs lost three elections in 2016.
    Tthey lost two seats in the Senate. They lost 5 seats in the House and every Republican primary candidate that had any relationship to the larger Republican paradigm lost to a complete outsider.

    The Democrats, on the other hand, fielding the most disliked candidate their party had ever put forth only lost once, to the saame outsider even though nation-wide they gathered 2.8 million more votes. An America-only kind of loss.

    The bad news is that the outsider has aligned his cabinet with the worst of the Republican mind set and the caretakers of the Republican paradigm are going forward as though they have a mandate.

    Help!

  4. energy investor on Mon, 16th Jan 2017 9:35 pm 

    What a bunch of sore losers!

    This crap just brings America into disrepute.

    The fact is that the USA has been using weapons of mass destruction under presidents that folk think are good, nice guys. The USA has under Obama set fire to Ukraine and the Middle East…continuing the atrocities begun by GW Bush. The USA has abused its global reserve currency status via its banks and central banks.

    Regime change, rendition, torture, summary execution without trial, huge refugee flows…the list goes on.

    Obama has made Putin and his FSB look like nice guys by comparison…if you can look objectively at the facts.

    AND they now wonder whether Trump will damage their precious lifestyles and imperious image? The bleeding heart liberals are protesting?

    Gimme a break. I agree with JHK.

    See how it pans out. The Deep State will still make the rules and Trump will be culled if he doesn’t suit their purpose.

    We are a close ally of the USA but the stuff done by the USA since WW2 makes me almost ashamed to be friends with the schoolyard bully.

  5. Apneaman on Tue, 17th Jan 2017 2:25 am 

    Make America Peeable Again:
    The Great Urinal Debate That Wasn’t

    “The Dr. Pooper Papers, Issue #6:

    As readers of this blog may recall, nearly six months ago to the day I posted the fifth installment of the ongoing Dr. Pooper Papers series, Make America Poopable Again: The Great Toilet Debate That Wasn’t.”

    http://fromfilmerstofarmers.com/blog/2017/january/make-america-peeable-again-the-great-urinal-debate-that-wasnt/

    America, you’re a nation……of assholes

  6. Cloggie on Tue, 17th Jan 2017 4:24 am 

    Kunstler says: Civil War Two is underway, with an interesting echo of Civil War One

    Mr Kunstler may have his secret affiliations and sympathies with the old school America and outgoing deep state on ethnic-religious grounds, he is no neocon fanatic and doesn’t let his judgment cloud by these sympathies and recognizes a train-wreck when he sees one. The break-up (attempt) is coming, hopefully without CW 2.0 and mere secession, but don’t hold your breath.

    Before Trump can even hope to become America’s Putin, he first needs to be America’s Gorbatchov by the declaring the end of old imperial ways (he de facto already achieved that one).

    Next he needs to be Milosevic/Yeltsin and oversee the break-up of a huge territory with zero social and ethnic cohesion; if Croats/Serbs, Ukrainians/Russians, Czechs/Slovaks, Flemish/Walloons, Francophone/Anglophone Canadians, German/French/Italians Swiss, Sunny/Shia Iraqies/Syrians etc., etc. can’t live together other than segregated, what hope is there for… ah well. Perhaps the US can turn into a sort of CIS without blood shed, let’s hope so. But there no sign that Trump intends to break his country up. The impulse to do that will come from the “deplorables” after Trump will have left office, vertically or horizontally.

    For post-Trump America there are only two scenarios: the one sketched above (“1776 Alex Jones” scenario) or the country becoming the next USSR with enforced racial integration and Gulags for whites-with-an-attitude. That’s what the neocon run deep state wants and fools like boat (not that he understands anything of what is happening around him).

    If the latter scenario materializes, George Orwell will be right and we will have more or less this world map from “1984” :

    http://tinyurl.com/guvvgte

    1. Judaic State/Oceania/Anglosphere (pink)
    2. Christian state/Euro-Siberia/Paris-Berlin-Moscow (orange, Turkey doesn’t fit in)
    3. Islamic State/Caliphate (yellow, with Turkey the leader)
    4. Confucian State/China (green)

    Like described in “1984” these four territories will be in a state of perpetual war with each other.

    [part 1]

  7. Cloggie on Tue, 17th Jan 2017 4:24 am 

    The only hope Americans have to keep their freedom and to not end up in the Gulag is that their European cousins pull another 1776 and free them again and this time not from the British but from somebody else. For that to happen, real European leadership is required; at the moment only Putin can deliver that leadership. That’s the only way for Americans to hope to escape a nightmare. Europeans themselves will, if necessary, turn to the hard-right again if the going gets tough, like in the twenties and thirties, no doubt about that.

    https://s17.postimg.org/6wwnomfpb/worldmap.jpg

    George Soros can have the US East coast/Greater Baltimore/Trans-Appalachia. We can’t politically destroy him because if we would do that, Israel will apply the Samson option against Europe:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samson_Option

    Israel is over anyway and they will either volunteer to become a part of the Caliphate, like was the case since the 7th century, or more likely let themselves being airlifted to Woody Allan territory (NYC). Israel was secretly brought into existence via the Balfour Declaration, the deal between the British government and American Jewry. The latter would get Palestine from the British colonial stock if the Jews would bring their American serfs into the war against Germany and thus threw the Germans into the abyss, where the Germans had done nothing against the Jews, not in 1917.

    [part 2]

  8. Cloggie on Tue, 17th Jan 2017 5:19 am 

    Britain aims at hard Brexit:

    http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/theresa-may-grossbritannien-strebt-harten-brexit-an-a-1124695.html

    UK and Europe are going to be separated, the hard way and likely sooner or later enemies again.

    Good news, Britain out (although we are still interested in Scotland and Scotland in us), Russia and its thousands of nuclear weapons and subs in. Withdraw Europeans from Britain and leave London and its City to the Muslims, who will be in majority once every continental European has left the building. The future of Britain, that’s the new Spain 700-1492.

    Both French candidates Fillon and le Pen are pro-Russia, one of them will win. Le Pen is hardcore anti-Islam, Fillon is big buddies with Putin and rejects US overlord-ship and is pro-EU. Therefore I am pro-Fillon. He is a Gaullist and has leadership qualities:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kfhU5vGdQs

    Fillon visits Putin’s Valdai talking club (“dear Vladimir”)

    Euro-Islam will be dealt with later in the way Kunster has predicted in one of his latest columns: deportation. And Kunstler no doubt knows very well from his own family tree what Europeans are capable of on the deportation front if they are really pissed off and they don’t fancy too much being subjugated by communism or the Sharia.

  9. Cloggie on Tue, 17th Jan 2017 5:42 am 

    China, the last defender of globalism:

    http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/weltwirtschaftsforum-in-davos-alle-neuigkeiten-im-blog-a-1129926.html

    Chinese president Xi is the star at the current globalist Davos event, now that America seems to be retreating. He warns against trade wars.

    Yeah right Xi, how about bringing the US-China trade balance … well.. in balance.

    How about you beginning to pay Chinese workers far higher wages rather than using them as commie serfs and swamp the world with cheap products and acquire ever higher market shares?

    Still, China is not the enemy, merely a huge power block that needs to be balanced/contained. Xi acknowledges that the world has a common destiny, so he shows he has a sense of responsibility, as can be expected from a thousands of year old civilization that left the horrors of Bolshevism behind it (hi George!).

    Xi is right, nobody can win a trade war. But we can’t have giant trade imbalances either, which gives China the opportunity to buy up entire North-America. China finally needs to increase Chinese cost of labor and make China less competitive. If not, we are going to close our borders and/or impose tariffs and the Chinese can stick their Walmart produce in a place where the sun doesn’t shine.

  10. makati1 on Tue, 17th Jan 2017 6:12 am 

    Cloggie, I followed you up until you went off track with your Walmart comment. China provides much more than Walmart junk. It provides, directly or indirectly, the components for that PC you are typing at. It also provides most of the rare earths that make tech possible today. The U$ is NOT independent of China, and if a certain billionaire thinks so, he is going to be brought to heel by the dragon. No one forces Americans to buy Chinese, but they do because those things are not made in the U$ any longer, and probably never will be.

  11. Davy on Tue, 17th Jan 2017 6:24 am 

    WRONG: “There’s not much Trump can do until Friday noon except tweet out his tweets, but one can’t help but wonder what the Deep State can do after that magic moment passes. I’ve maintained for nearly a year that, if elected, Trump would be removed by a coup d’état within sixty days of assuming office, and I still think that’s a pretty good call “

    Neocon/Neoliberal deep state has been a complete failure. The US is a disgrace for the world to see and to fear. Their biggest failure has occurred in this election where they were caught completely naked and stupid. Their awful sins were uncovered by months of careful unfolding election dirt. The lies and deceit became front and center. Even the most hardened apologist were pushed to the limit. Fake news and corrupt messages of the media were exposed and now they are disgraced. The intelligence agencies and federal law enforcement disgraced in scandal after scandal of lies and corruption. Big business and Wall Street pay to play exposed nakedly. Corrupt foreign government influence exposed. Many liberals think Trump a bad guy and doomed. I think he is doing some good work. He will fail on several levels but it is this failure that will initiate vital change. We may not survive this change but not changing is worse. Not changing is a delayed crisis that will magnify exponentially. Trump is going to upend the world and ensure a crisis sooner than later. Globalism will be turned around and with it a day of reckoning that is long overdue.

    I doubt Trump will be removed. He has insiders on his team. He has strong generals. Even Putin is helping him behind the scenes. He has a Republican party that was horrified with him but now enamored by the power he has brought them. After the election Trump attempted to mend fences with the Republicans and did a great job meeting with people that were nasty to him. There are some grotesques like McCain and Lindsey who want world war that are horrified but they will likely be sidelined. They are mad men and people know it. Trump has his own security detail and the police and Secret Service love the guy. This is different than Obama and Clinton who treated them like yard help. Trump is doing all the right things at the right time to survive.

    I love that many of the assholes who hate Trump have an ass puckering issue. These dumbasses asked for it believing in a horrible creature like Clinton or even accepting her as a least bad choice. I love the fact that the totally corrupt neoliberals and neocons with their MIC and NWO are in tatters. I like the fact that globalism is an endangered species. Why, because we humans are an endangered species and we have hard choices ahead. Trump is a deplorable in many ways but that is what we need now. Those who hate him failed. You all had all the power and pissed it away in grandiose hubris that power brings. So go whine in your safe spaces. What you thought you believed in was false and a failure. Trump may be eliminated but things will never be the same. Get used to it snowflakes. The truth is there is nowhere to hide the shit storm ahead. Trump is just a preview for the baseball bat matinee called reality.

  12. Davy on Tue, 17th Jan 2017 6:26 am 

    Asia is doomed makati and your club med attitude with it. Wake up dummy

  13. Davy on Tue, 17th Jan 2017 6:46 am 

    FAILED message in the making:

    “Highlights From Xi Jinping’s Davos Speech: Attacks Protectionism, Praises Free Trade, No Intention To Devalue Yuan”
    http://tinyurl.com/zmjp4kb

    “Bottom line: China, a fervent supporter of free trade and globalization due to its still quasi-mercantilist economy, has sided with the Davos elite and remains on collision course with Trump’s protectionist policies. It is still unclear who, if anyone, will blink first.”

  14. Davy on Tue, 17th Jan 2017 6:55 am 

    Another FAILURE in the making:

    “Merkel Says She Is Ready To “Fight A Generational Battle” With Trump To Preserve Liberal Democracy And Trade”
    http://tinyurl.com/gm8cexf

    “Whoever wants growth – and I trust this administration will be a growth-friendly one – must be in favor of open markets,” Schaeuble told the Wall Street Journal in an interview. “Protectionism can afford short-term advantages but is almost always damaging in the long term.” Of course, Keynes himself said the same thing about Keynesian economics, the bedrock of all modern economic thinking, but that’s a different topic. As for Germany and its preparedness for an “ideological” crusade against Trump and the world’s protectionists, be careful what you wish for.”

  15. makati1 on Tue, 17th Jan 2017 7:00 am 

    Davy, the dummy is the Ozark Redneck that thinks he will have it better than those who live in Asia. Look around at your disintegrating country. It’s crumbling faster and faster every day. And there is nowhere to run. Nowhere to hide. And no one gives a damn if YOU survive or not. The whole world is cheering your collapse. Americans actually believe4 they are indispensable and and exception to the rules. That 4×4 of reality is going to hurt when it connects.

  16. Davy on Tue, 17th Jan 2017 7:12 am 

    Never said that makati. People like you who brag and talk themselves up then attack others have to manufacture words for their propaganda message to work. I have tough times ahead no doubt. It is unclear where the modern world will fracture first. It may happen in my backyard. What I am doing is gleefully pissing on your “club med” Asiaphile attitude that is a failure. You are going down makati along with your Asia you talk up so highly. You live in a 3rd world country above 20MIL people in a small island country of 100MIL. You are in the crosshair of the worst of climate change and the worst of ecological failure. That is documented and reality. Overpopulation will lead to hunger in your future. You call me a redneck but I have more culture in my little toe than your entire dumbass. You think a stink in the P’s makes you cultured. LOL. Maybe your years as a Mormon high priestess has you thinking you are special.

  17. Cloggie on Tue, 17th Jan 2017 7:36 am 

    “Deplorable” Bikers for Trump are going to protect the inauguration:

    http://www.bild.de/politik/ausland/headlines/trump-rocker-amtseinfuehrung-49800740.bild.html

    Madonna and Meryl Streep are engaged somewhere else and unfortunately couldn’t make it. Perhaps in four years time.

  18. Hello on Tue, 17th Jan 2017 7:38 am 

    >>> I’ve maintained for nearly a year that, if elected, Trump would be removed by a coup d’état within sixty days of assuming office, and I still think that’s a pretty good call

    Kunstler dude. You realize you have been pretty wrong on all of your predictions for the last 10 years, right?

  19. Cloggie on Tue, 17th Jan 2017 7:39 am 

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt-ldMj9y9w

    Trump – 9/11 – WTC – bombs [1:34]

  20. joe on Tue, 17th Jan 2017 7:41 am 

    I guess we wont find out until Friday what Trump is really all about. Its worth considering why his platform is so dangerous. Trump wants less war, more US jobs, better relations with Americas enemies, to stop corporate tax avoidance. Obama the middle class lawyer knows what he and Killary did to the Dems. Sanders should have been the Candidate, if they had let him run, we would be inaugurating Sanders on Friday. But he would have won on the anti-globalist agenda Trump run on. The elites want to ignore the reality that they have, since 08 been raping America. $19,000,000,000,000 of debt is not somthing they can ignore.

  21. Cloggie on Tue, 17th Jan 2017 7:53 am 

    @Makati – I never said that China only makes junk. I know about the computers, etc. But they are still dependent on us for the higher products, microchip producer, machines, planes, cars, trains, military hardware from Russia, etc. It is a two-way street. Nobody wants a major conflict, but the deficits…

    EU-China – €180 billion
    US-China – $367 billion

    …are unsustainable and the three parties need to sit around the table and work out a strategy to really balance trade.

    And there is only one really effective strategy and that is substantial wage increase in China.

    But in the long run we need less trade and less globalism. Everybody (the big powers) should try to make as much stuff at home as possible and reduce global traffic for trade. Americans can very well produce their own computers.

    But there will always be bi-directional dependencies (like rare earths) where trade will continue. But the days that Americans can print money to match the difference, those are gone.

    Perhaps we should resort to barter. The Germans had a very lively barter trade with South-America in the thirties (“locomotives against grain”), without interference of international finance, which additionally pissed off certain folks in NYC.

  22. JuanP on Tue, 17th Jan 2017 7:59 am 

    I have been horrified by Afghanistan, Iraq, Lybia, Syria and Ukraine. Not by the illegality, violence, aggressiveness or criminality, but by the ineptitude. I am also horrified by the total incapacity of the US government to improve the lives of people living here, other than the 1%. I am in disbelief about the absolutely unbelievable lies they tell us every day.

    I expect things to keep getting worse. Trump is a fool but I am glad he won. Anyone but Hillary! I admit that Trump makes me laugh almost daily and I am grateful for that. Make your preparations, guys. Time is running out. The coming economic crisis will be incredibly brutal. Focus on community, shelter, food, water and personal defense.

  23. Cloggie on Tue, 17th Jan 2017 8:08 am 

    Perhaps we know nothing about Trump and it is premature to label him as a fool. He wrong-footed everybody, including some of the smartest (and most criminal) people on the planet (hi George!).

    He may not be an expert on Mozart, but he is a loyal American with a vision for his country, albeit with a whiff of nostalgia and very much inspired by what Putin did with Russia. I think that Trump will become in the US just as popular as Putin is in Russia, even if the US has to go through a deep crisis.

    These are the days of populism, the days of the majority. Minorities will no longer be put on a pedestal like during the past “civil rights” decades. Official America will still be color blind but underneath the tectonic plates are on the move.

  24. shortonoil on Tue, 17th Jan 2017 8:16 am 

    Kunstler is on one of his warpaths. What is the Deep State? It is bunch of intelligence bureaucrats that couldn’t find their ass with both hands and a full length mirror. They missed the fall of the Soviet Union (how do you miss the fall of an empire?) they missed the Weapons of Mass Destruction that Iraq did not have, and they missed everything in the Middle East. They missed Trump’s victory at the polls. The US has the Three Stooges Protecting it!

    Can the Intelligence Agencies stop Trump? Sure, if Trump decided to commit suicide because he is scared to death that Langley has hired the Albanian Secret Police to get him. The only thing that these morons might be able to get is a pizza from Pizza Hut. The grand illusion of the vengeful omnipotent Deep State is about to deteriorate as they find themselves posted in Antarctic spying on the penguins.

    The US intelligence community is an overpaid, over rated, under performing pack of hanger-ons that now has the life expectancy of a donut at a policeman’s reunion. Yes, they are running around Langley with their hair on fire, and their butts are getting hotter by the minute.

  25. Cloggie on Tue, 17th Jan 2017 9:52 am 

    MSM + Dems discussing the possibility of having Trump impeached if somebody can prove that the Russians invented the term “crooked Hillary”:

    http://www.infowars.com/desperate-democrat-calls-for-trump-impeachment-claims-russia-fed-him-the-term-crooked-hillary/

    Wonder what the “Bikers for Trump” would think of that possibility.

    Seriously, if they are in all earnest going to begin impeachment procedures over this than the expiration date of the republic is approaching rapidly.

    Not that I really expect that Trump will be sabotaged early on. But he is the last president of the US in current shape.

    Way forward: Putin and Trump wiping Angela Mürkül of the political map first and next make secret arrangements with new European leaders about how to act in case of certain eventualities in the US.

    And of course, Trump should ensure that the US army top brass consists of Trump loyalists only.

  26. Cloggie on Tue, 17th Jan 2017 11:14 am 

    Uh-oh, English lefties love a German leader more than an American one:

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/17/trump-merkel-europe-brexit-putin-nato

    That’s a real nouveauté in world history since 1871, the year of German unification.

  27. Davy on Tue, 17th Jan 2017 11:49 am 

    “Putin Warns Of “Maidan-Style” Attempt To Delegitimize Trump; Doesn’t Believe Trump Used Hookers In Moscow”
    http://tinyurl.com/hahnnm7

    “Warning that a “soft coup” is being waged against Donald Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that he sees attempts in the United States to “delegitimize” US President-elect Donald Trump using “Maidan-style” methods previously used in Ukraine, where readers will recall president Yanukovich was ousted in 2014 following a violent coup, which many suspect was conducted under the auspices of the US State Department and assorted US intelligence operations.”

    “I have an impression they practiced in Kiev and are ready to organize a Maidan in Washington, just to not let Trump take office,” Putin said, apparently referring to anti-government protests in the Ukrainian capital in 2014, which resulted in the leadership being ousted. The campaign to discredit the president-elect shows that certain “political elites in the West, including in the US,” have “significantly” worsened, the Russian president added.”

    “The Russian leader also called the allegations that Moscow might have blackmail material on the US president-elect “evidently fake.” “When Trump visited Moscow several years ago, he wasn’t a political figure. We didn’t even know about his political ambitions, he was just a businessman, one of America’s richest people. So does someone think that our intelligence services go after each American billionaire? Of course not, it’s complete rubbish,” Putin said. Unsubstantiated allegations made against Trump are “obvious fabrications,”…. The Russian president, cited by BBG, said that Trump wasn’t a politician when he visited Moscow in the past and Russian officials weren’t aware that he held any political ambitions.”

  28. Cloggie on Tue, 17th Jan 2017 11:56 am 

    For the Russians, Trump is a Godsend. No need to blackmail him. Might be interesting to learn, 8 years from now, if there was perhaps indeed considerable Russian support for Trump and perhaps intense communication. Wikileaks are not going to be a help here, even if they had the data.

    The internet is essentially right-wing.

  29. Dredd on Tue, 17th Jan 2017 12:18 pm 

    It seems that everyone is beginning to answer the question (Will Elections Cure The Disease? – 4).

    I mean answering the question in the negative.

    Probably because of The Elections of Pontius Pilots on Doomer Tuesday.

  30. Cloggie on Tue, 17th Jan 2017 12:34 pm 

    The German Left is really different.

    Ueber-commie Sarah Wagenknecht from die Linke (GDR-SED follow-up) wants a military alliance with Russia and dissolve NATO:

    https://jungefreiheit.de/politik/deutschland/2017/wagenknecht-fuer-nato-aufloesung-und-sicherheitsbuendnis-mit-russland/

    Wagenknecht, who for a commie is pretty pretty…

    http://www.ruhrbarone.de/wp-content/uploads/image/Sahra-Wagenknecht-Pressefoto_RGB.jpg

    …looks on this picture even sweeter than normal:

    http://bilder.t-online.de/b/77/96/65/18/id_77966518/tid_da/wagenknecht-sekunden-nach-der-tortenattacke-.jpg

    …after she had been “tarted” by someone who opined that she had too right-wing opinions for a commie.

    It needs to be said that la Wagenknecht did indeed say that the German capacity for “refugees” was limited, a very un-left opinion. But even she has her mostly East-German supporters, who are not as multicultural sensitive as the leftists in West-Germany and who need to be taken into account (12% in the German Bundestag).

  31. Cloggie on Tue, 17th Jan 2017 2:59 pm 

    Rumors about pre-inauguration sabotage attempt with “damaging n-word video”:

    http://www.infowars.com/report-cnnbuzzfeed-to-release-damaging-new-trump-tape-48-hours-before-inauguration/

  32. peakyeast on Tue, 17th Jan 2017 3:12 pm 

    One of the worst things of the internet and computer world IMO is that today voices, videos, pictures can be faked perfectly in a matter of momemts.

    Nothing can be trusted anymore. Nothing.

    Basically we are heading back to the dark ages – using super advanced technology.

  33. Apneaman on Tue, 17th Jan 2017 5:55 pm 

    Clogspiracy, if anyone is an expert on rumors it’s you; especially contradictory ones which you some how manage to believe simultaneously.

    Like that bullshit about you being a refined and civilized European gentleman with culture depths us colonists could not begin to understand. Thing is at the same time you are trying to sell your superior culture yarn you are promoting Trump at the level of boot licker/hero worshiper which is hilarious since Trump is as far from a refined and civilized European as anyone can get. The antithesis of the best of Euro culture and tradition in fact. The man wears a fucking baseball cap for Christs sake! Think if we showed Trump a Hieronymus Bosch painting he could recognize it? How about a Vermeer? The man is a proud American reality TV “personality” and fires off snarky tweets like a teenage bitch.

    Whatever. You can square that circle in your head any way you like, just stop shopping it bullshitter because the contradiction is black to white.

  34. makati1 on Tue, 17th Jan 2017 8:52 pm 

    Is the U$ reaching Peak Insanity with Californication leading the way?

    http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-01-17/maxine-waters-calls-trump-impeachment-if-he-colluded-russians

    “You know, what we have heard, not in the classified briefing, but in this information about the dossier that has been collected by the man in London on him,” Waters replied, “It talks about some things that appears to ring true based on what we have learned about Trump.”

    That’s right, MSNBC are STILL pushing fake news about Trump as if it’s real. In fact, Matthews himself admitted last week that the dossier was complete “misinformation”.

    Nevertheless, Waters continued to bring the crazy: “Ok, what I have learn or heard about the dossier, it’s about his involvement with women. It’s probably prostitutes that are involved and those kinds of things. And he has sounded that way. He has acted that way, and it gives you reason to think maybe something is to this and we need to find out more.” the Congresswoman declared.”

    I think this insanity is nearing its peak and the next few months will put it over the top. I’m glad I do not live there. LMAO

  35. Boat on Tue, 17th Jan 2017 9:09 pm 

    mak,

    During the campaign Trump had little truth in anything he promoted. He basically rode immigration mistruths to popularity and then just insulted anybody that confronted him. But hey, US politics has always had little truth behind the talking points.
    Now to expect Trump not to be attacked as long as he is prez would not be in the tradition of US politics. Like Obama was attacked before day one, this is Trumps new life. He also starts off much less popular than any prez in modern history. US politics is a contact sport. Nothing new.

  36. Boat on Tue, 17th Jan 2017 9:19 pm 

    mak,

    What is weird is you don’t seem to know how the US works. I have wondered if your not another blow hard from another country. You seem to have enough of a plausible story but many of your insights don’t add up, for any region of the country. Make sure your off the drugs. That and claiming to be American is dangerous in the P’s.

  37. makati1 on Tue, 17th Jan 2017 10:05 pm 

    Boat, you can believe what you want, but it is mostly high grade bullshit.

    As for knowing how America works, I do, you don’t. It is the most corrupt nation on earth, bar none. The sooner it fails the better for the rest of the world. They are cheering on the U$ collapse. Maybe Friday will begin the swift end. We shall see.

    BTW: The only ‘drug’ I take is a One-A-Day vitamin and an allergy pill.

  38. GregT on Tue, 17th Jan 2017 10:07 pm 

    “What is weird is you don’t seem to know how the US works.”

    What’s even more weird Boat, is that you don’t appear to have the slightest clue how the US works, (along with pretty much anything else for that matter) yet you claim to live there.

  39. antaris on Tue, 17th Jan 2017 10:22 pm 

    Greg, kind of reminds me of years ago at Mcdee’s off the I5. I gave the girl a fifty (Grant) and she didn’t know what to do, like she hadn’t seen one before. Maybe she hadn’t, kind of like Boat.

  40. GregT on Tue, 17th Jan 2017 11:16 pm 

    The naivety of a girl working at Mc-E-Dees is one thing antaris, the naivety of a 60 year old male is on a completely different level. Boat’s had a tad bit longer to figure things out.

  41. antaris on Wed, 18th Jan 2017 12:12 am 

    Greg he is a bit slow. We should be nicer to him. It’s not his fault he is this way.

  42. GregT on Wed, 18th Jan 2017 12:46 am 

    I gave it my best shot a couple of years back antaris. Boat has been provided with hundreds of links since then. The fact that he keeps spewing the same old nonsense over and over again, leads me to believe that he is either a garden variety troll, a paid shrill, or a complete idiot. I still haven’t quite figured out which one yet. If he is the complete dolt that he comes across as being, then he has my most sincere apologies. I’m having a difficult time, however, believing that anybody could really be that stupid.

  43. Anonymous on Wed, 18th Jan 2017 3:00 am 

    Greg, boat is not smart\clever enough to troll, although the bar for that one is pretty low, he still doesn’t have what it take to do even that properly. Nor does have the minimal intelligence to hold down a job as a paid web troll. Would you, or anyone pay him for any of the incoherent shit he posts here?

    That just leaves option three….

  44. Hubert on Wed, 18th Jan 2017 3:55 am 

    Is that a picture of “W”?

  45. Davy on Wed, 18th Jan 2017 5:23 am 

    “Greg, kind of reminds me of years ago at Mcdee’s off the I5. I gave the girl a fifty (Grant) and she didn’t know what to do, like she hadn’t seen one before. Maybe she hadn’t, kind of like Boat.”
    I have to laugh at Canadians. They are pathetic when they try to measure their value. Every time I see one I see an asshole because I know they have an attitude about me. Something anti-American is in his asshole Canadian mind that is unfavorable and petty towards me. We need a wall with Canada at least a mental wall. WTF were you doing at Mcdee’s anyway stupid. That says volumes about you.

  46. Davy on Wed, 18th Jan 2017 7:01 am 

    “Trump Warns Canada, Mexico He Will Begin NAFTA Renegotiation “Within Days Of Inauguration”
    http://tinyurl.com/h6oax4q

    “However, in what is modest good news for Canada, a senior government official told The Globe and Mail the signals from Mr. Trump’s trade team indicate the trade focus will largely be aimed at Mexico, essentially cutting the United States’ southern neighbour out of many NAFTA benefits. The clear indication we have gotten from that side of the operation is that they are targeting Mexico and not us,” the official said. “We are keeping an open line of communication with them so we know what things they are planning to do with Mexico and that have a major knock-on effect with us.”

    “Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland has already contacted Mr. Ross, although the Trudeau government is relying heavily on former Progressive Conservative prime minister Brian Mulroney to act as an intermediary. Still, it remains unclear just how much a renegotiation will have on Canada. Canada is the biggest trading partner of the United States, and Mr. Mulroney has strongly pressed the case about the importance of the Canadian economy to Mr. Ross and others, including the president-elect, a source said.”

    “Mr. Trudeau sounded a positive note when asked at an event in Fredericton, N.B., on Tuesday about the threat of U.S. protectionist measures and a border tax on Canadian products. “We are focused on having a constructive working relationship with the new administration and one in which we highlight the depth of integration and inter-connectedness between our two economies,” he told reporters. “Obviously, there are millions of Canadian jobs that depend on the U.S. market, but there are also millions of American jobs that depend on smooth integration and trade back and forth across the border of goods and services.”

  47. Midnight Oil on Wed, 18th Jan 2017 7:23 am 

    All the Mexicans need to do is convert Trump to religion allowing multiple wives and hook him up with a mail order bride.
    Trump loves those Slavs….there has to be a tall thin blonde Mexican girl running around somewhere there.
    Maybe, it could be a secret….and he could have martial visits.
    See…there is a political solution.
    Attention…false news…haha

  48. GregT on Wed, 18th Jan 2017 10:49 am 

    “WTF were you doing at Mcdee’s anyway stupid. That says volumes about you.”

    When was the last time you left the farm Davy? Not much in the way of healthy choices anymore, and there hasn’t been for at least 25 years. The same is true North of the border. Most of the Ma and Pa local greasy spoons were taken over by big American fast food joints, a long, long, time ago.

  49. GregT on Wed, 18th Jan 2017 10:55 am 

    “the threat of U.S. protectionist measures and a border tax on Canadian products.”

    Does this mean that Canadians will no longer be able to buy their own products cheaper in the states, than they can at home? So much for the hundreds of billions in revenue for US retailers capitalizing on cross border shoppers.

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