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Kunstler: The Ghost of Christmas Present
Apparently one additional world leader turned up in Buenos Aires without fanfare this weekend. The General Secretary of the North Pole, known popularly as Santa Claus, took his latest-model hypersonic sleigh to the G-20 Meeting, and made sure that the global financial elite would find their Christmas stockings stuffed with sugarplums one last time before the great reflation bull market dies of incredulity.
Something drastic was required as so many enterprises were skidding into a ditch last month, especially FAANGs, cars, house sales, and oil, while the Grand Old Man of the Dow Jones, General Electric, was singing its death song like an old Arikara chief in the prairie twilight. The US threat of 25 percent tariffs on Chinese exports was shunted ahead 90 days, giving the almighty algos and their human errand boys one last shot at looting the future.
How exactly will this change the basic equation of China sending its industrial output to WalMart in exchange for American IOUs, while the trade deficit mounts ever-higher and the last holdouts of the US middle class sink into debt, addiction, and hopelessness? It won’t, of course, because Americans have to find another reason to get up in the morning besides reporting to the national demolition derby. I don’t know about you, but it doesn’t warm my heart to hear about x-hundred thousand “housing starts” every month, knowing that it represents the destruction of x-thousand acres of meadow, field, and forest, and that what’s being laid down on the landscape out there is soul-crushing infrastructure with no future.
It’s not hard to see why US life expectancy is going down, driven by the two new leading causes of death: opiate drugs and suicide — the former often in the service of the latter. The citizens of this land have exchanged just about everything that makes life worth living for the paltry rewards of “bargain shopping” and happy motoring. But the worst sacrifice is the loss of any sense of community, of face-to-face human transactions with people you know, people who have duties and obligations to one another that can be successfully enacted and fulfilled. Instead, you get to do all your business with robots, even including the robots fronting for companies that seek to ruin you. “Your call is important to us,” says the telephone robot at the hospital billing office dunning you to fork over $7,000 for the three stitches Little Skippy got when his best friend flew the drone into his forehead. “Please hold for the next available representative.” Who wouldn’t want to shoot themselves?
Interestingly, it’s the people of France who are going apeshit at this moment in history and not the much more beaten-down Americans. For all the deformities of the EU, France still maintains a general quality-of-life so far above what is found in the US these days that we look like some left-behind evolutionary dead end here in this wilderness of strip-malls and muffler shops. They live in towns and cities that are designed to bring people together in public. They support small business in spite of the diktats of Brussels. They maintain an interest in doing things well for its own sake. The French are rioting these days not simply over the cost of diesel fuel but because they’ve had enough impingements on their traditional ways of life and seek to arrest the losses.
Americans, by contrast, seem to passively accept their new status as world-class losers. You can deprive them of whatever is meaningful, whatever makes life worth living, and sell them depressing simulacra to replace those things, and they never notice. Even the revolts ongoing in this land only seek to make relations between us worse, for instance the new super-Puritanism that wants to criminalize the most elementary mating ceremonies, like asking for date, or even paying attention to someone of the opposite sex. This is what the Democratic Party, formerly the party of the working people, has dedicated itself to all year. That’s your “Resistance.” They’ve managed to ruin one of the few consolations for being on this planet.
Maybe you’all have had enough of that foolishness. Maybe when Christmas is over something will turn in that old proverbial widening gyre, and the anarchy loosened by that turn will not be “mere.”
37 Comments on "Kunstler: The Ghost of Christmas Present"
GetAVasectomyAndLetTheHumanSpecieDie on Mon, 3rd Dec 2018 12:31 pm
Human were never made to last forever. Genetic entropy is now degrading human genome and human fitness. We are now getting stupider because of genetic entropy. There were never any future for the human race.
Just get a vasectomy and forget about the futur.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Mfn2upw-O8
JuanP on Mon, 3rd Dec 2018 4:45 pm
I just saw a cute kitty on Instagram. ❤️
makati1 on Mon, 3rd Dec 2018 6:33 pm
“The citizens of this land have exchanged just about everything that makes life worth living for the paltry rewards of “bargain shopping” and happy motoring….
Americans, by contrast, seem to passively accept their new status as world-class losers. …
Maybe when Christmas is over something will turn in that old proverbial widening gyre, and the anarchy loosened by that turn will not be “mere.””
As usual, JHK hits the nail on the head, not that Americans will notice or admit it if they do.
makati1 on Mon, 3rd Dec 2018 9:19 pm
Americans are being prepared for war with China/Russia/Iran. I keep telling Americans that they are brainwashed ans fed propaganda 24/7/365 but I am putdown by denials. Maybe they should read these two articles?
“Manufacturing Truth”
http://www.unz.com/chopkins/manufacturing-truth/
And…
“Truth Is What We Hide, Self-Serving Cover Stories Are What We Sell”
http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2018/12/truth-is-what-we-hide-self-serving.html
Nah! They will just ignore my advice because they know deep down that I am correct and to admit the truth would make them realize that heat is building in that frog pot called America.
Эй, братья, пожалуйста, ударьте антиамериканскую собаку, которую я сделал из гранитного форума on Mon, 3rd Dec 2018 10:00 pm
aswange, you’re not saying anything startling. you and nedertard engage in ceaseless propaganda to push your alt-tard agenda. if the MSM is doing the same thing then it’s better. i don’t like propaganda from alt-tard media anyway
nedertard knows that the truth is propaganda and you don’t.
makati1 on Mon, 3rd Dec 2018 11:14 pm
Intelligence is not your thing, is it Boris? LMAO!
Free Speech Forum on Tue, 4th Dec 2018 1:51 am
Americans have gone batshit insane.
Americans scream Obama was an asshole for driving up the debt, but Trump is a holy god for increasing the deficit.
Americans say the economy is bad, but the USA needs more job-killing regulations.
Americans say they hate refugees, but the US needs more wars that lead to refugees.
Americans say they hate taxes while begging for more tariffs that raise prices.
The government is killing the US and Americans beg for more government.
Americans say freedom only benefits other people and tyranny only affects black people.
The US doesn’t deserve to be saved.
Davy on Tue, 4th Dec 2018 4:45 am
“Intelligence is not your thing, is it Boris? LMAO!”
There you go Hypocrite supporting JuanP identity theft. How many times have you whined about identity theft and socks? When it comes from your best friend it is OK right billy!! What a stupid old man playing his own games.
Davy on Tue, 4th Dec 2018 5:29 am
The unintended consequences of rabid feminism.
“Like Walking On Eggshells” – Women Say #MeToo Is Hurting Their Prospects For A Wall Street Career”
https://tinyurl.com/y9hpw2eo
“Well, on Monday, reporters at Bloomberg News posited another explanation: That Wall Street executives have become so terrified of being falsely accused of sexual misconduct – or of having their words and intentions “misinterpreted” – that they’re afraid to walk within 12 paces of a junior female employee without a phalanx of HR reps present to oversee the encounter. Bloomberg even came up with a catchy name for the phenomenon: “The Pence Effect” – a reference to Mike Pence’s policy of never dining alone with a woman who isn’t his wife. Ironically, the “Pence Effect” has become so widespread that it’s starting to hurt the chances of young women hoping to break into the industry.”
Davy on Tue, 4th Dec 2018 5:35 am
Some of this is a good thing because the flag waiving BS is old and stale. We have so many problems in the world and many are US sponsored but it is the extremism of the left that is also dangerous. When you start educating self-hate you bring down a nation.
“Patriotism Is Plummeting In America”
https://tinyurl.com/yc8bkpno
“The Left Is Succeeding The progressive left has retained control over the country’s most essential means of expressing ideas. In universities, leftist professors and administrators ensure that students are taught primarily progressive ideas while squelching the spread of any views opposing those beliefs. Most of the nation’s newspapers and television news outlets are owned and run by progressives, who use these platforms to disseminate leftist ideology to the masses. Through skewed – and often deceptive – reportage, they seek to persuade the American public to adopt their views. They also use their influence to smear conservative politicians, organizations, and leaders. To make matters worse, it is nearly impossible to go to a movie theater or turn on your favorite sitcom without being bombarded with a slew of progressive messages. The left’s hold on the entertainment industry has empowered them to further their agenda while preventing conservative views from getting into the mainstream. FLAG’s report demonstrates that progressives have managed to convince young Americans to believe the worst about the United States; if those who continue to love the United States wish to see the paradigm shift back again, they must be willing to fight hard for it.”
Cloggie on Tue, 4th Dec 2018 3:54 pm
https://www.unz.com/video/ramzpaul_the-french-yellow-vest-revolution/
RamzPaul on the yellow vests uprising; he has a much better understanding than our resident I AM THE FLOP, who tried to read an anarchictic movement into it.
“Patriotism Is Plummeting In America”
That means one thing only, namely that the former patriots are giving up on their country. First they sink away in despair, like the Germans did in the decade up until 1933.
Then they will revolt.
Davy on Tue, 4th Dec 2018 4:06 pm
“That means one thing only, namely that the former patriots are giving up on their country.”
US had double the patriotism of what Euroland has so this is maybe why you all are revolting and we are not.
Cloggie on Tue, 4th Dec 2018 4:33 pm
“US had double the patriotism of what Euroland has“
Oh really? Why did you wait so long with your fake November 2016 “revolt”, essentially daring to vote anonymously for a non-certified candidate, where Europeans had grass-roots nationalist anti-system parties as early as the seventies. “Rallying around the flag” if your owners send you in some war of choice is not patriottism, but looting. Defending your country against a foreign invasion, now THAT is patriotism.
For America, that is too late. The old America no longer exists and whitey begins to realize the “American Dream” is over. Not patriotic enough when is was required. Now nothing remains but starting all over again.
Good luck fighting the Indians 2.0.
Davy on Tue, 4th Dec 2018 4:52 pm
“essentially daring to vote anonymously for a non-certified candidate”
neder, you are not making sense.
Americans are much more patriotic. Not that this is always a good thing. Some of the flag waving is excessive and cheap. Europeans are more mature about it. Now the younger generation like MOB don’t feel it near as much.
onlooker on Tue, 4th Dec 2018 4:55 pm
Clog, you cannot face the fact that Europe is a mosaic of people, identities, races, religions and ethnicities, who have never gotten along. The only reason you created the EU, is to have more economic clout against the military/economic behemoths of the US, Russia and China. But now that is falling apart precisely because of sentiments like yours of white supremacy and such. The US is 1 country. Europe is as I said a scattering of countries. The old continent is in a much more precarious position than the new one
Cloggie on Tue, 4th Dec 2018 7:57 pm
“Clog, you cannot face the fact that Europe is a mosaic of people, identities, races, religions and ethnicities, who have never gotten along.”
You must have missed 70 years of European integration, that is still ongoing and is now on the verge of developing a military component. Americans of the “benevolent hegemonic type” should fear how well continental Europeans actually do get along.
Europe between 1492-1939 was the only show in town on this planet and could afford to act as a system of competing states. That’s no longer the case and Europe did get its act together after the desaster of the Anglo-Soviet conspiracy 1933-1945, serving kosher globalist interests.
And now that we are on the verge of getting rid of “global Britain”, the eternal saboteur of the white race (and now itself), that prevented us from coming together militarily as well as opening up to Russia, that can’t wait to become European.
“The only reason you created the EU, is to have more economic clout against the military/economic behemoths of the US, Russia and China.”
Correct, your point in the light of what I said above?
“But now that is falling apart precisely because of sentiments like yours of white supremacy and such. The US is 1 country. Europe is as I said a scattering of countries. The old continent is in a much more precarious position than the new one”
White nationalism will exactly be the main reason why the US will fall apart on very short notice:
https://documents1940.wordpress.com/2018/06/11/cw2-brewing/
Europe on the other hand just skillfilly acted like a monolith and made short thrift of British Brexit cherry picking attempts and either is about to turn the British into a vassal (May scenario) or an impoverished client state of the US, Europe’s own Cuba, all of its own doing.
I have no doubt that after the merger EU-Russia, a continental European Confederation will ascend to global prominence, create a civilistion of inter-planetary potential and act like a magnet on American deplorable white nationalists as their plan B.
https://documents1940.wordpress.com/2017/12/03/paris-berlin-moscow/
onlooker on Tue, 4th Dec 2018 8:05 pm
The French Minister of Economy and Finance Bruno Le Maire | Eddy Lemaistre/EPA
Le Maire: EU ‘falling apart before our eyes’
Franco-German relationship faces ‘moment of truth’ on 4 key questions, French economy minister says.
By GABRIELA GALINDO
6/19/18, 1:35 PM CET
Updated 6/19/18, 6:32 PM CET
French Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire said Tuesday that Europe is in “a state of decomposition,” with countries trying to find “national solutions to problems that can only have European solutions.”
This article and quote was before the French riots
onlooker on Tue, 4th Dec 2018 8:23 pm
Here islink Clogmiester
https://www.politico.eu/article/le-maire-eeurozone-eu-falling-apart-before-our-eyes/
onlooker on Tue, 4th Dec 2018 8:29 pm
The US has been a multi ethnic, race melting pot for over 200 years. Europe is a diverse amalgamation of countries and people who recently banded together in a quasi Political/Economic Union of sorts called the EU. This union is nowhere near as firm as the US because it is NOT 1 country and its existence has been much less duration than the US
Cloggie on Tue, 4th Dec 2018 8:59 pm
Your link is dead, here is a working one:
https://www.politico.eu/article/le-maire-eurozone-eu-falling-apart-before-our-eyes/
It is from june and clearly the result of a desperate Google search “Europe falling apart”.lol
“The US has been a multi ethnic, race melting pot for over 200 years.”
Actually it hasn’t, it was European white-Christian. The original inhabitants were genocided and the blacks were enslaved. Some melting pot!
America could have worked and is the best proof that Europeans can very well work together, either as a European melting pot or a confederation of European states.
Unfortunately for Americans, they lost control over their country to jewish oligarchs, who began to use Americans as their tin soldiers in an attempt to let them conquer the world for said oligarchs.
After decades of preparation, the US Israel Lobby managed to assert its will and open the flood gates for mass third world immigration:
http://www.kevinmacdonald.net/immigration.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_and_Nationality_Act_of_1965
…in a deliberate attempt to ram whitey into minority status and make it powerless:
https://documents1940.wordpress.com/2017/09/27/paul-krugman-white-americans-are-losing-their-country/
https://documents1940.wordpress.com/2018/05/21/european-america-is-over/
It turns out that onlooker’s “melting pot” is turning into a pressure cooker gone wild and about to explode.
Europeans can very well cooperate, either in Europe or America… discover the world, go to moon and what not. But add Indians, muslims, negroes to the mix and the joint will explode. They can’t live together. Genetic parallel universes.
I AM THE MOB on Tue, 4th Dec 2018 9:55 pm
Clogg
Maybe you should have listened to Soros..
Billionaire George Soros: ‘The European Union is in an existential crisis’
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/billionaire-george-soros-the-european-union-is-in-an-existential-crisis-2018-05-29
George Soros warns the European Union is on the brink of collapse — and Trump is partly to blame
http://www.businessinsider.com/george-soros-president-trump-eu-collapse-2018-5
Cloggie on Wed, 5th Dec 2018 1:08 am
Ah yes, George Soros, another honest broker of European interests! Can’t to hear what he has to say about Europe.
Meanwhile in the real world:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/george-soros-backed-university-forced-out-hungary-will-move-vienna-n942886
Will probably be thrown out of Vienna soon as well.
“Sound of Music” to my ears!
Cloggie on Wed, 5th Dec 2018 1:37 am
The DailyMail won’t warn again:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-6461435/DAILY-MAIL-COMMENT-Britain-never-forgive-Brexit-betrayal-vain-arrogant-MPs.html
According to the DM, Most MPs want to remain in the EU (for rational economic reasons, not because they love Europe so much), but the commoners want to leave. The DM says that a no deal Brexit is now almost ruled out (which no majority wants, neither in the public nor politics), but there is now a very realistic chance that Brexit is not going to happen at all, because after a vote yesterday, parliament has the final say… and they want to stay in majority (Cloggie: until they see a chance they can finally blow-up Europe from within).
It would be the worst of all outcomes, still being stuck with them, blocking an EU army and keeping agitating against Russia, all in the interest of global Anglo-Zionist supremacy. George Soros would be very happy.
An Atlanticist EU judge made it very easy for the UK the other day to simply come back as if nothing had happened. They could even remain in the EU on their existing advantageous terms.
F*ck!
Oborne optimistic that May will survive politically, as if that matters:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-6461323/PETER-OBORNE-Contemptuous-deadly-mutinous-MPs-Theresa-Mays-salvation.html
Davy on Wed, 5th Dec 2018 5:23 am
“Europe falling apart”.lol
Look in the mirror
“Actually it hasn’t, it was European white-Christian. The original inhabitants were genocided and the blacks were enslaved. Some melting pot!”
Neder, you Eurotards set that shit up quit acting like the Eurotard mentality you bequeathed on us did not do damage. In the last 150 years we have been a melting pot of sorts talking your huddled masses.
“Europeans can very well work together, either as a European melting pot or a confederation of European states.”
Only when times are good.
“Unfortunately for Americans, they lost control over their country to jewish oligarchs,”
ZOG extremist whiner. You know very little about this country except obscure extremist internet shit that agrees with your neo-Nazi racism.
“It turns out that onlooker’s “melting pot” is turning into a pressure cooker gone wild and about to explode.”
We are doing OK, it is Eurotardland getting overrun and with its own natives in rebellion.
I AM THE MOB on Wed, 5th Dec 2018 5:59 am
Clogg
You change the subject all you want..But Soros is being vindicated..
And when the oil shortage hits..Europe will fall harder than the Soviet Union did..
LMFAO!
Davy on Wed, 5th Dec 2018 6:19 am
Sorosis is a criminal MOB. He is destroying the legitimacy of liberalism with extremism. Any good liberal should reject him.
I AM THE MOB on Wed, 5th Dec 2018 6:19 am
Neo-Nazi Who Allegedly Killed Heather Heyer In Charlottesville Said ‘It Doesn’t Fucking Matter’ That She Died
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/blakemontgomery/neo-nazi-who-allegedly-killed-heather-heyer-in
I AM THE MOB on Wed, 5th Dec 2018 7:11 am
Anarchists, butchers and finance workers in court over Paris riots
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/anarchists-butchers-finance-workers-court-over-paris-riots-153640565.html
The Anarchist are rising!
Cloggie on Wed, 5th Dec 2018 10:00 am
“Neo-Nazi Who Allegedly Killed Heather Heyer”
Allegedly is good. Here is the “heavyweight”. No signs of blood. Persistent rumours she died of a heart attack:
https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-EEGuDnmi2Ew/WbKW6mMw6WI/AAAAAAAADHA/Kb-IhgDcEDErJqstxl_4DIsB3JTICH0owCLcBGAs/s1600/Heather%2BHeyer01.jpg
Not that official America has any interest in the truth. The marxist mob has taken over the country.
Cloggie on Wed, 5th Dec 2018 10:04 am
According to her mother the fattie died of a heart attack:
https://jenab6.livejournal.com/65215.html
Cloggie on Wed, 5th Dec 2018 10:24 am
Move over, dollar, here comes the euro:
“Euro can challenge global predominance of the dollar, Commission says”
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/euro-can-challenge-global-predominance-of-the-dollar-commission-says-1.3721126
Daily total transaction value:
Euro: 36%
Dollar: 40%
Not bad for a currency that exists less than 2 decades.
International euro reserves however 20%.
First target: energy markets. 300 billion EU energy imports are paid for 90% not in euro. This must change. Likewise food and raw materials.
Won’t be long until parity will be achieved, just like Airbus-Boeing and EU-US GDP. And Europe has more sympathy, goodwill and trust around the world.
I AM THE MOB on Wed, 5th Dec 2018 10:33 am
Clogg
Everything is a conspricy to you according to amateur Youtube videos..
You are full on mental illness..
I AM THE MOB on Wed, 5th Dec 2018 10:34 am
Clogg
I am glad you are going to die the most horrifying death over the next decade..Well get to see how tough you are..
LMFAO!
Davy on Wed, 5th Dec 2018 10:37 am
“Move over, dollar, here comes the euro:”
Sure thing like you have been saying now for 4 years.
“Euro can challenge global predominance of the dollar, Commission says”
Nothing new
“Won’t be long until parity will be achieved, just like Airbus-Boeing and EU-US GDP. And Europe has more sympathy, goodwill and trust around the world.”
BS, the two economies exist in different relationships in the global economy. Change one the other changes leaving a zero sum gain. There will be very little changing until a possible generalized collapse. It is more likely the EU will splinter into a northern Europe League with other European nations going their own way. The European Union on its present course is destine to fail. Neder is in his normal fantasy world.
Cloggie on Wed, 5th Dec 2018 12:04 pm
Belgium is the next domino to fall regarding the UN Migration Pakt:
https://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/article185039308/Belgien-UN-Migrationspakt-loest-Regierungskrise-aus.html
Abolish the UN!
What we need is a United Civilizations Round Table, somewhere in Eurasia (Astana? [*]), where all “blocks” are represented, not just the “winners” of WW2.
– Europe (incl Russia and Heartland USA)
– China
– India
– Latin-America
– Black Africa
– Muslim world, led by Turkey
– Japan
Europe and China will be main carrying pillars of the multi-polar world order.
[*] – Astana is center of gravity Eurasia, centered between Europe, China, India and Muslim world.
Sure thing like you have been saying now for 4 years.
This is the first time the EU is actively pursuing it.
I am glad you are going to die the most horrifying death over the next decade.
This says more about your sordid inner life than about my future.
Cloggie on Wed, 5th Dec 2018 12:15 pm
Morgan just doubled the likelihood of the UK remaining in the EU to 40%
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/brexit-jpmorgan-says-probability-of-uk-staying-in-eu-has-doubled-to-40-1.3720922
If Britain can’t escape from the EU, nobody can. No need for Iron Curtain’s to get the job done. When the whole world tries to make it to Europe (or the US), it doesn’t make sense to leave that Walhalla.
Brexiteer Liam Fox is afraid that Brexit will be cancelled, because the majority of MPs are Remainers:
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/brexit-handelsminister-liam-fox-befuerchtet-ein-scheitern-des-eu-austritts-a-1242106.html
Cloggie on Wed, 5th Dec 2018 12:29 pm
UN Migration Pact, meet the idiots (map, light-blue):
https://tinyurl.com/yagmb9qt