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Kunstler: The So-called Resistance
Entropy never sleeps. It works remorselessly to transform things of value into useless, dissipated waste and heat. Complexity stokes it especially as the law of diminishing returns multiplies the wheels of futility spinning down to zero. Hence, the intellectual decay of American life in which spin is everything, anything goes, and nothing matters.
The latest manifestation of this dynamic is the curious movement that styles itself The Resistance, lately adopted by the grotesque handmaiden of the Deep State that the Democratic Party became in the regency of Hillary Clinton. Its mission is to undo the results of the last national election by claiming that Russia undid it. It pretends to seek the restoration of something — but what? Of dissipated power relations within the Deep State itself?
President Trump is actually taking care of that by turning government management over to his generals and the minions of Goldman Sachs. The generals are reinvesting in the strategic black hole of our military adventures overseas. The Goldman Sachs appointees are making Wall Street safe for the continued asset-stripping of the USA. The last time I checked, Hillary’s gang did not oppose either of these endeavors.
The Resistance employs cadres of useful idiots — Black Lives Matter, “undocumented” visitors, “Antifa,” the LGBTQ “community” — to pretend that it stands for social justice, but these are just straw persons fronting a gang devoted only to regaining the levers of “privilege” — which they also pretend to be against. The Resistance takes its name from the movement in World War Two France that fought the Nazi occupation, thus self-valorizing itself. But the pre-owned styling is just another victory of spin in the public relations nightmare that American political life has become.
It also begs the question: what would a real resistance look like? First, it would oppose the aforementioned asset-stripping that the US economy has become, the transfer of capital in all its forms — monetary, political, cultural, social — from the dis-employed former middle classes to the tiny, select beneficiaries of financial manipulation. Note that the things being manipulated — markets, currencies, securities, and interest rates — are increasingly phantom entities that appear to maintain their value only because the high priests of financial authority say that they do.
The shelf-life of that flim-flam approaches its endgame as it self-evidently immiserates the masses and their sheer faith in its recondite promises dwindles away to nothing. A genuine resistance would begin to deconstruct this clerisy and its institutions, namely Too Big To Fail banks and the Federal Reserve. The best opportunity to accomplish that would have been the early months of Mr. Obama’s turn in the White House, the dark time of the previous financial crash when the damage was fresh and obvious.
But the former president blew that under the influence of high priests Robert Rubin and Larry Summers. And the lower order clerics were allowed run their hoodoo machine flat out in the following eight years. Just look at the long chart of the Standard & Poors index. Tragically, this ever-upward arc is now taken to be the normal state of things, and when it fails the implosion will be orders of magnitude more violent than the last time.
One would think that a genuine resistance would also oppose the growing consolidation of power in the now-colossal spying apparatus of the nation — the often averred to “seventeen intel agencies” that show signs of being actively at war against other parts of the government and against citizens themselves. Hence, the non-stop murmur of allegation about “Russian interference in the election,” going back to the summer of 2016 without either any real evidence, or any clarification of what is actually alleged to have happened.
Another tragic turn is that this fifth column of rogue intel agencies has recruited the major organs of the news to incessantly repeat its allegations until the public accepts the story as established fact rather than just the manufactured story it so far appears to be. Well, the lives of persons and societies founder on versions of the “reality” they fabricate for their own purposes. A genuine resistance would show foremost some fidelity to a reality beyond the spin-factories of self-delusion. And it would lead in the hard work of shedding this over-burden of self-multiplying despotisms.
Maybe this Memorial Day is a good moment to question the claims of the so-called resistance, and perhaps patriotically meditate on what the nature of an authentic resistance would be to the ongoing decay of this nation while it is still possible.
51 Comments on "Kunstler: The So-called Resistance"
Go Speed Racer on Mon, 29th May 2017 1:54 pm
It is looking like a re-run of the Bush Jr administration, but this time they are playing the 33 1/3 at 78 rpm.
What Bush Jr did in 8 years, Trump has to do in 3. So they are pumping the housing market with cheap inflation money, legalizing the banks to commit fraud, and complete as many home sales as possible to suckers so that the foreclosure wave comes thru and the rich people buy all the houses at an 80% discount.
Then rent them out, to the formerly middle-class prior owners.
JuanP on Mon, 29th May 2017 2:34 pm
There will never be a resistance in the USA while we still have food stamps, electricity, internet, pornography, video games, TVs, and smart phones. Resistance is VERY, VERY HARD work. I resisted in Uruguay as a child and adolescent; resisting is brutally punishing on you. I gave up resisting, emigrated and became a maladjusted antisocial marginal instead. I no longer resist anything because I no longer care enough to make the effort. Now, I mostly ignore, forgive, forget, and live for today. Carpe diem! Time is running out! Have fun while you can! Back to the garden ;))
Hello on Mon, 29th May 2017 2:42 pm
>>>>> There will never be a resistance in the USA while we still have …..
Why would you need to resist if you have everything you need to live and more?
Cloggie on Mon, 29th May 2017 2:48 pm
This very minute first centence on German 21:45 news: “the American century is over as far as Europe is concerned”.
Cloggie on Mon, 29th May 2017 2:56 pm
German FM: “the old West is over, Europe is the new champion of the liberal order. Europe needs to stand on its own feet. Europe needs to become much stronger.”
Davy on Mon, 29th May 2017 3:00 pm
“the American century is over as far as Europe is concerned”.
I guess the clueless Euro’s finally realized what has been the case since 2003. Maybe it took Europe longer to realize this reality having been in their cocoon of American protection and Pax Americana affluence. It will be a brave new world for them and one undetermined. Maturity takes guts, let’s see how gutsy they are. As for the American’s it will be a relief the Euro’s take responsibility for their own destiny. Why should the Americans bank roll a prosperous Europe that is unwilling to pull its fair share for its security? Soon they will have no choice.
Cloggie on Mon, 29th May 2017 3:20 pm
We have dominated the planet as a set of 5-6 competing nations between 1400 and 1945, no need for “gutsy overlords”.
http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user3303/imageroot/20160612_nothing.jpg
Today we are united, got rid of the British anti-Europeans and the Russians can’t wait to become a fully fledged member. They will.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU24SlktnME
Paris-Berlin-Moscow is coming.
The (kosher) Anglo-Soviet era is over, Europe is back.
#1
Cloggie on Mon, 29th May 2017 3:29 pm
There will be a massive resistance in the US, there are hundreds of millions of privately owned fire weapons. And it will most likely begin when Trump leaves office.
European America has smelled with Trump that Washington is not invincible and that escape from PC was possible, they won’t go back. Washington will attempt to ram their sheeple back in the PC coral, European America won’t let that happen, not without a fight.
America is big enough for 3 or more countries.
Hello on Mon, 29th May 2017 4:20 pm
>>> Europe is the new champion of the liberal order
Yes. Europe is certainly a champion of liberal BS. There is no doubt about it.
Hello on Mon, 29th May 2017 4:26 pm
>>> There will be a massive resistance in the US
No there won’t. America (like europe) is on track to become a typical 2 tier nation. Abject poverty next to stinking riches. Similar to mexico & friends.
Go Speed Racer on Mon, 29th May 2017 5:12 pm
HEY EVERYBODY
I found the location of the Massive Resistance!!
Here it is:
http://designyoutrust.com/2016/02/soviet-era-tesla-tower-mysterious-object-in-moscow-suburbs/
makati1 on Mon, 29th May 2017 6:30 pm
The West is finished. The East is the future. The EU is disintegrating along with the U$ and it’s wannabees, Australia and Japan. The next financial crash will be the coup de grâce. Asia may lose a few million, but not as many as the US and Europe will lose. Asians are not spoiled, helpless, serfs like the Westerners have become. Wait and see.
Cloud9 on Mon, 29th May 2017 8:21 pm
I suspect that devolution is well underway and huge populations are going to be an extreme liability. As we are drug kicking and screaming back into the 19th century attempts to manage this collapse will fail with ever more recurring frequency. There is no political solution to the end of growth.
Hawkcreek on Mon, 29th May 2017 9:10 pm
“Asians are not spoiled, helpless, serfs like the Westerners have become. Wait and see.”
When it comes to personal power, Asians have very little. They talk a good game because they are, in the main, very intelligent.
But having been conditioned over thousands of years to be subservient, they will die in the Billions when TSHTF.
Move to the US and learn to use a gun before it is too late.
When talk ends, the gun begins to speak.
Cloggie on Mon, 29th May 2017 10:25 pm
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4551896/Trump-acted-like-tacky-drunk-tourist-abroad.html
“Trump acted like a ‘loud and tacky drunk tourist who steps on others without realizing’ during his meetings with foreign allies, claims State Department official”
ALCIADA-MOLE on Mon, 29th May 2017 10:55 pm
President Jackass is a draft dodger.
Trump the bastard celebrating memorial day.
Cloggie on Mon, 29th May 2017 10:56 pm
https://redice.tv/news/kushner-role-in-white-house-suddenly-unclear-may-return-to-private-life
Bannon triumph over Kushner?
makati1 on Mon, 29th May 2017 11:12 pm
Hawkcreek, you perfectly describe Americans today: “When it comes to personal power, AMERICANS have very little. … But are conditioned by bread and circus’ to be subservient.” About 240 million Americans are sucking on the government teat in one way or another. Slaves to the system and corporate FF farming.
Why do you expect any real revolt when the masses are mostly ALL sucking at the government teat? Who is going to revolt and kill that easy income?
The lower class? They know where their bread comes from (and their 60″ TVs, housing, food stamps, etc).
The middle class? Ditto for them too. Food stamps. government backed loans, etc.
The upper class? Don’t make me laugh.
Who? YOU? Maybe when SHTF and you are starving, but not before. There have been no real riots in the U$ since the 60s. The will to stand up and fight for something, with YOUR life on the line, is almost gone in America.
That will to fight still exists in Asia, for the most part. But then, YOU, like some others here, think the pain will be worse there than in the West/US. I think the stupid, arrogant Americans are in for a very painful lesson soon. I am glad I am living among the “intelligent” Asians. Buckle Up! The coming ride to the bottom for Americans will be a doozy!
makati1 on Mon, 29th May 2017 11:19 pm
BTW Hawkcreek, the U$ military taught me how to use a gun 52 years ago. No need to learn. I served 11 years. Two enlisted/nine officer. Been there, done that. I was both armor and artillery. Big guns as well as small ones. You?
GregT on Tue, 30th May 2017 1:00 am
“Move to the US and learn to use a gun before it is too late.”
Better to move to a place where everybody else doesn’t have guns.
GregT on Tue, 30th May 2017 1:05 am
“Maturity takes guts, let’s see how gutsy they are.”
Europe is a tad bit more mature than the US Davy, by at least a couple of thousand years.
Apneaman on Tue, 30th May 2017 1:26 am
hair clog, what did Steve Bannon have for his bedtime snack? How many farts did trump rip on the plane ride over the Atlantic? We need to know these world shattering events.
Cloggie on Tue, 30th May 2017 2:32 am
what did Steve Bannon have for his bedtime snack? How many farts did trump rip on the plane ride over the Atlantic? We need to know these world shattering events.
Sorry to interrupt your Google-fueled climate change campaign/weather reports, TalmudTurd. I’m sure that climate is going to be as bad as peak oil. Good to have you around. Keep up the good work.
But for the coming few years, the unraveling of the West/US empire is going to be slightly more, shall we say, acute. For the moment, climate change is nothing that can’t be handled with sun tan oil.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/may/29/jared-kushner-charmed-life-screeching-halt
Jared Kushner’s charmed life is about to come to a screeching halt
Now that he is ensnared in an FBI investigation, his life in the coming months and maybe years will be a study in misery
It’s not me saying that Apneaman, a certified “boot-licking Nazi” (according to you), but a Walter Shapiro, so it is true.
You folks are really losing it. Good luck picking oranges in the Kibutz.
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/05/trump-kushner-white-house-rift
IS A PREVIOUSLY UNFATHOMABLE RIFT OPENING UP BETWEEN JARED KUSHNER AND TRUMP?
The mounting controversy won’t go away, and seems to be frustrating the Commander-in-Chief.
Well, perhaps Trump can keep Ivanka to at least stick to the Paris Accords.
Cloggie on Tue, 30th May 2017 2:42 am
Last week Zbignew Brzezinski died. It’s a pity it wasn’t John McCain:
At least Brzezinski admitted shortly before his death that his life long calling, namely global US empire, would never materialize. Better late than never. Unfortunately the message hasn’t arrived with John McCain yet, who claimed yesterday that Russia was more dangerous than IS. That’s even too much for der Spiegel and for most other Republican senators.
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/burger-king-nimmt-belgischen-koenig-philippe-auf-die-schippe-der-morgen-live-a-1149114.html
makati1 on Tue, 30th May 2017 4:12 am
McCain is living proof of America’s insanity. That he is allowed to hold an important position in government only confirms the continuing decline of America.
Davy on Tue, 30th May 2017 5:06 am
“Europe is a tad bit more mature than the US Davy, by at least a couple of thousand years.”
Well, Greg, age has little to do with it as you should reflect on personally. Maturity is ageless, sexless, and not race bound. Age should have an impact but often we see older people acting like children.
Theedrich on Tue, 30th May 2017 5:54 am
According to http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/burger-king-nimmt-belgischen-koenig-philippe-auf-die-schippe-der-morgen-live-a-1149114.html, McCain said, “Die IS-Miliz tue zwar ‘schreckliche Dinge’, sagte der Vorsitzende des Verteidigungsausschusses im US-Senat. Russland habe aber versucht, das Ergebnis der US-Präsidentschaftswahl zu beeinflussen und damit die “Grundlagen der Demokratie zu zerstören”.” (“ISIS is admittedly doing ‘terrible things’ said the chairman of the Defense Committee in the U.S. Senate, but Russia has tried to influence the results of the U.S. presidential campaign and thereby ‘destroy the foundations of democracy’.”)
Of course, the “democratic” U.S. has not tried, nor would ever try, to destroy the government of the Russian Federation.
McCain is suffering from advanced Alzheimer’s. Amazing, that the people of Arizona cannot see that.
deadlykillerbeaz on Tue, 30th May 2017 6:15 am
Resistance is futile, and useless.
The Europeans have been at each other’s throats for hundreds of years, must take that long to mature to an adult instead of acting like crazed animals for what seems like an eternity now.
If you live along the eastern seaboard of the US, you will have to worry if collapse happens.
If you live somewhere in the Rockies up there where the Rocky Mountain Goats nimbly scale the rocks and crevasses, your worries will be zero to none.
You’ll be like Moses in the wilderness and the idiots smashing into each other along I-95 will be in a real pickle.
When collapse happens, I-95 will be replete with accidents and no way to clear the path.
25,000 cars jammed in one spot will mean you’ll be walking to get out of there.
Make sure you have a couple of liters of water before you begin your long walk home.
Every exit leading out of Washington, DC will be blocked, they’ll be sitting ducks. Congress will be in the secret mountain bunker.
After your long walk home, you’ll be sheltering in place, listen to the emergency radio broadcasts to find out what to do next. Make sure you have one of the wind up radios.
The Visigoths marched on Rome and turned the place into a hell hole in about three days.
Alaric had had enough of Rome and its nonsense.
Then the Saracens pillaged and plundered southern France until Charles Martel took control and gave them the boot.
It’s deja vu all over again in Europe.
Prepare for doom.
ALCIADA-MOLE on Tue, 30th May 2017 7:51 am
@dead you are a stupid doomer. Why don’t you give me your money so I can buy when the rest of the world is in doom mode?
Do you know why America is fine when the rest of the world is as you described?
It’s because funeral homes sanitize death.
Police sanitize homelessness.
Car inspection sanitize the highway.
Old white (non jewish) women will continue to oppress tax payers for money to do the above.
deadlykillerbeaz on Tue, 30th May 2017 8:19 am
So what if I’m a stupid doomer? Gotta do sumthun.
Ain’t none of us getting out of here alive, we’re all doomed.
I pay through the nose to give everybody the money they think they deserve, now there is one more, you’ll just have to get in line.
Leaves me with nothing, no money, nada. Where’s the money? Beggars in Mumbai have more at the end of the day. Stop begging for something you don’t deserve, my money, which is gone anyway, so you’ll have to beg from someone else. An old white woman is your best bet.
Better yet, ask Donald Trump for some money.
Good luck to ya.
Hawkcreek on Tue, 30th May 2017 8:54 am
Makati1, I thought that would get a rise out of you. Funny as hell. Armor and artillery!!! So impressive! Trajectories and stuff like that. Wow.
I learned to shoot courtesy of Uncle Sams Misguided Children. Little guns all the way.
ALCIADA-MOLE on Tue, 30th May 2017 9:17 am
@dead are you old? If so you’re also afflicted with stupidology. I bet you gave away your money. It’s very common for old people to get the shaft so don’t feel too bad. You’re just one of those average old people.
At least I’m upfront about wanting to invest whatever you have and told you how I’d do it. I’d buy when everyone panics and hold on for dear life.
I take care of my mom because she’s old and dumb. What do your children do for you?
ALCIADA-MOLE on Tue, 30th May 2017 9:24 am
@mak thank you for your service. Why didn’t you say anything about the Draft Dodger in Chief?
What a coward isn’t he? So he was too crippled to enlist but not too crippled to grab pussy?
joe on Tue, 30th May 2017 10:54 am
Some people think that Trump won’t back his son in law. Any fool can see whats going on, they are doing to Trump what they did to Saddam, what they do to Russia and Iran and are starting to do to Israel now that Saudi Oilrabia is more important to them than their own lives due to PEAK OIL.
Nothing will save them though. Like I keep saying, Trump may be impeached, but the reasons people voted for him have not gone away. Hillary may well run again cause she has serious money behind her, nobody is screaming for DNC reform (the cause of the election of Trump), so whichever neoliberal new age hipster (bankster) candidate they run they will miss the point.
Just like they cant stop the bleaching of the Great Barrier Reef, they wont stop people vomiting at the thought of more globalisation and wars to help the rulers of Mecca and Jerusalem. Thus there is a real oppertunity for someone to carry on the legacy of Trump not Obama. The Harriman-Bush-Cheney (aka CIA) legacy died when Isis rose like a phoenix in the deserts of Libya and Syria with US-Saudi-Israeli help, and the Clintons have no good children. All liberalism can offer is a guilty conscience for those who are made to feel that just cause ‘its her turn’ that they should seriously consider who to vote for.
Those who imagine Europe will lead the future seem to think the rest of the world has no memory or weapons of their own. I flew over Europe recently, I saw allot of windmills for generating electricity, my first thought is this, it’s energy insecure, just like some posters here.
DerHundistlos on Tue, 30th May 2017 12:29 pm
They are doing to Trump what they did to Saddam.
“They” don’t need to do anything. It’s all self-inflicted.
Hillary may run again……..
Thank you for starting my day with a good laugh.
Jerome Purtzer on Tue, 30th May 2017 1:11 pm
The funny thing is that The Donald is really a Democrat with a Big D. He was registered until a couple of years ago like all good New Yorkers as a Democrat. His son in law is a registered Democrat and I would bet his daughter is as well. They have miles of video tape with Trump talking about women’s rights, gay rights etc. etc. Clearly, he switched party to gain election. Perhaps someday the Republicans will figure this out but don’t hold your breath.
Sissyfuss on Tue, 30th May 2017 2:32 pm
Politics is a dead man walking. Trumps election was a last gasp Hail Mary by the sheeple that are so desperate they bothered to vote unlike the sheeple who have given up. The next great emerging party will be the Collapse Party of which there are many members on this site
Cloggie on Tue, 30th May 2017 3:39 pm
Hillary may well run again cause she has serious money behind her
…and some serious sickness inside her:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bWC5V4HaDQ
Bring in the rollator.
#gerontocracy
Cloggie on Tue, 30th May 2017 4:56 pm
This passes in the US media as “humor”:
https://www.infowars.com/cnn-contributor-kathy-griffin-beheads-trump-in-isis-inspired-photoshoot/
In reality it is incitement of murder. Lefties don’t understand/accept democracy.
DerHundistlos on Tue, 30th May 2017 5:43 pm
Jerome-
The Republicans are smart enough not to give a rat’s ass how Donald voted before just so long as he is appointing justices and signing legislation that fits the Republican agenda.
Get real.
DerHundistlos on Tue, 30th May 2017 5:48 pm
Right again, Siss.
All the deplorables heard was make America great again along with money for nothin’ and the sex is free.
Although I don’t believe it’s a hail merry. Too many people are totally invested in the status quo to allow it to disintegrate. Much more likely is the implosion of the ecosystem. Everyone says it’s the $$$$$$, in which case it will not be the $$$$$$, which tells you it will not be the money.
DerHundistlos on Tue, 30th May 2017 5:52 pm
Clogged (but better out than in)-
Not cool to wish sickness upon a politician simply because you disagree with her politics. The old saying, be careful what you wish for.
Plantagenet on Wed, 31st May 2017 1:22 am
Hillary is clearly running for president. She’s already started a new PAC to start sucking in all that Wall Steet Money again. Of course she’ll never be as good at it as Obama was.
Cheers!
DerHundistlos on Wed, 31st May 2017 1:42 pm
Planter’s Wart-
What’s the name of the Hillary presidential PAC you mentioned? Provide evidence otherwise you are once again simply bumping your gums.
Cloggie on Wed, 31st May 2017 4:56 pm
Just watched on Dutch television the documentary “Bannon’s War”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zc8SyzoQayo
Never realized the extent in which the Trump presidency is in reality Bannon’s presidency.
After the death of Andrew Breitbart in 2012, Bannon took over the web publication and turned it into populist central. Trump was following Breitbart early on, that where he picked up many of the idea’s he would later ventilate during the campaign and a meeting between the two was organized, a meeting of similar minds.
Recently there were rumors that Bannon’s position in the Trump government had been downgraded, after Saturday Nigh Live had made jokes about Bannon being the real president:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZOF9q5fzfs
The truth is: he hasn’t. Bannon still plays a pivotal role in the Trump government.
Go Speed Racer on Thu, 1st Jun 2017 12:37 am
If that bitch Hillary runs again,
Trump will win again. Even after all the
schit he pulled, Trump’s train wreck is
wayyyy better than shrill Hillary the evil one.
joe on Thu, 1st Jun 2017 12:47 am
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/05/08/michael-goodwin-hillary-clinton-will-run-again-in-2020.html
Not saying it WILL happen, just that it might.
Cloggie on Thu, 1st Jun 2017 1:25 am
LoseHound says: Clogged (but better out than in)-
Not cool to wish sickness upon a politician simply because you disagree with her politics. The old saying, be careful what you wish for.
Where did I say that I wish sickness upon Clinton?! I merely observed her cough that doesn’t want to go away.
What do you think I am, an American leftist?
https://cdn.rt.com/files/2017.05/original/592dfa67c3618846698b45d3.jpg
Cloggie on Thu, 1st Jun 2017 1:42 am
Not saying it WILL happen, just that it might.
I would be highly surprised if both Trump and Clinton had strong enough physique to run again in 2020 (I hope Trump will though).
But it is highly questionable if Trump will sit out his first term and be effective at that, where he is sabotaged at every step of the way.
In four years time demographics will have shifted further against the Euro’s and I would tip Marc Zuckerberg as Trump’s opponent (or Trump’s daughter Ivanka) with some nice leftist promises, like universal health care and basic income (I’m in favor of both but only in white countries, in America it is a recipe for breaking up the country).
Cloggie on Thu, 1st Jun 2017 2:25 am
Well, well, well… where it Hitler when you need him?
It is no longer notorious “neo-Nazis” calling for extreme measures, this time we are talking about an MSM female British journalist with 750,000 twitter followers, calling for a “final solution of the Muslim problem”:
http://www.pi-news.net/wp-content/uploads/katie_hopkins.jpg
(She deleted the tweet for which she is now going to be prosecuted).
What she did not delete is this tweet:
https://twitter.com/KTHopkins/status/866924792494129152
A Westerner who in 2017 worries about peak oil or climate change is like somebody who fell from a skyscraper and, while passing the 40th floor, is worrying about how his grandchildren are going to make a living.
The weather in Holland in May was yet another record:
A very rare mini-tsunami hitting the Dutch beach resort Zandvoort:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjQk_xt_WU0
It was the warmest month of May since 1992 and 2008 in recorded history, with night frost, but also the warmest tropical May-day in history and 1.2 degrees Celsius above average.
But the real drama is not the (welcome) beautiful weather, but the unfolding social drama, both in the US and Western Europe.
In 1981 the German chancellor and social-democrat Helmut Schmidt (and my favorite all-time German politician) had said at a trade-union meeting:
https://twitter.com/steinbacherika/status/664096957430919168?lang=en
“We do not need more foreigners, this will lead to murder and death”.
He was obviously ignored and Merkel really topped the insanity off by basically inviting the entire world to come to Germany (and Europe). Merkel is the greatest loyalist the US deep state has in Europe and now she tries to take over from Obama-America and its One World lunacy. She will fail, it is indeed going to end in murder and death, both in Europe and America. The question is where it will begin: US, France, UK or Germany?