I graduated from high school in 1968 – the most polarized time in this nation’s history, until today. I studied politics in college and have always had strongly-held political views, but when my daughter was a child I did not try to inculcate her with my own political philosophy. Instead, I pointed out that human beings are not intelligent enough to ever get things “right” for any length of time. On any given subject our species will inevitably swing between one stupid extreme and its opposite. If, as a society, we seem to have something figured out, it’s just at the optimal point in the pendulum swing at the present moment, having left one excess and on the way to its obverse.
Given this immutable law of human nature, it’s hardly to be expected that either of our political parties can be right for very long before going off the rails in one stupid direction or another. History confirms this fact, regardless of where you think “right” lies. The Republicans gave us Union martyr Lincoln, and Teapot Dome grifter Harding; the Democrats, National Bank nemesis Jackson, and bank whore Obama.
If you have always felt that you had your political compass fixed, but are increasingly feeling lost at sea, that’s because we are in the midst of a fundamental reorientation of our political landscape – a sea change.
If someone had predicted eight years ago, or even four, that Dick Cheney would ever back a Democratic presidential candidate and, in the same year, RFK Jr. would side with the Republican, they would have been laughed off the stage.
Aren’t Republicans supposed to be the authoritarians? Then why are the Democrats putting the foundation for totalitarian control of our lives in place? Aren’t Democrats supposed to defend our civil liberties? Then why are their leaders intent upon revoking our inalienable right to Free Speech?
Sea Change? Change is often unwelcome and seldom easy. Blame Bill Clinton, who tap-danced circles around the Republicans and stole the center (actually, well right of center) from them. With the heart of their ideological territory lost, the Party of Lincoln were pushed ever further to the right, until they risked falling off the edge of the earth. Equally significant, Clinton abandoned the working classes for the deeper pockets of a growing “professional class,” creating a new donor base that has since embraced the deepest pockets of all: Silicon Valley. (It’s the donors, stupid.)
To this day party dinosaurs like Mitch McConnell are by-God not going to be out-conservatived. What has changed is a younger generation of Republicans like J.D. Vance and Josh Hawley, who are increasingly independent of the fossils, and embarked upon reinventing the party. Vance is not alone in actually caring about working people, and trying to readdress their increasingly dire needs. Not incidentally, that’s where the votes are going to be.
Will they prevail, as the Old Guard dies off? Too soon to tell, but an intriguing possibility, and plausible cause for hope for the future.
Perhaps more significant than migrating politicians is the wave of formerly liberal commentators. Our own James Howard Kunstler professes to being a life-long registered Democrat. Others, including Max Blumenthal, Jimmy Dore, Glenn Greenwald, Chris Hedges, Aaron Mate, Matt Taibbi, and Bret Weinstein are all now resolute critics of the Democratic Party. Clayton Morris and Tucker Carlson both left Fox News to attack the Official Narrative from their own perspective. And, of course, two powerful voices of opposition, Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr., former contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination, are now both
Democrat persona non grata.
When lost at sea you can never know where the ship is going to come ashore, or if it will founder on the rocks, but the landscape will certainly soon be different – and just possibly much improved.
I too, graduated high school in 1968, was a conscientious objector to the war and studied theology, and I completely agree with you. I just think there's a paradox in politics that is that people who are moral enough not to succumb to the heady liquor of wealth and power are not interested in being a politician so we get people who are not morally strong enough and thus eventually get corrupted and agree to play the puppeteers' game in order to end up with a mansion in Martha's Vineyard and enter the history books as "somebody." I'm hoping Trump is one of the rare ones who already has what they offer and so cannot come under their sway, and as Hillary complained the other day, they are losing total control, and that's why they're scared of Trump, who plans to take that away from them. DJT may not be the total answer but he seems to be a beginning of a new course for us, so I guess we'll find out soon. It's been a long time comin'
I hope your optimism is warranted, the Left media is doing a bang up job of hiding the truth of who is ahead. My hope is based on the You Tube poll averaging sites which are forecasting a Trump victory with over 300 electoral votes. I think their methods help cancel out the Left bias of the MSM polls.
Well, as Stalin put it, it's not the votes that count, it's who counts the votes, so we'll see who wins that game this time. I doubt the Left can repeat.
Well said. The Donald is not the "total answer", not by a long chalk, but he may be the "beginner" - and to harken back to Mr. Skillington, he did have the political sense to recognize JD for what he is. I'd almost say he was the better angel part of JFK reincarnated. Same youth, eloquence, charisma, and most impt. some gosh-darned Principles.
1968 was the year I blew my chance at a comfy academic position at a second-rate Cali State College by getting involved in the Fresno Resistance and, at one rally, publicly eating my draft card with catsup on it. "Destruction of United States Gubmit Property", a Five-and-Dime. So I absquatulated, became a political exile, ending up in dour Vancouver-by-the-Void.
The fevered emotions ran high. The shit-kicking San Joaquin Valley cowboys who made up the majority of the student body were not amused. George Murphy and S.I. Hayakawa were for a crackdown. Bobby Kennedy intersected a fast-moving projectile in L.A.
One of the Vietnamese students I had been assigned to shepherd (they were, by the way, the ones that radicalized me against the US intervention) was Nguyen Thai Binh, first showcased by Jane Fonda and other antiwar stars before being discarded. He became famous for trying to hijack a 747 at Tan Son Nhut Airport (eggs wrapped in tinfoil). An American shot him and they dumped his body onto the runway. He is now a national martyr in Vietnam; schools and roads are named after him.
The Vietnam war was the first expansion attempt by the MIC and its leader , the Deep State. Look where we are today and realize that it is the Deep State that has expanded for 70 years against the people, regardless of party affiliation. The Vietnam protestors who were trying to curtail the expansion of the MIC, would be MAGA today, an ironic state of affairs.
Ready? RFK, Jr is a reflection of his dad and uncle, who were both terminated by Deep State forces for countering the MIC trying to control the war.. IMHO, both would be MAGA today.
JFK and his dad promised the Mafia that if he was elected he would get Havana back from the Castroites. He tried and failed. The military and CIA failed miserably. The he made a huge mistake, he told the Military that he was going to withdraw the “advisors” from Vietnam, as Bobby was announcing a crack down on the Mafia. The CIA and the Mafia held a meeting. The Capos got their revenge and the CIA got its war.
Sigh, if its any consolation you are certainly not alone in this category-my older son and I watched "Am I a Racist" last week-he's not Woke-but he hides it.
But when we went back to his place after the movie when he parked the car, he looked me in the eyes so solemnly I thought he was going to tell me he has 'cancer' but he demanded, that I tell Liz , his wife-high school teacher'- we saw 'Saturday Night" -as she is very, very Woke.
My young son, he's not Woke at all , but he is a laze about still at home at 27 drinking beer, smoking weed and eating on Dad and Mom's tab-I don't know what is worse...
Sounds like my nephew. "His dad ruined him" my sister says. So at 30, he's allowed to sponge off them both, not have a job, etc. Sure. How was he "ruined"? Well, his dad was emotionally unavailable. The horror! Yet, millions like him are able to work and run their own lives. He's even blessed with a high IQ. The problem there is that my sister is a toxic codependent who thinks that her family would die on the spot if she's not there catering to them. Something is very wrong in our society. She's not an outlier, IOW, she is typical.
You both have described the Nanny State that the government is trying to create, both kids finding easy touch parentage afraid to tell them “No”. The entire country is being threatened by 50% of folks being exactly the same as these two, and a Deep State kow-towing to them to get votes, unwilling to say “No”.
My most sincere condolences on the state of family affairs outlined above. Not to brag, but I have two very unwoke daughters-one married a LEO and the other is divorced but happily so. They had three sons between them, one of whom is making bank as an RN and the other doing likewise financially handling automated production at a large local food processing facility. The other one, well, he's not living at home, nor is he "woke," but he has "issues" involving drugs and the usual assortment of problems which accompany that. But hey, 2 out of 3 ain't bad, like Meat Loaf told us. Somehow I have to think our strict Christian upbringing had something to do with it. YMMV.
Part of it is a youth thing; when I was 20 or so, my roommate said that food, energy, and housing should all be free (he may have been right about energy, anyway); many people don't make it to adulthood (despite not dying) and learn to stand on their own two feet in every way.
We really lucked out. All six of our kids (ages 50-23) are conservatives. A few of them had brief moments of “teenage liberalism”...but they grew out of it LOL!!
I think it was Winston Churchill that said, “If you’re not a liberal when you’re young, you have no heart. If you’re not a conservative when you’re old, you have no brain.”
I don’t know that we did anything in particular, but we always made it a point to expose the differences (liberal vs conservative) whenever the opportunities arose. They are all very much “awake” (not woke)!
No, you were sold a bill of goods, that the Democrats are the party of Joe Average, the working man, and the GOP was the party of the Elite. The Dems pulled off the biggest con job in US history, and we are seeing the re-alignment of the parties now because of the lies that have been promulgated for 70 years. MAGA vs, Know-Nothings.
I saw the change with Bill Clinton in the ‘92 race when he was hawking the DLC (Democratic Leadership Council). I went to an event with him and at the time was fighting him about Mena and the whole “Compromised” Terry Reed thing . As soon as I shook his hand I knew he was a rat. Little did I know that his “Stand By Your Man” wife would become the biggest rat of all.
Well you are honest and authentic, obviously, and I bet it was diflicult socially, economically even to make the conversion-so you aren't a coward either.
Haha!!! Same here. You didn’t steer your daughter in a political direction. But, I did.
I was an active conservative and enlisted my kids in campaigns . I figured it backfired which accounts for at least one of my kids becoming radically liberal.
No matter the approach, we probably have little influence on our children because our society has much more.
Howard. By age six, parental “programming” is over, most of personality is in place. All the stuff that is blamed on schools is in place before school starts. Parents!!!!!!
Democrats were the biggest slave owners, that says it all, not that the North didnt have em too, but the most ardent for slavery were democrats and they still are today
I agree but let me tell you a story that orally given to my great-great grandfather form his father.
In 1854 my great-great-great grandfather came to the US from Ireland. He got a job building railroads out in the US West.
Well when thy came where they had to blast rock for the train track tunnels it was a tricky job back then so many workers got killed or maimed in the blastings.
There were three principal ethnic groups that worked on the railroad-Irish, Chinese Coolies and black slaves.
When there was blasting the boss would send only Irish or Chinese-because if they died they didn't get paid on Friday-if the black slave died it was a loss property around $2k.
I live in this country because my great grandfather's brother died in a dynamite accident, working in a stone quarry in England. My great grandfather then came to the US to work in another quarry, cutting stone for the Erie Canal.
The problem is that the narrative has it that 'blacks had it bad' and 'whites had it good'-and, on the average correct-but the stories like mine and yours illustrate that the Woke narrative is much too simple and Manichean like all their values.
Have you seen what a “steel driving” man like John Henry had to do to bore the holes for dynamite charges. One holding the spike and one banging on it with a sledge hammer. No thanks.
Being from Massholechusetts I was never taught that there may have been other valid viewpoints about the Civil War 1 (given our probable future and the real possibility of future uncivil wars, I'm numbering them).
One thing often overlooked re: the civil war was the demographics at the time. The antebellum, agrarian south did not have a lot of folks, whereas the North full of cities, had many more people and thus votes. In our country, the South never stood a chance politically and it was the end of the compromise era that drove the South to try to exit. The real battle here was between the manufacturing North, and ENGLAND. The South was a “colony” of both, providing resources to both on-coming manufacturing giants. The South was backed by England throughout the war, Surprise!!!! The demographic advantage, ie, the number of available soldiers, was what did in the South. Grant just threw troops at Lee until Lee had no one left.
The victory of the North is what spurred on the Gilded Age which drove the USA way past England in economic power.
BTW, look at today. The power of the cities politically (Blue) contesting the power of the agrarian sector (Red). Politically, the cities will win, just like 1865, but today a strike by teamsters could undo any power the cities have. Cities today are much more dependent than in the 1860s.
You are right about the pendulum. It is the swinging back and forth that has kept the country on a steady course on average. Until 1988. The Bush boys are as left as the Ult-Left folks today, war, open border, corrupt DOJ, all the things we discuss here. We have been steadily Left of center for 36 years, so is it no wonder that the Deep State, all factions, are so far Left. The RINO contingent ARE NOT conservative, they are neo-con, MIC, tax and spend, blatant Deep Staters that have joined the Far Left in their desire to create a socialistic nanny state. Planted squarely in front of this whole bloc are the MAGA folks, led by the Golden Golem. What we are witnessing going into this election is a ripping apart of the political country, leaving a Left Right orientation into a different alignment of parties. IMHO, two parties are emerging, one, MAGA, center right and two, the “Know Nothings” Far Left. It reflects the Leftward drift of the country for the 36 years. MAGA is center right as its leader was a Democrat at one time and has some of that old democrat dogma inside his head. The Deep State hates MAGA as its prime directive is to reduce the noose around the country that the nanny state wants to install. The RINOs are an integral part of the Deep State and also hate MAGA and its leader. However, a new breed has arisen, old fashioned moderate Democrats who still love the country as it is, without the nanny state. These folks are moving to the right to join MAGA as they do no want the Constitution re-written. Two parties are arising, center right and far left. The cause is the attempted installation of socialism and the nanny state by a Deep State desperate to ward off the attempted control of their power and bureaucracy by the upstarts in MAGA. It definitely could turn bloody.
Side bar. Know Nothings fit well as a descriptor because during the last four years, the Obama Left has rolled out every article of their dogma, passed it into DC with dictatorial EOs and we have witnessed its total failure in every way possible. That is why Harris is running as she is, she has absolutely nothing positive to run on. So instead, we get empty nothing promises Called the Opportunity Economy with absolutely no idea what that means. Warning: Opportunity Economy sounds like a whole bunch of fiat spending, welfare spending, war spending, Deep State expansion spending, immigrant spending, ignoring every economic law ever invented. The Know-Nothing Party. If America votes these nincompoops into control, the Ens Times of this country draws near, and all the dunderheads that vote for the nanny state are going to find out, it will not and cannot ever exist. 0 bucks.
The Know Nothings were against mass immigration. They were right. Everyone else was wrong. Their America was destroyed by the endless stream of Irish, Poles, and Italians.
Howard, outstanding comment. The talented Mr. Clinton really did scramble the tokens on the game board, didn't he? If you had more time or space, I'm sure you would have included a paragraph on the possible effects of mass illegal immigration on the American electorate--not only in election years to come but also three and half weeks from now.
I wasn’t politically aware when I graduated from high school in 1968, but I can’t imagine it compares to our current situation. It’s hard to know what you didn’t experience. However, too many adult Americans reside in the same place I did at age 18. However, unlike my young self, they vote.
As a protester I was just a foot soldier, but we manned the barricades, protesting the war in Vietnam, saw students murdered at Kent State by the National Guard. The country was coming apart. But I agree that today is worse, because we still had resilient institutions, economy, and infrastructure then, to carry on with after things settled down. Now all of that is gone.
Even Libertarianism. Government needs to be controlled. BUT it is absolutely necessary. I do not remember which of the Great Philosophers it was, but he said government is requires when two or more people live together.
I was born in 1968. In downtown Chicago, actually, during the chaotic Democratic Convention.
So here’s one brutal GenX take on your generation: you’re all haunted. Unable to detangle yourselves from the political traumas and skepticism of the 60s and 70s. And now, to be honest, you’ve lost your edge, and it’s becoming painfully obvious that retirement does not agree with you. Or rather, the kinds of retirement you’re living are sorting and cleaving you from mainline society.
We don’t know what to do with you. But we still admire you and wish you’d stop poisoning yourself with garbage media infotainment, parroting the political nonsense there, and feeling like everything in the news is about prosecuting the debates of your day in perpetuity.
Because it isn’t. And, sorry, but it’s no longer about you.
So you admit that only a very few people should be voting then, right? And that would be fine since we were never intended to be a democracy in the first place, but rahther, a Republic!, a government of laws not men.
There are plenty of Obama's Army, ready, energetically willing and able to do their job, which is the keep the steal in motion, no matter, what ever cost.
“and do it all right in America’s face as if to say: we can do whatever we want. . . to get whatever we want. . . and you can’t stop us”. This is exactly how they believe and what they are doing. It’s been evident for a long time. If you push back, well, they will shut you up one way or another. Just watch what has been going on for years and What do you think you are going to do about it? What do you think you can do about it?
EXACTLY! They are spitting in our faces and giving us the double middle finger salute just by putting up these execrable candidates- FJB and Kamala.
They are so sure that they can cheat their way to "winning" this election that it didn't matter to them who they ran for office. I don't know which choice was more brazen, the dementia patient in the basement or the cheap whore of color.
Not to mention the traitors and incompetents that are on Trump's team, pretending to be working for him. If the election is stolen, there are many of them that are to be blamed.
You point out a real problem. When Trump started in 2017, he was one against the Deep State and the Deep State found so many different ways to blunt his impact.
This time he has a few folks that have challenged the Deep State and have joined him, on his side. Last time it was almost exclusively his family, and they paid for it. This time, I just do not know if he has the support to do much more, even if the GOP takes the Congress. Why? Because the real situation in congress is that the alignment of the two parties today make it so that the congress really has no majorities as all the different priorities do no allow any real domination that is required to exact change. That is why the congress is worthless.
Emerald Robinson is all over Twitter/X claiming that the RNC including Lara Trump, Whatley and some of their top people are not doing anything about election integrity and trying to stop the Steal.
If the election was held today and there was no cheating, there absolutely no doubt that Pres. Trump would win in landslide.
The most important thing that the Trump Team has to work on is stopping the flood of fraudulent BALLOTS that they are going to inject into the system unless the RNC wakes the hell up.
This is the most effective group out there and they have put together all the data that shows exactly where the bad ballots are and how to stop them. This is URGENT.
I love your reference to "The Death of Stalin". Unfortunately for America, I doubt that there a general in the armed services with the competence and prestige of Georgi Zhukov to pull off a successful coup. Note Zhukov's critical role in getting rid of the most malign character in the Politburo after Stalin's death. If, as JHK suggests, America could see a military takeover, are any of its military leaders actually capable of such an action?
I highly doubt it. Obama got rid of anyone who might have been a threat. What you have now are careerists who only care about their careers and living la dolce vita.
The real problem in the military is Article 92 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ). It requires all in uniform to obey LAWFUL orders only. I went through boot camp in 1971, which was after the My Lai event, and we all understood clearly that we must disobey unlawful orders.
It's hard to say how many NCOs and junior officers still embrace that tenet, but no senior or general officer with the sense God gave an ordinary rubber duck can rely on troops blindly obeying any order. I think there would be widespread mutiny if anything nefarious were to be attempted.
I believe the US government mandated covid shots for all military personnel knowing that the toughest of the bunch would refuse, thereby eliminating them as a source of internal resistance should said nefarious actions take place.
"the many agency blobsters who fear prison . . . and the perfidious politicians who fear the judgment of history."
I'll say it again: Nothing is going to happen to any of these people. We're 20 years out from the war crimes of the Bush/Cheney regime, viewed by Democrats back then as analogous to Vader and the Emperor; not only do they continue to walk free, they actually ENDORSED this election's hapless Democrat candidate. If that isn't evidence they're all on the same team, I don't know what is.
I'm willing to wait and see if Trump is truly the reformer his supporters claim. But if elected, the moment he names the first swamp creature to his cabinet—like he did the first time around—I'll be here to say I told you so.
Same. I'm about as cynical as it gets. I just see a big clown show with 2 clowns running. One is a glorified Sarah Palin and the other a carnival barker. There is no one who represents the average American.
Glorified Sarah Palin? At least Palin had some executive experience as the governor of Alaska. Carnival Barker? Hey, how would you do competing in the real estate market as a developer in the corrupt world of NYC and come out a winner.
Let's hear more about Operation Warp Speed and his push to vaccinate the populace. He still brags about it, so I guess he's proud of his work there. Oh wait: He was LIED to. He was SUCKERED. So let's elect him again, so that he can be duped by the same deep state he claims to want to do away with? Erm. OK. What about the neocons he put in his cabinet? He didn't know they were bad? So far, looks like I'm smarter than Trump as I wouldn't have been duped into either of these two things.
You are proof that hindsight is 20/20. You will notice that those folks that he hired, he fired when they exposed themselves. I agree that he allowed himself to be distracted by the impeachments and appointed Pence to run the Covid effort. it WAS a mistake the appoint Fauci as it turns out as he was not the solution but the culprit. Trump has always delegated and did forget the buck stopped at the Oval Office. But putting Pence in charge was a major blunder as he was coming under the influence of the RINOs with the election approaching. His, Pence, betrayal came later, maybe later? Pence+Fauci=disaster.
It's true that nothing gets done, but only as long as the uniparty swamp creatures are in control. Trump has had 4 long, hard years to put together a game plan to enact a 4th turning in politics, one that has the seeds of hope for our country; one not dependent on the military industrial complex model that has corrupted everything we supposedly stand for. The leaders are ready to fulfill their roles. The question is whether Trump has the wisdom and fortitude to see it through.
Trump has more common sense and cojones than the entire rest of the Deep State. That is why they cannot stop him. Even in the courts, the Media is having a ball raising all the Jack Smith bullshit, but nothing is going to stick. Trump must have learned how to “Teflon” from Reagan, another one that was smarter than his Deep State.
He is the Deep State candidate now. They set up poor Kammy on 60 Minutes, asking her real questions. He will take us into Iran. Down in Hell, McCain is still singing, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb
So you think "drain the swamp" actually means to FILL the swamp with your enemies to "keep an eye on them"? That's next-level self delusion right there.
There are a couple of Qanons up here doing their village idiot acts. What's great is, you can block them. Then them and their White Dunce Hats go bye-bye.
The minions of evil do not know they are evil. They are deluded to believe they are RIGHT! Kamala is a classic psychopath who has no clue she is a moron. I will always believe Trump won in 2016 because people were keeping their mouths shut and lying to the pollsters so the Dims believed they were a shoe in but also they didn't know how much to cheat. This time they will pull out the stops and even if there are more votes than we have population they will swell up in indignation and ask, 'waddayagonnadoaboutit?'
I can’t help but wonder if they don’t care that the stealing/cheating is obvious. They can act with impunity. After all, they have stuffed all government agencies with their agents and have no respect for that old rag the constitution. They own the USofA now. The mission is complete.
They do think they have it wrapped up. However, what they have no clue about is that they are not really in control. I am a realist. I prefer tough truth over sweet lies any day. However, I also know that there is a grander plan and while I am ever watchful with eyes wide open, I am not discouraged. They can kill my body but not my soul. I think we are truly on the brink of major change, one way or the other. I am prepared emotionally, physically and spiritually. I just posted in my substack regarding this phenomenal statistic that most Christians do not vote. This baffles me.
My mother has been a lifetime JFK Democrat, and to this day does not understand how the party that she was partial to morphed into the party that it has become. I believe there are millions of JFK Democrats, who still believe that their party will miraculously drift back into what it once was. And for that reason continue to support their party.
Maybe it is very difficult to admit that you are wrong. It is hard to admit that the government is an evil agency comprised of evil people instead of their economic tit full of benevolent people.
Seems like most of the Dems who wish to be POTUS in the near term want Kamalama Ding Dong to crash and burn. The logic is simple - if she wins, her administration will be a chaotic nightmare, but she would run for re-election with virtually no chance of success, pushing out the Shapiro, Newsome and other Democratic POTUS candidates to 2032, at which time they would face an incumbent Republican with a newly revised electoral map, minimizing the chance of Democratic success. They certainly prefer a Harris failure today giving them a chance to run in 2028 against someone other than Trump.
I agree with you. I don’t believe this talk about being so scared they can’t think straight. I do believe they are concerned about Trump getting back into the WH. He will go scorched earth on them. He has a lot on them but I think their arrogance won’t allow them to even consider it. They’ve got this and continue to laugh at him over dinner and wine. Only the very best of course.
Do not forget that the bueaucracy runs DC and just laughs at the elected officials. It will take as many years to undo the Deep State mess as it took to form it, 36 years, as the bureaucracy has to be brought back to balance through attrition. The Left has had 36 years, thanks to the Bush Boys and the RINOs, to distort the government to where it is today.
They have managed to do so for the past 10 years. I remember reading that the reason they let Trump in, in 2016, was because they thought Hillary Clinton's secrets were out. But then they were able to do damage control on them. I'm not even sure which secrets they were. It might be hearsay. But Clinton threw a massive hissy, that is well-documented, and she was told she'd be installed, and it was changed at the last minute. This is why I see this all as theater. Also, her hubs is the one who asked Trump to run in the first place. They ran in the same circles and their daughters are besties. I am not convinced that Trump is against them.
TRMR. Ask Diddy what he knows about Cankles’ extra curricular, and outside the box, activities. If you can get a frank response it will make a donkey puke.
Trump’s power is derived from MAGA, his populist base. The Deep State hates the control the ballot box holds over them. Trump thrives in that environment. Clinton hates it and they will never agree on that.
It is difficult to get a clear "read" on many, or even ANY of their actions.
I recall in 2020, some guy on the street came up to Biden, questioning him about something (I do not recall any of that) ... I DO remember Biden telling the guy, he knew he was not going to win the election. It was that clear even at this moment in 2020.
And it shows Kamala to be the lowlife she is that she, recognizing their using of her, doesn't protest but prefers that to being the nobody she deserves to be. She's the embodiment of the Peter Principle.
That a freakin' kangaroo court showing! The sentencing judge called her a "charlatan" - really? I don't even know much about the trial, but all I could see in the summary was that she questioned the veracity of the 2020 election and that she is a Trump supporter. So to me that immediately smacks of "political hit." And of course, also using her for a warning to others.
Well, I think the cheating is a bridge too far as the gap will e too big.
I think the Dems will paly it differently-they, especially in the interregnum period, do things more War and/or financial apocalypse to screw Trump's second term
"That is probably the point where blue America finds out exactly what the Second Amendment was designed for."
Modern Americans are cowards, by and large it seems. We talk a big game, but our comforts are too great to lose. "All experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are suffer able, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed." The government is bankrupting us and flooding the country with millions of barbarians. Our currency is worthless, our economy is stagnant and probably shrinking, our so-called leaders are now breaking the fourth wall, our enemies are rehearsing in their own version of the Spanish Civil War and armed to the teeth, and our children's minds are being poisoned daily. Anyways, did you watch baseball playoffs last night?
My (bad, I guess) analogy is that in many ways they are not pretending any longer or at least are badly keeping up appearances. The mask and the gloves are off. The irreality we are presented is becoming common knowledge (in the sense that you know that I know, I know you know that I know and so on) regarding the production the 'blob' is putting on.
Mr. Kunstler, there is in fact a precedent for this election, which is the election of 1876, Tilden v Hayes..Tilden, a New Yorker, running on a platform of ending Reconstruction,, clearly won the election but the Army, occupying the South and Border States, decided to replace the Tilden electors in two States with its own Hayes electors, giving Hayes the victory by one vote...This was the most blatant theft of an election ever, and caused massive protests and talk of rebellion..In response, the wise men in DC put together a 7 man commission to decide the election, with 4 Republicans and 3 Democrats...That commission compromised, with the parties agreeing to end Reconstruction immediately, but giving Hayes the victory....
All of these people's consciences have been seared as with a hot iron, and what remains is scar tissue, which has no feeling. So I don't think being used as a toy by powerful men bothered her one bit, and neither does this show
Sea Change
I graduated from high school in 1968 – the most polarized time in this nation’s history, until today. I studied politics in college and have always had strongly-held political views, but when my daughter was a child I did not try to inculcate her with my own political philosophy. Instead, I pointed out that human beings are not intelligent enough to ever get things “right” for any length of time. On any given subject our species will inevitably swing between one stupid extreme and its opposite. If, as a society, we seem to have something figured out, it’s just at the optimal point in the pendulum swing at the present moment, having left one excess and on the way to its obverse.
Given this immutable law of human nature, it’s hardly to be expected that either of our political parties can be right for very long before going off the rails in one stupid direction or another. History confirms this fact, regardless of where you think “right” lies. The Republicans gave us Union martyr Lincoln, and Teapot Dome grifter Harding; the Democrats, National Bank nemesis Jackson, and bank whore Obama.
If you have always felt that you had your political compass fixed, but are increasingly feeling lost at sea, that’s because we are in the midst of a fundamental reorientation of our political landscape – a sea change.
If someone had predicted eight years ago, or even four, that Dick Cheney would ever back a Democratic presidential candidate and, in the same year, RFK Jr. would side with the Republican, they would have been laughed off the stage.
Aren’t Republicans supposed to be the authoritarians? Then why are the Democrats putting the foundation for totalitarian control of our lives in place? Aren’t Democrats supposed to defend our civil liberties? Then why are their leaders intent upon revoking our inalienable right to Free Speech?
Sea Change? Change is often unwelcome and seldom easy. Blame Bill Clinton, who tap-danced circles around the Republicans and stole the center (actually, well right of center) from them. With the heart of their ideological territory lost, the Party of Lincoln were pushed ever further to the right, until they risked falling off the edge of the earth. Equally significant, Clinton abandoned the working classes for the deeper pockets of a growing “professional class,” creating a new donor base that has since embraced the deepest pockets of all: Silicon Valley. (It’s the donors, stupid.)
To this day party dinosaurs like Mitch McConnell are by-God not going to be out-conservatived. What has changed is a younger generation of Republicans like J.D. Vance and Josh Hawley, who are increasingly independent of the fossils, and embarked upon reinventing the party. Vance is not alone in actually caring about working people, and trying to readdress their increasingly dire needs. Not incidentally, that’s where the votes are going to be.
Will they prevail, as the Old Guard dies off? Too soon to tell, but an intriguing possibility, and plausible cause for hope for the future.
Perhaps more significant than migrating politicians is the wave of formerly liberal commentators. Our own James Howard Kunstler professes to being a life-long registered Democrat. Others, including Max Blumenthal, Jimmy Dore, Glenn Greenwald, Chris Hedges, Aaron Mate, Matt Taibbi, and Bret Weinstein are all now resolute critics of the Democratic Party. Clayton Morris and Tucker Carlson both left Fox News to attack the Official Narrative from their own perspective. And, of course, two powerful voices of opposition, Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr., former contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination, are now both
Democrat persona non grata.
When lost at sea you can never know where the ship is going to come ashore, or if it will founder on the rocks, but the landscape will certainly soon be different – and just possibly much improved.
I too, graduated high school in 1968, was a conscientious objector to the war and studied theology, and I completely agree with you. I just think there's a paradox in politics that is that people who are moral enough not to succumb to the heady liquor of wealth and power are not interested in being a politician so we get people who are not morally strong enough and thus eventually get corrupted and agree to play the puppeteers' game in order to end up with a mansion in Martha's Vineyard and enter the history books as "somebody." I'm hoping Trump is one of the rare ones who already has what they offer and so cannot come under their sway, and as Hillary complained the other day, they are losing total control, and that's why they're scared of Trump, who plans to take that away from them. DJT may not be the total answer but he seems to be a beginning of a new course for us, so I guess we'll find out soon. It's been a long time comin'
I hope your optimism is warranted, the Left media is doing a bang up job of hiding the truth of who is ahead. My hope is based on the You Tube poll averaging sites which are forecasting a Trump victory with over 300 electoral votes. I think their methods help cancel out the Left bias of the MSM polls.
Well, as Stalin put it, it's not the votes that count, it's who counts the votes, so we'll see who wins that game this time. I doubt the Left can repeat.
Nice ending, Aelred. Was that intended? I can hear the echoes of Crosby and Stills in harmony now. Thanks for the memory.
And A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall.
I knew I got that from somewhere! "It's a long, long, long time before the dawn" (quoting from memory)
New course? More wars for Israel but in new places.
Israel can't do squat without our support, and we will soon have lost the capacity of supporting them.
I look forward to the day when the State Dept says, like FEMA did, "sorry, we're all out of funds. Have a nice day."
The IDF already wear patches on their uniforms of “Greater Israel”:
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Go jag off to yer giant-nose cartoons.
Well said. The Donald is not the "total answer", not by a long chalk, but he may be the "beginner" - and to harken back to Mr. Skillington, he did have the political sense to recognize JD for what he is. I'd almost say he was the better angel part of JFK reincarnated. Same youth, eloquence, charisma, and most impt. some gosh-darned Principles.
1968 was the year I blew my chance at a comfy academic position at a second-rate Cali State College by getting involved in the Fresno Resistance and, at one rally, publicly eating my draft card with catsup on it. "Destruction of United States Gubmit Property", a Five-and-Dime. So I absquatulated, became a political exile, ending up in dour Vancouver-by-the-Void.
The fevered emotions ran high. The shit-kicking San Joaquin Valley cowboys who made up the majority of the student body were not amused. George Murphy and S.I. Hayakawa were for a crackdown. Bobby Kennedy intersected a fast-moving projectile in L.A.
One of the Vietnamese students I had been assigned to shepherd (they were, by the way, the ones that radicalized me against the US intervention) was Nguyen Thai Binh, first showcased by Jane Fonda and other antiwar stars before being discarded. He became famous for trying to hijack a 747 at Tan Son Nhut Airport (eggs wrapped in tinfoil). An American shot him and they dumped his body onto the runway. He is now a national martyr in Vietnam; schools and roads are named after him.
Exciting times. Another realm of reality.
The Vietnam war was the first expansion attempt by the MIC and its leader , the Deep State. Look where we are today and realize that it is the Deep State that has expanded for 70 years against the people, regardless of party affiliation. The Vietnam protestors who were trying to curtail the expansion of the MIC, would be MAGA today, an ironic state of affairs.
Ready? RFK, Jr is a reflection of his dad and uncle, who were both terminated by Deep State forces for countering the MIC trying to control the war.. IMHO, both would be MAGA today.
JFK was all over the place, once saying that we should disarm in favor of the United Nations. Very, very philosophically immature.
JFK and his dad promised the Mafia that if he was elected he would get Havana back from the Castroites. He tried and failed. The military and CIA failed miserably. The he made a huge mistake, he told the Military that he was going to withdraw the “advisors” from Vietnam, as Bobby was announcing a crack down on the Mafia. The CIA and the Mafia held a meeting. The Capos got their revenge and the CIA got its war.
Is your daughter Woke or is she following your sage advice?
Of course not, Drew. My daughter is woke as hell, and her father is an idiot.
Sigh, if its any consolation you are certainly not alone in this category-my older son and I watched "Am I a Racist" last week-he's not Woke-but he hides it.
But when we went back to his place after the movie when he parked the car, he looked me in the eyes so solemnly I thought he was going to tell me he has 'cancer' but he demanded, that I tell Liz , his wife-high school teacher'- we saw 'Saturday Night" -as she is very, very Woke.
My young son, he's not Woke at all , but he is a laze about still at home at 27 drinking beer, smoking weed and eating on Dad and Mom's tab-I don't know what is worse...
Sounds like my nephew. "His dad ruined him" my sister says. So at 30, he's allowed to sponge off them both, not have a job, etc. Sure. How was he "ruined"? Well, his dad was emotionally unavailable. The horror! Yet, millions like him are able to work and run their own lives. He's even blessed with a high IQ. The problem there is that my sister is a toxic codependent who thinks that her family would die on the spot if she's not there catering to them. Something is very wrong in our society. She's not an outlier, IOW, she is typical.
You both have described the Nanny State that the government is trying to create, both kids finding easy touch parentage afraid to tell them “No”. The entire country is being threatened by 50% of folks being exactly the same as these two, and a Deep State kow-towing to them to get votes, unwilling to say “No”.
My most sincere condolences on the state of family affairs outlined above. Not to brag, but I have two very unwoke daughters-one married a LEO and the other is divorced but happily so. They had three sons between them, one of whom is making bank as an RN and the other doing likewise financially handling automated production at a large local food processing facility. The other one, well, he's not living at home, nor is he "woke," but he has "issues" involving drugs and the usual assortment of problems which accompany that. But hey, 2 out of 3 ain't bad, like Meat Loaf told us. Somehow I have to think our strict Christian upbringing had something to do with it. YMMV.
Part of it is a youth thing; when I was 20 or so, my roommate said that food, energy, and housing should all be free (he may have been right about energy, anyway); many people don't make it to adulthood (despite not dying) and learn to stand on their own two feet in every way.
"Ditto" on not alone.
It's just a matter of time for the older. Hopefully sooner, or he'll squander his whole life being cucked by her.
We really lucked out. All six of our kids (ages 50-23) are conservatives. A few of them had brief moments of “teenage liberalism”...but they grew out of it LOL!!
I think it was Winston Churchill that said, “If you’re not a liberal when you’re young, you have no heart. If you’re not a conservative when you’re old, you have no brain.”
How did you manage that????? Even though it’s too late for me I’d still like to know. Maybe I can practice on my grandchildren.
I don’t know that we did anything in particular, but we always made it a point to expose the differences (liberal vs conservative) whenever the opportunities arose. They are all very much “awake” (not woke)!
He admitted in his memoirs that the real reason for WW2 was that Germany wouldn't renounce its sovereignty in favor of the nascent New World Order.
It is this dichotomy that drives the Turnings. Do not trust anyone over 30, right?
Peer pressure/Tribal Unity is SO powerful. I was a Democrat until 2019. I don’t brag about that, or my change.
No, you were sold a bill of goods, that the Democrats are the party of Joe Average, the working man, and the GOP was the party of the Elite. The Dems pulled off the biggest con job in US history, and we are seeing the re-alignment of the parties now because of the lies that have been promulgated for 70 years. MAGA vs, Know-Nothings.
I saw the change with Bill Clinton in the ‘92 race when he was hawking the DLC (Democratic Leadership Council). I went to an event with him and at the time was fighting him about Mena and the whole “Compromised” Terry Reed thing . As soon as I shook his hand I knew he was a rat. Little did I know that his “Stand By Your Man” wife would become the biggest rat of all.
Welcome to the deprogrammed world. It is glorious, indeed.
Just like in the Matrix when Neo learns the real world is an illusion.
Well you are honest and authentic, obviously, and I bet it was diflicult socially, economically even to make the conversion-so you aren't a coward either.
Glad you are on our side now
Haha!!! Same here. You didn’t steer your daughter in a political direction. But, I did.
I was an active conservative and enlisted my kids in campaigns . I figured it backfired which accounts for at least one of my kids becoming radically liberal.
No matter the approach, we probably have little influence on our children because our society has much more.
Research suggests that by age ten our kids are more influenced by their peers than they will ever be by adults again,
Howard. By age six, parental “programming” is over, most of personality is in place. All the stuff that is blamed on schools is in place before school starts. Parents!!!!!!
Thre is no solver bullet in this paradigm
Sounds like me when I was a kid. Then I grew a brain
I wondered the same thing.
Democrats were the biggest slave owners, that says it all, not that the North didnt have em too, but the most ardent for slavery were democrats and they still are today
And Kamala's family was the biggest slaveholder om Jamaica.
I agree but let me tell you a story that orally given to my great-great grandfather form his father.
In 1854 my great-great-great grandfather came to the US from Ireland. He got a job building railroads out in the US West.
Well when thy came where they had to blast rock for the train track tunnels it was a tricky job back then so many workers got killed or maimed in the blastings.
There were three principal ethnic groups that worked on the railroad-Irish, Chinese Coolies and black slaves.
When there was blasting the boss would send only Irish or Chinese-because if they died they didn't get paid on Friday-if the black slave died it was a loss property around $2k.
So there are many nuances.
I live in this country because my great grandfather's brother died in a dynamite accident, working in a stone quarry in England. My great grandfather then came to the US to work in another quarry, cutting stone for the Erie Canal.
The problem is that the narrative has it that 'blacks had it bad' and 'whites had it good'-and, on the average correct-but the stories like mine and yours illustrate that the Woke narrative is much too simple and Manichean like all their values.
Have you seen what a “steel driving” man like John Henry had to do to bore the holes for dynamite charges. One holding the spike and one banging on it with a sledge hammer. No thanks.
Darlin, The northerners shipped slaves from Africa to the Carribean for years after the civil war.
Yep, the War of Northern Aggression was only to force a one government rule, just like they are trying to do now to the world.
Being from Massholechusetts I was never taught that there may have been other valid viewpoints about the Civil War 1 (given our probable future and the real possibility of future uncivil wars, I'm numbering them).
One thing often overlooked re: the civil war was the demographics at the time. The antebellum, agrarian south did not have a lot of folks, whereas the North full of cities, had many more people and thus votes. In our country, the South never stood a chance politically and it was the end of the compromise era that drove the South to try to exit. The real battle here was between the manufacturing North, and ENGLAND. The South was a “colony” of both, providing resources to both on-coming manufacturing giants. The South was backed by England throughout the war, Surprise!!!! The demographic advantage, ie, the number of available soldiers, was what did in the South. Grant just threw troops at Lee until Lee had no one left.
The victory of the North is what spurred on the Gilded Age which drove the USA way past England in economic power.
BTW, look at today. The power of the cities politically (Blue) contesting the power of the agrarian sector (Red). Politically, the cities will win, just like 1865, but today a strike by teamsters could undo any power the cities have. Cities today are much more dependent than in the 1860s.
You are right about the pendulum. It is the swinging back and forth that has kept the country on a steady course on average. Until 1988. The Bush boys are as left as the Ult-Left folks today, war, open border, corrupt DOJ, all the things we discuss here. We have been steadily Left of center for 36 years, so is it no wonder that the Deep State, all factions, are so far Left. The RINO contingent ARE NOT conservative, they are neo-con, MIC, tax and spend, blatant Deep Staters that have joined the Far Left in their desire to create a socialistic nanny state. Planted squarely in front of this whole bloc are the MAGA folks, led by the Golden Golem. What we are witnessing going into this election is a ripping apart of the political country, leaving a Left Right orientation into a different alignment of parties. IMHO, two parties are emerging, one, MAGA, center right and two, the “Know Nothings” Far Left. It reflects the Leftward drift of the country for the 36 years. MAGA is center right as its leader was a Democrat at one time and has some of that old democrat dogma inside his head. The Deep State hates MAGA as its prime directive is to reduce the noose around the country that the nanny state wants to install. The RINOs are an integral part of the Deep State and also hate MAGA and its leader. However, a new breed has arisen, old fashioned moderate Democrats who still love the country as it is, without the nanny state. These folks are moving to the right to join MAGA as they do no want the Constitution re-written. Two parties are arising, center right and far left. The cause is the attempted installation of socialism and the nanny state by a Deep State desperate to ward off the attempted control of their power and bureaucracy by the upstarts in MAGA. It definitely could turn bloody.
Side bar. Know Nothings fit well as a descriptor because during the last four years, the Obama Left has rolled out every article of their dogma, passed it into DC with dictatorial EOs and we have witnessed its total failure in every way possible. That is why Harris is running as she is, she has absolutely nothing positive to run on. So instead, we get empty nothing promises Called the Opportunity Economy with absolutely no idea what that means. Warning: Opportunity Economy sounds like a whole bunch of fiat spending, welfare spending, war spending, Deep State expansion spending, immigrant spending, ignoring every economic law ever invented. The Know-Nothing Party. If America votes these nincompoops into control, the Ens Times of this country draws near, and all the dunderheads that vote for the nanny state are going to find out, it will not and cannot ever exist. 0 bucks.
The Know Nothings were against mass immigration. They were right. Everyone else was wrong. Their America was destroyed by the endless stream of Irish, Poles, and Italians.
Howard, outstanding comment. The talented Mr. Clinton really did scramble the tokens on the game board, didn't he? If you had more time or space, I'm sure you would have included a paragraph on the possible effects of mass illegal immigration on the American electorate--not only in election years to come but also three and half weeks from now.
Just legalize the illegals. Presto! Somali and Haitian primitives would suddenly become as Americans as you or I. This was George Bush Jr's solution.
George Bush Jr. was a dimwit, alcoholic - one an alcoholic, always an alcoholic.
Insightful synopsis. Thank you.
I wasn’t politically aware when I graduated from high school in 1968, but I can’t imagine it compares to our current situation. It’s hard to know what you didn’t experience. However, too many adult Americans reside in the same place I did at age 18. However, unlike my young self, they vote.
As a protester I was just a foot soldier, but we manned the barricades, protesting the war in Vietnam, saw students murdered at Kent State by the National Guard. The country was coming apart. But I agree that today is worse, because we still had resilient institutions, economy, and infrastructure then, to carry on with after things settled down. Now all of that is gone.
And you were against those institutions back then, right? Marxism is a disease, a mind virus, just like Feminism or Libertarianism.
Yup! Good statement LUGH.
Even Libertarianism. Government needs to be controlled. BUT it is absolutely necessary. I do not remember which of the Great Philosophers it was, but he said government is requires when two or more people live together.
I was born in 1968. In downtown Chicago, actually, during the chaotic Democratic Convention.
So here’s one brutal GenX take on your generation: you’re all haunted. Unable to detangle yourselves from the political traumas and skepticism of the 60s and 70s. And now, to be honest, you’ve lost your edge, and it’s becoming painfully obvious that retirement does not agree with you. Or rather, the kinds of retirement you’re living are sorting and cleaving you from mainline society.
We don’t know what to do with you. But we still admire you and wish you’d stop poisoning yourself with garbage media infotainment, parroting the political nonsense there, and feeling like everything in the news is about prosecuting the debates of your day in perpetuity.
Because it isn’t. And, sorry, but it’s no longer about you.
Amen to all that you said here. I am on two years behind you, graduating in 1970. I too hope “the landscape” will be “possibly much improved”.
So you admit that only a very few people should be voting then, right? And that would be fine since we were never intended to be a democracy in the first place, but rahther, a Republic!, a government of laws not men.
"From a flawed republic ... to a murderous empire."
- Gore Vidal
Let’s not be counting those chickens before they’re hatched , folks. Keep the pedal to the metal.
Oh indeed
There are plenty of Obama's Army, ready, energetically willing and able to do their job, which is the keep the steal in motion, no matter, what ever cost.
Agrred
“and do it all right in America’s face as if to say: we can do whatever we want. . . to get whatever we want. . . and you can’t stop us”. This is exactly how they believe and what they are doing. It’s been evident for a long time. If you push back, well, they will shut you up one way or another. Just watch what has been going on for years and What do you think you are going to do about it? What do you think you can do about it?
EXACTLY! They are spitting in our faces and giving us the double middle finger salute just by putting up these execrable candidates- FJB and Kamala.
They are so sure that they can cheat their way to "winning" this election that it didn't matter to them who they ran for office. I don't know which choice was more brazen, the dementia patient in the basement or the cheap whore of color.
Not to mention the traitors and incompetents that are on Trump's team, pretending to be working for him. If the election is stolen, there are many of them that are to be blamed.
You point out a real problem. When Trump started in 2017, he was one against the Deep State and the Deep State found so many different ways to blunt his impact.
This time he has a few folks that have challenged the Deep State and have joined him, on his side. Last time it was almost exclusively his family, and they paid for it. This time, I just do not know if he has the support to do much more, even if the GOP takes the Congress. Why? Because the real situation in congress is that the alignment of the two parties today make it so that the congress really has no majorities as all the different priorities do no allow any real domination that is required to exact change. That is why the congress is worthless.
Emerald Robinson is all over Twitter/X claiming that the RNC including Lara Trump, Whatley and some of their top people are not doing anything about election integrity and trying to stop the Steal.
If the election was held today and there was no cheating, there absolutely no doubt that Pres. Trump would win in landslide.
The most important thing that the Trump Team has to work on is stopping the flood of fraudulent BALLOTS that they are going to inject into the system unless the RNC wakes the hell up.
This is the most effective group out there and they have put together all the data that shows exactly where the bad ballots are and how to stop them. This is URGENT.
https://www.stopbogusballots.com/
You are right. Election fraud of any source is a felony, if anyone can find a judge that will enforce the law.
I like that, "whore of color." That's a new one. You could put any description in there in front of "of color."
"...or the cheap whore of color."
Nanny,
To be fair, and accurate, she was never cheap.
I love your reference to "The Death of Stalin". Unfortunately for America, I doubt that there a general in the armed services with the competence and prestige of Georgi Zhukov to pull off a successful coup. Note Zhukov's critical role in getting rid of the most malign character in the Politburo after Stalin's death. If, as JHK suggests, America could see a military takeover, are any of its military leaders actually capable of such an action?
Certainly, none at the top…
I highly doubt it. Obama got rid of anyone who might have been a threat. What you have now are careerists who only care about their careers and living la dolce vita.
The real problem in the military is Article 92 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ). It requires all in uniform to obey LAWFUL orders only. I went through boot camp in 1971, which was after the My Lai event, and we all understood clearly that we must disobey unlawful orders.
It's hard to say how many NCOs and junior officers still embrace that tenet, but no senior or general officer with the sense God gave an ordinary rubber duck can rely on troops blindly obeying any order. I think there would be widespread mutiny if anything nefarious were to be attempted.
I believe the US government mandated covid shots for all military personnel knowing that the toughest of the bunch would refuse, thereby eliminating them as a source of internal resistance should said nefarious actions take place.
When in doubt, just think of Admiral Levine. Their presence negates our entire System and Way of Life. If
"the many agency blobsters who fear prison . . . and the perfidious politicians who fear the judgment of history."
I'll say it again: Nothing is going to happen to any of these people. We're 20 years out from the war crimes of the Bush/Cheney regime, viewed by Democrats back then as analogous to Vader and the Emperor; not only do they continue to walk free, they actually ENDORSED this election's hapless Democrat candidate. If that isn't evidence they're all on the same team, I don't know what is.
I'm willing to wait and see if Trump is truly the reformer his supporters claim. But if elected, the moment he names the first swamp creature to his cabinet—like he did the first time around—I'll be here to say I told you so.
Same. I'm about as cynical as it gets. I just see a big clown show with 2 clowns running. One is a glorified Sarah Palin and the other a carnival barker. There is no one who represents the average American.
Glorified Sarah Palin? At least Palin had some executive experience as the governor of Alaska. Carnival Barker? Hey, how would you do competing in the real estate market as a developer in the corrupt world of NYC and come out a winner.
Let's hear more about Operation Warp Speed and his push to vaccinate the populace. He still brags about it, so I guess he's proud of his work there. Oh wait: He was LIED to. He was SUCKERED. So let's elect him again, so that he can be duped by the same deep state he claims to want to do away with? Erm. OK. What about the neocons he put in his cabinet? He didn't know they were bad? So far, looks like I'm smarter than Trump as I wouldn't have been duped into either of these two things.
You are proof that hindsight is 20/20. You will notice that those folks that he hired, he fired when they exposed themselves. I agree that he allowed himself to be distracted by the impeachments and appointed Pence to run the Covid effort. it WAS a mistake the appoint Fauci as it turns out as he was not the solution but the culprit. Trump has always delegated and did forget the buck stopped at the Oval Office. But putting Pence in charge was a major blunder as he was coming under the influence of the RINOs with the election approaching. His, Pence, betrayal came later, maybe later? Pence+Fauci=disaster.
Does The Fake Mary Rose have better sense?
Asks Jonesy Not-So-Smart.
Make my point for me why don't you. 😂
Meh. I think it's obvious enough by the likes I got on my comment that pests like you are for swatting, and not much else.
Yeah, both of them.
It's true that nothing gets done, but only as long as the uniparty swamp creatures are in control. Trump has had 4 long, hard years to put together a game plan to enact a 4th turning in politics, one that has the seeds of hope for our country; one not dependent on the military industrial complex model that has corrupted everything we supposedly stand for. The leaders are ready to fulfill their roles. The question is whether Trump has the wisdom and fortitude to see it through.
Trump has more common sense and cojones than the entire rest of the Deep State. That is why they cannot stop him. Even in the courts, the Media is having a ball raising all the Jack Smith bullshit, but nothing is going to stick. Trump must have learned how to “Teflon” from Reagan, another one that was smarter than his Deep State.
He is the Deep State candidate now. They set up poor Kammy on 60 Minutes, asking her real questions. He will take us into Iran. Down in Hell, McCain is still singing, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb
Bomb Bomb Iran
Fuckin' A.
Sir you want the "swamp creatures" right next to you? Keep your enemies closer
So you think "drain the swamp" actually means to FILL the swamp with your enemies to "keep an eye on them"? That's next-level self delusion right there.
Lol...you have to investigate them and their networks before you can remove them? Chess not Checkers !
Still reading the Q posts, I see. Still waiting for those magical "White Hats" to finish the job.
There are a couple of Qanons up here doing their village idiot acts. What's great is, you can block them. Then them and their White Dunce Hats go bye-bye.
It's up to me and you to finish the job? Trump needs our support. Our elections are rigged and fake. 1 day voting, ID and paper ballots hand counted!
Fine and dandy. But if he gets in, watch what he does, not what he says. That's all I'm saying.
There is a remedy here. As many are going to do: Don’t vote.
The minions of evil do not know they are evil. They are deluded to believe they are RIGHT! Kamala is a classic psychopath who has no clue she is a moron. I will always believe Trump won in 2016 because people were keeping their mouths shut and lying to the pollsters so the Dims believed they were a shoe in but also they didn't know how much to cheat. This time they will pull out the stops and even if there are more votes than we have population they will swell up in indignation and ask, 'waddayagonnadoaboutit?'
I can’t help but wonder if they don’t care that the stealing/cheating is obvious. They can act with impunity. After all, they have stuffed all government agencies with their agents and have no respect for that old rag the constitution. They own the USofA now. The mission is complete.
They do think they have it wrapped up. However, what they have no clue about is that they are not really in control. I am a realist. I prefer tough truth over sweet lies any day. However, I also know that there is a grander plan and while I am ever watchful with eyes wide open, I am not discouraged. They can kill my body but not my soul. I think we are truly on the brink of major change, one way or the other. I am prepared emotionally, physically and spiritually. I just posted in my substack regarding this phenomenal statistic that most Christians do not vote. This baffles me.
I have all manner of Christian friends and relatives - from Latin Mass Catholics to Southern Baptist. Trust me, they all vote.
Good to hear!
My mother has been a lifetime JFK Democrat, and to this day does not understand how the party that she was partial to morphed into the party that it has become. I believe there are millions of JFK Democrats, who still believe that their party will miraculously drift back into what it once was. And for that reason continue to support their party.
Maybe it is very difficult to admit that you are wrong. It is hard to admit that the government is an evil agency comprised of evil people instead of their economic tit full of benevolent people.
Spot on, i see it all the time here in the islands, they just dont get it
Long ago, Kamala was a pretty girl with a law degree. That pretty much sums up everything the woman has going for her, all past tense by the way.
In all my 58 + years, I have never before seen someone so incapable occupying such a large stage.
I almost feel bad for them, you know, except for all the evil.
Never feel bad for them- they want to kill us.
You can never hate these people enough.
Seems like most of the Dems who wish to be POTUS in the near term want Kamalama Ding Dong to crash and burn. The logic is simple - if she wins, her administration will be a chaotic nightmare, but she would run for re-election with virtually no chance of success, pushing out the Shapiro, Newsome and other Democratic POTUS candidates to 2032, at which time they would face an incumbent Republican with a newly revised electoral map, minimizing the chance of Democratic success. They certainly prefer a Harris failure today giving them a chance to run in 2028 against someone other than Trump.
Yes, but can the cadre of criminals risk what may come of their fate over the next four years? I believe that is the thrust of James missive.
They seem to have the judicial system locked up so maybe they aren't are worried about retrobution as they are about losing power and therefore money.
I agree with you. I don’t believe this talk about being so scared they can’t think straight. I do believe they are concerned about Trump getting back into the WH. He will go scorched earth on them. He has a lot on them but I think their arrogance won’t allow them to even consider it. They’ve got this and continue to laugh at him over dinner and wine. Only the very best of course.
Classic arrogant delusion. The upside is that is often the thing that does in those who believe they are little g gods.
Do not forget that the bueaucracy runs DC and just laughs at the elected officials. It will take as many years to undo the Deep State mess as it took to form it, 36 years, as the bureaucracy has to be brought back to balance through attrition. The Left has had 36 years, thanks to the Bush Boys and the RINOs, to distort the government to where it is today.
The greatest problem of all is that we don't have 36 years.
Demographic overload is conquest and erasure of our kind, our potential, our future AND our past.
Yup, and the continuation of The Long Emergency.
They have managed to do so for the past 10 years. I remember reading that the reason they let Trump in, in 2016, was because they thought Hillary Clinton's secrets were out. But then they were able to do damage control on them. I'm not even sure which secrets they were. It might be hearsay. But Clinton threw a massive hissy, that is well-documented, and she was told she'd be installed, and it was changed at the last minute. This is why I see this all as theater. Also, her hubs is the one who asked Trump to run in the first place. They ran in the same circles and their daughters are besties. I am not convinced that Trump is against them.
TRMR. Ask Diddy what he knows about Cankles’ extra curricular, and outside the box, activities. If you can get a frank response it will make a donkey puke.
Trump’s power is derived from MAGA, his populist base. The Deep State hates the control the ballot box holds over them. Trump thrives in that environment. Clinton hates it and they will never agree on that.
It is difficult to get a clear "read" on many, or even ANY of their actions.
I recall in 2020, some guy on the street came up to Biden, questioning him about something (I do not recall any of that) ... I DO remember Biden telling the guy, he knew he was not going to win the election. It was that clear even at this moment in 2020.
Biden has been in mental decline for years. He hardly knows where he is.
And it shows Kamala to be the lowlife she is that she, recognizing their using of her, doesn't protest but prefers that to being the nobody she deserves to be. She's the embodiment of the Peter Principle.
The problem that Kamala Harris presents, as it relates to the Peter Principle, is that she rose to a level of incompetence several iterations back.
Indeed, but turds tend to float
Good one!
In the denouement they will "Tina Peters" all contenders.
https://joehoft.com/the-disgusting-abandonment-of-tina-peters/
That a freakin' kangaroo court showing! The sentencing judge called her a "charlatan" - really? I don't even know much about the trial, but all I could see in the summary was that she questioned the veracity of the 2020 election and that she is a Trump supporter. So to me that immediately smacks of "political hit." And of course, also using her for a warning to others.
Well, I think the cheating is a bridge too far as the gap will e too big.
I think the Dems will paly it differently-they, especially in the interregnum period, do things more War and/or financial apocalypse to screw Trump's second term
oh yes, the devils are already talking together.
Can they even find another assassin?
"That is probably the point where blue America finds out exactly what the Second Amendment was designed for."
Modern Americans are cowards, by and large it seems. We talk a big game, but our comforts are too great to lose. "All experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are suffer able, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed." The government is bankrupting us and flooding the country with millions of barbarians. Our currency is worthless, our economy is stagnant and probably shrinking, our so-called leaders are now breaking the fourth wall, our enemies are rehearsing in their own version of the Spanish Civil War and armed to the teeth, and our children's minds are being poisoned daily. Anyways, did you watch baseball playoffs last night?
Tripp, could you elaborate on “the fourth wall” ?
According to my AI assistant, The fourth wall is an imaginary wall that separates the audience from the actors in a performance.
So we are all being brought into the fray?
My (bad, I guess) analogy is that in many ways they are not pretending any longer or at least are badly keeping up appearances. The mask and the gloves are off. The irreality we are presented is becoming common knowledge (in the sense that you know that I know, I know you know that I know and so on) regarding the production the 'blob' is putting on.
Mr. Kunstler, there is in fact a precedent for this election, which is the election of 1876, Tilden v Hayes..Tilden, a New Yorker, running on a platform of ending Reconstruction,, clearly won the election but the Army, occupying the South and Border States, decided to replace the Tilden electors in two States with its own Hayes electors, giving Hayes the victory by one vote...This was the most blatant theft of an election ever, and caused massive protests and talk of rebellion..In response, the wise men in DC put together a 7 man commission to decide the election, with 4 Republicans and 3 Democrats...That commission compromised, with the parties agreeing to end Reconstruction immediately, but giving Hayes the victory....
Examples such as this is why I love history. It shows us how it returns again and again, whenever we think we're in unique times.
Gore Vidal's novel 1876 centers around this election....
"It must be deeply demoralizing to be used like that in front of the whole world."
That would be assuming she's smart enough to realize it.
Hmmm, just can't go there.
The root word of demoralizing is “moral”. That word is nowhere to be found in the lexicon of the Cabal.
All of these people's consciences have been seared as with a hot iron, and what remains is scar tissue, which has no feeling. So I don't think being used as a toy by powerful men bothered her one bit, and neither does this show
She didn't mind being used by Willy Brown ... I am guessing some part of her is compelled to being used by the powerful.
Uh-huh.....primarily her mouth.
It's only used for cackling & word salad, these days.
Don't be so sure.