"This version of Trump knows what buttons to press, he knows where the bodies are buried, he’s absorbed their worst and now he is about to throw it right back at them." — Jeff Childers
Thank you for this powerful image of how the coup can be averted. Interesting that Putin might hold the most important cards in this game. I do believe he knows better. I think he’s holding out for Trump to take office. Putin knows that Trump will and can skillfully negotiate with him.
After I read this post I felt hopeful again. Thanks!
And that's why the blob is trying to push Putin to a point where he can't wait for Trump, but he's smart; he can still take out Kiev and end them all w/o attacking NATO.
I don't know any members of the Washington "Blob," but I am surrounded by its many deluded supporters. Some are family and (former) friends. Some common, dangerous traits they seem to share is that they can shape "reality" to their own liking, including changing their biological sex, enjoying "freestyle" interpretations of laws, logic, history, and human rights according how such things align with their "feelings" and personal "truths." Anyone outside of their ideological igloo poses an existential threat that must be stomped out of existence.
My efforts to reach out to some of them only kindled rabid exchanges, culminating in being called an ignorant "Hitler." Do they REALLY want the "Old Yeller" cure? Because that's where they're leading us.
They used to scream how awful it was when that monster Cheney said they were creating their own reality. They have no reality now themselves to see the difference. I got out and looked inside my former party very carefully from the outside. The frogs are still clueless in their getting hotter pot on the stove. My thanksgiving divided into 2 factions in 2 towns. One that harpy Joy Reid told them to do. I was in the one that doesn’t give a rats patootie what your politics is as a family.
Cheney did say it also. I heard him say it and it stuck in my head. I was pretty active anti war. I contacted congress all the time, marched in DC, wrote letters to the editor, had signs in my yard showing numbers of dead, the works.
The "works" didn't work, did they Janet? There's a lesson in there. The only thing these fuckers understand is kinetics. How long until we understand that? Time to get after it.
Lol! I see some of that, too. But I'm still disheartened by the off-the-wall reactions of far too many people who were once close to me, including scientists and engineers (I used to test products). These are extremely competent professionals and experts in their respective fields. And yet, when it comes to politics and related topics, they morph into an amalgam of Joy Behar, Ibram X. Kendi, and Rob Reiner.
Yeah, I've seen a couple of postings by people I know who swear that the world will end on Jan. 20, when Trump is "official." It's mind blowing; I am hopeful when I read that Elon wants to dump NPR, as that's where most of these people get their info (and CNN and MSNBC, which are self destructing)
Unsuspectingly, I ran into a rabid never Trumper in my neighborhood. Brainwashed lady is locked into her own self made safe unable to reason and support her position! Sad!
“Old Yeller”? Uhhh haven’t read it in decades but isn’t that a little harsh? Though— same exact thing has been happening to me—SAME! I wonder how long this frozen mentality can go on?
So does NAC (N-acetyl L-Cysteine). I found it very effective , at least for hard tumors. It took care of a highly personal and rapidly increasing problem in a location I didn't want to lose to a surgeon's knife. I noticed distinct improvement within a couple of days, and while the problem is gone, I still take it on a daily basis as a preventative. I understand it is ineffective against cancers that don't involve tumors.
JHK, while being a good writer who expounds on many of the aspects of our corrupt federal bureaucrazy, could boil this entire essay down to one point. And that is....
The Article 5 wording is vague. It states that an attack against one member “shall be considered an attack against them all.” What is quoted less often is that each member state only has an obligation to take “such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force.” In other words, Article 5 does not commit member states to deploy military assets if an ally is attacked. It only commits them to some form of response.
We are NOT committed to wage nuclear war against Russia.
In 52 days and one hour, Trump will return to office and all that aggression and one-world government nonsense that the idiot Biden has been hoping for will go off the rails and the USA will, once again, become a force for good.
"again, a force for good"? Besides the hopium belief that DT is different, the cold war PR got you good- the US has toppled, invaded and or assassinated elected leaders 40 times since wwii. ( or ask the ghosts of a million slaughtered Native North Americans) All in the name of "freedom, democracy, etc.".. and ppl still swallow the narrative..
PDJT is showing his ability and intent to make necessary changes before official inauguration -ie; DOGE, Tariffs, appointments. Regarding Ukraine, IMOH/fwiw, a directive stating that the war was initiated under false pretense and abuses by political and NATO leadership, and that future acts by persons or Administrations that cause escalation will be subject to Military Tribunal prosecution, ( past actions also to be investigated) Threats or use of of false flag actions must be prevented.
Start small - big pharma can no longer advertise, just like big tobacco can not. That will change much of the narrative as news outlets (sic) will no longer receive 75% of their income pushing unnecessary drugs. Maybe they will do some actual reporting.
Next up - you can no longer work for any outfit you've "regulated". No more retiring from the government service just to jump over to the MIC. That has to stop. While we're there, any government employee who works from home is instantly fired - let them try to sue for their pension.
Finally, term limits and election reform. You can not donate money to anyone that you can't vote for—period. This would be followed by term limits in the Senate and House, and that would remove a fair chunk of the problems.
You. I’ve posted the idea of no donations from those who can’t vote fur you, as well as outlawing any & all group donations - corporation or union, etc. The problem with each idea is that it requires amending the Constitution as office eligibility and free speech (campaign donations) are being altered. I’m also not sure I’d prefer term limits to a mandatory retirement age, but that’s another discussion…
I’d prefer people ReElect Nobody. No exceptions. Everybody gets one term. All Lame Ducks. All facing the laws they enacted, or failed to dismantle. No Retirement annuity for four years of Public Service. KISS
One of the most fascinating parts of the GAE’s war on Ukraine is that no one is discussing demographics. Ukraine’s Total Fertility Rate, pre-invasion, was 1.3. They now rank 224 out of 227 countries. (Below it: Taiwan and S Korea; two other countries it is absolutely pointless to defend…)
The Ukraine government has killed or driven off the entire childbearing generation.
No matter what happens at any peace conference, Ukraine is over; it has no future. In “defending” itself so it can join the European market for the Complex, it has committed suicide.
The continued destruction of its future rests entirely with the blob and American voters stupid enough to keep fighting the last, “Cold” war…
What this country needs is an American Nuremberg. 5 minute tribunals and immediate executions. None shall live. And if that seems a tad, well, extreme, then pause for a moment to reflect upon what this treasonous, murderous blob had had in mind for us.
Hung from lamp posts without a drop. Ickk the stool out from under them. It takes a strong man about 15 minutes (more or less) to strangle at the end of a rope. That's plenty of time to contemplate the errors of their ways before they fling off their mortal coil.
Russia will need to control the entire Black Sea coast for security, including Odessa...It will also need a cordon sanitaire around the Dnieper river, to prevent other kinds of nonsense from NATO infiltrators...the bottom line is that Ze/NATO has no bargaining position, and will need to understand that it's not going to get anything...
I just wanted to say that you, Mr. Kunstler, produce in text, a great combination of insight to reality mixed with optimism. Monday and Friday mornings are always more enjoyable when I hit this space. We had a very brief exchange years ago when I lived in Winnipeg but I now live in an environment closer to your own both physically and in spirit in Clementsvale, Nova Scotia where my wife and I tend to our 180 year old house and outbuildings (an old store, church and graveyard) with ample raised bed gardens and fruit trees. We also have a beautiful chicken coop that is so far empty but possibly in the spring we'll try that out as well. It gives me a stronger connection to your writing. Thanks for that and Happy Thanksgiving.
Washington DC, a gift economy of overlapping rackets.....key operative phrases, JHK. Thank you.
Should the Donald make it to January 20, while he takes the Oath of Office in full view of the world, would be a perfect opportunity for the final assassination. This time they will not miss. Don't have a clue to who the patsy might be but "they" are in charge of Inauguration Day security.
Just as the January 6 unarmed "insurrection" was co-ordinated and organized by the Democrats and the FBI, we can only hope that Elon Musk and Donald Trump has armed bodyguards everywhere in the DC mob when he is inaugurated.
Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby formed pieces of a CIA puzzle - much like COVID-19 and the clot shots are paired as biological weapons by the mad scientists of the USA.
""This version of Trump knows what buttons to press, he knows where the bodies are buried, he’s absorbed their worst and now he is about to throw it right back at them." — Jeff Childers"
JHK, with all due respect, you are wrong.
First, Donald Trump is a lame duck president. Both times. Trump is never going to save the republic in one term of office. Just how many times was Trump betrayed while he was president? Because I lost track.
It would have been better if Trump had placed Bobby Kennedy, Jr. as head of the CIA, or the FBI, or both. Then a boy could have found out who killed his daddy, and his uncle. But that will never happen. Worse, is that would have been American Taxpayer money well spent.
Creating another government department is just one more government office, that will never go away. Just one more encroachment upon Liberty and Freedom. The Department of DOGE might as well be called the Department of Dodge Can, because the Department of Kicking the Can is taken -- or the Department of Lying, Cheating, Two-Timing, Cold-Hearted, Mean-Spirited, Cynical, Home-Wrecking, Loser-dom. Because I just don't get it.
I just don't understand this obsession with the idea that Elon Musk is going to save the republic. Musk is a government man. As David Collum says: "Musk is protected." Elon Musk wouldn't exist without all those lucrative government contracts, that primarily just continue hawking 70-year-old technology. Anybody who has ever gone up against Elon Musk (from a big three automaker to another government) has either gone away or been made to disappear -- and right quick.
And now the fully owned, fully controlled, fully manipulated, fully propagandized mainstream media is talking about Musk being "our" next president. That's like electing the government to be the government. Didn't we just leave this party. Yes, but by your idea of what "mandated" means. More LaLaLand sh*t. Either TPTB have to stop, or you do. I am inclined to raise an eyebrow and point to TPTB who are going to stick around for a while.
Justice doesn't have to happen just because you say so. Just because you say so doesn't make it so. Regardless of how many times you say so. For the same reason Bill Barr was never going to save the republic from Mueller. Because Bill Barr was part of the problem, not the solution. And for the same reason Big Pharma is going to pay for phony vaccines. Or those responsible for making a biological weapon on their own front doorstep and then letting it get loose, when they knew it would turn on the species and attempt to kill us, would see the consequences of their actions. The list, your list, is endless. And justice ain't never going to get done. Ever.
He needs to get rid of the neocons, not appoint them. They are a particularly poisonous and stinking part of the swamp and threaten the world. I at least hope he and his team are ready for more diabolical moves by the "Biden administration" and won't bite. There's talk of a false flag event in London. If God forbid something does happen we will know that Starmer and servants of the Diabolicals have facilitated it at the height of Xmas shopping in the capital or anywhere else.
“You will be free to succeed or fail in a society of voluntary transactions. That was always the essence of being an American, not being a client of a fake therapeutic state.” INDEED. The fake therapeutic state dies now! I ordered your Safe and Happy from Battenkill. It will be a Christmas present. Thanks!
Day One President Trump signs an EO. No new hiring in the Federal Government. An immediate freeze. Downsizing begins immediately through attrition. The effect will be small but symbolic. I would have to think that with millions of employees i.e. "deadwood", thousands probably retire or leave for other reasons every month.
You’re a damn good writer. Thanks for processing the chaos for us.
Hi James:
Thank you for this powerful image of how the coup can be averted. Interesting that Putin might hold the most important cards in this game. I do believe he knows better. I think he’s holding out for Trump to take office. Putin knows that Trump will and can skillfully negotiate with him.
After I read this post I felt hopeful again. Thanks!
Elizabeth Skewis
Hopeful here as well, Elizabeth. Thank you.
And that's why the blob is trying to push Putin to a point where he can't wait for Trump, but he's smart; he can still take out Kiev and end them all w/o attacking NATO.
I don't know any members of the Washington "Blob," but I am surrounded by its many deluded supporters. Some are family and (former) friends. Some common, dangerous traits they seem to share is that they can shape "reality" to their own liking, including changing their biological sex, enjoying "freestyle" interpretations of laws, logic, history, and human rights according how such things align with their "feelings" and personal "truths." Anyone outside of their ideological igloo poses an existential threat that must be stomped out of existence.
My efforts to reach out to some of them only kindled rabid exchanges, culminating in being called an ignorant "Hitler." Do they REALLY want the "Old Yeller" cure? Because that's where they're leading us.
They used to scream how awful it was when that monster Cheney said they were creating their own reality. They have no reality now themselves to see the difference. I got out and looked inside my former party very carefully from the outside. The frogs are still clueless in their getting hotter pot on the stove. My thanksgiving divided into 2 factions in 2 towns. One that harpy Joy Reid told them to do. I was in the one that doesn’t give a rats patootie what your politics is as a family.
They put Cheney to shame - oh the irony.
Was it Cheney who said that, or maybe Rove? Rove had that famous election-night meltdown when his preferred reality was failing to materialize.
It was Rove.
Although I hate Darth Cheney as much as you can hate a cyborg like that. When is he/it going to die already? Maybe an EMP would solve that problem.
Cheney did say it also. I heard him say it and it stuck in my head. I was pretty active anti war. I contacted congress all the time, marched in DC, wrote letters to the editor, had signs in my yard showing numbers of dead, the works.
The "works" didn't work, did they Janet? There's a lesson in there. The only thing these fuckers understand is kinetics. How long until we understand that? Time to get after it.
"The only thing these fuckers understand is kinetics."
Having grown up in a family where every single male, apart from my brother, worked for defense contractors, I totally get this.
Cheney did say it. I heard him and it stuck. I was an active anti war democrat then.
You don't care if family members are traitors? That's a very extreme attitude also.
As a farmer, I recognize that cure. ‘Let them eat cake’ has consequences…
Sat down to a nice meal with my dyed-in-the-wool Democratic ex-husband yesterday, and decided to drop The Bomb at the table.
"So, Mike, do you suppose Biden voted for Trump this year?"
He burst out laughing. He just isn't bent out of shape by Trump, this time.
Lol! I see some of that, too. But I'm still disheartened by the off-the-wall reactions of far too many people who were once close to me, including scientists and engineers (I used to test products). These are extremely competent professionals and experts in their respective fields. And yet, when it comes to politics and related topics, they morph into an amalgam of Joy Behar, Ibram X. Kendi, and Rob Reiner.
Nobody fucks with the Bidens. I loved Dr Jill's flaming red pants suit. One of the few good things she's ever done I imagine.
Yeah, I've seen a couple of postings by people I know who swear that the world will end on Jan. 20, when Trump is "official." It's mind blowing; I am hopeful when I read that Elon wants to dump NPR, as that's where most of these people get their info (and CNN and MSNBC, which are self destructing)
Unsuspectingly, I ran into a rabid never Trumper in my neighborhood. Brainwashed lady is locked into her own self made safe unable to reason and support her position! Sad!
“Old Yeller”? Uhhh haven’t read it in decades but isn’t that a little harsh? Though— same exact thing has been happening to me—SAME! I wonder how long this frozen mentality can go on?
I am told that Ivermectin is a powerful anti- parasite drug. Maybe Trump is political Ivermectin.
Thanks for the post Jim
Ivermectin also destroys cancer cells. It works, trust me!
It does! Yes.
So does NAC (N-acetyl L-Cysteine). I found it very effective , at least for hard tumors. It took care of a highly personal and rapidly increasing problem in a location I didn't want to lose to a surgeon's knife. I noticed distinct improvement within a couple of days, and while the problem is gone, I still take it on a daily basis as a preventative. I understand it is ineffective against cancers that don't involve tumors.
Trump is a morphine suppository—lethal dosage—bureaucracy dies.
I like to think of Trump more as a political Black Hole than anything else.
The Blob crosses the Event Horizon and ceases to exist in this space-time continuum.
That is an excellent assessment.
JHK, while being a good writer who expounds on many of the aspects of our corrupt federal bureaucrazy, could boil this entire essay down to one point. And that is....
Nuke DC from orbit.
It's the only way to be sure.
I found this:
The Article 5 wording is vague. It states that an attack against one member “shall be considered an attack against them all.” What is quoted less often is that each member state only has an obligation to take “such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force.” In other words, Article 5 does not commit member states to deploy military assets if an ally is attacked. It only commits them to some form of response.
We are NOT committed to wage nuclear war against Russia.
In 52 days and one hour, Trump will return to office and all that aggression and one-world government nonsense that the idiot Biden has been hoping for will go off the rails and the USA will, once again, become a force for good.
I hope we have that much time left.
"again, a force for good"? Besides the hopium belief that DT is different, the cold war PR got you good- the US has toppled, invaded and or assassinated elected leaders 40 times since wwii. ( or ask the ghosts of a million slaughtered Native North Americans) All in the name of "freedom, democracy, etc.".. and ppl still swallow the narrative..
They didn't slaughter the Indians for democracy. They did it out of Manifest Destiny.
yep destiny, etc., etc., your health and safety, etc.
PDJT is showing his ability and intent to make necessary changes before official inauguration -ie; DOGE, Tariffs, appointments. Regarding Ukraine, IMOH/fwiw, a directive stating that the war was initiated under false pretense and abuses by political and NATO leadership, and that future acts by persons or Administrations that cause escalation will be subject to Military Tribunal prosecution, ( past actions also to be investigated) Threats or use of of false flag actions must be prevented.
Peace thru strength -
Start small - big pharma can no longer advertise, just like big tobacco can not. That will change much of the narrative as news outlets (sic) will no longer receive 75% of their income pushing unnecessary drugs. Maybe they will do some actual reporting.
Next up - you can no longer work for any outfit you've "regulated". No more retiring from the government service just to jump over to the MIC. That has to stop. While we're there, any government employee who works from home is instantly fired - let them try to sue for their pension.
Finally, term limits and election reform. You can not donate money to anyone that you can't vote for—period. This would be followed by term limits in the Senate and House, and that would remove a fair chunk of the problems.
You. I’ve posted the idea of no donations from those who can’t vote fur you, as well as outlawing any & all group donations - corporation or union, etc. The problem with each idea is that it requires amending the Constitution as office eligibility and free speech (campaign donations) are being altered. I’m also not sure I’d prefer term limits to a mandatory retirement age, but that’s another discussion…
I’d prefer people ReElect Nobody. No exceptions. Everybody gets one term. All Lame Ducks. All facing the laws they enacted, or failed to dismantle. No Retirement annuity for four years of Public Service. KISS
One of the most fascinating parts of the GAE’s war on Ukraine is that no one is discussing demographics. Ukraine’s Total Fertility Rate, pre-invasion, was 1.3. They now rank 224 out of 227 countries. (Below it: Taiwan and S Korea; two other countries it is absolutely pointless to defend…)
The Ukraine government has killed or driven off the entire childbearing generation.
No matter what happens at any peace conference, Ukraine is over; it has no future. In “defending” itself so it can join the European market for the Complex, it has committed suicide.
The continued destruction of its future rests entirely with the blob and American voters stupid enough to keep fighting the last, “Cold” war…
What this country needs is an American Nuremberg. 5 minute tribunals and immediate executions. None shall live. And if that seems a tad, well, extreme, then pause for a moment to reflect upon what this treasonous, murderous blob had had in mind for us.
Hoping for something closer to what you propose than what we might end up getting.
Hung from lamp posts without a drop. Ickk the stool out from under them. It takes a strong man about 15 minutes (more or less) to strangle at the end of a rope. That's plenty of time to contemplate the errors of their ways before they fling off their mortal coil.
Russia will need to control the entire Black Sea coast for security, including Odessa...It will also need a cordon sanitaire around the Dnieper river, to prevent other kinds of nonsense from NATO infiltrators...the bottom line is that Ze/NATO has no bargaining position, and will need to understand that it's not going to get anything...
I just wanted to say that you, Mr. Kunstler, produce in text, a great combination of insight to reality mixed with optimism. Monday and Friday mornings are always more enjoyable when I hit this space. We had a very brief exchange years ago when I lived in Winnipeg but I now live in an environment closer to your own both physically and in spirit in Clementsvale, Nova Scotia where my wife and I tend to our 180 year old house and outbuildings (an old store, church and graveyard) with ample raised bed gardens and fruit trees. We also have a beautiful chicken coop that is so far empty but possibly in the spring we'll try that out as well. It gives me a stronger connection to your writing. Thanks for that and Happy Thanksgiving.
Washington DC, a gift economy of overlapping rackets.....key operative phrases, JHK. Thank you.
Should the Donald make it to January 20, while he takes the Oath of Office in full view of the world, would be a perfect opportunity for the final assassination. This time they will not miss. Don't have a clue to who the patsy might be but "they" are in charge of Inauguration Day security.
Just as the January 6 unarmed "insurrection" was co-ordinated and organized by the Democrats and the FBI, we can only hope that Elon Musk and Donald Trump has armed bodyguards everywhere in the DC mob when he is inaugurated.
Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby formed pieces of a CIA puzzle - much like COVID-19 and the clot shots are paired as biological weapons by the mad scientists of the USA.
This 1/20 scenario bothers me as well. Why can't he just be sworn in by a magistrate or a S.C. Justice at Mar-a-Lago?
I’m wondering if it will be a swift, safe inaugural at MaraLago perhaps…
""This version of Trump knows what buttons to press, he knows where the bodies are buried, he’s absorbed their worst and now he is about to throw it right back at them." — Jeff Childers"
JHK, with all due respect, you are wrong.
First, Donald Trump is a lame duck president. Both times. Trump is never going to save the republic in one term of office. Just how many times was Trump betrayed while he was president? Because I lost track.
It would have been better if Trump had placed Bobby Kennedy, Jr. as head of the CIA, or the FBI, or both. Then a boy could have found out who killed his daddy, and his uncle. But that will never happen. Worse, is that would have been American Taxpayer money well spent.
Creating another government department is just one more government office, that will never go away. Just one more encroachment upon Liberty and Freedom. The Department of DOGE might as well be called the Department of Dodge Can, because the Department of Kicking the Can is taken -- or the Department of Lying, Cheating, Two-Timing, Cold-Hearted, Mean-Spirited, Cynical, Home-Wrecking, Loser-dom. Because I just don't get it.
I just don't understand this obsession with the idea that Elon Musk is going to save the republic. Musk is a government man. As David Collum says: "Musk is protected." Elon Musk wouldn't exist without all those lucrative government contracts, that primarily just continue hawking 70-year-old technology. Anybody who has ever gone up against Elon Musk (from a big three automaker to another government) has either gone away or been made to disappear -- and right quick.
And now the fully owned, fully controlled, fully manipulated, fully propagandized mainstream media is talking about Musk being "our" next president. That's like electing the government to be the government. Didn't we just leave this party. Yes, but by your idea of what "mandated" means. More LaLaLand sh*t. Either TPTB have to stop, or you do. I am inclined to raise an eyebrow and point to TPTB who are going to stick around for a while.
Justice doesn't have to happen just because you say so. Just because you say so doesn't make it so. Regardless of how many times you say so. For the same reason Bill Barr was never going to save the republic from Mueller. Because Bill Barr was part of the problem, not the solution. And for the same reason Big Pharma is going to pay for phony vaccines. Or those responsible for making a biological weapon on their own front doorstep and then letting it get loose, when they knew it would turn on the species and attempt to kill us, would see the consequences of their actions. The list, your list, is endless. And justice ain't never going to get done. Ever.
Please stop being so naive.
"All great changes are preceded by chaos". --Deepak Chopra
Happy Holidays, lo' t!
He needs to get rid of the neocons, not appoint them. They are a particularly poisonous and stinking part of the swamp and threaten the world. I at least hope he and his team are ready for more diabolical moves by the "Biden administration" and won't bite. There's talk of a false flag event in London. If God forbid something does happen we will know that Starmer and servants of the Diabolicals have facilitated it at the height of Xmas shopping in the capital or anywhere else.
“You will be free to succeed or fail in a society of voluntary transactions. That was always the essence of being an American, not being a client of a fake therapeutic state.” INDEED. The fake therapeutic state dies now! I ordered your Safe and Happy from Battenkill. It will be a Christmas present. Thanks!
Day One President Trump signs an EO. No new hiring in the Federal Government. An immediate freeze. Downsizing begins immediately through attrition. The effect will be small but symbolic. I would have to think that with millions of employees i.e. "deadwood", thousands probably retire or leave for other reasons every month.