Posted on 05/13/2024 7:10:41 AM PDT by MtnClimber
“My take is that the US is incredibly unstable right now, and could go in almost any imaginable direction between now and the election, as well as some unimaginable ones.” —John Michael Greer.
Did you notice that it took just a little bit of internal chaos to alert the Party of Chaos that maybe chaos wasn’t the greatest thing to be the party of? Something went awry the past two weeks when thousands of creamy coeds on every campus across America donned the keffiyeh and, in effect, demanded submission to history’s most notorious misogynist cult. It struck a most cacophonous chord among progressives, like Kumbaya as orchestrated by Karlheinz Stockhausen. To awaken from Wokery, you see, is a brutal shock to the brain.
And so, over the weekend every big dog in the Democratic Party’s doghouse came out barking against the current direction of the Democratic Party — that is, over an electoral cliff, lemming-style. Bill Clinton lamented at the Milken Conference that “the political rewards of grievance politics and name-calling and being negative have been so immense that nobody could give’em up. That’s what this whole shebang has come down to now.”
James Carville had a veritable nervous breakdown on X: “It’s going the wrong way, it’s not working. Everything we’re throwing is spaghetti at a wall, and none of it is sticking, me included.” Fareed Zakaria over on CNN confessed that “None of this is playing out the way I thought it would.” Gee, really?
None of them could bring themselves to actually name the doddering donkey in the room, “Joe Biden.” Nor did they dare call out the stage manager behind the old Joe-from-Scranton show, Barack Obama, not exactly coasting into his fourth term, as expected. They’re all surprised the way things are turning out. And, of course, “JB” himself did not come out of his Rehoboth Beach hidey-hole after declaring no more bullets and missiles for you, Israel, which landed amongst the Party’s donor class like a tear-gas bomb.
Hillary Clinton popped up on the Morning Joe show wearing royal purple to remind the audience that Donald Trump is another Hitler, threatening “the sanctity of the Constitution” and adding “maybe this will be our last election.” If she’s putting herself up as possible last-minute replacement for the ever more ghostly “Joe Biden,” she was not so crass as to say so. The party will have to come pleading to her on its knees, hoping she can once again muster the legions of indignant women to oppose the wicked Golden Golem of Greatness — who was, that very day, on display in a Manhattan courtroom having to endure the jibes of the paradigmatic wronged woman, porn-star Stormy Daniels.
What else have they got, really? Gavin Newsom? If Mr. Trump is Hitler, then think of Mr. Newsom as Godzilla with hair gel. Imagine what he could do to the whole USA after trashing California, as he has managed to do. Sorry to tell you, but in an election contest between Hitler and Godzilla, Hitler would probably win. It’s a rock-paper-scissors deal. Any other ringers they might throw in? The only name that ever comes up is Illinois governor JB Pritzker, who actually looks a bit like King Kong, and has certainly done a Kong-job on Chicago. And, by the way, that’s where the Democrats’ convention will happen in August. Wouldn’t it be something to see King Kong versus Godzilla there?
All of which is to say that something beyond desperation has set in amongst the Democrats, an emotion so dire that Elizabeth Kubler Ross couldn’t find a word for it on her transect of grief. They don’t know what to do at this point. They have only a few months to figure it out and there is more at stake than a mere turnover in administrative duties. The shadow of the gibbet looms in their nightmares. Their lawfare schtick was one thing, a kind of fun-and-games compared to what’s coming at them: the actual law, trials for more serious crimes than mere book-keeping errors and mis-pricing real estate valuations. Think: sedition, treason, bribery and tack on conspiracy to commit all the above.
Meanwhile, Mr. Trump provided a further shock to the awakening Woke with a Saturday evening fan meetup down-the-shore in Wildwood, New Jersey. Somewhere between eighty to a hundred-thousand voters showed up in what is said to be among the bluest states in the country. Bruce Springsteen must have been weeping into his avocado toast over in Red Bank. Then, across the Sunday morning news digests there was talk about “a landslide win,” and even more amazed chatter about RINOs and Never-Trumpers returning to the folds of the Golden Golem’s heavenly garment....
We are certainly living in interesting times.
We sure are.
Besides Gov Nuisance——AKA Godzilla w/ hair gel——who else do the Dems have?
........in case Biden cant make it up the basement stairs in time for the convention......
Probably the best non-violence guess out there.
Kunstler is a national treasure.
Now, the following is sacrilegious and I don’t like that, but I LOL’s anyway (I LOL at South Park too because it’s funny, even though I will be called to account for that, too, someday...)
Kunstler: “Then, across the Sunday morning news digests there was talk about “a landslide win,” and even more amazed chatter about RINOs and Never-Trumpers returning to the folds of the Golden Golem’s heavenly garment, as though Mr. Trump had virtually Jeezified himself through a year of tribulation.”
“The party will have to come pleading to her (hilLIARy) on its knees, hoping she can once again muster the legions of indignant women to oppose the wicked Golden Golem of Greatness...” (parenthesis mine).
This guy is the best writer! LOL
Instead of religion, though, the current pair of candidates are claimed to be extreme idealists by their opponents and mouthpieces. Both sides of the political aisle are claiming that "the other side" will destroy "Democracy" if elected, and lament that elections will be a thing of the past. (In the case of the Klanspeople, elections are already tainted by the corruption by partisan election workers.)
The soap box isn't working very well. The election box has a huge thumb on its scales. That leaves one box left. How soon will the peace be shattered?
bkmk
The soap box isn’t working very well.
Maybe because it is missing your voice in the public square?
There is no magic bullet, no perfection this side of heaven. Why is that? Because man is inherently evil, not good.
Many, including me, can spout off in great detail the things we don’t want. But if asked what yoiu want, there is silence.
If I shake you awake in the middle of the night and ask what you are fighting for, after you reach for your gun, what do you tell me?
Our Founding Fathers could and did answer that question. Maybe we should reflect on their answer.
>> how close we are to having no sane choice for President
Huh? How is having a HIGHLY sane choice (President Trump) and an utterly INSANE choice (Jao Beidan) in any way “close to having no sane choice”...?
Your last paragraph is food for thought. The rest of your screed is nonsense. Quoting science fiction to support your position is a lousy debating tactic.
Just my 2c. And here’s another 2c: “independents” are overrated. The world is faced with bright line choice going forward; fickle unprincipled “independent” wafflers need not apply.
Well said.
No sane choice for President?
What are you talking about?
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