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Desperation Creeps In
Kunstler.com ^ | 4 Aug, 2023 | James Howard Kunstler

Posted on 08/11/2023 4:33:53 AM PDT by MtnClimber

That silence you hear these dog days of a wilting empire is the calm before the storm and everybody knows it. “Joe Biden’s” final desperate ploy against the menace of Donald Trump looks about on par with the Ukraine spring offensive, hardly even worth a “hey, nice try.”

So, the best they could do was to charge Mr. Trump with objecting vocally to an election that looked as rotten as Hunter’s uncapped teeth? We all saw what happened overnight November 3 and 4, 2020: what the numbers looked like in the swing precincts at midnight and the magic mathematics that swapped tens of thousands of votes over from the Trump column to the Biden column (say, whu?) … the shutdown of the Fulton County State Farm Arena due to a supposedly leaking toilet and the ensuing monkey business with rolly-bags full of ballots under the tables captured by the closed-circuit cameras… the miraculous wee-hour harvest of ballots in Milwaukee… US Postal Service truck full of completed ballots out of Bethpage, Long Island, that turned up in Philadelphia… Mark Zuckerberg’s $419-million-dollar operation using two front orgs, the Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL) and the Center for Election Innovation and Research (CEIR) to staff precinct election boards with party shills and buy votes… the thumb drives and modems in the vote-counting machines….

Special Counsel Jack Smith may find it difficult to prove that expressing an opinion about all that is some kind of crime. Meanwhile, he’s turned Mr. Trump into the poster boy for the many other aggrieved victims of a government weaponized against its own people. More than half the country sees exactly what’s going on and no amount of video footage showing “JB” and Jill holding hands on the beach is going cover for that. We are on the threshold of a king-hell national crisis.

Consider: a 27.4 percent drop in goods of all kinds “roaded-in” on semi-trucks to the northeast USA this summer. That’s everything from auto parts to lumber, clothing, and food. What else do you think sent the Yellow Corp trucking company, one hundred years old, spinning into sudden bankruptcy this week? Yellow won’t be bought and reorganized, either. It owes three quarters of a billion dollars in loans to the federal government (i.e., to us taxpayers) and untold pension obligations. Next, 22,000 Yellow Corp workers will hit the unemployment rolls. Yellow Corp had a special role in the supply chain: the LTL (less-than-truckload) niche, often the final journey of a product to the customer. It was also the cheapest. Whoever picks up the work — FedEx, ABF Freight? — will cost more, and so will everything you have to buy.

Behind this crumbling economy looms the fragile financial system of banks, securities markets, a wilderness of derivatives trades, and currencies. How long do you think it will take before that clockwork of debt obligations and ownerships in failing enterprises breaks down? Think: four to eight weeks, starting with when everyone comes back from the beach or the lake after Labor Day. Banks will resume failing, too, followed by bail-out efforts that will open a trapdoor under the dollar. The country will finally learn what Bidenomics means.

Money trouble tends to blot out whatever else is happening to you, so the nation may not even notice that the Ukraine war is a lost cause. Not that we actually lost it, the Ukrainians did, poor buggers. What role did it play in American life besides money laundromat for the Biden family and a convenient stash for any number of bio-weapons labs?...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Society
KEYWORDS: bidenomics; communism; kunstler
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1 posted on 08/11/2023 4:33:53 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

It is going to take a new emergency and lockdown to take people’s attention off the Brandonomics financial mess. I predict a climate emergency lockdown.


2 posted on 08/11/2023 4:34:28 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

I predict widespread ignoring of the “lock down”.


3 posted on 08/11/2023 4:41:04 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants ( "It is easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled."- Mark Twain)
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To: MtnClimber

I predict World War III and more UFOs

/mostly joking - hope I’m joking


4 posted on 08/11/2023 4:43:08 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: SaveFerris

I predict World War III and more UFOs...


Maybe they’ll combine the two and give us War of the Worlds.


5 posted on 08/11/2023 4:45:30 AM PDT by nesnah (Infringe - act so as to limit or undermine [something]; encroach on)
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To: MtnClimber

Ahh, but the mysterious X covid that is about to make its debut just before the election will keep everyone indoors and focused on their navels, with the vocal help of the celebs of the day on that day. And it isn’t just the images of Joe and Jill holding hands.. we will have the sad remembrance of the loss of their beloved Beau, killed in combat saving his platoon, or whatever. The hardest dem heart will melt to warm goo after that one!
And about those 2020 balloting irregularities.. well.. Oh, look! There is an anniversary edition of something Nixon did and a photograph of JFK and Camelot! Sigh!


6 posted on 08/11/2023 4:45:35 AM PDT by ArtDodger
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How would a “climate emergency” be implemented globally? At least the international overreaction by most givernments using threats and fear to control people in the pandemic ... people saw or knew of people getting the CCP virus with recovery, death. Being told there is a climate emergency outside won’t be believable most days of the year by most people - including those pushing this fraud as they boot up the laptop going to their givernment or university “job”.

It would be a few countries going alone on “climate emergency” ... then what, wage war on countries that don’t believe in a “climate emergency”.

The article’s first sentence is correct: “That silence you hear these dog days of a wilting empire is the calm before the storm and everybody knows it.” A fake “climate emergency” even if tried won’t stop what is in motion ... and it does not look good.


7 posted on 08/11/2023 4:49:15 AM PDT by Susquehanna Patriot
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8 posted on 08/11/2023 4:49:48 AM PDT by spokeshave (Proud Boys, Angry Dads and Grumpy Grandads.)
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To: SaveFerris

I believe you are right. UFOs are only to distract the sheep and serfs from what is really happening. They don’t actually need to do that though. Because most of the sheep’s minds are fried by medical marijuana and the remainder are trying to decide which of the 57 genders they are. Our future as a Nation with the members of MENSA we have leading us is bright. We are heading down the road to starvation and living in the Dark Ages with our throttles wide open. What could go wrong as long as we continue Biden’s Policies. Send more tax payer dollars to Ukraine. The Biden Crime Family needs the money. To Hell with securing the Southern Border. Given enough time that problem will solve itself.


9 posted on 08/11/2023 5:02:24 AM PDT by sport
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10 posted on 08/11/2023 5:03:54 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: SaveFerris

They’ll have to come up with something really terrible to happen to America to distract us. It’s rule by fear.


11 posted on 08/11/2023 5:04:47 AM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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To: SaveFerris

They’ll have to come up with something really terrible to happen to America to distract us. It’s rule by fear.


12 posted on 08/11/2023 5:04:47 AM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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To: nesnah

heh


13 posted on 08/11/2023 5:08:42 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: sport

It’s scary that such fools have been given such power


14 posted on 08/11/2023 5:10:20 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: virgil

yeah


15 posted on 08/11/2023 5:11:26 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: MtnClimber

A small nuke set off in a major city.


16 posted on 08/11/2023 5:15:35 AM PDT by The Louiswu (PEDO JOE MUST GO!!!)
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To: MtnClimber

Government takeover of all commerce is the only solution to the problem the government caused. /s


17 posted on 08/11/2023 5:19:57 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America.)
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To: SaveFerris

It is.
The guy in Atlanta who stole the television and then fought with the Cop is a Prime example of the idiots. When asked why he fought with the Cop, his response was, “I did not want to go to jail.” It never occurred to him not to steal the Television if he didn’t want to go to jail. Idiots such as him are the mean average of what is out there today. Some are a little brighter, most are dumber, if possible.


18 posted on 08/11/2023 5:22:11 AM PDT by sport
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To: SaveFerris
Those fools are merely the vessels through whom the devil works. Eph 6:12: For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

Americans (and all who are sneaking into America) are making a choice as to who they will serve. Christ's enemies think they're merely choosing to serve themselves (aka "humanism"). They are not.

19 posted on 08/11/2023 5:24:56 AM PDT by LouAvul (Daniel 4:17: "..the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever He will.." )
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To: MtnClimber
In a perverse way, Q was right, people had to experience the pits of hell before they would turn away from the Left Agenda. What is astounding to a lot of us is how many yet believe the Left's agenda is hunky dory. Does this mean there is much more of this sh-t show to follow? A Leftist petri dish experiment playing out in the hell-hole cities of the country is a good example to watch. Rather than voting insanity back into these city governments, the Left doubles down until the entire place is trashed. Then, those that can, pack up and escape to get away from the squalid living conditions. The concern I have is that as long as liberals are out there and have somewhere to run to they will not change their mindset but bring their warped ideas with them. That means we will all be brought down eventually. The good news is that the DeSantis governing model has proven that enclaves of sanity can be created in the midst of the Leftest chaos. Whether they will act on their statements of disgust, the Left is now claiming they will be moving out of Florida. Good riddance I say!
20 posted on 08/11/2023 5:25:50 AM PDT by iontheball
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