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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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To: LouAvul

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21 posted on 08/11/2023 5:27:15 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: The Louiswu

“A small nuke set off in a major city.”

Jack Bauer, we need you now!


22 posted on 08/11/2023 5:44:09 AM PDT by I-ambush (We watched the moment of defeat, played back over on the video screen. )
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To: MtnClimber

BTTT


23 posted on 08/11/2023 6:23:40 AM PDT by nopardons ( )
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To: MtnClimber
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?

Some of the neocon nimrods here should be forced to answer that question.

24 posted on 08/11/2023 9:18:37 AM PDT by Kazan
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To: MtnClimber

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25 posted on 08/11/2023 9:38:25 AM PDT by sauropod (I will stand for truth even if I stand alone.)
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To: MtnClimber; Travis McGee
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.

I'm waiting for Matt Bracken's new book, to find out. ;)

26 posted on 08/13/2023 11:11:45 PM PDT by 4Liberty (Dems loot & riot -called "protesting" by media. Repub's protest -called "looting & rioting" by media)
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To: 4Liberty

Me too.


27 posted on 08/14/2023 3:27:37 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: MtnClimber

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28 posted on 08/14/2023 3:52:15 AM PDT by Varsity Flight ( See"War by🙏🙏 the prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18. Nazarite prayer warriors. 10.5.6.5)
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