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Into the Weird!
Kunstler.com ^ | 4 Aug, 2024 | James Howard Kunstler

Posted on 08/04/2024 7:17:18 AM PDT by MtnClimber

“What we are witnessing is nothing less than the failure of the greatest propaganda apparatus in history.” — Mattias Desmet.

Have you noticed yet? — the weird thing about Veep Kamala Harris is how weirdly brisk her transfiguration was from a sit-com character to Wonder Woman, overnight in the reality-optional news media. In a party burdened with complex ideology, she was known only for tautology: “The significance of the passage of time, right? The significance of the passage of time,” she repeated solemnly on a tour of a Louisiana library in 2022. “So, when you think about it, there is great significance to the passage of time.” Yes, ma’am. You nailed that ol’ coonskin to the wall, all righty!

Suddenly her time has come! Everything is Kamala Kamala Kamala. Lights! Camera! Action! But, as you have already been informed, time does not stand still. If it did, then everything would happen at once, which would be a great inconvenience to all. In what seems like a magically extended moment since someone told “Joe Biden” to go dangle, Kamala acquired a lance and halo and rode forth to save our democracy.

Yet, it’s a long way to the grand meet-up of Democratic Party delegates in Chicago, August 19, and that journey is cluttered up with long moments like the one we’re in now, moments when delegates are liable to stew, and maybe even think about more moments to come when the magic of the current moment has passed — because that, after all, is the significance of the passage of time! Here today, gone tomorrow! Hope and change! Go through enough passages of time and things can happen, or even un-happen, such as, perhaps, the rise and fall of the Veep as the champion of this figment known as our democracy. It’s kind of like what they used to say sixty years ago in Vietnam about having to destroy the village in order to save it. Only this time around, it’s democracy in America.

At the convention in Chicago, apropos of whoever selected Kamala Harris, someone might blurt out: “Say, who elected you boss of this outfit?” The answer, of course: nobody. Delegates may share their gnawing doubts in the hallways and state caucus breakout rooms. Metaphysical conundrums will arise. All that sub rosa chatter might even coalesce into. . . a movement! In the name of democracy, someone screeches, a public roll-call vote must be taken! Say, what? We thought that was settled two weeks ago when the virtual roll call happened. Nuh-uh, nah, no way, more delegates chime in. Here is your teachable moment: the virtual is not an adequate substitute for the authentic.

Meanwhile, riots in the streets outside the convention center. Antifa! Black Lives Matter! From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free! The police, successfully defunded, stand aside and let youth go apeshit. Inside the hall, pandemonium! And so, the momentous roll-call is induced to happen right there on the convention floor with all those colorful hats bobbing amongst the standards of the fifty states — plus a bunch of territories — swaying to the rhythm of Fleetwood Mac’s “Don’t Stop (Thinkin’ About Tomorrow)”.

Things grow complicated. There is the matter of the superdelegates, bought and paid for ages ago by. . . the Clinton Foundation! The passage of time goes from elongated to compressed. As good ol’ V. Lenin used to say: There are years when nothing happens and moments when decades happen — or something like that. Also, somebody recalls, it takes a village to . . . what. . . ? Why, to nominate a candidate.

And thus, ever so democratically, does Hillary seize the moment and the convention, and swoop to the podium on her great leathery wings crying “caw caw caw abortion!” The news media will go into super-overdrive shaping the narrative about the Democratic Party rank-and-file marshaling democracy to save democracy. The story will make the marginalized weep and the lame leap for joy. She-Whose-Turn-It-Is will not be denied!.....


TOPICS: Society
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1 posted on 08/04/2024 7:17:18 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

The ‘RAT convention is going to be a zoo.


2 posted on 08/04/2024 7:17:32 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: MtnClimber

Kunstler bump.


3 posted on 08/04/2024 7:22:54 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (Hospitals are the most dangerous place on Earth! Dr. David Williams)
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To: MtnClimber

I’ve lived in Communist countries, where one day a policy is “black” and the next day, the central powers have decided its “white,” and all the propaganda machinery cranks up to tell you its been “white” all along.

I never thought I’d experience it in the USA, but here we are.


4 posted on 08/04/2024 7:29:05 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: MtnClimber

I do not understand why Kamala has any of Joe’s delegates. No one voted for her.

I think there is a good chance that the Convention will skip over Kamala and select either Hillary or Michelle. My guess is that it will be Michelle. But no matter the outcome, I expect the Convention to be entertaining.


5 posted on 08/04/2024 7:42:18 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (I think women should get out of women's sports before they get hurt.)
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To: MtnClimber

Yep.

Better than 1968.

5.56mm


6 posted on 08/04/2024 8:02:24 AM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho have got to go. )
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To: MtnClimber
Meanwhile, riots in the streets outside the convention center. Antifa! Black Lives Matter! From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free! The police, successfully defunded, stand aside and let youth go apeshit. Inside the hall, pandemonium!

Well Good!

The Elite Democrats will get to see “What Democracy Looks Like”

7 posted on 08/04/2024 8:07:20 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: PGR88
Yep. People will say, "Communism is coming to America." I will tell them, "You are wrong: it's already here."

Your attention please! Here is the newsflash!

8 posted on 08/04/2024 8:11:19 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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Wait for it, people.

Now that we’ve learned Kamala Harris’ blissfully wed hubby was doing a number on his kid’s nanny, Kamala is being morphed into a total innocent——kinda like a girlfriend of Mayberry’s lunkhead, Gomer Pyle.

Because her husband knocked up the nanny unbenownst to his then-wife, Kamala is no longer being media-glorified -——no more to be depicted as “Wonder Woman,” the hidden light of the Biden admin.

And Jill is fine with that.


9 posted on 08/04/2024 8:16:43 AM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray : Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name . )
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To: MtnClimber

The convention will be interesting. The ‘rats coalition of bad collectives will be gnawing at each other’s cheese. Fighting will occur.


10 posted on 08/04/2024 8:36:33 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: MtnClimber

Perhaps we overuse the reference at times. But, this really does read like something from the novel 1984.


11 posted on 08/04/2024 8:48:45 AM PDT by sjmjax
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To: PGalt

Chicago will be the Superbowl for malcontents.


12 posted on 08/04/2024 8:59:33 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
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To: Liz

BUMP


13 posted on 08/04/2024 9:33:20 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: MtnClimber

Uh, Kamala is it people. It has gone too far and with too many endorsements for them to turn back. Any malcontents that make it into the convention hall will be dealt with quickly, harshly and out of sight. They are going to put on a Kamala coronation like the second coming. Because once the word goes out that is the way it is in the Democrat party. Unlike us and our circular firing squads, they stick together no matter how wrong or absurd.


14 posted on 08/04/2024 1:59:43 PM PDT by Dave911
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