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jameshowardkunstler.substack.com ^ | 25 Oct, 2024 | James Howard Kunstler

Posted on 10/25/2024 7:26:41 AM PDT by MtnClimber

“The American 'Left' is fully exposed now as a demented, vicious, abusive animal of traumatizing narcissism.” — Celia Farber.

Do you hear that lonesome whistle blow? Wooooo-wooooo! It’s the last train to Palookaville pulling into the station. At this late hour, two passengers get on: Kamala Harris, mom jeans and blazer, rheumy red eyes, half-gone on chardonnay. . . and an elderly gentleman with a goatee in a colorful but shabby red-white-and-blue suit, famous long ago as “Uncle Sam.”

There’s an election on, in case you haven’t noticed, imminent even. Kamala, everyone seems to agree, has blown it. Can’t answer simple questions pitched by friendly ringers in the “news” business. Hiding somebody else’s agenda is a tough assignment, you see. All she can really do is cackle or simper and, let’s face it, that gets humiliating fast. Joy has turned to despair. Her punched ticket says “one way.”

Whose idea was it, anyway, over at party HQ, to put her up to this contest? She wishes she knew, as she gazes out the window at the sad lights of the little towns streaking by — East Chugwater, Erehwon, Tanktown, Loserville, onward into the night to the end of the line. How’d they manage to yank her out of the comfort of the Naval Observatory, where she was comfy and cozy watching Netflix rom-coms with Doug, chardonnay refills on-demand, all the Doritos a gal could munch. She was a lover, not a fighter, she repeats to herself, but the self-consolation doesn’t quite avail.

Uncle Sam sits stoically five seats behind her. He is resigned, knowing very well why he is on that train, too. His own country is sending him into exile after swindling him out of his history and his posterity. He doesn’t even recognize the place anymore. What happened to Sandberg’s city of big shoulders? Who turned the fruited plain into a hellscape of muffler shops? How did the heroes of Iwo Jima transition into a legion of TikTok influencers with pierced faces and scrambled brains? When the train gets in, he has no place to go. Perhaps he’ll sleep in a ditch.

You entertain these drear hallucinatory conceits despite the giddiness about Donald Trump’s seeming triumph over adversity — botched assassinations, court cases hatched by malice-crazed ninnies, blob-generated calumnies, conspiracies, ops, and hoaxes galore. And for Halloween, they painted a Hitler mustache on him, just for fun. It remains to be seen what marvels of ballot legerdemain have been concocted by Marc Elias, Esq, lawfare artist supreme, destroyer of the nation’s faith in itself.

But say Mr. Trump overcomes even the planned epic voter fraud to capture the prize. What then? You’re entitled to feel nervous. The army, under Department of Defense directive 5240.01 has just been licensed to gun you down. This is a new thing. Now isn’t is it a queer moment in history for a move like that? What are they expecting, anyway? And, by the way, who exactly is the varlet in the chain-of-command who issued that directive? (Or did it just bubble-up out of the ruling blob like some sulfurous gas from a Yellowstone fumarole?)

People of good faith have reason to believe that the country is about to be blown apart. By another odd coincidence, an outfit called the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association International (AFCEA) has scheduled an “exercise simulating a cyber-attack on critical infrastructure” for November 5 in Atlanta, Georgia. That’s election day. In a big swing state. Whose idea was that? Is there already not enough that might go wrong that some treasonous moron had to kick the risk of fiasco up another notch? Or might it be cover for another Three Card Monte caper with the Georgia votes? This is the sort of thing that will dog poor old Uncle Sam’s mind as he tries to fall asleep in that drainage ditch on the ragged edge of Palookaville.

Or perhaps what we’re witnessing is a fabulous bit of what George W. Bush once called “strategery” by the Party of Chaos. Five minutes after Mr. Trump gets elected, a certain unseen hand flips a little toggle somewhere in the banking system that tanks the economy so hard and fast that 2025 will make the Great Depression of the 1930s look like a Hamptons clam bake. . . for the next four years we become a land with no money and no way to generate money. . . and MAGA / MAHA is left to suck eggs in the cold and dark until 2028 when the Democratic Party returns in full Maoist mode, riding in on a unicorn cavalry to rescue us. . . . Nah. . . .They just blew it.

So, more likely, we’re seeing the suicide of the Democratic Party. Even CNN is starting to back away from them, as from a convocation of lepers......SNIP.....

To lift your spirits in this difficult time, here’s a video of Americana I wrote the script for nearly forty years ago, to remind you a little bit about who we are. Enjoy! [Story written by James H. Kunstler, told by Garrison Keiller. The video link is at the bottom of the article. I thought it was very good.]


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1 posted on 10/25/2024 7:26:41 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Recommended is the video at the bottom of the article.


2 posted on 10/25/2024 7:26:54 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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“Say Mr. Trump overcomes even the planned epic voter fraud to capture the prize. What then? You’re entitled to feel nervous. The army, under Department of Defense directive 5240.01 has just been licensed to gun you down. This is a new thing. Now isn’t is it a queer moment in history for a move like that? What are they expecting, anyway?”

We’re about to find out.


3 posted on 10/25/2024 7:38:15 AM PDT by TheDon (Resist the usurpers! Remember the J6 political prisoners!)
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To: MtnClimber
Recommended is the video at the bottom of the article.

I'm not seeing a link. Is it in the last paragraph on "here's" (where one would expect it)? On my screen, it's not live.

4 posted on 10/25/2024 7:44:23 AM PDT by SamuraiScot
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To: SamuraiScot
It is the Johnny Appleseed video below the article. Here is the youtube direct link if you can't see the video at the Kunstler Substack article:

Johnny Appleseed

5 posted on 10/25/2024 7:49:52 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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. . . the video at the bottom of the article.

I'm guessing this is it:

https://youtu.be/SjVwJ7CaAXQ

. . . And looking forward to it.

6 posted on 10/25/2024 7:51:19 AM PDT by SamuraiScot
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Yep, that is it.


7 posted on 10/25/2024 7:52:38 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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Why would you post that horrendous picture with a warning?

I looked up this guy and see that he is a leftist insider climate changer and proponent of the 15 minute community of the WEF.   He is the designated apologist to write the leftist mea culpa and begin their false rehabilitation.   I'm not buying it.

8 posted on 10/25/2024 7:58:51 AM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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BTTT


9 posted on 10/25/2024 7:59:59 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: MtnClimber

No Democrat voter votes for a candidate.

They vote for a hope.

“I hope that the Democrat Party Organized Crime Syndicate will give me some of the money they steal if I vote for them.”


10 posted on 10/25/2024 8:05:12 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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He used to be a “progressive”, but he realized the left was just playing people and now he is certainly anti-left. He may not be a Trump enthusiast, but he says that it is insane to vote for the democrats these days.


11 posted on 10/25/2024 8:05:46 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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Um, excuse me, but what in the hell is that thing?


12 posted on 10/25/2024 8:08:41 AM PDT by kawhill
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Um, excuse me, but what in the hell is that thing?

I don’t know, but it’s dating your daughter...
or maybe your son...


13 posted on 10/25/2024 8:14:52 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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So, more likely, we’re seeing the suicide of the Democratic Party

Been hearing this for twenty years now, yet here we are.

14 posted on 10/25/2024 8:15:17 AM PDT by workerbee (==)
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To: higgmeister

without a warning?


15 posted on 10/25/2024 8:16:40 AM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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To: MtnClimber

Or so the Germans would have you believe.


16 posted on 10/25/2024 8:18:10 AM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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To: kawhill
Um, excuse me, but what in the hell is that thing?

A democRAT.

17 posted on 10/25/2024 8:18:38 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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That worisome DoD Directive, coupled with some such as Kunstler described, “flipping the switch” to tank the economy when Trump wins...

I could see the desperate Deep Staters crazily going for a treasonous, military-backed power grab in just such a chaotic fashion, amid rioting, real or staged, hysteria and fear-mongering at a high decibel.

All while blaming Trump and yelling about “saving democracy.” Yeah, the authoritarian style of democracy.


18 posted on 10/25/2024 8:31:14 AM PDT by citizen (Political incrementalism is like compound interest for liberals - every little bit adds up.)
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To: higgmeister
Why would you post that horrendous picture with a warning?

Did you read the (excellent) essay? The picture is Kameltoe herself. To me, it worked perfectly with the column--a creature pathetic, scary, tragic, and unintentionally comic at the same time. All while it's not clear what kind of creature (and whether male or female) it is.

"Pathetic, but "yuck!" That's how I understood it.

19 posted on 10/25/2024 8:41:21 AM PDT by SamuraiScot
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Yep, that is it.

Great video!

And yes, inexplicable without America.

20 posted on 10/25/2024 9:35:51 AM PDT by SamuraiScot
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