How did we get so lucky?
Posted on 07/09/2023 6:18:47 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Consider for a moment, and be grateful for, how perfect “Joe Biden” is as president of this foundering republic. He and his family project the rectified essence of every depravity now driving the life of our nation to some murky bottom, where it may be forced to assess its sorry state, repent, and perhaps recover (or just give up and die). There he stands, without ambiguity or conscience: “Joe Biden,” the personification of a failed state.
As a criminal enterprise, for instance, the Biden family influence-peddling operation among foreign powers reflects exactly the racketeering character of corporate America today — which is to say, making money dishonestly, and often for doing nothing. In America’s biggest industry, finance, this is absolutely the case. You may have forgotten what finance is, and what it’s supposed to do: namely, to lend money for activities intended to produce things of value, useful things that people need and want, sometimes even public works that benefit everyone in society.
American Finance now is in the business of receiving free money (loans at minimal interest) from government-chartered central banks (issuing “credit” from nowhere), that banks, hedge funds, private equity outfits, and sundry freebooters can roll into instruments such as interest-yielding bonds (loans back to government) and derivatives (algorithmic bets derived, abstracted from, and tuned to market movements) magically multiplying money that finally produces nothing of value — though it may translate into yacht purchases, alimony payments, luxury suites at ballparks, private Caribbean islands, and traffic in humans for use as sex toys.
The Biden business model also applies nicely to medicine and higher education, two endeavors saturated in prestige and pomp, like the doings in the White House, but which, similarly to that hotbed of policy and action, in the case of medicine, produces shocking amounts of unnecessary death (est. 251,000 a year from iatrogenic treatment errors), and in the case of higher ed, the production of specious and harmful Big Ideas — while both endeavors expand like turbo-tumors within the dying body of an expiring manufacturing economy.
As in the Biden model, dishonesty is now the keystone in both “Meds” and “Eds.” Our public health officialdom hasn’t stopped lying about the Covid-19 episode since it began, and in every aspect from the origin of the disease (if that’s even what it was), to the deaths statistically attributed to it, to everything about the “vaccines” cooked up to stop it. In turn, those officials coerced America’s doctors into withholding the best treatments (ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine) while applying deadly protocols (remdesivir plus intubation) guaranteed to kill hospital patients — which the government then rewarded with gargantuan bonus payments...
This man shouldn’t even be in power, at all.
I think the word “rectified” (second sentence) should be “reified.”
I’m in favor of anything that burns this system down.
I think “rectified” in the sense of distilled essence....
“James Howard Kunstler” Any relation to the scmbag civil rights lawyer? In any case good article.
We obviously need many more #2 types. Type #1 will run in any party where they think they can win which is why it seems like we have a Uniparty most of the time.
I blame Gyorgy Schwartz, Mike Bloomberg and Tom Steyer for this madness.
Could be. I think "rectified" (to make right) works too, in the same way. Biden has taken all of the depravities and (rectified - made them right) or (reified - made them more real). June is now a whole month where depravities are celebrated.
Maybe. Mr Kunstler‘s bio is as scattered as is his borderline communist understanding of finance. Furthermore, his dystopic view of America is also in line with leftists like that of Kunstler, esq.
The writer throws in some things about Bidet and Covid to make people think he’s conservative. But Kunstler strikes me as a smarmy, self-aggrandizer. His main objective is…Kuntsler.
Fair enough - I’m a capitalist who believes in America. He’s not, on both counts.
This guy would likely be more at home with the Occupy Wall Streeters if they weren’t Bidet fans.
I read that some 40 members of Biden’s family have received a $5m payoff, but for the life of me, I’ve never seen a hierarchy chart of the 40. Because each and every one of them need to be tracked down and punished for it.
That is a $200m bribe, btw.
JHK tells it like it is.
I don’t think we read the same article. I didn’t see his assessment of the current state of the financial system as “communist” and his view of a dystopic America seems pretty accurate.
BTTT
The overflow of envy in Comrade Kuntsler’s rant is exceeded only by his comical ignorance of money, credit, banking and economics.
This is the kind of inanity I expect to see posted on a loser site like DU.
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