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The Shadow of the Shadow
jameshowardkunstler.substack.com ^ | 27 Sep, 2024 | James Howard Kunstler

Posted on 09/28/2024 4:27:03 AM PDT by MtnClimber

“As shocking as it may sound, the institution of the State itself is the real enemy. It’s time to carefully analyze your relation to it.” — Doug Casey.

You have to wonder: has there ever been a country that marched off to war with no head-of-state at the top of its war machine? It’s exactly that bad in our country, with a broken animatronic Halloween scarecrow popping in-and-out of the White House to yell incoherently at election campaign events for a putative successor too scared of the predicament she’s in to think straight. Really, no one is in charge — and if any of the leading actors on the scene really were, the situation could easily get worse.

Hence, the brainless wish roiling through the NSC, State Department, and the various shadow councils of the intel emeriti to lob long-range missiles into Russia, apparently heedless of any consequences. America, you are a headless horseman riding blindly into chaos.

In fact, the entire Democratic Party and its Deep State intel blob partners have melted down into a desperate mob of political criminals frantic to evade accounting for their acts. So then, setting the world on fire is all they have left, a fitting act of revenge for a faction thwarted in its mad drive to merely wreck the United States for the sake of “social justice” and “equity.”

The Democrats of 2024 made exactly the same mistake that their predecessors, the Jacobins, made in France back in 1794: they just couldn’t tell when they’d gone too far with their insults against the public interest and common decency. Their insults derived from the age-old human impulse to demolish society due to life being unfair, later codified in Marxian doctrine, and then made into a play-book by Saul Alinsky (with annotations by Antonio Gramsci, Richard Cloward, and Frances Fox Piven).

As the French Revolution ground on and on, by 1793 the Jacobins gained control of the Committee of Public Safety which actually carried out policy, while endless quarrels occupied the National Convention — the then-current legislative body. The Jacobins’ policy was insane, just as the policy of open borders, lawfare, war, censorship, pharma-terrorism, climate hustles, and drag queens in the schools is insane under our modern Jacobins, the Democrats. (Notice the Democrats’ constant invoking of “safety” and “safe spaces” as a similar rhetorical device for justifying their deeds and cowing the public.)

The Committee of Public Safety sought to remake French society by turning its cultural norms upside-down and by killing as many of its political opponents as possible. Thus, the Reign of Terror when, for a whole year, heads rolled and rolled off the guillotine in the Place de la Concorde, usually without benefit of a trial. The ghoulish extravaganza of gore and death grossed-out those in the country who had not lost their minds.

One night in July 1794, as the Jacobin boss, Robespierre, took to the rostrum in the Convention for the umpteenth time to denounce his enemies and announce new death sentences, members in the chamber commenced throwing food at him. That was the turning point, and it turned so hard and fast that France was amazed. Within forty-eight hours, Robespierre and many of his cohorts got beheaded under the “national razor,” and that was the end of Jacobinism and all its insane measures to wreck what was left of society after five years of revolution.

Our Democratic Party Jacobins have been harder to defeat because government these days is vastly larger and more complex, and the equivalent of the Committee of Public Safety is now a huge network of cadres toiling in scores of federal agencies and associated NGOs financed by those agencies (or by their billionaire henchmen such as George Soros, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and Reid Hoffman). Insane as they are, many public officials understand their culpability for the treasons and insults of recent years. They live in fear of prosecution and, short of that, of losing their cushy sinecures in the colossal bureaucracy that is bankrupting us.

There are many in our country today who are also not insane, just as in France circa 1794. This is actually the chief appeal of Mr. Trump, though he often expresses it clumsily, coming, as he does, from the rough and exacting world of property development, which is full of rough people in rough building trades using rough language. Secondarily, Mr. Trump represents leadership — the sheer idea that an actual person should be an executive-in-charge of a national polity — and it appears that a majority of the people in this land are finally sick of a faceless blob ruling madly from the shadows. Thirdly, Mr. Trump has become a national father figure, a titanic offense to a party run by women with daddy issues and to their Marxist allies dogmatically bent on destroying the family (along with every other institution). As it happens, countries need fathers, both actual and symbolic. What a surprise!

In the mad effort to evade judgment for their acts, the Democrats and their blob cadres are either trying to kill Mr. Trump directly, or are looking the other way while other nefarious parties attempt the wicked business. So far, no cigar. Who knows what they’ll try next: a surface-to-air missile at his airplane. . .a directed-energy weapon. . . a poisoned cheeseburger. . .?

The candidate himself seems a little tinged these days with the same aura of dauntless resignation that was seen in Martin Luther King and the first Bobby Kennedy in 1968 — who both went about their business trying to rescue our country from war and wickedness despite the threats against them. Many upright, intelligent, bold figures stand with and behind Mr. Trump this time, people capable and willing to pick up the flag in the event it becomes necessary. Do not fear.

Meanwhile, you have to also wonder: what on earth possessed the Democrats to maneuver Kamala Harris into this race? Everyone in the party and the blob must know she doesn’t have an agile mind — beyond some ability for reciting parboiled slogans......SNIP


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: deepstate; government; jacobins; kunstler; politicalcriminals; trump

1 posted on 09/28/2024 4:27:03 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

It seems much of the EU wants to lob missiles into Russia. Instead of cleaning up the immigration mess that they caused in their own countries they ate pushing for WWIII.


2 posted on 09/28/2024 4:27:18 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

ate should be are. sorry.


3 posted on 09/28/2024 4:28:07 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

The unknown person(s) who has been for 3.5 years making decisions for this country will continue to make the decisions if Kamala wins the election. It’s too bad our news media is not interested in the answer to this question. Pretending that Joe Biden has made important decisions is dangerous.


4 posted on 09/28/2024 4:47:08 AM PDT by Freee-dame ( )
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To: MtnClimber

A good world war should make all their other self-induced problems go away.


5 posted on 09/28/2024 4:48:20 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: MtnClimber

BTTT


6 posted on 09/28/2024 4:52:52 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: MtnClimber

Good article. Thanks for posting. I feel like Ichabod Crane waking up everyday seeing these brainless horsemen led by JB the dog-faced pony soldier. Is this a bad nightmare? Some deserve the gallows or the cutting edge of a head slicer.


7 posted on 09/28/2024 5:13:26 AM PDT by PGalt ( Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: MtnClimber

Excellent Article. Thank you for posting it.IO have used it as debate ammunition.


8 posted on 09/28/2024 5:38:35 AM PDT by Candor7 (Ask not for whom the Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!),<img src="" width=500</img><a href="">tag</a>)
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To: MtnClimber
[In fact, the entire Democratic Party and its Deep State intel blob partners have melted down into a desperate mob of political criminals frantic to evade accounting for their acts. So then, setting the world on fire is all they have left,]

Like I've said, they need a nuclear World War III as a distraction for their disastrous, idiotic governance


9 posted on 09/28/2024 5:54:21 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

“Meanwhile, you have to also wonder: what on earth possessed the Democrats to maneuver Kamala Harris into this race? “

This is something that I’ve been wondering about. Can it really be that the dems were locked in by their own wokness and political correctness when a pissed off vengeful Joe tossed the ball to her? Hard to believe.


10 posted on 09/28/2024 7:22:10 AM PDT by TalBlack (Fight Fight Fight America https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOJdMog6T0)
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To: MtnClimber; PGalt; nopardons; MayflowerMadam; SeekAndFind; SunkenCiv; Red Badger; ...
The article sums up:

"the awaited “October surprise” will involve “Joe Biden” resigning from office to make way for Kamala to become the First Woman President just before election day, affording her, supposedly, a magisterial prestige in the final leg of the race. Don’t bet on that. When he resigns, “JB” loses his power of the pardon. If he exercises it on the eve of resignation and lets son Hunter, brothers James, Frank, and other family members (including himself) off the hook for their global money-grubbing exploits, it will only besmirch Ms. Harris by association. He has to hang in office until after Nov 6, no matter how the election turns, and then he can pardon what’s left of his brains out."

I want to know what you wiser FReepers think. Will pretend-esident cave and make Comm-ala First Female President or will he ride it out for the pardons? Will some mysterious mishap befall Tampon Tim (or the Cackling Catastrophe) allowing Hillary in for the running?

Will the voter roll clean-up effort and stepped-up poll monitoring counteract all the illegals signed up to vote? If the Evil Party pulls off another cheat will their luck run out with the already-angry citizenry or will they get away with finishing off the Great Experiment?

Brother, can you spare a cup of ammunition?

11 posted on 09/28/2024 8:59:14 AM PDT by MikelTackNailer (We can never stop failing for the minute we do, we fail.)
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To: MikelTackNailer

“Brother, can you spare a cup of ammunition?”

Two observations.

Don’t mail a ballot, take it to the clerk’s office. Mail in ballots get handled by at least 6 people before it’s voted. 85% of mail carriers are democrats.
https://towncriernews.blogspot.com/2021/11/never-mail-mail-in-ballot-deliver-it.html?m=1

https://towncriernews.blogspot.com/2020/04/vote-by-mail-i-witnessed-fraud-it-will.html?m=1

If we lose, it’s because of the media. The public is ignorant.
Until we are in front of every media affiliate in every city handing out real news, nothing changes.
Those who show up, win.


12 posted on 09/28/2024 9:32:14 AM PDT by AuntB (Trump is our Ben Franklin - Brilliant, Boisterous, Brave and ALL AMERICAN!)
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To: MikelTackNailer

[snip] If he exercises it on the eve of resignation and lets son Hunter, brothers James, Frank, and other family members (including himself) off the hook for their global money-grubbing exploits, it will only besmirch Ms. Harris by association. [/snip]

He doesn’t or at least no longer cares what happens to Harris and the Obama cadre. He’ll do last-minute pardons of his entire family, no matter when he leaves office — assuming he isn’t snuffed by the cadre.


13 posted on 09/28/2024 10:23:06 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: AuntB
Don’t mail a ballot, take it to the clerk’s office. Mail in ballots get handled by at least 6 people before it’s voted. 85% of mail carriers are democrats.

Excellent point.

I have posted a couple of times recently, letter carriers (and thus their coworkers doing sorting) see the people's names who subscribe to the Nation, Mother Jones and the New Republic and the others who get New American and get "Donald Trump needs your continued support" mailings. Easy to identify. And keep track of.

And every year there are at least one or two stories "postal employee to be charged after piles of undelivered mail were found in vacant lot. Wanted to avoid trouble for falling behind in work quotas."

14 posted on 09/28/2024 11:43:29 AM PDT by frank ballenger (so then let us set up a last agonizing, bloodcurdling howl, a screech of defiance, a war whoop! )
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To: MikelTackNailer

Dunno. I have no idea, Mike. I never ever thought that individuals in the executive, legislative and judicial branches of government could be this evil. I can say that the future will be so very interesting and I look forward to it every day.


15 posted on 09/28/2024 2:47:55 PM PDT by PGalt ( Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: MtnClimber
One night in July 1794, as the Jacobin boss, Robespierre, took to the rostrum in the Convention for the umpteenth time to denounce his enemies and announce new death sentences, members in the chamber commenced throwing food at him.
That was the turning point, and it turned so hard and fast that France was amazed.
Within forty-eight hours, Robespierre and many of his cohorts got beheaded under the “national razor,” and that was the end of Jacobinism and all its insane measures to wreck what was left of society after five years of revolution.

"Those who do not learn from history...


16 posted on 09/29/2024 4:12:56 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: TalBlack

Better the devil you know...


17 posted on 09/29/2024 4:13:47 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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