I suppose he’d vote for Harvey Mudd if Mudd made a few wild promises to save the Erf.
Posted on 11/18/2024 7:02:11 AM PST by MtnClimber
“I don’t know why the Democrats lost. I don’t understand … Prices have come down, the economy is good. I don’t know why they voted against her, against the party.” — William Shatner (Captain Kirk).
Beyond Consequence “I don’t know why the Democrats lost. I don’t understand … Prices have come down, the economy is good. I don’t know why they voted against her, against the party.” — William Shatner (Captain Kirk)
James Howard Kunstler Nov 18, 2024 If you boil down everything the woked-up, psychopathic Democratic Party did the past eight years as it drove the country into a ditch, it all amounted to a Great Pretending. Whatever the party said, they knew it was not so. Whatever they did, they pretended the other side was doing. They lied lavishly, knowingly, and incessantly and now they are pretending to soul-search in a great public display of pretend humility as they await the dreaded reckoning.
Case in point: the interview on PBS between Aspen Institute chief Walter Isaacson and Harvard civics philosophy prof Michael Sandel, “to make sense of Donald Trump’s Presidency.” Listen to them prattle about “the dignity of work,” “credentialist condescension,” and “income disparities.” You know it was way worse than that: censorship, witch hunts, the gestapo FBI, a stupid money-pit war, medical fascism, the wide-open border, race-and gender hustles, state-sponsored riots, lawfare programmatically destroying lives, careers, reputations, and misuse of the news media (including PBS) to lie about all of it. These two pusillanimous pricks, pretending to be genteel, are the poster boys for a diseased polity.
And behind the scenes now, in the C-suites of the big agencies, the faculty lounges of Higher Ed, the Zoom meet-ups of so many crypto-government NGOs, and especially in the Big Media board-rooms, the cries of anxiety and desperation signal a momentous end of something: the punking of America by a gang of vicious, criminal snobs. The aggregate insult alone deserves a world-class beat-down. They know it, and they know they are going to get it, and it will be satisfying to watch them rat each other out as judgment nears.
But even as all that plays out, and justice returns to the scene, Mr. Trump and Company face the enormous task of getting our nation’s house in order. The balance sheet is a catastrophe, we are functionally bankrupt, and “Joe Biden” has been busy destroying the value of our money in the futile attempt to work around all that. All the economic statistics rolled out to benefit Ms. Harris in the election are false. Something is underway that is too big to stop and it will express itself as ruinous inflation and economic depression in some wicked combo of the two. It will surely lead to epic rearrangements in everyday life. I will suggest a few examples.
The people of this land have been deprived of purpose and meaning in an economy organized among giant enterprises and vast distances from wherever you live. To call ourselves “consumers” degrades us. We are citizens who have duties, responsibilities, and obligations to each other. We are economic actors who can make choices and take risks, not passive units to be exploited. The people need an economic role in their locality: employer of neighbors, producer of useful goods and services, all the way down to faithful servants of something and someone.
Monopolies and chain stores killed American towns and all the complex relations in them that furnished purpose, meaning, and livelihoods for the people in a rich ecosystem of production and services. Now it’s the monopolies and chain stores turn to decline and die off — and they will in the course of things, but it would be foolish to try to prop them up. Let them go and let the people rebuild their networks of making-and-doing locally. It’s already happening.
The giant shopping malls that came along in the 1970s have already died, and there was no official campaign to rescue them, nor any official funeral. It just happened quietly in the background. The malls were a pure product of the combo of Boomer household formation and Happy Motoring. That’s ending now. What replaced the malls, strangely, is the new model of Garage Sale Nation. That will continue to evolve and elaborate itself, and integrate into what happens next — which will not be the A-I robot nirvana of endless leisure, but rather an era of tribulation. You can see it coming on all around you. So many things don’t work anymore. Medicine. School. The task of reorganizing them is monumental. It will generate plenty of friction and hardship......SNIP
Meanwhile Joe Biden is spending the time remaining in his term trying to bless us with WWIII.
“Why aren’t I 50 points ahead?” —Hillary Clinton
We are clearly at a moment of major change. Hard to say if things will turn out better or worse. I figure Trump is nearly the only person who offers some reason to believe it might get better.
Ping, you might mind this interesting.
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We are living in an extraordinarily dangerous period of time
“The malls were a pure product of the combo of Boomer household formation and Happy Motoring.”
Clueless author.
Exactly.
Trump was our only hope, but we have serious, fundamental problems that may be beyond *any executive.
The debt monster, birth/replacement rate, family breakdown and so many on government assistance are a few that come to mind.
Shatner with loser Bill Maher [about a minute long]:
Said by an idiot that doesn't have to pay for weekly groceries like the rest of us - and doesn't need to worry about prices.
Prices have NOT come down - and my latest grocery bill is proof of that.
I suppose he’d vote for Harvey Mudd if Mudd made a few wild promises to save the Erf.
Sorry trekkies. It was Harry Mudd in my post #13.
Trump (like Kirk) doesn’t belive in no win sinsrios.
As if the Shat has any clue about the economy, or the value of his money.
William Shatner, net worth ~$100 million. Number of “migrants” living in (or within sight of) any of his homes? 0
Like the aristocrat in NY who couldn’t understand how Reagan won as she knew no one who voted for him. I have to cut Shatner some slack for being 90+, and he probably doesn’t get out much, but still hard to listen to.
> It’s Harcourt Fenton “Harry” Mudd, actually. <
It just hit me why I typed “Harvey Mudd” in my post #13. There’s a Harvey Mudd college, and that name stuck in my mind.
I wonder if Harry Mudd went to Harvey Mudd.
Shatner is also Canadian, so we have to factor that in.
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