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kunstler.com ^ | 6 Jan, 2025 | James Howard Kunstler

Posted on 01/07/2025 4:38:22 AM PST by MtnClimber

"They found a cure for gluttony. Now do narcissism." — Peachy Keenan.

Poor “Joe Biden” can’t help himself as the sun sets on his ignominious career. He ordered the American flag to fly at half-staff into January 20, inauguration day, to signal grief and distress at Donald Trump’s swearing-in — not realizing, apparently, that Mr. Trump’s first act in office will be to order the flag raised back up, signaling symbolically the end to America’s grief and distress under “Joe Biden.”

You might wonder: what other sort of vicious mischief the Party of Chaos has in store in the final ramp-up to a momentous change of government? Well, no sooner had ol’ “JB” draped the Wegovy-slenderized neck of Hillary Clinton with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, than Bill Clinton went on ABC’s The View to declare he was “open to talking with [‘President Biden’]” about a preemptive pardon for Hillary.

Say, whu. . . ? What crimes did Bill have in mind that such a pardon might avail? Skolkovo? Uranium One? The Clinton Foundation’s sketchy activities in Haiti after the earthquake there? Bill preemptively mentioned the old emails bidness as a ruse. Nothing to see there, folks, he protested. (Just don’t look anywhere else!)

You must imagine that the incoming Solicitor General, John Sauer’s, first act in office will be to ask SCOTUS for a ruling on the legitimacy of preemptive pardons — blanket pardons for crimes alive perhaps in guilty consciences but nowhere extant as yet in the legal system. The justices might detect a certain logical incoherence in that proposition. “Joe Biden” should have just draped wreaths of garlic around the necks of Mrs. Clinton, Liz Cheney, and Alex Soros (standing in for ol’ George).

Judge Juan Merchan did not get a medal. He’s warming up for his January 10 stunt of sentencing Mr. Trump for the “felony” of recording a payment to lawyer Michael Cohen as a “legal expense” (times thirty-four) so Democrats can holler “nyah nyah, felon!” as Mr. Trump re-enters the Oval Office. Judge Merchan himself has racked-up an impressive list of federal offenses around deprivation of Mr. Trump’s civil and due-process rights as well as judicial misconduct, obstruction of justice, and abuse of power. Justice may await the judge.

Today, January 6, of course, is electoral vote certification day in a joint session of Congress. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) has been making noises about contesting certification on the grounds that Mr. Trump is an “insurrectionist” under the disqualification clause in Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. Don’t be surprised if Jamie makes a show of it to justify all his loose talk, but it will only be a performance. He might as well bring a chicken into the chamber and bite its head off.

The shadowy claque behind “Joe Biden” has been super-busy cooking up documents for the demented old bird to sign before leaving office, anything that supposedly might discommode the incoming Mr. Trump. “JB” is like a bandit fleeing the scene of a crime, throwing his stolen booty into the road off the back of his truck to trip up the police closing in. Close down offshore oil drilling off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts for evermore. . . ban gas-powered water heaters. . . any old thing to make life more uncomfortable for the people of this land. The shadowy claque seems oblivious to the fact that the people won’t appreciate these pranks, that they just give more reasons for them to drive a wooden stake through the heart of the Democratic Party — as if it even had one.

Prank-of-the-week, though, goes to Tony Blinken’s State Department. No sooner had Congress defunded his agency’s Global Engagement Center (GEC) — that is, its censorship coordination hub — than the muppets at State redistributed GEC’s personnel to other corners of the agency and scared up new funding for their censorship activities from some dark hidey-hole of sequestered money. Do they suppose no one will find out where these employees went? All that’s necessary is to look up who was on the GEC’s payroll in 2024, and earlier in the hub’s heyday, and see if they remain on the State Department’s payroll now — and then fire the whole lot of them for cause: abrogating Americans’ First Amendment rights. Buh-bye. . . .

You are not out-of-order worrying, of course, that the political Left and the deep state blob behind them might look, in desperation, for other ways to prevent Donald Trump from getting sworn in. There’s the president-elect’s rally in DC the night before the inauguration. Not a few MAGAs are wondering if that’s really a good idea. And the recent garish drone swarms around the USA have put folks ill at ease about a swearing-in on the west front of the US Capitol, out in the open air. I’d even be a little concerned about the mechanicals of Mr. Trump’s airplane as he flies north from Mar-a-Lago to the big event in Washington.....SNIP


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: biden; democrats; fjb; gec; jameshowardkunstler; jameskunstler; jamieraskin; jhk; kunstler; maryland; peachykeenan; rico; sabotage; trump

1 posted on 01/07/2025 4:38:22 AM PST by MtnClimber
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My apologies if the photo in this article made readers throw up a little bit. I should have posted a warning.


2 posted on 01/07/2025 4:38:44 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: notdownwidems

James Howard Kunstler ping


3 posted on 01/07/2025 4:39:26 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Years ago I called Biden “The American Nero” and he continues to prove me right, especially with his actions as he slinks out the door.


4 posted on 01/07/2025 4:48:01 AM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (The same people who are outraged at "cultural appropriation" fully support "gender appropriation".)
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To: Brooklyn Attitude

He’s more like Caligula


5 posted on 01/07/2025 4:51:06 AM PST by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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To: MtnClimber

To me, the half-staff flag represents the death of the Deep State.


6 posted on 01/07/2025 4:55:24 AM PST by ryderann
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To: MtnClimber

Well it kind of did, and then it made me wonder how long the Botox shortage would last.


7 posted on 01/07/2025 5:00:21 AM PST by Mastador1
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To: MtnClimber

I’d post some eye bleach, but my hosting site is down this morning...


8 posted on 01/07/2025 5:15:47 AM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: MtnClimber

30 days is normal for a dead president.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/heres-why-u-s-flags-being-flown-at-half-staff-on-inauguration-day
The U.S. flag code lays out parameters for lowering the U.S. flag to half-staff, including a 30-day period for current or former presidents to cover flags at federal government buildings and their grounds, as well as at U.S. embassies and other facilities abroad, including military installations and vessels.

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President Richard Nixon opted to raise flags — which he had ordered lowered in mourning following the death of former President Lyndon Johnson — before the 30-day mark to honor the first American prisoners of war released from Vietnam. The hiatus only lasted a day, and flags went back to half-staff thereafter for eight days.


9 posted on 01/07/2025 5:28:44 AM PST by Doctor Congo
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To: logi_cal869
I’d post some eye bleach, but my hosting site is down this morning...

I gotcherback...

pretty-eye-bleach

10 posted on 01/07/2025 6:13:23 AM PST by null and void (Regarding the second Trump presidency, everyone who isn’t terrified is thankful!)
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To: MtnClimber

Biden a Nincompoop!


11 posted on 01/07/2025 6:24:02 AM PST by FreedBird (p)
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To: MtnClimber
as well as judicial misconduct, obstruction of justice, and abuse of power

Cartel judges from Columbia don't get the whole "Rule of Law" thingee...

12 posted on 01/07/2025 6:48:49 AM PST by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: null and void

Nice. Thx!

In retrospect, a ginger may be a bit too much excitement this early. ;-)


13 posted on 01/07/2025 6:49:04 AM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: MtnClimber

He could pull it tighter if he crossed his arms first.


14 posted on 01/07/2025 7:41:24 AM PST by farmguy ( )
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To: MtnClimber
He ordered the American flag to fly at half-staff into January 20... to signal grief and distress at Donald Trump’s swearing-in—not realizing... that Mr. Trump’s first act in office will be to order the flag raised back up, signaling ... the end to America’s grief and distress under “Joe Biden.”

Trump needs to have this happen on the Capitol steps and dome the moment after his swearing-in, where it will be broadcast globally.

15 posted on 01/07/2025 11:33:11 AM PST by Albion Wilde (“Did you ever meet a woke person that’s happy? There’s no such thing.” —Donald J. Trump)
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