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Kunstler: Last Rites
Kunstler.com ^ | 3 Feb, 2025 | James Howard Kunstler

Posted on 02/04/2025 6:19:13 AM PST by MtnClimber

“We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper. Could have gone to some great parties. Did that instead.” — Elon Musk.

“In private meetings and at public events, elected Democrats appear leaderless, rudderless and divided. They disagree over how often and how stridently to oppose Mr. Trump. They have no shared understanding of why they lost the election, never mind how they can win in the future.” — The New York Times.

Maybe that’s because the four years of “Joe Biden” was little more than a vaudeville show in front of the curtain, distracting you from what was going on backstage — the world’s biggest political racketeering operation as conducted by a vast bureaucracy gone wild and mad: the blob in florid, mature efflorescence, doing its blob-thing to the max, looting and punking the nation. Now it is all being uncovered, disclosed, unmasked.

Think of the Democratic Party as the entertainment arm of the overall operation. Its aim has basically been to induce you to doubt your sanity. You were asked to swallow one fabulous absurdity after another — lockdowns, vaccines that don’t prevent illness, mostly-peaceful arson, US soldiers in puppy masks, pronoun police, shoplifting-is-reparations, the wide-open border — an epic acting-out of manifold mental illness in living color. The climax was drag-queens in the primary schools, obese men in fright-wigs presenting nightmare varieties of Mom-as-monster, often with some exposure of their male junk as part of the act. Suburban mothers watched approvingly, insisting on video that this was all wholesome, edifying fun for the kiddies (while some of the more insane moms went even further at home, coaxing their little kids toward medical “transitioning”).

Can you grok how insane all this was? So, if you were a Democratic Party strategist, perhaps the first thing you’d consider these days is to stop being insane. Second, at this particular juncture, you might consider apologizing to the people of this land for your heinous antics of recent years — like an alcoholic parent who has acted very badly against the family — and promise to make the effort to get your sh*t together. This is obviously the part that Democrats are struggling with now, and it explains why they pretend to be at such a loss to make course corrections. Of course, any further failure to come to grips with all this will lead to the death of the Democratic Party. Never in history has a political faction gone out in such pathetic ignominy.

Yet it is not just this feckless party that needs to expiate its shame, it is also America’s thinking class as a whole, its “experts,” its managers, its educated elites, its doctors and lawyers, its curators of “news” and opinion, and most of the denizens of showbiz. For the moment, they are all cowering and shuddering before the juggernaut of Mr. Trump, who they so grievously underestimated.

They know — they can see in plain view — that he is coming for them, and many might find themselves called to account in a rebalanced justice system. Many of them committed crimes against the nation and its citizens. The raft of lawyers fired out of the DC federal district this weekend for cause —namely, for conducting overtly malicious prosecutions under dubious predication — are an early sign. Ditto, the warning issued to Chuck Schumer concerning his 2020 incitement of violence against Supreme Court justices. Imagine, too, how many officials in the public health agencies need to answer for their roles in Covid-19 — the creation of it in their labs, the worthless vaccines, and the deadly treatment protocols they insisted on.

Now, the fate of the blob itself is a thing somewhat apart from the fate of this evil vaudevillian Democratic Party fronting for it. A purge of the blob is pretty clearly underway. USAID was shot dead like a rabid dog over the weekend. The agency had gone completely rogue, serving (Mike Benz explains) as the pivot between every nefarious operation coming out of the CIA, the DOD, and the State Department’s many black box units. The billions of dollars laundered out of USAID went to support hundreds of NGOs, many of them dedicated to harming the life of this nation, such as the orgs that handed out money to illegal aliens and advice on evading detection in-country. And these many NGOs represented an employment racket for the “elite overproduction” of grads coming out of universities with useless degrees and Maoist political training. There was, of course, a giant revolving door between these NGOs and the activist ranks of the Democratic Party.

The country needs a functioning, sane, opposition party to whoever is in power, since power inevitably corrupts.....SNIP


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: jameshowardkunstler; jhk; kunstler; leftism; mentalillness; ngos; usaid

1 posted on 02/04/2025 6:19:13 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Trump needs to go after the NGOs to claw back the money that Biden handed them.


2 posted on 02/04/2025 6:20:17 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: Carriage Hill; notdownwidems; The FIGHTIN Illini

James Howard Kunstler ping


3 posted on 02/04/2025 6:21:16 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

As the picture at the top of the article demonstrates, the Demoncrats went beyond LUDICROUS to full on “PLAID.”

You never want to go PLAID.

Because as the picture and the Demoncrats’ most ardent LGBTQIAMNOPXYZ+ supporters will attest, nobody looks FABULOUS in full on PLAID.


4 posted on 02/04/2025 6:45:26 AM PST by Natty Bumppo@frontier.net (We are the dangerous ones, who stand between all we love and a more dangerous world.)
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To: MtnClimber
Favorite excerpt:

"...these many NGOs represented an employment racket for the “elite overproduction” of grads coming out of universities with useless degrees and Maoist political training. There was, of course, a giant revolving door between these NGOs and the activist ranks of the Democratic Party."
Kunstler has a way with words, and a keen political eye.

Thanks for the post.

5 posted on 02/04/2025 6:46:06 AM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: MtnClimber
Yo, Demonrats

6 posted on 02/04/2025 7:06:49 AM PST by budj (Combat vet, 2nd of 3 generations.)
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To: MtnClimber
USAID was shot dead like a rabid dog over the weekend.

Trumpmas!

7 posted on 02/04/2025 7:30:49 AM PST by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: MtnClimber; FRiends

“In private meetings and at public events, elected Democrats appear leaderless, rudderless and divided. They disagree over how often and how stridently to oppose Mr. Trump. They have no shared understanding of why they lost the election, never mind how they can win in the future.” — The New York Times.

And they just put that gun-grabbing ‘fake victim,’ David Hogg, in charge of the DNC! LOL! Loving it!

And where’s Pelosi these days? Normally she’d be yappin’ like a Pomeranian over anything President Trump was doing. I thought she was Queen of the World? Are we finally rid of her? Hope so!


8 posted on 02/04/2025 7:35:04 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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To: Natty Bumppo@frontier.net
"...nobody looks FABULOUS in full on PLAID."

Beg to differ...


9 posted on 02/04/2025 7:38:34 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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To: MtnClimber

““We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper. Could have gone to some great parties. Did that instead.” — Elon Musk.”

The guy is simply awesome, and great sense of humor, too!


10 posted on 02/04/2025 9:26:28 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they. control you. )
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To: MtnClimber

The funding is key. It’s all that grant money that allows the Left to pay activists, and mobilize rent-a-mobs on demand.

Pull funding, and their ability to mess with us is much reduced.

Trump and Musk obviously understand this.


11 posted on 02/04/2025 9:59:43 AM PST by SauronOfMordor (Either you will rule. Or you will be ruled. There is no other choice.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Diana,

First: LOL!

Second: Srsly? I thought maybe the Horizontal and Vertical Hold malfunctioned in that picture.

Third:At least it is not a Leisure Suit. (Ducking, because I know you are still THE Disco Queen!)


12 posted on 02/04/2025 6:44:37 PM PST by Natty Bumppo@frontier.net (We are the dangerous ones, who stand between all we love and a more dangerous world.)
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To: Natty Bumppo@frontier.net

Herb was one in a million. ;)


13 posted on 02/05/2025 6:54:37 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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