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Kunstler: Darkness Dying
Kunstler.com ^ | 14 Feb, 2025 | James Howard Kunstler

Posted on 02/15/2025 6:24:55 AM PST by MtnClimber

“The nature of the NGO scams is to have a cause that sounds philanthropic, like ‘Save the Orphans of Sadville’ and then they pocket the money and zero actual orphans are helped.” — Elon Musk.

The exorcism of the USA just keeps revving up. You can tell by the number of revolutions-per-minute Elizabeth Warren’s head spins while she spews pea soup at the cameras. Who knew what a demon-infested slough USA Management Central was? And yes, I would like some insight as to how humble civil servants like Liz Warren accrue a $12-million fortune . . . and $30-million for Samantha Power (ex-USAID-chief) . . . and more than $150-million for Nancy Pelosi. Could it be as simple as just good stock-picking? (Is that how they spend their time?)

You have reason to suspect that what goes on in Washington DC is the greatest racketeering operation ever run on God’s green earth. “A threat to our democracy!” the Party of Chaos spouted incessantly during the election campaign in re: Donald J. Trump. “Democracy Dies in Darkness,” The Washington Post still declares on its name-plate. Yet, who exactly kept the lights off the past four years? Who scrambled the brains of the nation’s management and thinking classes? Who made mental illness aspirational?

You begin to detect that by “our democracy” they actually meant “our everlasting grift.” And it didn’t die in darkness — it thrived, grew, and spread in the moist bureaucratic darkness like the Devil’s own slime mold. And now it is being revealed, to the astonished disgust of slightly more than half the nation that was not on-the-take. Turn over a log in the woods and you have the metaphor for “our democracy.” Countless hundred-footed things slither around under it, their feeding interrupted . . .

The political left’s success springs from its dedication to organizing its member ranks and their activities. Organizing has been the key to their grand plan for arriving at Utopia. Except, sometime near the dawn of this century, with the torch of communism burning out, they realized that Utopia was a destination unlikely to be reached. Instead, they could turn their organizing talent to directing the money flow from their ever-expanding roster of world-saving NGOs into the bank accounts of their own member ranks.

USAID was the poster-child for that, a flowering of mutually-referential dollar feedback loops providing six-figure “jobs” and non-stop cocktail partying for the elite surplus churned out of the left’s training academies, Harvard, Brown, Yale — with a whopping vig paid to congress-persons and senators who disbursed massive taxpayer funding for each newly-sprouted org dedicated to the uplift of the “marginalized and oppressed.”

Of course, that was merely the feeding frenzy of the small fish on the surface. Deeper down, the money-flow was going to much more demonic enterprises: the color revolution gang in the CIA, State Department, and God knows what other surreptitious agencies. . . Antifa and BLM (the Democratic Party’s shock troops) . . . the news industry (now completely corrupted into a global mind-f***ing operation) . . . Hollywood’s zeitgeist-shaping dream factory of girl-boss fantasies. . . book publishing (with its zillion-dollar “advances-on-royalties” to political celebrity authors, who could never possibly earn-out that windfall on book sales) . . . the school systems at every level . . . the medical-pharma matrix . . . the military procurement racket too vast to even quantify (and the probable cause of the Pentagon’s consistent audit failures) . . . and, we’ve learned recently, the care-and-feeding of twenty-million illegal aliens ushered into our country by the “Joe Biden” / Al Mayorkas travel agency.

This colossal worm-farm lies exposed now with its slithering denizens drying up under the DOGE sunlamp. The response by the political left’s clown troop fronting for all these scams is the most pathetic performative cluster-B psychodrama ever enacted on the streets of our nation’s capital: Schumer, Maxine Waters, Ayanna Pressley, Liz Warren, and every other mewling loser in Wokedom singing that old union ditty Which Side Are You On for the cameras — as if they were reenacting the 1907 Monongah Mining Disaster. They are crying— as the old saying goes — all the way to the bank.

The histrionics of the past three weeks are only the beginning, you understand, since USAID was just a mole-hill beside the mountain range of past turpitudes yet coming into view as Mr. Trump’s generals deploy in the battle-space. Yesterday — mirabile dictu! — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., was sworn-in for Health and Human Services, to oversee the empire of fraud that public health became during the rogue reign of Tony Fauci and his cohorts. The flip-side of MAHA is Make Medicine Truthful Again. Everything about health-care in America slouches in disrepute and ignominy, from the doctors hostage to their private equity taskmasters to the faked drug trials at FDA to the deliberate data mismanagement at CDC to the grant-and-kickback game at NIH and NIAID, to the hellscape of medical insurance fraud, to the revolving door between pharma and government —RFK faces one of the most onerous tasks of filth-clearing since Hercules shoveled out the Augean stables. And then there’s the giant hairball of poisoned American food.

The solitary figure who remains absent on the playing field is Kash Patel....SNIP


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: fiduciarymalfeasance; fiduciarymisconduct; fraud; kunstler; misappropriation; ngos; spending; theft; waste
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1 posted on 02/15/2025 6:24:55 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: Carriage Hill; Mama Shawna; notdownwidems; The FIGHTIN Illini

James Howard Kunstler ping


2 posted on 02/15/2025 6:25:24 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: All

This beats all get out.

Call Congress: (202) 224-3121
U.S. House switchboard operator.

Shakeup Congress on social media.
copy to @realdonaldtrump @DonaldJTrumpJr @StevenCheung @TrumpWarRoom

Attach news clips, other relevant documents, links.


Message: USAID tax dollars went to Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s “Archwell Foundation.” Royals pocketed $13,004,470 tax dollars. Harry’s got US tax dollars and he’s not even a US citizen. Their lavish lifestyle includes: globe-trotting in a private jet, living in a huge luxe mansion in ritzy Santa Barbara.

We demand this money be returned to struggling working class taxpayers at once.


3 posted on 02/15/2025 6:38:27 AM PST by Liz
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To: MtnClimber
I think of the opening scene in "My Man Godfrey" (available free on line, and worth the time) where the matron of the Estate explains to newly arrived Godfrey why he has been brought to a fancy ball as the object of a scavenger hunt.

It's just the honor of winning. The money goes to charity. That is, if there's any money left over, and there never is.
4 posted on 02/15/2025 6:47:45 AM PST by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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To: Liz
USAID tax dollars went to Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s “Archwell Foundation.”

There was a year where Archwell had no significant donations except an anonymous $11,000,000. Since USAID shows up nowhere else, that's likely it. WE kept the grift going.
5 posted on 02/15/2025 6:49:27 AM PST by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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To: MtnClimber

I have thought what he wrote for years..but did not think it went that deep into our government. I had thought the grifting really got obvious under the Clintons...they just enlarged and perfected it...now the grift is de rigueur..But Kunstler did an excellent analysis. Bookmarking it.


6 posted on 02/15/2025 6:49:38 AM PST by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder tro find. )
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To: MtnClimber

If Hillary Clinton isn’t acting scared, we’re not over the target.


7 posted on 02/15/2025 7:02:23 AM PST by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: MtnClimber

Kunstler is one of best wordsmiths around.

He’s also a disgruntled democrat who is fed up with his parties corruption and behavior in the Trump Era.


8 posted on 02/15/2025 7:04:02 AM PST by unclebankster (Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. )
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To: Empire_of_Liberty

It’s obvious to me that the wellspring for donations to Democrat campaigns is drying up. Fund raising for Dems and RINOs will be very difficult for them in 2026 and beyond.


9 posted on 02/15/2025 7:06:27 AM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: MtnClimber
Such a clever wordsmith. Loved the clear question -- "Who made mental illness aspirational?"

Democrats and their "adjacent" Assistant Democrats, of course, and always about "show me the money."

10 posted on 02/15/2025 7:07:25 AM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: MtnClimber

Don’t leave out Joe Biden who owns six luxury homes - supposedly paid for on a senator’s salary.

The only one I ever heard call this out was Rush Limbaugh.


11 posted on 02/15/2025 7:10:18 AM PST by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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To: Night Hides Not

Let’s hope that 2020 was the “last hurrah!” They turned on all the spigots and grabbed what they could for 4 years.

I am still trying to figure out if this is only 4 more good years, or something more permanent.


12 posted on 02/15/2025 7:13:13 AM PST by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: MtnClimber
”a cause that sounds philanthropic, like ‘Save the Orphans of Sadville’”

And when they don’t have enough orphans for the cameras, they make more.

13 posted on 02/15/2025 7:36:33 AM PST by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism. )
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To: MtnClimber

Our government has become like any other organized crime family, except for years and years they have operated under the guise of ‘public service’ and they’ve controlled law enforcement to a level the mafia could only dream about.


14 posted on 02/15/2025 7:57:46 AM PST by neverevergiveup
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To: MtnClimber
You begin to detect that by “our democracy” they actually meant “our everlasting grift.”
And it didn’t die in darkness — it thrived, grew, and spread in the moist bureaucratic darkness like the Devil’s own slime mold. And now it is being revealed, to the astonished disgust of slightly more than half the nation that was not on-the-take.
Turn over a log in the woods and you have the metaphor for “our democracy.” Countless hundred-footed things slither around under it, their feeding interrupted .

When liberals say 'my democracy' I hear Gollum saying 'my precious'...

15 posted on 02/15/2025 8:05:45 AM PST by GOPJ (Democrats are the party of angry black women, sexual weirdos and white liberal elites. It's a fail.)
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To: MtnClimber
Hey Climber - can you add me to your James Howard Kunstler ping list? Thanks.
16 posted on 02/15/2025 8:35:13 AM PST by GOPJ (Democrats are the party of angry black women, sexual weirdos and white liberal elites. It's a fail.)
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To: GOPJ

You are added to the JHK ping list.


17 posted on 02/15/2025 8:52:18 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: Empire_of_Liberty

It was same as an organized on social media style ‘smash and grab.’ They all met up at the 7-11 at 10PM.

I can only guess John Brennan and Samantha Power expected to steal all elections going forward so the NGO steal would never be uncovered, that and they intended to crash the economic system, to break the back of the USA along with destroying the middle class with 87,000 new IRS agents all done to allow Klaus Schwab and Yuval Noah Harari to then bring in their WEF ‘great reset’ and build back better. The USA would be waiting with the outstretched open arms of Barrack Obama.

Burn it all down and no one is gonna care about looking at the receipts.

Their end game whether they understand or not was to enable the anti-Christ Beast System to rise up across the world by binding the strongman USA and its constitutionally protected freedoms.

Marxist Generative AI models ala CCP China is the Image of the Beast they intend to use on us all.

Jesus and his authority is still too strong in the USA for them.
“Now the Lord is that Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.” 2 Corinthians 3:17

This is why their new faxed in narrative talking points phrase to be used by their tools everywhere is ‘Constitutional Crisis’

To answer your question though, they are not done. They will be back and they are liars all and they are of their Father Satan.


18 posted on 02/15/2025 8:57:26 AM PST by captmar-vell
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To: Dr. Sivana

Thank you for bringing up one of my favorite movies of all time. It was the origin of “The Forgottten Man.”


19 posted on 02/15/2025 10:12:29 AM PST by Hildy
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To: MtnClimber

Bookmark


20 posted on 02/15/2025 11:06:11 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they. control you. )
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