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Kunstler: Krakatoa Blows
Kunstler.com ^ | 17 Feb, 2025 | James Howard Kunstler

Posted on 02/17/2025 5:56:37 AM PST by MtnClimber

“'Save democracy' is code phrase for a club of delusional people who belong to a delusional group that does delusional things to justify their delusions.” — Wendy Williamson.

You’ve got to wonder who at CBS-News thinks it’s a good idea to quadruple down on mendacious grandstanding when the network faces a $20-billion lawsuit from Donald Trump — for assisting Kamala Harris’s campaign (aka election interference) — while the FCC under new Commissioner Brendan Carr questions the network’s license to operate on the grounds of “news distortion” and violation of the broadcast news fairness doctrine.

So, on Sunday night February 16, CBS’s flagship news show, 60-Minutes, pitched a doubleheader of knowingly faked-up feature pieces intended to scramble American minds to benefit the Party of Chaos and its manager, the US Intel Blob. The first piece was a sob-story on how sad and unjust DOGE’s deconstruction of the USAID money-laundering operation is. Yeah, boo-hoo. They interviewed several part-timers and consultants pretending to be long-term employees of the outfit. Complete horse-s***, and they knew it. What really matters is that a whole lot of bureaucrat grifters (and politicians) won’t get paid anymore. . . and the Blob won’t be able to soften-up faraway nations for plunder with its color revolutions and other hijinks.

The second piece was a ringing endorsement of Germany’s current censorship campaign, arresting ordinary citizens for mean tweets. Their camera crew followed the German Gedankenpolizei entering apartments and seizing cell phones. The viewing audience was asked to shed tears for German Green Party politician, Renate Künast, who got dissed on “X” (“misogynist comments” and insults) — the same week that an Islamic immigrant maniac drove a car into a Munich crowd on-purpose, injuring 39 people, including two dead (one, a child). No mention of that incident on 60-Minutes, or, more generally, that illegal immigration is the big taboo subject behind all the censorship.

CBS actually preceded that gaslighting job with a bit of Sunday morning constructed Orwellian fake syllogistic idiocy by Face the Nation host Margaret Brennan, who said that free speech caused the Holocaust against the Jews. Her reasoning: free speech allowed the Nazis to gain power, therefore. . . Auschwitz . . . therefore, free speech is bad. Guest, Sec’y of State Marco Rubio, told her that he could not associate himself with her thesis. In fact, once in power, the Nazis totally controlled speech and news and did not permit other political parties to even exist. All of this, you understand, is just deliberate Gramscian distortion-and-perversion of language — black is white, up is down — to defeat any attempt at coherent public debate today.

The conclusion you might draw from all this is that CBS is terrified of free speech, and is trying desperately to hide the Blob’s long-running criminal racketeering activity — which they have aided and abetted for years and deserve to lose their license over, plus pay billions in penalties, and go out of business — a rather existential predicament.

Reality distortion is no longer working so well with Mr. Trump in the White House. Here is what’s behind the USAID brouhaha and why it matters. By 2016, the Blob had become a fullblown, independent, parasitical organism on US governance. It had several purposes: 1) to keep itself in perpetual power by paying off its voting blocs of “the poor and marginalized,” 2) to pay its corps of bureaucrat managers (of the “poor and marginalized”) handsome salaries to win their everlasting allegiance, and 3) to pay-off elected officials to keep voting the money flows for all that. All this created a massive class of Democratic Party activists dedicated to overthrowing the republic so as to usher-in their social equity nirvana. And all that was sheer hubris. More recently, nemesis arrived on the scene and all this institutional Blob power had to be diverted to a massive a**-covering operation, now in full, florid failure. And, worst of all for the Blobists, evidence of actual crime is accruing at a frightful, fast pace.

With the confirmation of Kash Patel later this week, Mr. Trump’s agency team will be complete. What follows will be a Krakatoa of revelation, drastically altering the climate of US politics for years to come. You should learn exactly how many FBI and CIA agents were moiling and roiling in the J-6 mob. You’ll find out what the J-6 DNC pipe bomb caper was all about. You’ll find out why RussiaGate was never properly investigated or adjudicated. . . how the Adam Schiff / Alexander Vindman / Eric Ciaramella impeachment op worked. . . how the Clinton Foundation made a zillion dollars . . . where all the money went that got poured into Ukraine. . . and much much more.

You will also soon start getting some actually reliable information out of CDC, FDA, NIH, and other public health agencies. Do you suppose that Tony Fauci is the only person who must answer for Covid-19? I expect many of the following persons who were high-ranking officials — nearly all of them completely obscure to the public — to be asked under oath what they thought they were doing:

Robert R. Redfield, M.D. — Director of the CDC

H. Clifford Lane, M.D. — Deputy Director for Clinical Research and Special Projects, Clinical Director, NIAID

Sarah W. Read, M.D., M.H.S. — NIAID Principal Deputy Director

Jill R. Harper, Ph.D. — NIAID Deputy Director, Science Management

Carl W. Dieffenbach, Ph.D. — Director, Division of AIDS.......SNIP


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: 60minutes; carldieffenbach; cbs; cliffordlane; clowardpiven; doge; gaslighting; gramsci; jhk; jillharper; kunstler; media; msm; niaid; plandemic; robertredfield; sarahread; scamdemic; usaid; vaxx
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1 posted on 02/17/2025 5:56:37 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

It will be interesting to watch it all unfold.


2 posted on 02/17/2025 5:56:46 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; GOPJ; Mama Shawna; notdownwidems; The FIGHTIN Illini

James Howard Kunstler ping


3 posted on 02/17/2025 5:57:43 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

The ‘Tiffany Network’.

Never date anybody named ‘Tiffany’................


4 posted on 02/17/2025 5:58:03 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Red Badger

I dated a gal that owned a beauty salon, but wasn’t actually a hair dresser. Her real name was Kathy, but her salon name was Tiffany.

We lasted 2 years until I couldn’t take her bat shit crazy any longer.


5 posted on 02/17/2025 6:05:41 AM PST by shotgun
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To: Red Badger

Krakatoa, Kraken - there had better be arrests.


6 posted on 02/17/2025 6:08:19 AM PST by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: MtnClimber

And that Big Pharma scarfed stoogette.


7 posted on 02/17/2025 6:11:00 AM PST by hardspunned (Look for the“Putin Stooge” libel, news from Ukraine you’ve gradually grown to trust over 30 months )
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To: Red Badger

“Never date anybody named ‘Tiffany’................”

Danger zone on H/C Matrix.


8 posted on 02/17/2025 6:17:26 AM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: MtnClimber

We expect strong opposition from the blob in the form of desperate media lies like this and lib activist judges have already started shredding laws to battle back.

No matter how tough our fight gets it will always be preferable to rolling over and offering our tummy as was done in the past.


9 posted on 02/17/2025 6:17:55 AM PST by bluescape
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To: MtnClimber

We need Kash Patel, and we need arrests.


10 posted on 02/17/2025 6:18:38 AM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: MtnClimber

It would be nice. I have my doubts.

When the Blob gets desperate enough, there’s no telling what they’ll do, as there are no limits.


11 posted on 02/17/2025 6:22:08 AM PST by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: Red Badger

We have a local ‘Tiffany’ who has managed to marry and bear the children of the sons of three local, large Dairy operations. And two of her husbands are brothers!

‘Is that your Daddy?’ ‘No, that’s my Uncle.’ ‘Is that your Uncle?’ ‘No, that’s my Daddy!’

That girl is working ALL the angles. She’s got it made, even though she’s had the same Mother-In-Law* TWICE now, LOL!

*MIL is not a fan. ;)


12 posted on 02/17/2025 6:33:30 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

bump for later...


13 posted on 02/17/2025 6:34:56 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: Diana in Wisconsin

Sounds very biblical................🙄


14 posted on 02/17/2025 6:36:10 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: MtnClimber

For illustrative purposes...

https://youtu.be/UHVMBDQXEAg?feature=shared


15 posted on 02/17/2025 6:38:01 AM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: Carry_Okie

What we want is when the blob does fight back—it will be prison riots inside the prison walls.


16 posted on 02/17/2025 6:40:28 AM PST by cgbg (The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise.)
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To: Red Badger

We went to Tiffany’s THIRD wedding which was to Brother #2. Beau has known the family since school days.

I tease Beau about which of his brother’s I’m marrying after he’s gone. The Navy Pilot or the County Commissioner?

Choices, choices! ;)


17 posted on 02/17/2025 6:41:26 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
Kunstler mentions "German Green Party politician, Renate Künast." On two occasions in Berlin, one on the street in Berlin where she gave a "pabulum" supposedly-spontaneous interview, and shortly after the camera was off, a constituent tried to speak to her. She blew him off gangbusters. The second was an interview on television in which she said she didn't care if workers were laid off, as long as her "green" goals were met. She is a "real piece of work."


18 posted on 02/17/2025 6:49:58 AM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time

Lady looks like a dude.


19 posted on 02/17/2025 7:12:57 AM PST by Huskrrrr (Alinsky, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!)
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time

Looks like she time traveled from the late 1930’s.


20 posted on 02/17/2025 7:17:40 AM PST by AndyJackson
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