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Kunstler: No Way Out
Kunstler.com ^ | 24 Feb, 2025 | James Howard Kunstler

Posted on 02/24/2025 6:39:11 AM PST by MtnClimber

“The job of the president, goes the message from all the insiders, is to PRETEND to be in charge but not actually do anything meaningful." —Jeffrey Tucker.

CBS’s 60-Minutes show was at it again Sunday night in the most prime primetime weekend news slot on the old broadcast spectrum — Sunday at 7:00, the power-hour of national mind-f***ery — with blob PR-agent Scott Pelley singing the blues over the systematic disassembly of the rogue bureaucracy. Trouble is, fewer and fewer minds are susceptible to the argument that the blob exists to “save our democracy.”

You’re supposed to go boo-hoo because the Department of Justice is under new management. Now get this: since 2015 the Department of Justice and its step-child, the FBI, have devoted their vast and savage powers to manifold acts of sedition, treason, malicious political prosecution, obstruction of justice, suborning perjuries, and countless other abuses of law in an ever-widening gyre of a**-covering operations as year-by-year their crimes multiplied.

RussiaGate was initially a cover-up op for the Clintons’ many acts of mischief and moneygrubbing when Hillary ran for President, just as the Mueller Special Counsel Investigation was a cover-up for the crimes committed by the DOJ and FBI after Hillary lost to Mr. Trump, just as Impeachment #1 was a cover-up for the Ukraine money laundry and its role in RussiaGate, and Impeachment #2 was a coverup for the 2020 election ballot hijinks that got rid of Mr. Trump, and just as the Mar-a-Lago raid was a cover-up to retrieve evidence of all-the-above that Mr. Trump had archived, and just as the flurry of Trump prosecutions in 2024 was the final (and amazingly inept) effort to put the Golden Golem of Greatness out-of-business forever.

But somehow, perhaps an act of Providence, he prevailed over all that adversity, like some paladin out of the ancient myths, and is suddenly back in charge — to the abject horror of all those lawyers and spooks behind the aforesaid ops, now nervously awaiting subpoenas in their Beltway McMansions. You will learn shortly that there is a difference between “justice” based on fraud and fakery and justice served by way of fact-patterns and evidence.

And so late Sunday evening after the 60-Minutes pity party, came the pretty astounding news that former Secret Service agent and now podcaster Dan Bongino is appointed Deputy Director of the FBI. Astounding because Mr. Bongino has documented the worst blob crimes of recent years in a series of books that comprehensively presents the entire tapestry of lawlessness in microscopic detail. He knows the whole sordid, epic story, all the names, and all the money trails in every obscure corner of the worst aggregate matrix of scandals in US history. Believe me when I tell you, this is like a death sentence for the blob.

For instance, Mr. Bongino is acutely aware of what went down on J-6, 2021, when a supposed pipe-bomb was “found” at the DNC headquarters, the part it was supposed to play in the larger J-6 op to rid Washington of Mr. Trump, and the lying confabulations of former FBI Director Christopher Wray afterward. Now he is in a position to compel current and former FBI officials to answer questions about that, and much more, from the Crossfire Hurricane scam to the shenanigans in Judge Juan Merchan’s court last summer.

Those investigations will require a whole dedicated division of new FBI agents while Kash Patel attends to the latest grifts uncovered by the DOGE, the threats against public order and safety posed by countless military-aged illegal aliens ushered into the country by “Joe Biden” and Alejandro Mayorkas, the turpitudes of former AG Merrick Garland, and the crimes committed by officials in the CDC, FDA, and other public health agencies around Covid-19, and lingering monstrosities such as the Jeffrey Epstein capers, the huge fortunes mysteriously amassed by US senators and congressmen, the 1960s assassinations of the Kennedys and MLK, the censorship operations conducted by the combined FBI / CIA, State Department, and dark offices of the Pentagon, the theft of US largess given over to Ukraine, and the infiltration of American institutions by China.

The Trump admin knows that it will have to strike hard and fast in all these matters and more. Cases will have to be prepared briskly and removed to federal courts outside the blob-controlled DC district. A great many political figures will have to be taken out of circulation. It will be helpful to finally understand the bizarre capture of the old legacy news media so, for instance, it becomes clear why an outfit such as CBS’s 60-Minutes ended up on the dark side, committed to burying the truth and distorting reality at every opportunity.

The Democratic Party was the political enabling partner in all this sedition and treason and it is hard to see how it comes out of this alive. Expect to see a lemming stampede of resignations out of Congress and the Senate....SNIP


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: bongino; cbs; doge; fbi; jameshowardkunstler; jhk; kunstler; leftism; philkunstler; theblob
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1 posted on 02/24/2025 6:39:11 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Aim the lemmings toward the Potomac River during an outgoing tide.


2 posted on 02/24/2025 6:39:36 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

RussiaGate was initially a cover-up op for the Clintons’ many acts of mischief and moneygrubbing when Hillary ran for President, just as the Mueller Special Counsel Investigation was a cover-up for the crimes committed by the DOJ and FBI after Hillary lost to Mr. Trump, just as Impeachment #1 was a cover-up for the Ukraine money laundry and its role in RussiaGate, and Impeachment #2 was a coverup for the 2020 election ballot hijinks that got rid of Mr. Trump, and just as the Mar-a-Lago raid was a cover-up to retrieve evidence of all-the-above that Mr. Trump had archived, and just as the flurry of Trump prosecutions in 2024 was the final (and amazingly inept) effort to put the Golden Golem of Greatness out-of-business forever.


Kunsler nails it with this paragraph. Of course, there are many, many coverups by the Mediacracy, for the Mediacracy and against the people in the last 60 years or more. But, this is a good synopsis of the recent madness.


3 posted on 02/24/2025 6:44:59 AM PST by marktwain
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To: MtnClimber

It will be helpful to finally understand the bizarre capture of the old legacy news media so, for instance, it becomes clear why an outfit such as CBS’s 60-Minutes ended up on the dark side, committed to burying the truth and distorting reality at every opportunity.


Kunsler should understand, by now, 60 minutes has been on the dark side for most, if not all, its existence.


4 posted on 02/24/2025 6:48:19 AM PST by marktwain
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To: MtnClimber

Time for the gambling sites to start taking odds on who resigns and in what order?


5 posted on 02/24/2025 6:48:33 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Black guy upon receiving a MAGA hat: "MURICA!")
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To: MtnClimber
Mr. Bongino has documented the worst blob crimes of recent years in a series of books that comprehensively presents the entire tapestry of lawlessness in microscopic detail.

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Congrats to Bongino on his new appointment. Its a breath of fresh air to have honorable people back in charge. Speaking of that, anyone know what happened to the two IRS whistleblowers who testified before the House about the Biden crime family? I hope these true civil servants get high placed jobs in the IRS.

6 posted on 02/24/2025 6:51:21 AM PST by Starboard
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To: marktwain

Its always been 60 Liberal Minutes.


7 posted on 02/24/2025 6:52:20 AM PST by Starboard
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To: marktwain

Yeah, that’s a fantastic paragraph.


8 posted on 02/24/2025 6:55:45 AM PST by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2025... RETURN OF THE JEDI...)
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To: MtnClimber

Yep.... let them swim with the Potomac “trout”.


9 posted on 02/24/2025 7:00:26 AM PST by LastDayz (A Blunt and Brazen Texan. I Will Not Be Assimilated.)
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To: Starboard

“””Its always been 60 Liberal Minutes.”””

For the first time in many years I actually watched a bit of 60 Minutes of Propaganda last night. Believe it or not they think DOGE is the devil. Yeah, I was shocked.


10 posted on 02/24/2025 7:00:38 AM PST by shelterguy
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“RussiaGate was initially a cover-up op for the Clintons’ many acts of mischief and moneygrubbing when Hillary ran for President, just as the Mueller Special Counsel Investigation was a cover-up for the crimes committed by the DOJ and FBI after Hillary lost to Mr. Trump, just as Impeachment #1 was a cover-up for the Ukraine money laundry and its role in RussiaGate, and Impeachment #2 was a coverup for the 2020 election ballot hijinks that got rid of Mr. Trump, and just as the Mar-a-Lago raid was a cover-up to retrieve evidence of all-the-above that Mr. Trump had archived, and just as the flurry of Trump prosecutions in 2024 was the final (and amazingly inept) effort to put the Golden Golem of Greatness out-of-business forever.”

Does that mean that we can’t trust these DIM/Lefty criminals or what???


11 posted on 02/24/2025 7:06:07 AM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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When life gives you lemmings, make lemmingade.


12 posted on 02/24/2025 7:10:38 AM PST by Enterprise ( These people have no honor, no belief, no poetry, no art, no humor, no patriotism.)
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To: Starboard
"I hope these true civil servants get high placed jobs in the IRS."

Loyalty should be rewarded and they should be promoted above those who punished them.

13 posted on 02/24/2025 7:12:37 AM PST by Enterprise ( These people have no honor, no belief, no poetry, no art, no humor, no patriotism.)
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Kunstler leaves out that when everything he points out that they tried against PDJT failed, they made two attempts to assassinate him.


14 posted on 02/24/2025 7:17:11 AM PST by Henchster (Free Republic - the BEST site on the web!)
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To: Enterprise

Exactly. It really doesn’t matter if they are Trump voters or not. They displayed incredible courage, integrity and professionalism. They can be trusted to do the right things for the agency IMO and the taxpayers.


15 posted on 02/24/2025 7:24:36 AM PST by Starboard
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To: shelterguy

The entirety of CBS is one with the Swamp.


16 posted on 02/24/2025 7:26:33 AM PST by Starboard
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To: hal ogen

Just imagine the fun Patel and Bongino will have now.


17 posted on 02/24/2025 7:28:47 AM PST by shelterguy
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To: shelterguy

My wife has a friend who contacted her last night and was shocked that my wife wasn’t watching 60 Minutes. Apparently Trump is destroying the country and 60 Minutes was letting all the citizens know about the danger and how really, really bad our current situation is, with DOGE and everything else. My wife told her that she doesn’t get her news from the TV. Her friend was speechless: “How can you stay informed if you don’t watch TV??”


18 posted on 02/24/2025 7:29:22 AM PST by ClearCase_guy
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“” “How can you stay informed if you don’t watch TV??”””

How can you stay BRAINWASHED if you don’t watch tv?


19 posted on 02/24/2025 7:31:15 AM PST by shelterguy
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To: Henchster

In Kunstlers defense, it is really getting hard to keep all the left wing shenanigans at the fore-front. That paragraph already had me out of breath just reading that much!


20 posted on 02/24/2025 8:08:50 AM PST by The FIGHTIN Illini ("Let Us Never Forget What They Have Done")
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