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Kunstler.com ^ | 5 Jun, 2026 | James Howard Kunstler

Posted on 06/10/2026 6:36:23 AM PDT by MtnClimber

"I’m the look-around candidate. All you have to do to understand why I’m surging in the polls is just look around. . . ." — Spencer Pratt.

Just watch in wonder and nausea as California’s mail-in ballots dribble in, providing a real-time demonstration of the “Our Democracy” party spitting in the country’s face again, since everybody knows exactly what’s going on. Meanwhile, the Senate voted down the SAVE Act again this week by 52 to 48 for. . . reasons. But, hey, cheer up, it’s Pride Month. At the same time that California was queering its own “jungle primary,” a troupe of drag queens swanned and capered around New York’s City Council Chamber in what was called a “Pride Ball” (actually more of a show than a ball).

And what it really showed is that the party running New York City has no shame. How, exactly, does mental illness intersect with the public interest, you might ask? Historians of the future, roasting armadillos-on-the-half-shell over their campfires, will probably figure it out. For now, you must pretend that no such question even exists. Don’t bother asking. Just go along with the gag.

Here’s a scene you might like to see: As you know by now, the president has nominated Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to be the Senate-confirmed full-on, bona fide AG. But Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) says he would require Mr. Blanche to declare that the Jan 6, 2021, Capitol riot was “an insurrection.” Wouldn’t it be fun to hear Mr. Blanche reply by saying, “Can’t do that, sir, because the DOJ has an ongoing case that involves dozens of federal officers from several agencies instigating the events of that day in collusion with members of Congress and the US military, and, well, I can say no more about that at this time. . . .”

Similarly, election fraud. Just days ago, Mr. Trump told Miranda Divine of The New York Post, “We had a rigged election [2020], we can’t have rigged elections. We know who rigged the election. We know everything now. . . we have information that nobody thought was possible. . . . Let’s see what happens.”

Hmmmm. . .. Wouldn’t that prompt you to suspect that the DOJ has a case, or multiple cases, involving 2020 election fraud cooking on its stove? Recall that not long ago the FBI seized 700 boxes of evidence from the Fulton County Election Hub in Union City, GA. And another truckload out of Maricopa County, AZ. Do you think they’ll discover some, er, irregularities in all that? Perhaps eye-wateringly blatant?

Would it not then be urgent to seek indictments of actual persons, if any are deserved, well before November, so that measures could be taken to preclude more fraud and cheating in the midterm election — measures like . . . passing the SAVE Act! How might Majority Leader John Thune explain his intransigence on the matter in the face of all that? Or, like New York’s City Council, does he have no shame?

In another momentous development this week, the new management at CBS-News cashiered 60-Minutes star Scott Pelley for apparent insubordinate behavior in a confab with the show’s newly-hired Executive Producer Nick Bilton and Mr. Bilton’s boss, Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss. They had already sacked the querulous Sharyn Alfonsi a week earlier. Of course, 60-Minutes, with its giant audience following NFL games, was one of the main units in the Deep State’s gaslighting apparatus, and Mr. Pelley burned brightest there for years, flaring out one lying-a[--] narrative after another from the Russia Collusion hoax to 2020 election fraud to the Jan 6 fake “insurrection,” with the same burnished arrogance he showed his new bosses. Gone now. . . buh-bye. Next up, Lesley Stahl (“Sir!!! Sir !!!”), and the self-important prick Bill Whitaker. Fire them all!

If you seek to understand why the American public is so deeply bamboozled, it is largely the utter failure of the news business. You can trace that to a couple of signal changes of policy. One was the 1987 repeal of the FCC’s “Fairness Doctrine,” which required TV stations holding federal licenses to cover controversial public issues in a “fair and balanced manner.” The other was the 2013 “modernization” (under Barack Obama) of the Smith-Mundt Act (1948), which had prohibited the US government from “propagandizing” its own citizens — and after “modernization” turned squishy on that.

The 1975–1976 (Sen. Frank) Church Committee — the Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities — documented that the CIA had long-term secret relationships with dozens of U.S. journalists. This is casually referred to as “Operation Mockingbird.” Since the Church Committee, it has only gotten much worse as the Deep State struggles to cover-up layer upon layer of crimes it keeps committing. The nightly news shows now are just anchors and “panelists” shooting their mouths off. The news itself goes mostly unreported. A big reason is that broadcast news now employs nearly zero correspondents in-the-field. Nobody is out there reporting on events. They don’t want to spend the money. So, the news just spins and spins, mostly in the service of manufactured lies.

Also last week, famous New York Times columnist and fake Nobel economics prize-winner Paul Krugman put out a video calling for the “purging” of MAGA and everything MAGA-adjacent from American life — when his team (the party of “Our Democracy”) comes back to power, as it must. He didn’t detail whether this process would entail internment camps and crematoriums, but you could infer as much from his tone. Kinda gives you a clue of where their heads are at.


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KEYWORDS: elections

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1 posted on 06/10/2026 6:36:23 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: little jeremiah; Carriage Hill; GOPJ; Mama Shawna; notdownwidems; The FIGHTIN Illini; JZelle; ...

James Howard Kunstler ping


2 posted on 06/10/2026 6:36:47 AM PDT 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

“””Meanwhile, the Senate voted down the SAVE Act again this week by 52 to 48 for. . . reasons. But, hey, cheer up, it’s Pride Month.””””


I have been voting since 1968. It was a very simple process at the beginning.

1. Register to vote by showing ID and proof of residence.
2. Go to polling place, show ID, sign registration book, fill in paper ballot, drop ballot in secure box.
3. Ballots hand counted at night and results next morning.

Over these past 58 years the election process has only become more convoluted.

We desperately need the SAVE ACT to clean up the mess created by the changes made in the last 50 years or so.


3 posted on 06/10/2026 6:52:18 AM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: MtnClimber

Laws do not deter domestic enemies engaging in treason.


4 posted on 06/10/2026 7:03:10 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization? )
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To: Presbyterian Reporter

IBM punch cards were first used in elections during the 1964 Presidential primary election in two counties in Georgia. They became more widely adopted in subsequent elections, notably being used by 37.3% of voters in the U.S. during the 1996 Presidential election.

And we all witnessed how that election system “improvement” worked out in the 2000 election in Florida.


5 posted on 06/10/2026 7:07:24 AM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: MtnClimber

Spencer Pratt definitely had a chance to unseat the odious Karen Bass in Los Angeles - that’s why he had to go.

Ballots were “counted” until enough were found to call the election, put Raman in second place and eliminate Pratt from the general election.

Hilton doesn’t have a chance against a Democrat statewide, that’s why he was allowed to pass through to the general.


6 posted on 06/10/2026 7:15:46 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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To: MtnClimber

Bkmk


7 posted on 06/10/2026 7:34:22 AM PDT by sauropod
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To: MtnClimber

“We know EVERYTHING now”

When is he going to make it public?
The fact is we have allegations and probability that we believe.
The fact is that we have “proved” 3,000 of the 12,000 difference in GA 2020 was fraud. We have anecdotes of the other 9,000. But since when do we know “EVERYTHING” ?

When will the Vote Harvesters be named and who they impersonated in each specific precinct?

When will the vote counters who shifted votes from 3d party candidates to Biden be named... and the specific precincts in which the 3d party votes were shifted?

We know EVERYTHING?


8 posted on 06/10/2026 8:15:32 AM PDT by spintreebob
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To: PGalt

“Laws do not deter domestic enemies engaging in treason.” — that’ a good tag line!


9 posted on 06/10/2026 8:33:41 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom ( )
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To: spintreebob

Yes. So many good things happening, but so far NOBODY has been held to account. Here and there, a couple of low-life people who voted illegally get caught but that’s it. A couple days ago, some Canadian was caught voting illegally 10 - 15 past American elections.

If they don’t hang a half dozen or so Mr. Bigs, nothing will happen.


10 posted on 06/10/2026 8:36:05 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom ( )
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To: Presbyterian Reporter

The GOP proudly wants to be the bottom of the Senate


11 posted on 06/10/2026 8:44:52 AM PDT by Theophilus (I'm all out of attention to this matter...)
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