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Last Ditch?
https://www.kunstler.com/ ^ | Nov 03, 2025 | James Howard Kunstler

Posted on 11/03/2025 1:04:50 PM PST by little jeremiah

“The question is, can communist subversion be defeated without using ‘authoritarian’ measures? Is a constitutional republic equipped to deal with this kind of threat? When someone wages war on your society internally, is there a way to fight them while being civic minded? Probably not.” — Brandon Smith

Doesn’t it kind of look like the Nov. 5 “Trump Must Go Now” action in Washington is designed to be our time’s Fort Sumter moment, to kick off Civil War 2.0? The organizers behind it are the usual suspects: George & Alex Soros’s Open Society Foundation at the hub and spin-offs such as the Tides Foundation, Revolutionary Communist Party, and Refuse Fascism doing the logistical grunt work. . . buses. . . snacks. . . signs. . . brickbats, frog costumes. . . .

The idea is to entice a million Wokesters to surround the White House and literally exorcise the president, get Donald Trump teleported out through the roof into the cosmic ethers, to be seen no more. We’ll have to stand by to see how it works. Something like it was tried in October, 1967, when anti-(Vietnam)-war celebrities — poet Allen Ginsberg, The Fugs’ Ed Sanders, hippie rabblerousers Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin — led incantations to “levitate” the Pentagon. (Failed.)

You might have noticed by now that the most hysterical voices crying about “fascism” are exactly the people who yearn to push everybody else around, tell them what to think, run your life, wreck every institution and relationship in society, and take all your stuff. The Left never notices how all that resembles their notion of what fascism is. Self-awareness is not the Wokesters’ strong suit.

The Nov. 5 event is predicated on — and coordinated with — the Democratic Party’s government shut-down, especially the suspension of SNAP benefits (free food), in hopes that famished mobs will rise up, loot the supermarkets, and force the president to vigorously put down food riots: Look, Fascist. . . ! But over the weekend Judge John J. McConnell Jr. (Rhode Island) foiled that ploy, commanding the president to use “contingency funds” out of the US Department of Agriculture to keep SNAP running. The president coyly replied, “If we are given the appropriate legal direction by the Court, it will BE MY HONOR to provide the funding.”

Seeing as how the contingency fund contains only $5.25-billion, and the actual cost of running SNAP through November is $8.5-billion, we have a math problem. So, stand by on Judge McConnell spelling-out what appropriate legal direction can get that done. The president might have demonstrated how federal judges are not competent to carry out his Article II executive duties, and why the Constitution was written as it is. Of course, all this will be moot if the Democrats fold, as expected, by mid-month and vote to re-open the government.

The Lefty federal judges have been uniformly humiliated as one temporary restraining order (TRO) after another gets tossed by the SCOTUS. Judge James Boasberg of the DC District, the very model of a judicial “Resistance” activist, is about to get his ass impeached after ten-years of dabbling in malicious abuse of judicial process (28 U.S.C. § 2680-h under the Federal Tort Claims Act), plus 18 U.S.C. § 1001 (false statements or concealment in federal matters, potentially covering abusive filings), and 8 U.S.C. § 1503/1512 (obstruction of justice via tampering or corrupt persuasion, applicable to malicious process abuse). Stand by on that. Might be a caution to the rest of the federal judge gang to back off their Resistance shenanigans.

In case you haven’t followed the story — since The New York Times and network news won’t report on it — we are in the midst of the “Arctic Frost Investigation” scandal when, in 2022, “Joe Biden” induced AG Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray to go mad-dog on Donald Trump and hundreds of political conservatives, including nine US Senators, whose phone records were seized, with gag orders (from Judge Boasberg) to prevent notification of the seize-ees, which has raised accusations of violating their First Amendment rights, and grand jury secrecy. Arctic Frost is still unspooling, with reverberations to come, including insights on the Jack Smith / Norm Eisen lawfare spree in 2023-24 against Donald Trump that followed it.

Altogether, how successful has the Resistance movement to defy, thwart, and overthrow President Trump been going since January 20? Looks a little lame, so far. The summer of “No Kings” was entertaining enough, with the Boomer-geezers wetting their Depends every Saturday morning to stay out past noon, and the mentally-ill Antifas roistering as inflatable dinosaurs and Teletubbies to mask their homicidal tendencies. Don’t be so sure they will get the Second Civil War they yearn for. What it actually looks like is the Left has turned the Democratic Party into a suicide cult. And ask yourself: what is the end point of that, exactly?


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: democrats; kunstler; nokings; qanoninaditch
Newest Kunstler.

Demsheivks are in a death spiral, clearly.

1 posted on 11/03/2025 1:04:50 PM PST by little jeremiah
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To: MtnClimber; Carriage Hill; GOPJ; Mama Shawna; notdownwidems; The FIGHTIN Illini; JZelle; ...

I hope I got all the pingees.


2 posted on 11/03/2025 1:05:40 PM PST by little jeremiah (SCARE: Social Chaos And Response Emergency)
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To: little jeremiah

I don’t know if Nov 5 protests will result in violence. History shows that it could. I hope the President Trump security detail are more inclined to shoot than they were at the last WH insurrection. If you take the president to the WH bunker you should have started shooting before it reached that point.


3 posted on 11/03/2025 1:19:58 PM 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: little jeremiah
"is there a way to fight them while being civic minded?"

Yes. Phyllis Schlafly and others already proved it, yes. This is how we win, in photos; apathy is the path to defeat.


4 posted on 11/03/2025 1:23:06 PM PST by ProgressingAmerica (We cannot vote our way out of these problems. The only way out is to activist our way out.)
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To: ProgressingAmerica

The problem this time around is the entrenchment of, I can only call them, “enemies” in various levels of government including state governments, NGOs and the link. And this time around the enemeies of Trump - of us, and the constitution, are willing to use assassinations to get their way. Add to this stolen elections (such as 2020) and countless rogue judges. I don’t see the American people as being apathetic, Trump has huge support, his rallies draw countless hundreds of thousands.

I think eventually the military will have to step in. The Demsheviks still have their “paramilitary” in the form of jihadis (way too many Muslims in the US) and antifas, and regular thugs willing to be hired.


5 posted on 11/03/2025 2:02:15 PM PST by little jeremiah (SCARE: Social Chaos And Response Emergency)
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To: MtnClimber

It will be interesting.


6 posted on 11/03/2025 2:02:58 PM PST by little jeremiah (SCARE: Social Chaos And Response Emergency)
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To: little jeremiah

IF THERE WERE NOT ABOUT 24 MILLION ILLEGAL INVADERS ON FOOD STAMPS-—THE $5.5 MILLION MIGHT BUY ONE MONTH.

THERE ARE NOT 42 MILLION “AMERICANS”ON FOOD STAMPS.

THERE ARE 58 % OF RECIPIENTS FROM ELSEWHERE-—AKA ILLEGAL INVADERS.


7 posted on 11/03/2025 2:25:14 PM PST by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: ProgressingAmerica

They’re still whining about the ERA on PBS.


8 posted on 11/03/2025 2:25:50 PM PST by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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To: little jeremiah

Currently the demonstrations on the left are more a part of the internal power struggles and chaos on the left than they are of serious attacks against the right.

These demonstrations are of two types:
A) My faction is the big dog in the fight. Follow me.
B) We want to support figure out who is the big dog in the fight and lick his behind.


9 posted on 11/03/2025 3:00:27 PM PST by spintreebob
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To: little jeremiah

Currently the demonstrations on the left are more a part of the internal power struggles and chaos on the left than they are of serious attacks against the right.

These demonstrations are of two types:
A) My faction is the big dog in the fight. Follow me.
B) We want to support figure out who is the big dog in the fight and lick his behind.


10 posted on 11/03/2025 3:00:27 PM PST by spintreebob
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To: gundog; little jeremiah

Yup.

That is how powerful it is when we do not just sit around and wait until election day.


11 posted on 11/04/2025 10:55:47 AM PST by ProgressingAmerica (We cannot vote our way out of these problems. The only way out is to activist our way out.)
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