Posted on 03/09/2026 11:07:15 AM PDT by little jeremiah
"Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way." — General George S. Patton, Jr.
Don’t lose the plot. Embrace the suck. This is the world’s hard time, for now. The birth of anything can be a bloody horror. It can even look like death. Don’t be too afraid to see what comes on the other side of this awful spectacle.
So many Americans are rooting and wishing for the Iran war to turn out badly for Western Civ. And why? Because Trump. And why? Because at the same time he is ending Iran’s long-running nuclear blackmail game, he is terminating the rackets of the Democratic Party. The incipient changes in operational order create new categories of winners and losers.
Now you know why Hamas and Hezbollah terrorists run on the same track as America’s Woke-Jacobin-Marxists, including the pitifully deluded wine ladies of posh West LA, Grosse Point, Beacon Hill, Fairfax County, et cetera, whose brains have been hijacked by the cable news demon factory (and their sponsors). Chaos does everything possible to avoid meeting order.
And this is why passing the SAVE Act is as consequential as ridding the Middle East of its chief chaos agent. Do you realize how perfectly insane our country’s election procedure has become? The fraud is titanic and right in your face, and the remedy is so plain and simple. What possible excuse is there to thwart it? Non-citizens have no right to vote. Mail-in ballots are patently subject to chicanery. Vote tabulation machines are demonstrably hackable. 80-percent of Americans know this is the truth. How is there controversy over this?
How? Because among all the broken institutions in our country, Congress is the worst. The Congress of our time is demonstrating that we might not be worthy of governing ourselves. We are at a cycle-low for public rectitude. Anything goes and nothing matters as long as the campaign contributions keep rolling in. You see how this has been going.
But mark this: we are going to get election reform one way or another. It’s that urgent, and failure to accomplish it by legislation will warrant a national emergency. And when the election machinery has been fixed, we had better do something about the plague of corporate money that runs like poison through our politics because of the Supreme Court’s foolish decision in the 2010 Citizens United case. They decided (by a slim 5-4 majority) that limitless campaign contributions by corporations amounted to free speech under the Constitution.
I will tell you concisely why this was tragically fallacious. Free speech in our country is a God-given right of sovereign citizens. Corporations are not citizens. Corporations don’t have obligations, duties, and responsibilities to the public interest (a.k.a. the common good). Corporations explicitly, by law, have obligations, duties, and responsibilities solely to their share-holders. The interests of corporate share-holders and the nation’s public interest are manifestly oppositional. Perhaps now you can see why this was such a dreadful invitation to political chaos.
So, Mr. Trump, for all his flaws, attempts to bring order out of chaos at home and in global relations, and the agents of chaos mightily resent the shut-down of their precious chaos. With Iran, it has come to fighting fire with fire. It’s unlikely that most of the people in that country seek to become martyrs. The cult of martyrdom is strictly the business of the maniacs who seized power there in 1979, a reign of terror, extended by proxy around the whole Middle East and beyond.
Entwined with Iran’s oil business, and the energy security of many nations, the mullahs inflect the trade of this primary resource with their chaos. The world cannot cope with chaos in the oil trade. The collapsing regime of the mullahs wants to go out turning the entire world into a martyr. Just like the Democratic Party wants to martyr the founding principles of the USA to preserve its matrix of moneygrubbing and power-seeking. These are two forces that require the most severe discipline and Mr. Trump is acting to impose exactly that. It’s painful to witness, but it must happen if we want to continue the human project as a reality-based enterprise.
So, heed what is at stake in the events unspooling. This is a dark moment in a journey back to daylight. Have faith. As the old American hymn goes: Farther along we’ll know more about it; farther along we’ll understand why.
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Why YES I do. For quite some time now.
Excellent Kunstler commentary.
Thanks.
I have faith and am thankful to be alive to witness the renewal of America. Even if we don’t get to have an orange jumpsuit parade.
Bkmk
Funny how the local Mullah Support Group (they know who they are) never shows up on these Kuntsler threads.
I guess keen insight, sound logic, and optimism just doesn’t ring their bell.
There are very good reasons why President Trump enlarged GITMO, added a SCIF room, another courtroom, more barracks, and a hospital with a ramp. Some of these criminals are old and may need wheelchairs, especially with the shock of arrests for treason.
Kunstler has a wicked way with words.
There’s a Mullah support group on FR??? I guess those who agree with batshit crazy Tucker Qatarlson that it is disgusting and evil to rid the world of the evil Mullahs that have been the source of almost all terrorism for decades? Plus torturing their own people.
This is a great clip I’ve saved, of Lindsey Graham asking Kavanaugh when he had been appointed for SCOTUS and the Senators were questioning him. Topic is who qualifies as an “enemey combatatant”. hint...many of the traitors in our governemnt so qualify. Posting both links in case youtube took that one down.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOAkU_4iPYA
Graham asks Kavanaugh about Military Tribunals
https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4747307/user-clip-sen-graham-asks-military-tri
“There’s a Mullah support group on FR??? “
Subset of the Putin support group.
Thank you.
“If everyone is thinking the same thing no one is thinking’’.- General George S. Patton.
Effing Epic article...thanks for the ping !
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