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For the Honored Dead
https://www.kunstler.com/ ^ | May 25, 2026 | James Howard Kunstler

Posted on 05/25/2026 7:39:24 PM PDT by little jeremiah

“I told my staff today that we need an ICD code for Trump Derangement Syndrome, because it is a real thing … It should be studied.” Robert F. Kennedy, Jr

As of this holiday morning, America is informed that the negotiations between the US and Iran may take several more days to resolve. You better believe that Iran is going to make a deal. One way or another, they will give up their stash of sixty-percent enriched uranium. Nobody believes they would not attempt to make bombs with it, especially Mr. Trump. So, Iran will not be going back to whatever is considered normal life until they agree to give it up, and then make it happen. Iran is like a demon-possessed teenager with a firearm getting its head banged into the sidewalk. What part of give-it-up don’t you understand?

The news media apparently forgot what it broadcast a couple of weeks ago: Iran’s oil storage capacity was nearing the red-line. If the wells have to be shut-in, such is the geology that it would wreck the oil fields themselves. Perhaps this is happening now. Nobody is reporting on it. But the news media doesn’t really report on anything. It opines. It spins. It constructs story-lines for advantage, it gaslights, it perverts the consensus about reality out of existence, it just plain lies.

If Iran is jerking the US around again, this will be the last time. They will prove to be negotiation-incapable, as the Russian phrase goes. They will punch their own express ticket back to the 12th century, lights out, bridges down across the rugged terrain, back to donkey carts, magic lamps, and vizeers instead of mullahs.

Why does America’s lefty-left beat its drum for an Iranian victory when 1) it’s not happening, and 2) it’s hardly in the interest of Western Civ for anything like that to happen? You can conclude that they hate and despise Western Civ, especially anything that resembles America’s traditional sense-of-self: a republic based on civic and economic liberty. Liberty means individuals making their own decisions within an armature of laws written in good faith, to mean what they say.

The Lefty-left is mainly about acquiring power through bad faith in order to push everyone around, tell them what they’re allowed to want out of life, and severely punish anyone who objects to that treatment. What’s often overlooked is the role that sadism plays in the psychology of the Lefty-left. They seem to love it when illegal aliens rape and strangle 19-year-old American girls. (You don’t hear them deplore it, do you? Their house-organ, The New York Times, won’t even report it.) More than anything they want to subject you to the most savage humiliations.

We are at a dangerous pass this Memorial Day. Mr. Trump and his people are methodically rearranging the works to expel these grifting demons. Their resistance to being expelled will manifest in ever more dirty fighting as spring blossoms into a summer of violent “activism.” They will try as hard as possible to wreck the country’s 250th birthday celebrations. It might look like civil war. They will not stop trying to kill Donald Trump and possibly other figures around him. Even if they manage that, it will not stop what it is coming for them.

This time around nobody believes their sob stories, their whining about “oppression,” their bullshit about “equity” and “justice.” This time, they will not be allowed to get away with sheer lawlessness. They will not be able to pass off fake martyrs such as George Floyd. The elections this time — if they can happen — will be clean and fair. That can be the only way they will be allowed to happen.

This will be the most emphatic counter-revolution in modern history, a complete rejection of childish unreality — the cavalcade of absurdities you have been told to swallow for a mad decade: that you can change your sex “assigned at birth.” (Assigned by whom? By some cosmic committee of gender komisars?) That merit has no merit (don’t be good at anything). That men and maleness represent some inferior way of being human? That people from outside American society, from faraway lands, deserve to live here under a special gift economy of vast subsidies, at your expense, to set up antagonistic counter-cultures? That words don’t mean what they mean?

Expect the pace to quicken now, even with Tulsi Gabbard gone. Her operational deputy DNI, Aaron Lukas, is a proven, capable warrior. Most of the critical information has already been recovered from the Deep State’s vaults, hidden rooms, burn bags, and SCIFs. The adjudication of crimes against our country will be spooling out the next hundred days as a vivid and orderly counterpoint to whatever nose-ringed chaos the Democrats send out into the streets. The republic will celebrate its 250th birthday by carrying-on as it was designed to do, while the demons skulk back into the shadows until the next great turning.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Iran; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: democrats; iran; iranwar; kunstler

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Another great one by Howard Kunstler.
1 posted on 05/25/2026 7:39:24 PM PDT by little jeremiah
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2 posted on 05/25/2026 7:41:05 PM PDT by little jeremiah (SCARE: Social Chaos And Response Emergency)
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To: MtnClimber; Carriage Hill; GOPJ; Mama Shawna; notdownwidems; The FIGHTIN Illini; JZelle; ...

If anyone wants on/off the Kunstler ping list, freepmail me.


3 posted on 05/25/2026 7:41:46 PM PDT by little jeremiah (SCARE: Social Chaos And Response Emergency)
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To: Carriage Hill

Friday headline material ping.


4 posted on 05/25/2026 7:46:33 PM PDT by lightman (Beat the Philly fraud machine the Amish did onest, ja? Nein, zweimal they did already!)
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To: little jeremiah

Already there: F60.2 unless proscribed to F63.81

There. Problem solved. lol

For non-coders: F60.2 is a disregard for social obligations, impulsivity, and a low threshold for aggression. No comment. F63.81? Well, that’s recurring and impulsive aggressive outbursts that are extremely disproportionate to the provocation.


5 posted on 05/25/2026 7:56:21 PM PDT by Retrofitted
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To: little jeremiah
If the wells have to be shut-in, such is the geology that it would wreck the oil fields themselves. Perhaps this is happening now. Nobody is reporting on it. But the news media doesn’t really report on anything. It opines. It spins. It constructs story-lines for advantage, it gaslights, it perverts the consensus about reality out of existence, it just plain lies.

When the coin of the realm is information, bribes come in the form of 'news packets' from 'trace back commie sources'...

6 posted on 05/25/2026 8:11:30 PM PDT by GOPJ (How many times did the corrupt MSM mention Biden's $5.00 gas prices vs Trump's $4.50 gas prices?)
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To: GOPJ
Did you see President Trump shut down ABC news? A thing of beauty. The ABC Greek
Lawn Gnome cut off J.D. Vance. President Trump made them pay for their rude behavior.

7 posted on 05/25/2026 8:22:22 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: little jeremiah
Thnx! I would be surprised if any major shooting happens this week over Iran. This is the week of the annual 5-6 day Hajj. And immediately after that is their 4-day holy observance of Eid al-Ahad. But then, anything can happen ...


8 posted on 05/25/2026 8:35:10 PM PDT by MacNaughton
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To: little jeremiah

That was an inspirational read.


9 posted on 05/26/2026 3:39:19 AM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: little jeremiah

Lots of them TDS folks right here on FR....probably trolls from Blue Sky....


10 posted on 05/26/2026 5:45:26 AM PDT by trebb (So many fools - so little time...)
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To: lightman

Many thanks.
I was looking for that one, as I’d lost it in the queue, earlier in the day.
In for Friday.


11 posted on 05/26/2026 6:29:01 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: trebb

FR may have its TDS people but X is saturated with them.


12 posted on 05/26/2026 4:03:36 PM PDT by little jeremiah (SCARE: Social Chaos And Response Emergency)
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