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Welcome to FAFOland
https://www.kunstler.com/ ^ | Aug 28, 2026 | James Howard Kunstler

Posted on 08/28/2026 3:17:06 PM PDT by little jeremiah

Welcome to FAFOland “. . . the worse they become, the more they blame you for it.” —El Gato Malo on the Lefty-left

As the Democratic Party pulls out all the stops to make itself ridiculous, their proxy warriors in the federal judiciary play chicken with the executive branch on sane, uniform standards for mail-in ballots. The Democrats don’t want sane, uniform standards for mail-in ballots because they are insane. They want to “defend Democracy” with mail-in ballot chaos. Democracy is their flabby rubric for any artifice or subterfuge that beats a path to power so they can continue their racketeering operations. Yes, it’s that simple.

The president issued executive order (EO) 14399 in March directing the Postmaster General to make rules for federal mail-in / absentee ballots where chaos and cheating have prevailed since the Covid prank was used to vastly expand mail-in voting. These new rules include a standard envelope with a bar code to establish a coherent, trackable chain-of-custody for each ballot. Mail-in ballots have become the preferred vehicle for voter fraud based on motor-voter registration of non-citizens, “harvesting” of untrackable ballots, drop-box stuffing, and vote-counting machine shenanigans.

The EO requires states to submit lists of their voters to whom they intend to send mail-in ballots. The USPS is ordered to transmit mail-in ballots only from qualified voters listed on the state rolls, that is, matching ballots to qualified voters at real mailing addresses. Twenty-four states have sued to block all this. They refuse to submit their state’s voter rolls to the USPS. The lawsuit landed magically in the Boston court of Democratic Party activist federal judge Indira Talwani, who has blocked, lifted, and re-blocked the EO — reversing her own decisions. In the course of all that, SCOTUS ruled that Judge Talwani made procedural errors.

The matter remains unresolved. The point of all the legal rigmarole is to delay action so as to invoke the Purcell principle (from SCOTUS, 2006, Purcell v. Gonzalez), which established a judicial protocol (not a statute) that federal courts should avoid changing election rules close to elections. In other words, it’s a judicial suggestion. The case involving the twenty-four states could return to SCOTUS, or SCOTUS could decline based on Purcell.

Meanwhile, Congress does not return to full session (with the Senate) until September 14. Chances are slim-to-zero that they will manage to pass the SAVE Act, or that its provisions would be allowed to apply to the midterm election if, somehow, they did pass it. This leaves the president with only one option: to issue a National Security (NatSec) Executive Order to provide for coherent election procedure. That might include the provisions in the SAVE Act — voter ID, proof of citizenship — but could even go further to ban computerized tabulation machines, greatly restrict absentee ballots, and require results within twenty-four hours of one-only election day. Maybe even place ICE agents at polling places . . . the horror!

Such a NatSec EO would be immune from lawsuits in the federal court. On January 6, 2017 outgoing Homeland Security Sec’y Jeh Johnson (Obama admin) declared election infrastructure a critical part of government facilities “vital to our national interests.” In September, 2018, President Trump declared a national emergency (EO 13848) over the threat of foreign interference in US elections. Under the National Emergencies Act of 1976 (50 U.S.C. § 1622), a two-thirds majority in both houses of Congress is necessary to overturn such an EO. That September 2018 national emergency declaration was continued officially by “Joe Biden” and remains in-force. Good luck with that, Democrats.

Okay, so what happens then, when Mr. Trump invokes that NatSec EO on emergency election procedure sometime in mid-September after Congress fails? I will tell you: a constitutional crisis. The Democratic-led blue states will refuse to participate in the election. Yeah, they’ll go that far — because they are insane.

The president will respond forcefully, invoking the federal Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution (Article VI, Clause 2), which states that federal law avails over the states. States can’t nullify or contradict it. The president might have to arrest some Democratic governors and hasten them into special military courts on insurrection charges. Henceforth, this will be known as the FAFO protocol.

Will there be riots? Probably, though just now Treasury Secretary Bessent is apparently considering the termination of tax exemptions — loss of 501(c)(3) status — for George Soros’s Open Society Foundations, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), and the Southern Poverty Law Center, and others who finance street actions by the Lefty-left. No money for snack shacks, water bottles, and Froggie costumes.

Will the country survive the trauma? I think so. The election will be held one way or another, even if it’s a month late. If anything, the midterm election might be the tombstone of the Democratic Party. The way things are tending, they’ve got nothing left but insurrection, and that’s probably not a winning move. Mr. Trump apparently loves renaming things geographical. Maybe he can change the USA to FAFOland.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: democrats; elections; kunstler; qanonsense

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Another Kunstler excellent prognostication.
1 posted on 08/28/2026 3:17:06 PM PDT by little jeremiah
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To: little jeremiah

2 posted on 08/28/2026 3:18:13 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; ...

Another Kunstler excellent prognostication.


3 posted on 08/28/2026 3:19:40 PM PDT by little jeremiah (SCARE: Social Chaos And Response Emergency)
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To: little jeremiah
Democratic-led blue states will refuse to participate in the election

That's a problem?

4 posted on 08/28/2026 3:21:10 PM PDT by fruser1
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To: little jeremiah

Language Caution

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOPZuXh-f5M

5 posted on 08/28/2026 3:22:28 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: little jeremiah

Can’t wait for all the boomercons to man the barricades and suppress the coming riots.


6 posted on 08/28/2026 3:23:18 PM PDT by Yashcheritsiy (I'd rather have one king 3000 miles away that 3000 kings one mile away)
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To: fruser1

Looks like it’s going to be FUN!!!!


7 posted on 08/28/2026 3:28:26 PM PDT by little jeremiah (SCARE: Social Chaos And Response Emergency)
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To: little jeremiah

Which is which?? I forget...

Fafoland?
Fafostonia?
Fafoistan?


8 posted on 08/28/2026 3:32:46 PM PDT by DarthFuzball ("Life is full of little surprises." - Pandora)
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To: little jeremiah

“Looks like it’s going to be FUN!!!!”

You bet. Looking forward to lefty tantrums!


9 posted on 08/28/2026 3:45:15 PM PDT by Track9 (Liberal tears make me smile. Thank you DJT! ABM = anything but muslim )
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To: little jeremiah

Joshua Lisec and Rich Baris

https://gettr.com/streaming/p436wsn18c4


10 posted on 08/28/2026 3:51:51 PM PDT by combat_boots
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To: DarthFuzball
Fafoland? Fafostonia? Fafoistan?

Fafotopia.
11 posted on 08/28/2026 4:03:16 PM PDT by Colinsky
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To: little jeremiah
Absentee [ mail-in ] ballots remain the largest source of potential voter fraud.

Jimmy Carter

12 posted on 08/28/2026 4:20:30 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try. )
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To: little jeremiah

Excellent. Thanks


13 posted on 08/28/2026 4:21:45 PM PDT by MileHi ((Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: little jeremiah

Half the Democrats are Closeted Communists the other half are Openly Communists.


14 posted on 08/28/2026 4:47:36 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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