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The Ripening
https://www.kunstler.com/ ^ | October 9, 2026 | James Howard Kunstler

Posted on 10/09/2026 12:06:25 PM PDT by little jeremiah

“Everybody's restless and they got no place to go / Someone's always trying to tell them something they already know / So their anger and resentment flow.” —Warren Zevon, Mohammed’s Radio

In the stark October light, events and personalities skulk in the shadows like scavengers in an orchard of poison fruit. The dread builds as the dooryards get populated with the motorized effigies of blood-beasts, werewolves, phantoms, and ghouls. Halloween and Election Day have become the conflated celebration of a national death trip. How has it come down to our country, in a crucial election, seriously entertaining the antics of jihadis and Jacobin riffraff?

Some somebodies are orchestrating this frightful show from the sinister shadowland behind our politics. My guess would be Barack Obama and John Brennan, with a whole lot of help from a supporting cast of entrenched Deep State racketeers enlisted in their service, with their status and livelihoods at stake. Mr. Obama acts as if he is untouchable, probably due to being the personification of Liberalism’s “Best Camper” trophy it gave itself to validate the Civil Rights struggle session of the century gone by. We are good people, we really are, and President Obama is proof positive of our goodness!

The truth is, we know next to nothing about his real origins and his journey to power. His family on his mother’s side was pure CIA-connected, and his actual father is rumored to be Frank Marshall Davis (1905–1987), a Black American poet, journalist, and labor activist who was a member of the Communist Party USA — not the Kenyan Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. He went from nonentity to myth with no intervening storyline that makes any sense, just a set of rapid promotions with missing events between them: Occidental College in LA to Columbia U to Harvard Law to Chicago politics to Illinois State Senate, straight to the US Senate, and then, bang, into the White House only four years into his first Senate term.

At every stage along the way he was somebody’s chore boy. But whose? My guess would be US Central Intelligence. . . that he was groomed to be the untouchable front man looking out for the agency’s interests in dicey times. His quick political rise coincided with the rise of John Brennan through the ranks of the CIA. Early on, Brennan was drawn to Arabic culture, sojourned in Egypt as a student, and later served as the CIA’s station chief in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He speaks Arabic fluently and is rumored to have converted to Islam (from Catholicism), though it has never been proven. At a 2010 New York University forum, he praised “the goodness and beauty of Islam.”

The CIA, I would suppose, is composed of two great clans: one is made of the employees actually carrying out real intel-gathering and analysis. The other is of employees (current and former) looking out for the CIA’s own black op activities and the immense fortunes connected with it — with plenty of overlap between the two clans. I’d guess that John Brennan, who was CIA Director between 2013 and 2017 (under President Obama), still runs a large rogue contingent of the CIA clan that does the black ops, sits on a large fortune, and acts like a sovereign organism outside the control of the elected US government.

That would explain why no one has been held accountable for the ten-year-long coup against Donald Trump. Brennan, and the forces he represents, appear to be outside the control of the regular government, including the DOJ and FBI, and to some extent able to control people throughout government by subterfuge, intimidation, and blackmail. All that nearly came apart during Donald Trump’s first term with the bungled RussiaGate caper followed by the bungled Impeachment No. 1 operation. But Brennan’s dark CIA clan triumphed with the 2020 election “victory” of non compos mentis “Joe Biden,” followed by the successful Jan 6, 2021, fake “insurrection” at the US Capitol.

They stumbled badly again with the patently ridiculous court cases against former President Trump in 2023 and 2024. And now here we are in the middle of Mr. Trump’s second term, with a titanic struggle going on, largely out of public view, for the soul of the nation. John Brennan is still at large, but a month ago he was served with a subpoena to appear before a federal grand jury in the Southern District of Florida. It looks like he will finally have to do some ‘splainin’ about events he’s been involved with. You can be sure that President Trump means to see that it happens — whatever was signified by the departure of Joe diGenova last month.

It’s also my guess that former President Obama has become John Brennan’s hostage. He was probably assigned to run “Joe Biden’s” fake presidency using Susan Rice and other party functionaries to carry out orders. Brennan surely has a dossier on Barack Obama that fills in the blanks in his sketchy biography, including Mr. Obama’s secret sexual activities on the Chicago scene back in the day. Meanwhile, the former president has his electioneering duties to attend to, to try to flip the House and Senate so as to have one last go at defenestrating the man in the White House who threatens to put Brennan, Obama & Company out of business.

So, there’s a war on backstage. The war itself has been mythologized by those actually paying attention to it, sometimes as the contest between “Globalists” and “Sovereigntists” or “Black Hats” versus “White Hats” or the Legions of Satan versus the God-loving followers of Jesus. . . Jihad v. Western Civ. However you characterize it, everyone feels the tension as though the current phase of this Fourth Turning is an unbearable space between the life and death of the nation. Hence, all the ghouls in the dooryards, reminding us to stay. . . very. . . scared.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: brennan; kunstler; obama; qanon; trusttheplan

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Classic Kunstler
1 posted on 10/09/2026 12:06:26 PM PDT by little jeremiah
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To: little jeremiah

The Gold Dust Twins, Barack Obama with John Brennan

2 posted on 10/09/2026 12:08:00 PM PDT by little jeremiah (The only way is the military)
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To: AFB-XYZ; MtnClimber; GOPJ; Carriage Hill; Mama Shawna; notdownwidems; The FIGHTIN Illini; ...

He gets it wrong re: Obama’s background; there was massive research done by FReepers and friends, his history is known. He is the son of Malcolm X and Valerie Sarruff, actress, can’t remember if she’s English citizen or Lebanese. He was born in Vancover CA, he is not a US citizen.

Oh, and Brennan coverted to Islam. There used to be a youtube of him speaking to a large group of Muslims in which he announced he was a Muslim and praised it highly. Later that part of the video was snipped out.

I can post links to the research threads if anyone is interested.


3 posted on 10/09/2026 12:13:19 PM PDT by little jeremiah (The only way is the military)
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To: little jeremiah

Thanks for the ping, lj.

And, no, as dark as Barry is I don’t believe his mom was white.


4 posted on 10/09/2026 12:39:21 PM PDT by MileHi ((Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: little jeremiah

BUMP


5 posted on 10/09/2026 2:05:48 PM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: MileHi

His mother was darker sknned, can’t remember if Lebanese or Egyptian. Obama is not very dark skinned; MalcolmX had a white grandmother iirc.


6 posted on 10/09/2026 2:09:56 PM PDT by little jeremiah (The only way is the military)
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To: MileHi

Duh I speedread and didn’t grok what you meant. My apologies.

Yeah, his offiical story is a fairytale (in more ways than one.)


7 posted on 10/09/2026 2:42:55 PM PDT by little jeremiah (The only way is the military)
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To: little jeremiah

From DuckDuckGo

The CIA director
James Greer is portrayed as
a practicing Muslim in the
Amazon Prime series
“Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan.”

The above made me so mad.
Stopped watching right then.

I love the books!


8 posted on 10/09/2026 3:44:25 PM PDT by missthethunder (Since the 1980 Rona Barrett interview. IYKYK. )
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