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https://www.kunstler.com/ ^ | November 2, 2026 | James Howard Kunstler

Posted on 11/02/2026 8:21:49 AM PST by little jeremiah

“Where Enlightenment philosopher Descartes said, ‘I think, therefore I am,’ the Communist says, ‘I’m right, therefore I’m in charge.’ — Data Republican on X

It was supposed to be an election, but the event we’re in is actually an attempt to overthrow the government. The coup is underway. It’s a turnstile into the next phase of this Fourth Turning. We know who the perps are. They have outed themselves. They have declared war on the republic on video. Is there any other remedy except to arrest the bums, take them off the game board, and stuff them into a courtroom?

And how might that happen? First of all, who are they? At the operational level, a gang of a thousand or so bureaucrats, retired bureaucrats, current and ex-military officers, politicians, lawfare artists and their accomplice judges, billionaire activists, and not a few non-citizen hostiles working through a constellation of well-funded NGOs and lesser groups, partnered-up with the Democratic Party to give them the aura of legitimacy.

Their plan is to cheat like hell in the election tomorrow, rendering the outcome inconclusive and contestable in order to foment enough civil unrest to force the president to declare an emergency — triggering a sequence of actions to, in turn, declare the president and his administration illegitimate and pass off authority to a select handful of state governors such as Newsom (CA), Pritzker (IL), Spanberger (VA), Whitmer (MI), Polis (CO), and Hochul (NY), and then hold a new constitutional convention to radically change the structure of the government to establish permanent one-party rule.

One big reason for staging the coup is that many of the plotters’ heroes and leaders have already committed many crimes against the nation and the people, and are afraid of finally being held accountable for them. They don’t want to lose their fortunes, their power, their status, and end up in prison. These would be former presidents Obama and Clinton, Hillary Clinton, John Brennan, James Comey and many many other familiar names. Some of these may still be active in the current shenanigans.

The lower level operational plotters only became known very recently: Danielle Reiff (former USAID, the Democracy Renewal Group); Paul Zeitz (Renew to Thrive); Rear Admiral (Ret.) Mike Smith (National Security Leaders for America); Erica Chenoweth (Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and the United Democracy Alliance); Julia Roig (The Horizon’s Project and Partners Global); her husband, Enrique Roig (former USAID / State Department official (Renew American Democracy, RAD); Ezra Levin, Leah Greenberg, and Matt Traldi (Indivisible).

Who elected them the bosses of our outfit? In fact, they are wannabe commissars, eager to push the rest of us around. They came up through a bureaucratic ecosystem of commissars. They are creatures of it. It’s all they know. We have seen their like before in the governments of the old Soviet Union and its spinoffs.

They are in company with another layer of better-known coup plotters outside and above the NGO orbit. Norm Eisen, head lawfare ninja who has been involved in every Deep State hoax of the past decade, including RussiaGate, the Ukraine Impeachment, the J-6 op and the House Committee that pretended to investigate it, the Mar-a-Lago raid, and most of the frivolous lawsuits engineered through the two years of Trump 2.0. Marc Elias is the election lawfare ninja who has engineered and organized much of the ballot fraud in at least four recent national elections. Mary McCord is a former FBI and DOJ executive officer, also involved in every hoax and attempted subversion since 2016. Congressman Jamie Raskin (D-MD) and Senator Adam Schiff (D-CA) are also active plotters.

Senator Elissa Slotkin, involved in the setup for Maidan coup in Ukraine, 2014, when she worked for Veep Joe Biden, happened to be in Poland about a month ago. You might have noticed over the weekend that an attempted coup was staged there by forces seeking to bring Poland under tighter EU control — to give up their currency (the Zloty) for the Euro, and to open up their border to “migrants.” The coup in Poland has apparently failed. But, at the same time that France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Belgium are exploding in riots starring their migrants. Is the coup in America an extension of what looks like an international effort to overthrow Western Civ? Kinda smells like it.

So, these birds are daring President Trump to exercise his maximum executive power. Seems to me that Mr. Trump has the will to take them on. Let them make their move. Let them attempt to foment riots here post-election. The president and his agency heads at the DOJ, FBI, and Homeland Security already have probable cause (reasonable, fact-based belief) that a crime is being committed, or is about to be committed, by certain persons in a particular place. The plotters have laid it all out in Zoom calls that they foolishly believed were not recorded and email memoranda that were not supposed to get loose. And keep in mind that the President also happens to be Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces, in case things get spicy.

Arrest these plotters for seditious conspiracy (18 U.S.C. § 2384), insurrection (18 U.S.C. § 2383), advocating overthrow of the government (18 U.S.C. § 2385), and conspiracy to defraud the United States (18 U.S.C. § 2385). If they have done any of this plotting in concert with persons associated with foreign governments, charge them with treason (18 U.S.C. § 2381) and misprision of treason (knowing of it and failing to report it) (18 U.S.C. § 2382).

That ought to take the starch out of them. To this point, President Trump has been notably scrupulous in dealing with his political enemies, while they have employed every conceivable underhanded tactic, including attempted assassination. Their effrontery is monumental. The battlespace is prepared. Better believe the Gray Champion is moving to meet them there.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: democrats; electoin; kunslter

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Fantastic Kunstler.
1 posted on 11/02/2026 8:21:50 AM PST by little jeremiah
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To: AFB-XYZ; MtnClimber; GOPJ; Carriage Hill; Mama Shawna; notdownwidems; The FIGHTIN Illini; ...

Best Kunstler ever.


2 posted on 11/02/2026 8:26:05 AM PST by little jeremiah (The only way is the military)
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To: little jeremiah

3 posted on 11/02/2026 8:26:45 AM PST by little jeremiah (The only way is the military)
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To: little jeremiah

That was a great Kunstler piece. Thanks for posting.


4 posted on 11/02/2026 8:39:49 AM 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

Stuff them into a courtroom? I say we stuff them into a very tiny dark cell.


5 posted on 11/02/2026 8:48:16 AM PST by Bosco127 (Bosco)
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To: little jeremiah

Related

https://economiccollapse.report/end-the-democrats-horror-movie/


6 posted on 11/02/2026 8:52:08 AM PST by combat_boots
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To: little jeremiah

Thanks for posting. Some of the domestic enemies named.

“A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious, but it cannot survive treason from within.” - Marcus Tulius Cicero


7 posted on 11/02/2026 9:02:02 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: little jeremiah
At the operational level, a gang of a thousand or so bureaucrats, retired bureaucrats, current and ex-military officers, politicians, lawfare artists and their accomplice judges, billionaire activists, and not a few non-citizen hostiles working through a constellation of well-funded NGOs and lesser groups, partnered-up with the Democratic Party to give them the aura of legitimacy.

It's a LOT more than a thousand bureaucrats. It's the entire product of our university institutions, especially law schools.

8 posted on 11/02/2026 10:21:26 AM PST by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: little jeremiah

Best Kunstler ever - thanks for the ping


9 posted on 11/02/2026 11:32:06 AM PST by GOPJ (Liberals control 100+ news outlets. Conservatives get half of FOXNews. Is that fair or balanced?)
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To: little jeremiah

Buy ammo


10 posted on 11/02/2026 11:37:56 AM PST by Fledermaus (Free Republic is going to be intolerable during the Republican Presidential primary in 2028.)
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To: Carry_Okie

“It’s the entire product of our university institutions, especially law schools.”

Far bigger than that. It’s the product of Public Education the past three generations.


11 posted on 11/02/2026 11:42:01 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Far bigger than that. It’s the product of Public Education the past three generations.

Sheesh. FReeper virtue signaling.

You know me better than to "correct" me like this. So I'll return it: It "started" with Wilhelm Wundt in Germany. Or should I say it "started" with the children of our Founders sending their kids to Europe to study? How about the 1848 commuist attempted takeover there that sent communists fleeing to America? Or maybe it was Adam Weishaupt convening the Illuminati? Then there's Sabbatai Tsvi...

Please.

12 posted on 11/02/2026 12:14:58 PM PST by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

““It’s the entire product of our university institutions, especially law schools.””

No way for me to know other than having the experience of my youngest brother going into law school a reasonably normal kid. Hated Nixon and all of course.

Came out and had turned into a raving liberal. Law firm he joined just amplified his perverse convictions.


13 posted on 11/02/2026 12:23:02 PM PST by doorgunner69
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To: little jeremiah

Kunstler write very well and I love his work. But he needs to brush up a bit on the Constitution. It is quite clear on the definition of treason.

Here’s a quick quiz:

What three crimes are named in the Constitution as Federal crimes?
Which one has the most specific definition?

Sedition is another matter, however. Those cases could be easily made.

And they should be.

L


14 posted on 11/02/2026 12:28:09 PM PST by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Lurker

Let me look at my saved documents, may be of help or not. I do not have a legal mind but..

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2381

18 U.S. Code § 2381.Treason
Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2382
Misprision of Treason
Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States and having knowledge of the commission of any treason against them, conceals and does not, as soon as may be, disclose and make known the same to the President or to some judge of the United States, or to the governor or to some judge or justice of a particular State, is guilty of misprision of treason and shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than seven years, or both.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2383
18 U.S. Code § 2383.Rebellion or insurrection
Whoever incites, sets on foot, assists, or engages in any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States or the laws thereof, or gives aid or comfort thereto, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.

hmm I’ve got more. I like this better.

18 U.S. Code § 2381.Treason
Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2382
Misprision of Treason
Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States and having knowledge of the commission of any treason against them, conceals and does not, as soon as may be, disclose and make known the same to the President or to some judge of the United States, or to the governor or to some judge or justice of a particular State, is guilty of misprision of treason and shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than seven years, or both.

tps://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2383
18 U.S. Code § 2383.Rebellion or insurrection
Whoever incites, sets on foot, assists, or engages in any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States or the laws thereof, or gives aid or comfort thereto, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2384
18 U.S. Code § 2384.Seditious conspiracy
If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.

THEN there’s this short video as Graham questions Kavanaugh at his hearing, some of these traitors fit the bill nicely.

I saved both in case youtube takes it down. Last I looked at it there was some disclaimer but it was viewable.

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


15 posted on 11/02/2026 1:17:33 PM PST by little jeremiah (The only way is the military)
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To: Carry_Okie

Universities have been churning leftists idiots for a long time. Well said re: lawfare artists and rogue judges.


16 posted on 11/02/2026 1:19:08 PM PST by little jeremiah (The only way is the military)
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