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Kunstler:
CLUSTERFUCK NATION – BLOGJuly 26, 2024
Saving Our Democracy
“Being insane is the new normal.” — Aimee Terese on “X”
However it happened this week, “Joe Biden” passed the blowtorch to a new generation and got himself gone from the political battlefield. Delegates to the coming Democratic National Convention (August 19) were duly notified of the selected replacement, Veep Kamala Harris, and ordered to line up behind her. Not a peep of disagreement was heard among them. Amazing that no one had a different idea. Thus, is democracy saved.
The curious details around this event remain shrouded in mystery. Reporters for The New York Times and the WashPo could not be bothered to inquire, and their readers are not inclined to ask how all this came to be. It just is. In a culture with no sense of consequence, things just happen or un-happen. It is your duty to recognize that the wind now blows from another direction and bend with it.
One thing was obvious: the long-running prank of pretending that President “Joe Biden” is sound-of-mind fell apart after his mortifying appearance on the debate stage June 27th. Apparently, every last captain and foot-soldier in the Democratic Party ranks was taken completely by surprise to see their champion flicker out in real time, like a forty-watt bulb that has done years of duty on the front porch and suddenly leaves you in the dark. Three weeks followed with “Joe Biden” boldly campaigning as if nothing had happened. (Perhaps his mind did not register that things had changed.)
And then there was the weird tweet on “X” Sunday afternoon when the whole country was outside waterskiing, grilling weiners, carjacking, and yelling at ballparks, and the deed was done. Someone, possibly even “Joe Biden” himself, wrote a letter pasted into the tweet that declared he was bowing out of the race. The White House staff didn’t even know until it was up-and-posted. Rumor had it that Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama read the riot act to “JB”, who was refusing to follow the script. There were plenty of carrots-and-sticks to finally lever his obdurate ass into motion: not least must have involved any pending legal outcome of the family’s influence-peddling operations, whispers of new whistleblower accusations about offshore bank accounts, perhaps with sweeteners in the deal as to how much schwag the clan could still hold onto in the end.
Then, the valedictory speech on Wednesday, sort of a proof-of-life exhibition, to verify that Sunday’s janky tweet to the nation was for real. You heard a Homeric recitation of “JB’s” signal achievements in office, every one of them demonstrably false. He did not keep our country out of war, or grow the economy, or keep inflation down, or beat Big Pharma, or build anything, or defend personal freedoms, or “make it clear there is no place, no place in America for political violence or any violence ever.” (In fact, the very next day, Thursday, pro-Hamas mobs attacked US Park police and vandalized federal property at Washington’s Union Station, and on Friday all charges were dropped against them — while scores of J6 Capitol trespassers rotted for years in the DC jail.)
What “Joe Biden” actually accomplished in office was the near-total wrecking of the USA. He torpedoed the authority and legitimacy of just about every federal agency, turned the Department of Justice into a Gestapo, seeded the federal court benches with Woke lunatics, allowed an invasion of perhaps 20-million border-jumpers (including many thousands of professional terrorists), coerced injections of an ineffective and injurious vaccine into millions of citizens afraid of losing their livelihoods, promoted gross medical experiments on sexually troubled children, invited drag queens and mentally-ill degenerates to cavort in the White House, spent borrowed money at a rate that propelled the national debt past the event horizon into a black hole, made the seeking of incompetence the number one priority of the Pentagon, provoked a war in Ukraine that now teeters on the hazard of a nuclear exchange, and allowed the CIA to complete its takeover of the US government. “Joe Biden” will go down in history as the worst of all 46 US presidents.
And, of course, in the rush of cascading events the past several weeks came the attempted assassination of the Democratic Party’s nemesis, Mr. Trump, an operation festooned with loose threads, suspicious agency failures, and intimations of Deep State blob engineering. You’ll have to stand by on any of that resolving soon. But many Democrats expressed disappointment that Mr. Trump was not killed, since that would be saving our democracy.
Also not quite resolved is the case of who the Democratic Party truly intends to run for president this year as the days dwindle down to Nov. 5. The current delirium over Kamala Harris is like a relief rally in the financial markets when a crisis has been averted — or, at least, stalled. You have reason to doubt that the Democratic Party’s leadership crisis has actually been averted. Despite sedulous efforts to wipe her record, too many Americans know Kamala Harris as a hee-hawing ninny with a predilection for hapless Marxist fantasies. I’m not persuaded that she is at all comfortable in her sudden role as the party’s avatar. She is rumored to hit the bottle in moments of stress.
The Party of Chaos will supposedly run a “virtual roll call” of delegates August 1st in order to meet the requirements to get on the ballot in several states. But then comes the actual convention with live bodies in murmuration on the floor of the arena, and in the back rooms and hallways, and there are more than three weeks between now and then for Kamala Harris to remind the world what a cackling lightweight she is. A lot can happen between now and then.
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/saving-our-democracy/
Awesome! Getting back on that horse!
You'd think no one was scummier or lower than Mayorkas, but if you scrape him up you'd find Wray underneath him.
Whale 1 Fisherman 0:
Good Vivek advice:
Time for our side to wake up to some hard realities, fast:
— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) July 26, 2024
1. Stop calling on Biden to step down or to be forced out. That will just give Kamala all the benefits of running as an incumbent U.S. President. And she won’t be any better for America in the next 5 months than Biden…
I agree. It was a terrible story.
I watched the whole thing on RSBN. I wonder how many viewers they had?
More on this persecution:
https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=64558
They came for this guy, who is next, me, you?
PETER BRIMELOW: Why We’ve Suspended VDARE and I’ve Resigned After 25 Years pic.twitter.com/tnWSz3L0xs
— VDARE (@vdare) July 23, 2024
The Trump Effect:
The Trump Effect: Ukraine Says It Is ‘Willing and Ready’ for Dialogue with Russia
President Donald Trump talks on the phone aboard Air Force One during a flight to PhiladelOfficial White House Photo by Shealah Craighead
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba told top Chinese Communist Party diplomats in Beijing on Wednesday that his country is “willing and ready for dialogue and negotiations with Russia,” a stark change from repeated refusals by the administration of President Volodymyr Zelensky to consider direct talks.
Russia has been engaging in colonialist adventurism in Ukraine for a decade, first “annexing” Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula in 2014 under President Barack Obama and backing pro-Russian “separatist” groups in the Donbas region. In February 2022, Russian strongman Vladimir Putin announced the launch of a “special operation” to oust Zelensky, consisting of a full-scale military invasion of the country that persists today. Zelensky has for two years refused talks with Putin on the grounds that no talks should take place until Russian soldiers are no longer present in his country.
His last direct contact with Putin occurred in December 2019 – talks chaperoned by French President Emmanuel Macron and then-German Chancellor Angela Merkel that a frustrated Zelensky dismissed as useless, demanding “serious” countries help mediate instead of France and Germany.
Kuleba was in Beijing for talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and other senior Communist Party leaders on both the ongoing invasion and trade ties between Kyiv and Beijing. China is Ukraine’s largest trade partner despite being arguably Russia’s closest geopolitical ally.
“Today in China, I held detailed and thorough negotiations with my Chinese counterpart Wang Yi about the path to peace,” Kuleba wrote in a statement on social media posted after his talks with Wang. “I emphasized that Ukraine needs a just and lasting peace, not just an illusion of peace, and I appreciate that this position was reciprocated.”
Kuleba said he and Wang “agreed that all forces must work together to find common ground on the path to restoring true peace in accordance with the principles of the UN Charter.”
Today in China, I held detailed and thorough negotiations with my Chinese counterpart Wang Yi about the path to peace.
I emphasized that Ukraine needs a just and lasting peace, not just an illusion of peace, and I appreciate that this position was reciprocated.
We agreed that… pic.twitter.com/9SrnvgreEm
— Dmytro Kuleba (@DmytroKuleba) July 24, 2024
The Chinese Foreign Ministry offered reporters more detail following the meeting, noting that Kuleba offered support for China’s false colonialist claim to the nation of Taiwan and celebrated the commercial ties between his country and the Communist Party.
“Foreign Minister Wang Yi noted that China and Ukraine are friends to each other,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning told reporters. “Ukraine is one of the first countries to support and participate in Belt and Road cooperation. In recent years, China has remained Ukraine’s largest trading partner and the largest exporter of agricultural products.”
The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is a global Chinese government program in which Beijing offers predatory loans to poor nations that the country is then expected to use to pay Chinese contractors to build overpriced infrastructure projects. When the countries fail to keep up with their loans, China seizes the projects, as has occurred in Sri Lanka.
Mao emphasized that Kuleba, in his meeting with Wang, denied Taiwanese sovereignty and described China’s role in the invasion as “active and constructive.”
“Ukraine is willing and ready to have dialogue and negotiation with Russia,” Mao claimed that Kuleba said. “And of course, negotiations should be rational, substantive and aimed at achieving just and lasting peace.”
The Ukrainian state outlet Ukrinform reproduced Kuleba’s “willing and ready” remark, apparently confirming its accuracy.
The Chinese state media newspaper Global Times, citing pro-regime “experts,” interpreted Ukraine’s change in disposition as a victory for China, but also an indication that American President Joe Biden’s exit from the 2024 presidential race may have forced Kyiv to recalibrate its approach to the war.
“Following US President Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the presidential race, it’s widely believed that Washington’s stance on the Ukraine crisis may change,” the Global Times claimed. The propaganda outlet cited a regime-friendly “scholar” who suggested, “the fact that Donald Trump stating that he will immediately resolve the Russia-Ukraine conflict if he takes office worries Kiev.” As a result, Ukraine has to consider peace talks.
Zelensky himself has denied concerns about the potential return of former President Donald Trump to the White House.
“If Mr. Donald Trump becomes president, we will work,” he told Bloomberg News this month. “I am not afraid of that.”
Trump and Zelensky spoke for the first time in years this weekend, shortly before Biden dropped out of the race. Zelensky expressed gratitude towards Trump for the conversation and hinted at a future in-person meeting.
“Ukraine will always be grateful to the United States for its help in strengthening our ability to resist Russian terror. Russian attacks on our cities and villages continue every day,” Zelensky said in a statement on social media. “We agreed with President Trump to discuss at a personal meeting what steps can make peace fair and truly lasting.”
Biden’s policies towards the Ukraine war have been highly favorable to Zelensky, offering expansive financial and military aid with seemingly no end in sight. Trump has questioned the policy – at one point joking that Zelensky is “maybe the greatest salesman of any politician that’s ever lived” because “every time he comes to our country, he walks away with $60 billion.” Trump maintained a far more rigorous sanctions regime on Russia, however, including pivotal sanctions on the now-defunct Nord Stream 2 pipeline project. Biden lifted those sanctions about half a year before the full-scale invasion, outraging an “unpleasantly surprised” Zelensky.
https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2024/07/24/the-trump-effect-ukraine-says-willing-and-ready-dialogue-russia/
Outdoor rallies (Many active links at the source):
Secret Service Threatens Trump: Stop Your Massive Rallies, Or Else
The Secret Service is ‘encouraging’ the Trump campaign to halt the large-scale events his supporters have grown accustomed to.
Author M.D. Kittle
The same agency that failed to protect former President Donald Trump from a would-be assassin’s bullet is now asking the GOP’s presidential candidate to stop holding large outdoor campaign rallies. The request from the grossly incompetent (at best) federal agency stinks of election interference and sounds a lot like a threat.
As The Washington Post first reported Tuesday evening, the U.S. Secret Service is “encouraging” the Trump campaign to halt the large-scale events his supporters have grown accustomed to.
“In the aftermath of the shooting, agents from the Secret Service communicated their concerns about large outdoor rallies going forward to Trump campaign advisers, three people familiar with the matter said,” the Post reported, not naming its sources.
Trump’s team, at least according to the Post story, is scouting larger indoor arenas to accommodate thousands of rallygoers. The campaign “is not currently planning any large outdoor events, a person close to Trump said.”
The Trump campaign told The Federalist it does not comment on the former president’s security detail.
“All questions should be directed to the United States Secret Service,” campaign spokesman Steven Cheung said in a statement.
The Secret Service did not return an email from The Federalist requesting comment. So it’s not clear whether the agency has made the same requests of Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democrat Party establishment’s anointed fill-in for President Joe Biden after the cognitively depleted executive’s X account posted a statement announcing he is dropping out of the campaign. If the Trump-hating Post asked that question, it didn’t report the answer in its story.
‘Direct Threat’
House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., told Fox News that it “would be a shame” if the Secret Service shut down the outdoor rallies.
“I think people enjoy going to them and I think, you know, you can get more people outdoors than indoors,” Comer said. “He attracts a big crowd, obviously. I think the president will do what the president wants to do.”
Others were more pointed.
“If I saw this in The Babylon Bee it’d make far more sense,” Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, mocked the agency on his X account. “The idea that they’d tell Trump to stop holding rallies is embarrassing — for the Secret Service.”
“This is unreal,” Trump backer “End Wokeness” wrote on X. “Secret Service is now asking the Trump campaign to stop doing outdoor rallies. How about you do your f*ing jobs?”
“This is a direct threat from the regime to Trump: if he doesn’t stop trying to win, they’ll make sure the next attacker doesn’t miss. We all know what they’re doing,” tweeted Federalist CEO Sean Davis.
Blaming Trump
The Post devoted several column inches to what a burden Trump’s outdoor rallies have been for an agency that glaringly failed its mission to protect him. The Post’s narrative is anything but subtle: Trump — and his penchant for massive campaign rallies — is to blame for his near-assassination.
“The rallies have long been viewed as onerous by the Secret Service because they include complicated outdoor venues with thousands — if not tens of thousands — of people,” the Post’s Josh Dawsey writes. “Most other former presidents rarely appear in public, and when they do, they usually appear in settings such as conferences and restaurants with fewer people. Trump requires a much larger security footprint than other past presidents because he holds so many large events.”
But Trump isn’t merely a former president showing up to a haughty cocktail party with D.C. elites. He’s the GOP’s candidate for president, whether the Post and their Democrat pals like it or not.
[READ: CNN: It’s ‘Wildly Irresponsible’ For Trump — Who Was Shot In The Head — To Say Secret Service Didn’t Protect Him]
On an accompanying point, would other former presidents draw such interest? Does the current president? As the Post notes, Trump’s rallies are so much more than standard campaign events. They’re how the political outsider has campaigned for the better part of a decade. He loves it.
“We’ve seen from the early days of his presidency even, and before that during his first campaign in 2016, how important crowd size is to him. It gives him a lot of joy and energy being with large crowds. He feeds off their energy. It’s almost like a source of comfort for him,” Sarah Matthews, who served as deputy press secretary in the Trump White House, told the Post.
U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., said it’s ultimately up to the former president where and when to hold rallies.
“My advice to the campaign is to hire an independent security expert to oversee security provided by the Secret Service,” said Johnson, whose office is looking into the conduct of the agency.
Shutting down the outdoor events would smack of election interference, a way to stymie a successful means of campaigning.
Harris made her first campaign stop as the Democrats’ presumptive top of the ticket on Tuesday in suburban Milwaukee at a high school. The Associated Press boasted about the “roaring Wisconsin crowd” but didn’t bother to report on the turnout.
‘Questions Building’
Trump rallies have been made all the more “onerous” for the Secret Service because the agency has repeatedly denied the Trump campaign’s requests for tighter security. That fact, among many others coming to light, explains in part why a 20-year-old gunman was able to climb onto the roof of a nearby building at Trump’s rally earlier this month in Butler, Pennsylvania, and fire several rounds at the former president and the crowd before being fatally shot by a Secret Service sniper. The shooter struck the GOP presidential hopeful in the ear, injured two rallygoers, and killed another.
Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle resigned Tuesday after a heated congressional hearing the day before in which she acknowledged that agents were informed of a suspicious person on the grounds multiple times before the shooter fired. The Secret Service knew the roof, within 150 yards of the rally stage, was a point of vulnerability.
Late Tuesday, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, released law enforcement body camera footage that shows officers on the roof where the gunman opened fire. Counter-snipers are seen speaking to a Secret Service agent while the gunman is lying on the roof, blood streaming near his apparently lifeless body.
“The footage starts while the officers are discussing if the dead man next to them is the same one seen in a photo sent out by a member of Beaver County’s sniper team,” Newsweek reported. “Reports previously surfaced that there were three snipers stationed in the building that [shooter Timothy] Crooks scaled to shoot at Trump. One of those officers spotted Crooks before the shooting and reported a ‘suspicious person’ in the minutes leading up to the assassination attempt. That sniper also took a photo of Crooks.”
The video was obtained from the Beaver County Emergency Services Unit in compliance with congressional requests. The same cannot be said for the Secret Service and other federal law enforcement agencies, which have thus far refused to release records related to the assassination attempt.
“For the past 10 days, questions have only been building regarding the catastrophic security failure that occurred on July 13. Federal agencies, particularly the Secret Service, have failed to be transparent with the American people,” Grassley, ranking member on the Senate’s Budget Committee, said in a statement.
Even worse than that, "We're incompetent, so you need to give up your freedom."
Hearings on shooting live now on RSBN:
https://www.rsbnetwork.com/video/live-witnesses-testify-at-hearing-to-examine-assassination-attempt-on-president-trump-7-23-24/
Kunstler:
CLUSTERFUCK NATION – BLOGJuly 22, 2024
Only Half Gone
“The Democrats are self-immolating on the altar of their own tenuous relationship with common decency.” — Tom Luongo
“Life imitates art,” Oscar Wilde was fond of saying. And so, all of a sudden on Sunday, the USA became an episode of Veep, after President “Joe Biden” had that fateful sit-down with God he’d hinted at a week or so ago:
God: Yeah, it’s me again. What I told you ‘bout dis ‘lection bidness?
“JB”: (cough cough) I gotta finish the job. (cough cough.)
God: Job, my ass. You ain’t done nuttin’ but eat ice cream cones, spend money dat don’t exist, and sniff up every chile come near you.
“JB”: No, you don’t understand! I’m defending democracy.
God: Oh yeah? Since when my will subject to some pissant caucus? In my mansion dey’s many doors, and this one is da exit, son. What I say, go. And when I say, ‘go,’ dat mean you git yo’self gone! I done wrote the letter and you signin’ on da dotted line right now.
“JB”: What if I won’t?
God: I’ma have to smite yo’ ass.
“JB”: Well, since you put it that way. . . but, say, do you happen to also have that pardon document we talked about. . .?
And so it went in the study at Rehoboth Beach Sunday afternoon. And all of a sudden, Veep Kamala Harris is elevated to be the putative nominee of the Party of Chaos going into the August convention. Most of the other talked-about replacements instantly endorsed her — Gavin Newsom, Gretchen Whitmer, Pete Buttigieg, et al. — as a convocation of mullahs might bless a goat about to be sacrificed. Kamala issued a stirring war cry: “Together, we will fight. And together, we will win.” Yawn. . . .
It was all pretend, of course, or, shall we say, a continuation of the pretend that is the core operating principle of the party. Everything it does is fake. Case in point, the marvelous statement by HRC (a.k.a. She-Whose-Turn-it-Ever-Is or Rodan the Flying Reptile), who put out this smarmy gem:
President Biden has capped his extraordinary career of service with a Presidency that has lifted America out of an unprecedented pandemic, created millions of new jobs, rebuilt a battered economy, strengthened our democracy, and restored our standing in the world. By any measure, he has advanced our founders’ charge to build a more perfect union and his own stated goal of restoring the soul of our nation.”
“Joe Biden” did all that? Hillary, you see, is buttering up the cloacal vent of the party so that she can wriggle up there and eat its brain, like one of those parasitical wasp larvae that get into a caterpillar. She’s supporting Kamala until it becomes opportune not to, which is to say when the Deep State blob gets the heebie-jeebies about failing to steal the election, losing its positions of power and perqs, and very possibly facing prosecution for serious crimes. Of course, the weekend developments suggest that “Joe Biden” will have to vacate his position as Commander-in-Chief altogether. It’s too self-evident to even rehearse the particulars. It’s only a matter of when, and that probably hinges on his negotiated severance package — basically something that keeps his various family members out of prison. Kamala will then rise to the Oval, ha ha ha.
In this moment of maximum uncertainty, then, the Party of Chaos will pretend to go along with Ms. Harris for a week or two, allowing the first woman president of-color many chances to utter world-scaring inanities and fall into cackling fits so as to demonstrate she can’t possibly be taken seriously. Suddenly you will see the long knives come out slicing and dicing Kamala like a daikon radish on the hibachi table, and anyone else besides HRC who dares to step up will get the same treatment. Notice that Mr. Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Hakim, and Chuck (Nine-Ways-From-Sunday) Schumer haven’t chimed in for Kamala. They will, by God, get their convention free-for-all, though every bit of it will be scrupulously managed by the Big Dawgs. And out of that pandemonium will fly the indomitable Hillary, screeching, “Caw caw, abortion! Caw caw, Russia!” Could it work? No way. In a truly fair election, Hillary would be run over by the Trump-Vance convoy and left a bit of smoldering roadkill, drawing flies, a sad end to all that coruscating ambition.
Not to change the subject too abruptly, but here goes. . . have you caught that little convo on YouTube between George Gammon and Robert Barnes on the Trump assassination attempt? Woo-wee, this one will rock your weltanschauung. Here it is in a nutshell:
The attempted rub-out at Butler, PA, (Mr. Barnes theorizes) was a NeverTrumper / blob / neo-con joint operation that was supposed to work as follows: Nikki Haley and Mike Pompeo, Deep Staters both, are on the outs with a GOP solidifying around Mr. Trump. Before the Milwaukee GOP Convention opens, they are chatting-up delegates in preparation for a kind of coup. The Butler, PA, op is timed before any nomination can occur. It’s (obviously) intended to eliminate the former president for once and for all and make sure there’s no veep candidate to step into his shoes. The blob then blames the Trump assassination on Iran, instantly conjuring up a fresh new war to distract the nation. The GOP Convention nominates war goddess Nikki for president and Pompeo for veep. The DC war party carries on in triumph. Fait accompli.
Notice, Mr. Barnes says, that CNN and other news networks that usually avoid broadcasting Trump rallies, are actually covering the Butler, PA, event live. They want all of America to see Donald Trump’s head explode like a Crenshaw melon on TV — sending the message: this is what happens to anyone who challenges the blob. Many other observers and investigators unconnected with the government are busy looking into the site forensics, lines of fire, shot acoustics, the strange facts around the alleged “shooter” (possibly patsy) Thomas Matthew Crooks, the stupendous failures of the Secret Service. A picture is resolving.
The old Sicilian adage goes, revenge is a dish best served cold. Surely, Mr. Trump knows a thing or two about what really went down July 13. His adversaries know he knows, and he knows they know he knows. Notice Mr. Trump is not jumping up and down going woo-woo-woo over all this. Rather, he’s sitting tight and calmly holding his cards close to his chest. He will eventually be coming to settle accounts. So, you must suppose they’ll try again. Or figure out a way to postpone the election indefinitely. Nothing is beneath these fiends. Strangely — a lot of people have noticed — it seems that God is on our side. Stand by and keep your hats on.
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/only-half-gone/
Hey getmore, I thought the video you posted would get squashed and disappear, but low and behold that great patriot Senator Ron Johnson has brought it forward:
https://www.wnd.com/2024/07/watch-u-s-senator-video-shows-at-least-three-different-weapons-fired-during-trump-shooting/
I actually got it through the Trump Campaign. Trouble is, once you donate, the emails just keep on coming.
Here's the link if you are game:
https://secure.winred.com/trump-national-committee-jfc/lp-hf-email-maga-cut-off-v1?utm_medium=email&utm_source=lp_lp_hf&utm_campaign=20240719_tnc_magacutoff-v1_hf_dtrump_lp&utm_content=donate&_nlid=Gbu7Z2aMBV&_nhids=B03AiAzpv
How quickly the assassination moves below the fold.
10-4 Thanks kk. lol
Sorry, I'm from the slower group. Who is Big Mike?
Thanks kk. Already got a few things done.... gotta get it done early in the summer before God turns up the thermostat. Orchids are looking great and fixin to bust out in new blooms.
How'd your mowing project go?
Thanks Larry, I've had the link up on my streaming PC for a couple of hours.
Have to admit, I'm concerned for Trump's safety. I don't think they'll give up after one failed attempt. Plus, another attempt would take the focus off the last one... too many loose ends for them to stand down.
Not surprising that a dementia ravaged brain would be delusional..
What a fun circus!
CLUSTERFUCK NATION – BLOGJuly 19, 2024
Slowly, Then All at Once
“Biden has been jabbed at least four times. This is his third covid diagnosis. The shots are working great.” — Jeff Childers, Coffee & Covid
There was a lot of talk about divine intervention at the Republican Convention this week. The country has witnessed a rush of seemingly providential events since the fateful night of June 27th when, to universal horror, “Joe Biden” was unmasked as The Phantom of the White House. The attempt on Donald Trump’s life Saturday, with its intimations of blob involvement, was only the latest of countless trips, hoaxes, capers, and ops that smacked of demonic inspiration laid on the public, so you can’t blame them for feeling that “God is among us now.”
A huge piece of this dynamic has been the Right’s amazing impotence in the eight-year-long march of insults to the republic — especially the failure to find relief for any of that in the courts of law, until last month when the SCOTUS finally kneecapped Democratic Party lawfare operations. A paramount example of that impotence was being unable to find one jurisdiction willing to adjudicate election fraud in 2020 on the merit of the arguments.
But there was much more, starting with collective helplessness in the drawn-out RussiaGate psychodrama, even when all the players and their many nefarious acts were exposed by the alt news media, and extending to the mendacious roguery of the two-year Mueller (Weissmann) Investigation, followed by fifty-one former intel higher-ups labeling Hunter Biden’s laptop Russian disinformation, followed by Rep. Adam Schiff’s Ukraine “whistleblower” prank featuring CIA/NSC/DOD/DOJ moles Eric Ciaramella, Colonel Vindman and IC Inspector General Michael Atkinson, and then the FBI-instigated J-6 riot with the ensuing faked-up House J-6 committee . . . plus you can throw in the stupid Ukraine war, the drag queens in the kindergartens, the bumbling Durham investigation, ten million unvetted illegal migrants flowing into the country and this year’s four show-trials put on to finally break Mr. Trump.
For many in this land, it has been like the classic nightmare of being paralyzed in the presence of evil. So, it’s no wonder that the Republicans came into their convention with a tremendous tailwind of relief when events suddenly broke their way in June. Now, everyone knows that the current president is a vindictive invalid who will be tossed overboard by his own terrified party in a matter of hours now. And the entire scaffold of lies supporting “Joe Biden” and his party is wobbling badly, too.
You could see it in the deranged terror of Rachel Maddow’s increasingly contorted face last night as she rehearsed all the hoaxes she has helped to perpetrate, along with her mentally-ill posse of Jen Psaki, Joy Reid, Nicole Wallace, and the strangely mute white male Ari Melber. It seemed that any minute Rachel’s head would spin and start spewing pea soup at the camera. When will an exorcist finally pay a visit to MSNBC?
As the sun sets on “Joe Biden’s” career, what’s left of his campaign runs an ad in which he promises “to finish the job.” Sounds kind of sinister now, doesn’t it, like something a crime boss might tell his caporegimes? And for sure the country is suffering from this three-year-plus reign-of-terror against common sense and common decency. The wreckage is everywhere, all over this land. “Defending our Democracy,” my ass.
The party big dawgs have paid their terminal visit to the old grifter bringing the sad news that it’s over. Of course, this excites several new headaches for them. Foremost: how can “JB” bow out of the election on account of mental infirmity but still remain president? Even if they call it something else, make some other excuse, the whole world knows now that the president is gone in the head. There are six months remaining to the end of his term and a lot of urgent issues requiring a president’s attention. You can be sure that pressure will rise to shove him out of office altogether. And it may come before the Democratic Convention in late August — if we want to be taken seriously by the rest of the world.
Of course, that would elevate Kamala to the White House. Would getting to be the first female president of-color for six months be her consolation prize for graciously declining an automatic nomination to run in “JB’s” place, so that the party can stage an “open convention” free-for-all? Or would she better serve the party as a sacrificial goat to head the ticket and get buried in what’s shaping up to be an election landslide for the Republicans? Anyway, which of the various replacement politicians — Newsom, Whitmer, Pritzker, PA Gov. Shapiro —really wants to squander a political future in an election that’s as much a vote against the Democratic Party itself as any particular figure in it? Let the party go down so it can be purged of Green Woke Satanic mentally-ill communists and reorganized on a sane and decent basis.
But then there’s always HRC. She’s been laying back alertly, waiting for an opening to swoop in on her leathery wings and cast a fresh spell over the batshit-crazy women who, in recent times, comprise the party’s base. At one point, not many years ago, the party was broke and had to be bailed-out by the Clinton Foundation. To what extent does that entity still own the DNC, and especially its cargo of super-delegates? I guess we’re going to find out.
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/slowly-then-all-at-once-3/
Once again, WOW. Thanks for this longer version!
How can this be argued against?
Oh that's right, we only trust the science when it agrees with the narrative.
Wow, very interesting!
Born to be m i i i ild
Born to be m i i i ild
lol.... now I'll have that tune playing all day in my head.
Actually, thanks, it's a great tune!
We watched it cover to cover, all 4 nights. Sent a check to RSBN for the great non-stop coverage.
Yes, the band was very good. I'll bet Trump has them back at future events.
Mornin, Larry!
Good morning kk.
I didn't see much difference in Trump. I think it's projection.
There is NO doubt, the secret service is in on it!
Now what?
Sleep tight. we've got this.
She better get those kneepads out!
Mark Halprin states on NewsMax that Biden will step down from the race this weekend and an open process will be used to replace him as candidate. It will not automatically be Kumula.
Be careful out there! Catch you later.