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Clusterfuck Nation – BlogAugust 22, 2022
Crazyland
Economic and cultural suicide is hardly the only option, and certainly not the best…
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In a confab of friends on a warm evening this weekend, someone asked: Do you think what’s going on is due to incompetence or malevolence? The USA is certainly skidding into a great and traumatic re-set featuring a much lower standard of living for most citizens amidst a junkyard of broken institutions. But so are all the other nations of Western Civ. If it’s not being managed by malign forces, such as der Schwabenklaus and his WEF myrmidons, then it sure looks like some sort of controlled demolition. The big question hanging over the 2022 election, then, is: Must America commit suicide?
What provoked the mental illness of the Left? What turned the Democratic Party into the Party of Chaos? It seemed pretty sane in 1996 when President Bill Clinton declared — to much surprise — in his State of the Union address that “the era of big government is over.” Of course, few understood back then how cravenly corrupt the Clintons were, even especially as Hillary launched her own political career once Bill’s turn was over. Few, I daresay, thought at the time that Hillary would come to eclipse Bill in influence — though not so few suspected that the first lady operated as the demented megalomaniac she has proved to be.
Gawd knows what went on in that Shakespearean marriage… but the Democratic Party in the post-2000 Hillary years discovered that its very existence required the government to get ever-bigger because the American economy — the real, on-the-ground economy outside Wall Street’s financialization hall of mirrors — was withering away with the off-shoring of industry and something was needed to replace it. And, by the way, let’s stipulate that the Republican Party mostly abetted all that, even despite transient rumblings from its Tea Party renegades.
Forgive me at this juncture for repeating my oft-stated theory of history: Things happen because they seem like a good idea at the time. Off-shoring seemed like a good idea at the time. Fob off all those filthy, polluting factories onto other countries, and pay the natives three bucks a day to make all the stuff we needed. Plus, pay for the stuff with US treasuries (IOUs). What a racket! But then every activity in America was turning into a racket — which is to say, making money dishonestly — until it became the immersive economic milieu of the land. Even the two most noble endeavors in our society, education and medicine, disgraced themselves with shameless moneygrubbing.
Something weird happened starting in 2004 when one Barack Obama came onstage at the Democratic convention that nominated the haircut-in-search-of-a-brain called John Kerry. The new star lit up the joint posing as a Great Uniter. And four years later he made a fool of Hillary, cutting her off at the pass from seizing her supposedly ineluctable turn — and supreme glass-ceiling-breaking triumph — as president. Where’d he come from? This pavement-pounding community organizer with the 1000-watt smile?
In retrospect, Barack Obama appears to have been manufactured out of some misty Marxist cabal of the subterranean Far Left that infested a sub-basement of the Democratic Party. He came on-board in 2009, just as all that skeezy financialization blew up the banks and launched the era of government rescue operations that heaped previously unimaginable quantities of debt on the USA’s already unmanageable burden. Republican George Bush II got the blame for all that and Mr. Obama proceeded to make it a lot worse.
Barack Obama served as liberalism’s bowling trophy, the capstone of the great civil rights crusade: a black president, proof of America’s moral uprightness. He managed to do next to nothing to change the conditions that had wrecked black America — namely, the paternalistic policies that shattered families — but he put up a good front while the country teetered economically. And notice that his DOJ, under Attorney General Eric Holder, managed to avoid prosecuting anyone but mortgage vampire Anthony Mozilo for all the banking crimes of the day. Meanwhile, President Obama took care of Hillary by anointing her Secretary of State, from which perch she grifted tens of millions of dollars into the coffers of the janky Clinton Foundation. Smooth moves there. In the end, Mr. Obama remained an enigma, passing the baton to Her Inevitableness in 2016 — which she commenced to blow utterly in overestimating her own political charm — she had none — and underestimating the appeal of her opponent, the Golden Golem of Greatness, Donald Trump.
Mr. Trump’s astonishing victory apparently disordered Hillary’s mind. She was reportedly too drunk late that election night to even appear at the podium to make the excruciating concession speech. But her Russian Collusion operation ginned up months earlier had already set in motion a great vengeance machine which partisans in the DOJ, FBI, CIA, and State Department ran with through the whole of Mr. Trump’s term in the White House, climaxing in the orchestrated election frauds of 2020, which installed Barack Obama’s empty vessel of a stand-in “Joe Biden” as president.
The amalgamated pathologies of Barack Obama’s reign — which includes the birth of Wokery, the Jacobin-Marxist crusade to trash culture and economy — and Hillary Clinton’s psychotic thirst for revenge has transformed the Democrats into the Party of Chaos, presiding over the suicide of America, and Western Civ with it. Which, of course, prompts the question: Who exactly is running Barack Obama? I don’t pretend to know at this point. Many people I know are sure it is an international banking claque. The part that doesn’t add up is the supposed banking claque’s utter lack of political charm. Nobody in Western Civ is for them, in the sense that they offer any salvation program from either the disorders of Woke culture or the disorders of crumbling economic globalism.
Mysteries abound now, and they are disconcerting to an extreme. How did the polite and rational society called Canada fall under the punishing sway of Justin Trudeau? Ditto the Apparently insane Australia and New Zealand? Ditto the Europeans, who followed America’s absurd campaign to make Ukraine a war zone, and who now face a winter with no fuel for industry or home heating — and possible a descent into new medievalism. Perhaps the Covid bamboozle did that, just drove them over the edge. (And they will soon learn what a deadly con that was, especially the “vaccine” feature.)
Personally, I think we under-appreciate the tendings of history per se, and that tending these days is the set of circumstances adding up to a Long Emergency, a.k.a. the Fourth Turning, a.k.a, Mr. J.M. Greer’s Long Descent. In plain English, we’re exiting the techno-industrial fiesta of the past 200-odd years and entering the uncharted territory of what-comes-next, and that is driving the immense anxiety of the age. Our business model for everything is broken, mostly because the fossil fuel situation has become so uncertain, and it is driving us nuts. Understand that and you will have enough mental equipment operating correctly to stay sane.
Suicide is hardly the only option. Resist those who want to drag you into it. We are going to carry on one way or another. We’re going to make it through this bottleneck. Let the insane bury the insane. Keep your eyes peeled, keep your hearts open, and keep your powder dry.
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- Walter BAugust 22, 2022 at 9:48 am#ast Thursday, the 18th of August, a fuse was lit by China’s Foreign Minister Zhao Lijian that has the possibility of destroying the last vestiges of any confidence the American people still have in their government. He tweeted that “Everyone needs a clear understanding of himself. So does a nation” along with a graphic that shows what the victim countries of our reign of terror think of us, what we think of us, and what we actually do. Our victims see the mushroom cloud over Hiroshima and the destruction of the many countries that we have mauled since then. We see ourselves as Superman on a mission. What we actually do is illustrated by the collapsing WTC towers. The reports of this tweet claim that it “suggests” that 911 was an inside job but it is far worse than that, it is an indictment of that fact.I know and have spoken with people who were in foreign countries on that day and who saw and heard how other nations reported on what was happening and what their citizens believe happened. America has been doing what is does best for over twenty years now, living in denial. Colonel Jessup was right, they cannot handle the truth and if the fuse that was lit by this tweet somehow manages to find its way to the powder keg it is intended to set off, America is going to explode. The Deep State is hoping that it will so it can loose its wrath on the American people just as it is doing now to the Orange Man. If the masses are wise enough to refrain from a violent reaction, they will still suffer from the resulting total loss of confidence in our “leaders” and our failed system. The “Under New Management” flag will soon be raised over the US capitol when the CCP moves in to take over and probably without firing a single shot. Why conquer us when you can simply buy us out which they have already done through the current administration.Optimism is not repeating to yourself that everything is fine and will only get better and nothing can ever happen here to screw up the unending parties, holidays, and entertainment. Optimism is getting yourself as prepared as you can be for a rainy day and knowing that whatever happens next that you will face it as best as you can. It is not the strongest nor the smartest that survive, but those that are best able to adapt to change.Log in to Reply
- spaingarooAugust 22, 2022 at 10:03 am#thanks for that news Walt. I hadn’t come across it yet.Log in to Reply
- Penelope DreadfulAugust 22, 2022 at 9:59 am#I think the answer to “who” is behind this, is first, a media that has been usurper by crazed wokesters and Democratic partisans and second, an educational establishment that has been taken over by the same. Maybe the Russians were behind this decades ago and it has been like a weapon (or a salt mill) that never got turned off. Look up a guy named Bezmenov on youtube.Look up “FULL INTERVIEW with Yuri Bezmenov: The Four Stages of Ideological Subversion (1984)” on youtubeLog in to Reply
- malthussAugust 22, 2022 at 10:01 am#My experience with Nurse ‘practitioner’.I went to a cheap walk in place and got to see a female nigerian nurse.
She didnt have a clue and the prescription didnt fix my skin problem.sometimes you get what you pay for.Log in to Reply - wwg1wgaAugust 22, 2022 at 10:01 am#Jim, you’re writing is poetic and prophetic!….please enjoy this video:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VQ-Bd8lahJA&list=PLl55Zh3U2VW60XfXP-Hy2IOSGmRt5Db1b&index=1….the rebirthing of the New is led by individuals who delight in attaining and sustaining the highest levels of consciousness, in a hyper-localized existence. GODSPEED!
Carpe Diem!
Sola Vertus Invicta!Log in to Reply - Walter BAugust 22, 2022 at 10:01 am#The banksters that pull the strings may be despised and not trusted by anybody Jim, but their ability and willingness to shovel mega-wealth out of thin air into the pockets of sellouts in leadership roles (are there any other kind) will always keep the greedy bastards doing their bidding. Barry O certainly was a Trojan Horse, a Dirty Dick Cheney reprise that even had me wondering if he was as bad as I thought until he promised to repeal the un-Patriot Act but strengthened it instead. True scumbags will never let you down. He’s still screwing us all although I was seriously entertained when he chose to ignore Dopey Joe at that gathering a while ago. That was priceless. Guess he could tell Dopey Joe was near by the stench of his dirty diaper. What a shit-show. Hope it doesn’t end badly though I know it must. Hold on tight there are hairpin curves up ahead and we are moving way too fast to negotiate them safely. Wheeeeee!Log in to Reply
- RaymondRAugust 22, 2022 at 10:02 am#Quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementatWhom the gods would destroy they first make madLog in to Reply
- DisaffectedAugust 22, 2022 at 10:04 am#Never ascribe to mere happenstance or ineptitude that which can be much more accurately explained by willful planning and ill-intent among a powerful few. You’ve put together all the pieces, Jim, now you just have to refocus to see the big picture it presents. It’s a little hard at first – kinda like one of those 3-D pics that were all the rage a few years back – but I know you have it in you!Log in to Reply
- Ron AnselmoAugust 22, 2022 at 10:18 am#Hanlon’s razor in reverse.Log in to Reply
- oojaiAugust 22, 2022 at 10:06 am#in paragraph nine (9) you say:“Which, of course, prompts the question: Who exactly is running Barack Obama?” Did you mean his empty vessel replacement – namely, Joe Biden?Log in to Reply
- SpeedyBBAugust 22, 2022 at 10:07 am#It is astonishing to see the endurance of faith, trust and hope in what is plainly a dying Empire. People who are aware of the filth, danger and expense of living in a big American city are still lining up at the US Embassies around the world, documents in their hot little hand. The sense that ‘…all is not as it should be…’ is resisted strongly. I have given up on proferring unsolicited advice to people holding their life savings in Zimbamerican dollars. The notion that we are really and truly living in an era of ‘Sic transit gloria mundi’ has really not sunk in, except for a very few.Among those are the elite Chinese scientists and researchers who, nose firmly held, move back to the PRC and buckle under to totalitarian control. A number of them had very munificent, stable, prestigious positions in the USA. What happened?Those orbiting Mr. Kunstler’s blog and contributing comments think they know, and I think they think correctly.Log in to Reply
- wwg1wgaAugust 22, 2022 at 10:07 am#…the last illusion-spectacle to fall is that of the adaptability, benevolence, and capability of corporations to hold the fabric of modernity-civilization together.Gaslighting is part of the macro-reality entertainment show.The veneer of corporation kumbaya Diversity and Inclusion fades faster than financial market collapse.Those ignorant of the resolve of Xi, Vlad, and Kim to engage in scorched earth, rather than endure domestic democratic uprisings, are the very same afflicted with normalcy bias, cognitive dissonance, and record prescriptions of antidepressants and benzodiazepines.Pattern recognition necessitates girding, maneuvering, reacting, and adapting to a vast array of civilizations-at-large outcomes.Log in to Reply
- Armenio PereiraAugust 22, 2022 at 10:09 am#You know the truth, yet you can’t convey it – who’s to blame?
Them, because they’re not clever enough to understand, or you, who steadily fail to make ’em understand?
No one’s to blame.
No reality, no illusion, no truth, no lies, only the many faces of The Everlasting Dissatisfaction.Log in to Reply - John KAugust 22, 2022 at 10:11 am#After two-and-a-half years of the Covid mess and all its satellite wrongdoings, the online comment sections are lit up with either “the narrative is falling apart” or “the WEF reset is going exactly according to plan.” Though I lean toward the former, what if the current chaos IS part of the plan? Just how tightly do Klaus and company still hold the reigns? Thoughts?Log in to Reply
- John KAugust 22, 2022 at 10:12 am#Sorry, REINS.Log in to Reply
- wwg1wgaAugust 22, 2022 at 10:19 am#The creation, sharing, and extending of halcyon moments, for the many, at peace, IS the moral imperative.The wise gird, maneuver, react, and adapt, in building out the hyper-localized regenerative, sustainable, collaborative, defended New, NOT fighting the old.Same as it ever was, only the technology of catapults and swords has far outpaced the level of human thinking required to attain and sustain durable peace.The good news is humanity is not the only experiment, and Mother Nature bats last in driving the biome to homeostasis.Log in to Reply
- John KAugust 22, 2022 at 10:21 am#“The planet is fine. It’s not going anywhere. WE are!” –George CarlinLog in to Reply
- neurodocAugust 22, 2022 at 10:13 am#Despite not being reported by the ‘MSM’ or the legacy media, is the fact that somewhere near 60% of countries on the planet are now members of or affiliates of the BRICS system which has aligned itself with the OneBelt OneRoad system. These are systems that directly oppose and challenge the SWIFT system run by the US Corporation for years, and is based entirely on the $USD per the Bretton Woods agreement (which is now torn to shreds). The $USD is dead but it doesn’t know it and it is being rejected worldwide, hence the many shortages of goods, particularly medicines. The fda sent out a memo to doctors and clinics about 3 weeks ago warning of extreme shortages of all meds and equipment, and inability to obtain over 150 ‘critical’ medications such as steroids, phenergan, iv fluids and meds, and a myriad of others. Our clinic put in an order to the largest medical supplier in the world several weeks ago, and received about 1/8th of what we ordered; everything else was on indeterminate back order. Perhaps the universe is about to put some karma on the medical establishment for its covid sins. Unfortunately there will be much collateral damage. And that’s just one field facing the fallout from the disintegration of the $USD. There are MANY.Log in to Reply
- jerrydylanAugust 22, 2022 at 10:16 am#Slightly off topic- One thing I am noticing more and more is the horrible physical condition of US citizens. Black, caucasian, hispanic with impunity but less so for Asians. Children seem to just follow their “parents?” into a maze of obesity and seemingly disguise their condition with weird hair colors and body/face mutilation. I take pride in my appearance, I’m in good shape, I work out and eat clean. I notice people staring at me like I’m the weirdo. Very underrated in the stigma of the Long Emergency and then we can add in the cardiac/neurology/immune degradation of the jabs.Log in to Reply
- DyersEveAugust 22, 2022 at 10:23 am#Just a little historical reminder that it was Mr. Clinton that repealed Glass-Stegall in 1996 making it A-Okay for consumer and investment banks to play casino. See what happened after that? All intentional as the adults were no longer going to be allowed in govt – ever again. We The People have consented to @ss raping after @ss raping so we apparently luv it!Log in to Reply
- NickelthroweRAugust 22, 2022 at 10:24 am#The “fix” is what is to blame. We’ve allowed the fix to permeate all of our institutions to our detriment. The fix is in with politics, healthcare, education, the markets, banking, and even home ownership.When the wealthy are given subsidies to purchase Earth-destroying electric vehicles then you know the fix is in. When students are told that they no longer need to pay their student loans – loans they used to acquire Gender Studies degrees, you know the fix is in. Show me any institution that hasn’t become a soul-crushing racket. Show me the hill to die on.Log in to Reply
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