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A Page Turns
People underestimate how much resistance to imperial edicts out of Washington DC there is, they underestimate how many people are waiting for the fall, but they also misunderstand that this resistance is taking a muscular but passive form.
- Deep South SR on Twitter
https://kunstler.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Kunstler-Logo-2-res72-final-e1372906270122.png
by James Howard Kunstler
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation (January 20 2022)
For your reading pleasure on Mondays and Fridays
Of course, the "Joe Biden" classified document scandal is less about the documents per se than it is about the Biden family business, which was accepting large sums of money from shady foreign interests for unspecified services rendered. "Joe Biden", the brand, is owned, perhaps to the degree that he can be called "a sell-out". Selling out your country is kind of serious.
For instance, our country is right now deeply involved in a war between a Biden family client, Ukraine, and its angry relative, Russia. The USA has pumped more than $100 billion into Ukraine just this past year. That's quite a return on investment for the million or so Hunter Biden grifted out of the Burisma gas company. It is alleged that Ukraine has operated as a gigantic international money laundry, especially since our State Department and Intelligence Community overthrew Ukraine's government in 2014 and put in a series of errand boys.
Ukraine did not have to become a geopolitical hotspot. We made it a problem on purpose. The strategy, if you can call it that, was stated explicitly by Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin: "to weaken Russia". That was based on the NeoCon game theory that the USA had to maintain at least the appearance of dominance over as much of the world as possible - aka hegemony - at the very moment in history that America's economy, culture, and institutions had entered a state of collapse, visible to everyone in the world. By the way, our efforts in Ukraine against Russia have only strengthened Russia - its currency, its balance of trade, its own internal political security, and its military defenses.
The Ukraine fiasco has surely benefited America's military contractors and the parasitical ecosystem that feeds off it. Ukraine has benefited not so much. To be blunt and concise, Ukraine will come out of this a much-diminished entity, with no ability to cause any more problems in that region of the world. The money laundry will be closing down. As that happens, recriminations will pour out of Ukraine, implicating many American officials in the laundry operations, including former Ambassador Marie "Masha" Yovanovitch and her circle. Wait for that.
So, the tussle over the documents is a smokescreen for those artful machinations. The appointment by praetorian Attorney General Merrick Garland of a special counsel, Robert K Hur, to investigate the documents affair is the insurance policy. Mr Hur's job is to prevent any witness from testifying on these matters before a congressional committee on the grounds of protecting "an ongoing investigation". You can bet that whichever committee takes on this hairball will find workarounds to overcome that gambit and start unraveling the grift behind the documents. It will get ugly.
The evidence for all that is neatly packaged in the notorious laptop computer that Biden family bagman Hunter Biden dropped off in a Wilmington, DC repair shop and then "forgot about", so the story goes. I wonder about that. My armchair psychiatrist's take is that Hunter harbors a not-so-well-suppressed wish to destroy the Big Guy, his father, who has sinned grievously against his son and made a monster of him. (A monster of depravity.) The classified documents that the Big Guy stashed in his various properties are quite secondary to the gigantic trove of deal memos with purchasers of influence (and photos of them with the Biden gang) stashed on that radioactive hard drive.
I'll never understand - and neither will you - how "Joe Biden" got propelled out of ignominious defeat in the earliest presidential primaries, to sweep the field on Super Tuesday, March 03 2020. Around the same time, all his rivals magically dropped out of the race for the nomination. Some kind of message must have gone out from Deep State Central. Who wanted this licentious old grifter in the White House? Well, probably his old boss, Barack Obama, and just about everyone in officialdom connected to the shenanigans in Ukraine dating back to 2014, and then the RussiaGate illegalities that ensued from it, especially former CIA boss John Brennan and his cronies. Under Mr Obama, the whole US government had become something like a rotten log infested with sowbugs of grift, deceit, and malfeasance. Installing the dotty old bird in the White House would give Mr Obama a stealth third term. Mostly, it would prevent the dreaded Golden Golem of populism, Donald Trump, from bringing any harm to that cabal and its, ahem, interests.
We do understand how "Joe Biden" won the 2020 election: via massive fraud engineered by fraud master Marc Elias, king of the Lawfare trolls, who fine-tuned the mail-in ballot operation during the likewise engineered COVID-19 public health ruse. That wicked election business, of course, is just another grave matter requiring the utmost protection to prevent any inquiry from ever gaining traction. And yet all of it, the monumental government crime spree of recent years, is all unraveling before our eyes - even before Jim Jordan or anyone else has even said boo from a House committee chair.
It's all falling apart - along with America's economy, our institutions, and our culture. The Biden family's cover stories are collapsing, the government's censorship and propaganda machine has thrown a rod, the COVID-19 story looks day-by-day like organized mass murder, election fraud issues still stalk the land despite every effort to squash them - and the grim reality coalesces that Russia is going to clean up the mess we made in Ukraine, and, in the aftermath, probably produce a shit-ton of evidence of American corruption and villainy there.
"Joe Biden", the phantom president, has entered the air-lock, waiting to be jettisoned into the deep space of ignominy, chocolate mint chip ice cream cone in hand. Kamala Harris watches the action offstage in a fugue of anxiety and depression. She does not want to become president - and, guess what, nobody really wants her to be, either. She won't even have to be induced to step aside. Her hysteria will be so great that not even the hypnotists of the Intelligence Community will be able to calm her down. She'll run shrieking from it back to California. The levers of control finally fail. By a caprice of history and the genius of the founding fathers, Kevin McCarthy lands in the White House. A page turns. The coup is finally over. That's my fantasy du jour.
* * * * *
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People underestimate how much resistance to imperial edicts out of Washington DC there is, they underestimate how many people are waiting for the fall, but they also misunderstand that this resistance is taking a muscular but passive form.
- Deep South SR on Twitter
https://kunstler.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Kunstler-Logo-2-res72-final-e1372906270122.png
by James Howard Kunstler
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation (January 20 2022)
For your reading pleasure on Mondays and Fridays
Of course, the "Joe Biden" classified document scandal is less about the documents per se than it is about the Biden family business, which was accepting large sums of money from shady foreign interests for unspecified services rendered. "Joe Biden", the brand, is owned, perhaps to the degree that he can be called "a sell-out". Selling out your country is kind of serious.
For instance, our country is right now deeply involved in a war between a Biden family client, Ukraine, and its angry relative, Russia. The USA has pumped more than $100 billion into Ukraine just this past year. That's quite a return on investment for the million or so Hunter Biden grifted out of the Burisma gas company. It is alleged that Ukraine has operated as a gigantic international money laundry, especially since our State Department and Intelligence Community overthrew Ukraine's government in 2014 and put in a series of errand boys.
Ukraine did not have to become a geopolitical hotspot. We made it a problem on purpose. The strategy, if you can call it that, was stated explicitly by Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin: "to weaken Russia". That was based on the NeoCon game theory that the USA had to maintain at least the appearance of dominance over as much of the world as possible - aka hegemony - at the very moment in history that America's economy, culture, and institutions had entered a state of collapse, visible to everyone in the world. By the way, our efforts in Ukraine against Russia have only strengthened Russia - its currency, its balance of trade, its own internal political security, and its military defenses.
The Ukraine fiasco has surely benefited America's military contractors and the parasitical ecosystem that feeds off it. Ukraine has benefited not so much. To be blunt and concise, Ukraine will come out of this a much-diminished entity, with no ability to cause any more problems in that region of the world. The money laundry will be closing down. As that happens, recriminations will pour out of Ukraine, implicating many American officials in the laundry operations, including former Ambassador Marie "Masha" Yovanovitch and her circle. Wait for that.
So, the tussle over the documents is a smokescreen for those artful machinations. The appointment by praetorian Attorney General Merrick Garland of a special counsel, Robert K Hur, to investigate the documents affair is the insurance policy. Mr Hur's job is to prevent any witness from testifying on these matters before a congressional committee on the grounds of protecting "an ongoing investigation". You can bet that whichever committee takes on this hairball will find workarounds to overcome that gambit and start unraveling the grift behind the documents. It will get ugly.
The evidence for all that is neatly packaged in the notorious laptop computer that Biden family bagman Hunter Biden dropped off in a Wilmington, DC repair shop and then "forgot about", so the story goes. I wonder about that. My armchair psychiatrist's take is that Hunter harbors a not-so-well-suppressed wish to destroy the Big Guy, his father, who has sinned grievously against his son and made a monster of him. (A monster of depravity.) The classified documents that the Big Guy stashed in his various properties are quite secondary to the gigantic trove of deal memos with purchasers of influence (and photos of them with the Biden gang) stashed on that radioactive hard drive.
I'll never understand - and neither will you - how "Joe Biden" got propelled out of ignominious defeat in the earliest presidential primaries, to sweep the field on Super Tuesday, March 03 2020. Around the same time, all his rivals magically dropped out of the race for the nomination. Some kind of message must have gone out from Deep State Central. Who wanted this licentious old grifter in the White House? Well, probably his old boss, Barack Obama, and just about everyone in officialdom connected to the shenanigans in Ukraine dating back to 2014, and then the RussiaGate illegalities that ensued from it, especially former CIA boss John Brennan and his cronies. Under Mr Obama, the whole US government had become something like a rotten log infested with sowbugs of grift, deceit, and malfeasance. Installing the dotty old bird in the White House would give Mr Obama a stealth third term. Mostly, it would prevent the dreaded Golden Golem of populism, Donald Trump, from bringing any harm to that cabal and its, ahem, interests.
We do understand how "Joe Biden" won the 2020 election: via massive fraud engineered by fraud master Marc Elias, king of the Lawfare trolls, who fine-tuned the mail-in ballot operation during the likewise engineered COVID-19 public health ruse. That wicked election business, of course, is just another grave matter requiring the utmost protection to prevent any inquiry from ever gaining traction. And yet all of it, the monumental government crime spree of recent years, is all unraveling before our eyes - even before Jim Jordan or anyone else has even said boo from a House committee chair.
It's all falling apart - along with America's economy, our institutions, and our culture. The Biden family's cover stories are collapsing, the government's censorship and propaganda machine has thrown a rod, the COVID-19 story looks day-by-day like organized mass murder, election fraud issues still stalk the land despite every effort to squash them - and the grim reality coalesces that Russia is going to clean up the mess we made in Ukraine, and, in the aftermath, probably produce a shit-ton of evidence of American corruption and villainy there.
"Joe Biden", the phantom president, has entered the air-lock, waiting to be jettisoned into the deep space of ignominy, chocolate mint chip ice cream cone in hand. Kamala Harris watches the action offstage in a fugue of anxiety and depression. She does not want to become president - and, guess what, nobody really wants her to be, either. She won't even have to be induced to step aside. Her hysteria will be so great that not even the hypnotists of the Intelligence Community will be able to calm her down. She'll run shrieking from it back to California. The levers of control finally fail. By a caprice of history and the genius of the founding fathers, Kevin McCarthy lands in the White House. A page turns. The coup is finally over. That's my fantasy du jour.
* * * * *
This blog is sponsored this week by Vaulted, an online mobile web app for
investing in allocated and deliverable physical gold. To learn more
visit: Kunstler.com/vaulted
Support this blog by visiting
https://www.patreon.com/JamesHowardKunstler
And thanks to all my Patrons for your support
Click for Autographed Copies from Battenkill Books:
https://www.battenkillbooks.com/product/living-long-emergency-global-crisis-failure-futurists-and-early-adapters-who-are-showing-us
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https://amzn.to/36ce8gx
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