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Lest you wonder, not only did I not vote for Mr. Trump (or Hillary), but I relished heaping opprobrium on him during the election campaign. Just so you know, I’m not advocating for him, but I’m alarmed that the Deep State (the White House + the Intel Agency gang) now appears to be trying to hack the electoral college vote against him.

The headline deployed everywhere last week, “Russia Hacks Election,” was designed by the Deep State players to deviously lead the broadly dim public to think that Russia somehow interfered with the balloting process, which was not possible since voting machines are not hooked up to the internet. And then it was repeated endlessly by the cable news networks and the newspapers, under the number one rule of propaganda: that if you repeat something often enough, the public will swallow it.

This dishonest meme was also designed to distract the public from the substance of the emails disclosed by WikiLeaks — namely, the scamming and trickery of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), and the influence-peddling of Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation, which had her flirting with indictment last summer, and only reinforced her already-established public image as an unscrupulous person.

The New York Times especially worked the “Russia Hacks Election” story to a fare-the-well, saying in its Sunday edition:

The Central Intelligence Agency has concluded that Moscow put its thumb on the scale for Mr. Trump through the release of hacked Democratic emails, which provided fodder for many of the most pernicious false attacks on Mrs. Clinton on social media.

False attacks? What, that Hillary’s cronies put the DNC’s “thumb on the scale” against Bernie Sanders? That Donna Brazille gave Hillary debate questions beforehand? That as Secretary of State Hillary gave more face-time to foreign supplicants based on their contributions to the Clinton Foundation, and expedited arms deals for especially big givers? That she collected millions in speaking fees for sucking up to Too-Big-To-Fail bankers? That The Times and The WashPo and CNN reporters were taking direction from Hillary’s PR operatives?

Consider, too, how the Deep State “Russia Hacks Election” meme was ramped up to top volume coincidentally the week before the electoral college vote, as a last-ditch effort was launched by the old-line media, the diehard Hillary partisans, and a bunch of Hollywood celebrities, to persuade electoral college delegates to switch their votes to deprive Trump of his election victory.

President Obama did his bit to amplify the message by coloring Russian President Vladimir Putin as being behind the so-called hacking because “not much happens in Russia without, you know, Vladimir Putin,” just like not much happened in old Puritan New England without the involvement of Old Scratch. So now we have an up-to-date Devil figure to stir the paranoid imaginations of an already divided and perturbed public.

Hillary and her supporters have vehemently asserted that “seventeen intelligence agencies” agree with the assessment that Russia hacked the election. It might be greater news to the American people to hear that there actually are seventeen such agencies out there. Perhaps Mrs. Clinton or Mr. Obama might explain exactly what they are beyond the CIA, the FBI, the DIA, the NSA, and DHS. Personally, I feel less secure knowing that there are so many additional surveillance services sifting through everybody’s digital debris trail.

There’s been some chagrin among more prudent observers that neither the various Intel gang chiefs, including James Clapper, overall Director of National Intelligence, nor the White House have provided a shred of evidence that WikiLeaks got the Hillary emails from the Russians. One might even suppose that we discovered the hack by hacking the Russians, perhaps even Mr. Putin’s personal iPhone — but, wait a minute… we don’t intrude on other nations’ business. We don’t use the internet to spy (!) on anybody.

It will be interesting to see how Mr. Trump gets along with the Intel gang when (and if) he actually makes it into the oval office. It’s nice to think that he will fire a bunch of them, and then fire a bunch more, and maybe take a good hard look at these seventeen security and surveillance agencies and maybe shut a few of them down. In the meantime, their activity begins to look like the attempted coup d’état I warned about a few months ago.

Forgive me for changing the subject so briskly, but there was another front page piece in The New York Times on Sunday that kind of said it all about where that Old Gray Lady’s collective head is at these days. Behold this quote from the story What Women Really Think of Men:

As the country prepares to revert to white male rule, our common condition for all but eight of the last 240 years, we should think harder about why we assume so little of men, including ones we may be married to. Too many men don’t prove those expectations wrong, and are rewarded anyway with prizes like the presidency.

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513 Responses to “The Deep State Blues”

  1. Cold N. Holefield December 19, 2016 at 8:46 am #

    I suspect the Russian Hack story is containment meant to obscure the much larger & much more pernicious Truth, and that Truth is, The American Oligarchs who comprise the entire Establishment are, in their entirety, treasonous traitors who should be apprehended and tried by The People’s Court. It’ll never happen, but it should.

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    • shotho December 19, 2016 at 10:14 am #

      I would be careful with that “people’s court” thing. We’ve been down that road before and it wasn’t very pretty.

      • Elrond Hubbard December 19, 2016 at 11:45 am #

        I would add that Cold should spell out in clear words what exactly is being betrayed. It’s not enough to declare that the capital-E Establishment has betrayed America in some metaphorical sense. The crime of treason is very clearly spelled out in Article Three of the constitution: “Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.” Pushing the definition of “levying war” or “aid and comfort to the enemy” to encompass this kind of political rot is liable to further degrade the already degraded institutions, not rebuild them.

        • Cold N. Holefield December 19, 2016 at 12:09 pm #

          Perhaps both of you missed the operative phrase “It’ll never happen.” Precisely because you need it spelled out for you. As bibliomaniac says deep down in the comments, Knaves & Fools. Forever it’s been and forever it will be until Man exists no more.

    • lsjogren December 19, 2016 at 11:17 am #

      And by golly a treasonous traitor is a whole lot more pernicious than a patriotic traitor!

  2. orbit7er December 19, 2016 at 8:47 am #

    I too am very suspicious of the Russian hack as the cause of Hillary Clinton, whom I also did not support as I voted for Jill Stein, as the cause of Hillary’s electoral debacle. The Wikileaks emails just verified the corruption of the Clinton machine and the way they successfully headed off Bernie Sanders who would’ve won in a landslide.
    Of far more concern to me is the 75,000 votes not counted in Detroit, the voter suppression efforts, the closing of over 800 polling places, the right wing campaign to tilt the field with rampant gerrymandering.
    Greg Pallast had a fantastic article on Michigan’s uncounted votes on DemocrayNow :

    https://www.democracynow.org/2016/12/13/greg_palast_by_rejecting_recount_is

    And also see:

    https://www.democracynow.org/2016/11/7/this_is_voting_in_2016_armed

    This is why I DO support electoral college revolt.
    Based on Trump’s appointment of generals and far right wing opponents of the agencies they are supposed to lead it is very doubtful Trump will tame the Deep State or the endless Wars.
    I wish Trump WOULD cancel the F-35 for $1 Trillion, new Air Force One for $4 Billion, a new generation of dangerous nuclear weapons for $1 Trillion, the 1000 US bases all over the world and the 234 golf courses we pay for overseas.
    But in all likelihood like everything else Trump says and does he is likely to cut a deal so long as he and his cronies get some of the loot.
    If we do not cut Trump off now then how will we do it when he gets his hands on the NSA data on every American…
    See the request for all Energy Agency employees who attended Climate Change meetings…
    Very scary times in all events…

    • Elrond Hubbard December 19, 2016 at 11:47 am #

      Indeed.

      U of T heads ‘guerrilla archiving event’ to preserve climate data ahead of Trump presidency
      ‘What we’re seeing is environmental McCarthyism,’ activist says of incoming administration

      http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/university-toronto-guerrilla-archiving-event-trump-climate-change-1.3896167

    • Being There December 19, 2016 at 12:06 pm #

      BINGO on the Palast story and the Hillary debacle. She is there to continue bankster rule, but wait….Trump has a few too. So does that mean he’s forced to take these playas too?

      Let’s just say that the people of all countries who are stuck as a captive audience despise project globalism. Neoliberalism is an abject failure and everyone knows it even if they don’t know it by name!

    • Janos Skorenzy December 19, 2016 at 3:29 pm #

      It was a Masterful Move. Now if these Satanic Scum (who fired many generals who said no when asked if they would fire on American citizens) who try anything, Trump has the Deep Military on his side. He already had the rank and file, now he has the Old Guard.

      Fear not, we’re in, if not good hands, better ones than Hillary’s.

  3. Georges1202 December 19, 2016 at 8:49 am #

    Jim,

    The day loometh when the Cheeto-colored baboon raises his tiny meat-hook and swears to enrich his followers. One prays that the ghost of poor old William Henry Harrison can be invoked and Drumpf will under-dress on a frigid day, speak far too long and well – have us only endure him for 31 days.

    • hmuller December 19, 2016 at 8:56 am #

      Really Georges? What would delight me is Hillary having a coughing attack resulting in her expelling all her internal organs.

      • cbeard December 19, 2016 at 11:05 am #

        I second the motion.

  4. orbit7er December 19, 2016 at 8:49 am #

    Also of note is that the price of gasoline is going up along with interest rates. As Kunstler mentioned last week the US “recovery” is in all likelihood headed off a cliff…

    • Beryl of Oyl December 19, 2016 at 11:19 am #

      The price of food went way, way up as gasoline prices went down, and no one talked about it.

  5. hmuller December 19, 2016 at 8:53 am #

    You are absolutely correct, JHK, to point out the lies of the deep state and corporate mainstream press. It’s very disturbing how they are now going after “fake news” on the internet. It’s also the height of hypocrisy since the MSM pressitutes are the purveyors of lies and propaganda. Please give us your views on pizzagate, a story which reveals the true character of the ruling elite.

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    • James Howard Kunstler December 19, 2016 at 9:05 am #

      I don’t know what to make of Pizzagate. It seems on its face absurd… but John Podesta’s brother sure collects some nasty art.

      • hmuller December 19, 2016 at 9:17 am #

        Don’t forget all the coded language and the spirit cooking – people eating semen, blood, urine, shit, etc. There are pedophile and occult connections here. It takes an honest “liberal” like yourself to look beneath “the face of it” and give an objective evaluation. You’ve ignored this issue too long. Your fans want your opinion.

        • Elrond Hubbard December 19, 2016 at 11:49 am #

          Oh dear God. “People eating semen, blood, urine, shit, etc.”? This is moral panic 101. Get a grip.

          • Janos Skorenzy December 19, 2016 at 3:33 pm #

            You too, eh? There is a moral order, Elrond. And as Aragorn said, it is the same now and forever and the same among Men, Elves, and Dwarves.

            People who view and collect such art, and engage in such rituals are clearly not on the side of good. If they will do all this publicly or on camera, what must they do privately?

          • hmuller December 19, 2016 at 4:23 pm #

            Oh dear God, mockery from an uninformed elitist. Shall I hide under my bed in shame, and lament my condition as a “deplorable”? Get informed or wiggle your ass in the dance of a hundred mockeries. i really don’t give a shit. If you can’t address the facts of the case, you have nothing of value to say on this topic, Elrond!

          • Elrond Hubbard December 19, 2016 at 11:32 pm #

            Yes, moral panic. Let’s lay out the facts. John Podesta’s brother Tony is a fan of Marina Abramovi? and a collector of her work. Marina Abramovi? is apparently the original performance artist from whom all the clichés about weirdo performance artists have descended. One of her works in particular is something called Spirit Cooking, which includes the following ‘recipes’ among others:

            – in time of doubt / keep a small meteorite stone / in your mouth

            Ooh, satanic! Is it a pedophilic meteorite stone? How would that work exactly? It doesn’t say that it’s sexual-organ shaped, but maybe there’s a secret agreement among the Illuminati.

            – fresh morning urine / sprinkle over nightmare dreams

            Hmm. Fresh morning urine isn’t hard to come by, but where do I get “nightmare dreams”? Is nightmare dreams an actual menu item at Comet Ping Pong? Are nightmare dreams served on toast? Do they come with a side of fries?

            – 3 glasses of water / that a ruby has been soaking in for 3 days / 1 pomegranate

            Expensive, but this one is actually feasible since water, pomegranate and a ruby are all physical objects.

            – take 13 leaves of uncut green cabbage with / 13,000 grams of jealousy / steam for a long time in a deep iron pot / until all water evaporates / eat just before attack

            What is this I can’t even. What are jealousy futures going for on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange right now?

            Enough. The thing about all of the above is that they are just words. Every so often some fucking genius in the art world discovers they can get attention with some provocative stunt or other. Years back when the whole kerfuffle about Robert Mapplethorpe‘s photography happened, at least there were actual things that happened, e.g. he actually did photograph one guy pissing in another’s mouth and so forth. This Spirit Cooking thing is just crimethink, nothing more.

            Moral panic, fuckers. If you don’t like that kind of stuff, just settle down and eat a perfectly normal peanut butter and jelly sandwich until you feel better.

      • malthuss December 19, 2016 at 10:24 am #

        Having looked at it, its real.
        Spend a moment looking at an image of a small child

        TAPED TO A PING PONG TABLE.

        https://www.counter-currents.com/tag/besta-pizza/

        • malthuss December 19, 2016 at 10:26 am #

          Then think about this,

          THESE ARE ALL FACTUAL, NO DEBATING.

          Larry Birkin and Larry Birkin Week
          Penn State Cover Up— Gayleys silence was bought
          Lolita Express
          Jimmy Saville
          Michael Jackson
          MC MARTINS PRE SCHOOL—I saw the tunnel the kiddies mentioned, on youtube
          Mr Bean, Obama funder —
          The murder of Monica Petersen in Haiti
          the Rotherham scandal which was ignored for years and still is downplayed. [=9]

          The below- decide for yourself-

          Franklin Cover Up
          Boys Town
          Boy Scouts 20 million dollar hush fund
          PIZZA GATE
          The murder of Monica Petersen in Haiti
          33 children to be abducted from Haiti, Hillary intervened for the woman who was caught. … Laura Silsby, AFTER she was gotten off the hook by Hillary for trafficking 33 Haitian ‘orphans’ in 2011 using Baptist Missionaries as a front, was literally given the role of project manager for AMBER ALERT …

          Right, here’s a few examples that would have been better. And it turns out there were tunnels under the McMartin preschool after all.
          http://www.thelastamericanvaga

          • Beryl of Oyl December 19, 2016 at 11:38 am #

            Don’t forget the Catholic Church scandal, subject of the recent film, Spotlight.
            That was supposed to be the reason for the Pope stepping down, he was in too poor a state of health to battle the corruption within the Church.
            The new, PC Pope seems just to have changed the subject, to US immigration policy at our southern border.
            I did not now that about Laura Silsby and Amber Alert. All I knew was there was a group headed by her, claiming to be a Christian group, taking advantage of a disaster to grab people’s children. The MSM did not do an adequate job following up on that story.
            Creepy Podesta is palsy with equally creepy Mark Alan Siegel. If you are too creepy for the NYS Legislature, you are too creepy.
            http://www.timesofisrael.com/florida-local-democratic-party-official-resigns-over-remarks-on-christians/
            Podesta and Siegel had some weird anti-catholic thing going on as well.
            Pizzagate to me sounds fake, but that could just be the normal human response to the idea that there are people like that in high places, hiding in plain sight.
            Why does the media talk about everything they can think of possibly related to the emails in question, Anthony and Huma, what his ‘therapy’ costs, crap like that, but they will not touch the pizza allegations with a ten foot pole?
            Wouldn’t normal people, knowing their were such ghastly rumors out there, gaining traction, want to dispel them and clear their good name?

          • malthuss December 19, 2016 at 12:00 pm #

            Beryl,

            The new, PC Pope seems just to have changed the subject, to US immigration policy at our southern border.

            And AGW and ‘The Sin of Fake News.’

            I dont want to Catholic bash, but this pope is a bad one.

          • Janos Skorenzy December 19, 2016 at 3:57 pm #

            Bergoglio is known for moving Pedophile Priests around and appointing Bishops friendly to them to high places. Expect no reform on this issue, despite his brave talk.

          • Walter B December 19, 2016 at 7:51 pm #

            Child molesting, abuse, sex trafficking, rape and murder are subjects that the Common American Idiot either refuses to believe out of mind numbing fear or enjoys the practice themselves so denial is only natural. Those of us who grew up in households and families in law enforcement and government are all too well aware of the fact that such evil has always existed. Our Dad’s, Uncle’s and Brothers told many a tale of their own horrifying personal experiences with the criminals they busted for such heinous crimes. The realities of such demonic behavior is deeply hidden by those in power (since so many are and have always been perpetrators of such evils) and denial always works to confuse the idiots. I seriously doubt that this scourge will ever be fully expunged and certainly never eliminated but it is times such as these when hopes soar that perhaps a direct frontal assault will someday be made on these creatures, but I am not going to hold my breath waiting for it.

          • Sean Coleman December 20, 2016 at 10:38 am #

            Beryl

            ‘Don’t forget the Catholic Church scandal, subject of the recent film, ‘Spotlight.’

            I haven’t seen the film (I don’t watch any) and I don’t know that much about the Boston scandal but everything I have learnt to date supports my opinion that it is a witch hunt pure and simple. The case of Fr Paul Shanley, a trendy homosexual priest (who would have gone down well with the hipsters), seems to have started the panic, and once a witch hunt starts there is absolutely no end to the nonsense. Whatever Shanley did it is clear that his trial was a joke, relying on recovered memories.

            http://www.irishsalem.com/international-controversies/usa/WypijewskiTheNation-16Mar09.php

            There are other articles by the same journalist (JoAnn Wypijewski) on this linked website. In one of them the interested reader will find one of my favourite bits, where one of the accusers is tipped off by (I seem to recall) his best friend’s girlfriend and takes off to make his own claim (the sums awarded are reportedly around half a million dollars per case, if this (like literally everything) can be believed). One got 1.4m. Another of the claimants had his epiphany on a plane flight to Las Vegas where he had gone (reportedly) to do a spot of gambling. Three of the cases were withdrawn just before the trial because they were so shaky.

            If this case in turn sounds like a shaky foundation on which to start a massive witch hunt then it is fairly typical in my experience.

            The Irish anti-clerical witch hunt was equally insane. At the end of it mainstream opinion here in Ireland (ie very nearly everyone here to takes an interest in anything) is now convinced that everything they thought they knew about their church an their neighbours, their country and its history, all of it was wrong. Apparently a ‘holocaust’ was underway in residential ‘children’s’ homes and nobody even knew about it, although there were apparently dark rumours!

            And don’t get me started on the Jimmy Savile case. He is the man who, after his death (of course), was ‘revealed’ as Britain’s worst sexual offender (by the Police and the country’s main children’s charity, the NSPCC), with a list of ‘victims’ ranging from infants to corpses. Once again, nobody actually knew what was happening because he had super powers including time travel, invisibility, the power to walk through solid walls and, above all, the ability to molest and ‘abuse’ anyone and everyone In Plain Sight (although nobody saw anything). If you actually look at the accusations (which very few do – this is how these things work) it is usually clear within two minutes that they are complete nonsense. A few of the cases have been harder to disprove. I am not aware of any that are even half-way convincing. I must disclose an interest in this: back in February, before I started looking at it, I told my sister on Facebook that it was likely that nearly everything would be lies and exaggeration and that there was a chance, however small, that it all is. Well, now I have looked, I am fairly sure it all is.

            Just think about it for ten seconds. If a case like this is too far fetched to be true it is because it isn’t true.

            That millions think it is true doesn’t alter it. That is what a witch hunt is: an unbelievable fable that everyone believes.

            There is enough nonsense in the Savile case to fill a small library. Figures are plucked out of thin air. How many accusations were actually made? Nobody really knows, so they just make it up. Double, triple-counted. Anyone who rang up one of the ‘helplines’, is deemed a ‘victim’. It has changed my approach towards anything reported anywhere about anything. Unless I look up the facts (as far as they can be ascertained) I remain fairly sceptical that it happened.

            Even now, they still cannot even spell his name right: Savile, not Saville. They cannot get anything right about anything. It is a demented alternative universe.

            If you look at the comments section about Savile on YouTube it is full of the armies of the insane calling for him to burn in hell. This is obviously where the manic depressives go to spend their sleepless evenings.

            I haven’t looked at Pizzagate. I did start watching a video last week but my eyes glazed over.Try it yourself and see if you can do any better than me.

      • mikejp11 December 19, 2016 at 10:12 pm #

        I thought it was all absurd too at first but it’s become something that is bothersome to me, especially MSM’s treatment if it. Comet pizza’s instagram and twitter history is VERY disturbing as well as the ‘majestic ape’ “comedy” presented there and the “art” shows that literally depict rape. I mean it’s just beyond inappropriate. I get dark humor and satire but this shit is appalling for a FAMILY PIZZA JOINT. I would love to hear your opinion James, after checking some of that stuff out. And John Podesta’s art is just as horrifying as his brothers. I mean the dude has giant paintings of dead little girls in a swamp. WTF?!?

        Anyways, I really enjoy your writing and perspective. It’s people like you who are going to bring this country together, if it has any chance of survival.

        • Sean Coleman December 20, 2016 at 10:43 am #

          mikejp11

          The only thing more lurid, sensationalist, deceitful and credulous than the mainstream media is the world wide web.

          • mikejp11 December 21, 2016 at 1:10 am #

            Sean Coleman,

            I absolutely agree with you, and this why this ‘scandal’ is so bothersome to me. I believe that thorough personal discernment of the shitnado of purposefully deceitful information we are constantly inundated with is of paramount importance in the attempt to live an authentic existence. I would much rather believe that it’s just a ‘hoax’ and nothing is going on. In fact, besides the above comment, I’ve completely given up on it because even if it were true there is absolutely nothing I can do about it. That said, have you actually researched any of it? I would personally not recommend it as it is undeniably disturbing, however I think you (and any reasonable human for that matter) would at the minimum conclude extremely odd and very suspect circumstances surrounding this ‘hoax’. And perhaps most odd is MSM’s reaction and all of the INTENSE censorship occurring with anything relating to it.

          • Sean Coleman December 22, 2016 at 10:52 am #

            Mike

            As you say, there is so much information that it is extremely difficult to know what is going on. For my own part this task is made a little bit easier in that, whatever I may or may not know, at least I can be sure that none of *this* stuff is true.

    • PeteAtomic December 19, 2016 at 10:45 am #

      The video taken by Alex Jones at the Bohemian Grove shows what the elite do when they hang out. It’s right out of Kubrick’s “Eyes Wide Shut”.

      More than likely, his courageous reporting of that activity isn’t covered by the MSM, because the people who own or have power over the MSM were at that gathering.

      • Cold N. Holefield December 19, 2016 at 10:50 am #

        Except Trump, right? Because Trump has morals & scruples & Cheetos-Colored hair & skin.

        • PeteAtomic December 19, 2016 at 11:20 am #

          He may have been there, too. I don’t know.

        • Janos Skorenzy December 19, 2016 at 3:58 pm #

          They tried Chold, and found very little on him besides Pussygate. Give it up – you sound desperate. TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome) is my tentative diagnosis.

      • malthuss December 19, 2016 at 12:00 pm #

        The vid showed what?

        • Janos Skorenzy December 19, 2016 at 4:02 pm #

          An Owl Ritual, nothing more. As if that isn’t bad enough! The Owl is sacred to Minerva, goddess of something that I can’t remember. And that is terrifying….

          Just having a bit of fun. The darkness is real, but I don’t think Jones caught anything too bad on film. Very strange, but not bad. Btw, the people weren’t just fooling around – this was a serous ritual and they believed. Thus the tiny owl on the dollar bill – a tribute the Owl Cult among the Elite.

  6. chuckyzfr1 December 19, 2016 at 9:23 am #

    All of this banter about the Russians “hacking” the election and the need for electors to disregard their duty and vote for {whoever} is interesting to say the least. I agree wholeheartedly with JHK’s assertion about the lie repeated enough to become truth. If in fact it was Russia that hacked the DNC and HRC’s operatives, what difference does that make? The point is there was a treasure trove of damaging data there for the revealing. Who could blame Russia for preferring the Donald over HRC? It’s just a matter of self preservation; HRC #1 stated goal upon taking the Presidency was to establish a no fly zone in Syria, a direct showdown w/Russia.

    The legacy media has been regurgitating the ‘Russians hack election’ meme with more zeal than many of its favorite old standbys, like “27 million more Americans have health insurance under ACA” and “having a gun in your home makes you 78% more likely to be shot” and “the US economy is experiencing robust resurgence”….

    And at the same time they’re lighting torches and grabbing pitchforks against “fake news” – LOL!

    • Beryl of Oyl December 19, 2016 at 11:47 am #

      I am starting to lean toward the “fake news” thing being an effort to mitigate something they are expecting to be revealed when a new administration assumes power, that is so very bad they want people believing it’s a fabrication.
      These people could not allow anybody but Hillary to follow the Obama administration. If it was just a fear that all of the good they saw Obama as having done would be undone, they could just as easily have supported Bernie, but they were just as afraid of him as they were of Trump.
      I see it as Syria or this Pizza thing, or both. Hillary may have been motivated by money, but money is not enough of a reason for Obama’s conduct, IMO, the only motivator I see for him is his legacy.

      • malthuss December 19, 2016 at 12:01 pm #

        Legacy = Ego [with capital E].

    • Janos Skorenzy December 19, 2016 at 4:03 pm #

      Yes, exactly. If they did it, we owe them a debt of gratitude for doing what our Media should be doing but refuses to do.

    • ozone December 20, 2016 at 9:12 am #

      chuckyzfr1,
      You’ve hit upon the crux of the matter; the one that weak-willed authority-lovers will not/cannot allow to be internalized and mulled over. *Because* one of the resultant conclusions is that we are being sorely used and our freedoms [in all things] curtailed so as to make it easier for Thems-In-Charge to extract unearned profit from our labors (amongst many other evil doings).

      The reasons for the terrifying and all-too-obvious slavish promotion of Queen Hillary were right there for the deducing of those with eyes to see and a couple brain cells to rub together.

      Diana Johnstone puts it quite succinctly:

      “…It seems that the political machine backing Hillary Clinton can’t stand losing an election.

      And why is that?

      Because they are determined to impose “exceptional” America’s hegemony on the entire world, using military-backed regime changes, and Donald Trump seems poised to spoil their plans. The entire Western establishment, roughly composed of neoconservative ideologues, liberal interventionists, financial powers, NATO, mainstream media and politicians in both the United States and Western Europe, committed to remaking the Middle East to suit Israel and Saudi Arabia and to shattering impertinent Russia, have been thrown into an hysterical panic at the prospect of their joint globalization project being sabotaged by in ignorant intruder.

      Donald Trump’s expressed desire to improve relations with Russia throws a monkey wrench into the plans endorsed by Hillary Clinton to “make Russia pay” for its bad attitude in the Middle East and elsewhere. If he should do what he has promised, this could be a serious blow to the aggressive NATO buildup on Russia’s European borders, not to mention serious losses to the U.S. arms industry planning to sell billions of dollars worth of superfluous weapons to NATO allies on the pretext of the “Russian threat”. ”

      All the rest of these moral alarums espoused on this very comment section are *nothing* compared to these very real world-busting bastards and their intentions to rule without restraint of any kind. So much distraction in a time of necessary focus; I’m more than disappointed, I’m disgusted at the ease at which “we” can be led by the nose. (Note the lengthy blathering on the pizzagate shit. Tangentially, it speaks to the amorality of dese elite, but those who drool over power perform this ugliness *everywhere* and it’s NOT NEW. Why the sudden outrage? Distraction from the content of the original JHK missive. BTW, this comment *in no way* absolves abusers of any kind; the sooner they get what’s coming to them, the better… right here in THIS world.)

      That is all, and thanks for the point of actual focus.

  7. Greg Knepp December 19, 2016 at 9:32 am #

    At a press conference a few weeks prior to the election, as the rigging story was in its early play, Putin mused, “has America become a banana republic that its elections can be so easily rigged by foreign nations?”

    He smiled but I think he was only half joking.

  8. fodase December 19, 2016 at 9:51 am #

    Cheeto-colored baboon raises his tiny meat-hook and swears to enrich his followers.

    The parade of fools never ends. Businesses across the board are salivating at the chance to hire workers because they know the economy is going to finally be freed from the ghastly imbeciles who know nothing of wealth creation.

    Apple, IBM, Carrier, that Nippon company with 50,000 new jobs…

    I’m looking forward to working as a programmer again, my industry’s humming in the face of oncoming prosperity.

    Why don’t you get a job and get some of that enrichment you hate so much?

    • Georges1202 December 19, 2016 at 10:01 am #

      They walk amongst us …

      Do you really think this magnificent wealth creation engine you love so much will suddenly be thrown into reverse and start bringing production back into the USA? Really? Because this fool was able to sneak into office?

      Those companies you name and many many more would sell this country down the road for another dime. Spare us the misplaced flag-waving – $20 trillion in debt the US is no longer a going concern.

      • K-Dog December 19, 2016 at 11:10 am #

        This fool knows how to play an audience very well. About some things he certainly is a fool but in other ways he is not. Part of the appeal of Trump is his inconsistency. He is, as many of us are; a strange mix of genius and idiocy truth be told.

        Patriotism is not felt by those who consider themselves citizens of the global economy (like Obama does). Get rich enough and those able will buy foreign property and become ex-pats once they throw us under the bus they want to ride to exotic lands.

        Remember the movie ‘Body Heat”. In it William Hurt as Ned:

        ‘looks in Matty’s high school yearbook and finds that she is, in reality, Mary Ann Simpson, and her ambition was: “To be rich and live in an exotic land,” a wish that is fulfilled in the last image of “Matty” lying on a beach somewhere in an exotic land.’

      • Janos Skorenzy December 19, 2016 at 4:08 pm #

        No, because he’s going to lower the Corporate Tax rate and impose a hefty tariff if they don’t come back but try to sell their wares here.

        Clear enough for you? Of course they would sell us out – that’s why they have to be regulated. That why they hate Trump. Traditional Cultures know what scoundrels merchants are and to that extant at least, Trump is in line with Tradition now.

    • Keith McClary December 19, 2016 at 3:53 pm #

      You could be right about your own prospects, but I think the benefits of Trump’s tax cuts, deregulation and stimulus spending will go to educated elite folks like you, not the coal miners and rust belt manufacturing workers.

      • Janos Skorenzy December 19, 2016 at 4:09 pm #

        He promised the coal miners relief from the Regulators who were intent on destroying their industry. How do you not know this? Did you think it was fake news or something?

        The Rust Belt elected Trump. They believe his promises. So far, he is making good on them.

        • Frankiti December 19, 2016 at 6:44 pm #

          The coal miners don’t want miner jobs. They just want jobs. They don’t give a sh*t about coal mining, in fact they loathe it. They just want jobs and industry. Poorly educated poor people don’t want to move, don’t want to better themselves. They wait and OD and wait…

          • Janos Skorenzy December 20, 2016 at 3:46 am #

            They want to stay where they were born. Home. They’re normal people – unlike the Cosmopolitan Internationalists, Mercurians, and Jews. You hate them needless to say.

          • lsjogren December 20, 2016 at 1:25 pm #

            That’s the bare-bones lesson the Democrats ought to learn from 2016, but instead they are doubling down on psychosis.

            Don’t tell the people they are stupid and lazy.

            This should be Politics 101.

  9. fodase December 19, 2016 at 9:56 am #

    Also of note is that the price of gasoline is going up along with interest rates. As Kunstler mentioned last week the US “recovery” is in all likelihood headed off a cliff…

    Gotta laugh at anyone invoking JHK’s powers of observation when it comes to the economy!

    As far as gasoline going up, it goes up and down.

    As far as interest rates, they’re going up to keep the imminent economic burst at a measured clip, the Fed knows businesses will now borrow to grow.

    • Cold N. Holefield December 19, 2016 at 9:59 am #

      Why would business borrow to grow at inflated rates when businesses are sitting on record gobs of cash?

      • hmuller December 19, 2016 at 10:09 am #

        Some corporations like Apple and Microsoft may be sitting on gobs of cash. But others have borrowed money to buy back their own corporate stock, sending share prices higher and triggering bonuses for the top executives. Who cares that sales, revenues, and profits are falling when a little financial engineering keeps the party going. Yes, I expect it will end badly and Trump can’t stop it.

      • malthuss December 19, 2016 at 10:27 am #

        To steal? Declare bankruptcy? take the money and run?

      • Georges1202 December 19, 2016 at 10:32 am #

        Yes, record mountains of cash that they will admit to. Double that which is hidden offshore. Should the IRS quite going after the owners of pizza parlors and collect the tax on these trillions the US might actually be able to join the rest of the civilized world in providing a basic safety-net to its so-called ‘citizens’

        • hmuller December 19, 2016 at 2:55 pm #

          Is that a reference to Pizzagate? Because to my knowledge the IRS has not lifted a finger against the pedophile owners of Ping Pong Pizza and Besta Pizza. Hence your comparison is nonsensical.

  10. fodase December 19, 2016 at 10:03 am #

    Sometimes taking on debt is better than using up cash on hand, Economics 101.

    Secondly, not every business has tons of money on hand.

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    • Cold N. Holefield December 19, 2016 at 10:19 am #

      The businesses that are “represented” have tons of cash on hand, and borrowing at high rates when you have gobs of cash on hand is not prudent. Economics 101 is part & parcel of what has gotten us into this mess. It’s after-the-fact rationalization & justification for suicidal behavior that is raping the planet that can’t provide for much longer.

      Perpetual Growth X Finite Resources = Catastrophe

  11. DaveNYC December 19, 2016 at 10:03 am #

    This election was a proxy war between the FBI and the CIA, and the FBI won. The “fake news” and election hacking conspiracy theories are the CIA/Deep State attempt to recover some ground.
    The CIA, and their shills at the NYT/WAPO, are basically running a massive disinfo psyop on the whole country, and apparently at least half the country is buying it.
    the U.S. not only spies on every country on earth, but has directly interfered with elections in Russia, Ukraine, Chile, Indonesia and Iran to name the most prominent examples.
    the Deep State and the beltway elites are having a collective nervous breakdown and they’ve convinced a majority of liberals to join them.
    As a former liberal, it pains me to watch educated and normally reasonable people cave in to what amounts to a type of mass hysteria.
    I’m not a Trump supporter, but he’s exposed the hypocrisy and corruption of the political/media establishment in a way no one else has in several generations and for that alone he deserves credit.
    I don’t think the Cloud People who live in NYC/LA/DC and feed us lies and propaganda for a living have really thought all this through.
    They really believe their own bull***t, and they seem to assume the Dirt People can’t or won’t ever pull the plug on them and their nonsense.
    We’ve entered Weimar stage social disfunction here folks.
    You know what comes next, and as far as our betters are concerned, it couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch or people.

    • thwack December 19, 2016 at 11:06 am #

      “This election was a proxy war between the FBI and the CIA,”

      ******

      Hmmmm…

      Very interesting when you know the difference between the FBI and the CIA.

      On a global scale Ive been thinking about the election in terms the old:

      “Germanics” VS “Britannics.”

      The Anglo American alliance HILLARY CLINTON (plus Jews)

      VS

      the Continental Teutons DONALD TRUMP (plus Slavs)

      How am I doing?

      • Janos Skorenzy December 19, 2016 at 4:13 pm #

        Well, Thwack, well. And Oceania is allied with East Asia.

  12. messianicdruid December 19, 2016 at 10:04 am #

    Would someone please help me understand this phrase:

    “…why we assume so little of men…”

    please be gentle.

    • Greg Knepp December 19, 2016 at 10:19 am #

      I believe that the phrase presupposes that men are little more than apes, and that the reader already understands this. I must confess, though, that this whole quote is confusing – a poorly written piece pretending to be sage.

    • K-Dog December 19, 2016 at 10:25 am #

      Because estrogen poisoning is assumed to be more benign than testosterone poisoning by those subject to estrogen poisoning.

    • shotho December 19, 2016 at 10:25 am #

      It’s a vital attitude of the feminist credo.

      • messianicdruid December 19, 2016 at 1:11 pm #

        I am edified, thanks.

      • Janos Skorenzy December 19, 2016 at 4:19 pm #

        It’s something most women secretly believe. It may have even served a purpose under Patriarchy: If a man is abusing a woman, all the women of the village unite against him and complain to the Elders.

        But when women actually gain equality and gain power, this deep (innate?) belief become ruinous to society, making their claims to equality into hypocrisy as they hurt men and boys to the utmost of their ability.

        • messianicdruid December 19, 2016 at 8:57 pm #

          “To the woman he said, I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your conception; in sorrow you shall bring forth children; and your desire shall be to [ rule over ] your husband, and he shall rule over you.”

          A clarification that makes sense, because she failed to consult her husband before making a decision that effected all.

          • Greg Knepp December 20, 2016 at 1:44 pm #

            She failed to consult him because he was a powerless dolt; not so the Serpent – here was a real man! The oft-subconscious self perception of his inferiority to woman has ever infected the psyche of civilized man. This infection is the bedrock of every manifestation of what we call ‘patriarchy’.

          • InquiringMind1 December 23, 2016 at 3:14 am #

            well messianicdruid,…

            good point! She should have consulted Adam about it even if her maker told her not to.

            and Adam shouldn’t have dignified her bad decision by going along with it.

            I have always heard that mankind fell only because Adam partook of the apple….Eve’s choice there wouldn’t have made the difference.

  13. K-Dog December 19, 2016 at 10:17 am #

    Are people rational 90% of the time and only 10% of the time they loose it and and believe and act from caprice or is it the other way around. The answer is the other way around.

    The idea is that the electoral college would be influenced if enough people bought the fake news that Russia elected trump. Appeal to authority is a strong draw among the dim. If it appears in the New York times it must be true is a belief many hold. I recall more than one article here has referenced the NYT as the ‘newspaper of record’ and made the appeal to authority.

    I’m happy I did not vote for Hillary or Trump. My paws are clean and yes I did vote. The zealous all-out college try of the Obama Administration to elect Hillary by way of deceit is an insult to anyone with a brain. It is also an insult to anyone without a brain but if a tree falls in the forest is there any sound? Some are insulted by this last ditch desperation of the Democrats but if they buy the fake news line of Russia electing Trump whey will never know they are being disrespected by the man who was never about any change you can believe or anyone else can believe in.

    Hacking is a word most people do not understand. Most people who hear the word ‘hacker’ assign super powers to the ‘hacker’ like powers of a character from a comic strip or action movie. The idea that the election was decided by men sitting behind keyboards at 2 AM in their short-clothes in a foreign country is ludicrous. The fact that it is even being tried should be a serious alarm bell leaving us all wondering what other gigantic whopper lies has the American public swallowed in the last eight years.

    Soon enough Trump will be the power behind the fake news and not Obama. I hope Trump shows more integrity than Obama has done and does not use the machinery of American propaganda to take us for fools like Obama clearly is doing and has been doing for eight long years.

    • K-Dog December 19, 2016 at 10:21 am #

      Only fake news was supposed to be in italics but I forgot to close a tag. Had I been one of the ‘Russian Hackers’ I’d have not been able to pull off my hack for I clearly make too many mistakes. I’d get caught or I’d be ineffective.

      • SpeedyBB December 26, 2016 at 12:49 pm #

        ‘I’d get caught or I’d be ineffective.’

        No, ‘UNeffective’. And that’s how they’d triumphantly ferret you out – by a tiny error in spelling or usage.

        Then: ‘It’s obviously a non-native speaker writing this material.

        ‘An evil foreign agent.’

        Kaa-Chingg.

    • cbeard December 19, 2016 at 11:25 am #

      “Hacking is a word most people don’t understand”. The words “loose and lose” seem to be misunderstood also. It wouldn’t be a big deal if it didn’t happen so frequently in print in everything I read. Anyway, to the main point, I along with most other Trump voters would have voted for anyone but Clinton. Sanders had some issues in common with Trump but would probably have done nothing about immigration. I would have voted for good ole Vladimir himself over any of the Dems, Greens, etc. I don’t think Russia is taking in a lot of refugees.

    • Janos Skorenzy December 19, 2016 at 4:22 pm #

      Yes, most of the people are irrational most of the time. Now, where do you stand on Democracy again? Be rational, now.

  14. windward December 19, 2016 at 10:18 am #

    The Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, who should know, write that “evidence of a technical nature points to an inside leak, not hacking – by Russians or anyone else.”

    https://consortiumnews.com/2016/12/12/us-intel-vets-dispute-russia-hacking-claims/

    But then, with the Deep State in charge, it is no longer possible for the average citizen to know anything for sure.

    • K-Dog December 19, 2016 at 10:50 am #

      Ah but ‘consortium news’ is one of the websites listed as carrying fake news so you are supposed to disregard what you read there. It is your patriotic duty to do so without question if you are an American.

      You are obviously a Russian Hacker and only the fact that your accent can’t come across through the printed word keeps your secret.

    • Beryl of Oyl December 19, 2016 at 2:07 pm #

      A DNC insider was found murdered.
      Podesta stupidly gave his passwords away, didn’t he? It doesn’t take any technical wizardry to obtain emails with passwords, does it? I don’t think it even qualifies as hacking.
      We are supposed to assume that everyone connected to the DNC was a Hillary supporter, and that everyone connected to the DNC doesn’t have any sort of scruples when it comes to, well, anything.

    • wolfbay December 19, 2016 at 3:23 pm #

      If the Russians did hack and release the Clinton emails they deserve our thanks.Assange and Snowden also helped to make Obamas absurd claim that his administration is the most transparent in history an actual reality.

  15. Q. Shtik December 19, 2016 at 10:20 am #

    Does anyone know at what time (eastern time) Electoral College voting ends and whether the results will be known later tonight?

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    • Cold N. Holefield December 19, 2016 at 10:31 am #

      Why don’t you ask Putin? He knows, I’m sure. An inexhaustible supply of Kauffman Vodka & Black Gold Sturgeon Caviar will be served up shortly in The Kremlin. Happy Days Are Here Again!!!!!

    • K-Dog December 19, 2016 at 10:39 am #

      I just hacked into the electoral college and found out that since the votes are being cast in state capitals it is hard to say when Trump will reach the magic number of winning electoral votes. The votes from different states will be coming in at different times. Trump is poised to win 306 of the 538 electoral votes but as he does not need all 308 to win the time really can’t be predicted. In Missouri the electors are set to vote at 2 p.m.

    • FincaInTheMountains December 19, 2016 at 10:41 am #

      Here is the list state by state:

      http://heavy.com/news/2016/12/what-time-when-does-electoral-college-electors-vote-cast-votes-today-schedule-state-list/

  16. FincaInTheMountains December 19, 2016 at 10:30 am #

    #PutinDidIt !

    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CzwReJ-XAAEhqdy.jpg

  17. malthuss December 19, 2016 at 10:31 am #

    Bezos gets a payback.
    Twice what he paid for WaPo.

    http://www.globalresearch.ca/cia-cloud-over-jeff-bezoss-washington-post/5563127

  18. PeteAtomic December 19, 2016 at 10:39 am #

    Let’s not forget that the election WAS fixed.

    As the information in the leaks show, it was rigged by the Clinton campaign to overcome Bernie Sanders. That’s the real story.

    • Cold N. Holefield December 19, 2016 at 10:48 am #

      It’s PART of the story, but certainly not the WHOLE story. They were clever enough to do that, but not clever enough to “defeat” a doofus like Trump. Something doesn’t add up with this 2 + 2 = 306 equation. Denmark, true to form, smells awfully rotten again.

      • PeteAtomic December 19, 2016 at 11:29 am #

        Sure.

        However, the Trump campaign didn’t need the help of some Russian to convince a blue collar guy in Missouri or Wisconsin (as examples) to not vote for HRC.

        It’s pretty fascinating that the Demos lost the same people that they purport (or pretended, perhaps) to represent; blue collar types.

        • Elrond Hubbard December 19, 2016 at 12:21 pm #

          The Democratic Party turned its back on working people a good 25-30 years ago so that it could start taking corporate money. The working class hasn’t had much of a say basically since Reagan declared that federal labor laws wouldn’t be enforced and drove the point home by breaking the air traffic controllers’ union. Those chickens have finally come home to roost for the Democrats.

          • PeteAtomic December 19, 2016 at 12:34 pm #

            interesting point.

          • Janos Skorenzy December 19, 2016 at 4:25 pm #

            Yes, Elrond. And turned toward welfare leaches, minorities, and minority immigrants. In other words, it turned against poor and middle class Whites. Glad you’re finally waking up.

          • routersurfer December 22, 2016 at 8:56 pm #

            Agreed. The DNC screwed the Unions and Ted Kennedy with his armed guards toting off the books heavy metal through the Halls of Congress screamed disarm the blue collar hunters of America….. the DNC is the redheaded stepchild of the RNC and has been that way since the 80’s. President Trump will lead us towards a Free and Strong Corporate America!!!! No poor or middleclass allowed. Get rich or get off this planet, you are taking some robots job.

    • thwack December 19, 2016 at 11:31 am #

      Are you sure Sanders wasn’t a shill tapped to give Hillary a good fake battle; and then fold up in the end and support her?

      He may have been chosen to make Hillary look young and vigorous; maybe it was Sanders who was supposed to be coughing and falling down…?

  19. venuspluto67 December 19, 2016 at 10:48 am #

    That the neon-haired social justice warriors with their 76 genders are down lock, stock, and barrel with the new McCarthyism exposes them for the authoritarian useful idiots they have always been. I’m so ashamed that I ever drank that Kool-Aid! 🙁

    • Janos Skorenzy December 19, 2016 at 4:28 pm #

      Check out the new issue of National Geographic: pure child abuse, making a little boy into a purple haired, SJW Medusa.

      Shame is the beginning of repentance.

  20. K-Dog December 19, 2016 at 11:13 am #

    Enough commenting from me for a while. Soon the deep state will be showing up to let the air out of the room and real people will be gone. As they always do.

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  21. chuckyzfr1 December 19, 2016 at 11:14 am #

    I also have to chuckle at all of the calls emanating from the left for electors to disregard their sworn duty and vote against the results of their respective states’ electorate. Who exactly are they supposed to vote for? HRC? Kasich? Ryan? Bernie Sanders? Shenanigans in elections might work when liberal democrats are the ones being disenfranchised, but I have serious doubts that the hordes of Trump supporters would simply shrug thier shoulders and go write angry letters to the editor @ WAPo….just sayn.

  22. pequiste December 19, 2016 at 11:16 am #

    “The day loometh when the Cheeto-colored baboon….”

    ” Because this fool was able to sneak into office?…. – $20 trillion in debt the US is no longer a going concern.”

    Georges 1202

    Tut tut tut there Georges1202; your ad hominem attack on the President-elect is certainly vicious “Cheeto-colored baboon…” but perhaps you are just projecting some deep-seated albeit misplaced racist animosity. Now if you called Barry O. that caramel-colored baboon that would sting the Yzlamik Kenyan a hurtful bunch.

    ” Because this fool was able to sneak into office?.” Georges1202

    That’s exactly what Donald Trump did (NOT)- he first beat a field of 17 other Establishment contenders, over the course of many months, for the Republican nomination for the presidential contest. Then he barnstormed the nation with travel and tweets and shtick as P.T. Barnum would be proud of, and won the struggle for the highest office in the land HIS WAY. Suggesting he sneaked into the Oval Office in this case would be the same to claim that Jack Nicklaus used nefarious means to win 18 major golf championship.

    And all the nonsense about the “hacking of the election” by the Russians and that Vladimir Putin was personally involved frankly borders on psychosis.

    Don’t you just hate a sore loser?

    However ther Georges old boy, you are correct about the 20 TRILLION dollar national debt of the U.S.A. Please note that it was non other than Barack “Barry Soetoro” Hussein Obama who doubled it in his eight year presidency – an achievement we can believe in.

    Now Georges, I recommend you return back to your basement, load up the bong, turn on some NFL or NBA with some Tupac or Nicky Minaj playing in the background for the “real” truth.

    • capt spaulding December 19, 2016 at 11:37 am #

      EVERY president, except for Bill Clinton, has left an increased national debt for the next one. It doesn’t matter whether they are Democrat or Republican. For example, look at the deficit when Reagan assumed office, and look at it again when he left office.

      • AKlein December 19, 2016 at 12:49 pm #

        True enough, Kapitän, but at least Reagan, through massive defense expenditures, set the stage for the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Now, the benefit to that outcome was supposed to be a lowering of tensions and the “peace dividend”. Remember that the “peace dividend.” What we got, however, was “terrorism”. Incidentally, “terrorism” will never be “solved”. We must be forever vigilant (i.e. spend lots of money we don’t have on armaments.) And yes, certainly all the presidents after Reagan helped insure that the “peace dividend” never happened. But not Mr Reagan himself.

        • Cold N. Holefield December 19, 2016 at 1:13 pm #

          He didn’t set the final stage. Reagan merely blew on The Soviet Union and it crumbled to dust. It was that rotted and rusted out.

        • capt spaulding December 19, 2016 at 2:02 pm #

          I wasn’t trying to make Reagan look bad, my point was that the argument so many Republicans use against Obama or other Democrats is kind of pointless, since it happens with all of them. Do you wanna bet that the deficit under Trump will increase? Using the evidence of the past, that’s a bet I’ll take.

        • pequiste December 19, 2016 at 2:14 pm #

          Gorbachev dismantled the Soviet Union due to the demographic wave that would have made it a majority Yzlamik country just about now.

          Reagan just had excellent timing – as great actors are supposed to have.

          Old Ronnie, however, gave the whole illegal alien problem a yuge shove to the deluge point when he granted amnesty to 3 million of them.

          http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128303672

          A demographic flood of Hispanics, that will help make Caucasian Americans a minority in the U.S.A. in a couple of decades.

        • routersurfer December 22, 2016 at 9:04 pm #

          Last I heard Russia was kicking ass and starting to try and kick start a new nuclear arms race so please run that President Reagan destroyed The USSR past me again. Russia lost a bit of dead wood and had a name change. Russia looks like it is better placed for an arms race with China than we are. Twitter DOD? Get a clue this twitter crap is pure stock manipulation. Follow the money.

    • cbeard December 19, 2016 at 2:07 pm #

      Indeed. Give me a cheeto colored baboon any day over the old wicked hag flying on her broomstick.

      • capt spaulding December 19, 2016 at 3:01 pm #

        As far as the wicked old hag, I’m with you.

  23. Beryl of Oyl December 19, 2016 at 11:16 am #

    I really, really enjoyed today’s post.
    As all this nonsense unfolds, what was bothering me perhaps the most was the thought that among all these voices I hear on the television, there isn’t one of them with the intelligence and integrity not to go along with this horrible farce?
    How can it not bother any of them? One reporter’s “news” was an old clip of Donald Trump not liking the electoral college before, and a new clip of him saying he realizes why it was designed that way now. Just like any other grownup. It would have been salient to show a clip of Hillary Clinton or any Democrat railing AGAINST the electoral college BEFORE the election, but that would’ve spoiled the narrative.
    Oh, wait, the electoral college is okay, the electors just need an “intelligence briefing” before they vote, because Hillary says so.
    Again, how do people watch this, and not stand up and scream, “Enough!”?
    Didn’t Diane Feinstein cross swords with the CIA, not too long ago? What happened to her? The cat got her tongue?
    I digress.
    My point is, I’m actually grateful that someone with a national audience said these things.

  24. Demnoir December 19, 2016 at 11:21 am #

    If the deep state let things get this far against their will i’m not very impressed by their capabilities. I think it’s more about getting her off the hook for her lazy inept campaign and stopping folks from asking “Where did that Billion dollars go?”.

  25. bibliomaniac December 19, 2016 at 11:23 am #

    kakistocracy–a government run by knaves on the backs of fools.

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  26. pequiste December 19, 2016 at 11:24 am #

    The Deep State’s and controlled Medias’ reaction to Trumps victory is disconcerting due to the hysterical tone, volume and frequency, but if The Donald has been provided his “Zapruder Briefing” there will be nothing for the Leviathan to worry about.

    Donald J. Trump wants nothing more than to be the Greatest President Ever (TM) and on his terms (a deal negotiated, of course, with the Evil-Fuckers-In-Charge who have undoubtedly let him know clearly what the strict parameters for his activities really are.)

    • Janos Skorenzy December 19, 2016 at 4:31 pm #

      The Evil Fuckers thought they owned Putin too. But he played them for suckers and then betrayed them.

    • SpeedyBB December 26, 2016 at 8:30 pm #

      Pequiste, that is the first thought I had when all the furious back-pedaling began (even before his inauguration, which at this current pace of zaniness promises to be something of a letdown).

      When Obama had a curious meeting with a group of black supporters, they gently chided him for not following through on his promises and truly becoming a ‘peace president’; he reportedly reminded them of what had happened to others who had tried to buck the Security State (JFK in particular).

      All this squawking about ‘He’ll push the red button’ would be comical if it wasn’t so idiotic. Even with the ‘hair-trigger response’ necessary for nuclear retaliation, there are multiple levels of approval in place before the firing codes are released to commanders. The Preznit Donald will huff and puff but he’ll not blow down Russia or China.

      The colonels in the Pentagon aren’t particularly anxious to die in a nuclear firestorm either.

  27. lsjogren December 19, 2016 at 11:24 am #

    It seems comical to me that this is supposed to have had much influence on the election since the stream of embarrassing communications by the Democrats that were revealed by Wikileaks were almost completely ignored the establishment media and were only covered to any appreciable extent in outlets like Breitbart, whose readers were almost entirely pro-Trump already.

    But sure let’s have an investigation, let’s investigate why leading Democrats are so inept that they leave their embarrassing conversations like a stack of 100 dollar bills on their front porch. But let’s not be too shocked if someone like Putin decides to pick them up and drop them out of a helicopter. (Which probably wasn’t even the case, but if it was, so what. Shouldn’t we expect our adversaries to do stuff like this?)

    • PeteAtomic December 19, 2016 at 11:32 am #

      absolutely.

      Or the Dr. Frankenstein’s remorse that orgs like CNN are having right now after Trump’s election.

      After all, CNN and the MSM literally donated millions of dollars of air time to the man.

      • SteveO December 19, 2016 at 12:08 pm #

        Not to mention Mark Zuckerberg’s suddenly realizing that allowing all that Macedonian click bait on Facebook might pose long term issues for his profitability.

      • SpeedyBB December 26, 2016 at 8:31 pm #

        It gets sillier and sillier and sillieriest.

  28. Westcoast canuck December 19, 2016 at 12:05 pm #

    Isn’t this Russian hacking thing a bit like the pot calling the kettle black??? I’m not a student of history but hasn’t your country meddled in numerous elections around the world and over the last hundred years sometimes paying agitators to disrupt elections and installing the winner they have chosen? It’s also like shooting the messenger–regardless of where the emails came from it’s what the emails contain that should be the question.

    • SteveO December 19, 2016 at 12:11 pm #

      Thank you for posting that!

      The US has been messing around with “regime change” in other countries since at least Teddy Roosevelt’s presidency. We are unquestionably the worst offenders.

    • routersurfer December 22, 2016 at 9:08 pm #

      You are correct. A bit like a rapist getting mad because the victim gave him AIDS.

  29. elysianfield December 19, 2016 at 12:22 pm #

    B9K9,
    I’m waiting….

  30. noel bodie December 19, 2016 at 12:30 pm #

    It bears repeating that under any definition of “democracy” HRC won the election currently with over 2.9 mil more votes. It is only the electoral college which was lost. The e c is an anti democratic institution that has long outlived its purpose and needs to be ended in favor of “one man, one vote”. An institution designed to ensure against demagoguery will in this case deliver it.

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    • messianicdruid December 19, 2016 at 4:09 pm #

      The Electorial College is a feature of a republic, which we once were. The love of money ( given free reign in democacy ) allowed thieves to garner OPM, being too cowardly to do it themselves.

    • Janos Skorenzy December 19, 2016 at 4:34 pm #

      “noel, c’mon. Most people shouldn’t be voting at all. The Founders understood that. We need to remember it. The future, if there is to be one, means fewer people voting, not more. To think otherwise is simply to be an intellectual coward”.

  31. San Jose December 19, 2016 at 12:30 pm #

    Russia’s ambassador to Turkey was assassinated in Ankara. Not going to be a good Monday.

    • Cold N. Holefield December 19, 2016 at 1:03 pm #

      It’s not going to be a good Monday, but not for that reason. So what if Russia’s ambassador to Turkey was assassinated. Why would that ruin your day? What is Putin’s Russia going to do about it? Nuke Turkey? Attack Turkey? Invade Turkey? Blame America and nuke America even after Putin won the American Presidential Election?

      • Elrond Hubbard December 19, 2016 at 2:14 pm #

        “No man is an island entire of itself; every man
        is a piece of the continent, a part of the main;
        if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe
        is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as
        well as any manner of thy friends or of thine
        own were; any man’s death diminishes me,
        because I am involved in mankind.

        And therefore never send to know for whom
        the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.”

        — John Donne

        Some deaths diminish me more than others, obviously, but the point stands.

        • routersurfer December 22, 2016 at 9:11 pm #

          Once again a person drunk on the love of God has killed. Evolution has stopped. Drop the Nukes and give the bugs a shot.

      • Beryl of Oyl December 19, 2016 at 2:18 pm #

        I think the truth about why these children in Aleppo have to die is the reason we’ve seen the Establishment so very desperate to keep anybody but their choice out of office. I also think it’s why we are hearing all this sudden talk about fake news.
        We already have seen the establishment media attempt to spin a false narrative on live television, with the coverage of Arab Spring. They were asking people in the street to tell them how great it was that Obama’s influence or charisma or whatever brought about this wonderful revolution, and the people were all like “what? Obama? Nah”.
        They lie, and they lie some more, and I think we are going to see some really big lies exposed.
        Samantha Powers is already out there blaming ephemeral others.

    • SpeedyBB December 26, 2016 at 8:37 pm #

      By his appointed ‘bodyguard’, yet. Indira Gandhi, anyone?

      I wonder whether it has dawned on The Preznit Donald that he could well be left twisting in the wind as well. Someone astutely remarked about hapless Melania that she could well be thinking ‘This is not what I signed up for’.

      Did you notice how (unusually) unsure and tentative he acted when he met with the suave and urbane President Obama? Even playing with the boys from Jersey (de rigeur for the casino racket) was not on this level of power.

  32. AKlein December 19, 2016 at 12:37 pm #

    Although this really ought to seem improbable, there are actors in the US who greatly desire to foment a civil war. That now should be obvious to all sentient beings. Who are these actors? I sure don’t know, but whoever they are, the recently dispossessed are aligned with them. The vernacular for them is “the elite”, although that is likely a misnomer. Personally, I think this attempt at fomenting civil unrest will fail. Is there any demographic sector in the US that really believes this BS about the Russians having hacked our elections? I don’t think so. That said, the anti-Russian propaganda and accusations might just be laying the groundwork for some kind of false flag action. The accusations are just the sort of thing that the old Soviets would have tried, and, further, used as an excuse for governmental action to “save” the country. The accusations against Russia seem very much like the accusations regarding who set the Reichstag fire. We live in dangerous times.

    • Beryl of Oyl December 19, 2016 at 2:19 pm #

      The scary part to me is the way the media just passes this stuff along without question.

    • SpeedyBB December 26, 2016 at 8:38 pm #

      Yes sir. The first sign of such an action would be for a mass blackout of the internet.

      Web goes down for ‘technical reasons’, you know you’re in for a wild ride.

  33. janet December 19, 2016 at 12:41 pm #

    “as Secretary of State Hillary gave more face-time to foreign supplicants based on their contributions to the Clinton Foundation, and expedited arms deals for especially big givers” –JHK

    Trump has not given a press conference in 145 days, so he cannot be asked about his scandals, his lost court cases, his refusal to release his tax returns, his conflicts of interest with his Trump Organization.

    The Trump Organization has real estate holdings in the United States, golf courses in foreign countries, licensing deals to put the Trump name on buildings in at least 10 countries, and produces Trump-branded products, almost exclusively outside the U.S.

    Yet curiously the attention today continues to look back on the DNC, on Wikileaks, on Hillary and Hillary’s foundation, instead of looking forward.

    I congratulate Trump and Putin on their victories and look forward to economic recovery, world peace, and a great America.

    PS
    My condolences to the family of the Russian ambassador assassinated in Turkey today.

    • Elrond Hubbard December 19, 2016 at 2:09 pm #

      janet: “The Trump Organization has real estate holdings… Yet curiously the attention today continues to look back…”

      “Yet”, you say? Why should these be mutually exclusive?

    • Frankiti December 19, 2016 at 6:38 pm #

      WPASoka clown

    • SpeedyBB December 26, 2016 at 9:07 pm #

      About thirty minutes from where I live in West Java the new ‘BoCiMi’ (Bogor-Ciawi-Sukabumi) toll road is progressing rapidly, under the aegis of MNC Toll Roads. It will link Jakarta with a relatively undeveloped area of the island.

      MNC is one of the more robust of the (ethnic Chinese, natch) conglomerates running the Indonesian economy. The first exit gate for the toll road will be near Lido, a lovely hilly resort area with several lakes. Lido has gone bankrupt several times in the past but many attribute that to the poor road access; with the toll road open for thirty million Jakarta residents seeking a quick weekend in natural surroundings, Lido will be great. A hundred million dollar investment in hotels, villa / condos and an amusement park, reportedly involving money from Disney, is going forward.

      Way out here in the wilds of West Java, between live volcanoes, somebody is reportedly going to be building and selling Trump-branded holiday real estate. Amazing.

  34. SteveO December 19, 2016 at 12:47 pm #

    “It will be interesting to see how Mr. Trump gets along with the Intel gang when (and if) he actually makes it into the oval office.”

    Oh ye of little faith. Chief justice Roberts will give “the Donald” the oath of office on January 20th and we will have our 45th peaceful transition of power. After that what happens remains to be seen.

    My guess is that a surprising amount of BAU will continue. The Goldman Sacks veterans he’s putting in aren’t going to change the TBTF banking system. In fact, they will probably eliminate the minimal regulation that is in place. Congress will make sure the military/industrial/surveillance complex stays in place in spite of president Trump.

    Paul Ryan will get to repeal the ACA for the 53rd time and will get his chance at destroying Medicare. (I hope all the under 55 Trump voters appreciate that when they turn 65 and are dying in the street do to lack of healthcare).

    Basically, we’ll just continue waiting for the next economic “downturn”. That’s when things will get really interesting.

    • Cold N. Holefield December 19, 2016 at 12:56 pm #

      Great points, SteveO. A job that will be en vogue during Trump’s/Putin’s reign will be Grave Digger. Longevity in America is set to decline precipitously. Maybe that’s what this is all about, speaking of The Deep State. Population Reduction the good old fashioned way.

    • cbeard December 19, 2016 at 2:17 pm #

      Republican obstructionism of Obama will pale in comparison to the Democratic obstructionism of Trump.

      • SteveO December 19, 2016 at 3:07 pm #

        Trump, like Obama, is coming into his first term with majorities in both houses of Congress. That was when Obama got most of his agenda done. He is guaranteed 2 years of basically getting his way.

        Unless he really does try to cancel F35 or hut down the surveillance state.

    • SpeedyBB December 26, 2016 at 9:11 pm #

      Voters’ memories are conveniently short and selective. They’ll manage to blame the collapse of Obamacare on its own ineptitude (not without reason, to a point), and let the suckers who voted them in pass peacefully to their eternal reward.

      At some point I expect the true banana republics to begin lodging protests in the UN at the slur of calling the USA one.

      Hows about ‘failed state’ instead, Uncle Henry?

  35. Hackable December 19, 2016 at 12:58 pm #

    “which was not possible since voting machines are not hooked up to the internet”

    James, you should stick to the stuff you know about, because it’s absolutely possible, and easy, to hack voting machines.

    http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/08/2016-elections-russia-hack-how-to-hack-an-election-in-seven-minutes-214144

    http://fortune.com/2016/11/04/voting-machine-hack-watch-video-cylance/

    But the most likely place to do the hack would be in the machine’s source code. Place a “bug” that randomly changed the vote of every 1/100 voter and now you’ve turned a close state from one side to the other.

    There’s a reason why Las Vegas requires source code escrow for gambling machines, but neither the States nor the Feds require source code escrow on voting machines. Fraud. Las Vegas cares more about gambling fraud than we do about voting fraud.

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    • Cold N. Holefield December 19, 2016 at 1:07 pm #

      That’s a great last paragraph, but what’s amazing to me is, The Democrats and their Mainstream Media Mouthpiece, or one of them, CNN, don’t seem to care all that much. They hide their indifference beneath the guise of adhering to the noble goal of a peaceful transition of power, but there are a few of us who know better.

    • routersurfer December 22, 2016 at 9:19 pm #

      Did some contract work on elections back in the early and mid 2000’s. You are correct. Add in a bit of bribery and our elections are only as honest as the people involved. You can bet your ass most of the digital toys made in China are riddled with built-in security problems. Can we even make modern weapons systems in house and in a secured environment? I think not.

      • SpeedyBB December 26, 2016 at 9:17 pm #

        I recently read of a four-alarm panic in one of the defense institutions where foreign (likely Chinese) fiddling was detected. The joint was super-secure, everything made locally and covered with security programs, and they couldn’t figure where the hack was originating.

        Until someone suggested it was in the AC mains power supply, some of whose components had evidently been imported. Surprise.

        (No, I don’t know anything about what I’m talking about. Just passing it along as a complement to the preceding comment.)

  36. janet December 19, 2016 at 1:05 pm #

    “Paul Ryan will get to repeal the ACA for the 53rd time and will get his chance at destroying Medicare.”

    Paul Ryan has it in for entitlement programs like TRICARE, Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, etc.

    But on the campaign trail Trump repeatedly promised he would not go along with those Republican plans, and we can trust Trump because he is not a lying beltway politician.

    • Cold N. Holefield December 19, 2016 at 1:10 pm #

      I agree. Let’s give Trump a chance to Make America Moist Again. It’s a tall order for a woman well beyond menopause, but if anyone can do it, it’s the Pussy-Grabbing Extraordinaire, Donald Orange Julius Trump.

      Go Donald!! Grab That Pussy!!

  37. Launcher December 19, 2016 at 1:21 pm #

    I scrolled through the comments in vain, desperately seeking Janos. I believe Janos is the only contributor that really understands how the world is, as opposed to how some would like it to be.

    • Elrond Hubbard December 19, 2016 at 2:18 pm #

      Between the world as it is, and the world as one might wish it to be, there is a vast contested landscape. There’s no opting out of the fight, only capitulation, and Janos is a splendid example of tendencies that are worth fighting against.

      • Beryl of Oyl December 19, 2016 at 2:26 pm #

        I think the difference between Janus and some people who call themselves liberal is that he just admits to having his ‘tendencies’, out loud.

        • Elrond Hubbard December 19, 2016 at 2:38 pm #

          He doesn’t “admit” his tendencies; he’s proud of them. I “admit” that I have bowel movements, and that’s how the world really is, but there’s something wrong with someone who wants to bray and rail about them in public.

          • Beryl of Oyl December 19, 2016 at 3:00 pm #

            The people who are rail the loudest against attitudes such as those displayed by Janos are often just as bad, effectively, if not worse.
            At least when dealing with a Janos you know where he’s coming from.

          • thwack December 19, 2016 at 6:42 pm #

            You got that right.

        • Janos Skorenzy December 19, 2016 at 7:39 pm #

          Yes I have a “tendency” or instinct for the survival of White Race and its culture, the West. Everything Elrond is and loves depends on their survival but he does nothing but tear them down. He is piggybacking on our goodness and virtue and teaching the minorities to do the same. We need to shrug these parasites off. And if they cling still – throw them off.

    • ozone December 19, 2016 at 3:21 pm #

      Launcher,
      Although you are nothing but bait, it’s nice to see you’re not wasting a lot of space with it. All Hail the minions of the Deep State!

      • malthuss December 19, 2016 at 5:44 pm #

        ALL WELCOME LAUNCHER

    • Janos Skorenzy December 19, 2016 at 7:35 pm #

      Forgive me, I slept late. The cares of the World weigh heavily on my shoulders at times. And I am not a well man. Is Wisdom attained without a price?

      Forgive the preemptive tone, it drives them to utter madness….

  38. janet December 19, 2016 at 1:22 pm #

    “Place a “bug” that randomly changed the vote of every 1/100 voter and now you’ve turned a close state from one side to the other.”

    Since the electorate is close to evenly divided, such a “bug” would change those 1% of the changed votes evenly: half the votes from Hillary to Trump and half the votes from Trump to Hillary, effectively canceling each other out, giving an advantage to no one.

    • Cold N. Holefield December 19, 2016 at 1:33 pm #

      And here we have an operative of The Establishment underscoring my point that The Establishment, despite some rather transparent feigning, really isn’t interested in pursuing Election Fraud. Take note that it simply will not acknowledge, let alone consider, what Greg Palast has investigated, which is, by the way, an accusation of rampant Minority Voter Suppression. I thought minorities were supposed to be a large part of The Democrats’ base, and yet here’s one of the operatives marginalizing and dismissing the issue. Yeah, they’ve got your back — they’re putting a knife in it over and over again. and Elrond and Moore want to set you up for the next stab in the back.

      • Elrond Hubbard December 19, 2016 at 2:23 pm #

        Please don’t lump me in with the Democrats — I’m not a liberal, I’m a leftist. If I were a U.S. voter, I would vote Green provided I felt safe doing so; otherwise, I would vote for whichever party or candidate had the best chance to defeat the Republicans (likely Democrat by default).

        And believe me, those on the authentic left (the ones Rahm Emanuel called ‘retards’) are well aware of voter suppression and how it works.

        • Janos Skorenzy December 19, 2016 at 7:41 pm #

          The Democrats are the Left now. And Jill Stein will be changing her Party now that they owe her a favor. The Greens just exist to confuse people – much like the Republicans by and large.

  39. fodase December 19, 2016 at 1:30 pm #

    cold you’re such a jealous loser, you should try grabbing pussy buddy.

    Trump does it and the women love it.

    Bill Clinton does it and they love it too.

    That’s what successful males do, many times.

    Ohhh, you’re so offended!

    LOL losers never have any substantive criticisms.

    you lost, He won, get ready for real change (screw the hope bullshit) punk

    • Cold N. Holefield December 19, 2016 at 1:42 pm #

      Are there video instructions on how to effectively grab pussy or do I have to go to Trump University to get a degree in it first?

      There’s Economics 101 & there’s Pussy Grabbing 101.

      Admittedly, there’s a great deal of overlap between both courses.

      Here’s Economics 101 for those who missed it.

      I Drink Your Milkshake

  40. Zoltar December 19, 2016 at 1:32 pm #

    After the lesson we supposedly learned from the McCarthy era, you’d think that a hundred million bullshit detectors would all be shrieking an alarm at this point but, no – minions of the Deep State have only to say “Russians, boogah boogah!” and most Americans, including a disturbing number of my supposedly-educated friends, buy it hook, line, and sinker. And the liars don’t even have to contrive any evidence that Putin has tampered with our ballots. The mere assertion is enough.

    It’s a wonder that liberals are still capable of reproducing.

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    • Janos Skorenzy December 19, 2016 at 7:45 pm #

      Except the fear of Russia was rational back then. Now they are the White Christians and we are the Communist State exporting Revolution. Most people can’t keep up with such changes and utter reversals of identity. The Jews can: they are always on the side that butters their bread. Thus they are all for free speech when they are outsiders and against it once they gain control of the State. Democrat when out, Totalitarian when in.

  41. fodase December 19, 2016 at 1:32 pm #

    Wrong, Janos understands how the real world works and so do lots of us, except he’s more adept at delineating things

    People instinctively understand how the real world works, which is why they opted for Trump, whom they innately sense is real and gets real results in the real world

    • snarkmatic9000 December 19, 2016 at 3:20 pm #

      Oh really? so the 2.8 MILLION more who voted for the old crustacean understand how the world works?

      • malthuss December 19, 2016 at 5:47 pm #

        No, the 280 million in USA who did not vote for Hitlery know
        or should know.

    • Frankiti December 19, 2016 at 6:17 pm #

      LOL! The real in Janos’s (Vlad’s) world: Whites good. Black, browns, asians, women, and Jews bad.
      Repeat.
      Repeat.
      Repeat.

      • Janos Skorenzy December 19, 2016 at 7:49 pm #

        Whites can be bad sometimes, Frank. Some of them got involved in Communism too or bad Capitalism of course.

        When other people are good, I’m happy to admit it. Just look at Dr Ben Carson! Old Sleepy is a very good man. He invented Peanut Butter! More seriously, look at Alan Keyes – a noble Black Man with a spirit like unto the Founders. Allan West. Clarence Thomas. I wish the list went on and on but it doesn’t go too much further.

  42. fodase December 19, 2016 at 1:37 pm #

    Do you really think this magnificent wealth creation engine you love so much will suddenly be thrown into reverse and start bringing production back into the USA?

    Don’t stay up on the news much, do you?

    DOW at all-time high, companies plan hiring sprees, corporations reverse plans to leave, new ones coming in.

    Just leave more money in workers’ pockets and this is what happens.

    Common sense.

  43. bibliomaniac December 19, 2016 at 1:39 pm #

    “We are the tool of our tools.”–Thoreau

    Watergate, Pizzagate, PutinPutin, Huey Newton; FBI CIA New York Times, Mass Hysteria; Facebook, Twitter, Paranoia; Internet, Alternet, All Right, What’s it to ya? Chaos, Spies, Organize, Words for hire, House on Fire….

    “The effects of technology do not occur at the level of opinion or concepts,” said McLuhan, rather they alter “patterns of perception, steadily and without resistance. The media is the message, It’s content is just the juicy piece of meat carried by the burglar to distract the watchdog of the mind.” Just as stone age tools changed the brains of early homo sapiens, so the digital media is busy retooling us. This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a twitter.
    .

  44. fodase December 19, 2016 at 1:57 pm #

    Are there video instructions on how to effectively grab pussy or do I have to go to Trump University to get a degree in it first?

    just my point, you have no substantive criticism, since you’re bereft of ideas on the loony left side of absurdity.

    Taxes 0% on the first $25K
    Taxes 10% up to $50K

    Elimination of the estate tax.

    What a breath of fresh air! Can you hear the sound of freedom?

    So we’ll now wait for your substantive criticisms of the above, other than we can’t afford it because we owe 20 trill.

  45. fodase December 19, 2016 at 2:00 pm #

    The Trump Tax Plan

    Two massively winning points, for businesses and families:

    No business of any size, from a Fortune 500 to a mom and pop shop to a freelancer living job to job, will pay more than 15% of their business income in taxes. This lower rate makes corporate inversions unnecessary by making America’s tax rate one of the best in the world.
    4. No family will have to pay the death tax. You earned and saved that money for your family, not the government. You paid taxes on it when you earned it.

    Haters of freedom will cringe at the thought of people keeping what they earn.

    Loony lefties are nothing more than vile despots at heart.

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  46. pequiste December 19, 2016 at 2:02 pm #

    And now for some real news – the kind that can set off nasty global conflict:

    http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russian-ambassador-to-turkey-killed-in-ankara-shooting/ar-AAlKgzn?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=mailsignout

    The implications here are profound, particularly if the Russians decide to respond appropriately, after all an ambassador is the living embodiment of a nation. Just (cough cough) ask Hillary Clinton how important is the life of an ambassador (cough cough cough.)

    • Cold N. Holefield December 19, 2016 at 2:06 pm #

      What would an appropriate response be, in your estimation?

      • pequiste December 19, 2016 at 2:32 pm #

        First thing I need to know is who done it:

        Hit squad from state actor; rogue Chechen assassin; wannabe Turkish jihadi; suicide assassin mission by Iraqi ISIS operatives; Syrian al Nusra….etc.

        Next would be: if persons – where does the family or the entire clan live?

        If a state actor: friend or foe.

        Only then could an appropriate response be formulated.

        But an overwhelming response – a la Grozny – should not be dismissed as being an overreaction for this.

        “The love of fairplay is a spectator’s virtue not a principal’s.”
        -Maxims For Revolutionaries – George Bernard Shaw, 1903

        • elysianfield December 19, 2016 at 5:54 pm #

          Cold,

          Oni budut pisat’ na 10000 let, chto my budem delat’ v etom meste.

          • Cold N. Holefield December 19, 2016 at 6:53 pm #

            And a Merry Christmas to you as well. Thank you for the Good Tidings & Cheer.

  47. capt spaulding December 19, 2016 at 2:08 pm #

    Cold, I just read online that Putin is going to sing at Trump’s inauguration.

    • Cold N. Holefield December 19, 2016 at 2:24 pm #

      Perfectly fitting, I’d say. I bet it will be every bit as evocative & provocative as this. I bet Putin will look stunning in his Evening Gown.

      Happy Inauguration Mr. President

      • capt spaulding December 19, 2016 at 3:02 pm #

        Ha Ha.

  48. wardoc December 19, 2016 at 2:09 pm #

    Kunstler, yet again, shows that he is a truly fair and balanced voice, and, thus, has the ability to enlighten his readers about the ongoing national suicide. This, despite the fact that he was born, raised, and resides in one of the ‘liberal’ regions of Amerika.

    That being said, what we are obviously witnessing is the acceleration of the social-economic breakdown that everyone with an IQ of 110 has been expected (except those who have drank the cool-aid of the obama-clinton crime syndicates. We are seeing the loss of direction, the loss of an internal ‘moral’ and common sense compass at the individual and group (e.g. NYT, Washpo, ad nauseum); next will come real violence directed toward anyone who can be blamed for our economic downfall by those who get hurt in serial turn.

    Obviously clinton is a criminal, and trump (I voted for neither) is what he is. In the long run, it doesn’t matter. We are going to see the current trump euphoria turn into extreme angst and then anger when it becomes clear that no one, trump included, can make a $20TRILLION + federal reserve debt vanish and keep interest rates down, without causing a bond market (and latter stock market and real estate market) collapse that will make 2008 look like a minor blip.

    A sea change is coming, but not what most expect! All one has to do to see the future is look at Yugoslavia and Venezuela to see amerika in 5 years. Many ‘cultured’ and ‘civilized’ people will simply not make it.

    Wardoc

    • Beryl of Oyl December 19, 2016 at 2:33 pm #

      I would add ‘Bush’ to your Obama-Clinton crime syndicate. It was supposed to be a Jeb/Hillary contest, remember?

  49. fodase December 19, 2016 at 2:10 pm #

    will-donald-trumps-tax-plan-hurt-low-income-families-millions-could-be-affected-23031

    “shut up you purposeful fool” – thanks for confirming that you want to bludgeon others into silence, since you have no arguments

    and of course, Trump is now hurting minorities, women and children, right ?

    like i say, all lefties are evil despots at heart. they can’t win on issues so they try to silence opposing opinions.

    i’ll let you talk, though, Cold, we’re all enjoying watching you go down in flames of your own making.

    All hail President Trump!

  50. Ken Hall December 19, 2016 at 2:15 pm #

    JHK – “Russia Hacks Election,” was designed by the Deep State players to deviously lead the broadly dim public to think that Russia somehow interfered with the balloting process, which was not possible since voting machines are not hooked up to the internet.

    I agree that Russia likely did not interfere with the actual ballot counting devices; however, disagree that “air gapped” (sans internet connection) computational devices such as the voting machines are not possible to “hack”. Checkout “Stuxnet” the widely disseminated cyber weapon that hacked the “air gapped” Iranian U238/235 enrichment gas centrifuge controllers about 8-10 years ago.

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  51. Don December 19, 2016 at 2:46 pm #

    I have read your blog for a long time, and I love your novels about the possible dystopian future. I have also been tuned in to Paul Craig Roberts, and tended to agree with most of what he wrote.

    But I am beginning to wonder what Cool Aid you guys are drinking. Hillary was a terrible candidate for sure, but looking at Trump’s appointments and outbursts, we may be facing something far worse than a continuation of Obama’s policies.

    Trump and his right-wing nutcase appointees are going to rip the country apart as they privatize, religiousize, and deregulate everything they can get their hands on. And I doubt if Trump will deliver on peaceful coexistence with Russia based on the generals he has appointed. He has already provoked China, and he isn’t even in office yet, so just imagine what he will do when faced with a crisis with Russia.

    • snarkmatic9000 December 19, 2016 at 3:27 pm #

      I suspect our host would agree.

    • piltdownman December 19, 2016 at 3:39 pm #

      @Don

      I agree. I used to check in here every week for a dose of sanity and for the (mostly) informed comments section. Lately? Not so much. That Hillary Clinton even survived the last 20 years of constant vilification is amazing to me. Personally, I’m glad Richard Mellon Scaife shuffled off this mortal coil prior to her defeat, but it goes without saying that she is a smart woman with a knowledge of the world, while Trump is clearly mentally unstable and has a textbook (DSM) case of Narcissistic Personality Disorder. This is not the person to lead a great nation. Not even close.

      • laceration December 19, 2016 at 4:50 pm #

        oh poor Hillary, she has been vilified! How much blood is on her hands from the wars, regime changes, bombings, drone attacks that she voted for/planned/carried out/was complicit in. Her main function as Secretary of State was the precipitation of arms deals. She doubled and tripled even the war criminal Bush Administration–Quite a nice cut ended up in the Clinton Foundation coffers, but she is not in jail/executed for treason/war crimes/crimes against humanity. piltdownman go to the MSM, that is where belong. You will be happier there in the company of your own kind.

        Jim, help the zombies are everywhere, they are even invading the clusterfuck-nation blog!

        • piltdownman December 19, 2016 at 5:29 pm #

          And ya know what? That probably is where I belong, rather than in this company — where everyone seems so anxious to prove their supposed bona fides or to scratch up some flavorful bit from the web and turn it over in their heads like they’re polishing a worry stone… And, always ready with a snarky putdown or nasty reply.

          Let’s be clear; nearly every President and SoS has been complicit in things we don’t even want to know about. Unlike Jim’s one-time sign-off, it’s not “all good,” it pretty much “all sucks.” Dealing with it is what adults do. Talking about it is what everyone else does.

          And what of the bombings and drone attacks? Do you know which were protecting our government or our soldiers – or you? Sorry, but no, you don’t. You take a snippet of something and turn it into a tirade of disinformation. The US has most certainly done many evil things over the past 238 years, but Clinton is probably no more or less a part of those operations than anyone else has ever been — she just happens to have been set afire by the very real “vast right wing conspiracy” and has had petrol poured on her ever since.

          And don’t get me wrong. I was a Bernie supporter from the start. I never thought she was a great candidate. Yet to live in the real world, we need to make real decisions about what is best for the largest number of people. I see absolutely no way that nest of rapacious billionaires are going to help anyone but themselves…

          • Frankiti December 19, 2016 at 6:13 pm #

            What is best for the largest number of people is less of them.

          • laceration December 19, 2016 at 8:21 pm #

            As I said in another comment, you too suffer from “Excessive Equivocation”. Harm and aggression to other human beings, war, is not just something that happens. There are specific people who perpetuate it, like the Clintons and the Neocons. They need to be called out, stopped and held accountable. I don’t expect that to happen in the least. Your “vast right wing conspiracy” is only a little drama to manipulate you, where both sides are the same on substantive issues. They only differ hot button-mostly identity-issues to get you hot and bothered. There is no shortage of critique of the Clintons on the Left too. Take a look at counterpunch.org. As for the snarky putdowns and nastiness, you are right. Let me instead say you do belong here and congratulations for being here and challenging the way you think about things. Break down what you think and where ideas come from and definitely read Kunstler! I think some day you will figure out…Clinton sucks!

    • DaveNYC December 19, 2016 at 3:49 pm #

      There, there sweetie.
      Let me change your diapers and give you some warm milk before bed.

    • laceration December 19, 2016 at 4:14 pm #

      You suffer from a very common malady which I have termed “Excessive Equivocation”. Yes Trump certainly will do stupid and terrible things, I am not comfortable with the Goldman cronies appointed, but let’s take stock. Before even assuming the office he has…
      *deposed the Bush crime family
      *deposed the Clinton crime family
      *effectively scuttled onerous trade deals like TPP

      That is already more than any Prez has done in 40 years. He also has the neocons, the deep state and liberals in a petulant tizzy–which means he is doing something right– and may even reset relations with Russia, ditch Obamacare and veer towards peace and non-interventionism if “we don’t get fooled again”.

      I fully expect him to outlive his usefulness, but hopefully he can dish out some comeuppance on his way as we spiral out to the collapse of this irredeemable “system of things” that we live in. You write as if you would expect more than that–unfortunately I don’t think that’s possible.

      • malthuss December 19, 2016 at 5:37 pm #

        The Bush and Clinton families are still at in.
        Behind the scenes or not.

      • InquiringMind1 December 23, 2016 at 4:32 am #

        Yea, good post.

        I can see he has already made some changes too. I wish the neocon and neolib media would quit trying to analyze Trump like he’s Shakespeare….or something! What do they really know about what is going on in his head? They are still trying to paint him in a bad light. Who the heck is paying them to do this?

        Haven’t they figured out yet that loads of Americans are cynical as all H…ll now … and might be laughing with joy that Russian hackers wanted to help Trump win…

        and therefore somehow help us…

        get our nation back,… from Global oriented toadies that wanted to turn the USA into another version of the E.U. and put their own version of Angela Merkel in our White House so she could ram a huge bunch of very dangerous refugees down our throats?!!! THAT was a good reason alone to stop Hillery Clinton in any position of power again. Ever.

        How very little the media and pollsters ever really knew about what motivated the Trump voters.

        And the voters aren’t finished yet.

        The Democrats that re elected Nancy over the young man from Ohio for house speaker just put the nail in the Democratic party’s coffin.

        They might all just suffer Hillery’s political fate.

        They have no concept of what the American people are willing to suffer to just get rid of them all for not respecting working people.

        We are quite capable of turning bat shit crazy and all nihilistic about just punishing our Tormenters in the Beltway with our crazy votes.

        The Republicans should watch their Greed. And any cronyism.

        The Democrats push a load of misplaced compassion around the world. How about charity beginning at home? How about a little help for the Rustbelt?

        I do understand greed although I don’t like it…
        But misplaced responsibility and compassion?

        Please…Americans do not suffer the fool.

    • Frankiti December 19, 2016 at 6:15 pm #

      Provoked China… ugh

    • thwack December 19, 2016 at 6:54 pm #

      Hillary was handicapped by having to run as a 3rd term for Obama; there was no way for her to admit how bad things were without trashing Obama?

      I almost feel sorry for her

      What candidate could have possibly won running on a platform of a 3rd Obama term in the White House?

    • Janos Skorenzy December 19, 2016 at 7:55 pm #

      No, it’s the New World Order of Hillary and the Neo Cons that we going for war with Russia. Tillerson is buddies with Putin and Trump likes him. Why Trump wanted Bolton is beyond me. Politics? Have to give these people at least something so they won’t cause too much trouble?

    • wardoc December 21, 2016 at 12:42 am #

      Don’t worry; by the end of 2017 all pussy boys and girls will be dead. So, just hope you’re not incarnated as an intestinal parasite.
      So Sorry.

  52. laceration December 19, 2016 at 3:38 pm #

    In my internets wanderings I ended up at http://billmoyers.com. I haven’t been keeping up with him, but remember him for being a reasonable and critical voice through the years. Now his website is an ostensible mouthpiece of the deep state with utter bullshit like this about Russia and Putin: “a right-wing ethno-nationalist plutocracy” “an attack on our very democracy. It’s an attack on who we are as a people. A foreign government messing around in our elections is, I think, an existential threat to our way of life. To me, and this is to me not an overstatement, this is the political equivalent of 9/11.” The commentariat there is pretty much a zombie mob too.

    Even if this stupidity was true all it did was provide useful voting information exposing the corruption and criminality of Clinton and the democrats. Meanwhile the neocon cabal in the US Gov. surrounded Russia with military bases, destabilized neighboring countries, uses its power as the Reserve Currency to sanction and quite possibly in cahoots w/ Saudi Arabia drove down the price of oil to ruin Russia’s export income.

    I remember the day when the right wingers were the crazy ones. They now seem to be catching on to things while the left is now mostly insane in a scary and alarming sense. I actually feel comforted that the rwingers have all the guns–they seem far more capable of reason and restraint.

    • DaveNYC December 19, 2016 at 3:58 pm #

      Agree with this completely, including the part about once having respect for Bill Moyers.
      Life experience and a deep dive into the more articulate wing of libertarianism and paleoconservative writing has helped change my mind on many points.
      I always thought Moyers was a bit of a stuffed shirt, but he seemed to care.
      Not anymore. Liberals and progressives have gone completely off the rails with this election.
      Ultimately it doesn’t matter where the leaks came from, the veracity of the information has never been contested.
      Hillary and the DNC are horribly corrupt and the media covered for her personally and the neo -liberal project generally and they are now becoming completely unglued over their loss of power.

      • Frankiti December 19, 2016 at 6:11 pm #

        Bill Moyers, the homo-hunter of LBJ?

    • Janos Skorenzy December 19, 2016 at 8:03 pm #

      Businessmen should be patriots. It’s a good thing. The bigger they are, the more important it becomes. Above a certain level, they have to be or be made to act as if they were. If they refuse, they can get the hell out and make room for somebody who will play ball with the nation.

      Private Property is sacred, but it’s not the only sacred thing. Individual endeavor is fantastic, but it must not be against the nation. After all, no one does it all by themselves. It’s not just Obama or Warren who believes that – it’s simple commonsense.

  53. PeteAtomic December 19, 2016 at 3:47 pm #

    Maybe another term for this “deep state” there Mr.Jim is “regime conservation” or “asset protection.” Being a bit snarky there with the use of corporation speak. However, I think there is a lot true about it. Isn’t it really just a method of continuing the monopolization of power by government & economic decision makers in the country?

    • Janos Skorenzy December 19, 2016 at 8:06 pm #

      No, they fought like hell against Trump – but they lost. Now they come on bended knee to offer their allegiance. He knows it and they know he knows it.

      They’re globalists and he’s a nationalist. Yuge difference. They loved things just the way they are. In other words, we were already living in a Plutocracy, but there has just been a Fascist (just the European word for Nationalist) Coup.

  54. PeteAtomic December 19, 2016 at 3:53 pm #

    Just pulled this out of Wikipedia under the page: US Intelligence Community:

    “The Washington Post reported in 2010 that there were 1,271 government organizations and 1,931 private companies in 10,000 locations in the United States that are working on counterterrorism, homeland security, and intelligence, and that the intelligence community as a whole includes 854,000 people holding top-secret clearances.[2] According to a 2008 study by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, private contractors make up 29% of the workforce in the U.S. intelligence community and account for 49% of their personnel budgets.[3]”

    If true, mind blowing. What are all these people up to every day? Watching other people masturbate to porn on their computers?? I can’t believe they are only doing that.

    Here is the link to the page:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Intelligence_Community

  55. Buck Stud December 19, 2016 at 4:18 pm #

    Speaking of fake news, election hacking and the Russians here’s what I believe based on what I’ve read–hopefully not too fake.

    Colin Powell has stated that Hillary Clinton’s hubris is always her downfall. Well come to find out the Clinton campaign did not campaign in Wisconsin and didn’t even conduct polling in Michigan: Yeah, that’s hubris all right. (Somewhere I read that Bill was urging the campaign to reach out more to rural voters, specifically in the Rust Belt states but to no avail.)

    But, Hillary did heavily campaign in PA, OH, NC and FL and lost by larger margins than she did in WI or MI. Does this suggest that the more voters heard from Hillary, the less appealing she became?

    And speaking of that, HRC had some of the highest ‘untrustworthy’ polling numbers ever. So no, I can’t personally blame the Russians. At the end of the day, as is now very obvious, she was a deeply flawed candidate with a lot of deleterious baggage.

    So flawed in fact, that Vladimir Putin had a personal score to settle with Hillary–this according to Hillary herself. So even if there were electioneering shenanigans going on, they weren’t really to help Trump as much as harm Hillary. This seems plausible to me.

    Hindsight being 20/20, one candidate–Hillary– was annointed in advance and another candidate–Bernie–was a spontaneous uprising bursting from the inside out with an enthusiasm and passion that contrivity never achieves… and near messianic reverence from Democratic Party millennial voters.

    When “The Bern” was finally doused with the cold waters of a calculating, thumb on the scales DNC, so too was the enthusiasm and passion of the left wing of the Democratic Party.

    And now one garners, between the interstices of news real and fake, little snippets that perhaps disgruntled DNC workers or even those affiliated with the Bernie campaign may have dropped a dime on the DNC and Clinton.

    The Russians?–whatever.

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    • FincaInTheMountains December 19, 2016 at 6:49 pm #

      According to Hillary, it is a revenge for Russian Presidential elections of 2012, but in reality the feud between Clintons and Russia goes all the way to early 90s.

      Then President Yeltsin had a clear agreement with President Bush, Sr that Russian Federation gets out in one piece in exchange for dismantling of the Soviet Union and letting Ukraine (and others) go.

      In return, Bush promised not to advance NATO Eastward – there were supposed to be no troops even in Eastern Germany.

      Then Hillary won the Presidency and buried all the agreements and then did her best to crush the Federation into 36 pieces, starting from Chechnya.

      That’s why Yeltsin in 1999 threatened Clinton with Russian Nuclear Triad – unprecedented in history.

    • FincaInTheMountains December 19, 2016 at 7:02 pm #

      Better hack ’em than nuke ’em!

  56. robert magill December 19, 2016 at 5:08 pm #

    Men Are Jealous of the Love Button. Nothing on Earth has rankled, annoyed and befuddled men more than one exclusively female attribute. All bragging of male superiority is hollow and silly when a certain physical reality is placed on the scales of inherent worth. The world has suffered thousands of years of conflict, armies have moved, Cathedrals have been erected and multitudes denied happiness because one biological quirk has rendered to females a power denied males. Button, Button…Who’s got the button? more

    https://robertmagill.wordpress.com/2016/10/07/the-abrahamists-et-alii-vs-the-clitoris-or/

    • Janos Skorenzy December 19, 2016 at 8:28 pm #

      Correction: You are jealous of women and their anatomy. Most men appreciate women and just want to get with them.

      It’s possible women have a better sexuality, of course. Less bothered by it most of the time, but once aroused, having more capacity and perhaps more feeling. I won’t begrudge them their selective superiorities. Men are better at more things, obviously.

      • Dumbedup December 21, 2016 at 2:52 pm #

        In testimony thereof, I offer the current condition of the planet Earth as Exhibit A.

  57. FincaInTheMountains December 19, 2016 at 5:17 pm #

    Associated Press:

    4:57 p.m. – Donald Trump, 262 | Hillary Clinton, 166 | Other, 4, 106 – Not yet counted

    • elysianfield December 19, 2016 at 5:49 pm #

      Finc,
      Total number of Electors in the Electoral College…538.

      • FincaInTheMountains December 19, 2016 at 6:14 pm #

        I hope I did my math right: 262 + 166 + 4 + 106 = 538

        • Janos Skorenzy December 19, 2016 at 8:31 pm #

          The plus sign is banned in Israel because it is a cross.

  58. malthuss December 19, 2016 at 5:40 pm #

    More Muslim killings in Germany.
    Ms. Merkel is ‘mourning.’

    I am like, ‘Oh, please, you are the puppeteer of the killers.’

    Also ‘The Economist’ has changed some of its ‘2017 Cover’–
    in its online version.
    Removed Donald Trumps image.

    • Janos Skorenzy December 19, 2016 at 8:53 pm #

      Muslims can’t be allowed to be policemen, drive trucks, cars, or shopping carts. When allowed to use pools, they shit in them. When allowed to sleep in churches, the same.

      As Persians say, Allah chose the lowest race of all, Arabs, to receive the Koran in order to show the strength of His Revelation.

      • Frankiti December 20, 2016 at 9:06 pm #

        Wrong again, Vlad.

        You need to expand your horizons.

        All religious simpletons are of low order.

        The problem is, you confuse the cafeteria religious, the pretend believers, the half-hearted, with the devout… the stage 4 infected monsters.

    • BackRowHeckler December 19, 2016 at 9:56 pm #

      Gather up those 12 dead bodies, place them on the doorstep of Burkha Merkel’s residence in Berlin.

      Here’s your handiwork, Burkha Merkel.

      WE CAN DO IT

      REFUGEES WELCOME!!!

      BRH

    • Dumbedup December 21, 2016 at 3:03 pm #

      I know that people like to say that Islam is an Old Testament religion and teaches Muslims to be violent, aggressive, vicious, and and that justifies broad, far reaching statements and general conclusions about Muslims. But if that were true, and if the Koran teaches these things, it wold follow that all Muslims are this way. In fact, that is not true. It is a small minority which teach this to a deranged few who are fueled by constant western meddling in their affairs over oil and strategic advantage over the Russians. If there was no oil in the ME there would be no controversy. But there still might be Russians. Far and away, the majority of Muslims just want to live their lives in peace and be good neighbors. We better start taking responsibility for our own mistakes and evil intentions instead of generalizing and projecting them on a people whose only fault is that they are different.

  59. Frankiti December 19, 2016 at 6:06 pm #

    “Lest you wonder, not only did I not vote for Mr. Trump (or Hillary), but I relished heaping opprobrium on him during the election campaign. Just so you know, I’m not advocating for him, but I’m alarmed that the Deep State (the White House + the Intel Agency gang) now appears to be trying to hack the electoral college vote against him.”

    Sheesh. The lengths one will go to make it perfectly clear that they stand for nothing.

    Truth, or what is correct, or what is right, stand independently from its benefactors. Like them or loathe them.

  60. FincaInTheMountains December 19, 2016 at 6:22 pm #

    Texas voted to Trump! Trump is the President and on January 20 is his inauguration!

    On November 8 Trump won in Texas, with 38 electoral votes, but today only 36 electors voted for him. One elector Art Sisneros resigned and Chris Suprun was the only ” faithless elector” who refused to vote for Trump contrary to the State vote.

    Six “faithless electors” refused to vote for Hillary.

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    • FincaInTheMountains December 19, 2016 at 6:32 pm #

      In a way, Hillary has won! She managed to convince the electors to vote according to their conscience and not as the State voted that they represent.

      So-called “faithless electors” who changed their vote contrary to the state, voted for Bernie Sanders, for Colin Powell and even for Spotted Eagle – the leader of the Dakota tribe.

  61. Cold N. Holefield December 19, 2016 at 6:43 pm #

    It’s official. The deal, and the crappy art of it, is done. The fate of all Humanity is now sealed. In four years or less, there’s a good chance there will be no more America or Russia or China or any semblance of a Human Race. It was quite a Gig while it lasted, but I’m afraid, the Fat Lady is finally singing and she’s almost finished her song.

    The End

    • Frankiti December 19, 2016 at 6:45 pm #

      Thank heavens

      Signed,

      Every other living thing on Earth.

      • Cold N. Holefield December 19, 2016 at 6:47 pm #

        True that. Human is like a cancer that seeks to devour its host.

  62. fodase December 19, 2016 at 6:47 pm #

    Men Are Jealous of the Love Button. Nothing on Earth has rankled, annoyed and befuddled men more than one exclusively female attribute. All bragging of male superiority is hollow and silly when a certain physical reality is placed on the scales of inherent worth.

    Right, men are jealous of the clit….

    I am woman, hear me roar (chirp, chirp … …)

    sheesh….

  63. Frankiti December 19, 2016 at 6:54 pm #

    Sol Invictus

    Every day, new crazy religious doing crazy harm.

    Bombing, bulldozing, burning, shooting, beheading, building settlements, banning abortions, and on and on.

    And every day the sun shines brighter, further, lighting up the hypocrisy, the viral brain infection, the meme contagion, for all to see the taboo that needs to fall.

    Religion is an evil disease.

    • Cold N. Holefield December 19, 2016 at 7:01 pm #

      It and Civilization go together like a Horse & Carriage. You can’t have one without the other like Love & Marriage unless your marriage is like The Clintons’ marriage.

      • Janos Skorenzy December 19, 2016 at 8:38 pm #

        Yes, Cult is the root of Culture.

        • Cold N. Holefield December 19, 2016 at 8:40 pm #

          And Rump is the root of Trump.

          • Janos Skorenzy December 20, 2016 at 4:25 pm #

            No Trump comes from Trumpet or Messenger.

          • Frankiti December 20, 2016 at 9:03 pm #

            Drumpf

  64. fodase December 19, 2016 at 6:55 pm #

    It’s official. The deal, and the crappy art of it, is done. The fate of all Humanity is now sealed.

    wow, didn’t know Mr. Trump was that bad for the planet.

    geez, you may be on to something if you’re right.

    i’m getting scared, Wally, should we like tell Mom that evil meanie is destroying the world?

    In real world news, 6-7 electors allocated to hillary defected from her HAHAHA typical democrat ineptness

    i wonder, though…did the Russians hack them?

    like they hacked the general election but somehow gave her more of the popular vote?

    in any case, now we know women, minorities and children will all suffer, and transgender freaks will be shut out of bathrooms everywhere.

    it’s midnight in America.

  65. fodase December 19, 2016 at 6:59 pm #

    HAHA, just saw a very funny article, obama plans to “develop” new “democrat talent” LOL

    http://www.breitbart.com/video/2016/12/19/obama-plans-develop-whole-new-generation-democratic-talent/

    you have to be seriously divorced from reality, folks….too FUNNY!!!!

    !!!

    !!!

    HAHAHA still laughing

    ..
    ..

    .
    .
    .
    (deep breath)
    HAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA…………

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    • Cold N. Holefield December 19, 2016 at 7:06 pm #

      Whenever I see your screen name now, this song keeps playing in my mind. — just substitute your name for Volare.

      Fodase

  66. fodase December 19, 2016 at 7:25 pm #

    yeah ok i’m imaginarily listening to Volare
    and duly substituting my name…

    now what do I do next?

  67. fodase December 19, 2016 at 7:37 pm #

    Small business optimism jumps!

    President-elect Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. elections is a giant leap for small businesses, according to a survey of their owners.
    The November reading of the National Federation of Independent Businesses’ small business optimism index jumped to 98.4 from 94.9 — its sharpest surge since 2009 — with all of the increase in sentiment coming after the U.S. elections held on Nov. 8.
    “This month we bifurcated the data to measure the results before and after the election,” explained Chief Economist Bill Dunkelberg. “The November index was basically unchanged from October’s reading up to the point of the election and then rose dramatically after the results of the election were known.”

    MAGA buuraaahhh!

    Lots of you will finally get that first job!

    • nsa December 19, 2016 at 8:14 pm #

      The search for new D talent ended today when a new star was born…..Faith Spotted Eagle in 2020

      • BackRowHeckler December 19, 2016 at 9:52 pm #

        He’ll be on the ticket with Keith Ellison.

  68. volodya December 19, 2016 at 8:15 pm #

    It’s a cruel world where stupidity is generally rewarded with extinction. The Democrats are exceedingly stupid and so are their supporters no matter their pretensions to the contrary. They insist that their defeat was due to racism and sexism and xenophobia and ignorance. Idiots talking bullshit to idiots in their idiot echo chamber. I encourage them in this. The world has a surplus of idiots and can do with a lot fewer. And so the Democrat demise is to be welcomed. Bye bye Democrats and good riddance.

    • bibliomaniac December 19, 2016 at 8:56 pm #

      You are certainly right, Volodya–“stupidity is generally rewarded with extinction.” And at this point, the whole earth is in the grip of Mr. Trump’s stupidity. In thrall to the medium of twitter, thousands follows Mr. Trump’s tweets. Climate change, he relates, is a Chinese hoax. Trump’s twitter denies that climate is the “threat multiplier” to our national security that the US military has recognized for 3 decades.

      His twitter denies that the Arctic is melting, that the Himalayas at the top of the world have begun to resemble a snow cone, that giraffes are in danger of extinction, that the biggest fresh water lake in China has dried up.

      Trump’s twitter says it, I believe it, that settles it.

      The content of the message escapes us, and the narcotic hit to the brain is the drug or our own destruction.

  69. volodya December 19, 2016 at 8:22 pm #

    Women assume so little of men.

    Makes me laugh. So many women assume a pose of superiority and disdain towards men. Well, I’ve had women subordinates and women bosses and so, by the evidence of a lifetime of experience, I tell you that such a pose is entirely unjustified. Comical it really is.

  70. janet December 19, 2016 at 8:27 pm #

    “Just leave more money in workers’ pockets and this is what happens.” –fodase

    This is a substantive criticism: Since 1988 in the USA the increase in wealth has gone to the top 10%. The US has a terrible wealth gap. Compare to other countries where the lower classes actually have increased their wealth since 1988. (wealth being defined as a person’s net worth, not their annual income, or, wealth = assets ? liabilities)

    Trump has packed his cabinet with billionaires, generals, and ideologues. It remains to be seen how much they really care about the little guy and those who are marginalized. So far, it looks like Trump’s tax policies will benefit Trump more than the average worker.

    I hope to welcome Mr. Trump personally at the Women’s March on Washington, Jan. 21, 2017. Trump’s rhetoric has insulted, demonized, and threatened many of us… immigrants of all statuses, Muslims and those of diverse religious faiths, people who identify as LGBTQIA, Native people, Black and Brown people, people with disabilities, survivors of sexual assault …

    In the spirit of democracy and honoring the champions of human rights, dignity, and justice who have come before us, we join in diversity to show our presence in numbers too great to ignore. The Women’s March on Washington will send a bold message to our new administration on their first day in office, and to the world that women’s rights are human rights. We stand together, recognizing that defending the most marginalized among us is defending all of us.

    Good luck to everyone. And congratulations to Mr. Trump for being officially elected as president today.

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    • BackRowHeckler December 20, 2016 at 12:26 am #

      Women’s March on Washington?

      Jesus H Christ, we’ve been spared this sort street theatre BS for the past 8 years. You’re here telling us its starting up again? Cindy Sheehan, Code Pink, coeds from Smith and Byrn Mawr laying down in the middle of Pennsylvania Ave., having one of their little ‘Die-Ins’?

      What the hell is LGBTQIA? That f=kkin acronym keeps getting longer and longer.

      brh

      • Janos Skorenzy December 20, 2016 at 4:22 pm #

        Cindy Sheehan came to an Awakening and realized that it was Jewish Establishment behind our endless Mideast Wars.

        • Janos Skorenzy December 20, 2016 at 4:24 pm #

          The press loved her when she was mourning her son and raving against the evil War Machine of America. But as soon as she named those behind it, she became a non-person and got zero coverage.

      • Dumbedup December 21, 2016 at 2:49 pm #

        BRH, just like ISIS, we created these organizations. Do you think Martin Luther King would have been a civil rights hero and assassinated had the south thought it time to change its bigoted ways?

  71. BackRowHeckler December 19, 2016 at 8:58 pm #

    Tourists wiped out at a Crusade historic site in Jordan, another truck attack in Europe, this time in Berlin (9 dead), Russian ambassador murdered in Turkey — Muslims everywhere are working hard to ensure Christians enjoy a Merry Christmas.

    Meanwhile, in CT, Senator Blumenthal convenes a meeting at a local Mosque to explore ‘hate crime against Muslims’. I shit you not.

    Somebody above enquired what Obama’s promised response to alleged Russian hacking into Dem E mails might be. Does anybody know, has the USS Harvey Milk been commissioned yet? The possibility exists he may send that fighting ship into the Black Sea, kick some Russian ass. Also, the new Tranny Divisions, flying their Ruby Slippers battle flag … he can deploy them to Ukraine, show those Russian peasant soldiers primed up on vodka and virulent Love of the Motherland what American PC tranny soldiers are all about.

    brh

  72. BackRowHeckler December 19, 2016 at 9:22 pm #

    That’ 12 dead in Berlin, not 9. I underestimated the Muzzies love for his Christian brothers, and gracious hosts.

    Word is the driver, a Paki or Afghani, entered Germany as an esteemed Refugee.

    “WE CAN DO IT”

    brh

  73. volodya December 19, 2016 at 9:28 pm #

    bibliomaniac, well, a part of the earth is in the grip of Trump’s stupidity, let’s not discount the fact that Americans are 5 percent of the world population and as such a great deal of shit happens that has nothing to do with the U.S. But your larger point is that Trump is, well, stupid? He won the election. He beat not only the Democrats but the Republicans too. I’ve called him monumentally incompetent, at least for the task of Chief Executive of the U.S. But, ok, yes, let’s say he’s stupid. The ones he beat are stupider still. Beating a buffoon like Trump should have been easy.

  74. michigan_native December 19, 2016 at 9:44 pm #

    When I saw Leon Panetta get up and endorse that vile pig Clinton, my suspicions were confirmed. The last minute attempted coup, although not as sordid as the JFK coup, seemed just as obvious. The Pentagon types in the “intelligence” community wanted to install that despicable piece of shit, that corporate whore, that sell out Clinton to carry out their warfare solution to peak oil, diminishing resources, and their dying empire. They knew they could count on this witch to carry out that agenda, which was/is to use violence and military intervention to achieve hegemony over the middle east, where most of the planet’s 50% or so remaining ultimately recoverable oil lays. With Trump, they aren’t so sure he will carry out their agenda. With Clinton, they had their puppet in place. She has not only supported all their oil wars, she laughs, gloats about, and seems to enjoy them. It had not gone unnoticed the increased military presence at sporting events. Bad musicians, wounded vets, tear jerking reunions, jet fly overs, etc. The events were turning into patriotic orgies to condition the public and manufacture consent for their warfare solution. Whether or not Trump will be coerced, forced to jump on their bandwagon or face an assassination attempt remains to be seen, but I was one of the Sanders people that crossed over for Trump. MI went for the orange orangutan. You don’t like it, fuck you. That bitch was a cheerleader for NAFTA, sold us out when she voted for the bankruptcy reform act, and rest assured, would have signed that TPP when it crossed her desk. If all we can get out of this is averting a nuclear war, averting government censorship of the internet (something Clinton and Obama are threatening, I think at the behest of the CIA), and blocking the TPP, I will be happy.

    • ozone December 20, 2016 at 9:37 am #

      Michigan,
      Bingo! All of the entrenched, Establishment-types who stepped right up to promote the Killer Queen were more than “clues” as to what direction her administration was going to take; these were all blatant pitchmen of the New World Order of total spectrum dominance. Hillary supporters just didn’t want to see it and I was a little shocked at that! (I really shouldn’t have been, noting the propaganda conditioning that this population has been under since WWII.)

      The internecine war brewing in the corridors of power is going to be “interesting”… to say the very least. Keep your head down and your powder dry; there are no saviors but ourselves.

  75. volodya December 19, 2016 at 9:50 pm #

    Coming very, very soon from a podium near you, from people that purport to be our betters, denunciations for our shameful Islamophobia. Yes, you see, never mind that trucks run down dozens, gunmen shoot dozens more, that Muslims mark their arrival in countries offering refuge to them with mass murder. It’s OUR fault IOW. Now repeat after me and get it through your thick head, Islam is a religion of….

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    • Cold N. Holefield December 20, 2016 at 6:54 am #

      You need to stop. A New Day has dawned. It’s time for The Genocide to begin. Every negative thing that happens under Trump’s Administration will be the result of Radical Islamic Terrorism. Submit your children to The Cause of eradicating it. First Stop? Iran, but Iran done right, not like Syria is being done. Iran done like Iraq, but maybe some Nukes thrown in for Good Measure. It’s going to be Such Fun!!!!

      • malthuss December 20, 2016 at 10:18 am #

        You need to stop. Indeed.

  76. johngalt December 19, 2016 at 9:53 pm #

    In the New Republic, members enjoy resuming the restoration of the Constitutional republic from JFK’s point of interruption, can see for miles and miles, and enjoy Liberty in building out properties and the local means of production, with the capability to sow, nurture, grow, harvest, store, cook, engineer, design, program, automate, construct, process, raise, teach, hunt, defend, provide, debate, organize, compose, worship, dance, celebrate, and sustain.

    We are the sheepdogs.
    And we are old fashioned and sentimental.
    And we don’t require others for border protection or building bridges.
    And we have undying devotion to the Constitution.
    And we belong to the longest serving Civil Rights organization in the Republic.
    And we are happy to participate in the proper pursuit and offering of due process under the Constitution to the NETWORK globalist class charlatans who sold out the old republic in their lust for power and the love of money.
    And we are ready for what’s next.
    Sent from the New Republic.

    http://www.got-truth.com

  77. volodya December 19, 2016 at 11:19 pm #

    What I want for Christmas is for the Russians to give to wikileaks the 30,000 missing, deleted, bleachbitted Hillary emails.

    I suspect that the Russians have them and are using them to blackmail Hillary and Bill. What I’d like to know is the price. How much are Bill and Hill willing to cough up to avoid a shitstorm? Do they have oligarch benefactors to pay the ransom? Maybe not. Now that Hill utterly screwed up what should have been an easy win, maybe the billionaire class is saying enough, Hillary didn’t come through so no more good money after bad.

  78. volodya December 19, 2016 at 11:35 pm #

    Fake news. Those hipper than thou will stare you down and poke you in the forehead and say “fake news”.

    Well, here we go again, dress up something up that’s been around since the inception of sapiens (lies and bullshit and misdirection and propaganda) with a new name, fake news, and act all cool and intellectual and world weary. Make it sound like this has never ever ever been seen before.

    Fake news, like the latest fake unemployment stats and fake GDP numbers.

  79. volodya December 19, 2016 at 11:52 pm #

    Yes, a vile pig, a money grubbing pig. But no, piggishness is in the eye of the beholder, isn’t it, a tireless fighter for women and the marginalized shouldn’t be disparaged for taking some money. I mean, there’s bills to pay, no? No, the sad ending was because of fake news and Comey and hacks and gargantuan sea monsters roiling the deep. And schools of playful porpoises.

  80. volodya December 20, 2016 at 12:13 am #

    What strikes me is the flaccid half- assedness of this coup attempt. In the old days, if the powers-that-be wanted to get rid of a president, they’d plan a presidential visit, with a motorcade through a public square, and then, you know the drill, bang, bang, bang. Then, make an arrest of a shifty looking suspect and then bang, bang yet again. And if the deceased president’s brother didn’t get the message, to stay out of politics and stay away from places that people like him don’t belong, then bang bang some more. Bang bang bang until people fall into line. This crew should leave things to the Generals. Yes, the hats give orders and the orders are carried out. The way things are going the President elect will have a fat and happy four years stinking up the place. Yes, I know, the alternative candidate, the Flying Lizard would be worse. Far worse. It’s hard to concede the point but concede we must.

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    • Cold N. Holefield December 20, 2016 at 6:35 am #

      Please stop. It’s over. Your Man won. Embrace his Essence. Get behind him. Grab firmly onto his coattails and ride him like the Angel of Death that he is into the awesome mysterious Abyss that welcomes YOU, nay all of us, with open arms and bated breath.

      • elysianfield December 20, 2016 at 12:09 pm #

        Cold,
        Nice phrasing….

      • capt spaulding December 20, 2016 at 1:12 pm #

        That’s very poetic, Cold.

      • Cold N. Holefield December 20, 2016 at 2:20 pm #

        Thanks, guys. I stayed up all night working on it.

  81. pequiste December 20, 2016 at 12:39 am #

    A bit up-thread Laceration said ” I actually feel comforted that the rwingers have all the guns–they seem far more capable of reason and restraint.”

    Well then, Lace, you haven’t been paying enough attention to the Good Times the African-American communitee of Chicago is having this year with them closing in on 700 murders and well over 3,000 shot so far. That is just Chicago-town and does not include the burgeoning numbers of casualties/fatalities in Detroit, Camden, Hartford or Baltimore among the top American murder places.

    And then there are the Yzlamik over-exuberance practitioners.
    Guy in Turkey assassinates the Russian ambassador on TV for some great ratings and a wicked NYTimes front page photo. Here in USSA – San Berdoo, Orlando’s Pulse nightclub massacre, Chattanooga recruiting station…..Ft Bliss and that pos scumbag Maj Nidal Hasan (thought I had forgotten about that nematode didn’t you — seems everyone else, especially the Media has.) So remember the muzzy has guns , lots of them, and loves to use them – especially on infidel Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists and anyone else who doesn’t believe in their Allah and Mohammad nutjob show. For further clarification and examples please see ISIS, Taliban, Boko Haram, Syrian civil war, Yemen…..and a half million other Yzlamik shitholes.

    So sorry to burst your bubble Laceration,

    Yet I am also thankful that in the USSA the right-thinking have guns and are also prepared to use them in defense of family, neighborhood, town, and state against all enemies foreign and domestic.

    And yes, it is the domestic enemies of the nation that are most hateful and problematic.

    • pequiste December 20, 2016 at 6:33 am #

      Maj Nidal Hasan, Yzlamik mass murderer at Ft Hood, Tx. Pardon me please. Also home to pfc Naser Jason Abdo btw.

  82. tucsonspur December 20, 2016 at 2:27 am #

    Yeah, you could see it coming. Ol’ Bill Clinton said, “Trump doesn’t know much, but he does know how to get angry white men to vote for him.”

    Ah, how telling. The lying intern seducer of course is not angry. Why would he be angry at anything? Angry at not being first man? First husband? Really?

    Yes, how telling Bill. You’re white, but you are not angry. Or are you now angry at being white?

    Maybe Trump knows more than you think.

  83. Buck Stud December 20, 2016 at 3:20 am #

    “Small business optimism jumps!’–Fodase

    Say a small business or sole proprietor languishes in the lower economic realm for years and then suddenly has a breakout year of 100,000 grand in taxable income. Figure about 31,000–16,000 plus 25% after 75,000– of that will vanish to taxes ( and granted, about half of that will be self employment/ medicare, which, is a boomerang benefit later in the life of a worker).

    Many will say, ‘hey 70,000 is a pretty good year after all is said and done. But a small business has no guarantees they will earn that same amount or better from one year to the next depending on a variety of factors. Thus the natural tendency to ‘hoard’ and diminish ‘velocity” due to future uncertainty, not to mention ancillary concerns such as health care and retirement savings etc which is always a real worry/concern for small businesses and the self employed.

    Real optimism will result when small businesses don’t feel so uncertain from one year to the next; when there is a real sense that “prosperity” resides on stable and sure ground.

    Alas, even negative projections of another recession will kick everyone’s ass once again and reinforce a ‘cacooned’ economic dynamic: uncertainty on steroids, IOW. And frankly, I don’t see how austerity policies will create economic confidence especially if one is talking about SS or Medicare cuts

    Alas again. I’m pretty sure most all Americans are rooting for a kick ass economy but I’m also pretty sure most Americans are still somewhat traumatized by the last recession.

    If Trump gets a good jump out of the starting gate economic confidence could really gather some momentum and perhaps people will stop anticipating the other shoe to drop which creates a negative feedback loop.

  84. Cold N. Holefield December 20, 2016 at 6:31 am #

    It’s time to shut the hell up about The Clintons, The Democrat Party and The Liberal Media. All of that is now dead & gone and it’s just YOU & Donald Trump now. No more “look over there.” You’re Center Stage now. The Spotlight is on YOU & YOUR Great Leader. You can no longer point a finger at some artificial form of opposition because there is no real, organic opposition. YOU own it. It’s for YOU & Donald Trump to destroy, and believe me, YOU & YOUR Great Leader will perform that dubious honor masterfully, no doubt.

    So, tucsonspur, no one really cares about the bygone Clintons & The Obamas & The Democrat Party & The Liberal Media any more. They’re now irrelevant relics. Move on and get busy with Humanity’s Final Act.

  85. Cold N. Holefield December 20, 2016 at 6:48 am #

    If there can be one shred of positivity that can come of this latest Election Farce, it’s that The Pendulum has finally been smashed, even if it was always just a holographic semblance of a Pendulum.

    You know what I mean, this ridiculous Left/Right, Conservative/Liberal Binary Bind in which The Establishment presents, and reports on, politics. It’s a Pendulum that’s on a cart with wheels that’s traveling down the back half of The Hill of Prosperity so each time the Pendulum swings to and fro, the result is always a diminishment & degradation of Prosperity.

    But now, the Left part of that swing of the Pendulum has been decimated, so, there is no more Pendulum, not even the pretense of such which it’s been for quite some time now.

    Instead, the now defunct Pendulum has been replaced by a Rocket, and that Rocket is headed straight down the back half of The Hill of Prosperity at 20,000 mph. Godspeed has never had greater meaning than it does today. Godspeed, indeed.

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  86. Ishabaka December 20, 2016 at 8:36 am #

    I have to wonder if the people of the Democratic Party are ready, or willing to learn anything from this devastating loss, or if; like three year olds, they will continue to cry “No fair! It’s THEIR FAULT!”

    Here are just a few of the lessons:

    1. Don’t choose a candidate who is a bad politician. No matter how much money that candidate can provide.
    2. If you do choose a candidate who is a bad politician, ensure they do not run a bad campaign – specifically:
    a) don’t insult any voters, ever, even if you really don’t like them.
    b) if there’s a scandal, immediately claim full responsibility, apologize, explain how you will prevent a future recurrence, and move on.
    c) don’t put anything in an email you wouldn’t put on a billboard in Times Square
    d) don’t assume voters who have traditionally voted your party will do so this election
    e) if you have serious health issues, immediately release full details, including diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis.
    f) money helps, but no amount of money guarantees you will be elected.
    g) don’t be complacent
    h) don’t be smug
    i) don’t be vindictive
    j) you aren’t owed elective office because of your sex, age, race, background, or anything else. In fact, life owes you nothing.
    k) the electorate will accept a flawed candidate who is honest. It has great difficulty with a flawed candidate who is dishonest. All humans have flaws, so you’d better be honest!

  87. fodase December 20, 2016 at 9:00 am #

    President Trump already making economy boom:

    SAN FRANCISCO — The Japanese business mogul Masayoshi Son pledged to President-elect Donald J. Trump nearly two weeks ago that he would invest in the United States and create about 50,000 jobs.
    On Monday, Mr. Son’s conglomerate, SoftBank, took what it described as the first step in fulfilling that commitment.
    By leading a $1.2 billion investment in OneWeb, which makes satellites for internet access, SoftBank said it was continuing to invest in new technology and supporting job creation in the United States. In their announcement, SoftBank and OneWeb said the investment would create nearly 3,000 jobs in the United States over four years.

    Our On Time, Under Budget President who delivers real jobs for Americans of all stripes

    Congratulations, Mr. President!

  88. fodase December 20, 2016 at 9:07 am #

    GERMANY IN STATE OF WAR, ADMITS MINISTER

    German state minister says: ‘We are in a state of war’
    The interior minister of the German state of Saarland said on Tuesday Germany is in a state of war after a man drove a truck into a crowd at a Berlin Christmas market, killing 12 people and injuring 48, in a suspected terrorist attack.
    “We must say that we are in a state of war, although some people, who always only want to see good, do not want to see this,” the minister, Klaus Bouillon, told German broadcaster SR.

    How nice to see common sense return to the fore. Here you go, insane loony liberals, see the wonders of your compassion.

    A zone for these unassimilable mohammedans will be created poste haste by an international group headed by Mr. Trump, and new movements of refugees will start populating it.

    Then, get ready to see flows of refugees in Europe back to the same area.

    It takes an Alpha Male to undo the manifestly insane policy of mixing tolerant, modern societies with rabidly intolerant, maniac-driven cultures.

    • Buck Stud December 20, 2016 at 11:04 am #

      People, especially libertarians, like to lament “the Security State” but the tragic truth is that terrorism is terrible for business/commerce, not to mention, dangerous and deadly to innocent lives everywhere.

      And if terrorism is continually being committed by a certain group, the inevitable reaction will be selective profiling/monitoring of that group. Trump, as I recall, has proposed such a policy (please correct if my recollection is faulty).

      The alternative is the destruction of the economy due to terroristic tactics due to hamstrung political correctness and the inability to act ( I know, a terrible oversimplification; there are treasured constitutional rights in the crosshairs of this struggle.)

      So naturally, the formidable, accomplished businessman–President Elect Trump–proposes policies and solutions–‘get tough and smart on immigration/terrorism’– that seek to preserve, protect and nurture an environment is which business can flourish (and of course, protect innocent lives).

      Most of us will hold our nose while a bottle of metaphorical “Raid” is sprayed on insane and destructive “wasp nests”. A trade off if you will. Because at the end of the day most people treasure the bottom line and their safety–the ability to continue earning a living and paying their bills without the threat of being killed by a despicable religious fanatics.

      And yet, most reasonable people will also conclude that there are no ideal choices to be made in this fight. And so it goes…

      • Janos Skorenzy December 20, 2016 at 4:07 pm #

        Now read your posts of two months ago when you were cheering for the Red Queen and jeering at us rubes at our coming defeat.

        Can you reconcile that guy with who you are now? The first step in integration is admitting that you lack it. You have to develop a Center. Only with a Center will be integrated enough to realize the truth of anatta – no self. The other two marks of existence are anicca – temporary, and dukkha – suffering.

        Right now you think you’re someone, but you are less of an individual than most in terms of coherence. You are large and contain multitudes. Your name is Legion for you are many.

        • Buck Stud December 20, 2016 at 4:35 pm #

          Actually you don’t know me at all. I voted for Reagan, Bush The Elder, GW Bush in 04–didn’t vote in 2000. I have listened to more Limbaugh –and others–than most. Do you recall Charles Adler, the Canadian conservative talk show host? I started listening to him in the “dark days” after Bill Clinton was first elected…he has a great voice and is an immensely talented talk radio voice.

          ( By “dark days” I am invoking the cyclical nature of politics; I have lived through both parties on top and have felt the sting of being on the losing side–even when I supported the GOP.)

          I went south on the GOP when they went south on health care in terms of my personal situation and I now favor D’s because of this single issue. But I could easily swing back into the R column if things–health care issues–work out favorably for the sole proprietor/ self employed burdened with pre existing conditions and who doesn’t want a return to the dark days before Obama when affordable insurance was simply out of the question.

          • Janos Skorenzy December 20, 2016 at 8:20 pm #

            You are larger than you realize, your boundaries far beyond your own ken. You were raving about Hillary as a Great Leader and the best thing since the invention of Peanut Butter.

      • Dumbedup December 21, 2016 at 2:43 pm #

        Terrorism is good for business.

  89. Cold N. Holefield December 20, 2016 at 9:57 am #

    I have to laugh at all you fucking Moronic Rubes who believe you’ve cured yourselves of the Artery-Clogging Plaque with Trump’s “defeat” of The Red Queen Hillary. You’ve done no such thing. Hillary and what she represented is the cause of the Artery-Clogging Plaque — the poor diet and terrible lifestyle choices that precipitates the inflamation that precipitates the deterioration of the Artery Walls that allows the Artery-Clogging Plaque to take hold and latch on and build up. Yes, Trump’s “victory” may have dislodged the plaque, but now that Dislodged Plaque is heading straight for the brain where it will inevitably entirely clog a smaller, but vitally important, vein and that vein will burst open and we’ll have a Fatal Aneurism. So yeah, enjoy your Plaque-Free Artery while it lasts, which is a mere few seconds or minutes.

  90. fodase December 20, 2016 at 10:15 am #

    Cold, love the analogy, I really learned a lot from it.

    Is there a blog where we can get more of this insight?

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  91. Sean Coleman December 20, 2016 at 10:48 am #

    Peter Hitchens can’t find any evidence against Russian interference either:

    http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2016/12/give-a-dog-a-bad-name-why-is-russia-always-presumed-guilty-.html

    The reaction to Trump’s election is uncannily similar to that of Britain’s liberal know-alls.#

    My guess is that is has little or nothing to do with the ‘Deep State) (US) or the ‘Establishment’) (Britain). I don’t even know if these things exist. I suspect they don’t. I put it down to mass psychology, where the fantasy takes over and facts are invisible.

    • Sean Coleman December 20, 2016 at 12:23 pm #

      Here is what an insider in the British ‘Establishment’ said about its workings:

      http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2014/06/amazing-scandal-erupts-nobody-notices.html

      Former senior government advisor, Dominic Cummings, said, ‘MPs have no real knowledge of how to function other than by gimmick and briefings. That’s also how No 10 works. It’s how all of them are incentivised to operate. You get ahead by avoiding cock-ups and coming up with tactical wins, you don’t get ahead by solving very hard problems.’

      He spoke of ‘politicians running around who don’t really know what they are doing all day or what the purpose of their being in power is.’

      ‘Everyone thinks there’s some moment like in a James Bond movie, where you open the door and that’s where the really good people are, but there is no door.’

      Hitchens remarks: ‘There is no door! Those four words are almost literature.’

      That’s the British Establishment. Is the American Deep State any different?

      The Germans? Clémentine Forissier, a Belgian journalist who spent years as a Berlin correspondent, spoke on France Radio about Merkel’s decision to admit hundreds of thousands of ‘refugees’. She had never before seen her make any decision that had not been carefully thought out but this one was (from memory, but I also took a note) ‘rapide, émotionelle et pas rationale’. (I had joined Facebook just in time to witness the amazingly rapid and hysterical campaign for her to do just this.) People argue now that this was a cunning move to enhance German’s work force (or “what. ever.”) but this is just an attempt to rationalize the irrational.

      This isn’t to say that they don’t conspire, just that they aren’t any good at it, or anything else, by the look of things.

      I’d be confident that the campaign to un-elect President Trump is (just as it was to undo Brexit) driven by misguided, irrational and deep emotion on the part of the almost-insane ranks of the politically correct.

      • Janos Skorenzy December 20, 2016 at 4:12 pm #

        Google the Kalergi Plan. It is a plan to turn Europe non-White dating back to before WW1. She won the Kalergi Plan a few years ago. In other words, it is well thought out, at least by others, but it can’t be explained to people since it is monstrous.

        But of course the inner cult loves it even if they don’t know about the Plan. Their indoctrination has lead them to feel that the White Race needs to be abolished.

        • malthuss December 20, 2016 at 9:35 pm #

          I AVOID GOOGLE.

          I was using it today to search images of–

          WHITE WOMAN AND CHILD.
          It led me to what others said is (((google))) and its race replacement act.

      • Dumbedup December 21, 2016 at 2:42 pm #

        That’s been true of government for a long while now. FDR was probably the last President, not assassinated, to actually try to solve hard problems. Trump can probably change things but in what direction we won’t know until summer or next fall. I wish I could jump ahead 9 or 10 months to see what things look like.

  92. FincaInTheMountains December 20, 2016 at 10:58 am #

    Hillary Clinton managed to completely destroy the traditional electoral system of the United States, in violation of all the written and unwritten laws and subordinated to her own goals the establishment of both parties. Which is completely incompatible with the two-party system, but she has achieved this by previously subjugated the Fourth Estate, that is, trampled into the mud the 1st Amendment to the US Constitution in the part where it guarantees the freedom of speech.

    These actions of the first female US presidential candidate from one of the ruling parties were almost successful, but the conjurer was drunk and conjuring was unsuccessful.

    It turned out that the American people are much smarter than I thought about them, and they just stopped listening to the media and start voting for Donald Trump in droves.

    Although democratic media went crazy with the well-orchestrated hysteria caused by the “influence of the KGB chief” on the Presidential election, but looking at the hysteria, I want to say, like Stanislavsky: “I am not buying it!”

    Rather, Hillary Clinton, having unlimited financial resources after a successful trading in foreign policy of the nuclear superpower, pays journalists in hope to move the vote to a later date and / or attempts in the remaining time to create a so-called independent commission of Congress to investigate the “hacking” of servers of Democratic Party on the orders of all-powerful Putin.

    President Trump would have no power over this commission, through which Hillary Clinton can send the President Trump subpoenas and ask “tough questions” after he takes office officially. All this is quite ugly, but fits perfectly into the style of the infamous Wicked Witch of the West aka Bastinda.

    But the most dangerous heritage of Hillary Clinton is that in the 25 years of political correctness and masterly sophistry she leaves us with the English words necessary for understanding of the reality, now lying in ruins or standing on its head.

    But the reality is given to us in sensations, often very unpleasant, and the most unpleasant of these sensations are now linked with the word “Islam”, which through the efforts of Hillary Clinton is REALLY standing on its head. She spent much of her life to achieve that.

  93. Cold N. Holefield December 20, 2016 at 11:06 am #

    fodase said: Cold, love the analogy, I really learned a lot from it. Is there a blog where we can get more of this insight?

    I’m glad you asked. Indeed there is. Below, you’ll find the link.

    Everybody’s Invited!!!

  94. Cold N. Holefield December 20, 2016 at 11:14 am #

    Elrond said: The billionaire class had two dogs in the fight, then sat back to see which approach would be the winner. The answer is clear: no more acting through proxies like the Clintons, they’re staging a direct takeover instead as Trump packs his cabinet with people like himself.

    Excellent point, Elrond. I’ve been running through this very same thought-thread since last night, but the seeds of it have been germinating for a while. Trump’s “victory” has validated it for me.

    I’ll have a blog post up in the next several days addressing it entitled The End Of Realpolitik.

    • capt spaulding December 20, 2016 at 1:17 pm #

      I read online that Trump & Putin are gonna go horseback riding together without any shirts on. They,re buddies, you know.

  95. fodase December 20, 2016 at 1:23 pm #

    Yes, Putin could easily kick your ass since he’s good in judo. Plus he hunts bear.

    Trump hunts pussy and bear, and is HIGHLY successful at both, much to your likely jealous dismay.

    MAGA Buraaaahhhhhhhhh!

    Don’t winning feel good boys?!! Heehaw!

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    • capt spaulding December 20, 2016 at 1:42 pm #

      Filipino Kali guy here. Look it up. Any time.

      • Janos Skorenzy December 20, 2016 at 4:14 pm #

        Hillary is an incarnation of Kali so your devotion is appropriate.

  96. fodase December 20, 2016 at 1:44 pm #

    ….it was more of a fraternal, good-natured remark, from no on i’ll use the html markup

    Tip o’ the hat, Sir.

  97. fodase December 20, 2016 at 1:45 pm #

    oh btw i forgot to mention, capoeira guy here in brasil, land of ultra-shabby infrastructure

    • capt spaulding December 20, 2016 at 2:08 pm #

      Capoeira is good stuff, similar to Savate (lot of foot techniques). Respects to you.

      • elysianfield December 20, 2016 at 6:10 pm #

        Cap,
        An often heard ditty from my youth…”The French, they are a curious race…they fight with their feet, and fuck with their face.”

  98. nsa December 20, 2016 at 1:45 pm #

    Corn N. Hole and Corporal Spawning: not to worry. Der Trumpster will not take away your food stamps or ask you to do anything really radical……like getting a job.

    • Cold N. Holefield December 20, 2016 at 2:18 pm #

      I’ll make a deal with you, Poddna. I’ll get a “job” when Don The Con gets a “job.” In fact, I challenge your Man Don there to a Duel. Pass the word along to him and tell him he knows where to find me if he wants to take me up on it. Let’s go to work in a Coal Mine, Don & I, and see who lasts longer before crying Uncle. If I win, Trump’s no longer President-Elect and we hold a new election and this time ALL the votes are counted and Hillary & Donnie can’t run and The Establishment can’t pick the choices for us to choose from and The Establishment can’t finance the election via Private Donations. Is that a deal, Pussy? Or are you and your ilk too CHICKEN to enter into such a deal? Too artful for you?

      • elysianfield December 20, 2016 at 6:13 pm #

        Cold,
        If you win, yada yada yada…you didn’t mention what nsa gets if you lose….

  99. janet December 20, 2016 at 1:59 pm #

    “Don’t winning feel good boys?!! Heehaw!” –Cold

    Not everyone is winning. The staff of the National Security Council is emptying out ahead of the Trump administration. These are not political appointees who are supposed to leave. They are career civil servants. They are supposed to stay to guarantee our national security… but they are running for the exits before Trump arrives.

    We can replace them easily with FoxNews commentators. Trump is on it. Good thing we don’t live in a dangerous world and don’t need knowledgeable national security professionals who focus on homeland security and counter-terrorism.

    How do you like it now, gentlemen?

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/dec/18/national-security-council-exodus-foreign-policy-michael-flynn

    • Frankiti December 20, 2016 at 9:01 pm #

      WPAsoka Absalom coward

  100. Cold N. Holefield December 20, 2016 at 2:09 pm #

    capt spaulding said: I read online that Trump & Putin are gonna go horseback riding together without any shirts on. They’re buddies, you know.

    Damn Straight (haha) they’re “buddies!!” In fact, I’d say more than “buddies,” and maybe not so straight. Don’t you know NSA wants to get in on some of that action and make it a three way.

    Elton John wrote an excellent, memorable song about Donald’s & Vladimir’s loving admiration for one another. NSA’s a yuuuuuge Elton John fan, doncha know? SO is Rush Limbaugh. LimpBlow had Elton John play at his wedding. A Match Made In Heaven.

    Philadelphia Freedom

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    • Cold N. Holefield December 20, 2016 at 2:12 pm #

      I can’t wait for Don The Con to name Alex Jones as his Press Secretary. THAT will be the Cherry on top of this Exploding Yellow Cake.

      • capt spaulding December 20, 2016 at 2:27 pm #

        Hey Cold, do you feel something trying to hump your leg? I feel it, & I think it’s nsa, trying to get some attention.

        • Cold N. Holefield December 20, 2016 at 2:59 pm #

          Yes, I’ve noticed. I was able to capture “him” in action on video.

          A HREF=”http://imgur.com/275k9″>NSA

  101. fodase December 20, 2016 at 4:16 pm #

    I nominate Cold for most useless poster…

    • elysianfield December 20, 2016 at 6:19 pm #

      Fo,
      You misspelled “poser”…no “t”.

      • malthuss December 21, 2016 at 10:53 am #

        cute

  102. fodase December 20, 2016 at 4:26 pm #

    The staff of the National Security Council is emptying out ahead of the Trump administration. These are not political appointees who are supposed to leave. They are career civil servants. They are supposed to stay to guarantee our national security…

    Weren’t you the one worried that ” generals ” were coming into the administration?

    Some of them have 45 years of service in rooting out and destroying the enemy.

    I wonder if some of these career civvies are some of the ones who had to let in muzscum terrorists because the outgoing administration doesn’t want to hurt terrorists’ feeling by profiling?

  103. tucsonspur December 20, 2016 at 5:55 pm #

    “So tucsonspur, no one really cares about the bygone Clintons, @ The Obamas, @ The Democratic Party, @ The Liberal Media anymore. They’re now irrelevant relics. Move on and get busy with Humanity’s Final Act.” Cold

    Your passionate cynicism about the human condition in general is clearly evident. It’s an outlook I share to an extent upon which it seems I am always trying to impose an upper bound.

    To say no one really cares is a bit too glib, mainly because they are not yet irrelevant relics.

    I voted for Trump, and as you say, I own it. But Trump doesn’t own me, as he shouldn’t any other voter. Fight him where he’s wrong, support him where he’s right. Time will tell if it was a mistake.

    Hopefully, (there’s that upper bound again), my own final act will be far, far shorter than Humanity’s. Then again…..

    • Dumbedup December 21, 2016 at 2:34 pm #

      I voted for Trump, and as you say, I own it. But Trump doesn’t own me, as he shouldn’t any other voter. Fight him where he’s wrong, support him where he’s right. Time will tell if it was a mistake.

      ***************

      Tucson, I held my nose and voted for Hillary Clinton. In retrospect I realize it was a mistake, but at the time I felt like (and still do to some extent) that Hillary might bring us more war, but Trump would bring us war outside our living rooms. I’m glad we have broken the back of of the Clinton-Bush hegemony in Washington. But after seeing some of Trump’s cabinet nominees (Bolton to the State Department — really!!) we may have just welcomed the new boss, “same as the old boss.”

      But for now, I will just hope there are more things Trump will do more good things than bad and pray that the bad ones don’t bring us destruction and suffering.

      I’m not comfortable with a President who tweets his dislike for popular culture and demands apologies. After all, he is the one who expressed disdain for political correctness. For someone who enjoys insulting people and then doubling down he seems to have a thin skin.

  104. tucsonspur December 20, 2016 at 6:19 pm #

    It’s on tonight. “Tony Bennett Celebrates 90: The Best Is Yet to Come.”

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  105. fodase December 20, 2016 at 6:30 pm #

    Hopefully, (there’s that upper bound again), my own final act will be far, far shorter than Humanity’s. Then again…..

    I find something comforting in the realisation that one is approaching one’s “final act”, and I salute you for your contribution to Humanity. You have made one, whether you realize it or no.

    • tucsonspur December 20, 2016 at 8:10 pm #

      Thanks for the positive thought. I’m not yet on my death bed, but to paraphrase the great Dylan, “it ain’t dark yet, but it’s gettin’ there.”

  106. elysianfield December 20, 2016 at 6:50 pm #

    A Book Recommendation

    I highly recommend the book; “An Incomplete Education” by Jones and Wilson…”3684 Things You Should Have Learned But Probably Didn’t”..3rd edition.

    A book of 699 pages, outlining, thousands of topics that we probably skimmed, and immediately forgot, in High School and College (We mark our page with bookmarkers to measure what we lost…yes?).

    The major subjects covered are Art History, World History, Economics, Philosophy, Psychology, Religion, Science, and many others. Each segment in a Subject, and there can be many dozens, are usually encapsulated in a few paragraphs, are to the point, often times humorous, and invariably well written…a joy to read. It is the perfect “bathroom reader”…and can provide months of reading enjoyment…longer or shorter, depending upon your diet….

    I initially found this book at our local library, and was so taken by it that I purchased a copy on Ebay…Hardcover…under $5.00 delivered(This, alone an indictment of our society).

    Disparate topics…the difference between a Landau carriage and a Baruche or Brogham? Schopenhauer vs Kierkegaard? Philosophy Made Simpllstic? Hundreds of sub-topics…great stuff.

    Do yourself a favor.

    • Janos Skorenzy December 20, 2016 at 8:16 pm #

      Anything about the Talmud?

      A great Victory against a growing cancer. This atrocity passed the House of Lords (the Senate) unanimously. That bodes ill for any America, even Trump’s.

      http://www.dailystormer.com/campus-anti-semitism-bill-fails/

      • malthuss December 20, 2016 at 9:38 pm #

        I owned the book. I didnt consider it worth finishing.
        There were some good things, but its no ‘Bell Curve’ or [whatever].

        Anything about the Talmud?
        If there is, it is positive.

      • elysianfield December 21, 2016 at 11:45 am #

        “Anything about the Talmud? ”

        Janos,
        A very broad and superficial overview of Judaism…does mention the Mishnah and Talmud, but only in passing. Describes Judaism as “…A kind of survivors guide to life on a hostile planet…”

      • Dumbedup December 22, 2016 at 9:28 am #

        https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/10

        The bill itself was introduced by Tim Scott (R – SC) and simply prohibits discrimination against Judaism (and other religions) under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It specifically recognizes the First Amendment and protects speech. No one will be expelled from school for criticizing Judaism or other religions. It is axiomatic that prohibiting discrimination against a minority does not inhibit or repress the majority except insofar as it prohibits discriminatory conduct.

        The website link you posted is for a notorious extreme right wing Nazi and white supremacy website. It promotes that agenda and plays fast and loose with the facts.

  107. Janos Skorenzy December 20, 2016 at 8:35 pm #

    http://www.dailystormer.com/victory-is-ours/

    Trump is now the elected President. More Electors abandoned Hillary not Trump. A few hundred people protested here and there – the Dems are completely demoralized. But the Tribal Media is not of course. They are still as powerful as ever.

    Contributions to the Clinton Foundation have fallen off completely. It was never a charity after all but a pay to play slush fund for the Clintons. The Entity is beginning to make noises about running in 2020 or for mayor of New York. Will anyone take this seriously and begin to contribute again?

  108. FincaInTheMountains December 20, 2016 at 10:01 pm #

    By declaring the Salafi fanatics the legal representatives of all Sunni Muslims, Hillary Clinton was well aware that it creates a mortal threat not only to Assad and Syria, but also Russia.

    This was the strategic plan by President Yeltsin in 1999, when he, in response to the threat to turn the Russian North Caucasus into a second Kosovo, called Bill Clinton from Beijing to remind him about the Russian nuclear triad.

    Sunni Sufism is one of Russia’s traditional religions, and Islamists in the Caucasus were destroying it in the first place. This created an existential threat to Russia, and it is not surprising that this idea was later inherited by President Putin, and even became one of Russia’s foreign and domestic policy priorities.

    And when the Russian Muslims declared Russian Orthodox President Caliph and Protector of Islam, it was not an act of fawning.

  109. FincaInTheMountains December 20, 2016 at 10:31 pm #

    Unlike completely demoralized by liberalism Europeans, Americans, who consider themselves Christians, were seriously offended by September 11, 2001. And when Trump during the election campaign, said that radical Islam is an existential threat to the United States, his words like seeds fell on a fertile soil.

    Unfortunately, he said, “Islam” and not “Islamism”, and in the future it can create big problems for the alliance between the United States and Russia in the imminent war against Islamism, as in Russia, Islam is one of the traditional religions, which made a huge contribution to nation-building first of the Golden Horde, and then the Grand Duchy of Moscow and the Russian Empire.

    In the future, this confusion in concepts will play an important role in domestic policy of both the United States and Russia alike, but for now it faded into the background when on the campaign trail Hillary Clinton started screaming that the shoots that grow from the seeds of anger, abundantly watered with the blood of September 11 victims, are contrary to the First amendment to the US Constitution in the part that guarantees the equality of religions and also create problems in its relations with Saudi Arabia, which declared the Islamism its state religion.

    By that assertion she neutralized the harmfulness of her semantic legacy, and not only lost the election, but also laid the ideological foundations of the very militia which is guaranteed by the 2nd Amendment to the US Constitution. In addition, a fatal role played the refusal of the State Department to allow the emigration of Christians from the Middle East running from the persecution of Islamic State and Hillary’s persistent desire to bring from Syria 10 thousand Islamists fleeing the “persecution” of Assad, who does not want to meet these people irresistible urge to cut his coreligionists – Alawites – into little bloody pieces.

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  110. Janos Skorenzy December 21, 2016 at 12:16 am #

    Attn Frankiti

    In the face of Trump’s willingness to boldly proclaim without facts or evidence that he would bring the good times back, we [Democrats] offered a tepid gallows logic. Well, those jobs are actually gone for good, we knowingly told them. And we offered a fantastical non-solution. We will retrain you for good jobs! Never mind that these “good jobs” didn’t exist in East Kentucky or Cleveland. And as a final insult, we lectured a struggling people watching their kids die of drug overdoses about their white privilege. Can you blame them for calling bullshit? All Trump could offer was white nationalism as protection against competing with black and brown people. It wasn’t a very compelling case, but it was vastly superior to a candidate who enthusiastically backed NAFTA, seems most at ease in a room of Goldman Sachs bankers and was almost certain to do nothing for these towns other than maybe setting up a local chapter of Rednecks Who Code

    Krystal Ball, “The Democratic Party Deserved to Die”, Huff Po

    Janos again! Shame on you, Rankiti or should I say Reek?

    • Frankiti December 21, 2016 at 9:30 pm #

      Trump is apparently very comfortable surrounded by GS bankers.

      Americans are primary construed from stock of people who left home to survive or profit. This trait is missing in many, particularly the stock descended from debtor prisons and english indenture. Y’know, scots-irish AKA europe’s blacks, AKA Appalachia?

  111. pequiste December 21, 2016 at 12:33 am #

    BackRowHeckler posited an idea I have been perseverating on for a couple of days now:

    “Gather up those 12 dead bodies, place them on the doorstep of Burkha Merkel’s residence in Berlin.”

    Great idea. I like the immediacy of it and the raw contact with the dead that she is directly responsible for.

    The question is how can the citizenry of the Western nations make this sort of gruesome public display of the consequences of politicians stupidity or treason really happen?

    And further mastications on the chewy problem of Yzlamik terror — leads me to think even more strongly that all corpses of terrorists should immediately become property of the State – and after autopsy disposed of in a manner that defiles the corpse in the most horrific way in regard to the discernible religion of the terrorist. No returning of any remains to any family. No grave stone , no markers, no memorials. Just defiling (by cremation inside of a swine’s carcass in the case of a jihadi for example ) and then disappearance of the ashes into the eternal abyss of a nuclear waste site.

    And then to add insult to injury and death, just look at that evil bitch Angela Merkel; today at a memorial for the Berlin Christmas Market Massacre that she and her bizarre immigration policies caused. Makes me sick to my stomach.

    We must absolutely make the consequences of terrorism a greater terror to the perpetrators and also to the politicians and government toadies ( yes, those bastards of the Deep State) who cause it.

    • tucsonspur December 21, 2016 at 2:30 am #

      Too bad the media wouldn’t display the carnage, the gruesome gore.

      The number of dead towel heads in the streets would soon surpass the number of gum wrappers and cigarette butts. Some might like that.

      Out this way, they’re looking for an imaginative waste disposal engineer, if you’re interested.

      Careful with that Merkel though. She just might like viewing maimed corpses.

      • malthuss December 21, 2016 at 10:51 am #

        She just might like viewing maimed corpses.
        Like the Podestas and their ‘artist’ (((Marina))).

  112. sprawlcapital December 21, 2016 at 1:00 am #

    Happy Solstice, December 21, 2016.

    Twenty-three point five degrees axial tilt relative to the plane of orbit is one of the few facts that remain to give us peace of mind, at least for now.

    I should speak for myself only. For many there is religion.

    .

    • tucsonspur December 21, 2016 at 2:57 am #

      Happy Solstice. The stability of the tilt, the seasons. Peace of mind. The harmony of the spheres.

      The heavens, so serene looking yet so violent, can give great comfort.

      • sprawlcapital December 21, 2016 at 11:44 am #

        Well put, Tucson. Thank you.

        Speaking of the seasons, I received the fourth of Jim’s World Made by Hand books a week ago, Wednesday afternoon, and finished reading it at 4 am Friday morning. The Harrows of Spring starts out slow, then it’s a page-turner.

  113. Glitch Mobiliou December 21, 2016 at 4:59 am #

    I could barely get through Irin Carmon’s article and maybe missed a spot or two, maybe because I felt

    like I was reading something meant for late-teenagers.

    Incidentally, I seem to recall reading something about some famous woman being able to catch a dick

    anytime she wants. Now, certainly the context is different from Trump’s grabbing a pussy, but is it

    really that different?

    From an anarchist’s perspective, or even from a common sense perspective, that kind of power that the

    article talks about is illegitimate and unethical anyway. That kind of power is coercive– IT GRABS

    YOUR MONEY/LABOR in the form of taxes.

    Feminism wanted women to leave the kitchen to do what exactly? Be wage slaves equally with men? They

    wanted The Vote for the leader of a coercive and violence-based system? They wanted to outsource the

    raising of their children to institutions and strangers?

    Well, then it appears that that’s what they got. But the world has still continued to get worse.

    Possibly better to view the world through an anarchist lens, than a feminist one.

    • Glitch Mobiliou December 21, 2016 at 5:04 am #

      “I’m 160lbs and can catch d**k any time I want.” ~ Amy Schumer

      • nsa December 21, 2016 at 11:09 am #

        Average body weight for an american female over 20 years of age as of the year 2010 was 166 lbs….probably closer to 175 by now. You no longer need a boat to go whale watching…just visit your local walmart.

        • Elrond Hubbard December 21, 2016 at 11:14 am #

          Whereas you are the perfect human specimen, no doubt.

      • Janos Skorenzy December 21, 2016 at 3:59 pm #

        She looks like the women in the bars on Dorchester Avenue in Dorchester/South Boston. They look even worse than the ones in the bars on Broadway in South Boston.

    • Janos Skorenzy December 21, 2016 at 3:57 pm #

      And Anarchists march and fight with Communists – for whom the State is everything. And then they get purged. What else would or could be done with them?

      By and large, they are the stupidest people on the planet – despite being right. They just have no understanding of how to get where they want to go. The world divides on this question. Mormons are theological idiots but practical geniuses. Trump leans more towards the practical too – at the level of genius. Ditto Communists.

      • Glitch Mobiliou December 21, 2016 at 10:09 pm #

        ‘Superweeds’.

  114. nsa December 21, 2016 at 11:02 am #

    The vile muzzie Obongo pardons and releases thousands of convicted drug smugglers, distributors, peddler vermin…..you see, filth selling heroin to your kids is a victimless crime in D world.

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    • Dumbedup December 22, 2016 at 9:39 am #

      Not so many pardons. Total clemency is about on par with other Presidents.

  115. volodya December 21, 2016 at 11:16 am #

    Ishabaka, IMO, no, the Democrats are unwilling to learn. As you point out in your comment, the Democrats simply refuse to acknowledge reality.

    As you say the loss was not their fault, not the fault of good hearted, virtuous, clear minded, rational people like Democrats, who know what’s good and right and don’t economize on telling us.

    I’ve read too many articles and opinion pieces that tell me that, to the Hillary-ites, the loss was simply the result of deep-seated racism, sexism, Islamophobia, xenophobia, homophobia, ignorance and, especially, stupidity of people that voted Republican.

    Democrats, and progressives in general, are expert dog-whistlers so you don’t see all of these pejoratives stated this explicitly. Instead you see “white”, “older”, “rural”, ‘uneducated”, “low-information” and stuff like that. You know what I mean, you’ve seen it too.

    What strikes me is the class bigotry, particularly as expressed by the term “un-educated” in the progressive lexicon. What does it mean? As the Archdruid sez it’s “my mom and dad could afford to send me to college and yours couldn’t”. So you’re a gang of fat, tattooed, dumb-ass rednecks that hate black people. End of discussion.

    The Democrats are so deafened and blinded by their echo-chamber narrative that they can’t see what’s clearly under their nose. One is the assimilationist machine that is the United States. No matter that the Democrats would like to hive people off by race and ethnic identity, according to what I’ve read, a majority of Hispanics are now “English dominant” and increasingly identify as “white”.

    So the Democrat strategy of separating out Hispanics as a distinct demographic appears to be doomed. The years pass, the young ‘uns grow up and they don’t adhere to the oldsters’ ethnic particularities and chauvinisms, especially speaking Spanish and marrying within the tribe. They do what they figure they have to do and that includes discarding Spanish, the lingo of the old country, and speaking English instead, the language of the new. And, lo and behold, in the fullness of time, they become “American”.

    Blacks have a nastier history in the United States so the assimilationist process for them is slower. Slower but inexorable there too.

    For the Democrats, appealing to racial animosities and ethnic grievance and endlessly talking about sexual preference is a loser. This ought to be obvious. Across the political spectrum the Democrats are on the decline. The sooner they climb out of their coastal bubbles the better. But you probably know in your bones that they they won’t.

    There’s a lot of lessons in this election, including the ones you listed in your post. But forget it, the Democrats don’t listen, no sir, they think they’re smarter than you and me.

    • Janos Skorenzy December 21, 2016 at 3:19 pm #

      Conservatives like you are the near and deep Enemy, the Enemy within. What you are proposing is Jefferson’s nightmare: that Whites should be mixed with lower races and their identity – and therefore culture – lost forever.

      Culture is upstream of Politics. And Race is upstream of Culture.

      • Elrond Hubbard December 22, 2016 at 12:39 pm #

        One need look no further to see that Janos is to western culture what murderous jihadi fanatics are to Islamic culture. It’s not only that Janos’ attitude toward women is, with suitable cultural translation, much the same as Saudi Wahhabis who enforce purdah, the veil and other forms of repression and extreme subjugation of women; but his language of near and far enemies comes straight from Osama bin Laden’s mouth as well.

        I for one find nothing to disagree with in volodya‘s characterization of the Democrats and their contempt for the working class. This has been a very clarifying election in many ways. Overt racism is back with a vengeance, with Trump as the chief beneficiary. Bernie Sanders offered the Democrats the opportunity to win by offering real representation to people who work for their daily bread, and into the bargain split the white-nationalist/racist voting bloc. Instead racists are united under Trump’s banner and people with enough of a conscience to oppose them are now realigning across the gap (see, for example, the rapprochement between Samantha Bee and Glenn Beck of all people).

  116. volodya December 21, 2016 at 11:28 am #

    Sheesh Cold, you make this awesome mysterious Abyss sound like a GOOD thing.

  117. FincaInTheMountains December 21, 2016 at 12:03 pm #

    So, what did the Russians dig out from the cellars of Aleppo?

    Doctors know that there are viruses, which can’t be detected directly in the blood, but they leave antibodies – a trail that let them to be discovered.

    Russian Special Forces dug in the basements of Aleppo a whole company of the officers of very democratic countries, which shouts to the whole world that they are walking different streets with the terrorists. But as you know, shit happens, and our SpecNaz found a bunch of advisers from various NATO countries and the Arab world, sitting in a basement together with Al Qaeda and carrying pretty high ranks.

    Russia has not yet officially said anything. There are no bodies. But the Israelis have already shown the antibodies and cried hysterically that their people are not there and can not be, and if they can, it is not their people who have no relationship to Israel, and everything is fake and disinformation.

    ACCORDING to the leaks from the difficult negotiations …

    “What will happen now?”

    Russian makes a brick face, scratched his turnip and say something like:

    “Who the hell knows what will happen. We should first do a head count and talk a little”

    “But you’re not going to present them to the world?” – Nervously ask the “partners”.

    “Why?” – Russians genuinely do not understand

    “Well, of course … You know … There may be unintended consequences …”

    “What kind?” – Russians genuinely surprised

    “Well, of course … Look, name your price, and let’s talk, finally, as civilized people …”

    “With whom?” – Russians still do not understand

    “Oh, stop, it! We are civilized people …”

    “Who?” – Russians still do not get it

    “What do you mean, who? “?” – Wonder “partners”.

    “Who are civilized people?” – Russians still do not understand

    “Well, you know, it goes beyond all boundaries! You can not be so stubborn! In the end, these proposals are not made every day!”

    “Do you have any proposals?” – Russians ask

    “I do not understand who are the Jews here, we or you – declares the ambassador of Israel – You’re bargaining so hard, even I admire!

    “Listen, Herr Lane, – appeals the German – we are building together “Nord Stream – 2 “, we’re friends …”

    “You tell ’em that you took Berlin together” – quipped the French

    “People, we are losing time” – the US ambassador said – “Let’s talk with Putin..”

    “Well, Abe here too recently tried talking with Putin about the Kuril Islands. Now he is not allowed in Japan.”

    “Who? Putin?” – American did not understand.

    “ABE!” – Everybody cries in unison

  118. capt spaulding December 21, 2016 at 12:27 pm #

    “Hillary is an incarnation of Kali so your devotion is appropriate”–Janos. Actually, the word “Kali” in the language of the Northern Phillipines, which is Tagalog, means blade. The mistake is understandable, however.

    • Janos Skorenzy December 21, 2016 at 3:24 pm #

      You really think I didn’t know that? What do you think of Flips Duerte? A very great man who is dealing with Muslims, Drug Dealers, and American agents. He admitted recently that he used to ride around on his motor bike killing people. Now he just orders others to do such things.

      My new doctor is going to be a Filipino. Any tips on dealing with him? I’ve heard they don’t like direct eye contract. This used to get them in trouble with American Police who think it’s shifty. On the other extreme are the Congolese who approach American Policemen yelling and waving their hands around.

      • elysianfield December 21, 2016 at 5:36 pm #

        “My new doctor is going to be a Filipino. Any tips on dealing with him”

        Janos,
        Keep your dog on a short leash…and do not let him out of your sight….

        • Janos Skorenzy December 21, 2016 at 7:59 pm #

          They eat dogs, our best friends?

          • elysianfield December 22, 2016 at 4:05 pm #

            Janos,
            Yes…as Keanu Reeves once referenced on film, Filipino’s are “Dog Munchers”. He was referencing Koreans, but the term is well placed and deserved by our “Peni” friends.

        • malthuss December 21, 2016 at 9:40 pm #

          Nurses tell me that Filipino nurses have ‘ruined the profession’,
          lie, gang up on non Filipino nurses. ‘The worst’.

          Filipino MDs, I dont know much about.
          Ask him where he went to Medical school and how he got licensed.

          There are big schools that help Indian MDs get licenses here.
          ‘Evedryone of them passes’.

          Search at DUCK DUCK GO for,
          ECFMG medical licensing schools.

      • Q. Shtik December 21, 2016 at 8:32 pm #

        My new doctor is going to be a Filipino. – Janos

        ==========

        He or she is seeking Philippine citizenship?
        Having hailed from where previously?

        • Q. Shtik December 21, 2016 at 11:11 pm #

          Janos,

          Let me suggest:

          A Filipino is going to be my new doctor.

          • Janos Skorenzy December 22, 2016 at 1:16 am #

            A Filipino? By race? Culture? Chosen identity? Citizenship? Stop being so vague.

        • Janos Skorenzy December 22, 2016 at 1:13 am #

          Let’s eat Grandma.
          Let’s eat, Grandma.

          Grammar saves Grandma.

      • capt spaulding December 21, 2016 at 10:04 pm #

        What does any of that have to do with the meaning of Kali?

        • Janos Skorenzy December 22, 2016 at 1:05 am #

          Kali is the Hindu Goddess of Death. Thus martial arts come under her purview, especially Kali with its focus on knives as her Image or Icon is replete with many arms holding a variety of edged implements.

          You’re too closely wound. Much of poetry and the best of prose will remain a closed book to you until you loosen up. If you’re not careful, you may end up in Cold’s theatre after death – an audience of one as he raves on forever.

          • capt spaulding December 22, 2016 at 11:21 am #

            I’ve been doing Kali, or Kalis for 22 years. I guess it takes someone with your insights to explain to me what It really is. I don’t need a fascist to explain poetry to me either.

          • Janos Skorenzy December 22, 2016 at 2:45 pm #

            You’re so brittle and self righteous. One blow would shatter you.

  119. fodase December 21, 2016 at 12:37 pm #

    the execrable merkel, whose name is highly reminiscent of ‘darkness’ in old norse, is not inept or stupid.

    let us call out pure evil for what it is, in this case the pre-meditated slaughter of her own people (although she belongs to the global elite) to gain ultimate power over all of europe and, if their plans work, the entire world.

    at this point, after so many atrocities, and still letting these maniacs in by the boatloads each day, there is only one solution left.

    insane lefty loonies, your very own obama and hillary are right there along side her as members in this satanic cabal for power, and they don’t care how many need to be killed to achieve it.

    i think even you may wake up after another 5 or 10 thousand are slaughtered, maybe due to a mass poisoning or radiation bomb.

    it is very unfortunate that every generation needs to go through this horror in order to understand it.

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    • capt spaulding December 21, 2016 at 2:26 pm #

      As far as allowing immigrants in, I agree with you. We have enough people here. As far as Germany goes, I’ll leave that up to them, it’s their country. Myself, I think that it’s foolish to allow so many muslims in. They have fucked up their own countries so badly that they have to leave them. It’s usually the second generation of muslims that raise hell in Europe. They are looked down on, and are not capable of blending in with Europeans. They become disaffected and turn to radical Islam. Without some kind of solution to that problem, letting more of them in is foolish. It will be the same thing over and over. Lets face it, most of the world except Europe & America is a shithole, and the refugees and immigrants will never stop coming. They can’t run their own countries decently, and It’s almost too late to do anything about it as it is. It’s the only thing I agree with Trump on. Other than that, I think he is a buffoon and will cause huge problems. I’d say more, but if you’re like me, you just scroll over the long winded posts.

      • Janos Skorenzy December 21, 2016 at 3:28 pm #

        Other than that? There is nothing else until the flood is stopped – and then reversed. Buffoon? Flips loves him already and has invited him over. Trump has invited him over. Ditto Putin. Thugs with good hearts. That’s the only thing that will save America. And it’s also what created America – or any other country. Robert’s Rules of Order come long after. And they must be discarded when they interfere with the fundamentals of Life.

        • Elrond Hubbard December 22, 2016 at 12:48 pm #

          In Janos’ world, “thugs with good hearts” can be not only excused for committing wanton murder on motorcycle but praised for it.

          Even admitting to abuse of hard drugs is no problem:

          http://time.com/4605982/philippines-duterte-health-drug-fentanyl/

          Not as long as they murder the right people.

          • Janos Skorenzy December 22, 2016 at 2:43 pm #

            Well you wouldn’t want them to kill the wrong people, would you? Or take Justin Trudeau’s adage “If you kill them, they win” to heart?

            You have no more problem with violence than I do, probably less. We just differ on the who should go down. You want Whites and Conservatives to be killed. Bill Ayers estimated 25 million should do it.

            For our part, we’d settle for peaceful separation. Remember my words upstream: If you have a problem with the Terrible Simplifiers, why did you cast your lot with the Satanic Scum they have come to uproot?

          • Elrond Hubbard December 22, 2016 at 8:50 pm #

            Janos: “You have no more problem with violence than I do, probably less.”

            You are wrong. One gets tired of repeating this but once again, your bigotry leads you to hear what you want to hear rather than what I actually say.

            And don’t substitute “kill” when I say “wanton murder”. I said wanton murder because I fucking well meant it. If Duterte told the truth then the Philippines are ruled by a murderer, open and shut.

    • elysianfield December 22, 2016 at 4:15 pm #

      “it is very unfortunate that every generation needs to go through this horror in order to understand it.”

      Fo,
      Peace brings complacency. Freedom from want brings a sense of privilege. Humankind does not do well, it seems, without adversity. Give peace and freedom from want several generations, and we are left with an unworkable liberal worldview. A majority of people in this country voted for Hillary Clinton…. Kumbaya….

  120. Frankiti December 21, 2016 at 12:57 pm #

    Sol Invictus… or mornin’ in ‘murica

  121. BackRowHeckler December 21, 2016 at 1:15 pm #

    In Berlin, as in Paris, Nice and Copenhagen, European peoples gather at the places of their slaughter … giving hugs, lighting candles, singing hymns and laying wreaths. and everybody has a good cry …

    Meanwhile, at the same time, in the vast Muslim housing projects, in these European Capitals the call to prayer rings out over the free rent ghetto … and Mustafa, Mohhamed and Barak stuff 7.39X62 rounds into the horn shaped magazines of cheap type 56 Chinese AKs, fashion explosives from material smuggled in from Syria, and plan where they can hijack their next big truck.

    An existential struggle is being waged, the EU commission, govt. Elites with their Muslim foot soldiers vs ordinary European citizens, and the citizens are suffering all the casualties. For now, that is.

    brh

    • pequiste December 21, 2016 at 2:53 pm #

      And when the pendulum finally swings back, it always first goes to the other extreme. Crying, hand-wringing, teddy bears and flower wreaths will return back to bloody righteous vengeance. And in the European Yzlamik case, it will go as far as necessary to correct the demonic importation of the Mohammedans.

      It will also mean that a person shall arise to cleanse great Europa from the plague that the very evil bitch, Angela Merkel (TM,) and her co-conspirators in the E.U. have unleashed.

      The cleaner-upper of the Yzlamik mess will necessarily have the skills and mettle of the likes of Hitler, Stalin , Mao, or Genghis Khan.

      Wait for it – it IS coming.

      • Janos Skorenzy December 21, 2016 at 3:30 pm #

        Not one should be allowed to remain in Europe. Not one. And once America is saved, countless volunteers will go to the Motherland and help them clear out the filth.

    • elysianfield December 21, 2016 at 5:41 pm #

      BRH,
      7.62X39….

      Goddamn Metric System….

    • malthuss December 21, 2016 at 9:48 pm #

      SOUNDS LIKE A CULT.
      NOT A CARGO CULT, BUT SIMILAR STUPIDITY.

  122. fodase December 21, 2016 at 1:20 pm #

    Let the dummy, insane democrats stew in their electoral juices for another 15 years if that’s what it takes for them to come back to sanity.

    once they do, i might even vote for them.

    the old democrat party, the one JHK can never quite believe has morphed into the ghastly “gender-fluid” monstrosity we currently see, was a great institution.

    now it’s nothing less than a frankensteinian mutant that most folks find repulsive

    what’s astounding is that they don’t see it.

    that’s the level of zombie mind control

    we trumpsters constantly harp on about our man, but we’d ditch him in a heartbeat if he abandons what he was voted in on

    • wayfarer December 21, 2016 at 3:39 pm #

      Listen, we ‘the dummies’ will take 2018 and 2020. And, we aren’t dummies, just lazy. But, when the crazies get too crazy even we get off our asses.

  123. wayfarer December 21, 2016 at 3:37 pm #

    It is one thing for American’s to put ‘their thumb on the scale’ it is another thing entirely for a foreign power to ‘put their thumb on the scale’. I can’t believe you have missed this difference!

    • Frankiti December 21, 2016 at 9:18 pm #

      It didn’t even take the genteel and universally trusted (’cause he black and the liberals just have to be believing black folks) house n*****, Colin Powell, to lie to y’all this time.

      Nope, just Podesta and the Clinton machine.
      Simpletons.

      Justitia never had a blindfold as Fortuna would have it.

  124. FincaInTheMountains December 21, 2016 at 3:42 pm #

    On the eve of the Electoral College vote, President Obama reminded Americans of the “Federalist Papers” by Alexander Hamilton, in which the Founding Father of American democracy in 1788 wrote that the Electoral College was created so that the elections can defeat an agent of a foreign state, and the electors would stop such an agent.

    But in 2016 the electors under the influence of this speech clearly remembered the Clinton Foundation and the billions of dollars of donations into it from Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Germany.

    Apparently, they have decided that it is Hillary who is an agent of another state or even three states, and decided not to correct the results of the vote.

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    • Frankiti December 21, 2016 at 9:22 pm #

      Was it The Lin Manuel version?

      • FincaInTheMountains December 22, 2016 at 7:04 am #

        No, the Federalist No. 68 version.

        Now, each Nation has its own views on selecting a Leader. In Russia, for instance, it is the current President naming his successor, and after that the choice is being legitimized through a direct popular vote.

  125. Janos Skorenzy December 21, 2016 at 3:51 pm #

    The suspect in the German terror strike was a Tunisian who had failed to gain asylum. They had “been trying” to get rid of him for awhile now because they were afraid he’d do something like this.

    Trying? What was stopping them? That would be a long list I’ll warrant. I can only go back to what Mumford said Burkhardt said about the rise of the “Terrible Simplifiers”. Look, certain things MUST be done and other things MUST NOT be done. Laws and procedures that get in the way of these two sets of imperatives must be abolished. What if you can’t? What if the opposition is too powerful? Then come the Simplifiers who will deal with such people who support such evil laws and procedures. Flips is one. Trump is another. The outgoing Governor of North Carolina is another.

    Yes, they will do terrible things, some of which shouldn’t be done. Good people will get hurt, even innocent people. You should have thought about that before you deviated from the Path of Righteousness and installed scum to rule you.

    • Frankiti December 21, 2016 at 9:20 pm #

      Yeah sure… who just happened to leave his ID card under the driver’s seat. Funny, how these patsies keep leaving their IDs around… LOL

      • Janos Skorenzy December 22, 2016 at 1:08 am #

        Right. There is no Jihad. It’s all just bad press by Conservatives and Nazis.

        At least Bill has told the Truth in the End. He used the word White. A victory for us and a defeat for yous.

        http://www.amren.com/news/2016/12/video-oreilly-liberals-want-abolish-electoral-college-take-power-white-establishment/

      • FincaInTheMountains December 22, 2016 at 7:10 am #

        I do not believe in independent terrorism of independent jihad. Look at Aleppo. Terrorism just become another tool of geopolitical competition and ALWAYS has involvement of State players through their special services.

    • Janos Skorenzy December 22, 2016 at 2:03 am #

      But the people who say that, also say this:

      http://www.dailystormer.com/the-un-says-the-future-of-humanity-is-african-what-could-possibly-go-wrong/

      In other words, they’re clueless and/or crazy and/or evil and no one should give a rat’s ass what such an organization thinks or says about anything.

      • pequiste December 22, 2016 at 9:20 pm #

        The U.N. is all three (clueless/crazy/evil) plus completely corrupt and impotent.

        Talk about a complete waste of air (not to mention the prime real estate that Mike Bloomberg would love to both acquire, and maybe become the General Secretary of to boot, and show that mean Donald J. Trump just who has a bigger schwanz.)

        I am hoping that the same Donald J. Trump, once president, and at the U.N. for the requisite maiden speech before the General Assembly, tells them the same thing he has said to NATO: pay your share or we are leaving/kicking you out. That would get all those parasitic ambassadorial and consular types, as well as the hordes of bureaucrats, to literally shit their britches.

        Then the coup de grace would be to have the entire U.N. kit-and-kaboodle to undergo forced relocation out of the USA, to some fabulous garden spot – like the Congo, Bangladesh or Haiti – places that could use the giant cash cow and the jobs that go with the supporting of the organism.

        That plan would be a win-win-win.

        • messianicdruid December 22, 2016 at 10:16 pm #

          “The globalists are in the process of running a problem / reaction / SOLUTION scam on us, not a problem / reaction / PROBLEM scam.

          This means that when we reach the end result of this transition process, the NWO will look like the SOLUTION to all our problems, not another PROBLEM (such as a dark, scary fascist regime) we need to overcome. It will appear as though the corrupt have been defeated, World War 3 has been stopped, all regional conflicts have been resolved, biowarfare against the population has been halted, poverty has been alleviated, debt money has been abolished, secrets have been revealed, and so on and so forth. And the masses, after having been force-fed negativity and conditioned to expect a scary NWO for so long, are expected to be so overcome with joy that they’ll willingly embrace the New Order.

          That’s how a problem / reaction / solution scam works when you’re using it to create a New Order for the entire planet: 1) you intentionally create an overwhelming number of terrible problems, 2) you make sure the public is fully aware of all those problems (by carpet-bombing their consciousness with mainstream and alternative media coverage of all the ills in the world), then 3) you present them with the solution to all their problems (the NWO). In that final phase, you don’t present them with something ugly and scary; you give them something attractive and inviting. And once they have accepted it and come to depend on it, you start tightening the screws again.”

          redefininggod dot com

          • Janos Skorenzy December 23, 2016 at 7:09 pm #

            Is Trump the Anti-Christ then? We already have the False Prophet in Pope Francis. Problem: Church Tradition is almost unanimous that the Anti-Christ will be a Jew.

            Seriously though, I wouldn’t be surprised if there is some deep conspiracy with Trump in the middle of it as the wonder boy who saves us.

        • volodya December 23, 2016 at 11:54 am #

          Or you can just demolish it and throw it brick by brick into the East(?) River.

        • Janos Skorenzy December 23, 2016 at 7:11 pm #

          One time there was a power outage and the ambassadors ransacked the Cafeteria.

    • Elrond Hubbard December 22, 2016 at 9:13 pm #

      Janos is really serious about his pro-murder position.

      “In Davao I used to do it personally. Just to show to the guys [police officers] that if I can do it, why can’t you,” he was quoted as saying by AFP, talking of his two decades as mayor of the southern city of 1.5 million people.

      “And I’d go around in Davao with a motorcycle, with a big bike around, and I would just patrol the streets, looking for trouble also.

      “I was really looking for a confrontation so I could kill.”

      https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/14/philippines-president-rodrigo-duterte-personally-killed-criminals

      In countries where the rule of law holds, the above quote is what’s known as a confession. The people who claim that the Clintons murdered Vince Foster could only wish for such an open and shutcase. But in Janosland, right and wrong aren’t about laws or principles, they’re about power. That is savagery.

      Paraphrasing Joseph Conrad, we are accustomed to look upon the shackled form of a conquered monster; but here, in Trump’s America, you can see the thing monstrous and free. To every American reading this: this is what your country is turning into as well, before the world’s eyes. I see what’s happening, but for the life of me, I can’t understand why anyone would choose it.

      • Janos Skorenzy December 22, 2016 at 9:33 pm #

        You want Black Africa to conquer the world via immigration and demographics. And nothing is more evil than that.

        I did say the Simplifiers were terrible, did I not? Why did you make them necessary with your abortions, coddling criminals, mass immigration, minority worship, sending baby heads thru the mail, Islamophillia, etc?

      • Frankiti December 22, 2016 at 9:50 pm #

        Histrionics from a Canadian… how novel

      • Q. Shtik December 22, 2016 at 9:52 pm #

        “I was really looking for a confrontation so I could kill.”

        In countries where the rule of law holds, the above quote is what’s known as a confession. – Elrond

        =============

        Oh come on Elrond, that’s just “locker room talk.”

        • Frankiti December 22, 2016 at 9:58 pm #

          In countries where abject lawlessness and savage outlaws pervade, why should one dedicated to preservation of law and order not want for the opportunity to cease it.. immediately?

          • Elrond Hubbard December 23, 2016 at 7:44 pm #

            Defending murder under colour of law hastens the day when the law will murder you or someone you care about, and you will have no recourse.

            Roper: So now you’d give the Devil benefit of law!

            More: Yes. What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?

            Roper: I’d cut down every law in England to do that!

            More: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned ’round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country’s planted thick with laws from coast to coast– man’s laws, not God’s– and if you cut them down—and you’re just the man to do it—do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I’d give the Devil benefit of law for my own safety’s sake.”

            — A Man For All Seasons

          • Frankiti December 23, 2016 at 9:14 pm #

            My point exactly. You can’t hide behind laws… no matter what side of it you’re on.

  126. BackRowHeckler December 22, 2016 at 7:03 am #

    In Greenville, MS, the guy who burned the black church and crudely painted ‘TRUMP’ on the wall, was black himself, and a member of the congregation. Last week in Brooklyn, the teenage Muslim girl who claimed she was attacked by ‘4 white men’ (are there 4 white men left in Brooklyn?) admits she made up the story because she was out after curfew … I’m starting to think this spate of ‘Hate Crime Attacks’ is mostly made up, provocations designed to discredit President Trump as a ‘hater’ and racist, and play victim. Of course the MSM eats it all up and reports these incidents as fact.

    brh

  127. FincaInTheMountains December 22, 2016 at 10:02 am #

    Brilliant!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0wk_98bVYY

    Tale of Wandering – The Flight (with English Subtitles)

  128. FincaInTheMountains December 22, 2016 at 1:12 pm #

    Hillary Clinton lost the elections completely exactly eighteen years after her husband and part-time US President Bill Clinton on December 19, 1998 was impeached by the US Congress. And in 2016, Donald Trump, officially becoming US President-elect, first of all expressed his condolences to President Putin and all citizens of Russia in connection with the murder of the Russian ambassador in Turkey. The most symbolic in this story is that on this day, Putin was to attend the performance of the Maly Theater in Moscow “Woe from Wit,” whose author, a Russian diplomat Griboyedov was killed in Persia during the massacre, which was staged by the religious fanatics in the Russian embassy in Tehran in 1829.

    In the organization of the massacre in the Russian embassy was indirectly involved British military secretary Viscount Palmerston, whose political reincarnation Hillary Clinton is.

    Now she is ready to do anything to complicate Putin’s relationship with Trump and the removal from office of the “Manchurian candidate” and Viscount Palmerston started his intrigue in Tehran, not only for England to score some points in the Big Game, but to overthrow the British foreign Secretary Earl of Aberdeen, who was for the improvement of relations between England and Russia.

    Like Hillary, hereditary Tory Palmerston became the leader of the Whigs, which Democratic Party of the US is a direct descendant of, and the Foreign Minister of Great Britain a year after the death of Griboyedov.

    After replacing Earl of Aberdeen he, like Hillary, did not get tired to organize color revolutions all over the Europe – the European Spring of 1848 – and the support by the British Intelligence Service of Islamism in Riyadh in the Second Saudi State, was, of course, his handiwork.

    And two Opium Wars in China and the Crimean War with Russia complete the resemblance, especially if you remember Hillary Clinton’s actions with respect to these countries as US Secretary of State.

    And here’s a new Palmerston, in spite of unlimited financial resources and bought Media loses the election in the United States. And when on the day of the final vote the Russian ambassador in Turkey was killed, the American people represented by the Electoral College and the newly elected president showed that they no longer consider Russia an enemy by default and any politician acting for friendship with Russia, a traitor. But those who killed US Ambassador in Benghazi and the Russian Ambassador in Ankara they do.

    And when the puzzle of coincidences surrounding these events suddenly develops into a single picture, somehow inevitably comes to mind that whatever Clinton propaganda accuses omnipotent Vladimir Putin of, including appointing American presidents, he was not a force majeure that disrupted the election campaign of the Wicked Witch of the West.

    Although Hillary Clinton is really “wickedly smart” (in the words of Barack Obama), against that force she is powerless, no matter what the Western Black Project invests in her.

    And no matter what surprises she has prepared for all of us for the Christmas, New Year, or the inauguration of Donald Trump, her evil plans will inevitably fail.

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  129. bibliomaniac December 22, 2016 at 2:17 pm #

    “Of Mice and Men”

    This is a message to Cold–who believes in science.

    It is interesting that Trump’s pick of Mick Mulvaney for Office of Management and Budget is so against federal funding for scientific research, particularly for the ZIKA Virus when recent findings are that:

    ZIKA VIRUS INFECTION DAMAGES TESTES IN MICE
    NATURE 540 (438-442) 15 December 2016

    The suggestion is that ZIKA may indeed shrink human testicles as well:
    “The extent to which these observations in mice translate to human beings is unclear, but longitudinal studies of sperm function and viability in ZIKAV-infected humans seems warranted.”

    • Janos Skorenzy December 22, 2016 at 11:00 pm #

      Perhaps that’s why Zika babies have tiny heads – they are becoming mice. Or do the infected mice have even smaller heads again?

  130. Janos Skorenzy December 22, 2016 at 2:49 pm #

    http://www.dailystormer.com/merkel-was-at-an-integration-celebration-when-the-attack-occurred/

    Terrible optics!

  131. Janos Skorenzy December 22, 2016 at 3:29 pm #

    http://www.dailystormer.com/facebook-to-use-porn-star-and-pot-smoking-dominatrix-to-filter-fake-news/

    Reality has been turned over to Snopesian Degenerates. Elrond is delighted.

  132. Frankiti December 22, 2016 at 3:44 pm #

    Ivanka confronted by a horrible liberal cliche (gay married Jewish dad social media addict from Brooklyn) on a JetBlue flight.
    A rabid nancy attacking a mom with her children.
    The left is vile in all ways.

    • nsa December 22, 2016 at 5:51 pm #

      Sounds like the unfortunate woman shared a flight with newlyweds Corn N. Hole and Corporal Spawning and a “new arrival” they bought somewhere. Welcome to latter day Sodom and Gomorrah….a sick leftie pervert paradise where nothing is too degenerate.

      • Frankiti December 22, 2016 at 9:54 pm #

        Her and her husband are spawn of NY real estate magnates, yet they fly a budget airline. Something’s not right.

        • Frankiti December 22, 2016 at 9:55 pm #

          She and her husband…

          • beantownbill. December 22, 2016 at 10:25 pm #

            A number of so-called celebrities fly commercial for many reasons. I’ve flown with various professional sports figures and my wife was once Mick Jagger’s seat-mate. He fell asleep on her shoulder, and the family joke is that Mick Jagger slept with her, but she didn’t sleep with him.

      • capt spaulding December 23, 2016 at 2:27 pm #

        That’s Captain Spurting to you. Open wide.

    • BackRowHeckler December 23, 2016 at 10:27 am #

      Hey Frank I was paying attention to that story until they started talking about this dude’s ‘husband’.

      Question, was the Obama family ever harassed on a commercial flight? Has the Obama family ever taken a commercial flight? On a brighter note, in NCarolina, the law keeping 45 year old tranvestite male molesters out of little girls restrooms has been upheld. In other words, Springsteen, the NBA, the NCAA, take your freakshow spectacles and shove them up your ass.

      brh

  133. KesaAnna December 22, 2016 at 9:28 pm #

    ” Do you think Martin Luther King would have been a civil rights hero and assassinated had the south thought it time to change its bigoted ways? ”

    Hmm, well, would the civil rights movement have been necessary

    if our would-be social engineers had been more concerned about what black ex- farm laborers are supposed to do in a still agrarian society for a livelihood after four years of scorched earth

    and less concerned about maintaining and expanding the American empire

    more concerned about human rights, less concerned about imperialism ?

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  134. Janos Skorenzy December 22, 2016 at 10:58 pm #

    The Dhammapada, Verse 318, The Canto of Hell

    “Those who conceive of as perverse what is not perverse (a), and those who see nothing perverse (b) in what is perverse – such men are consigned to hell for they embrace false views.

    a) For example, Elrond considering a White Nation as something perverse or immoral.

    b) Or Elrond thinking that black magic rituals involving children are Ok, or that partial birth abortion is fine. Or Black Africans overwhelming the entire Earth with their mindless fecundity and hands out for a handout.

  135. KesaAnna December 23, 2016 at 12:51 am #

    On a personal note , off-topic –

    @ Janos ; More than once you have mentioned , The man in the high Tower ” ( or whatever it is called. )

    I have never read it —

    — Because I did read Vonnegut’s , “Mother Night ” . While Vonnegut did serve time in a German POW camp , he never, apparently, studied National Socialism or its history .
    So, right off the bat, an American expatriate secret agent masquerading as a convinced National Socialist is completely unbelievable , and so ruins the story, for someone who has studied the NSDAP their entire life.

    most such examples I have seen are either completely unbelievable because the writer can never really put themselves in the shoes of a National Socialist , but only ever see them as a two-dimensional other .
    Or, the product offered up is like unto the right-wing caricature of conservatism that passes usually for conservatism in America ; seemingly designed by testosterone-driven 10-year-olds for testosterone-driven 10-year-olds , based on something they saw in a comic book one time .

    Anyway, I’ve been working on a series of posters / advertisements based on the theme of a Third Reich that won WW II , and based on the idea that nothing so corrupts, or is so conducive to equivocation , than success , and nothing so obscures historical detail like the passage of time, and nothing is so conducive to spin-doctoring than where the winners have the privilege of re-writing history.

    It’s 1975 – 1980 , the Third Reich is now called The Cosmopolitan Reich , and , as I said, it’s a series of posters / advertisements from that world.

    Too bad this place doesn’t have a pm function.

    ………On the other hand , you might not like a tri-racial Mariah Carey as a poster girl for a NSDAP – inspired Pax Europa.

    Or a recruiting poster for a Shia Islamic SS division called Hezbollah .

    Or an American poster touting German -American peace and détente , and featuring Carly Simon.
    ( A liberal Jew would never turn Nazi apologist ? Why not ? To this day they gloss over or explain away the Bolsheviks extermination of non-whites , among that number being Jews. The liberal anti-Vietnam war movement ; have they ever stressed the number of South Vietnamese given over to slaughter for their peace ? )

    • Janos Skorenzy December 23, 2016 at 1:17 am #

      I’ve never read it either, finding Phillip K Dick unreadable. But he had great ideas, and I was referring to the Amazon series based on the book. You might like it: the director is Ridley Scott and it is visually stunning as was his Blade Runner – based on Dick’s “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.”

      Check out a trailer.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzz_6dmv03I

      Didn’t know the Vonnegut was a prisoner. I’ll have to check that out sometime. Your best intro to National Socialism would be from a Cat Lady named Savitri Devi, also called “Hitler’s Daughter”. She combined mysticism, a love of India, Cats, and the White Race and found it all summed up in National Socialism, and that all summed up in the person of Adolph Hitler. Her major work, “The Lightening and the Sun” is a tour de force.

      Our own Conservatism is coming down from Edmund Burke – and is basically the Fascism of the Anglo-Saxon peoples. Lovecraft and others adapted this for America. Add in Race (as one really should) and voila, you have the recipe for National Socialism. We are still evolving a unique American National Socialism. Why not get in on the ground floor and make a contribution? Mars needs women!

  136. KesaAnna December 23, 2016 at 3:00 am #

    My contribution would be ;

    — Hitler lost the war in 1934 when he screwed over his own friends for the sake of the Industrialists , the aristocrats, and those ladder-climbing opportunists who never would have stood on street corners on their days off selling the Volkischer Beobachter , when the party was nothing.

    — It is one thing to say, ” Life is struggle.” It is another thing entirely to deify military and police power.
    That can only end one way ; Badly.

    — Race is your thing ? A Pax Europa would destroy that as surely as it destroyed Rome. A German Reich is your thing ? Well, the Prussian’s always were a bunch of assholes.
    Bismarck’s Reich could only end the way that it did.
    Look instead to the Holy Roman Empire of the German People.

    — That Great National Socialist thinker , The Ayatollah Khomeini ( lol ) was right about one thing ; Church power second to the secular power is wrong in so many ways, and right from the start, that I’m not even gonna bother to write the huge tome to explain why.

    — American National Socialism ? Already an accomplished fact. It could be summed up in the words , SCREW THE NATIVES AND CALL IT PATRIOTISM.
    As true today as it was in 1830 . ( see Indian Removal Act. )

    • Janos Skorenzy December 23, 2016 at 2:19 pm #

      No, you’re confusing National Socialism with Marxist Socialism. He didn’t screw over the German People – screwing the German Industrialists and Aristocrats would have been screwing the German People. The Body needs its stomach and head, right? You just want workers or arms? Arms don’t make a body politic or nation.

      You are failing to see life Organically. The Right, the Real Right, were and are the Real Conservationists and Ecologists. They didn’t abstract man out of the equation as you are doing.

      Yes, we conquered America and took it away from the Natives. That is the essence of Patriotism. The Indians weren’t the first Americans – they were just living here. Blood is the life, Kesa, not Geography, as important as that is too.

      Read the Martian Chronicles. The Father blows up the rocket ship. His family is there to stay. One of his kids asks to see some Martians. He tell him to look in the water at his own reflection.

      Remember, we are Devotees of what Dylan Thomas called “The Force which through the green fuse drives the flower.” The Life Force. Vril. Prana. Chi. Wakan. Your anger against Life is palpable. Yes, it’s not a nice world. What you’re seeking can only be find beyond the Earth. It won’t be here until Christ returns and rolls up history or His story. In the meantime, get thee to a nunnery since you don’t want to be a breeder of monsters.

      If you wish to stay, read the Wisdom of Hell by Blake. The Lust of the Goat is the Glory of God, Kesa. What is your fem rage but rags next to that? You may be a replicant. You can only hope some Deckard will want to buy you.

      • elysianfield December 24, 2016 at 10:36 am #

        Janos,
        Excellent post.

        • Janos Skorenzy December 24, 2016 at 11:56 am #

          May be a replicant? I misspoke. I know not may be. She is – a replicant of Eve. And what is the nature of Fallen Women? Dissatisfaction. With everything. Blade Runner was one of the most beautiful movies ever made. Deck turns the replicant into a human being with his love, yet good ol’ Keesh sees that as buying a slave at Walmart. Likewise, Roy Batty transcends his rage and lets Deck live. He releases the pigeon, symbolizing the flight of his soul to the higher realms. But Kesa thinks that Hitler betrayed the German Nation because he didn’t try and make every one the same, kill the Aristocrats, and rob the Industrialists.

          Roy Batty symbolizes the Overman the Nazis where trying to create. The Tyrell Corporation is simply the Anglo Elite’s botched attempt in the same direction. By accepting the limits they put into his program (short life), Roy transcends everything in his final moments.

  137. KesaAnna December 23, 2016 at 3:15 am #

    Bladerunner was a great movie , if terribly sad and dismal.

    A hired gun and contract killer for the state winds up buying a slave from Walmart to screw because that is the only way he can relate to a human being . ^-^

    • volodya December 23, 2016 at 11:48 am #

      It was sad and dismal. And brilliant.

      Yeah, she was a slave. But I don’t know that Deckard “bought” her. He was supposed to gun her down because she was a runaway but ran off with her instead. So having said that, there’s no way Rachel would survive without Deckard’s protection. As Deckard said, he wouldn’t go after her, but someone would. So she’s stuck with Deckard.

      And having said THAT, it’s not clear to me that there’s a lot of stomach for killing these “replicants” ie de-facto humans. Gaff, Deckard’s police colleague, knew her whereabouts, left a small origami token to let Deckard know, and let the two of them alone.

      Easy to see how Deckard became a piss-tank.

    • elysianfield December 23, 2016 at 11:50 am #

      Kesa,
      You know they still have slaves in Walmart…they’re called “employees”….

  138. FincaInTheMountains December 23, 2016 at 5:35 am #

    Nikita Khrushchev was chemically pure representative of Western Black Project in Russia

    Joseph Stalin, unlike Lenin, did not belong to any of the Western Colored Projects because these projects are purely Western phenomenon, and of course Stalin was specifically Russian phenomenon and all of his advantages and disadvantages in the context of Western Projects just do not make sense.

    And the most important task of de-Stalinization is de-Khrushchevization as the growing popularity of Stalin in our days Russia is due to the fact that Stalin was frankly slandered by Nikita Khrushchev, who himself was one of the most terrible and active murderers of the Stalin era, who had attributed to Stalin many of his own crimes, and de-Stalinizators must recognize his crimes before accusing Stalin.

    And until they do not, they have no right to talk about the search for historical truth.

    That’s when they recognize the role of Nikita Khrushchev in Moscow trials, repressions in the Army in Ukraine on the eve of the war, the blame for the loss of frontier battles and the Kiev disaster, for the Kharkov offensive operation, which resulted in the troops fleeing all the way to Stalingrad, for the destruction of the Orthodox Church after the war, for concealing the participation of Ukrainian nationalists in the genocide of Katyn and Babi Yar, for slandering the Crimean Tatars, and for the case of “Doctor’s Plot” and State anti-Semitism, expressed in particular in the Soviet Union breaking relations with Israel, that’s when it will be possible to discuss Stalin’s guilt in these events.

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  139. BackRowHeckler December 23, 2016 at 10:32 am #

    Hey Vlad, yes, Vonnegut was a German POW. What’s more, he was in Dresden in March, 1945 during the firebombing of that city.

    For anybody interested, check out the biography of Frederick Russell Burnham (1861-1947). Its an unbelievable story.

    brh

    • malthuss December 23, 2016 at 11:53 am #

      You and your literary hero’s.
      Were they mostly leftists?

    • Janos Skorenzy December 23, 2016 at 2:23 pm #

      Oh yeah, that makes sense. I did read the one about that. Billy Pilgrim became unstuck in time.

      Yet, you still defend that Allied Atrocity. He condemned it. There were many Allied POW’s in the city, Americans among them if German lives mean nothing to you.

      • Janos Skorenzy December 23, 2016 at 2:29 pm #

        Now I remember, it was entitled “Slaughterhouse Five”.

  140. FincaInTheMountains December 23, 2016 at 11:51 am #

    Putin: Russian Federation is stronger than any potential aggressor.

    Vladimir Putin: Regarding the US President-elect, Mr Trump, there is nothing new here. On the campaign trail he talked about the need to strengthen the US nuclear capability and armed forces. So there is nothing unusual here.

    Honestly, I was quite surprised by statements coming from other official representatives of the current administration, who for some reason started to argue that the United States has the most powerful army in the world. But nobody suggested otherwise.

    If you listened carefully to what I said yesterday, I talked about strengthening the nuclear triad and in conclusion said that the Russian Federation was stronger than any potential – and this is key – aggressor. This is a very important point, and not an incidental one.

    What does it mean to be an aggressor? An aggressor is someone who can attack the Russian Federation. We are stronger than any potential aggressor. I have no problem repeating it.

    I also said why we are stronger. This has to do with the effort to modernise the Russian Armed Forces, as well as the history and geography of our country, and the current state of Russian society. There are a whole host of reasons, not least the effort to modernise the Armed Forces, including both conventional weapons and the nuclear triad.

    http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/53573

    This statement not only break through the information blockade around Russia, but also produced a bombshell, coinciding with the statement by President-elect Trump about his determination to modernize US nuclear forces, which indirectly confirms the veracity of the statements by President of Russia.

  141. pequiste December 23, 2016 at 4:59 pm #

    The Deep State in Germany is in Deep Doo Doo.

    Consider that the German polizei could not catch one over-exuberant Yzlamik truck-driving terrorist murderer; the Italians had to do it. A sad and sorry state of affairs from the same folks who brought you the legendary steely-eyed, leather-coated, no-namby-pamby professionals of the Gestapo and, later on, the Stasi. Those folks would never have let this kind of shit happen in the first place – good grief.

    Wishing all of you a Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Kwanza, Saturnalia, or whatever else holiday you people celebrate.

    (For me however, a holiday is a paid day off; I don’t get and I don’t celebrate no freakin’ holidays.)

    • Frankiti December 23, 2016 at 9:11 pm #

      You can celebrate sol invictus. The unconquerable sun. That is, if you don’t prefer long dark days… of which there are a future of plenty in the minds of aging and declining men

  142. Janos Skorenzy December 23, 2016 at 9:46 pm #

    Good poetry is good news – like the Gospel. And William Carlos Williams said, men die for the lack of such good news every day.

    The Proverbs of Hell by William Blake

    In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.
    2. Drive your cart and your plow over the bones of the dead.
    3. The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
    4. Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid courted by Incapacity.
    5. He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence.
    6. The cut worm forgives the plow.
    7. Dip him in the river who loves water.
    8. A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
    9. He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.
    10. Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
    11. The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
    12. The hours of folly are measur’d by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
    13. All wholesome food is caught without a net or a trap.
    14. Bring out number, weight and measure in a year of dearth.
    15. No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.
    16. A dead body revenges not injuries.
    17. The most sublime act is to set another before you.
    18. If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
    19. Folly is the cloak of knavery.
    20. Shame is Pride’s cloke.
    21. Prisons are built with stones of law, brothels with bricks of religion.
    22. The pride of the peacock is the glory of God.
    23. The lust of the goat is the bounty of God.
    24. The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God.
    25. The nakedness of woman is the work of God.
    26. Excess of sorrow laughs. Excess of joy weeps.
    27. The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity, too great for the eye of man.
    28. The fox condemns the trap, not himself.
    29. Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth.
    30. Let man wear the fell of the lion, woman the fleece of the sheep.
    31. The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.
    32. The selfish, smiling fool, and the sullen, frowning fool shall be both thought wise, that they may be a rod.
    33. What is now proved was once only imagin’d.
    34. The rat, the mouse, the fox, the rabbit watch the roots; the lion, the tyger, the horse, the elephant watch the fruits.
    35. The cistern contains: the fountain overflows.
    36. One thought fills immensity.
    37. Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
    38. Every thing possible to be believ’d is an image of truth.
    39. The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow.
    40. The fox provides for himself, but God provides for the lion.
    41. Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.
    42. He who has suffer’d you to impose on him, knows you.
    43. As the plow follows words, so God rewards prayers.
    44. The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.
    45. Expect poison from the standing water.
    46. You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
    47. Listen to the fool’s reproach! it is a kingly title!
    48. The eyes of fire, the nostrils of air, the mouth of water, the beard of earth.
    49. The weak in courage is strong in cunning.
    50. The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow; nor the lion, the horse, how he shall take his prey.
    51. The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
    52. If others had not been foolish, we should be so.
    53. The soul of sweet delight can never be defil’d.
    54. When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head!
    55. As the caterpiller chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys.
    56. To create a little flower is the labour of ages.
    57. Damn braces. Bless relaxes.
    58. The best wine is the oldest, the best water the newest.
    59. Prayers plow not! Praises reap not!
    60. Joys laugh not! Sorrows weep not!
    61. The head Sublime, the heart Pathos, the genitals Beauty, the hands and feet Proportion.
    62. As the air to a bird or the sea to a fish, so is contempt to the contemptible.
    63. The crow wish’d every thing was black, the owl that every thing was white.
    64. Exuberance is Beauty.
    65. If the lion was advised by the fox, he would be cunning.
    66. Improvement makes strait roads; but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius.
    67. Sooner murder an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.
    68. Where man is not, nature is barren.
    69. Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believ’d.
    70. Enough! or too much.

    • elysianfield December 24, 2016 at 10:46 am #

      Janos,
      Again, a great post…a gift. Thank you.

    • Frankiti December 24, 2016 at 4:00 pm #

      Vlad… er, uh, Janos, is betting heavy on #18

  143. BackRowHeckler December 24, 2016 at 12:45 am #

    Chicago’s murder total stands at 693. With 8 days remaining in 2016, I’m betting the count can top 700.

    Over 4200 have been shot, which exceeds the yearly tally of all but a few of America’s wars. Rest easy, Chi is a ‘Sanctuary City’. Sanctuary for who? Is it possible Sandburg’s City of Big Shoulders can sink as low as say, Detroit? I’m certain there are social, economic and ecological explanations for this disaster. How can it be explained? Fact is, its not explained; the media ignores it. Will American cities like Chicago ever be livable again? It seems hopeless. The carnage, the poverty, the ignorance, and above all pension and retirement liabilities which can never be met (is there enough money in the world to keep Chi Board of Ed solvent?) Orwell said the future of mankind is a boot stomping on a human face. No, the future lies in places like Chicago, Illinois, USA, once a great city, now a bloody third world sh-thole.

    Maybe the Trib can take a break from hammering Trump and explain how it all went wrong.

    brh

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    • Janos Skorenzy December 24, 2016 at 1:31 am #

      Remember 24: The wrath of the Lion is the Wisdom of God. Thus He has begun to send us Liberators, hard men with iron fists and hearts of gold. Lions in the form of Men! Support them!

  144. Janos Skorenzy December 24, 2016 at 1:25 am #

    http://www.wvwnews.net/content/index.php?/news_story/its_official_clintons_popular_vote_win_came_entirely_from_california.html

    If America was a Democracy, Mexicans would have tipped the vote in favor of the Demon Sow. Thank God we are a Republic. Thank God for the Electoral College.

  145. janet December 24, 2016 at 4:53 am #

    “You can celebrate sol invictus. The unconquerable sun.” –Franksoka

    Bad news for sun worshippers: the sun is subject to this truth: everything that is born eventually dies.

    The sun has been around for about 4 and a half billion years, and it has burnt up about half of the hydrogen in its core. Eventually, the Sun’s elements will “swell” up, swallow Earth, and die off into a small white dwarf.

    The sun, and humans, and everything else, has a life span. We, and everything, will be transformed into something else, since matter can be neither created nor destroyed, according to the Law of Conservation of Mass. Do not be fooled into worshipping the sun.

    “Everything that’s born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they’re all on fire, and we’re all trapped.” –Jonathan Safran Foer

    • Frankiti December 24, 2016 at 3:52 pm #

      WPASoka Absalom CCCoward

      • Frankiti December 24, 2016 at 3:57 pm #

        The salient point is that humans will never outlive their sun. It is then, for them, eternal… unconquerable.

        • Frankiti December 25, 2016 at 10:13 pm #

          People ruminate on and cherish the ephemeral, not the eternal. Death is forever, and so life is celebrated.

  146. janet December 24, 2016 at 5:08 am #

    “Will American cities like Chicago ever be livable again?” –brh

    Trump when he says he will “make America great again”… don’t you believe him?

    • elysianfield December 24, 2016 at 6:38 pm #

      Janet,
      Trump did say that he will make “America great again”…said nothing specifically about Chicago, as I recall.. I do not think it possible that anyone can make America great again, but I believe he will try.

      I am, however, old, and, by extension, declining….

  147. janet December 24, 2016 at 5:29 am #

    “The United States must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes” –Donald Trump, 9:50 AM, 22 Dec 2016 Tweet

    Like Ronald Reagan, Trump will spend Russia into bankruptcy and collapse. Russia is not even among the world’s top three military spenders, with only $66 Billion dollars spent on its military, compared to the USA spending $596 Billion dollars.

    Trump can crush Russia easily by outspending Putin… because Putin has weakened Russia’s economy. Over the past year, the average Russian’s monthly wage fell 9.5 percent, slipping below $450 dollars… less than in China, Serbia and Romania. Putin is not strong when measured by the strength of the Russian economy.

    Gross domestic product in Russia has decreased from $2.23 trillion in 2013 to $1.33 trillion last year — a whopping economy-destroying 40-percent drop.

    Putin is not a strong leader. He is ruining Russia, weakening Russia, and Trump will be able to bring about Russia’s collapse without too much effort. The funny thing is Trump has Putin convinced that Trump is a friend.

    The Russian people will soon wake up to who Putin is, especially because Russian economic output is expected to contract by another 1.8 percent this year, while the poverty rate is seen rising from 13.4 percent to 14.2 percent this year. Falling wages, rising poverty. Putin fail all around.

    Russia is a minor regional player, a weak petro-state dependent on Venezuela and Saudi Arabia’s oil exports in order to remain solvent. When commodities lag, so does the Russian economy. Putin has failed to diversify Russia away from oil and gas production despite personally commanding the country’s economy for 16 years. More Putin fail. Some strong man! Putin is a disaster for Russia.

    • FincaInTheMountains December 24, 2016 at 6:44 am #

      Is it a new party line? What happened to Omnipotent Putin, Putin the King-Maker?

    • Buck Stud December 24, 2016 at 3:10 pm #

      I didn’t realize Russia’s economy was in such a precarious state.

      I have been following some Russian painters of late and there are certainly some extraordinary artists in Russia. For example, those paining in the impressionistic genre are probably the best in the world. They paint from a place deep in the soul; a felt animus in response to the impetus of nature: very pure and very beautiful.

      In contrast, many of the Americans painters–IMO and to my eyes–are painting in order to conform to a style and thus miss the mark because the mark seems to be “the market” itself. (And I certainly don’t blame artists for trying to sell work.)

      I almost want to buy some of these beautiful Russian works because they are most assuredly trying to sell them, perhaps even desperately so. But so are many Americans…so I stay true to my fellow country brethren–when I can afford to do so.

      • malthuss December 25, 2016 at 5:47 pm #

        I didn’t realize Russia’s economy was in such a precarious state.

        I did know X USSR was poor in the 1990s.
        I dont know Russias situation now.
        And I dont know how much of this is due to the price of oil.

  148. FincaInTheMountains December 24, 2016 at 6:38 am #

    Monument to Satan in the middle of Moscow

    http://icdn.lenta.ru/images/2016/12/20/18/20161220183324822/realty_detail_be1ec287d8ee398a1fbfb8ac4fbe2c53.jpg

    The art, especially architecture, not only expresses the spirit of the times, but also creates it.

    In Moscow in the 90s, the black realtors killed or evicted million moskovites. How many exactly, no one knows. That is, every tenth if you count the 10 million population of Moscow in 1990. And those who remained were coming up with theories “Serves them right, damned alcoholics!”.

    Although black realtors themselves called their victims “engineers”. I wonder why?

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    • FincaInTheMountains December 24, 2016 at 7:06 am #

      Well, thirty million will die. So what, they do not fit into the market economy

      Anatoly Chubais, a Russian politician, Clinton’s appointee, who was responsible for privatization in Russia in the 90s.

      So, a million or so Moskovites did not fit in…

  149. FincaInTheMountains December 24, 2016 at 7:25 am #

    Russia is a minor regional player — Janet

    Just love me, Janet, will ya?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rHXzkFqs9w

    • Frankiti December 24, 2016 at 3:58 pm #

      It’s Jasokawpa-ccc

      • janet December 24, 2016 at 8:31 pm #

        It’s Franksoka, attention whore.

    • pequiste December 24, 2016 at 4:42 pm #

      “Russia is a minor regional player.” Janet

      Seems Janetsokawpa-ccc been hitting the Sterno a little bit more this Christmas season (although I have my suspicions that Janet(sokawpa-ccc is actually a practitioner of Wicca, VooDoo, or Santaria.)

      I could not understand Finca’s video offering, although the chap singing was having a mighty fine time in that park with his buddies.

      This is what is comprehensible for me: the “show business” side of a world power that has some 8000+ nuclear warheads and a whole vast reserve of history, personnel, technology, materiel and esprit de corps:

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ED2E1AVdht8

      And, I might add, a Deep State of its own and the Evil Fuckers In Charge want to control it & own it, or force a 21st century Cold War with it. BAd bad vibes from that people.

      (cameo appearance by the Kim Jong Un character actor)

  150. janet December 25, 2016 at 1:10 am #

    “I have my suspicions that Janet(sokawpa-ccc is actually a practitioner of Wicca, VooDoo, or Santaria (sic) –pequiste

    Spelling corrections:

    Santeria

    Voodoo

    Those may be better, less harmful for the planet, than the practice of religions like atheism, new age “spirituality”, scientism, or capitalism

    • pequiste December 25, 2016 at 4:37 pm #

      C’mon now with the spelling corrections Janet:

      Wickan – religion that has basket weaving as sacrament and offers college courses and degrees for it. Worship at an altar/breakfront constructed of it (wickar.)

      Santaria (sic) – Spelled correctly. Religious cult worshiping fat, jolly bearded fellow in red costume with white fur trim. Comes out for a season after Halloween until 25 December. Rumoured to fly around planet with gifts for both the naughty and nice. Sleigh pulled by reindeer that crap all over the place, worse than pigeons. Especially honored during bouts of Irritable Bowel Syndrome with the diarrhia, hence the moniker Santaria! Some pretty awesome shrines to him in my neighborhood.

      VooDoo (sic) – Correct spelling. Country of origin Haiti (do you really need to know anything else?) From the French “vous” meaning you; and crap which is Doodoo, hence the contraction VooDoo. Religion that is full of crap, just like you. Also celebrates Santaria because of the the jolly fat man’s IBS. Lots of chicken parts, shells and cigarettes are part of the liturgy. Did I mention lots and lots of chicken parts. Big community in south Florida. Nobody here likes them and want to send them all back to Haiti.

      As to your point about what religion is less harmful to the planet – either Jainism or Buddhism nicely fit that requirement but do not hold a candle to Western Civ’s ” Three Great Monotheistic Religions.” Practicing, in abundance, Humanities’ worst arrogance, stupidity and reflecting the basest instincts and violent tendencies that Homo Sapiens is famous for. See histories of Christianity, Yzlam and Judiaism for factual confirmations.

      Religion at many times and in lots of parts (not chicken parts) is its own Deep State causing deep doo doo to normal and abnormal folks alike e.g. Yzlamik Republic of Iran; The Vatican; ancient Israel, etc. ad nauseum.

      Happy Mithras’ birthday you all!

  151. FincaInTheMountains December 25, 2016 at 3:26 am #

    And no matter what surprises she has prepared for all of us for the Christmas, New Year, or the inauguration of Donald Trump, her evil plans will inevitably fail.
    http://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/deep-state-blues-2/#comment-288095

    It’s terrible, but it seems that I guessed correctly about the Christmas Presents from Hillary Clinton!

    And I say it not to boast on such a sad occasion, but in order to remind that the US president Donald Trump has repeatedly called Hillary Clinton the mother of ISIS. And that’s why most unpleasant legacy of Hillary Clinton is the possibility that she was trying to move a vote of the electoral college to a later date in order to revenge for the defeat of her children in Aleppo, as well as the election of Trump and to arrange for Christmas something nasty so not to allow Donald Trump to take his place in the White House.

    Such filth, for example, can be an attack on Russian troops in Syria, which would force Russia to respond in such a way that the President of the United States, supposedly elected by a Russian cyber-troops on Putin’s orders, automatically becomes an enemy of the American people.

    That proves once again that the Evil Witch of the West is not afraid of nuclear war, and perhaps even longs for it, and we must once again thank God for the fact that she did not become president.

  152. FincaInTheMountains December 25, 2016 at 3:52 am #

    Dr. Lisa flew to Syria to take medications to the hospital in Latakia

    Elizaveta Glinka, known as Dr. Lisa, was on board the Tu-154, according to the Russian Ministry of Defence website on Sunday.

    “The mind refuses to understand that she is no longer with us, our heart refuses to believe it … We knew that she had to fly to Syria, to the airbase Hmeymim to take medications to a university hospital in Latakia.” – said he head of the Presidential Human Rights Council (HRC), Mikhail Fedotov

    Elizabeth Glinka (widely known under the pseudonym Dr. Lisa, born February 20, 1962, Moscow.) – Russian philanthropist, doctor-resuscitator, a specialist in the field of Palliative Medicine (USA), Executive Director of “Fair Aid”. A member of the Presidential Council on Civil Society and Human Rights

    https://cdn4.img.ria.ru/images/148453/95/1484539554.jpg

  153. janet December 25, 2016 at 3:56 am #

    “I didn’t realize Russia’s economy was in such a precarious state.” –Buck Stud

    Apparently they don’t have enough money to keep military planes functioning properly… or they are too lazy, drunk, or incompetent to prevent accidents.

    “MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian military plane with 92 people on board has crashed into the Black Sea on its way to Syria, Russian news agencies reported on Sunday, and it was unlikely there would be any survivors.”

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  154. FincaInTheMountains December 25, 2016 at 7:46 am #

    Unfortunately, this is only the beginning, but, as comrade Stalin said, our cause is just, the victory will be ours!

    Eternal memory to all soldiers who died in the Third World War!

    And of course the Kingdom of Heaven to Dr. Lisa slaughtered on the Western Christmas!

    Thank God that in the Third World War, Russia and the United States will be allies, just as they were in the World War II, and against the same enemy. Moreover, I even think that this time the Potsdam will not follow the Yalta, this war will go for a long time, 10 years at least.

    The peacetime is over!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q38QMf9QZgs

  155. barbisbest December 25, 2016 at 11:11 am #

    In this nation where anything goes and a couple $ things matter, anyone can be president, I tell you, anyone. Santa, it’s not too late. Please bring me the five thousand dollar bracelet Ivanka is schlepping at her father’s web address. Pardon me, wrong site. It’s a long, ponderous chain you are making Ebeneezer Trump. On loan from Charles Dickens.

    • tucsonspur December 25, 2016 at 4:31 pm #

      Santa arrived early and gave us Trump. The long, ponderous chain will hopefully shackle the left and its America last leanings, along with its subversive shitload of political correctness.

      The left got the present they deserved. Trumpchuks to the nuts. Bush=Obama=Trump, to put it simply. The black blight is leaving.

      “Hark the herald angels sing, glory to the newborn King.”

  156. janet December 25, 2016 at 11:25 am #

    Donald Trump’s holiday cards uses EXACT ‘politically correct’ ‘happy holidays’ language that he has railed against on campaign trail

    http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/trump-xmas-card-happy-holidays-phrase-hates-article-1.2475807

    We are going to see more and more of the liberal Democratic Donald Trump who invited Hillary to his wedding as time goes on. America is going to be great again.

    Happy Holidays…

  157. Buck Stud December 25, 2016 at 1:58 pm #

    A rarity in the current world of political blogging: a truly thoughtful, self-reflective essay:

    Merry Christmas.

    http://www.uuworld.org/articles/liberal-religion-the-working-class

    • malthuss December 25, 2016 at 5:47 pm #

      I didn’t realize Russia’s economy was in such a precarious state.

      I did know X USSR was poor in the 1990s.
      I dont know Russias situation now.
      And I dont know how much of this is due to the price of oil.

  158. ghostunit December 25, 2016 at 2:07 pm #

    So let me get this straight.

    Trump tweeted and said “Let it be a (nuclear) arms race. We will win because we will outpace them every time”.

    And your deepest concern right now is: oh no, we’re being so unfair to Trump with all these Russian allegations which are out there in the open for anyone not lacking eyes to see.

    Kunstler, you are out of your deep on this one. Your conflict of interest as one of those resentful white, male, pro-Israel, anti-colored old fucks is showing.

    You better go back to writing about energy and animals and what not, where your conflict of interest is not present and thus clouds your judgement less

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  159. ghostunit December 25, 2016 at 2:15 pm #

    Ugh, it’s painful to see you swallowing Breitbart propagando so unthinkingly, Kunstler.

    I’m not gonna bother schooling you on the entire torrent of bs you spewed, but, for example:

    >Donna Brazille gave Hillary debate questions beforehand?

    Trump also got questions beforehand. And the question Brazille got were obvious as fuck, e.g. what will you do about the Flint water crisis.

    Non-issue, mere talking point for breitbart and crazy “progressives”, which you swallowed, unthinkingly.

    Likewise, the whole wikileaks emails thing is just a bunch of smoke, no fire. Oh no, some staffers said catty things about Saint Bernie. Unforgivable! like, there’s an email about Sanders being atheist and that could be used against him in this Christian-obsessed country. Oh no! corruption! jeesuschris you are a stupid old dumbfuck, Kunstler

  160. FincaInTheMountains December 25, 2016 at 2:42 pm #

    Trump tweeted and said “Let it be a (nuclear) arms race. We will win because we will outpace them every time”.

    Oh, ho, ho… another race – similar to Lunar Race of the 1960s?

    The “failed Socialist regime” was one step from achieving a decisive victory over US system in late 1960s – early 70s.

    It must be admitted that the political leadership of the USSR and the United States under the mediation of the pro-Israel community conspired in 1968 to put out anti-American “color revolution” in Paris and the anti-Soviet in Prague, and at the same time on the very painful for the US issue of early Hollywood finish of too expensive “Lunar race”.

    It was not only mutual economic support in the form of refusing to sell Russian oil for ruble – but for dollars only, massive purchases of grain and mutual supplies of fertilizers, but the most important thing – to build up the symbolic capital of US as a global power.

    To this end, the Soviet leadership “turned a blind eye” on all discrepancies of the American Lunar program, and a tacit acceptance on the part of the USSR silenced any skeptics in the West.

  161. FincaInTheMountains December 25, 2016 at 3:08 pm #

    And the Russian Ambassador in Ankara was killed for personal reasons also.

    Andrey Karlov was responsible for the export to North Korea of high-tech equipment from Russia. And now Russia imports from the North Korea all high-precision CNC machines (computer numerical control), and these machines are the product of Soviet factories, exported to North Korea in the ’90s, in order to save the high-precision equipment from being sent to the scrap metal by privatizors of Anatoly Chubais.

    That is what has turned the North Korea into a mighty industrial power, which 5 years ago announced the creation of a fusion reactor, and is now the only source of the CNC machines not infected by Western viruses for the Russian machine-tool industry.

    Can you imagine how Andrey Karlov was hated by those who turned class 6 clean rooms in Zelenograd into the condom factory?

  162. janet December 25, 2016 at 5:05 pm #

    “Oh, ho, ho… another race – similar to Lunar Race of the 1960s?”

    No, more like Reagan’s arms race of the 1980s which led to bankruptcy and collapse of the Soviet Union… and that was done without the help of a Putinesque parasitic capitalistic criminal oligarchy draining the USSR budget.

    • FincaInTheMountains December 25, 2016 at 6:08 pm #

      Race? In 1980s USSR was 25 years ahead of US in modern arms technology. Still is.

  163. sprawlcapital December 25, 2016 at 6:24 pm #

    Stille Nacht (Silent Night), in the original German.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKz1eOyIfz8

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  164. FincaInTheMountains December 25, 2016 at 6:30 pm #

    “parasitic capitalistic criminal oligarchy draining the USSR budget”

    The only parasitic capitalistic criminal oligarchy in Russia I am aware of is the Spotted Judas Gorbi and the criminal “Privatization Team” set up in Russia by Clinton Administration, headed by well-known kleptocrat Larry Summers, taking bribes in Moscow by suitcases.

    • janet December 25, 2016 at 7:10 pm #

      “The only parasitic capitalistic criminal oligarchy in Russia I am aware of is the Spotted Judas Gorbi…”

      So, finca, you have never heard of Mikhail Borisovich Khodorkovsky? Khodorkovsky alone stole 350 million tons of oil from Russia and he is just one of the Russian mafia of criminal oligarchs stealing from Russia. Putin himself has condemned them.

      Of course Putin is just as much a thief, and not just a thief who steals Super Bowl rings and American elections. Where did Putin get $1 Billion to build a personal palace? Putin stole from Russia’s super rich. Sergei Kolesnikov worked for the Kremlin to collect money from the super-rich, which was supposed to be spent on healthcare, but which was ultimately used “to help build a $1 billion palace for Putin on the Black Sea coast”.

      The BBC has seen documents from one of the offshore companies that diverted millions of dollars to the palace, which was constructed during Putin’s first term as president. It said that, according to Kolesnikov, the owner of the company, Lirus Investment Holding, was Putin himself. Kolesnikov was filmed discussing Putin’s secret fortune… investments of up to $440 million… with another Kremlin insider.

      Putin is part of the band of bandits running Russia. Putin is a pathetic thief, running a mafia operation, in a minor regional state called Russia.

      • FincaInTheMountains December 25, 2016 at 7:22 pm #

        At least he was not spotted in making a hefty profit from trading in a foreign policy of a nuclear superpower, like a well-known female presidential candidate did.

  165. FincaInTheMountains December 25, 2016 at 7:14 pm #

    I did not want to write about this as incomprehensible fuss about the death of this man has shown that they do not know how to react to it.

    Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador in the table of ranks is equivalent to the Full Army General, and, believe me, the army, that is conducting active military operations.

    And served in Bolivia’s chief adviser of the Latin American Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry can start drinking only after becoming a traitor, and get three bullets in the head by not becoming one.

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4050840/Russian-diplomat-shot-dead-home-Moscow-hours-assassination-ambassador-Ankara.html

  166. BackRowHeckler December 25, 2016 at 8:52 pm #

    Well, Chi topped 700 shot to death for 2016, with a spate of esteemed citizens gunned down Christmas Eve. Another 80 or so have been stabbed and beaten to death. It adds up to quite a total, 781 thus far, with a whole week of mayhem left to go.

    Chicago has applied — in spades — every lefty social program extant since 1932 … AND THE END RESULT OF ALL THIS HARD CORE DO GOODISM IS NEARLY 800 HUMAN BEINGS MURDERED IN 2016. What a record of accomplishment!

    Time to double down.

    brh

    • pequiste December 25, 2016 at 9:39 pm #

      “We can do it!”

      Angela “Mengele” Merkel (for her medical experiment of bringing in millions of Yzlamists into a formerly clean, progressive, prosperous and safe Deutchland.)

      Just for a little encouragement to the fine citizens of Barry O.’s kinda town. But, yes, they, those people over in Rahm E.’s vassal state need to pick up the pace and get the score up and all.

    • nsa December 25, 2016 at 10:03 pm #

      800 dead ghetto rats…….what’s there not to like?

  167. FincaInTheMountains December 26, 2016 at 7:08 am #

    Russia tries to delay recognizing the terrorist attack not to play into the pre-scripted scenario of the informational war. The attack could be integrated into a broader scenario for sowing panic and so on. Acknowledge, but later.

    Everyone has seen the extent of stubbornness of globalist-hawks, whom Putin called sour losers – and not just for US election, but for Syria as well.

    The murder of Russian Ambassador in Turkey and the attack on the plane is undoubtedly the work of very professional specialists from the US/NATO security services, working NOT for their states, but for their political clans that lost the war and the elections.

    Their last chance – not even assassination of Trump, it would not help, but only postpone for a couple of months a total purge in the US state apparatus, but it will speed up the cleansing of the security services.

    Last chance – to impose martial law, to cancel the transfer of power, to unleash a world war, to force Russia in response for all these killings to attack Turkey – a NATO country, or the beginning of an escalation in the Black Sea, where one of American warship could “accidentally” blow up and to blame Russia.

    Before January 20 they have the time, but we can be patient until January 20, but later launch joint special operation with the United States to eliminate the globalist-hawks’ underground.

    Without publicity, of course.

    It is possible, because all is at stake, that the globalist-hawks without the sanction of the NATO activated the political network “Gladio” across Europe, to intimidate European politicians during this critical period.

    In fact, everything depends on the stamina of the Russian leadership and the Russian people. Another four weeks to hold out.

  168. FincaInTheMountains December 26, 2016 at 8:55 am #

    Alexandrov Ensemble

    Katyusha:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mowe4ojo_iY

    Sacred War:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUHwbppl00s

    Arise, vast country,
    Arise for a fight to the death
    Against the dark fascist forces,
    Against the cursed hordes.

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