“Being insane is the new normal.” — Aimee Terese on “X”
Only Half Gone
“The Democrats are self-immolating on the altar of their own tenuous relationship with common decency.” — Tom Luongo
Slowly, Then All at Once
“Biden has been jabbed at least four times. This is his third covid diagnosis. The shots are working great.” — Jeff Childers, Coffee & Covid
KunstlerCast 406 — Reinventing Dmitry Orlov in Russia
Support this blog by visiting Jim’s Patreon Page And thanks to all my Patrons for your support! Dmitry Orlov is a Russian-American engineer and author of many books on culture and politics. He emigrated to the US with his parents at age 12 and as a young adult sojourned in Russia, where he
Shocks to the System
“Trump is brushing off assassin’s bullets like dirt off his shoulder, racking up a mile long rap sheet of the fakest & gayest felonies known to man, chased through civil court by crazy-eyed harridans deranged by how horny he makes them. Joe Biden has jello for supper at 4pm.” — Aimee Terese on “X”
The Cover Your Ass Olympics
“If the entire political and media elite can manufacture the lie for 4+ years that candidate now-President Biden isn’t cognitively impaired, what else might they have lied about and are lying about now?” — Stephen Miller
The Cover Your Ass Olympics
“If the entire political and media elite can manufacture the lie for 4+ years that candidate now-President Biden isn’t cognitively impaired, what else might they have lied about and are lying about now?” — Stephen Miller
KunstlerCast 405 — Helena Norberg-Hodge on Relocalizing Economies
Support this blog by visiting Jim’s Patreon Page And thanks to all my Patrons for your support! Helena Norberg-Hodge, linguist, author, filmmaker and pioneer of the new economy movement, is the founder and director of Local Futures, and the convenor of World Localization Day and the Planet Local Summit. She is author of
In It to Spin It
“… [W]e’re done accommodating you lunatics. it’s time for actual adults to return to the room and supplant the squalling squalor you have inflicted upon us, our economies, our cultures, and our institutions.” — El Gato Malo on Substack
Who Turned Off the Gaslight?
Things were bad, and they knew things were bad, and they knew others must also know things were bad, and yet they would need to pretend, outwardly, that things were fine. The president was fine. The election would be fine. —Olivia Nuzzi, NY Magazine
July 2024
![July 2024 EOTM](https://kunstler.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/EOTM-200x300.jpg)
Support this blog by visiting Jim’s Patreon Page or Substack And thanks to all my Patrons for your support! Another humdinger from Architecture central. . . behold: the new Deschutes Library at Steven’s Ranch, Oregon, designed by Miller Hull Architects, a giant corporate practice ruled by DEI with dual headquarters in Seattle and San Diego. What
Surprise, Surprise!
“Joe Biden is the walking embodiment of the exhausted American Establishment. More and more people have simply lost their faith in our Ruling Class. You could scarcely have a more potent symbol of its impotence.” — Rod Dreher
Joe Biden Catches Cold
“Biden’s entire closing statement is the political equivalent of the blue screen of death. It’s just one long frozen glitch.” — Sean Davis, the Federalist
Here It Comes
“Leftism might actually be noble if their concern for the marginalized wasn’t simply an incidental externality to their seething hatred of the normal and the good.” —David Pivtorak on “X”
A Door Closes, A Window Opens
“Almost every headline and what passes as ‘news’ in the United States, is a cry for help.” — Karen Kwiatkowski
KunstlerCast 404 — A General Surgeon Talks about the Ruinous Financialization of Medicine
Support this blog by visiting Jim’s Patreon Page And thanks to all my Patrons for your support! Dr. Sid Rohrscheib is a general surgeon in central Illinois. His career spans the period from the 1990s to present and he has witnessed the changes wrought by the financialization of medicine. We have corresponded for
The United States of Go Figure
“Forced obedience to obvious lies is the essence of totalitarianism. It’s the ultimate flex for psychopaths.” — Dr. Toby Rogers
Sick Of and Done With
“Biden is not well. Everyone knows this even those who support him…the difference is they don’t care and that’s the most frightening aspect of this situation.” — Edward Dowd
If Wishes Were Fishes — a Teachable Intermezzo
“Together we can finish the job.” — “Joe Biden”
Time to Jettison the Animals
“The old left had intellectual commitments that were false in interesting and theoretically stimulating ways. The new left demands adherence to lurid absurdities so preposterous that merely entertaining them induces nauseating neurological disorders.” — Xenocosmography on “X”
KunstlerCast 403 — Lt. Col Steve Murray And The Chaos Ahead
Support this blog by visiting Jim’s Patreon Page And thanks to all my Patrons for your support! Steve Murray is Chief Information Security Officer of a large medical company. He was a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army commanding a Cyber Defense Battalion, providing offensive and defensive cyber operations for the United
June 2024
![June 2024 Eyesore](https://kunstler.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Eyesore-200x300.jpeg)
Support this blog by visiting Jim’s Patreon Page or Substack And thanks to all my Patrons for your support! Behold, a rendering of New York’s new city jail, to replace the foul, ungovernable monstrosity on Riker’s Island, which the city voted to shut down in 2019. The site is in Chinatown where another old city lockup
Which Movie Will It Be?
“It’s almost as if the principals (prosecutors and judge) were performing for their political audience — with a wink, a nod and a stage whisper (“watch this!”) as they ignore yet another fundamental element of American due process.” — Jack DeVine on “X”
Gloat While You Still Can
“The hour is much later than you think…on multiple fronts: Financial, political, medical and geopolitical.” — Edward Dowd
Saving our Democracy This Memorial Day
“We must stop Donald Trump.” — President “Joe Biden”