“Using the #FauciLiedPeopleDied trend is a great way to show your friends you’re a conspiracy theorist.” –Dr Anthony Fauci
Blobitis
“Our government has not failed us. To fail implies there was at least a good faith effort to do the right thing.” — Eric Matheny
Boldly Into the Chaos
“When you give power over law to people who see law only as a weapon with which to get enemies, you destroy the rule of law. That’s what the dumbshit white liberals have done.” — Paul Craig Roberts
The Conundrum
“If a politician does a ‘favor’ for a crime boss, and the crime boss pays the politician’s wife, it’s still bribery. If the crime boss pays the politician’s crackhead son on account of the favor, it’s still bribery.” — Jeff Childers, the Coffee & Covid blog
The Mills of the Gods
“We didn’t love freedom enough.” — Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
A Theory of the Game
“…a system that has been hollowed out by a string of cascading failures runs into one more crisis than it can tolerate, and implodes under the weight of its own absurdities. We are much closer to such scenes in North America and Western Europe right now than I think most people realize.” —John Michael Greer
September 2023
Support this blog by visiting Jim’s Patreon Page And thanks to all my Patrons for your support Behold, Royal Caribbean International’s new ship, Icon of the Seas. Well, okay, but icon of what, exactly, of the seas? Of the wretched excess that the cruise industry is sending forth to sail the oceans blue? I remind
Party! Party!
“The word misinformation literally just means being wrong, and disinformation is lying. That’s all they mean. There’s no extra meaning to them. And so, misinformation is entirely subjective. It’s literally an opinion.” — Michael Shellenberger
KunstlerCast 385 —America’s Thought Disorders with Clinical Psychologist Lucas Klein
Support this blog by visiting Jim’s Patreon Page And thanks to all my Patrons for your support Lucas A. Klein, Ph.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist who has been in private practice for 14 years. He has been a criminal and civil forensic psychologist, and now runs Real Clear Podcast He grew up in
Happenings Await
“Even Americans who have no particular interest in freedom and independence in democracies worldwide, should be satisfied that we’re getting our money’s worth on our Ukraine investment.” — Sen. Richard Blumenthal
All Aboard the Impeachment Express
“While [AG Merrick] Garland seems incapable of imagining any crime involving the president, he has made a conclusive — if unintended — case for an impeachment inquiry.” —Jonathan Turley
Campaign Photo
“Georgia could determine who is our next president. A TEAM of lawyers needs to watch them count every single vote. They can start in Fulton County where we are having water leaks.” — Fulton County DA Fani Willis, Nov. 4, 2020
We Won’t Be Fooled Again
“Good faith people are willing to be corrected (because the Truth is important); not so the liars of course (they know they are wrong) or the ideologues. So the ideologues therefore don’t act in good faith, though they think they do.” — Truman Verdun
KunstlerCast 384 — Left-potism, the Vicious Tail of Left Politics, with Daniel Klein
Support this blog by visiting Jim’s Patreon Page And thanks to all my Patrons for your support Daniel Klein is professor of economics and JIN Chair at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, where he leads a program on Adam Smith. He is the author of Smithian Morals and Central Notions of Smithian
A Bumpy Ride
“This voter is not convinced by virtues or statistics. He is convinced by dreams, visions, stories and jokes.” — Curtis Yarvin
¡No más!
” It’s Not Left Vs Right Anymore, it’s Anti-Establishment Versus Pro-Establishment.” — Glenn Greenwald
KunstlerCast 383 — Truthophobia: How the Boomers Broke Journalism, with Graham Majin
Support this blog by visiting Jim’s Patreon Page And thanks to all my Patrons for your support Graham Majin was a broadcast journalist for 20 years, 14 at BBC News. His inside knowledge gives him a unique insight into how journalists think and how news is produced. He teaches journalism at Bournemouth University on
August Psychodrama
“The idea that our Justice Department can indict someone, especially the sitting president’s main political rival, over speech that’s protected by the First Amendment is simply insane … Simply put, this indictment is nothing more than a declaration of war against American voters and their constitutional right to free speech.” — Alistair Crooke
Normies Awake!
“The West can’t do diplomacy in general, it can’t run its cities or countries except into the ground, its high-tech projects fail almost as a rule, its infrastructure is crumbling, its economies are crumbling, and all public policies seem to have a civilizational suicide as a final goal.” — Gaius Baltar
Desperation Creeps In
“There is only one way to explain this shambles: Every one of these crises traces back to the Democratic Party’s obsession with taking and holding power more or less indefinitely to suit its hubristic, end-of-history “narrative” of righteous liberal triumph.” — Patrick Lawrence
August 2023
Support this blog by visiting Jim’s Patreon Page And thanks to all my Patrons for your support Behold: the “King Toronto” artificial mountain-scape of condos, now under construction in The Great White North’s biggest city. (The project is located on King Street, so the name issue is simpler than just royalist megalomania.) The design, by Denmark’s
Blobulation
“Biden has restored the integrity of the Department of Justice” — Dan Goldman, Congressman from New York
No Way Out
“…you put me right smack in the middle of the Diversion Agreement that I should have no role in… and you say Your Honor, don’t pay any attention to that provision not to prosecute?” — Federal Judge Maryellen Noreika
The Purple Hour
“I have a dream that the people we elect to run the government will be the ones who actually run the government.” — Vivek Ramaswamy
KunstlerCast 382 — Lt. Col (Ret) Karen Kwiatkowski on American Interventionism
Support this blog by visiting Jim’s Patreon Page And thanks to all my Patrons for your support Karen Kwiatkowski grew up in western North Carolina. She was commissioned in the U.S. Air Force in in 1983 and served tours in Alaska, Massachusetts, Spain, Italy and Fort Meade as a communications-electronics officer. She later served in
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