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Kunstler: America Versus the Deep State
The bamboozlement of the public is nearly complete. The Deep State has persuaded 80 percent of Americans that all news is propaganda, especially the news emanating from the Deep State’s own intel department. They’re still shooting for 100 percent. The fakest of all “fake news” stories turns out to be… “Russia Hacks Election.” It was reported conclusively Saturday on the front page of The New York Times, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Deep State:
Putin Led a Complex Cyberattack Scheme to Aid Trump, Report Finds
WASHINGTON — President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia directed a vast cyberattack aimed at denying Hillary Clinton the presidency and installing Donald J. Trump in the Oval Office, the nation’s top intelligence agencies said in an extraordinary report they delivered on Friday to Mr. Trump.
You can be sure that this is now the “official” narrative aimed at the history books, sealing the illegitimacy of Trump’s election. It was served up with no direct proof, only the repeated “assertions” that it was so. In fact, it’s just this repetition of assertions-without-proof that defines propaganda. It can also be interpreted as a declaration of war against an incoming president. The second civil war now takes shape: It begins inside the groaning overgrown apparatus of the government itself. Perhaps after that it spreads to the WalMart parking lots that have become America’s new town square. (WalMart sells pitchforks and patio torches.)
Did the Russians make Hillary Clinton look bad? Or did Hillary Clinton manage to do that herself? The NSA propaganda was designed as a smokescreen to conceal the veracity of the Wikileaks releases. Whoever actually rooted out the DNC and Podesta emails for Wikileaks ought to get the Pulitizer Prize for the outstanding public service of disclosing exactly how dishonest the Hillary operation was.
The story may have climaxed with Trump’s Friday NSA briefing, the heads of the various top intel agencies all assembled in one room to emphasize the solemn authority of the Deep State’s power. Trump worked a nice piece of ju-jitsu afterward, pretending to accept the finding as briefly and hollowly as possible and promising to “look into the matter” after January 20th — when he can tear a new asshole in the NSA. I hope he does. This hulking security apparatus has become a menace to the Republic.
Whether Trump himself is a menace to the Republic remains to be seen. Certainly he is the designated bag-holder for all the economic and financial depravity of several preceding administrations. When the markets blow, do you suppose the Russians will be blamed for that? Did Boris Yeltsin repeal the Glass-Steagall Act? Was Ben Bernanke a puppet of Putin? No, these actions and actors were homegrown American. For more than thirty years, we’ve been borrowing too much money so we can pretend to afford living in a blue-light-special demolition derby. And now we can’t do that anymore. The physics of capital will finally assert itself.
What we’re actually seeing in the current ceremonial between the incoming Trump and the outgoing Obama is the smoldering wreckage of the Democratic Party (which I’m still unhappily enrolled in), and flames spreading into the Republican party — as idiots such as Lindsey Graham and John McCain beat their war drums against Russia. The suave Mr. Obama is exiting the scene on a low wave of hysteria and the oafish Trump rolls in on the cloudscape above, tweeting his tweets from on high, and perhaps it’s a good thing that the American people for the moment cannot tell exactly what the fuck is going on in this country, because from that dismal place there is nowhere to go but in the direction of clarity.
It won’t be helped by the official organ if the Deep State, The New York Times. Just look at the way they played the other big story last week, the one about the disabled man tortured by four young people in Chicago. Can anyone say what’s wrong with this picture?
20 Comments on "Kunstler: America Versus the Deep State"
Plantagenet on Mon, 9th Jan 2017 9:58 am
Another great rant from Kunstler.
Cheers!
Revi on Mon, 9th Jan 2017 10:46 am
“For more than thirty years, we’ve been borrowing too much money so we can pretend to afford living in a blue-light-special demolition derby.”
Great summation of our situation!
Cloggie on Mon, 9th Jan 2017 11:31 am
WalMart sells pitchforks and patio torches.
No white sheets?
No utensils for “the day of the rope”?
(all made in China of course)
Whatever, won’t be watching movies starring Meryl Streep (horse face for friends) and Tom Hanks any time soon.
when he can tear a new asshole in the NSA. I hope he does.
Not to mention the CIA. And the NYT.
That lying NYT picture and headline… must have gone viral on twitter.
peakyeast on Mon, 9th Jan 2017 1:24 pm
“Did Boris Yeltsin repeal the Glass-Steagall Act? Was Ben Bernanke a puppet of Putin? No, these actions and actors were homegrown American.”
I am flabbergasted … WoW – I just never imagined Boris Yeltsin were a “homegrown” American. I truly learned something new today.
Davy on Mon, 9th Jan 2017 1:44 pm
There was a time when I felt a good crisis might bring the country together in a movement of collective survival. Now that I have been through this election and seen the corruption and polarization I am not sure that will do it. I knew there was corruption and polarization but the extremes are worse than I imagined. It is going to take one hell of the right kind of crisis happening in the right way to get this country to work together in common purpose. The world over is falling into a rut of blame and complain. No one takes responsibility anymore and everyone else is to blame. Sounds like the classic definition of a hell on earth.
It will probably come down to various regions of this country functioning properly and other coming apart if we are thrust into crisis. It’s a big place with a wide variety of circumstances. I was always disgusted with the conservative wealthy elite especially in the form of the neocons. Cheney and Koch types made me want to puke. Now it is the liberal elite of the media, Hollywood, and industry. I think they bother me more because they act like they stand for higher human values but the reality is they just pay these values lip service. These liberal elite for example are for immigration but not in their neighborhood. Affluence does these things. What we need is a good healthy depression if we can survive it. We have become fat, lazy, and apathetic. If we feel the pain of hunger, cold, and sickness we may find new purpose and that purpose will be survival instead of getting rich.
onlooker on Mon, 9th Jan 2017 2:36 pm
I think Davy you might like this article of the nexus between Hollywood fame machine and the Corporate machine.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/dec/20/celebrity-corporate-machine-fame-big-business-donald-trump-kim-kardashian?CMP=twt_gu&utm_content=buffercf371&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer
Dredd on Mon, 9th Jan 2017 2:40 pm
Davy,
You wrote: “There was a time when I felt a good crisis might bring the country together in a movement of collective survival. Now that I have been through this election and seen the corruption and polarization I am not sure that will do it.”
Sense cannot be made of a situation created in insanity.
When an individual becomes literally lost, and when a group becomes literally lost, the reactions differ.
Both go insane at first, because of the our individual and our collective amygdala (compare The Toxic Bridge To Everywhere, Hypothesis: The Cultural Amygdala).
Of course, the outcome depends on whether on not the individual and/or the group realize that they are lost (Choose Your Trances Carefully – 8).
Davy on Mon, 9th Jan 2017 3:13 pm
Thanks, onlooker, the Roman circus is alive and well.
Dredd, humans have always been part insane. Civilization is inherently insane becuase is ultimately a Ponzi game. People are lured into a false sense of security and affluence only to be exploited. Man is not in harmony in such arrangements so in effect civilization is controlled insanity.
penury on Mon, 9th Jan 2017 3:18 pm
I truly believe that all of the garbage going down since the “election” demonstrates the situation in the U.S. perfectly. We in this country do not only have racial and economic divides, we are further polarized by whether we live in red or blue states, whether we vote D or R whether we trust each other what religion we are and practically which car you drive It going to be an interesting time. (in the chinese way)
onlooker on Mon, 9th Jan 2017 3:28 pm
I think Kunstler is very good at capturing this insanity, Don”t you think guys?
makati1 on Mon, 9th Jan 2017 4:33 pm
“Whether Trump himself is a menace to the Republic remains to be seen. Certainly he is the designated bag-holder for all the economic and financial depravity of several preceding administrations. When the markets blow, do you suppose the Russians will be blamed for that? Did Boris Yeltsin repeal the Glass-Steagall Act? Was Ben Bernanke a puppet of Putin? No, these actions and actors were homegrown American. For more than thirty years, we’ve been borrowing too much money so we can pretend to afford living in a blue-light-special demolition derby. And now we can’t do that anymore. The physics of capital will finally assert itself.”
Well said, JHK. Well said. Blow-back is a bitch! But, can TPTB keep their fingers off of the Red Button? Buckle Up!
Hubert on Mon, 9th Jan 2017 7:10 pm
America is done as a Nation. Time for us to all move on.
Hubert on Mon, 9th Jan 2017 7:29 pm
Kunstler is just plagiarizing this website.
Go Speed Racer on Mon, 9th Jan 2017 10:16 pm
Why is Kunstler not more appreciative of
Blue Light Smash Up Derby ?
green_achers on Mon, 9th Jan 2017 10:58 pm
Kunsler has swallowed almost as much of the Trump kool-ade as Greer.
GregT on Tue, 10th Jan 2017 1:47 am
“Kunsler has swallowed almost as much of the Trump kool-ade as Greer.”
Much better than the poisonous tea that Hilliary was serving.
JR on Wed, 11th Jan 2017 8:19 pm
Cuntsler is a part of the Deep State himself. So the kettle yelling “Black” works – for you of you.
Once Cuntsler starts denying himself – and backtracking on his many self-deceptions – I’ll read again for accuracy and meaning (maybe). But until then, he’s just another idiot behind a keyboard with a worthless opinion.
JR on Wed, 11th Jan 2017 8:20 pm
Supposed have been “some of you”.
GregT on Wed, 11th Jan 2017 10:14 pm
“Cuntsler is a part of the Deep State himself.”
So is Hilliary, and so is The Donald™.
antaris on Wed, 11th Jan 2017 11:12 pm
JR , just another adios behind the keyboard.