Kunstler: Sizing Up the Endgame.

Kunstler announces he'll vote for Hillary, but he's not with her, and never will be with her.

Kunstler: Sizing Up the Endgame.

All Hillary had to do last week was show up and stand at a podium for ninety minutes without swooning while Donald Trump barked and grunted his way through the half-assed press conference we like to call a “debate.” It was all I could do to keep watching the nauseating spectacle. It made you want to reach out and whap your TV upside its head, or maybe just shoot the fucker, like Elvis used to do.

The torment of who or what to vote for has become unbearable. I’d considered casting mine for Johnson / Weld, until Gary Johnson demonstrated that the front end of his brain is missing. Aleppo? Wasn’t he one of the Marx Brothers? I sense that Jill Stein of the Green Party is more Social Justice Warrior than EcoWarrior, and the last thing I want is for the rest of America to become one big college campus rife with trigger warnings and micro-aggression persecutions. Vote for Trump? Not if you chained me to the back bumper of a Toyota Landcruiser and dragged me over six miles of broken light bulbs. Hillary? Make that nine miles, and throw down some carpet tacks.

But wait a minute…! Here’s something to consider: a proposition put out by David McAlvany on his podcast last week: To Understand Election 2016 You Have to See 2020. (The new podcast is posted on Wednesdays, so to listen after Oct 5 you’ll have to click back a week.) The idea is that the winner of the presidential election is sure to be the biggest loser because the global economy is in the process of tanking, Long Emergency style, and the global finance system is going down with it. Whoever presides over this fiasco from the White House is going to be a bigger bag-holder than old Herbert Hoover in 1929.

The salutary part of the story is that such an epochal crack-up will sweep the establishment out of power. In the present case, this means discrediting the crony-capitalist, revolving-door grifters of the Wall Street / Washington axis, plus the neo-con military empire-builders bent on starting World War Three for profit, plus the economic central planners of the Federal Reserve whose desperate meddlings have nearly destroyed the necessary operations and meaning of money. And the cherries on top to get thrown out with the rest of this giant shit sundae would be the campus cultural Maoists. In short, vote for Hillary and let history flush them all out of the system.

A vote for Trump would let the aforesaid villains and bunglers off the hook because supposedly Trump represents free market business interests, and if he got elected they would be blamed for the economic and financial cataclysm which has been in motion for going on for two decades — and has accelerated mightily under the genial Obama. Whatever else you might say about free markets, had they been allowed to operate naturally, a lot of dead wood might have been cleared out of the financial forest by allowing failing institutions and companies to crash and burn. Instead, they were artificially propped up and hosed down with bailouts and other accounting frauds at all costs. The cost turns out to be the coherent workings of markets.

There can be little question that Hillary represents so much that has gone wrong in American public life under the Baby Boomer regime. The fact that she will be the oldest president ever at inauguration itself says a lot about the limitless cupidity of the Boomer political gen. They just don’t know when to stop. It’s history’s job to stop them now, nature’s way, by seating them at the banquet of consequences for all their poisonous cookery and quackery.

Watching these lamebrain debates, you get the impression that the folks running things, including media stars like the debate moderators, lack the slightest clue about the gathering economic storm. They are too busy reading the false weather reports posted by the Fed and the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. Both Hillary and Trump seem to believe that we can winkle our way back to a 1962-style economy if we click our ruby slippers three times. That is not going to happen.

There are too many people on-board the planet and too few resources to keep them all going. It’s hard to say whether we might have managed the necessary contraction, say, starting back in the 1970s when the writing was on the wall and a truly honest president (one Jimmy Carter) spelled it out in plain English. We blew it, electing Ronald Reagan to enable the final feeding frenzy of the techno-industrial age.

Now it’s up to natural forces — and their galloping horsemen — to get the job done. So let us by all means throw out votes behind Hillary and let her rip so we can move on from there sooner rather than later and find new ways to remain civilized in the coming disposition of things.

Krugman vs. Johnson

So, are there really Sanders supporters now backing Gary Johnson? Have they looked at the Libertarian platform? pic.twitter.com/dgrIrj9B9D

— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) August 27, 2016

Paul Krugman Reveals What Libertarian Gary Johnson Really Stands For—and It's Terrifying @alternet https://t.co/hVmAlMzsJV

— jp (@Jpdawe7) September 21, 2016

Paul Krugman on Gary Johnson, https://t.co/6IMGx7fla3

— tylercowen (@tylercowen) September 20, 2016

https://t.co/O641bBcsDW They know that we see them for who they are. Let's show them. No more lesser of two evils. #LetGaryDebate

— Paul Andrews (@HappyDadster13) September 21, 2016

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"The Myth of Gary Johnson" by someone named Judd Legum.

A Reading Guide to Lefty Panic Attacks About Gary Johnson https://t.co/p35ADAqEhW

— reason (@reason) September 23, 2016

Not This Year

One may or may not agree with the premise of this column, but I like that he points out the good in Johnson and Stein. It's a refreshing change from the countless posts about how clueless and bad they are.

Can a voter of conscience vote for a 3rd party candidate? Not this year. My NYT column on Johnson and Stein. https://t.co/YPCvJUOKEK

— Timothy Egan (@nytegan) September 9, 2016

The Aleppo Gaffe

Behind ridicule of Gary Johnson's #WhatIsAleppo moment is the fear that he's not as interested in bombing Syria as Beltway thinktankers are.

— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) September 8, 2016

Wow... @nytimes reporter calls Aleppo the capital of IS while making fun of @GovGaryJohnson
for his gaff... wow...https://t.co/gHRMevEfC0

— Gissur Simonarson (@GissiSim) September 8, 2016

Started my day by setting aside any doubt I’m human. #WhatIsAleppo? My statement: https://t.co/CDKbaA288l

— Gov. Gary Johnson (@GovGaryJohnson) September 8, 2016

Do Americans know #WhatIsAleppo or who Gary Johnson is? | https://t.co/x0LVeBtiTe

— The Slaves Singing (@williamcson) September 9, 2016

"Gary Johnson's Aleppo Gaffe Is an Inexcusable Blunder, But Hardly Unique to Presidential Candidates."

Americans did not know or care what #Aleppo is until they could use it to mock someone else for not knowing it. https://t.co/LYKDQrw9NC

— Kiran فاطمہ Opal (@KiranOpal) September 8, 2016

Kunstler: Let the Games Begin!

Kunstler: Let the Games Begin!

Hot air balloons may be crashing in Texas, but in Philadelphia last week sainted Hillary, draped in spotless white privilege robes, floated through the glassiest ceiling of all on mighty gusts of saccharine gas. The good wife… the good mother… tireless fighter for the rainbow outcasts and gender martyrs of this patriarch-plagued republic, she pledged both continuity and change to the credulous faithful as history yanked her above the gurgling cesspits of allegation, suspicion, and distrust that lo, these many months, had come to be her natural haunt.

The cameras cut to poor brooding Bernie seated just above the delirious groundlings, frowny-faced, arms crossed, brow beetled beneath his white Corinthian curls, perhaps suffering the effects of cheese-steak poisoning. He’d endorsed Saint Hillary with all the passion of a Seventh Avenue soft goods jobber hawking last-year’s resort-wear, and the next day he would up-and-quit the Democratic Party — as if that was not sending a message to the true believers.

Yet another email maelstrom almost spoiled the gala, this one revealing the strings and levers pulled by the DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz in violation of the Party fairness charter. She was axed in a New York minute, and the whole country — including the ADD-afflicted news media — dropped the story to behold the awesome ascension of She-Whose-Turn-It-Is. All except the arch-boor Trump who cracked that maybe Russia could find those 20,000 emails missing from I’m-With-Her’s fabled server. The entire nation, including the aforementioned Special Needs news media, actually missed the point of the gag — which was: how lame are the US security agencies if they couldn’t find those emails but Russia could? And how come nobody raised that question?

Julian Assange then appeared, Jacob Marley-like, to warn the minions of Hillary that he had portfolios full of interesting material yet to dump, and would take his sweet time choosing the opportune moment to do it. How Hillary must wish she could send a Navy SEAL team into Ecuador’s London embassy to ventilate that hacker-rat! It will be fun waiting for Julian to make his move, and to see how much Xanax Hillary will require in the meantime. The DNC coronation show will prove to be only temporary relief from the phantoms and revenants of misdeeds past.

The distraction du jour is whether Trump has become an agent of Russia. Notice that this line of intel comes direct from the neo-con central agitprop desk. This unofficial US War Party representing the amalgamated war industries has been busy demonizing Russia throughout the current presidential term. Not all Americans are so easily gulled, though. Those who know history understand, for instance, that the Crimea has been a province of Russia almost continually for hundreds of years — except the brief interval when the ur-Ukrainian Soviet leader, Nikita Khrushchev one drunken evening gave it away to the then-Soviet region of Ukraine in a fit of sentimentality, assuming it would remain a virtual property of Greater Russia forever. [More about the 1954 transfer of Crimea here.--P.Z.] Notice, too, that since Russia annexed it in 2014 (being the site of its only warm water port and major naval stations) not even the US neo-con war party has been able to make a credible case for fighting over it. Instead, they’ve resorted to name-calling: Putin the “thug,” Putin the “worst political gangster in the world.” This is exactly the brand of foreign policy that Hillary will bring to the Oval Office.

Not that Donald Trump offers a coherent alternative. The reasonable suspicion persists that he doesn’t know his ass from a hole in the ground vis-à-vis how the affairs of the world actually work. For him it’s all same as tough-talking the sheet-rocker’s union. Then, of course, Trump had to immediately step in dog-shit by bad-mouthing the mother of an American army hero who-just-happened-to-be of the Mohammedan persuasion. Trump for practical purposes is a child and a reasonable case is not hard to make for denying him presidential power.

And so the great disaster movie of 2016 commences: Godzilla Versus Rodan the Flying Reptile. Which one will survive to completely destroy the sclerotic remains of our nation? The good news is that voters are moving to the Third and Fourth party nominees, Gary Johnson (Libertarian) and Jill Stein (Green) in droves, herds, flocks, porpoise pods, and stampedes. Perhaps both of these relatively sane candidates will show enough polling strength to make it into the Great Debates. Won’t that be fun?

Gary Johnson Keeps a Low Profile

"While Jill Stein Rallies Sanders Supporters, Gary Johnson Keeps Low Profile."

Johnson-Weld 2016

As busy as ever but I watched part of the Libertarian convention yesterday and this morning on C-SPAN. Lots of colorful speeches, questions, and general debates. They finally settled on a presidential ticket. Your Libertarian candidates for 2016 are:

Gary Johnson and William Weld.

The story of Bill Weld's wild final fight for the Libertarian VP nomination https://t.co/Recn3Ur4qq

— daveweigel (@daveweigel) May 29, 2016

National media surrounding Weld as he accepts VP nomination #LegalizeFreedom #LibertarianConvention pic.twitter.com/wCh77rwZL2

— Joe Henchman (@jdhenchman) May 29, 2016

Gary Johnson Also Running for President.

Gary Johnson Running for President.

The Real Presidential Debate

On 23 October, the real presidential debate will be moderated by Larry King. Participating candidates are Gary Johnson (Libertarian), Jill Stein (Green), Rocky Anderson (Justice), and Virgil Goode (Constitution). Visit freeandequal.org for details. One can also submit questions to the candidates.

http://freeandequal.org/

Gary Johnson Tops ACLU Liberty Watch Report Card

http://www.lvtsg.com/imho/2012/01/gary-johnson-tops-aclu-liberty-watch-report-card/