by James Howard Kunstler
If you think about it at all, can you come up with any good reasons why our country has involved itself in the Ukraine war? To defend democracy, many say? An emptier platitude does not exist in the vast slippery lexicon of spin. To thwart Russia’s imperial overreach? You apparently have no clue about Ukraine’s history, ancient or modern. To incite an overthrow of the wicked Putin by his own people? The Russian president is more popular there now than even John F. Kennedy was here in 1962.
There actually are no good reasons for what we are doing in Ukraine, only bad reasons. Mainly, stoking the war there diverts Americans attention from our own problems, which is to say the titanic failures of America’s political establishment. The USA is falling apart from a combination of mismanagement, malice, and negligence. Our economy is a tottering scaffold of Ponzi schemes. Our institutions are wrecked. The government lies about everything it does. The news industry ratifies all the lying. Our schoolchildren can’t read or add up a column of numbers. Our food is slow-acting poison. Our medical-pharma matrix has just completed the systematic murder and maiming of millions. Our culture has been reduced to a drag queen twerk-fest. Our once-beautiful New World landscape is a demolition derby. Name something that hasn’t been debauched, perverted, degenerated, or flat-out destroyed.
And so, the “Joe Biden” show is busy ginning up nuclear war hysteria because that’s all it has left for manipulating public emotion. The Covid-19 derangement lost its mojo in 2022 and the population has only just begun to grok the all-causes death disaster underway courtesy of Pfizer and Moderna (and the CDC with the FDA). Did you notice, by the way, that the CDC just added those unapproved, still-experimental shots to the childhood vaccine schedule, considered official “guidance” that is followed by virtually every school system in America. Rochelle Walensky did that despite massive evidence that the “vaccines” damage childrens’ hearts, nervous systems, reproductive systems, and immune systems.
Do you know why Ms. Walensky did that? Because adding the mRNA shots to the childhood schedule supposedly confers permanent immunity from legal liability for the drug companies, even after the current emergency use authorization (EUA) runs out. The catch to that cozy arrangement is if there was any fraud committed on the public in the release and administration of those products, the companies lose their immunity and can be sued until there is nothing left of them but the paperclips. Plus, the executives may be liable for criminal prosecution. Hard time.
One Brooke Jackson, a technician involved in the sketchy Pfizer drug trials, and who directly witnessed the procedural violations as they occurred, is currently suing Pfizer under the False Claims Act (31 U.S. Code § 3729) saying that the company defrauded the government. Pfizer’s lawyers have asked the judge to dismiss the case on the grounds, they said in court, that, “We did not defraud the government. We delivered the fraud that the government ordered.” So now, millions of schoolchildren in this land will be subject to compulsory harmful mRNA shots in order to cover the Pharma companies’ multi-billion-dollar asses. Doesn’t that sum up our national predicament nicely? Way to go, Rochelle. Don’t think nobody noticed.
It’s also worth pondering whether we are neck-deep in the Ukraine morass because Volodymyr Zelensky is blackmailing “Joe Biden” over the mysterious Biden Family business operations that took place there directly following the US-orchestrated Maidan revolution that overthrew Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovich in 2014. Remember “The Big Guy’s” earnest efforts to get rid of the Ukrainian state prosecutor who was looking into the affairs of the Burisma gas company that invited Hunter Biden and his associate Devon Archer onto the board of directors. Of all people in Western Civ… these two Americans… with no knowledge of or experience in the natgas industry. Weird, a little bit. Do you suppose Mr. Zelensky still has the prosecutor’s files in his possession?
Then, of course, there is the bizarre matter of the Nord Stream pipelines caper, lately disclosed by the scrupulous reporter, Seymour Hersh, as a US naval operation. We blew them up. Four EU member Nations (also US NATO allies) held a combined half-ownership in the pipelines (the other half held by Russia). European industry and households depended on a steady supply of that reasonably-priced gas to continue modern life there. Both President “Joe Biden” and Deputy Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Victoria Nuland, promised the news media (and the American public) that the pipeline would “be no more” if a Russian military operation crossed into the Donbas. Well, sonofabitch, the pipelines were “no more” as of last September.
Americans:
These crooks started the war, and want the war. Shun, shame, and mock any asshole who repeats the regime lie that it’s “just evil Putin invading unprovoked.”
Everyone knows that’s bullshit.
Zelensky does not want to make peace not from the get go.
“The fight is here; I need ammunition, not a ride.”
How is that working out?
Somebody cut the murderous son-of-a-bitch’s pipeline revenue stream. Maybe you haven’t noticed Putin’s methodical efforts to destroy Ukraine’s entire life support system?
No they did not he is selling it and its being marked up and sold to the same customer, genius. He is getting much more for it now. https://www.macrotrends.net/2516/wti-crude-oil-prices-10-year-daily-chart
“Stupid” appeased Hitler until he overran Europe. Over 70 million people died as a result.
Yup Bidens energy policies have appeased Putin with high crude costs.
biden has demonstrated he hates Americans.
Did Bidens EPA give permission for this crap?
Just do something quick no matter how f’n stoopid!
https://www.wkbn.com/news/local-news/east-palestine-train-derailment/business-claims-contaminated-east-palestine-soil-is-being-dumped-by-its-property/
Yup
Cant be the Ho said utility prices are coming down. Well not mine, guess they missed my bills a simple oversight…right?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/harris-bashed-for-bragging-that-biden-has-lowered-electricity-and-heating-bills-alternate-reality/ar-AA17Qz9L
The truth they’re trying to distract you from: President Trump’s Impact on the National Debt – The national debt increased by almost 36% during Trump’s tenure.
Nancy had the purse strings 1/2 of that time and treasonous Paul Ryan the other 1/2
Remember COVID? Remember Pelosi’s wild spending spree? Apparently not.
Mock and shame this asshole, greg…
Support for the boondoggle in Ukraine is upside down. More Americans now believe we are wasting money on a Slavic border dispute that has zero national security implications for the US.
biden needs to come to Congress and ask for a warpowers resolution.
If he did, the republican House majority would go to war with itself. Do you want the republican House majority to go to war with itself?
Putin would be pleased. Putin would be pleased to see America descend into total chaos. His most serious obstacle to domination of Europe would be gone.
Maybe she needs a Vinn diagram to show why she’s so universally unpopular. Perhaps then she’d get it.
Tell it to Vladimir Putin. Of course if you did, you could spend 10 years in a Russian prison.
Except Putin would not BE in Ukraine were it not for idiot Biden’s incompetence.
Complete, unmitigated Trumpian hogwash. 37 times Trump was soft on Russia –
One cannot avoid the fact that Putin made no such moves while Trump was President. Trump didn’t want Putin as an adversary, but he didn’t let him get away with aggression and he damn sure didn’t have his children being bribed by Putin.
There is one common reason why all these bad things have happened in the past two years and that reason is election fraud, which brought us idiot Biden.
The one thing I know, greg, is that you are my enemy, and an enemy of the United States.
We’ll fight you…and beat you.
As we’ve beat cowards and tyrants before.
The fact that you link to CNN as much as you do only proves you like being lied to. No one in the Trump family was on the payroll of the one of the richest, if not the richest, woman in Russia.
How about addressing the graft of the entire Biden family? Or don’t you have the guts?
Surely you’ve got that adequately covered.
I’m asking you to show the guts to actually own up to the fact that Joe Biden, his brothers and his son, are nothing but grifters. Admit that the scandals behind the Bidens are the worst this nation has ever seen.
It wasn’t Trump messing with hookers. It was Hunter Biden. Leave it to the left to accuse the right of what the left is doing.
I can’t even get him to address idiot Biden’s lies. He rants and raves about lies, lying and liars yet he is perfectly fine with idiot Biden often lying just for the sake of lying.
Greg is not real adroit at facing and admitting the obvious.
“OUR VIEWERS…BELIEVE IT”: WHAT FOX NEWS EXECS AND STARS WERE REALLY THINKING WHILE THE NETWORK BOOSTED DONALD TRUMP’S ELECTION LIES
A jaw-dropping filing in Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6 billion defamation suit against the network includes internal texts and emails dismissing unfounded claims and unreliable Trumpworld sources. “Sidney Powell is lying,” wrote Tucker Carlson.
A Thursday court filing by Dominion Voting Systems, the election-technology company that has filed a $1.6 billion defamation suit against Fox over its 2020 election coverage, offered a stunning look at what was going on behind the scenes as the network was amplifying election lies pushed by Donald Trump and his allies. Notably, internal messages show top executives, producers, and stars privately mocking the unfounded claims and unreliable sources in Trumpworld. “Sidney Powell is lying by the way. I caught her. It’s insane,” Tucker Carlson told Laura Ingraham on November 18 of the conspiracy-peddling Trump lawyer. “Sidney is a complete nut. No one will work with her. Ditto with Rudy [Giuliani],” Ingraham replied. “It’s unbelievably offensive to me. Our viewers are good people and they believe it,” said Carlson. A day later, Fox Corp. chair Rupert Murdoch sent a message with the subject line “Watching Giuliani!” and wrote, “Really crazy stuff. And damaging.”
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Others who worked on Fox News programs were sounding alarms, too. Alex Pfeiffer, a producer for Carlson, at one point said, “Mike Lindell is crazy and about to get sued by dominion,” a reference to the pro-Trump MyPillow founder. Dominion also cites texts between Ingraham’s producer Tommy Firth and Ron Mitchell, a Fox executive responsible for overseeing Ingraham’s show. “This dominion shit is going to give me a fucking aneurysm—as many times as I’ve told Laura it’s bs, she sees shit posters and trump tweeting about it.” Firth writes. “This is the Bill Gates/microchip angle to voter fraud,” replies Mitchell. Later in the day, Mitchell texts Firth, “How’s it going [with] the kooks?”
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Dominion’s legal filing—which clocks in at nearly 200 pages—notes that it not only alerted Fox that its allegations were false but provided public evidence to support its denial as early as November 12, 2020. “In total, Dominion sent 3,682 emails to Fox recipients, which on its own makes this case truly unique in the amount of corrective correspondence provided,” Dominion writes. “On top of that, Fox’s corporate representative further agreed that Dominion’s emails were then ‘widely circulated’ within Fox,” where “hosts, producers, and executives had the facts in their inboxes.” (Fox executive David Clark, as the filing notes, joked that he’d received Dominion’s fact check so many times, “I have it tattooed on my body at this point.”)
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On January 5, according to the filing, Rupert Murdoch sent a message to CEO Suzanne Scott revealing that Murdoch did not believe Trump’s lies. “It’s been suggested our prime time three should independently or together say something like ‘the election is over and Joe Biden won,’” and that such a statement “would go a long way to stop the Trump myth that the election [was] stolen,” Murdoch wrote. Scott forwarded Murdoch’s email to Meade Cooper, the EVP of primetime programming, writing, “I told Rupert that privately they are all there—we need to be careful about using the shows and pissing off the viewers but they know how to navigate.”
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Higher-ups at Fox News were apparently fixated on keeping their audience happy, In one instance, then-White House correspondent Kristin Fisher was reprimanded by her boss, SVP and Washington bureau chief Bryan Boughton, after fact-checking claims made by Powell and Giuliani in a press conference that Fox broadcast:
Dominion argues that Fox continued to push such falsehoods in the hopes of juicing ratings and profit. On November 18, Mitchell sent a memo to Scott and president Jay Wallace noting that Newsmax had on the previous night “sourced websites like Gateway Pundit”—a conservative conspiracy site—”while talking about voter fraud. This type of conspiratorial reporting might be exactly what the disgruntled FNC viewer is looking for.” A particularly damning moment in Dominion’s filing is of a group text thread between Ingraham, Carlson, and Sean Hannity, in which Carlson points to a tweet by Fox reporter Jacqui Heinrich “fact checking” a tweet by Trump that mentioned coverage about the voting machines that had aired on Fox News. Heinrich pointed out that “top election infrastructure officials” said that “There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised.”
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“Please get her fired. Seriously….What the fuck? I’m actually shocked…It needs to stop immediately, like tonight. It’s measurably hurting the company. The stock price is down. Not a joke,” Carlson told Hannity. Hannity told Carlson he had already discussed it with Scott. Heinrich deleted her tweet by the next morning, Dominion notes. (Heinrich continued to fact-check Trump.) Heinrich “was blindsided reading the details in the legal filing and was not aware of the efforts by top hosts behind the scenes to get her fired,” CNN’s Oliver Darcy reported Thursday night…
You’re attacking a man recovering from a stroke as a distraction from the moral bankruptcy of the Trump cult.
Gisele Fetterman flees to Canada after hubby goes into Hospital…
You’re attacking a man recovering from a stroke as a distraction from the moral bankruptcy of the Trump cult.
Why in the F**K was such a person elected to office? No one is attacking his disability, we are attacking you parasitic leftists that USE people for cheap political gain. THERE’S your “moral bankruptcy”.
Rumors inside the beltway are flying that he’s brain dead and they’re keeping it under wraps until past a certain date so as to avoid having to conduct a special election
That would explain why the wife decided it was time to take the kids on vacation, wouldn’t it?
Being told that Fetterman is essentially brain dead and it’s being hidden because keeping him in office until August 18th avoids a special election which Republicans would most certainly win.
This must be investigated.
That’s OK, just like his voting responsibilities, someone else will handle it. Democrats really have a problem with electing people that have operational brains.
Your entire crack-brained, Trump-induced alternate reality is built on lies. Instead of dealing with them, you just push more destructive bullshit. Compared with Trump and his endlessly corrupting, self-aggrandizing scams, Biden is a choir boy.
Who authorized the release of the chemicals and subsequent uncontrolled burn from the east Palestine OH train derailment?
Do you know?
“OUR VIEWERS…BELIEVE IT”: WHAT FOX NEWS EXECS AND STARS WERE REALLY THINKING WHILE THE NETWORK BOOSTED DONALD TRUMP’S ELECTION LIES
Dominion employees admit there were bugs, hacks and failures of their machines.
Such as? You’ve never been able to come up with a single one. Certainly nothing like THIS list (I’ve added more):
Did idiot Biden lie when he said:
… the Afghanistan withdrawal went perfectly?
… the southern border is secure?
… Border Patrol mounted agents whipped illegal immigrants?
… inflation is transient?
… gas was $5 a gallon when he took office?
… Putin caused all the inflation?
… there was no vaccine when he took office?
… he has traveled 17,000 miles with Xi?
… that there are no background checks at gun shows?
… that the Georgia election law suppresses the ability to vote?
… the “surge” of illegal immigrants he caused happens every year?
… that he would only serve one term?
… that the disaster at the border is Trump’s fault?
… that the information on Hunter’s laptop was “Russian disinformation”?
… that he had no knowledge of Hunter’s foreign business deals?
… the Supreme Court had decided election fraud cases?
… that he hasn’t taken lobbyist money?
… that he vaccinated (at the time) 70% of the population?
… he has driven an 18-wheeler?
… that the Georgia election integrity law would suppress votes?
… that he was a coal miner?
… he was a civil rights activist?
… he was arrested in the Capital?
… he was arrested in S. Africa?
… 350 million Americans had been vaccinated?
… no foreign leaders had criticized him?
… about nation building and putting soldiers in Afghanistan?
… about not leaving Afghanistan until all Americans were removed?
… that the collapse in Afghanistan “caught him by surprise”?
… he visited the Tree of Life synagogue after an attack on it?
… that he was going to end COVID?
… he was working “around the clock”?
… he had an opportunity to go to Annapolis and play football?
… that the 2nd Amendment banned weapons?
… the .223 and 9mm round were the most powerful rounds?
… told union members that since he took office, they have more money, more savings?
… that he was responsible for a planned Social Security cost of living increase?
… he would fire anyone on his staff that showed disrespect to anyone?
… there was no action on COVID19 “for months” under Trump?
… Officer Sicknick was murdered at the Capital?
… Republicans were defunding police, not Democrats?
… the economy was “in a tailspin” when he took office?
… the Capital riot was the worst incident of violence since the Civil War?
… the trillions of dollars Democrats were spending would cause inflation?
… Trump said white supremacists were “fine people”?
… there were Russian bounties?
… Democrat spending would not increase the deficit?
… no one making less that $400,000 would see tax increases?
… his infrastructure bill was “paid for”?
… the majority of illegal immigrant families are sent back?
… no family members of his or staff would get government jobs?
… the government was going to “buy American”?
… that he was a member of Ukraine and Polish secret service?
,,, that he didn’t know what Top Secret documents were illegally kept in his private office or how they got there?
… that inflation was bad when he took office?
… that the economy was in free-fall when he took office?
… that he was raised in a Puerto Rican neighborhood?
… that he was raised in a Polish neighborhood?
… that he was raised in an Italian neighborhood?
… that he went to synagogue before he went to mass?
That’s how much the left actually cares about the environment.
Get back to me when you are willing to discuss the CURRENT administration just as you often told me when I railed on Obama during Trump’s administration, “Obama’s not president. Trump is.”
Stick to your own rules, Comrade Gregge.
PS: CNN sold out to the left during the Clinton administration.
greg is a pussy. biden cannot be defended. He is feckless, weak and a traitor.
And Vanity Fair, along with The Atlantic, are even move left wing (Socialist) than CNN.
Comrade Greggie loves him some left wing bullsh!t.
You automatically dismiss legitimate news sources because your cult leaders have put an X on them. They’ve put your mind in a box, and told you everything outside of it is a lie. It’s just like Putin’s Russian “news” media.
You have no idea what I do, or do not, “automatically dismiss.” You can only give meaningless responses to avoid actually providing legitimate responses or sticking to your own rules, which you do not.
You are nothing more than a pathetic hack for the left. Do your orders come from the leader of your bund?
You won’t acknowledge the truth about Trump’s media enablers, even when it’s put in front of your face. You immediately go on the attack. That’s what you do, every single time, with anything you don’t like. How would anyone not know?
Let’s see, Comrade Greggie……….what do your words reveal about you:
you cannot debate on an intellectual level
you have no historical knowledge
you rely on the words of others to try to make your pathetic argument
you refer to only left wing, FAR left wing sites
you cannot come up with intelligent retorts
there is more, much more but that will do for now.
You remain the idiot you have always been.
What about the revelations concerning Trump’s FOX media propagandists? That they all knew his stolen election claims were total bullshit?
That didn’t come from “far-left” sources. It came out of their own mouths.
Comrade Greggie’s newest trick; totally rewriting his responses so your response to him looks out of whack.
Add liar and sneak to his resume.
Who are they? In what way have they enabled Trump?
They have amplified Trump’s lies, knowing full well that they were lies, to fill their own f*cking pockets. They have severely damaged their own nation in the process, widening divisions and making agreement impossible, even when our common ground should obvious. They have no shame about having done so, or about continuing to do so.
THEY? THEY f**king WHO? WHAT lies? The only people lying are those who say the economy is great, the border is secure and idiot Biden is anything but a moron. Your Ministry of Propaganda even gushed over that fake air raid siren in Kyiv. No one is promoting lies but your Democrats and your Ministry of Propaganda.
Did idiot Biden lie when he said:
… the Afghanistan withdrawal went perfectly?
… the southern border is secure?
… Border Patrol mounted agents whipped illegal immigrants?
… inflation is transient?
… gas was $5 a gallon when he took office?
… Putin caused all the inflation?
… there was no vaccine when he took office?
… he has traveled 17,000 miles with Xi?
… that there are no background checks at gun shows?
… that the Georgia election law suppresses the ability to vote?
… the “surge” of illegal immigrants he caused happens every year?
… that he would only serve one term?
… that the disaster at the border is Trump’s fault?
… that the information on Hunter’s laptop was “Russian disinformation”?
… that he had no knowledge of Hunter’s foreign business deals?
… the Supreme Court had decided election fraud cases?
… that he hasn’t taken lobbyist money?
… that he vaccinated (at the time) 70% of the population?
… he has driven an 18-wheeler?
… that the Georgia election integrity law would suppress votes?
… that he was a coal miner?
… he was a civil rights activist?
… he was arrested in the Capital?
… he was arrested in S. Africa?
… 350 million Americans had been vaccinated?
… no foreign leaders had criticized him?
… about nation building and putting soldiers in Afghanistan?
… about not leaving Afghanistan until all Americans were removed?
… that the collapse in Afghanistan “caught him by surprise”?
… he visited the Tree of Life synagogue after an attack on it?
… that he was going to end COVID?
… he was working “around the clock”?
… he had an opportunity to go to Annapolis and play football?
… that the 2nd Amendment banned weapons?
… the .223 and 9mm round were the most powerful rounds?
… told union members that since he took office, they have more money, more savings?
… that he was responsible for a planned Social Security cost of living increase?
… he would fire anyone on his staff that showed disrespect to anyone?
… there was no action on COVID19 “for months” under Trump?
… Officer Sicknick was murdered at the Capital?
… Republicans were defunding police, not Democrats?
… the economy was “in a tailspin” when he took office?
… the Capital riot was the worst incident of violence since the Civil War?
… the trillions of dollars Democrats were spending would cause inflation?
… Trump said white supremacists were “fine people”?
… there were Russian bounties?
… Democrat spending would not increase the deficit?
… no one making less that $400,000 would see tax increases?
… his infrastructure bill was “paid for”?
… the majority of illegal immigrant families are sent back?
… no family members of his or staff would get government jobs?
… the government was going to “buy American”?
… that he was a member of Ukraine and Polish secret service?
,,, that he didn’t know what Top Secret documents were illegally kept in his private office or how they got there?
… that inflation was bad when he took office?
… that the economy was in free-fall when he took office?
… that he was raised in a Puerto Rican neighborhood?
… that he was raised in a Polish neighborhood?
… that he was raised in an Italian neighborhood?
… that he went to synagogue before he went to mass?
You mean those that reported and promoted the “Russian collusion” hoax, even when it had been proven a lie? Those who declared Hunter’s laptop was “Russian disinformation” without any proof, examination or curiosity? Those who falsely claimed Trump disparaged veterans? Those who reported Trump said “Nazis are fine people”? Those who claimed Trump told people to inject bleach?
Who but a totally stupid moron would allow these people have any credibility at all?
That comment is a product of what they have done.
What the f**k does that mean? Were those fake news stories the left wing propaganda media pursued relentlessly lies or not?
Infantile name-calling. One of Trump’s favorite modes of attack.
‘It’s a major blow’: Dominion has uncovered ‘smoking gun’ evidence in case against Fox News, legal experts say
Dominion employees admit there were bugs, hacks and failures of their machines.
CNN promoting a snake oil salesman to get your pathetic hopes up again, its really sad you take the bait, every single time. Even your PBS had a documentary on the dangers of these machines. It has been shown many times how easy they are to hack into, Dominion made it easier on purpose, lied to congress that they were not connected to the internet.
Soft on Russia, selling uranium to Russia setting up a silicon valley in Russia, big ol dumb reset button, more flexible after re-election Greg your memory is shot you just keep stepping in dog shit and track it on the carpet here.
When ex-President Bill Clinton (right) received a $500,000 check in 2010 from a Kremlin-linked bank to give a speech.
On 30 December 2015, the Wall Street Journal reported that more than two dozen companies and one foreign government (Abu Dhabi) paid Bill Clinton a combined $8 million in speaking fees.
Yes we want to flush out the assholes. We know many of them.
https://twitter.com/Brash_1/status/1629214428523642880?t=NFW17jNghkgXjjKFw_6-Yg&s=19
Well, when you won’t even look, you aren’t likely to see any indications.
Didnt Zelensky just fire people for openly grifting? Buying sports cars jewelry cash in a couch?
He certainly did.
He couldnt have the government said there was none, you must be mistaken.
A fool and our money are soon parted.
A second wife of a top Ukrainian official was stopped at a border, in EU, because there was $29,000,000 in her luggage!
Recall the Zelinsky’s wife took an expensive shopping trip a bit back, spending over $50,000 in less than a half hour at one place and buying a chalet, too.
How much of OUR MONEY has been sucked off by these so-called leaders in Ukraine?
No wonder their military is having to learn how to fix all sorts of equipment on the fly.
They’ve been using Europe’s leftover equipment for months.
There can be no audit because no one knows where all the money has gone.