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He Is Risen… But For How Long?

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Publié le 23 janvier 2017
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I f the first forty-eight hours are any measure of the alleged Trumptopia-to-come, the leading man in this national melodrama appears to be meshuga. A more charitable view might be that his behavior does not comport with the job description: president. If he keeps it up, I stick to my call that we will see him removed by extraordinary action within a few months. It might be a continuity-of-government procedure according to the 25th Amendment — various high officials declaring him “incapacited” — or it might be a straight-up old school coup d’é·tat (“You’re fired”).

I believe the trigger for that may be an overwhelming financial crisis in the early second quarter of the year. In, the first case, under Section 4 of the 25th Amendment, it works like this:

Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.

Or else, it will be an orchestrated cabal of military and intelligence officers — not necessarily evil men — who fear for the safety of the nation with the aforesaid meshuganer in the White House, who is summarily arrested, sequestered, and replaced by an “acting president,” pending a call for an extraordinary new election to replace him by democratic means. I’m not promoting this scenario as necessarily desirable, but that’s how I think it will go down. It will be a sad moment in this country’s history, worse than the shock of John Kennedy’s assassination, which happened against the background of an economically stable Republic. History is perverse and life is tragic. And shit happens.

Returning to the first forty-eight hours of the new regime: there was, to my mind, the disturbing sight of Donald Trump, deep in the Capitol in the grim runway leading out onto the inaugural dais. He lumbered along, so conspicuously alone between the praetorian ranks front and back, overcoat open, that long red slash of necktie dangling ominously, with a mad gleam in his eyes like an old bull being led out to a sacrificial alter. His speech to the multitudes was not exactly what had once passed for presidential oratory. It was not an “address.” It was blunt, direct, unadorned, and simple, a warning to the assembled luminaries meant to prepare them for disempowerment. Surely it was received by many as a threat.

Indeed an awful lot of official behavior has to change if this country expects to carry on as a civilized polity, and Trump’s plain statement was at face value consistent with that idea. But the disassembly of such a vast matrix of rackets is unlikely to be managed without generating a lot of dangerous friction. Such a tall order would require, at least, some finesse. Virtually all the powers of the Deep State are arrayed against him, and he can’t resist taunting them, a dangerous game. Despite the show of an orderly transition, a state of war exists between them. Anyway, given Trump’s cabinet appointments, his “swamp draining” campaign looks like one set of rackets is due to be replaced by a new and perhaps worse set.

Trump was correct that the ruins of industry stand like tombstones on the landscape. The reality may be that an industrial economy is a one-shot deal. When it’s gone, it’s over. Even assuming the money exists to rebuild the factories of the 20th century, how would things be produced in them? By robotics or by brawny men paid $15-an-hour? If it’s robotics, who will the customers be? If it’s low-wage workers, how are they going to pay for the cars and washing machines? If the brawny men are paid $40 an hour, how would we sell our cars and washing machines in foreign markets that pay their workers the equivalent of $1.50 an hour. How can American industry stay afloat with no export market? If we don’t let foreign products into the US, how will Americans buy cars that are far more costly to make here than the products we’ve been getting? There’s no indication that Trump and his people have thought through any of this.

The problems with Obamacare, and so-called health care generally, are burdened with so many layers of arrant racketeering that the system may only be fixable if it is destroyed in its current form — the overgrown centralized hospitals, the overpaid insurance and hospital executives, the sore-beset physicians carrying six-figure college-and-med-school loans, the incomprehensible and extortionate pricing system for care, the cruel and insulting bureaucratic barriers to obtain care, the disgraceful behavior of the pharmaceutical companies, all add up to something no less than a colossal hostage racket, robbing and swindling people at their most vulnerable. So far, nobody has advanced a coherent plan for changing it. A financial crisis could be the trigger for destroying it. Then what?

Saturday afternoon, Trump paid a call at CIA headquarters, ostensibly to begin mending fences with what may be his domestic arch-enemies. What did he do? He peeved and pouted about press reports of the lowish attendance at his swearing in. Maximum meshuga. I’m surprised that some veteran of The Company’s Suriname outpost didn’t take him out with a blowgun dart garnished with the toxic secretions of tree frogs.

Do you suppose Trump is going to improve? That was the hope after the election: that he’d take on some POTUS polish. No, what you see is what you get. I can only imagine that what’s going on behind the scenes in various halls of power would make a Matt Damon Bourne movie look like a sensitivity training session — grave professional men and women on all fours with their hair on fire howling into the acoustical ceiling tiles.

Don’t forget that it was the dismal failure of Democratic “progressive” politics that gave us Trump. His infantile lies and foolish tweets were made possible by a mendacious political culture that excuses illegal immigrants as “the undocumented,” refuses to identify radical Islamic terror by name, shuts down free speech on campus, made Michael Brown of Ferguson a secular saint, claims that there’s no biological basis for gender, and allowed Wall Street to pound the American middle class down a rat hole like so much sand.

You think this is the dark night of the national soul? The sun only went down a few minutes ago and it’s a long hard slog to daybreak.

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The Deep State is corrupt, dysfunctional, and fraudulent .... in the extreme. Donald Trump is not perfect, but he is our best and possibly last chance to bring the Deep State to heel; to take this nation back from the legion of unelected bureaucrats who have spent the last 3+ decades running it into the ground.

Obama was the perfect lap dog for the Deep State .... did what he was told, and primarily weighed in on issues related to identity politics, which allowed the Deep State to continue their multi-faceted malfeasance unhindered.

I find it unusual and ironic that :
1) The Left and DNC have totally abandoned labor and the American worker, and
2) Trump accomplished more for the American worker in 10 weeks as President-elect, than Obama did in 8 years.

Godspeed Donald Trump.
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Mr. K should continue writing fiction only. His comments are unhinged. His predictions are outlandish.
He does not belong in a serious place like 24hgold.com.
His opinions do not make any sense. Maybe he is also a communist follower of Mr. O.
Thanks God for Donald Trump!
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Kunstler is the old voice of Progressivism in America, an old voice that wants Government to take control of us freckles individuals...and by control, it's DO OUR THIS WAY OR ELSE. This is what Kunstler ends this article with: "The sun only went down a few minutes ago and it’s a long hard slog to daybreak."

So, the departure of Obama was the setting of the sun???? Really????

Like all these diehards Progressives who somehow think Trump's election will be voided, that the CIA will step in with a coup, that, somehow, the clouds will part and Allah hisself will remove Trump by the collar....Kunstler is deeply afflicted with their philosophy that has been a plague to Mankind.

Trump is a turn back to Capitalism, to individual responsibility, to law and order, to the tyranny of Big Government rolled back, the snarling dogs that they are.

JC
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I was thinking the same thing Jim C, when I read this article. The old Progressive bias showing through once again. And it is all Progressives, not just JHK. I thought it was amusing that there was a program on, I don't remember what media channel, the other day titled "The End". A bit dramatic eh? It made me chuckle when I highlighted it in the program guide and I saw that it was about Obama leaving office.

But when I think about it a little more, maybe it is the end. The end of Political Correctness, of Nannycrat bureaucracy, of the creeping evil that believes that it is just to sacrifice the individual to the collective, etc....
For myself, and millions of other freedom minded individuals, it is the beginning. Hopefully, Trump can dismantle some of the gargantuan government bureaucracy, which is tyrannical simply due to its size.
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J:

If people would take the time to read Kunstler's archived articles here they would see fully what his agenda is -- that of Government control of individual lives in every aspect. I can't recall how many times he urged that people be forced - with the emphasize on forced - out of their automobiles and onto mass transit...mass transit that's plagued with crime and open targets for terrorist attacks. Let mass transit be an option for people, to take it or not as their needs require...but not a mandated directive by Big Brother.

Kunstler used to rant and rave in article after article about the end of oil, 'Peak Oil' and the coming collapse of civilization. Not a peep about that from him anymore. Exploration, even in spite of Obama's executive orders and stonewalling, has uncovered vast new sources.

Trump is a breath of fresh air and has already begun to remove Government fingers from our lives and pocketbooks. He's off to a good start and hopefully will continue. Naturally the freeloaders of our society hate him.

JC
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