By James Howard Kunstler
I wasn’t being a wise guy. I was alone with
him in his office, that’s how it came about,”
Biden continued. “It was when President Bush had
said, ‘I’ve looked in his eyes and saw his
soul.’ I said, ‘I looked in your eyes, and I
don’t think you have a soul.’ He looked back and
he said, ‘We understand each other.’ ”
— ABC News, Joe Biden with George Stephanopoulos
on V. Putin of Russia
March 22, 2021 "Information
Clearing House" - - "Clusterfuck
Nation" -
Somehow, I don’t think Joe Biden understood
what he thought Vladimir Putin understood about what
they mutually understood. If I had to guess, I’d say
that Mr. Putin understood Joe Biden to be the most
pathetic blustering schlemiel he’d ever encountered
on the international scene. But that must have been
before Mr. B was installed in the White House by
powers and persons unseen because it’s evident now
that his handlers do not allow him to talk to
foreign leaders, not even on the phone. Ms. Harris
does that.
The alleged president went on to tell Mr.
Stephanopoulos that Mr. Putin was “a killer” who
would “soon pay a price” for interfering in the 2020
election. In turn, Mr. Putin promptly called the
Russian ambassador back home “for consultations,”
which is generally what happens when one country
makes warlike noises to another country.
Mr. Putin added a tantalizing taunt days later,
saying. “I’ve just thought of this now. I want to
propose to President Biden to continue our
discussion, but on the condition that we do it
basically live, as it’s called. Without any delays
and directly in an open, direct discussion. It seems
to me that would be interesting for the people of
Russia and for the people of the United States. I
don’t want to put this off for long. I want to go to
the taiga this weekend to relax a little,” Mr. Putin
went on. “So, we could do it tomorrow or Monday. We
are ready at any time convenient for the American
side.”
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Do you suppose Vladimir Putin is having some
sport with Mr. Biden, this lightweight even
among US politicians, with brain-rot to boot?
Pretty soon, the president’s handlers will have
to forbid him to open his pie-hole in public
altogether. No more one-on-one interviews even
with slow-pitch party shills like Mr.
Stephanopoulos. They’ll just wheel him into the
rose garden periodically like a cigar store
Indian for proof-of-life demonstrations and
leave the management of the nation… to others.
And how’s that going after a couple of months?
Apparently, economic collapse is not enough for the
party in charge of things now. They’re strangely
compelled to seek every possible opportunity to
insult the public’s intelligence while destroying
what’s left of American culture. Case in point out
of Nancy Pelosi’s Congress: HR1, the so-called “For
the People Act,” institutionalizing ballot fraud in
US elections. The law would make permanent the
Covid-19 emergency mail-in voting system,
over-riding whatever each state’s election law says
— which makes the act appear patently
unconstitutional — plus permitting same-day
motor-voter registration of any live body, citizen
or not, plus removing all voter ID requirements, and
much more to ensure the country is never again
threatened by a fair election.
Next up: HR5, the so-called “Equality Act,”
institutionalizing the notion that categories of
“male” and “female” are mere cultural constructs and
must in no way be allowed to order any cultural
activity from school to work to leisure. The bill
was initially conceived to harden into law President
Obama’s EO expanding the Department of Education’s
Title IX rules on school sports — which eventuated
in “trans women” disrupting girls’ sports. Now, men
pretending to be women (and vice-versa) will be
allowed to disrupt everything else in American life,
especially the civil courts, with frivolous
lawsuits.
Also in the pipeline: HR6, the so-called
“American Dream and Promise Act,” and its Senate
companion, S264, the plain “Dream Act,” that will
grant permanent residency and then citizenship to
currently “undocumented” people who snuck into the
USA as children. The dreams and promises have
already been delivered, even before the final
passage of any new act, with an unprecedented flood
of unaccompanied migrant children crashing the
border, as well as a surge of adults fleeing Mexico
and Central America. Apparently, the thinking in
Washington these days is that we don’t have enough
poor people in America, that their lives are not
difficult enough. The message couldn’t be clearer to
millions outside the United States: by all
means, cross the border and we will do nothing about
it. And so, with the border reduced to just
another cultural construct, Mr. Biden himself took
the extraordinary action of telling them on TV,
“Don’t Come!” I guess that’ll do the trick.
Do you have any idea how pissed-off a clear
majority of the American public will be after a few
more months of this?
James Howard Kunstler is an American author,
social critic, public speaker, and blogger. He is
best known for his books The Geography of Nowhere, a
history of American suburbia and urban development,
The Long Emergency, and Too Much Magic.
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