Fog and Noise<\/a><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\nJames Howard Kunstler
\nClusterfuck Nation<\/p>\n
\nIs there a game on? \u00a0Consider: What you\u2019re seeing may not be what you think you\u2019re seeing. If an \u201corderly transition to the next administration\u201d meant what you think it means, Nancy Pelosi would not be shrieking for an insta-super-quickie impeachment. By the way, what would that look like as a procedural matter? Think: Chinese fire drill.<\/p>\n
The New York Times\u2019s<\/em> panties are on fire, declaring a national emergency. Headline this morning: Democrats Demand Trump\u2019s Removal<\/em>. Funny\u2026 they didn\u2019t feel this exercised when Antifa attacked congressmen and senators on the streets of Washington last summer, leaving the president\u2019s acceptance speech at the White House. Twitter and Facebook are busy throwing overboard anybody who dares to challenge the narrative<\/em> they\u2019ve helped to craft. Something\u2019s up now and it\u2019s making them even more hysterical than usual.<\/p>\n\u00a0Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday called for Vice President Mike Pence to immediately initiate the removal of President Donald Trump, declaring him a seditious threat to the country who can\u2019t be trusted to finish even the last two weeks of his term. \u00a0\u2014Politico<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Consider also: you and I are in that fabled fog of war, and that fog is going to hang around in the days ahead. You may see strange shapes moving around in that fog, and that\u2019s about it. Eventually, the fog will lift and the battlefield will not look the same as it did a week ago. So, it\u2019s hard to see right now, but I hear a lot and I\u2019ll just report what I hear for what it\u2019s worth. I can\u2019t prove any of this is true right now. A lot of it may seem crazy, fantastical. \u00a0What with the pitch of news media mind-fuckery we\u2019ve been living under, there have probably never been stranger days in our America.<\/p>\n
The game is a deadly one because there is so much at stake: careers, reputations, fortunes, lives, the climax of four years of seditious Gotcha<\/em>. The \u201cResistance\u201d threw everything it could at the Golden Golem of Greatness. It discommoded him in his duties, and wasted the nation\u2019s precious time in a gathering crisis of civilization, but nothing stuck to him: RussiaGate, impeachment, not even Covid-19. The November 3rd\u00a0<\/sup>election was the final play. Ever find, in a game of chess, that you\u2019ve unwittingly blundered into checkmate?<\/p>\nWho, exactly, invaded the Capitol building on Wednesday when that mass of Trump supporters swarmed up the hallowed hill? Some Antifas and BLMs were on the scene for sure, probably in the vanguard, probably the ones smashing the windows to break in. But somebody else went in there, too, and rounded up a whole bunch of congressional laptops, including several in Speaker Nancy Pelosi\u2019s office, foolishly left behind when members were evacuated in a panic.<\/p>\n
James Howard Kunstler
\nClusterfuck Nation<\/p>\n
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Is there a game on? \u00a0Consider: What you\u2019re seeing may not be what you think you\u2019re seeing. If an \u201corderly transition to the next administration\u201d meant what you think it means, Nancy Pelosi would not be shrieking for an insta-super-quickie impeachment. By the way, what would that look like as a procedural matter? Think: Chinese fire drill.<\/p>\n
The New York Times\u2019s<\/em> panties are on fire, declaring a national emergency. Headline this morning: Democrats Demand Trump\u2019s Removal<\/em>. Funny\u2026 they didn\u2019t feel this exercised when Antifa attacked congressmen and senators on the streets of Washington last summer, leaving the president\u2019s acceptance speech at the White House. Twitter and Facebook are busy throwing overboard anybody who dares to challenge the narrative<\/em> they\u2019ve helped to craft. Something\u2019s up now and it\u2019s making them even more hysterical than usual.<\/p>\n \u00a0Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday called for Vice President Mike Pence to immediately initiate the removal of President Donald Trump, declaring him a seditious threat to the country who can\u2019t be trusted to finish even the last two weeks of his term. \u00a0\u2014Politico<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Consider also: you and I are in that fabled fog of war, and that fog is going to hang around in the days ahead. You may see strange shapes moving around in that fog, and that\u2019s about it. Eventually, the fog will lift and the battlefield will not look the same as it did a week ago. So, it\u2019s hard to see right now, but I hear a lot and I\u2019ll just report what I hear for what it\u2019s worth. I can\u2019t prove any of this is true right now. A lot of it may seem crazy, fantastical. \u00a0What with the pitch of news media mind-fuckery we\u2019ve been living under, there have probably never been stranger days in our America.<\/p>\n The game is a deadly one because there is so much at stake: careers, reputations, fortunes, lives, the climax of four years of seditious Gotcha<\/em>. The \u201cResistance\u201d threw everything it could at the Golden Golem of Greatness. It discommoded him in his duties, and wasted the nation\u2019s precious time in a gathering crisis of civilization, but nothing stuck to him: RussiaGate, impeachment, not even Covid-19. The November 3rd\u00a0<\/sup>election was the final play. Ever find, in a game of chess, that you\u2019ve unwittingly blundered into checkmate?<\/p>\n Who, exactly, invaded the Capitol building on Wednesday when that mass of Trump supporters swarmed up the hallowed hill? Some Antifas and BLMs were on the scene for sure, probably in the vanguard, probably the ones smashing the windows to break in. But somebody else went in there, too, and rounded up a whole bunch of congressional laptops, including several in Speaker Nancy Pelosi\u2019s office, foolishly left behind when members were evacuated in a panic.<\/p>\n
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