{"id":184953,"date":"2023-09-07T09:07:59","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T13:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=184953"},"modified":"2023-09-07T09:07:59","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T13:07:59","slug":"republicans-last-chance-a-dreadful-time-of-testing-whether-the-country-can-endure-any-more-of-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=184953","title":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Republicans Last Chance: &#8220;A Dreadful Time Of Testing Whether The Country Can Endure Any More Of This&#8221;<\/b><\/h3>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->By James Howard Kunstler<br \/>\nKunstler.com<\/p>\n<h2><strong><em>Party! Party!<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cThe word misinformation literally just means being wrong, and disinformation is lying. That\u2019s all they mean. There\u2019s no extra meaning to them. And so, misinformation is entirely subjective. It\u2019s literally an opinion.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; Michael Schellenberger<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"AdvertisingSlot_desktop__eL99N AdvertisingSlot_tablet__3SxtX AdvertisingSlot_placement__udF_V\">\n<aside id=\"in-content-video\" class=\"AdvertisingSlot_inContent__nSM6b\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/21841313772,21778456762\/zerohedge\/in_content_video_0__container__\"><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>If you are shocked and bewildered that totalitarian tyranny creeps through our country without opposition, the reason is simple: there is no official opposition.\u00a0<\/strong>The capture of government looks nearly complete by a party that lusts to punish its citizens for the pleasure of watching them suffer, while it steals everything they\u2019ve worked for and forecloses their future. At least half the country objects to this. Where is a party that stands for them?<\/p>\n<p><strong>In the natural order of the American system, a Republican Party would have stepped up to check the wretched excesses of a Democratic Party bent on breaking everything that has allowed people to thrive in this land<\/strong>: property law, economic liberty, free speech, now even your physical health.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2023-09-04_07-51-02.jpg?itok=B7gF8y2o\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2023-09-04_07-51-02.jpg?itok=B7gF8y2o\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-images image-style-inline-images\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/2023-09-04_07-51-02.jpg?itok=B7gF8y2o\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"279\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"f46310b5-0b95-484c-8750-9f851f96ada1\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>This Labor Day Monday is the last moment in this epic political psychodrama that the Republican Party has an excuse to kick back and do nothing<\/strong>\u00a0about the parade of insults flung in the nation\u2019s face by persons who believe in nothing, and who will stop at nothing.<\/p>\n<p>These insults lately include especially the perversion of law to harass and hinder political opponents, the prosecution of a foreign war by proxy in a corner of the world where America has no explicable national interest, the deliberate failure to defend the country\u2019s borders against hordes of invaders, the rigging of elections with ballot fraud and hackable machines, the censorship of information of all kinds, and the weaponization of public health authority against the people. These are all campaigns carried out by the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This fall season will be a dreadful time of testing whether the country can endure any more of this.\u00a0<\/strong>Congress is back in session this week. Congress is the only place in the federal government where an opposition party has the authority to direct events. Mr. Comer who chairs the House Oversight Committee has assembled enough evidence of bribery and treason for Speaker Kevin McCarthy to commence an impeachment inquiry right away into the conduct of President \u201cJoe Biden.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve used quotation marks around Mr. Biden\u2019s name since he ascended magically to this office in 2021 because\u00a0<strong>it is obvious that he is only pretending to run the executive branch, and has been since day one on January 20, 2021.<\/strong>\u00a0His March 5, 2020, Super Tuesday victories, after a drubbing in the Iowa Caucuses (4th\u00a0place) and New Hampshire primary (5th\u00a0place), had an odor of supernatural contrivance. His campaign from \u201cthe basement\u201d was a joke, and it\u2019s still entirely possible, despite three years of massive gaslighting, that his victory in the 2020 election was a fraud.<\/p>\n<div class=\"AdvertisingSlot_tablet__3SxtX AdvertisingSlot_mobile__f___z AdvertisingSlot_placement__udF_V AdvertisingSlot_align__A2hYo\">\n<aside id=\"in-content-2\" class=\"AdvertisingSlot_centered__lQ1jM AdvertisingSlot_verticallySpaced__cNuwT\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/21841313772,21778456762\/zerohedge\/in_content_2_0__container__\"><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p>I believe the reason \u201cJoe Biden\u201d was installed in the White House was to allow Barack Obama to run the executive branch and all its agencies in secret from his headquarters across town in the DC Kalorama district, and<strong>\u00a0the reason he is allowed to do this is because the Democratic Party has committed so many crimes against the country that a tremendous effort had to be made to cover them up, or else scores of figures in high places could have been subject to investigation and prosecution, including Mr. Obama.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also possible that an impeachment inquiry in the House will lead to evidence of Mr. Obama\u2019s role in the Biden family\u2019s bribery adventures abroad, including the participation in one way or another of high diplomatic officials under Mr. Obama such as US Ambassadors to Ukraine Jeffrey Pyatt and Marie Yovanovitch \u2014 as well as their nefarious roles in the first impeachment of Donald Trump.\u00a0<strong>Expect former Secretary of State John Kerry to surface in that mix, too. His stepson, Christopher Heinz was in business for a time with Hunter Biden and Devon Archer during the Burisma caper.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You might hear a lot about the coming debt ceiling crisis again starting this week. The debt ceiling has to be raised by the end of the month or the government supposedly runs out of money to pay for all the things that government wastes our money on, from underwriting drag-queen story hours to paying the pensions of retired Ukrainian government officials. Wouldn\u2019t that actually be a fine opportunity for some vigorous de-funding of government activities, such as the DOJ\u2019s special prosecutor operation, Homeland Security\u2019s censorship office, every dollar apportioned to Ukraine, the FBI\u2019s continuing Jan 6 witch-hunt, the Department of Health and Human Services Covid-19 hoodoo, and probably a hundred other trespasses against the public\u2019s sense of decency and good faith?<\/p>\n<p>Or else,<strong>\u00a0isn\u2019t the country ripe for a new party that actually represents the interests of the country?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>More than a year remains before the 2024 election &#8211; if it is even allowed to happen.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We can\u2019t go on with no party opposed to the degeneration and destruction of the thing known as the USA.\u00a0<\/strong>Take this final day-off of the summer to think about that. And think about the emblematic frozen face of Senate Minority leader Mitch McConnell, a human deer-in-the-headlights waiting to collide with an implacable force. You are that force.<\/p>\n<p>*\u00a0 *\u00a0 *<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/kunstler.com\/clusterfuck-nation\/party-party\/\">https:\/\/kunstler.com\/clusterfuck-nation\/party-party\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"AdvertisingSlot_tablet__3SxtX AdvertisingSlot_mobile__f___z AdvertisingSlot_placement__udF_V AdvertisingSlot_align__A2hYo\">\n<aside id=\"in-content-3\" class=\"AdvertisingSlot_centered__lQ1jM AdvertisingSlot_verticallySpaced__cNuwT\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/21841313772,21778456762\/zerohedge\/in_content_3_0__container__\"><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=184953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=184953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=184953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=184953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}