{"id":65587,"date":"2023-08-05T06:44:15","date_gmt":"2023-08-05T11:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65587"},"modified":"2023-08-05T06:44:15","modified_gmt":"2023-08-05T11:44:15","slug":"desperation-creeps-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65587","title":{"rendered":"Desperation Creeps In"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"title-media-block\">\n<div class=\"post-title-wrap\">\n<h3 class=\"title\"><a title=\"Desperation Creeps In\" href=\"https:\/\/kunstler.com\/clusterfuck-nation\/desperation-creeps-in\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Desperation Creeps In<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"intro-paragraph\">\u201cThere is only one way to explain this shambles: Every one of these crises traces back to the Democratic Party\u2019s obsession with taking and holding power more or less indefinitely to suit its hubristic, end-of-history \u201cnarrative\u201d of righteous liberal triumph.\u201d \u2014 Patrick Lawrence<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry\">\n<div class=\"column column-01\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kunstler.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Bidens.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-20124 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/kunstler.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Bidens-1024x576.jpeg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kunstler.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Bidens-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/kunstler.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Bidens-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/kunstler.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Bidens-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/kunstler.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Bidens.jpeg 1200w\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That silence you hear these dog days of a wilting empire is the calm before the storm and everybody knows it. \u201cJoe Biden\u2019s\u201d final desperate ploy against the menace of Donald Trump looks about on par with the Ukraine spring offensive, hardly even worth a \u201chey, nice try.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So, the best they could do was to charge Mr. Trump with objecting vocally to an election that looked as rotten as Hunter\u2019s uncapped teeth? We all saw what happened overnight November 3 and 4, 2020: what the numbers looked like in the swing precincts at midnight and the magic mathematics that swapped tens of thousands of votes over from the Trump column to the Biden column (say, whu?) \u2026 the shutdown of the Fulton County State Farm Arena due to a supposedly leaking toilet and the ensuing monkey business with rolly-bags full of ballots under the tables captured by the closed-circuit cameras\u2026 the miraculous wee-hour harvest of ballots in Milwaukee\u2026 US Postal Service truck full of completed ballots out of Bethpage, Long Island, that turned up in Philadelphia\u2026 Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s $419-million-dollar operation using two front orgs, the Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL) and the Center for Election Innovation and Research (CEIR) to staff precinct election boards with party shills and buy votes\u2026 the thumb drives and modems in the vote-counting machines\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>Special Counsel Jack Smith may find it difficult to prove that expressing an opinion about all that is some kind of crime. Meanwhile, he\u2019s turned Mr. Trump into the poster boy for the many other aggrieved victims of a government weaponized against its own people&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Desperation Creeps In \u201cThere is only one way to explain this shambles: Every one of these crises traces back to the Democratic Party\u2019s obsession with taking and holding power more or less indefinitely to suit its hubristic, end-of-history \u201cnarrative\u201d of righteous liberal triumph.\u201d \u2014 Patrick Lawrence That silence you hear these dog days of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,6],"tags":[14964,449,26071,827,843],"class_list":["post-65587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-clusterfuck-nation","tag-james-howard-kunstler","tag-narrative-management","tag-united-states","tag-us-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65588,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65587\/revisions\/65588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}