{"id":1478705,"date":"2024-07-22T20:20:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T00:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1478705"},"modified":"2024-07-22T20:20:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T00:20:00","slug":"only-half-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/only-half-gone\/1478705\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Only Half Gone!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">&#8220;Only Half Gone!&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kunstler.com\/clusterfuck-nation\/only-half-gone\/\"><em>Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe Democrats are self-immolating on the altar of their own tenuous relationship with common decency.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; Tom Luongo<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cLife imitates art,\u201d Oscar Wilde was fond of saying.<\/p>\n<p>And so, all of a sudden on Sunday, the USA became an episode of\u00a0<em>Veep<\/em>, after <strong>President \u201cJoe Biden\u201d had that fateful sit-down with God he\u2019d hinted at a week or so ago:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>God<\/strong>: Yeah, it\u2019s me again. What I told you \u2018bout dis \u2018lection bidness?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201c<strong>JB<\/strong>\u201d: (cough cough) I gotta finish the job. (cough cough.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>God<\/strong>: Job, my ass. You ain\u2019t done nuttin\u2019 but eat ice cream cones, spend money dat don\u2019t exist, and sniff up every chile come near you.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;<strong>JB<\/strong>\u201d: No, you don\u2019t understand! I\u2019m defending democracy.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>God<\/strong>: Oh yeah? Since when my will subject to some pissant caucus? In my mansion dey\u2019s many doors, and this one is da exit, son. What I say, go. And when I\u00a0say, \u2018go,\u2019 dat mean you git yo\u2019self gone! I done wrote the letter and you signin\u2019 on da dotted line right now.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201c<strong>JB<\/strong>\u201d: What if I won\u2019t?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>God<\/strong>: I\u2019ma have to smite yo\u2019 ass.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201c<strong>JB<\/strong>\u201d: Well, since you put it that way. . . but, say, do you happen to also have that pardon document we talked about. . .?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>And so it went in the study at Rehoboth Beach Sunday afternoon. And all of a sudden, Veep Kamala Harris is elevated to be the putative nominee of the Party of Chaos going into the August convention.<\/strong> Most of the other talked-about replacements instantly endorsed her \u2014 Gavin Newsom, Gretchen Whitmer, Pete Buttigieg, et al. \u2014 as a convocation of mullahs might bless a goat about to be sacrificed. Kamala issued a stirring war cry: \u201cTogether, we will fight. And together, we will win.\u201d Yawn. . . .<\/p>\n<p>It was all pretend, of course, or, shall we say, a continuation of the pretend that is the core operating principle of the party. Everything it does is fake. Case in point, the marvelous statement by HRC (a.k.a. She-Whose-Turn-it-Ever-Is or Rodan the Flying Reptile), who put out this smarmy gem:<\/p>\n<p><em>President Biden has capped his extraordinary career of service with a Presidency that has lifted America out of an unprecedented pandemic, created millions of new jobs, rebuilt a battered economy, strengthened our democracy, and restored our standing in the world. By any measure, he has advanced our founders\u2019 charge to build a more perfect union and his own stated goal of restoring the soul of our nation.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cJoe Biden\u201d did all that? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hillary, you see is buttering up the cloacal vent of the party so that she can wriggle up there and eat its brain, like one of those parasitical wasp larvae that get into a caterpillar.<\/p>\n<p><strong>She\u2019s supporting Kamala until it becomes opportune not too, which is to say when the Deep State blob gets the heebie-jeebies about failing to steal the election, losing its positions of power and perqs, and very possibly facing prosecution for serious crimes.<\/strong> Of course, the weekend developments suggest that \u201cJoe Biden\u201d will have to vacate his position as Commander-in-Chief altogether. It\u2019s too self-evident to even rehearse the particulars. It\u2019s only a matter of when, and that probably hinges on his negotiated severance package \u2014 basically something that keeps his various \u00a0family members out of prison. Kamala will then rise to the Oval, ha ha ha.<\/p>\n<p>In this moment of maximum uncertainty, then,<strong> the Party of Chaos will pretend to go along with Ms. Harris for a week or two,<\/strong> allowing\u00a0<em>the first woman president of-color<\/em>\u00a0many chances to utter world-scaring inanities and fall into cackling fits so as to demonstrate she can\u2019t possibly be taken seriously. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/IDJKRI3DYW4BZ4TJCM4Z4JDKLQ.jpg?itok=1pVfV6ZC\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Suddenly you will see the long knives come out slicing and dicing Kamala like a daikon radish on the hibachi table, and anyone else besides HRC who dares to step up will get the same treatment. <\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Notice that Mr. Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Hakim, and Chuck (Nine-Ways-From-Sunday) Schumer haven\u2019t chimed in for Kamala. They will, by God, get their convention free-for-all, though every bit of it will be scrupulously managed by the Big Dawgs. And out of that pandemonium will fly the indomitable Hillary, screeching, \u201cCaw caw,\u00a0<em>abortion<\/em>! Caw caw,\u00a0<em>Russia<\/em>!\u201d Could it work? No way.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In a truly fair election, Hillary would be run over by the Trump-Vance convoy and left a bit of smoldering roadkill, drawing flies, a sad end to all that coruscating ambition.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/hillary_cat_kamala_mouse-1-768x5.jpg?itok=y0v_FsVi\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Not to change the subject too abrubtly, but here goes. . . have you caught that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fp4KvbRlD0Q&amp;t=1392s\">little\u00a0convo on YouTube<\/a>\u00a0between George Gammon and Robert Barnes on the Trump assassination attempt? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Woo-wee, this one will rock your\u00a0<em>weltanschauung<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Here it is in a nutshell:<\/p>\n<p><em>The attempted rub-out at Butler, PA, (Mr. Barnes theorizes) was a NeverTrumper \/ blob \/ neo-con joint operation that was supposed to work as follows: Nikki Haley and Mike Pompeo, Deep Staters both, are on the outs with a GOP solidifying around Mr. Trump. Before the Milwaukee GOP Convention opens, they are chatting-up delegates in preparation for a kind of coup. The Butler, PA, op is timed before any nomination can occur. It\u2019s (obviously) intended to eliminate the former president for once and for all and make sure there\u2019s no veep candidate to step into his shoes. The blob then blames the Trump assassination on Iran, instantly conjuring up a fresh new war to distract the nation. The GOP Convention nominates war goddess Nikki for president and Pompeo for veep. The DC war party carries on in triumph. Fait accompli.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Notice, Mr. Barnes says, that CNN and other news networks that usually avoid broadcasting Trump rallies, are actually covering the Butler, PA, event live. They want all of America to see Donald Trump\u2019s head explode like a Crenshaw melon on TV \u2014 sending the message: this is what happens to anyone who challenges the blob. Many other observers and investigators unconnected with the government are busy looking into the site forensics, lines of fire, shot acoustics, the strange facts around the alleged \u201cshooter\u201d (possibly patsy) Thomas Matthew Crooks, the stupendous failures of the Secret Service. A picture is resolving.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The old Sicilian adage goes,\u00a0<em>revenge is a dish best served cold<\/em>. Surely, Mr. Trump knows a thing or two about what really went down July 17.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>His adversaries know he knows, and he knows they know he knows.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Notice Mr. Trump is not jumping up and down going woo-woo-woo over all this. Rather, he\u2019s sitting tight and calmly and holding his cards close to his chest. <\/strong>He will eventually be coming to settle accounts. So, you must suppose they\u2019ll try again. Or figure out a way to postpone the election indefinitely. Nothing is beneath these fiends. Strangely \u2014 a lot of people have noticed \u2014 it seems that God is on our side. Stand by and keep your hats on.<\/p>\n<p>*\u00a0 *\u00a0 *<\/p>\n<p><em>Support his blog by visiting\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/JamesHowardKunstler\">Jim\u2019s Patreon Page<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jameshowardkunstler.substack.com\/\">Substack<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" class=\"username\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Mon, 07\/22\/2024 &#8211; 16:20<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/only-half-gone\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/only-half-gone<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Only Half Gone!&#8221; Authored by James Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com, \u201cThe Democrats are self-immolating on the altar of their own tenuous relationship with common decency.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1478706,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1478705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbimBl-6cG5","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/07\/IDJKRI3DYW4BZ4TJCM4Z4JDKLQ-6iZrfV.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1478705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1478706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1478705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1478705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1478705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}