{"id":653496,"date":"2026-08-17T20:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T20:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=653496"},"modified":"2026-08-17T20:20:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T20:20:00","slug":"both-parties-are-whirling-around-the-drain-of-extinction-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=653496","title":{"rendered":"“Both Parties Are Whirling Around The Drain Of Extinction…”"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Both Parties Are Whirling Around The Drain Of Extinction…”<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Jim Kunstler<\/a>,<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cA sane society cannot debate its way out of psychosis. It must diagnose the patient with lethal precision and restore the ancient boundary between the mad and the free.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n

–\u00a0<\/em>LHGrey on \u201cX\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Back in the days of sailing ships, a certain subtropical zone of the ocean became known as the \u201chorse latitudes.\u201d <\/strong><\/em>There, an eerie windless calm prevailed, sometimes for weeks, stalling the progress of ships in mid-crossing. In desperation to save water on-board, captains ordered the horses being transported to America to be cast overboard, and the animals\u2019 bloated carcasses drifted in an ominous cort\u00e8ge of warning to other mariners entering the zone of stillness and death.<\/p>\n

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This stretch of weeks in late summer has become the horse latitudes of human affairs for American politics. <\/strong>The primaries are mostly over, at least the ones that mattered. Congress has departed the Potomac swamp for the lakes, seashores, and the county fairs out where the corn grows high. The heat in the Arabian Sea must turn the deck of an American aircraft carrier into a giant hot-plate sailors fear to tread. Even the country\u2019s multitude of lawyers turn off their cell-phones and contemplate the blank, watery horizon with heads full of iced brown liquor.<\/p>\n

We civilians are stuck between that old rock and a hard place…\u00a0two political parties whirling around the drain of extinction in a nation seeming to drift toward the edge of the known world<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

In the background, a massive realignment grinds away. <\/strong><\/p>\n

The old parties of labor and of property have forgotten their reasons for existence. Labor vamoosed to Mexico, China, and obscure faraway lands decades ago. Property is still here, but it\u2019s all been collateralized into grift and fraud.<\/p>\n

In the absence of working people to defend, the Democrats became a party of racketeering race-and-gender hobgoblins, now marshaling into an insectile host of predatory Marxists, and altogether their antics present as a spectrum of mental illness.<\/strong> Voters who somehow managed to preserve some sense of mental decorum increasingly abandon that lunatic coalition \u2014 but where to go? This is exactly what is happening in the state of Michigan with the rise of Abdul el-Sayed, who adds a caboose of jihad to his choo-choo train of Bolshevik nuttery. Long-time Dems like Democratic attorney Julian Epstein are publicly jumping ship to support el-Sayed\u2019s opponent, Mike Rogers.<\/p>\n

The clueless old gorks in charge of the Democratic Party \u2014 the likes of Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, Mark Warner, Liz Warren, Chris Murphy, Sheldon Whitehouse \u2014 are suddenly nowhere to be seen (or heard). They don\u2019t dare denounce this latest onrush to new-and-improved insanities because, apparently, insanity is all the party has left <\/strong>\u2014 stealing other peoples\u2019 property. . . pretending to change sexes. . . organizing giant frauds. . . demanding payoffs for hallucinated affronts. . . and feeding the vicious Leviathan they want government to be.<\/p>\n

And don\u2019t be too sure that coalescing around the figure of one AOC in 2028 is going to save this outfit. Sandy is trying to pretend she\u2019s somewhere in the middle, between the feckless old official leadership and the outright commies, but she\u2019s still a member of the odious \u201cSquad\u201d composed of Somali fraudster Ilhan Omar, jihadist Rashida Tlaib, and race-hustler Ayanna Pressley \u2014 meaning, its just the same brand of\u00a0crazy<\/em>\u00a0the party has been cultivating for more than a decade. What remains for America to discover about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is that she\u2019s a mere opportunist with nothing inside except some skill at middle-school girl games. . . Eva Peron without the savvy.<\/p>\n

On the other end of the political transect stand the Republican phantoms of Congress busy getting nothing done for the past year and a half despite holding the majority in both houses.<\/strong><\/p>\n

They\u2019re personified perfectly by Senator Mitch McConnell, quite possibly dead for all that anyone really knows. In John Thune you have something like an anti-leader, doing everything possible to evade his duties, squashing election reform under arcane procedural bullshit, obstructing the confirmation of important agency nominees and federal judges, and \u201cgaveling-in\u201d ghost sessions of his chamber to prevent the president from making recess appointments. And why? Probably for no better reason than he just wants to dissociate himself and many of his fellows from the president because he\u2019s seen as too gauche for their club.<\/p>\n

Speaking of whom, you see Mr. Trump and his faction stand apart, but not alone, in this big game. He\u2019s going through a rough patch in these horse latitudes of summer. But despite some appearances, and despite the bluster emanating from Tehran, he has already succeeded in neutralizing Iran while Secretary Bessent keeps the maniac IRGC in an ever-tightening economic squeeze. There\u2019s reason to believe this well end well for the Middle East, actually in an epic realignment of actual interests, rather than obsolete tribal animosities.<\/p>\n

Mr. Trump is also working hard to realign American interests at home into an economy based on making things of value instead of just taking profits on financial shell-games. It\u2019s a gigantic task and one that will take time to get working because factories can\u2019t be built overnight and the demoralized working class can\u2019t be instantly realigned to opportunities that are months from materializing. In the meantime, have a little faith if you can, even though these have been notably faithless decades for our sore-beset nation, and we are too accustomed to bad faith.<\/p>\n

Just power through these listless, torpid dog days of August and gird your loins for action in the fall because it\u2019s coming. And that includes a long-awaited accounting for the many crimes against the people of this land by some of our own people. A new permission structure is building out there in the foggy gloaming: you will be set free to stop pretending about a lot of stuff that matters.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nMon, 08\/17\/2026 – 16:20<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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