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For those of us who are not admirers of President Trump, it’s even more painful to see the Democratic opposition descend into the stupendous dishonesty of the Russian Collusion story. When the intelligentsia of the nation looses its ability to think — when it becomes a dis-intelligentsia — then there are no stewards of reality left. Trump is crazy enough, but the “resistance” is dragging the country into dangerous madness.

It’s hard not to be impressed by the evidence in the public record that the FBI misbehaved pretty badly around the various election year events of 2016. And who, besides Rachel Maddow, Anderson Cooper, and Dean Baquet of The New York Times, can pretend to be impressed by the so far complete lack of evidence of Russian “meddling” to defeat Hillary Clinton? I must repeat: so far. This story has been playing for a year and a half now, and as the days go by, it seems more and more unlikely that Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller is sitting on any conclusive evidence. During this time, everything and anything has already leaked out of the FBI and its parent agency the Department of Justice, including embarrassing hard evidence of the FBI’s own procedural debauchery, and it’s hard to believe that Mr. Mueller’s office is anymore air-tight than the rest of the joint.

If an attorney from Mars came to Earth and followed the evidence already made public, he would probably suspect that the FBI and DOJ colluded with the Clinton Campaign and the Democratic Party to derail the Trump campaign train, and then engineer an “insurance policy” train wreck of his position in office. Also, in the process, to nullify any potential legal action against Clinton, including the matter of her email server, her actions with the DNC to subvert the Sanders primary campaign, the Steele dossier being used to activate a FISA warrant for surveillance of the Trump campaign, the arrant, long-running grift machine of the Clinton Foundation (in particular, the $150 million from Russian sources following the 2013 Uranium One deal, when she was Secretary of State), and the shady activities of Barack Obama’s inner circle around the post-election transition. There is obviously more there there than in the Resistance’s Russia folder.

I don’t even understand why Robert Mueller ever had credible standing to preside over this special investigation. He is, after all, the close friend and once-mentor of the figure who is very likely the fulcrum in any case against Trump: James Comey, the former FBI director fired by Trump — theoretically to obstruct justice, the keystone in the effort to find an impeachable offense.

I’m not comfortable acting as a supporter or defender of Trump, but I’m even less comfortable with the appearance of a rogue security and law enforcement apparatus gone blatantly political. The so far poorly-explained antics at the FBI and DOJ reflect badly on all vested authority in the country — and especially for any faction that pretends to be on the side of justice. This is a much larger problem than the public debate seems to recognize. We are not far from a point where nobody will be able to believe anything official in this land.

I remain convinced that this circus of scandal and counter-scandal will not necessarily be resolved by the legal machinery, at least not in any meaningful time frame that would allow the political establishment to pull its head out of its ass and actually start paying attention to the public interest. Rather, the circus tent will just blow down in the financial crisis that is spinning toward the US mainland like a superstorm. Mr. Trump now has full, gold-plated ownership of the parabolic stock market, a shuddering bond market, a wobbling currency, and an implacable debt quandary. These are conditions that can blow a society up for real.


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James Howard Kunstler has worked as a reporter and feature writer for a number of newspapers, and finally as a staff writer for Rolling Stone Magazine. In 1975, he dropped out to write books on a full-time basis. His nonfiction book, "The Long Emergency," describes the changes that American society faces in the 21st century. Discerning an imminent future of protracted socioeconomic crisis, Kunstler foresees the progressive dilapidation of subdivisions and strip malls, the depopulation of the American Southwest, and, amid a world at war over oil, military invasions of the West Coast; when the convulsion subsides, Americans will live in smaller places and eat locally grown food.
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Great analysis of the current situation ( 5 stars).
Mr. Trump has to correct most of the socialist - communist direction set by the Obama years.
Ms. Clinton and company have to be uncovered and prosecuted.
The country has to start producing and paying the gigantic debt created in the past 50 years.
It is a tall order composed by the moral corruption pervading our society.
It is time to go back to our basic principles. The Constitution, the Christian Religion, the Traditional Family, Meaningful and Productive Work for everyone, Allow only productive Immigration and people who come prepared to do something instead of living out of welfare.
God Bless America!
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Well, Trump has made a fine start at leading the country to the right. His support of big banks, big corporations, and Wall Street is undoing decades of that darn governmental oversight. Of course, his tax refinements are going to increase the gigantic debt into a gargantuan one. But that trickle down might appease the common folk enough to let the CEOs claim their billions without incident. As you say, it IS a tall order to change the moral corruption pervading our society, I hope our great leader doesn't get so bogged down in assault cases, porn queen payoffs, and golf that he can't fix up our ethics. Yessireebob, our Constitution needs protectin', 'specially that part about guns, the Bible needs readin' by everyone (don't need no other religions here), and every man needs a job (women should be back in the kitchen where they belong). And dadgummit, who cares about refugees and those starving here and in other countries...they ain't patriotic 'Mericans!
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She, Hillary clearly won the debates and yet he still won the election.
Çlearly, the electorate chose not to go down the socialist route that has been an absolute disaster everywhere it has been tried.
Unfortunately Trump has inherited a country heading rapidly into the 3rd world.
Can he turn that around? Very Doubtful IMO
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Hillary was a poor choice of candidate for the Dems. Although she won the popular vote, barely, the DNC would have done better running another. Socialism vs. whatever? No, it was not a contest between socialism and whatever Trump is attempting to sell the public. It was a frustrated middle and lower class throwing up over the choices available and choosing the one who might change the DC mindset that ignores the plight of the middle class. Hillary was entrenched as part of that landscape and the Dems paid dearly for that association. Now come the days to dissect Trump's contribution to the body politic. Collusion maybe hinted, but a bigger chance of "gotcha" is money laundering in NY's golden Trump throne. Time will tell.
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I'm not a Trump fan either, but he got one thing right, he picked the perfect candidate to run against. HRC is perhaps the largest crocodile in the swamp.

I heard a great quote this morning on NPR. The Angolan President was vowing to fight corruption. "The problem with fighting corruption, is that corruption fights back."
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Agreed; I doubt he could have won against an actual human being, or, heck, anything in possession of a soul.
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