“We Lose Total Control”
James Howard Kunstler

“We lose total control…” she said.

Hillary Clinton was recently on CNN calling for censorship of social media. Here’s her full quote:

We should be, in my view, repealing something called Section 230, which gave, you know, platforms on the internet immunity because they were thought to be just pass-throughs, that they shouldn’t be judged for the content that is posted.

But we now know that that was an overly simple view, that if the platforms, whether it’s Facebook or Twitter/X or Instagram or TikTok, whatever they are, if they don’t moderate and monitor the content, we lose total control.

Perhaps when you heard that you thought, What do you mean “we,” Kemosabe?

You have also known for some time now that Hillary is exactly the something wickedthat has been coming this way for many years, to the siren song of the cable news harpies shrieking Trump Trump Trump… Putin Putin Putin at all hours, day and night, month after dreary month, and all the other avatars of ruin pretending to run the life of our nation.

But this utterance begs enough questions to keep ChatGDP vexed and perplexed for the rest of its unnatural life: We lose total control…?

Yes, as matter of fact, you do. This might be a book tour too far for Mrs. Clinton and her claque, now that her basket of deplorables shivers in the cold and dark out in Appalachia amid the stink of their kinfolks’ uncollected corpses.

The Deplorables Are Ticked Off

The Party of Chaos has managed to tick off the most ferocious demographic in the land, the wild and cross-grained Scotch-Irish who populate those devastated hills and hollows of western Carolina and east Tennessee, the people who, for generations, were first to volunteer to fight in America’s wars, the Sergeant Yorks, the moonshiners and the stock car heroes, the Johnson Boys, Boones and Crocketts, Hatfields and McCoys, the very warp and woof of our folklore, half horse and half alligator, born fighting.

And now you and your gang of wine-club harpies, Beltway weirdos, Hollywood Satan-conjurors, Hamptons charity-hags, globe-trotting errand boys, color revolution maestros, race hustlers, drag queens, lawfare shysters, spooks, cut-outs, beach friends and grifters have gone and ticked these folks off royally.

My guess would be that you have not begun to see the repercussions of the Hurricane Helene fiasco, which will resound far from the gates of Dollywood for years to come.

I hope Alejandro Mayorkas enjoys the waffle-weave sweater he picked up in a Georgetown boutique on Saturday while the dazed people of Buncombe County, North Carolina, stumbled dazed through a shattered landscape of creek bed and forest scraped down to little more than what their ancestors first came upon in the 1760s.

It may have to last him through the term he serves in federal prison when this is all over. And by this, I mean mainly the reign of this wicked regime he’s a major player in, with its claws slipping off the levers of power. Do you really suppose that America will elect the empty pantsuit Kamala Harris to front for this depraved cabal?

Probably Won’t Happen Here, But…

Remember what the Romanians did to Madame Ceausescu on Christmas Day in 1989, when she and her husband Nicolae, erstwhile president of that sore-beset country, just liberated from decades of communist captivity, were summarily tried by a provisional court after attempting to flee.

I’ll tell you: They trussed the two of them up like a couple of Carpathian wild hogs (Sus scrofa), and hauled them before a firing squad. Which is not exactly to say that the United States is like Romania, but that such things happen surprisingly in formerly quiescent places. The people hated her as much, perhaps even more, than her despot husband. Just sayin’.

Why exactly Hillary Clinton would be dumb enough to come out on every news channel and internet site on Gawd’s green Earth to declare the end of free speech throughout Western Civ might remain one of those abiding mysteries of history.

Bad timing doesn’t begin to explain it. What does explain it is the psychotic desperation of her party now that the days to election dwindle down and the pathetic figure they “nominated” stumbles from one campaign blunder to the next, and the whole sick crew behind her entertains dark visions of courtrooms and prison cells — including, by the way, her cohort in nation-wrecking Barack Obama, who could be liable to charges such as conspiracy to commit sedition, or even a higher crime, if the election goes the wrong way for him.

You might suppose they’re fighting for their very lives without being accused of exaggeration.

An October Surprise?

In the event of Hurricane Helena and other churning contingencies of the season, Mr. Trump is not only looking more presidential, he is apparently being regarded as something close to an actual acting president in the eerie absence of “Joe Biden,” who looks more and more like one of those $300 Home Depot animatronic ghouls Americans are planting in the front yard this season of the walking dead, along with the giant inflated jack-o’-lanterns, beckoning skeletons and plastic tombstones.

In other words, it looks like the people are going to vote Mr. Trump back into office, since, ironically, he is the only thing the least bit presidential on offer in 2024. Even the COVID-addled, the many new demoralized Woke dropouts and the beaten-down male youth of America are leaning his way now and it scares the Democrats down to their livers and lights.

Accordingly, I received notice recently from an informant in commercial aviation, with connections to military aviation, that a massive deployment of aircraft is preparing logistics for a major operation set to go down in about a week, probably in the Middle East. I can’t guarantee you that it is for real, but it was a real warning message, at least, from a serious person; and you know that something could be up… some humdinger of an October surprise, like a big fat world war.

What else have they got now? Jack Smith’s lame attempt to beef-up an “insurrection” charge against Mr. Trump in Judge Chutkan’s abject facsimile of a federal court?

Everything else has been fail, fail, fail all year long… the head-cases with rifles… all the other court cases contrived by Merrick Garland, Andrew Weissmann, Norm Eisen and Mary McCord… the ineffectual bleatings of The New York Times’ editorial board? They’re plumb out of tricks and they know it.

So yes, Hillary. You lose total control. Totally. For now and forever, amen.

 

 

James Howard Kunstler is the author of many books including (non-fiction) The Geography of Nowhere, The City in Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition, Home from Nowhere, The Long Emergency, and Too Much Magic: Wishful Thinking, Technology and the Fate of the Nation. His novels include World Made By Hand, The Witch of Hebron, Maggie Darling — A Modern Romance, The Halloween Ball, an Embarrassment of Riches, and many others. He has published three novellas with Water Street Press: Manhattan Gothic, A Christmas Orphan, and The Flight of Mehetabel.

 

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