"What Happened to the Neighborhood Pharmacist?" (opens in separate window)
the mullahs and the lefty-left
saturday, june 20th, 2026
You’ll just have to stand by on whether this war with Iran is over or not, since the Shia true believers’ practice of Taqiyya is a permission structure for lying to infidels (us) when necessary — like, to advance global chaos that will bring the return of the Hidden Imam (Mahdi) to fill the world with justice, and establish Islamic rule. (Got that?) One might wonder, of course, whether the majority of Iran’s people have had enough of the true believers in charge and their true belief in apocalypse.
Until you are willing to harm the left more than they are willing to harm you, they will win. It’s really that simple.
President Trump’s promise to bring exactly that down on them seems to have had a clarifying effect. The option remains open to “bomb the shit out of them,” as he put it, while keeping their economy in a Macumba Death grip choke-hold. In preliminary strikes Thursday, the US Military might have demonstrated an ability to go after whatever they have left of missile and drone launch sites. In any case, skeptics abound. . . but, admit it, an actual peace agreement would be quite a coup.
It would be distasteful most of all to the mass formation lunatics of America’s Lefty-left “Resistance.” Anything that advances our country’s actual interests is hateful to them. In fact, when you think of it, the Lefty-left is in thrall to the same sort of world-ending chaos as the mullahs and their IRGC henchmen. The mullahs have their vision of the post-apocalyptic Islamic utopia and the Lefty-left has its dream of a post-revolutionary socialist nirvana where everyone is equal (except those who are more equal — and get to boss around the rest of us.)
Yeah, it’s an old story here in Western Civ, this recurring drive to level the existing social hierarchy so as to abolish the tendency of some people to do better in life than others. It never works out. It always leads to mass slaughter of some kind. It always ends in rueful disappointment and a return to the free-for-all that is the human project. The outstanding question might be: why do so many in the West continue to believe it?
The current uprising comes out of the strange conversion of Liberalism to Lefty-left Democratic-Socialist Progressivism. Remember, liberalism was pure live-and-let-live, with an emphasis on minimal government intrusion in our affairs, especially economic affairs. The Liberals of Boomerdom — the campus nirvanas of the 1960s — were contemptuous of government generally, but especially the FBI and the CIA. And, of course, the hippie vanguard was socially and culturally all about the freedom to do your own thing. Freedom of speech was a leading concern.
The Lefty-left, as it evolved under Barack Obama and “Joe Biden,” was about rigid intolerance for opposing ideas and maximal government involvement in your life, especially economic and sexual — making a pass at a girl became subject to litigation. The FBI was loosed on dissenters from Lefty-left policies. Juridical sadism became systematized as Lawfare. The Lefty-left constructed a huge censorship apparatus; no more freedom of speech. They used law and regulation to attempt social leveling; no more discipline in school for black kids because . . . racism! Discriminate against Whitey for jobs. . . anti-racism! Election fraud = “our democracy.” You see how all that went?
Turns out, they wanted to use the government to overthrow the government! And the social order it rode in on! Hence, the ten-year-long crusade to destroy one Donald Trump, the peculiar “Gray Champion” of our Fourth Turning, who turned out to be a staunch counter-revolutionary, that is, an opponent of this new Democratic-Socialist Progressive (wannabe-communist) corps of chaos agents.
One schematic way of understanding this dynamic is Peter Turchin’s theory of Elite Overproduction. By the early 2000s, with anybody and everybody going to college, there were not enough job positions in the real productive economy for this spewage of college degree-holding entrees to the Professional / Managerial Class. By this time, coincidentally, the colleges they were graduating from were infested by three generations of Marxist professors — i.e., adults enjoying cozy institutional security, with no experience in the real world, free to indulge in Marxian revenge fantasies and make them the basis of their teaching.
It was the perfect setup for the emergence of a matrix of NGOs and political activist orgs that could employ all these college graduates which the real economy had no place for. And the new hires were pre-programmed in the ideology of grievance, tinged with racial and sexual animus in addition to economic complaint.
So, voila! — America (and Western Civ generally) became infested with these pernicious Lefty-left operations, which became symbionts of the government themselves, many of the orgs dependent on government (USAID) to fund their activities and pay the management. They got scads of additional money from wealthy freelance chaos maestros like George Soros, Bill Gates, Klaus Schwab, Reid Hoffman, Neville Roy Singham and others.
Mr. Trump is dismantling that matrix and the funding flows associated with it, at the same time that he attempts to reconstruct an economy based on the production of real goods. As it happens, that matrix of orgs amounts to the consolidated racketeering operation of the Democratic Party, and the party is going garishly insane at the prospect of losing its means to power.
The Lefty-left now is the Democratic Party. It has nothing whatsoever to do with what we used to call Liberalism. It’s a party of envy-driven, sadistic fanatics. And it is no accident that such a mind-set leads them to construct a permission structure for lying about everything they do. It’s all there in their primary manuals-of-operation: Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals, and Gene Sharp’s From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation.
In this way, they are just like the Shia mullahs of Iran who are privileged to lie to infidels who threaten their lust for apocalypse. Mr. Trump doesn’t trust the insane mullahs and their IRGC wing-men, and he certainly shouldn’t trust the apparatchiks of the Democratic Party. Each, in its own way, represents a kind of performative adolescent rebellion, and both them require a kind of resolute parental response: Daddy is in da house . . . and you’d better behave. Believe this: after Iran, the Democratic Party is next. The hammer of law will be coming down.
© 6.12.2026 by James Howard Kunstler, "ClusterFuck Nation".
A Day In The Life.
Up at 8:15a on Saturday, a warm, 74°F, clear blue sky, dead calm morning, I made coffee, fired-up the Win-7 Pentium HP Desktop to let its 32 million lines of code load, had breakfast, had a couple smokes in the garage and checked the leftover errands list. 2, but I'll get those done Monday or so. I scanned the weather and the breaking news websites, tuned into a "CP Show" Podcast 9-12 on local WSBA-910, and relaxed for the morning. Already 74,° and climbing fast to 90°+
I have learned two very important lessns in life. I don't remember the first, but the second is to write everything down.Sherry arrived around 1p, and we had our usual great time together,, though both of us looked and felt tired from out-of-sync Circadium Rythmns, which need "fixing". We had 5+ hours together, and she left for the evening. I watched some news, and switched to History's "Secret of Skinwalker Ranch" Marathon, until 1a. Lights out.
Up at 8a on Sunday, a warm 71°, breezxy, partly cloudy morning, checked the AC at 73°, and made coffee. I scanned the weather and news, and, as with yesterday when Sherry was here, I had a "Major Murphy;s Law Moment" with the Ol' HP Desktop computer: the mouse and cursor froze. I'll get to that later. I got ready for the day, started the first of 2 loads of laundry, and re-attacked the computer mouse problem.
I had extra "mice" on the basement's electronics shelves, so I tried several of them; same problem. Then I saw the problem: the small, sending chip plug-in was missing, and I replaced it. Problem solved, and added-in new batteries. BINGO!
Laundry done, I had some lunch, took a 1hr snooze on the LR couch, watched the evening news and switched to TWC's "Deadline To Disaster" and Discovery's "Storm Chasers", just as a ***SEVERE STORM WARNING*** hit the York area, w/ torrential rain and 70mph wind. I called Sis and Sherry to make sure the knew and were alright, and bagged it around 1a.
Up at 8:15a on Monday, a clear sky, sunny, not so humid, 63° morning, left the AC at 73°, made coffee, and scanned the news and weather sites. I tuned into the "CP Show" and relaxed for the morning. Sherry called to set-up a day for us, this week. I got ready for the day, had a quick lunch of shrimp from Weis Market, and left just after 12.
I made good time, despite the traffic volume and slow drivers, and was back home within just over an hour. I had more shrimp w/ cocktail sauce, took a 2hr nap on the LR couch, and back up around 4:30p, felt very sick. I ran for the powder room, and had E-D, fever and mega-gas, all afternoon, and into the evening. By 11p, it had relented a little bit, but I still got condo chores done, inbetween episodes. WHEW! Freaking awful day and night, so far!
Was it the shrimp, cheesecake or what?
By 11p, it'd subsided, I was exhausted, and after copious amounts of water, I was able to get to sleep, around 1:30a.
Up at 8:30a on Tuesday, a sunny, 62° morning, I felt like I'd been beat-up pretty good, made coffee, scanned the weather and news, and tuned into the "CP Show". Still a bit "rocky" from yesterday's intestinal flu bout, I postponed several errands, and opted to stay home. I had work around the condo to do, had no lunch, took a 3hr nap, had no dinner, watched the evening news and switched to History's "Secret of Skinwalker Ranch" until 12:30a. Lights out.
Up at 7:30a on Wednesday, an overcast, 61°, looks-like-rain, breezy morning, I checked the AC, and made coffee. I truned into the "CP SAhow" until noon, had lunch and left to get 3 errands done. Still feeling 'rocky' from Monday, I did the 3 errands, came home, skipped food and rested for the day. bY 9:30P, I'd had enough and quit for the day.
Up at 5:30a on Thursday, a heavily-overcast, rainy, t-storms coming right-at-us morning, I made coffee, scanned te weather and news. I laid down on the LR couch for a couple minutes, and that turned into a 3½ hour nap, until 10:30a. Heh. The lawnmower crews arrived in the rain, and began making noise. I felt a little better than the past few days. Sherry called to reschedule our day, to tomorrow, since we're expecting some very severe storms and wind, this afternoon.
YES, I'm Pro-LGBT! Liberty. Guns. Beer. Trump. Heh.
I watched the evening news, had a small dinner, and switched to History's "Ancient Aliens" until 1a. Lights out.
Awake and up at 7a on Friday, an overcast, 64° morning, I left the AC at 73°, and made coffee. I had breakfast, scanned the news and weather, tuned into the "CP Show", and checked the day's to-do list. Sherry's in at 1p, the weather's beautiful, so we've got a nice day ahead. We tooj a niuce drive over to nearby Flinchbaugh's Orthard & Farm Market to get some food and goodies, and then back to my place, where we solved the ills of the world. Heh. She left just after 5:30p, and we'll talk over the weekend, to get some time next week, set aside for us.
I watched the evening news, had dinner and switched to Discovery's "Gold Rush" until 11:30, and quit for the night. Tomorrow's another day, and I have errands from today, which need to get done.
Tomorrow starts a new week, here in the "Journal", and I have a midweek Jeep service at the dealership, but otherwise clear.Overall, this week's been good, and a noticeable absence of Sciatica pain is good news for me. I'll take it.
Democrat Demolition Derby
Popular heroes rise and fall. Cesar Chavez originally opposed immigration, legal and illegal, because he represented union workers. He convinced Americans to boycott lettuce and grapes. He emerged as a civil rights leader, building a union to raise wages and improve the standard of living of Latino Americans. How strange to hear in the latest Democrat justification of Open Borders, amnesty, and population replacement, Congresswoman Pelosi say we must import illegal aliens to pick our crops. Decades ago, farm workers were elevated to the ranks of heroes. Subsequently, Chavez was persuaded to change his position.
The Sierra Club, also opposed to endless immigration with its negative impact on the environment, shifted its position to accommodate a huge contribution. Chavez’s reputation suffered as allegations of sexual harassment emerged. Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, was also debunked recently. Her name was removed from the center in New York when it came to light that she utilized abortion and birth control to reduce the number of black Americans. The Sierra Club still manages to pose as a conservation movement despite the degradation of the environment, the spread of Latin American diseases, and the optics of rape trees, as the Open Borders magnified the negative impact. Even when the people once praised for their association with critical Democrat movements lost their legacies to the slow revelations of truth, their “work” continued to attract Democrat approbation and funding.
Democrats pretend to be the party of racial equity and equality. Lie! Democrats were the slaveowners. They seceded from the Union, forming the Confederacy. After the war, they clamped down on radical Republican Reconstruction of the South with Jim Crow and the KKK. After years of segregation, during which FDR refused to push anti-lynching legislation for fear of weakening his Party coalition, Republicans supported voting rights and civil rights laws. While sheltering a Dixiecrat faction, Democrats began to support civil rights. They pushed affirmative action to quotas and racial intersectionality, rendering constitutional guarantees of equality before the law meaningless.
Increasingly, Democrats replaced merit and Dr. King’s admonition to replace race with the content of one’s character. They went from white supremacists imposing racist anti-black policies to DEI supremacists imposing anti-white policies. Democrats now openly advocate for illegal aliens, denigrating black and white Americans to second-class citizenship. Intent upon “overwhelming the system” in accordance with Marxists Cloward and Piven, Democrats promote aliens above their traditional, infantilized, dependent constituents.
Democrats, once portrayed as defenders of the working class, are the tools of the oligarchs. From George and Alex Soros to Neville Roy Singham, the billionaires implement their consolidation of power. The red/green alliance is not an organic movement. The panoply of issues establishes that the issue is never the issue. The goal is revolution. Some Democrats wield pens to establish their bona fides as revolutionaries. Others are prepared to dedicate their testosterone to wielding a weapon. There are the DEI activists who devote themselves to colonizing America. Some are elected officials. Others are bureaucrats, denizens of the Deep State, who follow the dictates of the Obama ventriloquists. They initiated a coup. They implement its many iterations. They weaponize institutions. They polarize the nation based on class and race. They demand obedience to an orthodox narrative.
They design agitprop and psychological operations to demonize their opponents. They use NGOs as conduits for taxpayer money. They reward cronies, fund their pet projects, incentivize illegal immigration, bankrupt the nation, and fill their campaign coffers. They emasculate men, brand whites with the original sin of slavery, tie women to a growing government replacing husbands, and weaken the nuclear family.
They used the Southern Poverty Law Center to fabricate white supremacist threats when they did not exist. They conspired to plot a January 6 insurrection to destroy Trump’s candidacy. They prevented Republicans from questioning state electoral slates, something Democrats have done in the past elections when Republicans ended up winning. The fact that Senator Thune clung to the filibuster, did not deliver on the Safe Act, failed to codify Trump’s Executive Orders, and expressed his displeasure with the fund established to compensate victims of Democrat lawfare, explains why Trump endorsed Paxton rather than Cornyn.
I suspect deliberations with Thune did not justify giving in to his Rino policies. The money for such a purpose is not unprecedented, as Democrats have enacted similar programs. Thune never expended his political capital on questioning the Reichstag Fire event known as January 6th. He lacked the courage to question either the electoral slates or the estimated l50 undercover FBI agents who participated. He did not support Trump’s offer of National Guardsmen to Pelosi to safeguard the capital made a day before. Thune has served as Senate leader without exemplifying leadership in that body. Thune is more like Romney, Collins, and Cassidy than Hawley, Cruz, or Lee.
Democrats used the COVID pandemic to undermine America. Americans were lied to. Americans died, despite following ever-changing mandates. They were subjected to scientific dictates that had nothing to do with science. Education was disrupted. The economy took a hit. Democrats gave out taxpayer money to people who were not eligible for the programs or payments. Sleepy Joe Biden, about to enjoy a long winter nap and vacations that took up a quarter of his term, performed like a shopping mall Santa supplied with gifts. It was grift on a monumental scale. China was never held to account, nor were the Democrats and their handmaidens. Fauci emerged with great wealth, power, and too much of his reputation undeservedly, intact. Pardoned by an unconstitutional Autopen, Fauci arguably emerged from coverups, perjury, and malpractice unscathed.
Democrats used fear to sow fraud into the election with mail-in ballots, very early voting, ballot harvesting, malfunctioning machines that linked to the internet and foreign countries, and other chicanery to claim 81 million votes cast for a man who was closer to a cadaver than a mentally cognizant president.
Democrats persist in pretending to be moderates while governing as radicals. Increasingly, they take over a city or state, declare it a sanctuary, and destroy the area. Homeless encampments have proliferated, making huge swaths of cities unlivable. Parks and streets are off limits for American citizens. Drug paraphernalia, human feces, tortured animals, rodents, disease, crime, and rotting garbage and corpses characterize iconic cities once treasured by Americans and tourists from around the world.
Gang and cartel enterprises predominate as small businesses collapse under the weight of shoplifting and dwindling customers. Illegal aliens operate with impunity, assaulting ICE, CBP, and local law enforcement. The few who are arrested are released without bail or supervision. Recidivism is seen not as a sign of anti-social attitudes or mental illness, but as evidence for the need to expand restorative justice. Identity politics determines that the victims are the racists responsible for the problems of the predators. The parasites and predators who inflict criminality on innocent citizens are the constituents of the Democrat Party. Their contempt for Americans is clear. They no longer pretend to care about the working or middle class. They are now the champions of the oppressed, even though the hordes of illegals are colonizing America. We are now oppressed. The Islamization of America in accordance with the Muslim Brotherhood’s project proceeds right on schedule. The proliferation of communist officials and bureaucrats amplifies the Marxist promises, promotes a new civil war given to revolution, and paves the way to authoritarianism.
Democrats created an illusion of black empowerment. Few people have less control over their lives than blacks living in crime-infested sections of Chicago, for example. Whites behind the scenes manipulate DEI candidates who do their bidding. Inferior schools rife with illiteracy, substandard housing, burnt out communities with boarded up buildings and too few local businesses to meet community needs, and streets ruled by gangs who shoot their way to early graves while claiming many blacks as collateral damage, attest to one-party rule.
Baltimore, Detroit, Atlanta, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and so many other cities are the third-world zones created by Democrats. Blacks who live according to the subculture’s ethics and the Democrats’ denigration of education, merit, and the postponement of gratification of pleasure have continued to have lives of dependency and indigence. Those who opted for the American Dream enjoyed various levels of success. Democrats who ruled these cities and states like feudal rulers continued to get rich off the land. Too many blacks are still on their plantation. Too many whites are still indentured servants or tenant farmers, all beholden to the Democrat slave owners.
Democrats use coercion when propaganda and rigged elections aren’t enough. How amusing to hear communist-Cuba-loving Mayor Bass of LA talk about how inflammatory language can lead to violence. She is part of the rhetorical debasement of ICE and the many vehicular attacks, shootings, and assaults that followed. There is a culture of assassination that resulted in three attempts on the President’s life, but Democrats applaud those efforts. Kamala Harris just called for a no-bad-steps brainstorming session. For Kamala to engage in brainstorming is an oxymoron. Her refusal to rule out any exceptions could be seen as an implicit endorsement of political violence. A society that applauds Luigi Mangione and weaves conspiracy theories to exonerate Tyler Robinson has lost its ethical bearings. Within a week, Democrat Hakeem Jeffries called for “maximum warfare” and threatened to smash the souls of his opponents. This is a call for murder.
It comes as hordes of thugs, professionally organized and compensated by oligarch members of the red/green alliance, spread out into Jewish neighborhoods to assault residents and menace those in synagogues. The two-year pogrom that turned American campuses into a terrorist playground has gone unremarked. Where is the righteous indignation for discrimination and violence against peaceful American citizens? Jews have been murdered in this nation simply for being Jews. Democrats are silent. They are all in.
A segment of faux-Republicans who are clearly anti-American, pro-leftist supporters of “globalizing the Intifada,” have sought to impose an orphaned-Christianity on their WOKE right contingent. They divorce Christianity from Judaism, which is theologically impossible. They deny that Jesus was a Jew in their efforts to revise Biblical and archaeological history. They want to remove Judaism from the Judeo-Christian legacy that is one of the foundations of Western Civilization. What are these demons celebrating in the Last Supper? It is a Seder. Where do they think the Old and New Testaments come from? When did they decide to banish the Ten Commandments? Democrats today welcome Nazis, fascists, communists, and Islamists to their ranks as they libel and slander Jews, Trump, and America. Qatari pockets are deep, as is the contamination of careerism, corruption, envy, and arrogance of Democrats and their newfound WOKE Republican comrades.
The seduction of the most ancient of scapegoats is irresistible for the diabolical. When Tucker sounds like the tsar, Fuentes like Goebbels, Megyn like Lindbergh, and Candace like Qaradawi, the virus has spread. When some members previously linked to conservative movements like MAGA and TPUSA wrap their Catholicism in pro-fascist posts and deliberately refuse to associate Judaism with Christianity as our spiritual legacy, they are further politicizing people. They are the agar in the plate that grows Jew-hatred. In the existential and endless war between good and evil, they are hedging their bets, going with the red/green alliance, and betraying their nation. They are neither right nor left. They are traitors, linked by their malignant ideologies.
Democrats side with Iran against their own country. They refuse to change their policies. They continue to lie. They use a communist/adjacent media to continue the narrative. They censor truth. They refuse accountability for the consequences of crime. They mock religion even though they control most of the mainstream churches and reform Judaism. They regard spirituality and belief in God as a threat to their ability to act as gods. Authoritarians detest religion. The ideas of natural law, inalienable rights endowed by our creator, free will, human nature, and ethical conduct, are anathema.
Our Founding Fathers acknowledged the requirement of a moral, religious, and educated citizenry to make self-governance possible. Totalitarian forces have consistently opposed religion as a restriction on their power. Democrats are more comfortable with atheism. They have their own cults that they are eager to institute. The Caliphate or the global communist state is their goal. They are working together today, united by hatred of the West, Jews, and our Constitutional republic to effect a revolution. Once we are gone, they will battle it out for control. Cautionary tales from history that confirm this prediction are unknown to the historically amnesiac. Even those forced to confront facts are impervious to their implications. Ideology trumps critical thinking.
Democrats have driven a demolition derby through out nation. The devastation, debris, and death counts mount. They are not finished. They are just revving up for revolution. Even as Americans witness the failures of Democrat policies, they continue to vote Democrat. That emotional tie, what Gad Saad calls “suicidal empathy,” helps to explain their indifference to others.
Americans used to react emotionally as well as rationally to the terrible treatment inflicted on blacks during the era of Democrat Jim Crow. They seemed to decry the horrors of the Holocaust, but since October 7, 2023, they tend to disregard or support the Hamas terrorists. When did they decide it was fine to drive Jewish students from their university libraries, classrooms, or campuses? Democrats used to stand up for Israel. Now they are content to see Israel destroyed. They used to oppose bullying. Now they are the bullies.
I remember the civil rights movement. I marched with Dr. King. I cried when Viola Liuzzo, Chaney, Goodman, Schwerner, and Reverend Reeb were all murdered. I watched with horror as cops and goons sprayed peaceful protestors with hoses, washing them into the streets. I phoned politicians when I watched people practicing civil disobedience beaten, dragged from restaurant stools, chased from segregated beaches, and shot, like Medgar Evers for trying to register blacks to vote. I devoted my teaching career to minority students.
I cried when the revolutionary goons of Antifa and BLM murdered almost 30 people, including retired policeman David Dorn. I flinched when they burned down businesses, homes, and government buildings. I grimaced when they murdered police in Dallas. I could not bear to watch the documented videos of Hamas depravity on October 7th. The day before Israel released that report, a NY Times reporter, Kristoff, published a bizarre allegation of Israeli planned rapes of Muslim men by dogs. This unscientific, unsubstantiated libel spread around the world. Kristoff joined the legions of those spreading unsupportable blood libels against the Jews.
Designed to minimize the Israeli report, Kristoff’s disgusting claims grabbed the headlines and social media posts. How many Americans, including Jews, will cancel their subscriptions to that rag? Jews constitute 2% of the American population but comprise 67% of the victims of all hate crimes, according to the FBI. Jews were disproportionately represented in the civil rights movement. They have been disproportionately represented in the ranks of those awarded Nobel Prizes. How will the extermination of Jews advance any civilizational aim? When did Anne Frank fade into history?
When did the murder of Brian Thompson become a cause for celebration on the left? When did the virtue-signaling carve compassion from their souls? Adoration of Luigi Mangioni manifests a cult of death, a blood lust among leftists. Their ingratitude for this civilization precipitates treason. It starts with joy in the accumulation of corpses. Whatever happened to classical liberalism? It is dead.
When did Democrats, independents, libertarians, and assorted apathetic Americans watch the insurrections of 2020 or the current wars in our cities and decide they were not responsible for condemning or stopping such actions? When did Americans fall into the COVID chasm of passivity? As Democrat-indoctrinated Americans shrink to spectators, their revolutionary cohorts take to the streets, the institutions, the Deep State, and their global patrons to deliver the coup de grace. What started as a coup d’etat with Obama was built on the century-long march through the institutions. Communists and Islamists are on the move. We must stop them.
© 6.17.2026 by Deplorabella, "Deplorabella".
