Clusterfuck Nation

James Howard Kunstler’s Clusterfuck Nation blog is updated Mondays and Fridays. The KunstlerCast podcast and Eyesore of the Month are monthly features. Read & comment here.

Insurrection Anyone?

"Friday is a perfect day to indict Schifty!" —Svetlana Lokhova

10-17
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The Matrix Abides

"[S]omebody once observed that so much of leftism is pretending not to understand things that everyone understands." — Kurt Schlichter on "X"

10-13
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What is Power For?

“Ordinary judicial proceedings become impracticable when the people paid to execute federal law coordinate to prevent its execution.” —EKO on “X”

10-10
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Standoff

“Instead of winning on issues, the left resorts to melodramas that no one believes in anymore.” —Victor Davis Hanson

10-06
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Higher Ed Bottoms Out

"There are so many disgusting animals in public life that we have allowed to fraternize with the rest of society to our absolute peril." Aimee Terese on "X"

10-03
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October 2025 | Eyesore

That space alien invasion you heard about. . . it's here!

10-02
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KunstlerCast 430 — Charles Hugh Smith, blogger at "Of Two Minds," Talking Finance and The Ultra-Processed Life

Charles Hugh Smith founded his blog Of Two Minds in 2005 after 17 years of free-lance journalism in the San Francisco Bay Area.

10-01
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The Big Lebowski Civil War

“We really are living through Bloody September” —Will Chamberlain

09-29
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Days of Judgment

“If you want a friend in DC, get a dog. We're coming for you.” —Dan Bongino, Deputy Director, FBI

09-26
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Personal Note

"I’ve never talked to a Democrat who ever wanted to listen. They start to glitch out if you try.” — Sasha Stone

09-22
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The Power of God Compels You!

"You have no idea the fire you have ignited." - Erika Kirk

09-19
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Dressed to Kill

"You currently have one side willing to talk and extend a microphone to anyone, and one side that shoots to kill when they do." —Aimee Terese on X

09-15
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Exorcism Nigh

“The point I was trying to make is how peaceful the left was. . . right before he got shot.” —Hunter Kozak, Question-Asker at Charlie Kirk Utah Event, Sept 10

09-12
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September 2025 | Eyesore

Eyeso' No Mo'

09-09
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Days of Thunder

"If we hadn’t won this election we would have all been vaxxed to death and censored so no one could hear our dying screams" — Mike Benz on "X"

09-08
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The Grifters' Lament

"We are the sickest country in the world. That's why we have to fire people at the CDC ... They did not do their job! This was their job to keep us healthy!" —Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

09-05
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Back to School

"We are living in what I call the 3rd Arc of American history, a period as consequential as the American Revolution and the U.S. Civil War." —Gen. Michael Flynn

09-01
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KunstlerCast 429 — Matt and Maxim Smith on "The Preparation" — Becoming a Man in Uneasy Times

Matt Smith is an American entrepreneur and economic commentator who relocated to Uruguay in 2021, where he operates a regenerative cattle ranch.

08-30
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The War On Reality is Over

“. . . this time the story has escaped the narrative guardrails and some real reckoning looms.” —Jeff Childers

08-29
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Ghislaine 'Splainin'

"Well, I mean, I'm talking about the — the — I had had, there was a. . . . —Ghislaine Maxwell

08-25
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