Friends, the chaos at our southern border is now, polls say, the number one concern of conservative and Republican voters. It barely registers for progressives and Democrats. In fact, they seldom hear, via the mainstream media, about any unpleasantness at the border...unless it's stories about how migrants aren't being treated with enough solicitude and indulgence. The idea that there's currently a flood of illegal immigrants, or of people abusing our asylum laws, would come as a surprise to most lefties. This is a key reason, of course, why Dems may lose big in 2022: they are out of touch with the concerns not only of conservatives/Republicans, but also independents, who are much more likely to view unchecked illegal immigration with a jaundiced eye. Sometimes, in other words, Dems' arrogance and myopia works in our favor. Long may it last!
https://www.foxnews.com/media/mainstream-news-networks-abc-cbs-nbc-ignore-worsening-border-crisis
On the other hand, there's a chance -- albeit a small one -- that reality may impinge on the Dems' obliviousness, and the sheer carnage their policies cause may lead them to change course. That could be the result of political pressure OR legal compulsion, i.e. court orders. Along those lines, there's reason to be hopeful:
In other news, here's an interesting analysis of the truly absurd phenomenon of "emotional support animals" and what it says about the proliferation of ideologies of victimhood. It will make you cringe!
https://wesleyyang.substack.com/p/on-the-origins-of-the-emotional-support
Everyone's heard of the "Delta variant" by now, but among its ill effects is a major -- historic, in fact -- decline in consumer confidence. Generally, tumbling confidence is correlated with recessions. Could one be in store? It wouldn't shock me.
Finally, there's a big gubernatorial election coming up in Virginia, and it will be, in many ways, a key test of just how precarious Dems' national dominance may be. Virginia is a blue state, after all, so if the GOP can win there, it can win almost anywhere! Why, if we took California AND Virginia, you'd think those lefties would really start to shake in their boots...
Dr. Waddy from Jack: A person with disabilities told me his advocacy group was taking a local private bowling alley to task under the Americans with Disabilities Act. When I asked him why, he said, "because by refusing to modify their establishment to our needs, they are denying us our 'right to bowl' ". In what does your group see an established 'right to bowl' " I asked. He could not answer; he had never had to reason it out. Its not a direct analogy to the article above but it does exemplify the thinking which makes of well intentioned and carefully conceived laws confirming certain rights "litigating engines" enabling the prosecution of casually and sometimes cynically presumed "rights". Such claims often defy reason and are advanced in hopes of intimidation and consequent settlement.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: For many reflexive unreflective leftists, open borders are just fine because they are an obvious thumb in the eye of Donald Trump. Trump hatred makes it unnecessary to reason; if a policy is opposite to his beliefs it is by definition to be honored. But for a far more grimly determined left, this open border and the necessities they, in power, recognize defacto upon physical crossing of the border by illegals ( it makes sense that the mere reality of illegality would lend to the reflexively iconoclastic and counter intuitive radical left full accreditation) is what they have purposed all along. They would create a decisive voting bloc, conned by them into thinking the left their saviors, to lend very much support to "fundamental transformation" of our "erring " imperfect nation.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: Yes, unrelenting pressure from REALITY and powerful entities like Texas, plus the power of Trump appointed courts, may effect some grudging accomodation by this Kumbayaa - Marxist Leninist administration. But a new factor has emerged over the last week: our Federal executive branch is headed by dan gerously incompetent authority. The coming days may manifest horrors and outrages perhaps unprecedented, working the reduction of our President to sub Carter(1980) status. Resignation? To whom? Kamalafornia? Limousine Nancy? Dickhead Durbin? Anyone in the Cabinet? Nah, we are stuck with this dreamy crowd for now. So lets send the Congressional faction to the gutters in 2022 and return President Trump in 2024. He would never have accomodated the Taliban as has silly, obviously Robert Kennedy idolizing, Joey.
ReplyDeleteJack, the entitlement mentality will be the death of America! In the meantime, it will make many lawyers rich.
ReplyDeleteJack, you watch the news, which I do not. Is Biden really facing Carter-style humiliation over the events in Kabul? And are CNN, MSNBC, the NYT, and the Post taking note of it?
Dr.Waddy from Jack: On Cspan Washington Journal I saw cited an article by a Washington Examiner columnist which opined that Biden is the new Jimmy Carter. I think it an apt comparison and one which will soon command widespread support. They share a dreamy idealism which makes for ungrounded policy; they were/are both in way over their paygrades. Perhaps at some point in 2022 the Dems, driven by desperation for their electoral chances, will bid him enjoy an overdue retirement. That of course raises the onerous prospect of the VP in office but that could do equally well for the real America in 2024.
ReplyDeleteDr.Waddy from Jack: I dunno from the NYT, Wash Post, CNN or MSNBC because I boycott them all.
ReplyDeleteDr.Waddyfrom Jack:Carter's fecklessness became apparent when he admitted that the invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviets had opened his eyes to Communism. This, after his absurd declaration that we need reject our "inordinate fear of Communism", which he made close to or within his Presidency. Say what? This guy didn't know that Communism had murdered 100 million of its own citizens and had recently afforded luxury cruises in the South China Sea and vacations in the country to so many of its ethnically proscribed or unconforming citizens in Vietnam? Scruffy Iranian youth and an unlucky rescue attempt completed his humiliation, throughout its prolix progess of which we were disingenuously regaled by an MSM risingto full antiAmerican conviction after Vietnam, over our country's "proven" impotence. This all served to highlight Carter's incompetence and to open the door for a real leader in President Reagan.
ReplyDeleteDr.Waddy from Jack: The stunning daily recent events in , again , Afghanistan may well be the be the confirmation of a dangerous lack of the wisdom expected of a senior statesman, in Biden. In Carter,an excellent Navy officer, it could be blamed on inexperience but on decades omnipresent Biden? The Peter Principle, which holds that many rise to their level of incompetence, rages here! Sure, open the border, sure, nix the pipeline which protects our energy needs from the whims of neomedieval potentates to whom our President has recently approached, hat in hand, for succor. Through the smoke of the 1965 Kumbayaa campfire, why it looks so groovy!
ReplyDeleteJack, the Dems really put themselves in a bind back in 2020. To wit, they nominated a walking corpse for the presidency, and an unlikeable airhead as his understudy. In short, Plan A was bad. Plan B is even worse. Skipping ahead to Plan C is basically unworkable. However shaky Biden gets in the next three years, I think the Dems have very little choice but to stick with him... As for the comparison with Carter, I'm not sure if the Dems' exasperation with ole Jimmy ever reached the point where they thought about pushing Mondale to the fore. Does that ring any bells for you?
ReplyDeleteOne wonders whether Biden's handlers are currently planning ways to demonstrate his toughness and wisdom on the world stage, to balance out his/our humiliation in Afghanistan. Could it be time to bomb Syria, say? Or to sink an Iranian patrol boat? That's the sort of thing a weak president does (to conceal his weakness)...
Biden has oodles of "experience", true, but he also has a long record of misjudging things. History has taught us to expect little from Sleepy Joe. I, for one, have learned that lesson and apply it daily! (Ha!)
Dr. Waddy from Jack: I don't recall any discussion of the possibility of easing Carter out of office. The hostage situation developed over the last year of his first term and by early November his departure was set. I remember Reagan's victory being somewhat surprising but in retrospect not so.
ReplyDeleteYes, the establishment figured Reagan would be an easy mark! Pretty funny, in retrospect.
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