Friends, my heart goes out to Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, who was recently flummoxed by the question, "What is a woman?" Personally, I've been trying to figure out the answer for 47 years! I gather it all has something to do with bubble baths and clothes shopping, but beyond that I've made little progress. That's why I'm so grateful to Townhall for proposing this formulation:
In other news, "President" Biden sure does seem to have a fire in his belly for prosecuting the Cold War. Possibly he believes that we're still in the original Cold War? If not, he certainly seems eager to reignite it! Recently, his underlings had to clarify that his recent remarks to U.S. soldiers, seeming to imply that they would soon be in Ukraine, actually did not represent a reversal of U.S. policy, which says we will not intervene in the fighting there. And now he's calling directly for regime change in Russia, saying, of President Putin, "This man cannot remain in power." That'll bring Putin to the negotiating table, for sure! If you ask me, all this hot rhetoric, and blatant emotionalism, is designed to cloak the inadequacy of our response, which in the final analysis leaves the outcome of the conflict entirely in the hands of others.
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/biden-ukraine-russia-aid/2022/03/25/id/1062987/
https://www.newsmax.com/headline/russia-ukraine-war-biden/2022/03/26/id/1063026/
Biden was recently invited by Euro-journalists to take a few shots at DJT, and he eagerly complied. Among his remarks was a claim that he would be "very fortunate" if Trump ran against him in 2024. Now, Biden may actually believe this, as the conventional wisdom in D.C. is that Trump is damaged goods after his failed "insurrection" and there's no chance that America would reelect him as president. Well... Biden may have a point that Trump is a flawed candidate, but all the Dems have to offer is other flawed candidates, so I wouldn't count your chickens just yet, Sleepy Joe.
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/biden-trump-2024-election/2022/03/24/id/1062823/
Finally, the supplicatory mood of the Western political, economic, and cultural elite towards Ukrainian President Zelensky is plumbing new depths, as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is seriously considering giving him a platform during this year's Oscars ceremony. Personally, I won't be satisfied until Zelensky is named "Best Picture"!
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/ukraine-volodymyr-zelenskyy-academy-awards/2022/03/26/id/1063017/
Dr.Waddy from Jack: We need not wonder at the Scotus nominee's "reluctance" to define the term "woman". She perceived a trap for all of her certainly leftist convictions. Why not? The confirmation process is a ritual manifesting not a test of competence but of political viability. Why test it further she thought? She will have a lifetime to freely express her leftist bigotry once confirmed! There is only one way to thwart those of her intentions: POWER, democratically establishing the will of the real America that the antiAmerican left shall not prevail! Let her languish in impotence in a discredited minority!
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: Far too much of our freely expressed popular culture reflects shame and deserved ridicule on us. I suspect that Russia's personality is one which is repelled by our excesses in that regard. Yet, they know how powerful its influence is in America and may take seriously a breathy condemnation of them at an event as widely viewed as our thoroughly politicized Oscars. Their perception of excoriation, especially from Nato countries and especially us, may have much effect on their strategic thinking. " 'All the world's a stage'for these vacuous Americans and those seduced by their degenerate popular tastes" may be a Russian and almost surely is a Chinese conviction. No thanks from us is due to our airy Academy of Motion Picture "Arts and Sciences" (indeed!!??) for blithely exemplifying a very compromised American institution.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: President Trump has his flaws but they are mostly of style. Let's suppose Michael Moore were to attain high office: his hyperbolic, myopic castigation of any who disagree with his antiAmerican screeds would foster only praise from the American left. We in the real America know that DJT sacrificed -
ReplyDeleteand continues to do so: his otherwise to be leisurely senior years to: first, save us from Hillary's vindictive misrule; then to endure a term of unprecedented vicious excoriation and predation by an MSM he rightly sized up as irredemably compromised by the left and an American left manifesting limitless hatred for him for resisting them; then saying and empowering what we want to say and do to stop a presumptuous totalitarian American leftist usurpation of every facet of our heretofore free lives! We crave his return to power because he is the only one besides Reagan who truly sided with us. His faults? Well, any Dem candidate deserves the opprobium rightfully earned by any approved by a party shamefully apologeticly obsequious to a far left the totalitarian intent of which is unmistakable. Uhh, that is a pervasive, fundamental fault which alone discredits any Dem candidate. Biden's performance thus far yet reinforces that truth. DJT is its most effective enunciator and the Dems' most to be feared prospect! Bring it on! The real America is ready!
Dr. Waddy from Jack: Sure, President Trump displayed in office and still does, some lack of political sophistication. Does the
ReplyDeleteConstitution require this skill?For it to do so would bar all but a detached elite from the office. One of the truly joyous manifestations of the 2016 election was the demonstration that one outside our governmental crowd could attain that office. And sorry you of the woke; it has opened doors closed too long to those willing to champion the, on balance, virtue of America! Dems mourn Hillary's "tragic" denial of a barrier breaking triumph. What about that of DJT? We in the real America know he is one of our own and we want him back. We know we can trust him; he has demonstrated it through travail which would have broken a lesser one!
Sad, but true: all KBJ has to do is say nothing, or nothing of consequence, and she will have life tenure on SCOTUS. Disgusting. Her answer to the "woman question", though, seemed sincere. She and her ilk truly don't know what a woman is, except to say that a woman is anything/anyone that claims it's a woman.
ReplyDeleteJack, I would imagine mortification at the depths to which American "culture" sinks is a commonly held attitude in the halls of power in Moscow and Beijing...but in the streets? Hard to say.
I see your allegiance to DJT is unbroken! I applaud your consistency. I would love to see Trump back in office, but I confess it isn't so much because I trust him to be effective in the role of president, but mainly because it would be a most satisfying comeuppance for an elite that conspired to dethrone him once before. Don't get me wrong -- I HOPE Trump's second term would run more smoothly than his first, but I also know, as you do, that powerful forces would be working hard to stymie him.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: I expect most societies have had their degenerate factions, which may well experience widespread clandestine patronage. But in most countries they are relegated to certain disdained areas and not celebrated. What must so many countries think in viewing our execrable Super Bowl halftime shows?! "Why these people have no shame, no standards, why? Are they pusillanimous?. Yes, they exalt their 'freedom of expression' but seem not to see its downside, its enablement of cynical voluptuary libertines completely without regret for their obvious corrosive effect on America. Again why? Have they no taste, no discretion, no sense that rights must counterbalanced by responsibilities?!" Having lived in Chinese society for several months, I am confident that this is their view and perhaps that of many other societies. I know many nations out and out fear the corrosive cultural influence of ours. We must not dismiss this out of hand.
ReplyDeleteThat's a perfectly reasonable attitude, Jack, and one which you and I would find extremely relatable. The decadence and degeneracy that is currently fashionable surely makes one wonder -- the next time we're called upon to FIGHT to defend our freedoms, will there be anyone left in the ranks of our military who has the moral fiber to do it? Or will self-pity be, by then, the only "weapon" we know how to wield?
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: Good points but the US has displayed such military competence since the establishment of the volunteer military that I would predict continued effectiveness from them. Navy districts in places like San Diego attracted low lifes who solicited attendance upon performances which plainly showed their disdain for us, when I was in. But my guess would be that today's military strongly and affirmatively resents such presumption, moral or political. But its effect on the general public today, from whom the political will to fight is derived? Very much enervating cynicism of the worthiness of our culture, something the leering sneering left much intends!
ReplyDeleteJack, I sorely wish I could believe that, but I find it hard to imagine that the moral/cultural rot that infects the masses isn't seeping into the military as well. I guess we'll find out when WWIII gets underway, won't we?
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: Our military as a whole is afforded far more respect than it was 50 years ago when I was in. Eg. Broadway, then the major waterfront street in big Navy and Marine town San Diego was a tawdry thoroughfare in which servicemen were treated with contempt by slick lowlifes offering jewelry, overpriced food and drink , usurious car deals and sexual entertainment aimed at our presumed debased tastes Heck, all we wanted was to meet nice girls but it was impossible in a setting like that and we didn't have the income to go much beyond downtown. It appears to have been cleaned up now. Of course the vices are still of interest to young men but at least San Diego has finally lived up to its obligation to be a welcoming host even to lower ranked enlisted men. Too, the volunteer military may well have attracted a core of people of good character strongly suggested by their willingness to serve. The miltary has always championed positive norms but when the public scorned you as it did us, it was easy to become cynical.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the reminder, Jack, that not everything in and about America has gotten worse in the last 40-50 years. :)
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