Friends, the probability of a recession is, by all accounts, on the rise, but, as you'll see in this article, recessions vary enormously in type, severity, and duration. Will the recession of '22 be a biggie? Your guess is as good as mine, but "stagflation" might be tricky to rise above, as it was in the mid-70s... One thing is for sure: even the mildest of recessions will damage the Dems' prospects in November even more than they already are.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/12/investing/recession-shapes-alphabet/index.html
In other news, the Dems have decided, as I mentioned before, that Trumpifying the November mid-term elections is the key to victory, and along these lines they've settled on a new epithet to hurl at their adversaries (when "you dirty racist insurrectionist Nazi bastard!" won't do): "ultra MAGA". What does one have to do or say to be "ultra MAGA"? Not a heck of a lot. Just get on Biden's last nerve, and -- presto! -- you're "ultra MAGA". Will the electorate buy this nonsense? Highly unlikely.
Finally, Clarence Thomas is asking the $64,000 question in American politics: when Americans no longer respect any of our major institutions, political or otherwise, how long will it be before our current Constitutional republic is replaced by some kind of authoritarian system in which raw power overwhelms and replaces the rule of law? Many Americans seem ready, frankly, to give up on past norms and stick it to their political/cultural enemies however and whenever they can. As always, though, you should be careful what you wish for. The same institutions and rules that may shield your adversaries -- most annoyingly -- also shield you.
Dr.Waddy from Jack: "Ultra maga", yeah, I like it and, especially the way the American left means it, I am happy as a clam to be Ultra Mag. Thanx, Pino Joe for giving us a handy reminder of just how much you and your far left handlers loath the real America. I mean "deplorables" might have getting a bit droll after six years (eh, Hillary?);now you've given us a new moniker which may well work as well as did Hillary's monumental faux pas! BTW , hear she admits "regretting" it. Oh, I'll BET she does, especially considering three President Trump appointed lawful Scotus justices and the hob they are playing now with her abortion dreams. From now on, count me a "deplorable ultra maga"!
ReplyDeleteDr.Waddy from Jack: Well, we have seen inthe last few days forceful declaration by the abortionists that they will be" ungovernable". An early confirmation of this consists in their organized contempt for Federal law proscribing efforts to influence judge made law. Uhh, gee, invading the home space of heretical Scotus justices amounts to a very definite form of attempted "influence". It should be met by decisive Federal law enforcement BUT under this compromised Administration that is lacking. Not so of course with those of liberally perceived Jan.6 culpability.The abortionists promise a "long hot summer", yah they do. But they may meet a "Cold Wind in August" should they take heart from their initial tactical presumptuousness.Casual baby killing does not bear the imprimatur of racial injustice. A repeat of 2020 and its cringing reaction by so many of the reflexive politically correct may not manifest!
ReplyDeleteDr.Waddy from Jack: Justice Thomas's, comments are well supported by the development of the abortionist rampage. The American left's obvious fundamental intent for decad
ReplyDeleteDr.Waddy from Jack: to continue: . . . decades has been to destroy unforgiveably imperfect America from within, by discrediting its fundamental foundation and framework, the Constitution and its resultant governmental institutions.Presently a blatant test is at hand. "We abortionists do not approve of your apparent decision! Therefore we arrogate to ourselves the forceful denial of it". They will not succeed;are they as dreamy as to think that their ad hominen savagery toward so many sitting Scotus justices cannot have proven their fundamental vicious bigotry and thereby, have discredited their" so very heartFELT" causes, in the ,yes, human minds of the majority on Scotus(including terribly wronged Justice Thomas?!)?! Uhhh, think again you!
ReplyDeleteDr.Waddy from Jack: Normally it would be obscene to discuss the political consequences of such abomination as the Buffalo massacre. But, as is to be fully expected, the American left has hastened to make hay of it and that abomination must be met! NY Gov. Hochul and Sen.Schumer have seen fit to summarily urge suppression of"hate" speech on social media platforms. We can be certain that the hate speech suppurating on the left (eg that generated by the probable limitation of baby butchering and the looming disenpowerment of radical American left ,on the national scene) is excused by omission by these oh so eager consummate bigots. They probably see a chance to steal a march on an Elon Musk inspired doctrinal balance in media (they must FEAR; already such toadies as CNN are jumping ship!).
ReplyDeleteDr.Waddy from Jack: Of course also we may fully anticipate impassioned calls for blame and "legal" punishment of lawful gunowners for this latest insanity! Schumer's ship will hit the rocks in Congress because the real Americw will not stand to have its gun rights abrogated for tragedy it not cause (nor could it hav
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: Once again: to continue: . . .nor could it have happened in Cuomo "Safe" Act coralling of law abiding gun owners , except for NY state exalted and protected violent criminals and personally undeclared maniacs, that is PROGRESSIVE NewYork, the "Empire State" but did it, oh my?!. But; we in NY state must brace for a Constitution snubbing subsequent assault on responsible gun owners from our very apparent reflexive leftist Governor and a very radical one party legislature! Oh well, tis often been thus in this shamefully bigoted (against millions of its "citizens") state and we can take hope from an increasingly common sense, lawful, Federal judiciary and the possibility of a GOP Governor in our long leftist polluted state!
ReplyDeleteDr.Waddy from Jack: The leftist gun grabbers will be galvanized by this by them perceived windfall. And it will join Ultra Maga Trump and Trump nation hatred and"Abortion on demand or else!" as bywords for their desperate resistance to the wrath of the real America in November. The gun grabbers have always attacked the rights of lawful gun owners for one reason only: they know from sad experience that gun owners and our politically puissant organizations are pillars of the overall Conservative movement. They know we very effectively support candidates and office holders Conservative on a very wide range of common sense, real America embraced issues and are thus existentially determined to destroy us to enable them to eliminate real America to open the way for their presumptuous, willfully changeable, hellish totalitarian tyranny! The safety of Americans from "gun violence"?
ReplyDeleteDr.Waddy from Jack: Once againnn: to continue: The safety of Americans from "gun violence" ( ehh, guns do not independently point or fire) is of NO moment to the American left! In power it would surely employ very much gun violence to ensure its assured dominance, which is history proven beyond doubt and by the present intolerance obvious in those areas in which the left enforces its sway. (Eg. support by failure of apologetic action against leftist totalitarian rule in unwilling neighborhoods in leftist infested places like Seattle and Portland).
ReplyDeleteDr.Waddy from Jack: OK I swallowed my gorge and read Pino Biden's Buffalo speech. He said: "this is domestic terrorism . . . and silence is complicity". Ok Joe, since you generalize so, eh, how about your surely purposeful silence on that domestic terrorism fomented by your American left? Eg. the very recent threat of a clearly implied terror generating "long hot summer" over the pr obable national discrediting of casual, convenient baby butchering. This obviously and presumptuously smacked of a return to summer 2020 , which was characterized by many deaths of innocents and totalitarianly forceful occupation of very neighborhoods,,yes Joe, neighborhoods! Are hate filled ideological screeds against police not the cause of incalculable grief and loss comparable to that suffered by families of the purely evil Buffalo shooter?
ReplyDeleteDr.Waddy from Jack: President Joe: were not murderous outrages by leftist lauded execration of whites and Jews not comparable to the"violence inflicted in the service of hate and the vicious thirst for power that defines one group being superior" which you lamented in Buffalo, ehh?! In a limited sense, your reference to the Buffalo outrage is appropriate but you know it instantly becomes national news. Accordingly, your no doubt purposeful recoil from condemnation of all domestic terrorism , in both urging and commission, is proven to be biased ,disingenuous and consequently discredited!
ReplyDeleteDr.Waddy from Jack: The dems will hasten to use this insane incident in Buffalo to add to their bywords of: "ultra maga = Trump again= complete criminally enforced national oppression of all abortion or abortional intent ='extreme rightist' control of all national life = complete national incarceration of all proven of intent or accomplishment of violation of definitively oppressive, of all who are different, " laws". They are yet building their emotionally motivated defense against the real America's onslaught on their screed and their totalitarian presumption!
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ReplyDeleteA total of 12 comments all by you, and in your usual convoluted style of English grammar. Do you think anyone reads the stuff you print? Did you sit around somewhere for years thinking this up. What the hell does "building their emotionally motivated defense against the real America's onslaught of their screed and their totalitarian presumption!"
What the hell is that you are trying to say. Do you think anyone actually takes the time to read this drivel you turn out. Write plain English!
Uh oh. Someone got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning! I, for one, ALWAYS make time to read every word that Jack writes here on the blog. Sure, he gets a little florid in his diction at times, but I think that's called "having a bit of fun" with the English language... It's not illegal (yet)!
ReplyDeleteJack, clearly Trumpers are gleefully embracing the "ultra MAGA" label, and by the time the Dems are done blowing the '22 elections a significant portion of independents may feel the same. I have to admit, I'm not a 100% Trumper myself, but one of the greatest reasons to support him for another run in '24 would be the horror and anxiety that that would produce in lefty circles. As the slogan from '20 went: "Make Liberals Cry Again". It would be fun to try...
I don't care for these intimidatory tactics that the Left is employing against federal judges, but I wonder whether laws prohibiting protests outside of residences would be constitutional... Seems to me that the abortion-on-demand crowd may have the right to be obnoxious -- just not violent. In fact, it might even be in our (political) interest for them to vent their ire (like maniacs)... It might also, as you suggest, cement the determination of conservative Justices to defy the lefty mob and plow ahead with their urgent task.
Yes, the Left will take any excuse to redouble its calls for bans on "hate speech". And you can bet that their definition of hate will be as elastic as heck!
Jack, I presume much of America is as bored as I am by the Left's utterly predictable calls for "gun control". But, as you say, in NYS we can't rule out the possibility that our rights really will be chipped further away.
I totally agree, Jack: the Left has a soft spot for political violence, as anyone who lived through the events of 2020 well knows. They are also the primary, and most shameless, purveyors of race-baiting "lies" and propaganda.
Anonymous too from Jack: Your criticism of my writing style is appropriate. I employ far too many dependent clauses and it does make for convolution. I often try to express sardonic and ironic thoughts and not always plainly. My use of anachronisms is just for fun. Your comments motivate me to once again pay better attention to streamlining my writing.In saying". . . building their emotionally driven. . . etc" I was referring to the emotional defense mounted by the left against the political defeat they face. I often break my comments into small entries because my tablet has a tendency to erase my comments without apparent cause..
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DeleteNo apologies necessary. I was just testing you out. Your response entitles you to be promoted (canonized) to the "rank" of Saint. You are from now on, at least to me, Saint Jack. Now that also happens to be the name of one of my favorite oldie movies of the same name, in which the hero of the movie has to contend with all sorts of a. holes, (like me), and actually wins. So, from now on you are Saint Jack, and you don't even have to move to Singapore. Just keep your writing style, if you promise to insert some profanity in your essays using Yiddish.
You know, stuff like I would like to ^%&$#* your sister, and so on. Keep writing, because you are an asset in your own way to fighting The Leftist &+*^%#@ dregs who basically remind me of something one picks up on one's shoe on a hot Summer day in a city park by stepping in something that people with dogs neglected to pick up. Very unpleasant, very smelly. Good luck SAINT JACK. Keep up the good work.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: The attention paid my comments by one of your intellectual and dialectical accomplishments motivates me. Thanx again!
ReplyDeleteAnonymous too from Jack: I consulted my handy desk hagiography and find my name unlisted in the sainted pantheon. Therefore, I respectfully decline the tltle. Besides, I too am a consummate a.hole!
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DeleteBetter to be a "consummate a.hole" than just a plain old a. hole, and it is also easier to perform a colonoscopy on such an a.hole.
Aww. Now this is truly touching -- the three of us, a**holes to a man, tipping our hats to one another... Say what you want about those lefty scumsuckers, but they can boast of one good deed: fear and loathing of them brought us together here on the blog. Praise be to the Marxist horde! Their antics remind us who our real friends are.
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