Friends, according to Brazil's electoral authority and the media, the results are in: President Jair Bolsonaro of the "far-right" has lost his bid for reelection, and "Lula", Brazil's former president, a confirmed leftist, and not so long ago a prison inmate found guilty of corruption, is back in the saddle, or soon will be. Bolsonaro has not yet commented on the results or conceded, so it's possible that he's considering clinging on to power, but the Brazilian and international establishments are making that as difficult as possible by celebrating and writing in stone Lula's triumph. Since Bolsonaro doesn't seem to have the fire in the belly for a coup, I assume he'll leave office with his tail between his legs, much like Trump did. That unfortunately means that leftists will be running the vast majority of the major countries of Latin America. Luckily, in many cases these socialists are constrained by legislatures that don't share their commitment to Bolshevism. Let's hope that Brazil survives its latest bout of Lula-ism, and that he doesn't take the country down the same road pioneered by Venezuela. The people of Brazil deserve better than that, or at least 49% of them do!
https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/30/americas/brazil-election-polls-open-intl
In other news, the Supreme Court is hearing arguments on whether colleges and universities should be allowed to consider race as a factor in admissions. Since 1978, that has been permissible so long as the goal is to promote "diversity". Well, as we all know, the DEI agenda has long since become a code for reverse discrimination. It's high time that the Supreme Court mandate colorblind policies across the board. If it does so, we can't assume that anti-white and anti-Asian discrimination will disappear entirely, but it would be a beginning, and hopefully it would put the practitioners of identity politics on the defensive. Buck up, SCOTUS! America needs you to be strong. The Left will scream bloody murder if you put an end to "affirmative action", but the vast majority of Americans will celebrate. There's a very real danger that our country will be Balkanized in the years ahead. Let's prevent that sad fate while we still can.
Finally, Russia is escalating its attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure, and it seems to be working. Whether these attacks degrade Ukraine's capacity for military action, or its morale, remains to be seen.
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/10/31/massive-airstrikes-cut-off-power-and-water-in-kyiv/
Ray to Nick
ReplyDeleteNow there is an idea. Let prison inmates in our country run for office, and they can replace the other crooks currently in office. Then the other crooks who will then become inmates can run again in a few years, and get back in office. Got to keep that system going, and bonafide/certified inmates are the best solution, in my opinion.
In fact, in 2024, both of our political cartels need to consider nominating a prison inmate for president. I'm suggesting a "white collar" criminal who is educated, in which case a corrupt attorney should be able to qualify.
Dr.Waddy from Jack: How did the previous "Lula" administration go in Brazil? When will the world learn: empowerment of the left opens the door to hell?
ReplyDeleteDr.Waddy from Jack: Had the. Confederacy won the Civil War, balkanization of North America would probably have ensued. A Mexico unrestrained by 50,000 Union troops in Texas (no country wanted to tangle with the Union Army) might have made a try for the Southwest. The Confederacy and the rump US would certainly have clashed over control of the American west with who can say what anarchic results. Would or could the US have acquired Alaska after a disastrous defeat which might have further destabilized theUS?
ReplyDeleteWould the great game of Russia vs Great Britain have come to Canada?lmagine an Alaskan SSR run by Stalin! All manner of geographic and political hurly burly could have made of our land a hodge podge like South America. American unity post Civil War prevented it. Now irreconcilable antipathy and possible dissolution of the US could be the result of the far left's relentless drive for a totalitarian America. This Scotus could be key to preventing this by shutting down already realized and enforced leftist senselessness and dysfunction.
Dr.Waddy from Jack: Leningrad survived a German siege in which it was subjected to prolonged deprivation of virtually all of the necessities of life and that in soul destroying Russian winter. My guess is that Ukraine is made of similar stuff. They have already acquitted themselves with marvelous resolve in this terrible reprise of WWII .
ReplyDeleteRay, your plan has merit, but what separates an incarcerated criminal from a (typical) politician is that the politician is capable of criminality and villainy at a much higher level of refinement. It's like the difference between uranium and plutonium. Same basic element, but different levels of purity/potency. I guess what I'm saying is that if we spin Biden around in a centrifuge long enough, the quality of his misrule should rise significantly!
ReplyDeleteJack, Lula was apparently quite popular the first time around. Brazil was raking in the oil profits then, and he distributed them promiscuously but pleasingly (especially from his own perspective, since he took a cut). This time around he'll be piloting Brazil through a recession, and he won't have a majority in Brazil's Congress either, so he may fare a lot worse. Of course, when things go badly for leftists, like cornered animals they can become much more dangerous...
Jack, if the U.S. had fractured in the 1860s, all sorts of ripple effects could have ensued! I frankly doubt that either the rump U.S. or the Confederacy would have been very vulnerable to outside threats, but who knows. Maybe they would have been mutually hostile for eons, or maybe they would have reconciled. Dunno.
Ukrainians are tougher than we are, Jack -- I'll give them that. We're all living in a completely different world than the Leningraders of yore, though. My guess is that most Ukrainians, if power and water shortages persist, would rather live in Poland than Ukraine. Personally, I suspect that Ukraine's powers of resistance can and will be exhausted by Russia...but time will tell. One thing is for sure: it will be a long, cold winter in Kiev.
Dr.Waddy from Jack: I worked with criminals tor 20 years and I see much in common with criminals and far leftists. Both are "full of themselves" and convinced of their unquestionable virtue; that makes them react savagely
ReplyDeleteto any opposition. Both consequently embrace the principle of "by any means necessary". They are a "mutual admiration society"; the left is very popular among prison inmates and since 2020 the left's longstanding sympathy for criminals and contempt for the lawful has become blatant and unapologetic. Both factions are utterly dishonest. Sociopathy is obvious in many criminals and, in their celebration of the killing of unborn babies, in the left. Both display frantic demand for the enforcement of law when it suits them and consummate lawlessness, in expression and action, when the law dares to thwart them!
Interesting analysis, Jack. It begs the question (for me, at least): is sociopathy demonstrably more common among ideological leftists? Or among Democrats? I suppose the question would be hard to answer, since we don't have a comprehensive register of sociopaths -- unless you count the National Press Club? Ha!
ReplyDeleteDr.Waddy from Jack: I think the majority of dems are people of good will. Eg. Many of them regard abortion as a tragic necessity. But their party is captured by hardened far leftists dedicated to imposing neomarxist dictatorship on a gravely errant US. I think one would have to be sociopathic to advocate a reprise of an ideology proven the most wrongheaded and murderous in history. And their blithe, airy celebration of abortion, which has denied myriad millions life itself ,dis-plays the dead soul of the sociopath.
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