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Wednesday, November 6, 2024

Mea Culpa -- and By MEa, I Mean YOUa

 

 

Friends, I naturally have a lot of deep thoughts to share about the outcome of this election.  Of course, the counting isn't over yet, and not all the results are known.  It now looks like we won't make a clean sweep of the vulnerable Senate seats, but we should scoop up a few, and that's a cheerful thought!


I do have two cogitations to share off the bat, and here's the first: Republicans, conservatives, and Trumpers ought to be circumspect about claiming that Trump's win represents victory in the culture wars or the complete repudiation of wokeism, socialism, identity politics, lawfare, and the like.  Yes, the ideological excesses of the Democrats have helped to produce their humiliation, in the short term, but, if we're to be honest, none of this would have happened if inflation hadn't spiked to 9%, the numbers of border crossers hadn't surged, and certain types of violent crime hadn't proliferated.  These developments are partly due to Democratic ineptitude, sure, but they're also due to bad fortune.  We can't be certain that the economy will be strong under Trump, because no president has total, or even predominant, control over the economy.  The reverse side of this realization, however, is that Biden and Harris weren't personally responsible for everything that went wrong in the last four years.  They got the blame, though, as one would expect.  My point is that practical, pocketbook issues drove most swing voters to support Trump -- not fundamental enthusiasm for DJT or conservatism, per se.  The pendulum has swung our way, for now, but it could easily swing back in favor of progressivism.  We shouldn't kid ourselves about that.  Thus, Trump needs to perform better in office in his second term than he did in his first.  He needs to deliver results, and he needs to circumvent the vehement efforts of Democrats and the Deep State to kneecap him before he even takes office.  The challenges should not be minimized.


My second brainstorm is this: I've been shocked by how many of my fellow Republicans and conservatives, in the lead-up to this election, expected to lose, because they expected the Democrats and their allies to cheat.  Now, as I've discussed on countless occasions, our election system is vulnerable to certain types of fraud.  What there has never been any significant evidence of, however, is fraud in the counting of votes by election officials.  Donald Trump claimed, at times, that this was the determining factor in the 2020 election.  It was convenient for him to make this claim, and it was also convenient for his supporters to believe it at the time (and since).  The problem is that it has never been a claim with a strong evidentiary basis.  In fact, Trump is still telling us, with a straight face, that he has reams of "papers" that prove massive fraud, and, when we see them, we'll be mightily impressed.  Well, I'm not impressed, because, if we haven't seen this evidence by now, it doesn't exist.  Sure, there are suspicious things that happen at some boards of elections, and there may even be a certain amount of malfeasance, but as an explanation for Trump's defeat in 2020 it doesn't hold water.  It never did.  The math doesn't add up.  Trump was behind in the polls leading up to the election...and he lost.  In fact, he lost more narrowly than expected, but he still lost.  Whether every vote cast was actually cast by the relevant voter is a separate issue, but here too we have insufficient evidence to overturn an election, so there's not much point in bellyaching about it.


Fast forward to 2024, and many conservatives, Republicans, and Trumpers were still obsessed with fraud.  Many, according to polls, had low confidence in the administration of the upcoming election.  A shocking number expected it to be stolen.  This wasn't just a counterfactual conceit, however -- it was arguably self-defeating.  Why would anyone bother to participate in an election when the outcome is predetermined by cheating?  It makes no sense.  Luckily, enough of these fraud-fixated Republicans showed up to vote anyway -- apparently, reaching a level of comfort with cognitive dissonance that I've never possessed -- and Trump won regardless.  Thank heavens!!!  This doesn't change the fact that far too many conservatives, Republicans, and Trumpers fell in the first place for what was essentially a hoax.  For shame!


The relevance here is that, for any of you who went into the 2024 election expecting to be cheated out of a rightful victory by treacherous Democrats and their fellow travelers, you were wrong!  You were factually incorrect, and you were and are morally culpable for impugning the integrity and the patriotism of election officials of both parties, and sometimes of neither party.  You told, in many cases, your friends and family members that these Deep State rogues would surely swindle you, and the country, and they didn't.  The vast majority of them never had any such intention, let alone the means to carry it out.  So my view is that conservatives, Republicans, and Trumpers should start out the Second Age of Trump right: with humility, honesty, and self-abasement.  If you are guilty of any of the sins I've outlined here, admit them to yourself, and apologize for them to anyone whom you may have offended by your intemperate remarks.  Signal to your friends, family members, and neighbors on the other side of the aisle that you have a sense of decency, and that you're not going to vilify, libel, and abuse them in the same way that, all too often, they have vilified, libeled, and abused us.  Be the better man, in short, and resolve to tell the truth and admit when you're wrong, and when you may have wronged others.  It's the Christian thing to do, surely.


Food for thought!

Vindication

 


Friends, to all of you who have hoped and prayed for a Trump victory in 2024, and who may have expected that it would come "the hard way" in a squeaker...well!  The American people had different ideas, didn't they?  It now looks as though Trump will win the electoral college AND the popular vote AND a popular vote majority AND the Senate majority AND the House majority.  Wow!  What we're looking at is the best case scenario for Trump, for Trump supporters, for Republicans, for conservatives, and -- let's face it -- the American people.  It's a clear, unambiguous, incontestable victory, and as close to a "mandate" or a "landslide" as a modern American presidential candidate is likely to obtain.  We don't know what this will mean in terms of policy in the next four years, but we do know what it means for Democrats: abject defeat, humiliation, and a long process of introspection and some very hard decisions to make about future strategy.  For America's sake, I hope the Democrats, at least in their current, neo-Marxist form, have reached a dead end and that they will never again assume power in this country.  That remains to be seen, but this is a very good start!


https://www.realclearpolitics.com/

Sunday, November 3, 2024

Reading the Tea Leaves

 


Friends, I have an inkling of what's on your mind.  You're wondering: who's gonna win this all-important election?  Does Waddy know?  I mean, he seems to know everything.  Surely he knows this...


Well, I do have a prediction: I believe Trump will win and reasonably handily.  I believe he'll win the national popular vote and almost all of the swing states.  I base that prediction on...data, and lots of it.


Now, I could get into the weeds, but instead I'll let this guy do it, as he's done all the legwork and set it down in one very long but deliciously detailed article.  See what you make of his analysis.


https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/11/03/boyle-2024-election-comes-down-wire-which-america-will-turn-out-tuesday/

Saturday, November 2, 2024

Tilting the Playing Field

 


Friends, today I bring you my latest interview with Sputnik News, which details my theory of why Democrats love immigrants, especially illegal ones.  It isn't because they plan to transform these "newcomers" instantly into voters, but it is because they plan to bank their votes sooner or later.


https://sputnikglobe.com/20241101/democrats-playing-long-game-to-convert-migrants-into-their-future-voters---experts-1120747355.html

 

In other news, we've got our "November surprise", but it's pretty underwhelming.  DJT criticized Liz Cheney for being a warmonger, and the media twisted his words to make it sound like a death threat.  Oh, MSM...will you never learn???  Of course, they will succeed in one sense: they will dial up Democrats' and progressives' sense of moral superiority and indignation to psychotic levels, but let's be honest: that's like shooting fish in a barrel.  And, let me be clear, I was not intending to threaten the lives of any fish with that remark.  Some of my best friends are fish.


https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2024/11/02/nolte-bill-maher-rips-media-liz-cheney-firing-squad-hoax-just-dont-lie-me/

 

The Tories have a new leader, and it's...a black woman!  I don't know much about her, but I hope the British Conservatives aren't playing identity politics (again) and assuming that no one would dare criticize a black woman, because -- trust me! -- the Left hates no one more than a woman or a minority who dares to contradict them.  This woman is about to be ripped limb from limb.  I hope she's ready for it.

 

 https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0qdnewgx19o

 

Finally, the latest polls haven't budged much.  Trump remains very slightly ahead in polls of the national popular vote, and slightly ahead in most of the swing states...but there are plenty of polls that give the edge to Kamala.  It all comes down to polling bias, really.  If the polls are doing what they tend to do -- tell Democrats what they want to hear -- then Trump is in great shape.  If the polls are giving us a snapshot of reality, on the other hand, this election is going to be a squeaker!

 

https://www.realclearpolling.com/latest-polls 

Trick or Treat?

 

 


Oops!  Looks like I posted this Halloween missive in entirely the wrong place!  I must be getting senile.  Hey, it happens to the best of us, right?  Even presidents!

 

Friends, I wish you a very Happy Halloween!!!  Kinda ironic that Samhain secrets itself in the dark heart of election season, isn't it?  Anyway, I have a treat for you: this week's Newsmaker Show!  As you'd expect, it's full to the brim with election analysis, including rumination on Joe Biden's "garbage" remark and the self-destruction of the Washington Post.  Not surprisingly, there was so much to digest in the news that we didn't make it as far as This Day In History.


https://rumble.com/v5kw85k-wlea-newsmaker-october-31-2024-dr.-nick-waddy.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawGQeNhleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHQPMh2A4JC7ZujHw9kFbwqBI5HQ972ibIfzKe7K133aAR2CUkFCBpnHfEw_aem_5vI2uhobHZybhNJVBsraOQ

 

Meanwhile, President Trump, legendary showman that he is, is capitalizing on the pile of "garbage" that this campaign has become by appearing in a garbage truck.  You have to hand it to this guy: populism comes naturally to him.  Good luck getting Kamala Harris anywhere near a garbage truck.


https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/10/30/trump_how_do_you_like_my_garbage_truck.html

 

The Dems, true to form, are trying to use lawfare at the eleventh hour to embarrass Elon Musk and force a halt to his $1 million/day sweepstakes in Pennsylvania.  Thanks for the timely reminder, dastardly Dems, on why you can't be permitted to win this election!!!


https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cx2n4l79dn7t

 

Finally, as you know, I'm a generally tolerant guy.  On the abortion issue, I can see both sides, and I respect most points of view.  When it comes to eating babies, however, I draw the line.  Sleepy Joe -- back off!

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14022815/biden-joe-jill-panda-halloween-white-house.html

Wednesday, October 30, 2024

Rubbish!

 



Friends, the latest furor on the campaign trail revolves around Joe Biden's intemperate remark that the only "garbage" he sees in this election is "his supporters", referring to Donald Trump's backers, of course.  Conservatives, Republicans, and Trumpers immediately got the vapors, but I commend Sleepy Joe for this rare moment of lucidity and candor.  Democrats and progressives absolutely despise not only Trump, but everyone who votes for him -- and they might as well admit it.  Kamala Harris is tying herself in knots trying to be inclusive and vicious, at the same time.  Good luck with that!  Meanwhile, Trump is saying that Joe should be forgiven, because he "not knoweth what he said".  This is naturally a reference to Biden's...doubtful mental acuity, but the Biblical allusion is a nice touch.  One suspects that lefties will find the merciful, forgiving Trump every bit as aggravating, if not more so, as the braggart and the windbag.  In any case, no one can deny that Joe Biden stepped all over Kamala's message for the day (and the week), which is that Donald Trump is unfit to serve as president.  It's as if Sleepy Joe became jealous and wanted to remind us that, "Hey, I'm unfit too!"


https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/10/29/biden-issues-spin-garbage-comments-trump-supporters/


https://www.breitbart.com/2024-election/2024/10/30/kamala-harris-claims-biden-clarified-smear-of-trump-supporters-as-garbage-says-she-disagrees-with-criticizing-people-on-who-they-vote-for/


https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/10/29/trump_on_biden_garbage_commnent_please_forgive_him_for_he_not_knoweth_what_he_said.html


Finally, our beloved rogue SCOTUS, which carries water for fascists of all stripes, as we all know, has decided that states can, in fact, enforce the law and prevent non-citizens from voting.  Democrats are aghast!  I'm not quite sure why, because they're always telling us that non-citizen voting isn't a thing...  Anyway, this won't affect the election in any significant way, but it's a slight shot in the arm for election integrity and a reminder of Democrats' inanity, which never hurts at the eleventh hour.


https://www.breitbart.com/2024-election/2024/10/30/supreme-court-youngkin-noncitizen-voting/

Monday, October 28, 2024

Parting the Red Sea

 


Friends, something very interesting is happening in the mainstream media: parts of it are going "all in" with respect to the most unhinged, gratuitous, and asinine attacks on Donald Trump and his supporters.  Witness the MSNBC editorial decision to pair coverage of Trump's Madison Square Garden rally with historical analysis of the 1939 pro-Nazi rally at the same venue.  What do these two events have in common?  Geography.  That's about it.  But that won't stop lefties from claiming that everything Trump says and does is, ipso facto, fascist.  It's a lame line of attack, even for a bunch of lame-o's!

 

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/10/28/msnbc-slammed-for-airing-nazi-rally-clips-from-1939-while-covering-trump-madison-square-garden-rally/ 


Meanwhile, other mainstream media outlets, including a growing number of newspapers, are enraging their progressive readership by refusing to endorse Kamala Harris.  The motivations for this sudden outbreak of neutrality and objectivity in the journalistic community are opaque, but one assumes that it comes down to this: these papers' corporate masters can see the writing on the wall, and they don't want to bet on a loser, and even less do they want to provoke a potential (fascist) winner.  Be that as it may, the tidal wave of lefties abandoning the print mainstays that have humored them for so long, by canceling their subscriptions, is extraordinary!  No doubt it's a symptom of the meltdown on the Left that I predicted yesterday, and which is only in its earliest stages now.  Might the media landscape be purified of some of its left-wing bias, when the dust settles?  Might some billionaires, like Jeff Bezos, be rethinking their fealty to a movement that so disdains them?  We can only hope!!!


https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/10/28/usa-today-latest-publication-snub-kamala-harris-non-endorsement/

 

https://hotair.com/david-strom/2024/10/28/wapo-loses-200000-subscribers-because-liberals-are-insane-n3796395 

Sunday, October 27, 2024

You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet?

 


Friends, one of the surest signs that DJT is likely to win on November 5th (or shortly thereafter) is the Left's growing tendency to turn on itself.  That is, the blame game is already shifting into high gear.  Black women are blaming black men for a lack of vehemence, Democrats, from Biden, to Clinton, to Obama, are said to be sniping at Kamala behind her back, women are lecturing one another on how hard they ought to be working to forestall "fascism", a real-life Handmaid's Tale, etc etc.  What caught my eye is the fierce condemnation that the hard-left Washington Post has received for deciding not to endorse anyone in this year's presidential election.  The paper, as a bastion of progressivism, was naturally expected to endorse Harris, but, allegedly due to pressure from its owner, Jeff Bezos, it demurred.  Now, in response, thousands of lefties are cancelling their subscriptions, and the article below even calls for Democrats and progressives to defund Amazon Prime!  I agree with the basic assumption that no one should be putting money in the pockets of corporations that disrespect their values, but the fact that lefties would turn on the Washington Post, Jeff Bezos, Amazon, and the like for only toeing the party line 99% of the time instead of 100% is a sign of just how desperate and unhinged the Left has become.  I don't use those words lightly, either.  I believe that TDS is a real thing.  The anxiety and the hatred it inspires are so extreme that they can and do undermine the mental health of some people.  What's more, some of those people are folks who think of themselves as eminently rational -- indeed, super-intelligent.  However intelligent a person may be, though, or however dumb, we're all susceptible to irrational flights of fancy and to scapegoating those who dare to disagree with us.  In the next few weeks and months, Democrats and progressives are going to be hit -- if the polls are right -- with a shocking reversal of fortune, and with the materialization of what may fairly be described as their worst nightmare: another Trump presidency.  They will, to coin a phrase, "lose their sh**"!  No one can say for sure exactly what form this will take, and it all likelihood it will vary from individual to individual, and group to group.  Suffice it to say that the contemplation of extra-constitutional measures to prevent Trump from becoming president is possible, even probable, and the use of violence, on a small scale or even a large one, is something that shouldn't catch us by surprise.  It happened the first time that Trump was elected, and, if anything, the psychological commitment of many leftists to Trump hatred has ballooned since then.  On a personal level, if you know and care about any leftists, expect their emotions to be raw and close to the surface in the days, weeks, and months ahead.  I wouldn't recommend any form of triumphalism, if Trump wins, because that could only exacerbate liberals' sense of dread, and it could also complicate Trump's transition and increase, in the long run, the Deep State harassment and subversion that he has to deal with.  We should think seriously about how to reconcile with our fellow Americans who have been lied to and manipulated by the so-called mainstream media and the Democratic Party, and about how to deprogram them and reintegrate them into an America from which they've been alienated and estranged for far too long.  It won't be easy.  It might require a lot of subtlety and compassion -- qualities that Trump himself may be deficient in.  Give these challenges some thought, my fellow conservatives, because, unless I'm mistaken, they're about to become the central theme in American life.


https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/don-t-cancel-the-washington-post-cancel-amazon-prime/ar-AA1sZlSK

Thursday, October 24, 2024

Playing the Hitler Card

 


Friends, as Democrats grow increasingly desperate and apocalyptic in their rhetoric, they're comparing Trump to Hitler more and more, and even claiming that Trump speaks admiringly of Hitler.  Assuming you believe what anyone who hates Trump says, and assuming you ignore all the times Trump has condemned Hitler, it's an awfully credible smear.  Assuming you have a brain and a capacity for critical thought, on the other hand, it seems much like sour grapes by a party that's about to lose an election.  Anyway, speaking of Hitler, in the picture above he's shaking hands with Marshal Petain, France's hero of the Battle of Verdun who would go on to serve as the leader of the collaborationist Vichy regime.  I reference Petain when Brian and I talk about Verdun on this week's Newsmaker Show.  Of course, we also delve deeply into all the latest developments in the campaign for president, including the polls, the growing importance of Elon Musk, the British Labour Party's "election interference", and more!


https://rumble.com/v5jxp7u-wlea-newsmaker-october-24-2024-dr-nick-waddy.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawGHxD9leHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHXnrUiP8r2588k5WA_KVI3KSx1m6GRYmt8U7fGquDclJ86-8Ogf20riMew_aem_6cJ-3xcsKzBTfAwSqXj7Dw

 

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Speaking of the rising crescendo of cries of "Fascism!" coming from the Left, Kamala Harris has added her voice to the chorus.  Do the lefties really think this tired old tactic will work?  As if inflating their Trump-hating rhetoric will finally catch independent voters' attention...  Please!


https://www.huffpost.com/entry/harris-says-she-agrees-trump-is-a-fascist_n_6719a3dee4b07a68074663f6

 

To be fair, you can see why the Dems and progressives are flailing.  The polls and the betting markets look worse and worse for them by the day, and none of their punches seem to be landing.  In fact, Trump's favorables keep going up.  In most of the latest polls, in fact, Trump is even ahead in the national popular vote, which makes it no surprise that the lefties are fit to be tied.

 

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/10/24/nolte-trump-leads-nationally-four-most-recent-polls/ 


Finally, kudos to the British government under Sir Keir Starmer for getting at least one thing right: it will refuse to pay reparations for slavery to any other country.  Reparations are a fool's errand, and there is no way to do them in a way that would be fair and productive.  Having said that, my ancestors were (almost certainly) enslaved by the Romans, and I would like some free pasta.  That's not asking too much, is it?


https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c238lje181ko

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn01ljdl07xo 

Tuesday, October 22, 2024

All's Fair in Love and Lawfare?

 


Friends, lawfare may be backfiring, but we won't know that for sure until Trump wins in November, and even then we can't be positive that Democrats will abandon it.  In fact, they may double down on this insidious tactic.  What we can be sure of is this: if Democrats win, lawfare will multiply and will pose an existential threat to our constitutional system of government.  If you'd rather not see democracy die with a whimper, my advice is to vote Republican as if your freedoms depended on it, which they do!  And this, as you'll see, is the subject of my latest article:


https://townhall.com/columnists/nicholaswaddy/2024/10/22/make-no-mistake-lawfare-is-on-the-ballot-n2646519

 

In other news, Tulsi Gabbard has taken the plunge: she's joining the GOP!  Wow.  Who would have predicted that a few years ago?  If RFK, Jr. follows in her footsteps, you'll know that the world really has turned upside down.

 

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/10/22/tulsi-gabbard-joining-republican-party/ 


Finally, can you believe that a conservative party can win an election and still be frozen out of the emerging governing coalition?  It looks likely to happen in Austria, because no one will work with the "far right".  I know what the Dems are thinking: if only we had this option in America!  Of course, ignoring the will of the people is, technically, an option in America, and don't assume it won't happen.  It still might.


https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx252kedeppo