Friends, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has a well-deserved reputation as a tough-as-nails political brawler. If you push him, he pushes back...and generally it's YOU who tumbles over. Check out the latest developments (and non-developments) in the New York Attorney General's investigation into Cuomo's alleged misconduct. The Dems in New York are in an awkward predicament: many have called on Cuomo to resign, but most Democratic voters in the state remain enamored with their Fearless Leader. The NY GOP eyes an opportunity, naturally, but it's not at all clear that New York will ever "quit" Cuomo, or vice versa!
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/11/tish-james-report-cuomo-499032
In other news, the people of Cuba are getting hot under the collar, and it's not the tropical temps this time. Could the communist regime be in real danger? In many ways Cuban communism has endured far longer than it should have. At a certain point, only the naked use of force would be capable of sustaining such an antiquated, reactionary tyranny. Are the communist grandees on the island prepared to use whatever means are necessary to keep themselves in power? Stay tuned.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cuba-protest-united-states-reactions/
Is "climate change" real? Probably, but it may also be a really minor concern, all things considered. In fact, it could even be a net plus. Read all about it:
It's become increasiongly clear that Democrats nationwide intend to keep running against Donald Trump, regardless of whether Trump himself is in office or even on the ballot. That's understandable. Lefties see the world in stark Trumpian/anti-Trumpian terms. Here's a Republican who's attacking on an unconventional front: he's trying to tie his Democratic opponent to Trump, presumably to delegitimize him with progressives and Trump-haters. That's a surprisingly smart move!
Richard Grenell, former Director of National Intelligence, is rightly calling for a full investigation of allegations that the NSA leaked Tucker Carlson's private communications to friendly (i.e. left-leaning) journalists. We need to get to the bottom of this, and we need to put maximum heat on the NSA, to ensure that such tactics are never repeated.
Finally, here's a great analysis of President Trump's lawsuit against Big Tech. Basically, Trump is arguing that social media companies are censoring him on behalf of, and in collaboration with, agents of the U.S. federal government and the Democratic Party. And that, in turn, would make such censorship a violation of the First Amendment. Is he firing blanks? I'm no lawyer. We'll have to wait and see.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: Let's hope that we may be witnessing inCuba what we saw in Germany, Eastern Europe and the USSR in '89 -91. It was beyond miraculous: I still wonder at it! Perhaps Cubans have finally reached the very limits of human endurance of Marxist hypocrisy, unapologetic monumental ignorance of fundamental human nature and its murderous resistance to any thereof generated doubt, let alone determined opposition. It is a doctrine thoroughly condemned by all that civilization manifests. It is a dead belief walking and, let us hope, incapable of violent dying throes! Once the N.Korean regime goes, Marxism will have been relegated to a profoundly deserved unsavory niche in the the very cellar of humanity's greatest mistakes . . . EXCEPT in its reincarnation in the West, especially the beleagured U.S. "Why it wasn't applied properly "bleats the even Newer Left. My question to it: "how many more millions must die in the revived experiment you propose. Of course you won't be as crude as Stalin will you? You'll just divide society into those classes exalted for their correctness and those condemned by their incorrectness to 7th class existence. How much more delicious is living death yes, and soothing to your "sensitive" miens?
ReplyDeleteDr.Waddy from Jack: Well yes, some experiencing unprecedented warmth have legitimate concerns . Of course science reveals to us that past flucuations, before any possibility of human generated technological or organized agricultural influence are obvious:Uhh, and that they were within in a geological moment of the Enlightenment, the Rennaissance, the High Middle Ages, the Dark Ages and even the Roman Empire. But that is of no moment to the environmental core of modern leftist resolve. It is itheir flagship issue leading to their totalitarian power of ALL aspects of our societies, since all can be tasked with environmental criminality!
ReplyDeleteDr.Waddy from Jack: This apparent allegiance to leftist ideology in our intelligence agencies is of great concern. Its been a long progression from J.Edgar Hoover, who fully understood the Marxist threat to our civilization and whose image has been savaged by the left from the 70s on and shamefully seconded by those who now think him repulsive. He was right! I remember TV ads for his book "Masters of Deceit". A long and counterintuitive trip it has beento this apparent surrender of at least some of our intelligence people, to the left!
ReplyDeleteDr.Waddy from Jack: It is an open question: can common sense NY actually electorally overpower NYC ( " I mean, I don't know from upstate"). Its been done before,in '74, when even downstate joined in the consummate disgust with Cuomo the Ist. But these days? Can even imperious, law exempt Andrew, exert such presumptuous power? Can he? Is this state so very compromised?
ReplyDeleteDr.Waddy from Jack: Upstate NY: from here we express, as best we are able, our disdain for our nominal state's elected leader, empowered only by overpowering downstate numbers. How much we wish we were free of such, to us, counterintuitive imposition! Look, you downstaters, lets part ways yes.? We have nothing in common with you!Resolve your Marxist contradictions on your own, why don't ya?
ReplyDeleteWell said, Jack. Marxism appears doomed everywhere...except in the hearts and minds of the global elite and in the next generation that it is being indoctrinated in their image. So, in short, it ain't doomed at all!
ReplyDeleteJack, I'm not sure "climate change" is as central to the program of the Left as you suggest, but in one sense it is a doctrine very much in keeping with the spirit of leftism: it embodies a curious fusion of humanism and anti-humanism. Try to wrap your head around THAT "dialectic"!
Can New Yorkers of decency and intelligence band together to defeat Cuomo in '22? I believe it possible, especially in a year when conservative/Republican turnout should be high. Lee Zeldin seems to be the man of the hour. Can he achieve our collective liberation from Cuomoism? I hope so!
As far as NYS goes, WNY's best hope is probably expulsion, not secession. Let's make a nuisance of ourselves and good things may happen, eh?
Dr. Waddy from Jack: That is very perceptive. If today's declared Marxists remain doctrinally faithul they would recognize in the dialectic you have pointed out a Marx exalted Hegelian process of synthesis vs antithesis = synthesis, serving their end, which they would construct out of whole cloth (Hegel and Marx being coveniently unavailable for comment, an advantage fully exploited by their nominal disciples since their times).
ReplyDeleteDr.Waddy from Jack: Pardon me: I should have said"thesis vs antithesis . . . "
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: But I think it safe to say that those who demonstrate beliefs having some origin in Marxism's inevitable offshoots(Leninism, Stalinism, Maoism, Pol Pot's Hitlerian insanity, American America disdain) merit the term Marxist. They may have little knowledge of his thought but are plainly possessed of his now completely discredited dreams.
ReplyDeleteJack, I'm no expert, but I would imagine some version of Marxism probably infested most upstart, populist revolutionaries down through history -- but for most of history populist revolutions (and peasant revolts) have been utterly hopeless, so I don't suppose much was written about their ideological underpinnings.
ReplyDeleteDr.Waddy from Jack:True but most popular revolts of the past were prompted by unbearable misery and hopelessness. One of my Chinese history profs, a veteran of China's civil wars, said " revolution only occurs when countries hit rock bottom". But the Marxist transformation sought by today's American left cannot claim justification in destitution. It appears to be fueled by some kind of mass perfectionism. Maybe it was all that flouride in the water.
ReplyDeleteJack, I've always thought a metaphorical "revolution" was a very poor substitute for a genuine, blood-and-guts revolution, but the truth is that you CAN enact radical changes gradually, almost imperceptibly, and still have a massive long-term effect. Our lefty friends are proving it every day.
ReplyDeleteDr.Waddy from Jack: You are right; that is just what theynave done.Their now 55 year ordeal in countenancing our inslent resistance to their aquarian/totalitarian (nice ring that!) pronunciamentos was probablyly intensely expressed in their volcanic outrage over 2016. They are tired of waiting for their deserved chance to bustle!
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