Friends, you won't want to miss even one millisecond of this week's Newsmaker Show with me and Brian O'Neil. First, we tackle the biggest stories in current events, including: the 100th anniversary of Chinese communism (food is a good gift for your favorite commie -- I hear a lot of people starve to death under Marxist rule), the "new normal" of chaos at our southern border, the Nikole Hannah-Jones controversy, whether a bipartisan majority in Congress might succeed in reining in Big Tech, and the disspiriting anti-Americanism of young people.
In our "This Day in History" segment, Brian and I talk Islamic terrorism, the legacy of Sandra Day O'Connor and the prospects for the overturning of Roe v. Wade, and first federal execution of a woman in 1865. Those all sound like hot buttons to me!
Tune in today...or possibly tomorrow, if you're having major surgery today.
Dr.Waddy from Jack: As usual, so very much of substance in your broacast. You have recently opened my eyes to the concept that the Chinese "Communist" party may be in jeopardy should their economy collapse. Otherwise I would have said "Xi was just knowingly fronting; EVERYONE knows that China achieved its blessed present day widespread prosperity by rejecting damnable Marxism. But Xi probably also was trying to confirm an image of the Communist Party as the source of China's present relative well being; nominally this so but they did it only by rejecting Marxism, Maoism etc ad nauseum and unleashing the almost incomparable dynamic of the work ethic and entreprenurial skill of essential China! Chinese communism was courageouslyw done to death by one of its "Long March" true heroes, Teng Hsiao Ping, forty years ago.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: So our youth is not proud of the U.S. Naivete is understandably common among the young; they lack the experience necessary to,ahh,temper it, yes. In confident societies this is viewed with bemusement but with no surrender to it. That is until the '60s. "Why, our long haired groovy grampa and gramma hate America don't they?And impending global climatic disaster, due only to our country's intransigence is comparable to the nuclear threat which so occupied our boomer grandparents, yes? Well of course we don't have to get under our desks and cover our eyes but whatevah!"
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: So Sanders finds capitalist wealth obscene! Where have we heard this screed before? And what were its consequences once applied? The rejection of reform and anti radical determination most evident before the assassination of resolute Russian "Prime Minister"Stolypin in,I be!ieve, 1911 and the consummately catastrophic effect of WWI. Lenin, Stalin, the artificial Ukraine famine , are exemplary. Mao and and his insane utterly unproven policies, which starved perhaps 20 million Chinese at his pleasure, stand also in historical denunciation! Bernie is their disciple and thank God our democracy yet denies him executive power. Let him rant!
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: I understand Bernie is a millionaire who possess's several properties! But why, pray, has he not passed this by definition undeserved wealth to the underclasses? Can it be that he harbors, with guilt, a conviction that he has earned this well being by positive effort? Oh gads forbid! Besides, what,other than presumptuous agitation, has Bernie ever achieved?
ReplyDeleteJack, no one would envy Xi the task of "celebrating" 100 years of Chinese Marxism when, as you say, everyone knows that the Communist Party's devotion to communism has never been more perfunctory. There still are some strands of socialism that meander through Chinese culture and economics, though, and I suppose that gives his arguments a little purchase... Sometimes a little is all you need.
ReplyDeleteYeah, Bernie lacks "executive power", but making him Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee is mortifying enough!!!
Dr.Waddy from Jack: Should any aspect of Roe v Wade be " infringed" (a word which the left refuses to see in the 2nd Amendment it so disdains),let alone should it join the Dred Scott Decision in deserved shame and infamy, the left will go ballistic. For some radicals the freedom to practice convenient infanticide is their flagship issue; we should not let their prospective eruption of vindictive ourage intimidate us; we are not helpless infants!
ReplyDeleteWell said, Jack! I frankly would be surprised, though, if the conservative justices on the Court weren't "intimidated" by the prospects of leftist rage should Roe v. Wade be overturned. It would take extraordinary courage on their part to do it. The Left would indeed "go ballistic"...but to what effect? Might they overplay their hands, in terms of violent protest?
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: It may be hard to say. Can a fundamental rejection of the"rights" arrogated to the fanatic man hating left generate the violence which racial issues caused in 2020? Why we may see!
ReplyDeleteExcellent question. White liberals are among the most fanatical devotees of leftism, but they tend to be all bark and no bite. One wonders to what extent they could be mobilized to engage in street violence... Minorities, by contrast, are on a hair-trigger when it comes to rioting, but would they go berzerk over abortion? I doubt it.
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