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Wednesday, January 18, 2023

Royal Flush


Friends, you'll definitely want to listen in to this week's Newsmaker Show, in which Brian and I discuss in detail the merits of monarchy as a form of government and as a social institution.  In the process, we consider the damage that Harry and Meghan are currently doing to the British monarchy.  In addition, Brian and I hash over the byzantine political ramifications of the Joe Biden classified documents scandal, which sure looks like a stratagem by Biden haters to facilitate his retirement after one term in office -- and thus to ensure that someone stronger and more electable will serve as the Dem standard-bearer in 2024.  Lastly, we consider the sins of George Santos and whether they require his resignation from the House of Representatives.  All in all, it's a very stimulating show, and you'd be well advised to tune in!


https://wlea.net/newsmaker-january-18-2023-dr-nick-waddy/

 

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In other news, here's a very interesting article on how deeply enmeshed Apple's business operations are with communist China.  Not all companies are as exposed as Apple, of course, but the main point here is an important one: "decoupling" Western economies from Chinese manufacturing would be very difficult, and that which is very difficult is, frankly, unlikely to happen at all.

 

https://www.ft.com/content/74f7e284-c047-4cc4-9b7a-408d40611bfa?segmentId=b385c2ad-87ed-d8ff-aaec-0f8435cd42d9 


Perhaps you've heard that a committee of lunatics (the only people Californians will listen to) has recommended reparations on a truly massive scale for black people -- sorry, Black people.  I don't think there's much danger that the proposals will be implemented, but race-conscious policies and expenditures are being contemplated, and implemented, across the country, so this "movement", if I may call it that, must be taken seriously, and politicians and judges must do everything in their power to slap it down.  Come to think of it, voters might want to take the lead, because our socio-political elite certainly can't be trusted on issues of race and "social justice".


https://nypost.com/2023/01/17/reparation-abomination-would-prove-to-be-unaffordable-and-unfair/

11 comments:

  1. Dr. Waddy from Jack: The UK is a very great country: it spread its well founded democratic political culture very widely, to the lasting benefit of the world. Its monarchy is essential to Britain's greatness: in its history, ceremony , tradition and symbolism it fosters unity , stabilityand love of country and exemplifies the glory of Britain's very high civilization. The Brits tried to do without it in the 17th century but realized its irreplacable value in good time. You were so right; Harry ought to do better than excoriating his family BUT he is married to a product of Hollywood who manifests in her personality insouciant dismissiveness typical of the politically and morally debauched American entertainment field.As you noted ,she is unfit for the solemn responsibilities of high royal office.Harry may well have been transformed by her but their counterintuitive match will probably fail. Most Hollywood marriages are sad parodies of the institution.

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  2. Dr. Waddy from Jack: Just imagine Harry and Meghan on the throne! Reign but not rule is an institution graced and redeemed by tried and tested tradition and faithfulness to it. Queen Elizabeth II exemplified this principle. Henry the 9th and his leftist consort would be blithe to ignore it in seeking to force complete wokeness on their SUBJECTS (!) and as much of the world as they could. They would of course foster Constitutional crisis and intense societal unrest, as their intent would surely be!

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  3. Eek! The idea of King Harry and Queen Meghan makes my flesh crawl... Luckily we'll likely be spared those horrors. I'll say this, though: the sins of Harry are rather typically "modern" -- selfish, self-pitying, greedy, vindictive, self-righteous, and saturated with psychobabble. Harry is a product of his times, and so, to a point, is Charles...and that's a cause for even greater concern!

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  4. Dr Waddy from Jack: How long would it be before the initial compensation for wrongs done would be declared grossly insufficient and as such, in itself just another injustice?! One plan calls for the provision to any family deemed priviledged the name of a by definition underpriviledged family with "appropriate" monthly payments from the former to the latter, mandated on pain of denouncement to the by then formal Wokeness Tribunal. Automatic auto da fe and consequent financial immolation, together with incarceration in cells vacated by redeemed murderers, rapists and sundry multitudes held wronged by being judged personally responsible for "so called" crimes, would be routine and expected. In this way, why, JUSTICE would at last be enacted!

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  5. Oh my! "Social justice" writ large is bad enough, but enforced individually and at great PERSONAL cost it could get very ugly indeed. I can think of one easy way to earn oneself a "get out of jail free" card, though!

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  6. Dr. Waddy from Jack: Santos: OK, lets see how dem party we can be in this; for us to do so would not be a bad thing. They go bare knuckle and they circle the wagons when one of their's is in dutch and we've got to do the same dang thing. A plague upon his faults and those of ours who take the sanctimonious"high" road; our House majority is what counts (as you said)and we'd better act like we know it! Because the dems, like the criminals they extol and emulate, can smell pusillanimous righteousness and delight in exploiting it. Hell, these people, some of them still in office, like Biden and Schumer, who sneered that the impeachment of a draft dodging, perjuring, putative rapist and casual seller of our military secrets to China was "ridiculous" and went to the wall to save his sorry rear, would love to reenthrone imperious Madame Pelosi by whittling away our House majority.And some of our membership , who think its icky to countenance Santo's cavalier mien, would risk it to do the "right" thing! The right thing is to preserve our power to stymie the far left incipient totalitarians who make of Pino Biden a slobbering marionette, and would deliver our nation to thralldom

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  7. Dr.Waddy from Jack: To return to reparations: I would again commend David Horowitz's fine book Uncivil Wars: the Controversy Over Reparations. In it he employs objectivity, civility and frankness, well documented and eloquently argued as always with him, guaranteed to foster instant excoriation from the emotionally captured left for his insolent heresy in daring to criticize their unassailable justice in commanding reparation. As fans of Horowitz know , the left has feared David for just ages, because he was once one of them. Odd's fish!
    How they HATE him for it, these "compassionate" souls.



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  8. Dr.Waddy from Jack: Re: getting a "get out of jail free" card. How, pray, milord?

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  9. Very well said, Jack! It blows me away that so many Republicans are calling on Santos to resign. As you say, our grip on the House is PRECARIOUS!!! It is by no means certain that we can maintain it for two years, but it's critically important that we do. Of course, some Republicans may be publicly calling on Santos to step down while they privately reassure him and encourage him to stand firm. Politics is a dirty business, after all. Anyway, seems like the smart thing for Republicans to do would be to defer to the voters, who elected Santos and are, therefore, stuck with him.

    Oh, the "get out of jail free" card is obtained simply by joining the woke mob and/or the Democratic Party. You'll be surprised how low the bar can go once you're on Team Blue!

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  10. Dr.Waddy from Jack: I would as lief sit upon a tack as do such disgraceful homage to the woke.

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  11. Jack, I would sooner sit on a tack as well. If it's a question of sitting on an MX missile, on the other hand...sign me up, lefties!

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