Friends, the mainstream media is dutifully following the party line, as always, and these days that means trashing the reputations of Florida as a whole and Governor Ron DeSantis, in particular. Breathless reporting about alleged fascist atrocities, including book "bans" and disallowing LGBT indoctrination in the public schools, has the Left up in arms. Civil rights groups are reinforcing the narrative by suggesting that people of color and members of the LGBT community would be "unsafe" if they visit the Sunshine State. The irony, of course, is that no one is leaving Florida, plenty of people are moving there, and the actual, verifiable dangers that people of color, and people of no particular color, face living in deep blue jurisdictions -- from violent criminals, for instance -- concerns these civil rights organizations not in the least. The "news" really is what you make of it!
https://amgreatness.com/2023/05/26/black-americans-embrace-florida/
Ron DeSantis has been taking his first shots at DJT, and I must say this line of attack rings true for me: DeSantis is saying that Trump got played, in effect, on COVID policy. While he verbally protested the lockdowns and the mandates, he did nothing in practice to block them, and he even allowed Mister Lockdown himself, a.k.a. Dr. Fauci, to remain in charge of our pandemic response. Is that the kind of insurgent leadership we need in D.C.? I don't think so. So often Trump seems to be all bark and no bite.
I reflected recently on the significance of Elon Musk's seeming support for Ron DeSantis, and DeSantis's overall prospects in the race for the White House. I haven't been able to access this article myself, but maybe you'll have more luck:
What would happen to a person who blamed one gender, or one race, for all the world's fundamental problems? They'd get a sweet deal with Netflix, that's what! They surely wouldn't be canceled. Oh no -- not as long as they pick their demon gender, and their demon race, very, very carefully...
Finally, I visited the Titanic Museum in Belfast today. Very neat. Coincidentally, amazing discoveries are still being made at the site of the shipwreck.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-guernsey-65721611
Relatedly, I'm learning a lot about Belfast's rich history, including its status as a great industrial city in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Belfast's own Harland and Wolff is still cranking out massive ships as we speak!
Dr.Waddy from Jack: So Jane Fonda is on the warpath again and who knows what narcissistic abomination she arrogates this time. Does she casually dismiss the profound wrong she did with the aid and comfort she gave her country's(even her's)enemy 55 years ago? Her feathers are ruffled because men aren't being punished for whatever; tell me, who in the bloody hell cares what that vicious ingrate thinks?She should long past have been taken to the full extent of the law for her detestable disloyalty in North Vietnam.Now, if she is capable of human decency she should shut up!Our fighting men were infamously misused in that war by America hating brats like her and many of them suffer even to this day for it!
ReplyDeleteDr.Waddy from Jack: My trip on capacious and elegant Queen Mary II across the North Atlantic was a thrill but the only thing I could have done without was the Captain announcing we were passing near the wreck of Titanic. That was eery.
ReplyDeleteDr.Waddy from Jack: I was only to get the first paragraph of the Sputnik article. Musk is such an astonishing and consequential guy now I would think his support (for DeSantis?) could be very helpful. I guess he can't run for President but maybe he could help make one.
ReplyDeleteDr.Waddy from Jack: Your concerns about DJT are well taken. Here is my view: I think of an NFLrookie QB in his first year of a terribly demanding profession or of a soldier's first combat. Even superlative Peyton Manning lost big his first year, as his coaches knew he would. He got the hell beat out of him and war!? But that second NFL year or battle can be a whole new deal. Nothing could prepare one fully for the all out blood sport of the Presidency, especially for one summarily condemned by the sociopathic left. He's had six years of experience of it and I'm confident has both learned from it and resolved to counterpunch with a happy warrior's verve. "They smote me hip and thigh and right merrily did I return their blows". John L. Lewis famously quoted it and I think DJT, hombre that he is, exemplifies it.
ReplyDeleteDr.Waddy from Jack. DJT's first term and his second campaign were incredibly trying. He's got a world of heart to stick with it now. That's why the cuss is so endearing to so many. As the dems continue to drive us toward the brink off which they would be happy to cast us, we may be able to count on their presumptuous, haughty contempt for America to drive many good people who harbor concern about DJT's crudeness to conclude that its that or the abyss.
ReplyDeleteJack, I too regard Jane Fonda and her ilk as detestable -- but corporate America and the media clearly don't. She delivers her sermons with impunity!
ReplyDeleteOnly the first paragraph, eh? The internet giveth, and the internet taketh away. You seem to be having a run of bad luck, digitally speaking!
I doubt the polls between Trump and DeSantis will change much in the near future, with or without a formal Musk endorsement of DeSantis. I expect some close matchups in Iowa and New Hampshire, though, and that could reset the race.
Oh, I don't doubt that Trump, if he resumes the presidency, will show a lot of toughness and blistering contempt for the powers-that-be. The problem is that the powers-that-be will still...be, and I don't see any sign that he knows how to displace them. Insult them, yes, but I'd like to see a little more than that.
RAY TO NICK
DeleteToo bad that out of millions of Americans, many of whom I am sure are well qualified to be president, that all we can come up with is the current sad one we have, while two egotistical Floridians bicker over how many marbles they have, or don't have. Very depressing indeed! Had not watched the news for over a month until recently, and when I did it was the same old depressing shit, with lots of lies mixed with half-truths.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: You are right, the more he does to them the better.I think he'll be in a right old "doing" frame of mind too if restored.Meanwhile, insulting the haughty frantic left, by word or deed(say like taking away their Scotus teddy bear) always brings the possibiityof driving them to overt vindictive overreach. Its redeeming to think of imperious Pelosi's discombobulation at McCarthy's activist mien.Did they fumigate the Speaker's office when she was evicted, as per her disgraceful suggestion about President Trump?
ReplyDeleteI hear you, Ray! The state of American politics and journalism inspires little confidence. Personally, though, I regard Ron DeSantis as an objectively strong candidate and a very accomplished politician and governor. If the media gave him a fair shake, he'd be crushing it. Of course, they never will, and the better he does the more they will undermine him. C'est la guerre.
ReplyDeleteJack, in many ways the Left DID overact and engage in self-harm under Trump (think: the 2020 riots and the harebrained impeachments). It was Trump's job to make them pay for their mistakes. Mission NOT accomplished. They haven't paid even a minimal price.
Dr.Waddy from Jack: You are right; still, one wonders what remedial action he might have taken had he retained office. Even in '20 he had to think about reelection. Still, federal armed relief for wronged U.S. citizens in Minneapolis, Portland and Seattle who were abandoned to the vicious whims of now proven frivolous "revolutionaries" and everyday street trash thugs,would have been welcome and within his purview.
ReplyDeleteQuite right, Jack! Trump would have been well within his rights to send in federal law enforcement or the National Guard to deal with race rioters in 2020. He was told it would be a bad idea, so he didn't. He probably could have ordered various forms of federal intervention in the 2020 election itself (to preserve its integrity). He didn't. He could have appointed an attorney general (even if it was on an interim basis) who was serious about holding Dems accountable when they broke the law. No such luck. I'm hard-pressed to think of ANYTHING that Trump ever did that held lefties' feet to the fire, except call them names...
ReplyDeleteDr.Waddy from Jack: I guess the only thing I can think of was his nomination of three Scotus Justices so unforgiveably lawful that their confirmations manifested unthinkably savage leftist personal onslaughts.
ReplyDeleteDr.Waddy from Jack: I think our side, even in executive power, still fears the demonstrated organizational skill of the left and the recklessness of the uber idealists it attracts. But its going to have to be confronted! Trump did miss a prime opportunity to do it; he should have given those frivolous neo Paris Communes a 48 hr ultimatum and then carried it out if necessary.
ReplyDeleteDr Waddy from Jack: Its been a hard road him; he may well regret wrong headed decisions and be resolved to make up for them . The guy is extraordinary and his leadership may not be past.
ReplyDeleteJack, nothing would please me more than to see Trump once again as president, and for him to exceed my admittedly low expectations. Much would depend on the caliber of his aides. At least he's eliminated many duds from consideration, at this stage? Trial and error isn't the best way to run a country, but it beats a consistent dedication to error, which is the only available alternative.
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