Friends, this week's Newsmaker Show was the customary tour de force, despite the fact that I dialed it in from 3,000 miles away! Brian and I discussed Trump's (latest) arraignment and not guilty plea and the political fallout it may cause. We also covered the growing Biden bribery scandal (and whether it will come to anything), my ongoing travels in Europe and what I've learned so far from them, the growing field of Republican presidential candidates, and more!
When we get to This Day in History, Brian and I cover the birth of the Stars and Stripes, the fall of France in 1940 and the extent of French resistance to the German occupation, and the relative strength of anti-war sentiment at various stages of the Vietnam War.
It's a show not to be missed! And, if you do miss it, you might want to start questioning your priorities in life...
https://wlea.net/newsmaker-june-14-2023-dr-nick-waddy/
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In other news, the "big picture" often gets lost in the deluge of infotainment we receive these days, but here's an article you won't want to miss. "Inequality" is growing in the U.S. and in the West, as many have pointed out, but it's declining globally, and in many ways that's a good thing.
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/world/great-convergence-equality-branko-milanovic
The question of the hour, believe it or not, may not be whether Trump will end up in the slammer. It may be, instead, whether real, hard evidence exists to prove that Joe Biden accepted a bribe from a rich Ukrainian. If the answer is yes, then the 2024 race could get upended before it starts!
RAY TO NICK
ReplyDeleteOne man who wants to be president (again), thinks he shits gold bricks, and the man who is president can't even find his asshole.
Dr.Waddy from Jack: The trouble with "equality": the antiamericans long ago usurped this word into their lexicon of automatic condemnations. But they have never defined it; equality of what? Body mass, eyesight, try outs for the NFL . . .? The left has bleated about income equality but in the power they tragically gained in the 20th century simply affirmed that some people are " more equal". Ok, they did achieve widespread equality of oppression, destitution, cynicism and resignation. Uhh, I think when any slob like me can access omnipresent American supermarkets, which are fabulous,miraculous founts of abundance and prosperity, we may well be "equal" enough. So some people make more? They probably work harder. Besides, the antiamericans are busy phasing out the term equality in favor of "EQUITY", an endlessly subjective term which can always and forever be counterintuitively declared to be yet denied! Gotta keep them "community organizers" gainfully employed lest they . . . .
ReplyDeleteRay, you express yourself with characteristic Mid-Western bluntness! Keep it up. :)
ReplyDeleteJack, amen! The ambiguity of the Left could be its greatest strength?
RAY TO NICK
ReplyDeleteI was born on the East Coast, raised on the Left Coast, and honed my opinions in the Heartland, plus all those years I spent in Europe and Asia. So here I am!
Dr.Waddy from Jack: History, especially since 1789, proves that dedication to the actual establishment of humanly unreachable "equality" can be pursued only by totalitarian means; it has been the source of incalculable misery for unlucky myriad millions. Its transformation into a quest for equity, with its obviously vindictive meaning, bids fair to do even worse.
ReplyDeleteDr.Waddy et al frm Jack: The great American interior! Without it the northeast and the left coast would have done America to death by now.
ReplyDeleteDr.Waddy frm Jack: Antiamerican ambiguity :Certainly! "Heads we win, tails you lose. I mean, we can hide behind a corkscrew; try it!"
ReplyDeleteDr.Waddy from Jack: The longer the naive boomers went to college in the 60s, the more of them jumped on the"antiwar" wagon. After all, their college deferments would run out once they graduated. And of course, several years of "reeducation" from relieved antiamerican faculty lately crept from deserved intellectual exile made it all feel so good, so there. "Antiwar" then simply meant opposition to the American side. "Ho, ho, ho Chi Minh's atrocities were countenanced and enabled by the aid and comfort they got from tragically wrongheaded Americans. The commies disrainfully acknowledged this after the war, to the everlasting shame of those who celebrated their characteristic Marxist savagery toward any who doubt them!
ReplyDeleteRay, your worldliness does you credit. You're so wise and sophisticated that you sometimes remind me of me... And that's the highest compliment I can pay! Ha ha.
ReplyDeleteJack, you have a point there about "equality". Few ideals are as misunderstood and as potentially dangerous in their execution. Perhaps equality under the law is a worthy ideal, but, as our prosecutors prove a little more each day, even that minimal form of equality is darn unlikely ever to be realized.
Well said, Jack. It's one thing to be "anti-war", since there were, and are, legitimate arguments to be made that this war, or that, may not be in America's best interests. So be it. To advance the claim, however, that America is the wrongdoer in any conflict, and that our battlefield enemies are, in fact, the "good guys", now that's dangerous hyperbole, at best, and downright treachery, at worst.