Friends, today's plea deal between Hunter Biden and the DOJ may or may not be a miscarriage of justice (in and of itself), but it's pretty much a best case scenario for Team Biden: it will let Hunter off with a slap on the wrist, it will allow the Dems to say, "See, we hold our own accountable too!", and, most importantly, if what this article says is true, it will shut down any and all official federal investigations into Biden family corruption. That sounds like a win-win-win to me! Funny how things always work out for the best...when your last name is Biden.
Here's an interesting take on the Russia-Ukraine War. If this account is accurate, then the West goaded Ukraine into continuing the fight at a critical juncture, just as we goaded it into provoking Russia in the first place. We wanted this war, make no mistake, and we want it to persist for as long as possible. Regardless of the outcome, in a sense we've achieved our main objective: we've exposed Russia as a paper tiger militarily. Russian prestige may never recover.
RFK, Jr.'s presidential campaign will be fascinating to watch. The big social media platforms will all have some difficult decisions to make about whether they censor him (and Donald Trump), because you know that many voices on the Left will insist that it's in the public interest for them to do so. Social media will thus be something of a Catch-22 for both men: it's the main way that they can get their message out, given that the mainstream media won't give them the time of day, but it's also a medium that can and will shut them down and shut them out, when they really step on establishment toes.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/technology/rfk-jr-2024-free-speech
Finally, this poll about the "moral acceptability" of homosexuality is fairly meaningless, by and large, since it's making a mountain out of the molehill of a minor fluctuation (mostly within the margin of error), but it's interesting in one respect: it reveals that non-whites are less tolerant of the LGBT community than are whites. Now, that would have to mean that non-whites are, relatively speaking, homophobic, right? Wrong! Non-whites can't have any negative characteristics, or "flaws", if you will. That's inconceivable. So, let's just change the subject, shall we?
RAY TO NICK
ReplyDeleteNot going to happen, but I think a DeSantis-RFK, Jr. ticket for president would be exciting. Just a thought, but again it is not going to happen, except in my dreams. Ha!
Dr. Waddy from Jack: Hunter Biden's deal will, once again, ad nauseum, give criminals means to bleat " well he got off, so should I". And moral relativists in power will nod yes and succor them no matter the depravity of their offenses. Eg. NY . Legislatively considered perhaps to be law here soon: kill, rape, terrorize and get "life" for it but if you are 55 and have done 15 years, why a compassionate state will afford you yet another chance.Are 55 year olds incapable of wielding weapons? Have they seen some divine light at 55? Ehh, what kumbayaa is shown thereby to their victims? Ask Michael Dukakis about that. Most of these dreamy dogooders would wake up after a week in a cell with Dukakis's monstrous beneficiaries in Mass. "Furloughs" for lifers! Right on Michael, yeah you woulda been a keen President.
ReplyDeleteDr.Waddy from Jack: Talk about making a mountain out of a molehill: how about the antiamericans' elevation of drag shows to the level of sacrement or holy liturgy? Oh but then anything which smacks of detested Judeo-Christianity is to the elect like garlic to a vampire, yes?
ReplyDeleteDr.Wadry from Jack: Still, they have taken a silly manifestation of harmless lowlife mirth, heretofore performed in sweltering carnival tents and 3d rate midnight venues to the raucous accompaniment of flatulent "music" and unselfconscious good humored prattle and attended by adults and naughty youth, to an exalted level. Now it is advanced as a critical test, or as an educational experience of "non judgemental tolerance" , appropriate for strongly "suggested" inclusion in public library programming and grade school assemblies.WHY!?
ReplyDeleteDr.Waddy from Jack: Before, drag shows were respectfully assumed to be best not imposed on the unredeemed gaze of most people at traditional American events like baseball games. What's the deal then? First, to express contempt for mainstream values; second, as a litmus test of political correctness which if failed, guarantees the disdain of the elect and their intimidated apologists and the promise of eventual legal sanction. All the better to help advance the ever accelerating coarse degradation of our civilization even unto the destruction which is a necessary prerequisite for totalitarian takeover.
ReplyDeleteDr.Waddy from Jack: Silly Presidential tries like those of comedian Pat Paulsen, tiresome Harold Stassen and Beto are good for laughs. I hope that that remains the status of RFK Jr.'s presumptuous sally. His vindictive stance on the "certainty "of human generated global warming puts him squarely in the crank circle long dominated by Al Gore. Pino Biden is by contrast a dabbler. Are we still half dazzled by the deity of the hapless Kennedys?
ReplyDeleteRay, RFK, Jr. is speaking truth to power each and every day, and at great personal risk and cost, and the fact that he's doing it as a Democrat earns him my immense respect. Will he join forces with any Republican presidential candidate? I very much doubt it, in a formal sense. In an informal sense, all he would have to do is run as an independent, and get on enough ballots, and he would very likely win the election for the good guys.
ReplyDeleteJack, I had no idea that some New York legislators want to give violent criminals "early retirement" from imprisonment... I can't imagine what could go wrong, personally. A suggestion: why not just give all prisoners sex changes, and then release them? We know that no one in the trans community would ever break a law or harm another human being. Merely to suggest such a thing would be transphobic! I see real potential in this approach...
I agree: the fact that so much of our political discourse these days revolves around the allegedly redeeming qualities of drag queens and their antics is a sure sign that the apocalypse is nigh.
Dr.Waddy from Jack: Well I retired from NY state Corrections under a 55 - 25 early retirement. I had to do 10 more years than a sociopathic monster would. You see, once upon a time Prince Cuomo made a brief royal advance into a maximum security joint and granted personal audience to inmates thereof. Oh, he experienced epiphany! Why, they didn't have cloven hoofs and did not reek of brimstone and. . . they were really nice to him! "Why they are just regular guys after all".Ehh, this is a reaction from visitors witnessed by all who work with criminals very frequently.This 55 /15 abomination is Cuomo's idea. Is it possible that Cuomo clone Gov.Hochul would have the decency to veto this utterly wrongheaded body blow to crime victims and potential crime victims (i.e.all of us)?
ReplyDeleteDr.Waddy from Jack: With this administration in office lets hope the feds don't get this. Federap joints are notoriously considerate ot inmate whims. Alcatraz, which broke Capone, is no more. Too bad, they had the right idea there. If you let criminals out from under the public thumb you will naturally find yourself under their boot. That's just common sense, endorsed by most (not all!) inlaw
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ReplyDeleteDr.Waddy from Jack: The Rus as paper tigers: they did go toe to toe with the Nazi monster and beat it into the ground but they were greatly aided by winter and their trackless land's vast expanse. The agonizing Murmansk convoys, courtesy of the Brits and Americans, did help as did theAllied invasion from the west.
ReplyDeleteDr.Waddy from Jack: But you have previously expressed and supported the view that historically the Rus have on the whole been less than formidable fighters. Perhaps the unrelenting cruelty of the Nazis to European Soviets gave them terrible resolve. Obviously they lack this motivation in fighting Ukraine.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack::But the Rus have proven themselves to be, as before, vicious and brutal fighters capable yet of doing great evil. They have not yet used their no doubt myriad tactical nukes. Recall how a seemingly routed Germany struck back with incredible force in the Battle of theBulge.They were fighting for their survival.Russian fundamental determination not to allow a Natoized Ukraine may be analogous.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: If we have goaded Russia then we have, with rank foolishness, toyed with an exceptionally wild, crude and vindictive people; this fault despite the many admirable aspects of their civilization.
ReplyDeleteDr.Waddy from Jack: Armor piercing artillery rounds penetrate armor and then explode inside. I think RFK's Kennedy imprimatur gets him into the dem establishment fortress. Once inside lets hope he ignites with maximum force, destroying all carefully planned strategy. I wonder if RFK's cadre have contacted the present owner of Yasgur's farm for his "launching". A geriatric boomer Woodstock; right on!
ReplyDeleteJack, with any luck even benighted NYS won't release all of its seasoned predators into the wild.
ReplyDeleteJack, I don't see much sign of steely resolve in the Russian effort in Ukraine. There's a certain plodding determination at the leadership level, sure, but is the flower of Russia's youth rushing to take up arms against the latter-day "Nazi" Zelensky? Doesn't seem so. I continue to be baffled by Russia's low level of force commitment too. A country of 140 million can only manage to field 300,000 men in the decisive theater of operations -- one that supposedly poses an existential threat to Mother Russia??? That's weird. Anyway, to your point that Russia has reserves of grit not yet deployed...I guess there's only one way to find out.
The Kennedy name has cachet, yes, but that just means that the Dem establishment will work all the harder to portray RFK, Jr. as a kook and a closet Trumper. And that's when they bother to acknowledge his existence! Most of the time the "news" is what they make of it, after all.
Dr.Waddyfrom Jack: The dying days of the 3d Reich showed how a vicious almost beaten mob can still wreak incredible evil. Whether the Rus, if run out ot Ukraine would up the ante depends on how set they are in not under any circumstances countenancing Ukraine in Nato. I think Russia is very set. Their losses in this war may only have hardened their resolve.
ReplyDeleteJack, I think the premise -- that Russia could be "run out of Ukraine" -- is highly dubious, but, if Russia did face something akin to "defeat", I honestly have no idea what it would do. Presumably, whatever Putin wants it to. I wouldn't be so sure they would fight to the bitter end, though. Look at Saddam after 1991. He absorbed a massive humiliation that most assumed would be the end of his regime -- and yet it kept on ticking just fine until we launched a ground invasion years later. I suspect the bottom line for Putin is that he remain in power, and it seems to me he will do just that, whether Russia wins, loses, or draws in Ukraine.
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