Friends, as the Supreme Court stretches its (mostly "right-wing") muscles, and the lefties fume and plot their revenge, this week's Newsmaker Show naturally takes on the latest decisions at the high court, all of them very consequential (although not nearly as dire as the Left would have us believe). In addition, Brian and I talk about the ongoing strength of the Trump campaign, the carnage on French streets (and how little it troubles leftists), and the decline in real wages under Joe Biden. When we get to "This Day in History", we discuss the (strangely neglected) Korean War, Germany's "blank check" to Austria-Hungary in the summer of 1914, and the ethical issues that arise with cloning and with what amounts to the selective breeding of human beings.
It's a spectacular and varied menu of brain food, as per usual!
https://wlea.net/newsmaker-july-5-2023-dr-nick-waddy/
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In other news, a Trump-appointed federal judge (see, Trump did a few things right!) has issued what could be a democracy-saving ruling restricting the ability of federal officials to communicate with social media companies and to encourage them to practice censorship. The collusion between the feds and Big Tech, especially during the 2020 election and the COVID pandemic, was extensive, and it almost solely targeted government critics, vaccine skeptics, and political conservatives. Going forward, if the government can effectively decide which views can and can't be shared in this country, our First Amendment rights won't count for much. We needed this ruling as a shot across the bow of the S.S. Biden, and ultimately we need SCOTUS to back this judge up.
According to the Left and the media, the destruction and injuries caused by the rioters in France is no big deal. It's just a massive, bloody, $1 billion "cry for help", and it ought to arouse our sympathy and make us all the more sensitive to "systemic racism" throughout the Western world. I say: nuts to that! The Left is using political violence as a matter of course to advance its agenda, and excusing the practitioners of this violence even as it castigates "right-wingers" for demonstrating peacefully (during the pandemic), carrying a sign (into the U.S. Capitol), and posting comments on social media that hurt liberals' feelings. Well, enough is enough!
https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/04/business/france-riots-businesses-cost/index.html
Dr.Waddy from Jack: The cynical feed on credulous good people. France has, with good intent, tried to satisfy the far left and is reaping the whirlwind they have sown.France, since Louis the 15th, has lacked stable government and is perhaps more vulnerable to this blackmail. Imagine if they had PM Thatcher. She knew what for when it came to commies.
ReplyDeleteDr.Waddy from Jack: Hooray for DJT. He's the gift that keeps on giving.I think the prospects are good that Scotus will confirm this ruling. The way the antiamericans "run in circles, scream and shout" about it, you would think it already had done!
ReplyDeleteDr.Waddy from Jack: Re the broadcast: July 5, 1863: the Army of Northern Virginia began its dolorous retreat after its repulse at Gettysburg. It was never again to take the offensive against the Army of the Potomac. Yes, they raided the Washington forts i n the summer of 1864 with a force far too small to take it.The purpose was to distract Grant's onslaught, which it did. Lincoln came to observe and almost got potted by a reb sniper.The election in Nov. then would probably have been Seward vs McClellan. Could Seward have garnered the perhaps decisive support Lincoln got from the troops? If elected I think Seward would have pressed the war . McClellan - ?
ReplyDeleteJack, I'm not sure any Western country has a good answer to leftist mass protests/mass violence. We certainly didn't in 2020. Many of our politicians, and most of our corporations and cultural institutions, happily buckled under to the very forces and groups that were terrorizing us. The key, I think, is the media. If they can spin the perpetrators of violence as "victims", and they have lots of practice at it, then half the country (whatever country it may be), will swallow these outrageous falsehoods whole and act accordingly. How, exactly, has the Left been punished for supporting violent and lawless political agitation? We know how it has been rewarded...
ReplyDeleteJack, I think you're right that there's a good chance SCOTUS will erect some guardrails to prevent government collusion with the media and social media to limit free speech. That may be mostly a theoretical victory rather than a substantive one, of course, because 90% of the time Big Tech doesn't need any pointers from Uncle Sam. When the stakes are high, they already know who needs to be silenced.
Jack, I think you must have been listening to a completely different radio show! The civil war never came up this week.
Dr.Waddy from Jack: That was just my two cents on July 5 in history.
ReplyDeleteDr.Waddy from Jack: Korea:I think the bottom line was Stalin. Just imagine, a subhuman easily the equal of Hitler still reigned; that had to be a devastating realization five years after the war, especially after the days of the "Uncle Joe" image necessarily accepted during the war.China had fallen to a perceived communist monolith in an appallingly catastrophic setback and now Stalin was reprising Hitler's cynical nickle and diming in the late '30s.Understandably then, we fought him in Korea to show we had learned from Hitler's adventurism.
ReplyDeleteDr.Waddy from Jack: Stalin was a physical coward who went catatonic for awhile after the German invasion. Russian intelligence may well have told him the US was considering use of nukes in Korea.Maybe
ReplyDeletehe did not want to prematurely cut short his sojourne here on earth
and return to hell! So he backed down at the display of American resolve in Korea. Better to wait for the H bomb and then do things right, da?
Dr.Waddy from Jack: You are completely confirmed by history in saying science cannot teach values. How terrible then the power of a doctrine which insists it CAN do so: marxism, which, after near geographical extinction , has rallied as cultural neomarxism.
ReplyDeleteDr.Waddy from Jack: You are right about how the left depends on maintaining an image of victimhood.It must be sustained to enable it to continue waddling up to the trough
ReplyDeleteDr.Waddy from Jack: Cloning of any type: a recent Fox documentary said the left is going all out to bring A.I. fully into its arsenal. Its reasonable, I think, to expect they are doing the same with cloning. Their politicization of potentially ANYTHING; that's their huckleberry! Naturally;they are totalitarians
ReplyDeleteDr.Waddy from Jack: Oh now Pino Biden is just a good old traditionalist. He's blustering the very traditional "big lie" on the economy. Its been a big winner for other misleaders.
ReplyDeleteDr.Waddy from Jack: "Diversity": essential, irreplacable, vital, exalted, sine qua non!!! Merit? Ehh, wotsup doc? Its just an imaginary, artificial construct, promoted by the privileged to protect their turf. Same as the supposed difference between males and females. (sic, sic,sic). What we need is a return of the medieval disputatio, the formal dialogue which sometimes featured reductio ad absurdum, the logical use of an opponent's argument to reduce it to nonsense. The left's emotionally based pronunciamentos wouldn't stand a chance.
ReplyDeleteDr.Waddy from Jack: Your cautions about the possible short comings of recent Scotus ruling bring a sobering, realistic and necessary perspective to consideration of their importance.
ReplyDeleteJack, that's an interesting perspective that Stalin "backed down" in the Korean conflict. I guess you could say that, although formally he never intervened at all. He settled for the status quo ante bellum. That's a sort of "backing down". Of course, we settled for it too, after invading and conquering most of North Korea (and being pushed back by the Chinese). Not anyone's finest hour, but I'm sure you're right that our nuclear superiority gave Uncle Joe (and Mao) pause. I wonder if they took seriously the idea that we would use nukes to defend South Korea? Or to prevent our own troops from being overrun?
ReplyDeleteGood point: any worldview that makes ethical assertions AND claims to be undergirded by "science" is by definition based on delusions. Any worldview based on delusions, if it captures the seat of power, is bound to be destructive and dangerous.
Jack, as far as I know, human cloning hasn't gotten off the ground, but it's the Left that's enthusiastically practicing latter-day eugenics. That's what much abortion amounts to: the termination of fetuses which, because of their putative defects, are judged to be unworthy of life. I shudder to think what the Left would do with the power of cloning itself, but probably nothing more sinister than it's already doing with the power of mind-control.
DrWaddy from Jack: Stalin did have the bomb by the time the porcine Kim invaded S.Korea, probably with his infernal "blessing" or even his command. He could have made a feint intoW.Europe in order to engage the U.S. there and gambled that his possession of the bomb would keep it conventional and thus to his advantage. It may be that the real prospect of US use of nukes in Korea caused him to think twice, as he had in Berlin during the blockade (a possible act of war after all). From what I've read, sources made available after the fall of the Soviets suggest that Stalin thought of an onslaught on Europe after his expected"acquisition" of the H bomb courtesy of Western traitors. A plague on whatever that demonic subhuman thought!
ReplyDeleteHmm. I think Stalin was realistic enough to understand that merely exploding a Soviet atomic bomb didn't mean that the USSR was the equal of America in nuclear weaponry -- and in fact there would be nothing close to nuclear parity until the late 60s, at the earliest. Presumably, Stalin authorized the offensive in Korea because he thought that the U.S. was indifferent to the fate of the peninsula. Maybe he felt we would shrug off the loss of Berlin too. We showed some mettle in the late 40s that may well have paid dividends for the next 40 years!
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