Friends, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and California Governor Gavin Newsom have decided to debate each other. One is running for president (and not getting a lot of traction), and the other desperately wants to run, if only the desiccated corpse of Joe Biden would get out of the way... It could be a night to remember! You may be inclined to scoff, but neither DeSantis nor Newsom can be dismissed as a potential major party nominee. Biden and Trump look like cinches now, but a year (+) is a very long time in politics, and in life.
DJT promised to tame the Deep State, and, last I checked, the Deep State is kicking his a**. He'll be wiling away his last days in federal prison while those Deep State bureaucrats are collecting fat pensions. Now, Ron DeSantis says he can put the Deep State in its place. How? Why, he's going to "start slitting throats on day one". What a felicitous choice of words -- NOT! Many Republicans would love to see Washington insiders garotted, but it's probably not a policy proposal that's going to win over a lot of undecided voters.
In other news, DJT was arraigned today on a number of (specious) charges that amount to criminalizing his free speech rights and his (utterly futile) efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Funnily enough, many people have tried to "obstruct" many elections in the last few decades, but only one has been charged with these (very imaginative) crimes. I know a lot of Republicans are thinking, "Ha! Now Trump can use this trial to expose the corruption of his enemies." Poppycock! Trials are run by judges, and this one won't let Trump do anything except twist in the wind. Don't expect tables to be turned on the Deep State. Expect a show trial, albeit one that, if there's any justice in this world, may expose the villainy of its authors more than the alleged "crimes" of Donald J. Trump.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/donald-trump-indictment-arrest-charges-745e44ef
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-us-canada-66390992
Much as Ralph Kramden seemed to feel otherwise, there's new data suggesting that married people are, by and large, much happier than single people. I can believe it, in the sense that we're a pair-bonding species. We're meant to form into couples and procreate. Those who don't obey this programming are bound to experience negative side-effects. On the other hand, modern people are such egomaniacs that it's hard to imagine how they could live side-by-side for decades and not come to resent and even despise one another. Perhaps the real takeaway isn't that marriage, per se, is the answer to everyone's problems, but that a good marriage is, in many ways, the key to happiness and fulfillment.
https://unherd.com/thepost/the-best-predictor-of-happiness-in-america-marriage/
Lastly, here's a follow-up to last week's revelations about the Secret Service's refusal to offer protection to RFK, Jr. Apparently the Left tried to dismiss his request as a coded neo-Nazi transmission to America! Wow! Anything to avoid the substance of the issue, huh?
https://robertfkennedyjr.substack.com/p/farce-upon-farce-the-aftermath-of
Dr. Waddy from Jack: In 2000 I drove home from work at night and listened to the Gore /Bush debates on the radio. That was more than enough to clearly convey Gore's frantic disdain for any concept which excited his easily aroused childish scorn. He dripped sarcasm and could hardly contain himself while his opponent spoke: "Now can I just say something about THAT!!!" The sneering countenance accompanying his histrionics was yet plainly imaginable. I would fully expect Newsom to manifest the same haughtiess as he reflexively accesses the limitless arsenal of terms assumed by the antiamerican left to be condemnation upon accusation.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: I don't know what Gov. DeSantis's dialectical style is. So far he appears willing to take it to the arrogant antiamericans and go unapologetically toe to toe with them in his actions in Florida. I hope this manifests itself in personal political combat with an essential Kalifornia hassler, one who has even threatened him with the now customary leftist misuse of our legal system. Maybe if their confrontation takes place in the People's Republic DeSantis may need to be ready to fight his way back over the border, lest custody be attempted!
ReplyDeleteRAY TO NICK
ReplyDeleteWhen I die, if the Buddhists and Hindus are right, I would like to be reincarnated as a rather large dog who runs around out there on the astral plane, shitting copious amounts of very smelly turds on the well-groomed lawns of the Leftist elites.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: Get with the program Dr. Waddy! The last 50 years have thoroughly and indsputably discredited the institution of marriage. Oh sure, its 6000 years old and ubiquitous in civilization but what of that? Its simply a personal power struggle in which one side has enjoyed all advantage, no more and we will be well rid of it presently. There has never been a good reason for it so its end will be attended only by benefit as have all the enlightened cultural developments brought us in last 50- 60 years by indisputably prescient visionaries . To doubt this is not only ignorant, it is evil and deserving of any manner of suppression. Why just ask the spirits of the incalculable millions of aborted fetuses so graced by this wisdom!
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: Yes, the antiamerican "legal"onslaught on DJT and the Trump America he exemplifies continues apace. As a law librarian I would be very interested in knowing the titles of the Nazi and Stalinist manuals of rules of court that are now mandatory authority for woke leftist jurists! This execrable mess will be decided by the electorate in Nov. '24.An inaugurated DJT or his temporarily ascendent VP will use the pardon power to stymie this presumptuous abomination. Meanwhile, the House leadership does us proud by using its investigative power to turn hitherto undisturbed stones over and bidding the bugs scramble!Rinos take heed; this how its done.
ReplyDeleteDr.Waddy from Jack: I remember a Governor of Maine perhaps 25 years ago, who went unannouced to state gov't offices to see what they were doing. Some visible and startling series of such "intrusions" might have a favorable effect. I would assume DJT would credit those he found doing an apparently good job. I noticed and other vets noticed,that Pres. DJT apparently put the fear of the street in those Veteran's Affairs Dep't staffers who were doing a sluggardly job. We saw a big improvement! Whatever DJT did with them seems to have worked and may provide a good working model. After his ordeal I think DJT will go to it with a vengeance that the deep state and its antiamerican shills, the dem party, the MSM and the benighted cultural neo marxists richly deserve. Lets get him there, for the good of America.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: Lets unite behind DJT now and spare him the distraction of a nomination battle. Trump and Desantis: that's the ticket! Let them lead the main effort against the antiamerican, cultural marxist, America hating left and drive it back into the gutter!
ReplyDeleteJack, Gore may have been a pompous ass, but he got more votes than Bush and came within one justice of being president -- and, demographically, the country has deteriorated a lot since 2000 (from the GOP perspective).
ReplyDeleteGood point that Newsom has threatened DeSantis with arrest. I daresay the only reason he hasn't followed through is because DeSantis appears unlikely to be the GOP nominee.
Ray, why wait? You can poop on rich liberals' lawns right now. If the rumors are true, you may already be hard at work!
Jack, your contempt for the institution of marriage is totally justified, since it accords with progressive prejudices, BUT you forgot to add that GAY (and trans) marriages are beautiful beyond measure.
Jack, the electorate MAY get to decide Trump's fate, but the Dems will be working overtime to foreclose that possibility in the meantime. I suspect that SCOTUS intervention will be needed to grant us the luxury of a free election in 2024. I'm not at all sure that SCOTUS will act, however.
Trump-DeSantis '24, eh? I'll believe it when I see it, but I guess erstwhile enemies have become allies before. Trump might want to pick someone who's a great speaker and campaigner, though, in case he spends most of 2024 in a courtroom or a cell. From that point of view, DeSantis might not be the best choice.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: Your last was the best of several good points. Who could that campaigner be? Christie? He is enthusiastic but how deep does his disdain for DJT go? If Biden cannot continue then the specter of Hillary will presume once more upon an America she despises. The drama of "one last try at achieving her God given (well no not God given; she is a "progressive" after all) DESTINYwould be manifest.Then lets put on our ticket a woman who does not demand election simply because she is a woman; Nikki. If she were to be the main campaigner Hillary would have to deign to meet her sometime and a faux pas motivated by her imperious pomposity would be likely, perhaps something analogous to her celebrated "deplorable" campaign killer.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: What!? By all the irrefutable truths of Cornell West, I say you should have ssumed as much of me in my pronunciamento on marriage!
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: If Gore and Hillary had won, the eastern megalopolis and Kalifornia ( southern and Pelositown)alone would have forced those two true deplorable on us flies in flyover country and Scotus would now be a totalitarian tribunal misruled by devotees of the convenient "Critical Legal Studies" school. Majority rule is a generally sound principle but it can produce injustice. The existence of the Electoral College was known to both sides; the dems simply were fairly beaten in the game. Obama delighted in taunting that "elections have consequences". Yes, our electoral system, as IT IS, comprehends that verity. And as it is, the purpose of the founding fathers, that areas of less population not be be completely dominated by areas of concentrated population with beliefs inimical to the numerical minority, our system worked.Leftist antiamerica's presumptuous and disdainful tyranny over NY state is a good example of how the whole country would be if population alone prevailed. Too, why Gore couldn't even win his home state.
ReplyDeleteJack, I'd say there's zero risk that Trump will make Christie his major-domo. Haley, maybe. She hasn't stepped on any Trumpian toes. Frankly, I feel sorry for anyone who's Trump's running mate, because he/she/it will receive nothing but withering contempt from the media for his/her/its efforts.
ReplyDeleteHey, it's Cornel West, not Cornell. As a good "democratic socialist", I assume the single "l" is a way of distancing himself from the WASPy confines of the Ivy League. Funny how many Ivy League professors despise the very institutions that sustain them, isn't it?
Yes, Tennessee's rejection of its favorite son was a stinging rebuke of his haughtiness! And you're right: we easily could have succumbed to leftist quasi-dictatorship in 2016. Trump bought us a reprieve. What use will we make of it?
Dr. Waddy from Jack: I do repent me of my mischief in misspelling West's name. How can I atone, not to him ,because lacking the form of the customary leftist forced auto da fe my regret would only give him occasion for prolix humbug of the type that got him shown the door at conservative stronghold Harvard. No, Cornell U, it is your grace I beg.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: I knew a master pipe fitter who had some marxist beliefs he got in a union school who thought it unfair that he was paid more than unskilled laborers. He resisted the idea that he was paid more because his skill was more valuable and because without higher pay it would be unlikely that workers would endure the ordeal of apprenticeship he had undergone. A stone cold marxist would rationalize "why just order them to become fitters or plumbers or tool and die makers!" Oh yeah!
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: Let those Ivy League profs who indulge in virtue signaling by maintaining that excellence is simply undue privilege do as was done to PhDs in China during the Cultural Revolution. Many were forced into the idyllic farm fields for redeeming physical trial, by young cadre who disdained labor. The Ivy Leaguers could do it voluntarily and prove their mettle and devotion to their airy levelling convictions.
ReplyDeleteHa! Quite right. You demeaned venerable Cornell University by associating it with that quasi-intellectual charlatan (whose campaign for president I so strongly and unreservedly support).
ReplyDeleteAgreed, Jack: the more Ivy League professors who shuffle off to the countryside to engage in organic farming and macrame, the better!