Friends, it wasn't so long ago that the mainstream media was gushing about how "cool" Joe Biden was, how effective and competent, and how easily he might sail to reelection, given Trump's obvious insanity and criminality, and due to the economic miracle of "Bidenomics". Well, all that crowing is a thing of the past, as the media has just begun to notice that, for some strange reason, people don't seem to like Biden all that much. They actually believe some of the "right-wing" smears made against him, in fact. What gives???
Take a look at these two polls, published today. The ABC News/Washington Post poll really grabs your attention. It has Trump ahead of Biden nationally by 9-10 points. Wow! The NBC News poll is more pedestrian, on the face of it -- it shows Trump and Biden tied, in a head-to-head race, and Trump with a small edge in a multi-candidate field -- but it also indicates major headwinds for President Biden. What's almost more interesting than the raw numbers is how the "journalists" at ABC and NBC make sense of them. You can see that they're incredulous and bemused. After all, how, from their perspective, could the American people be so stupid as to express more or less equal regard for Joe Biden, grandfatherly progressive statesman, and Donald Trump, traitorous, felonious windbag? And yet they do. Given these realities, you can tell that the pollsters are very, very nervous about having Biden as the Democratic candidate. And they should be! What will these nerves ultimately mean for the 2024 race? They could mean that, by and by, the Dems will dump their albatross and find a better candidate. To forestall this calamity, I recommend a Republican impeachment inquiry against Biden...STAT!
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/troubles-biden-age-reelection-campaign-poll/story?id=103436611
Dr.Waddy from Jack: You have previously at this site made a very plausible argument that an impeachment of Biden might well prevent the dems from unloading him because it would make them appear disloyal and opportunistic. For being impeached (for cause by the way) he would be weakened, I think, even beyond the vulnerability (again, for cause) he already displays. Now the House has initiated the first step in impeachment. Now when the dems do impeachment the "inquiry " is just a pro forma prerequisite for an already intended show trial.Maybe the House GOP has resolved on such a tactic but at least you have to guess with them.
ReplyDeleteDr.Waddy from Jack: An impeached but retained Biden could perhaps benefit from a new VP candidate. Kalifornia Governor Hirsute might be the favorite for that; he's certainly playing the field just now with several disingenuous vetoes intended to show his "essential moderateness". And in case Biden retires, he''d have a running start over Hillary. Fox today thought the onerous possibility of Hillary again worth a discussion. Yeeeech!
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: So, ok, Biden valiently walked the picket line with the UAW today. But he hasn't the slightest understanding of the blue collar world and especially that which gave birth to the UAW back then . Kumbayaa and " beer an' a shot" an' all that good stuff of which he knows not even squat! And I think alot of UAW members know how disingenuous and patronizing he is to them ( although he does it perhaps not consciously, the poor dear).There is that job destroying "green new deal" after all. And there was that shut down pipeline two years ago. Lotsa jobs gone! Just saying.
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ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: But of course the fundamental principle guiding NBC and ABC in any of their efforts at information gathering and dissemination is to play their part in the assured triumph of the antiamerican left and their consequent reward. If they are temporarily taken aback it is to them but a bump in the road for the inevitable antiamerican left totalitarian takeover. No more, no biggee.
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ReplyDeleteI have said this before, but why not say it again. The DEMONistas are going to do "magic tricks" again next year, and Joe Biden will remain as President until he resigns for ill health and Harris will take over.
In any event, it will be another 4 years of Leftist bullshit whether the American people like it or not. Frankly, the last free election was in 2016. But, unless Biden stays all four years of his second term, the U.S. will be rid of him and Trump.
So, by 2028, the DEMONistas will have everything set up to ensure that they stay in power, which will become even more dictatorial.
Is this cheerful? Of course not! But human beings are tougher than we know, and a lot of "stuff" can be endured until the sun shines again. And if you want to be more depressed after reading this diatribe/rant and rave, be advised that the Toast of The Left Coast, Gavin Newsom has his eyes on The White House, and he has no problems with "Senior Moments". He is a product of the radical Left in a suit, and he is very hungry for power. Very scary that all of a sudden he is going to debate a presidential candidate at the end of November.
In the meantime, all that is happening is that a terminally ill society (us) is going through the transition from a Constitutional Republic to a People's Democracy. Sorry, but the aura that a brain dead Republican party if going to save the day, is a figment of our collective imaginations.
As for me, I'm going to stop watching or listening to the news and try to find some old John Wayne movies to watch, before said movies are banned.
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ReplyDeleteWhile most Americans believe that we could never have a dictatorship, we have one anyway, including early morning "secret police" raids like Roger Stone's place for example. Ha!
And of course, almost no one believes that we would ever be invaded, as if we were immune.
On that note, one of my favorite movies is "Red Dawn" which came out in 1984, of all years. Check it out, and have a few laughs. Nothing like that could ever happen here, could it? Hell! It's just a movie.
Without a pardon, he would have been jailed. Sounds like probably cause to me. We have CIA, FBI, state and local law enforcement. No secret police.
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DeleteMy mistake. Sorry. I thought the FBI had become such a political tool of the radical Left, that they might qualify as "secret police". Forgive me comrades, forgive me!
We are silly people. Rather see Biden than Trump for another four. We are 'silly' people. Check this out: https://youtu.be/2DH4v6FnbvM?si=evlZs8gPbC-bIWwj
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DeleteYes, you are silly people for sure, if you would rather see Biden for another four instead of Trump. But don't worry, the DEMONista party will make sure that your hero Biden stays in The White House for 4 more. Those DEMONistas are a very clever lot, and they will work their magic at the polls with all sorts of fun tricks to ensure that "The Manchurian Candidate" is (re) elected.
Ray and Dr. Waddy from Jack: It would be some time before an even confirmed and irrevocably seated antiamerican leftist totalitarian regime could reduce us to the universal destitution demonstrated as inevitable under marxist misrule, such is the deep residual prosperity of our country. But it would be close to inevitable; they aren't good for much but marxists are expert in forcing comprehensive human misery. In Marlowe's Dr. Faustus, Mephistopheles taunts the foolish academic Faustus with the promise that he will: "want in hell - that had on earth such store!" If we were conquered by the certainly hellish neomarxists, the most mindfully painful aspect would be the crushing regret from knowing that we had the most prosperous, well defended and relatively just nation on earth and we just. . . . LET IT GO! Some of us saw the threat but not enough of us did and the country let the perfectionist left slowly and maliciously persuade us our country was fundamentally flawed and justly deserving of destruction, punishment and "fundamental (forced) transformation". Yeah, the movie Red Dawn does evoke the ambience of our country under commie attack, albeit from without. That the attack may well come from within would make its success ever the more so soul destroying.
ReplyDeleteJack, I would guess the Republican leadership in the House doesn't know at this stage whether it could muster the votes to impeach Joe Biden. Much would depend on the evidence that accumulates and how the American people react to it. I honestly don't think it matters whether the House votes to impeach. The inquiry alone will set the country abuzz and force the Dems to rally around their sorry excuse for a president. He's already damaged goods and I sincerely doubt he will be given a new lease on life by November 2024. His only hope is, was, and always will be the demonization of Trump...which still might work.
ReplyDeleteNewsom as Biden's VP? Never!!! Two white guys representing the Democratic Party is a non-starter.
Yes, ABC and NBC will circle the wagons around the Dem nominee, when it becomes irrefutable who that is. Until then, they're not above aiming a few torpedoes below Sleepy Joe's waterline.
Ray, I'm only 95% convinced that the People's Democratic Republic of America is imminent. There's a 4% chance that Russia will nuke us and put us out of our misery instead, or a 1% chance that Trump will ride in on a white horse and save the day. So, as you can see, plenty of reason for optimism!
I saw "Red Dawn". Pretty fanciful that Cuba could invade the U.S., but once the nukes start flying I guess all bets are off. I seriously question whether more than a handful of Americans have the gumption to stand up to any oppressor, foreign or domestic. Instead, I think most of us would probably be informing on our dissident neighbors, to earn ourselves a little extra social credit, as it were. I see very little visceral attachment to liberty or the rule of law. I see lots of fat, happy people who, above all, want to keep feeding at the trough.
Carl, if you think 91 indictments against Trump in and around an election year is "equal justice under the law", then I've got some beachfront property in Kansas to sell you! Actually, Ray does too. Ask him for details.
I watched the Bill Maher piece on China. He exaggerates a bit, but our fecklessness and dysfunction compare very unfavorably to China's dynamism and self-discipline. Having said that, there are a lot of signs that China has peaked and is about to enter a very difficult period. I also question how you, a China skeptic, can support Joe Biden, whose whole family is compromised by a business model trading influence for cash, when so much of that cash has come from China. Look into the Biden Center at Penn and the Biden School at the University of Delaware and see where they get their backing from -- and how many members of the clan are cashing in. THIS is the guy you think can tackle the threat posed by China??? Dream on!
Jack, given the great spiritual, cultural, political, military, and economic strength that our country amassed, it was never terribly likely that it would be destroyed from without. Nor was it easy to destroy it from within. And yet...the Left is close to accomplishing this and, if it happens, we will have only ourselves to blame. Plenty of people sounded the alarm -- you most of all! What will a post-democratic America look like, though? Not like the USSR or Red China, I suspect. Maybe 20th century Argentina? A country plagued by political and economic instability, occasional bouts of searing oppression and occasional pathetic military adventures, but still fundamentally livable and able to revel in past glories to a point. I dunno. We shall see.
Dr.Waddy from Jack: Lots of people welcomed marxist takeover in Russia and Cuba but they were soon disabused by characteristic bolshie savagery and intolerance. Consequently the Whites fought a long civil war against the Reds in Russia. In the 30s a snooty American expatriate literati group in Paris sniffed that, having experienced the worst possible oppression, that in the US, they did not fear the Nazis. After the war one of them admitted "the Boche would not LET you endure them! If they thought you were content they would turn up the heat." Commies, nazis: all the same thing, technologically enabled modern totalitarians. I don't think armed rural Americans would countenance their ever more relentless tyranny.
ReplyDeleteJack, you could be right that a low-level guerrilla war would be waged by rural holdouts against a leftist dictatorship in the USA. I'm not sure this would entirely disappoint our new woke overlords, though, because it would give them a handy excuse to ratchet up the new red terror. Success in a guerrilla war usually takes many years and requires a great willingness to endure horrible suffering and vast numbers of casualties, not to mention retribution against loved ones. Do the Right Thinkers, for instance, have that fire in the belly? Would they pledge their "lives, fortunes, and sacred honor" to the cause of freedom? It's an easy thing to claim, and a very hard thing to do.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddyfrom Jack: Irregular warfare is a job for the young and the majority of the Right Thinkers group are middle aged at least. Some of them have fought already and some are fighting back now as you are with your blog. I think that a totalitarian left gov't would see our country as a vast playground for all manner of keen social and technological experimentation. Being perfectionists with the future always their model for what is possible, they would never tire of this and their ascension to absolute power would release a tsunami of long frustrated vindictive motivation ( eg Hillary). Mao advocated "on going revolution"; wasn't that fun for the Chinese people!? Back yard blast furnaces but food optional, all that. Dear Leader AOC and her cadre would glory in keeping the oppression ever bustling. It would become unendurable and people who would never consider doing so would be constrained to do so of desperation. But the rural people of the great American interior; the loggers, the farmers, the ridge runners, the hunters, Southerners, mountain and plains Westerners, the viscerally free , would I think, long since have risen. Its possible that a permanent division of the country, with the common sense people perhaps making common cause with Canadian west, would result.
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ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: Let's consider what motivated those who did risk ALL and actually did make the declaration you quoted, in writing, for royal George's close perusal and assured wrath. I think they were prosperous, educated men; some were unacquainted with violence but all stood to be materially ruined and they had to know the sure penalty for treason. So why take this terrible risk? Perhaps it was love of a liberty they knew to be unfound in any European kingdom including relatively advanced England(?) And that might well inspire Americans for whom personal liberty is inherent, once they experience totalitarian presumption, to mobilize resistance.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: There are still alot of very rugged people away from our corrupted coasts (excepting Maine maybe) who, in the words of personally exemplary country singer Trace Adkins, ". . .don't take no crap. . . !"
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddyfrom Jack: But my having said that; your observations about the terrifying risks of resisting subhuman totalitarians are well taken and the possibilities you suggest are plausible.
ReplyDeleteHmm. I'll believe it when I see it, Jack. That is, I'll believe that the "right-wing" is capable of violent revolution or sustaining a guerrilla resistance movement when it happens. Personally, I think it's just a leftist fever dream, but I could be proven wrong. As you say, much depends on just how far ordinary conservatives are pushed. There's always a breaking point, but my view would be that life in modern America is just so darn comfortable that few if any of us would be desperate enough to throw our lives away in service to a longshot, even if noble, cause.
ReplyDeleteGood point, though, that the Founding Fathers had much to lose, and must have been realistic about the fact that there was a very good chance their gambit would fail and they'd be hanged, or worse. And yet they rolled the dice! Men of character are capable of great personal courage. How many men of character has America got handy these days? And how many other men of character (but misguided judgement) would choose instead to serve the oppressors rather than the oppressed? Think of the awkward situation that a civil war would place our police and servicemen in... How brazen would woke dictatorship have to become to convince these public servants to betray their oaths (or, from another perspective, to take those oaths seriously for the first time)? I don't know the answer. I'm just asking the question.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: I dunno but most of us have never experienced the fantastic, comprehensive oppression proven routine in marxist countries. They are capable of any wrong, any sociopathic injustice.Your description of a quasi Argentina is plausible and might obtain for awhile in the US. Actually the bolsheviks did not do their worst for several years, that is, until subhuman Stalin got serious about "fundamental transformation". Jeanne Kirkpatrick defined "authoritarian" and "totalitarian regimes": authoritarians want you to jump when they say so but otherwise just don't interfere with their voluptuary privileges; totalitarians want to control every iota of everyones' life.Marxists are confirmed totalitarians.
ReplyDeleteJack, I would add that the line between authoritarianism and totalitarianism is not a crisp one. Where would a leftist America fall? I suspect that depends in large measure on the degree and seriousness of the resistance that right-wingers were able to mount. An insecure, desperate leftist is capable of almost anything.
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