Boy, do I have egg on my face! But I'm the legendary Nick Waddy, right-wing raconteur, so it's a Fabergé egg, and no doubt you'll still be very impressed. Yesterday, I forgot to post this week's Newsmaker Show. No matter -- here it is. Brian and I delve into the rapidly evolving dynamics of the 2024 race for president, of course, and we also cover the ambitions of Nikki Haley, the recent SCOTUS decision on Trump's ballot access, the constitutionality of state laws against illegal immigration, the fading mythology of "President Michelle Obama", and the curious loyalty of Democratic Party primary voters to Sleepy Joe.
When we turn to "This Day in History", Brian and I cover Hitler's reoccupation of the Rhineland and the great solace that interventionists have always found in the lessons of "appeasement", the punishing nature of U.S. bombing in North Korea and North Vietnam, and the legacy of Ayn Rand's brand of libertarian conservatism.
It's one day late, but it's no less riveting for that!
FROM RAY
ReplyDeleteAyn Rand influenced more than a few people with her brand of ultra-capitalism, popularized in books like "The Fountainhead" and "Atlas Shrugged". But she was basically an atheist, as well as immoral in her personal life.
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ReplyDeleteOf interest, is that one of Rand's follower's was none other Alan Greenspan, a former Chairman of The Federal Reserve.
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ReplyDeleteAmended to read "none other than Alan Greenspan".
Dr. Waddy from Jack: Nikki Haley won a Vermont which presents a fascinating example of a common sense "flyover"area usurped by leftists fleeing the hellholes they created in nearby NYC and Massachusetts. "Oh let's get out of Manhattan, its so nice up here". That would be all well and good if they were to leave their leftist convictions behind but they don't. Consequently now Vermont is counterintuitively"represented" by marxist Sanders and similar presumptuous worthies. NY state's bordering and un NY ish North Country is Rep. Elise Stefanik territory and she is far better representative of the convictions of the vast majority of people in those climes than urban carpet baggers. Vermont's degradation is exemplary of the antiamerican left's determination to draw all of America into its web.
ReplyDeleteInteresting, Ray. I know little about her. Please expand on her immorality...
ReplyDeleteYes, Jack -- poor Vermont! What has become of it? I'm actually surprised that Haley didn't win more of these "open" primaries. I mean, I would think it would be a no-brainer for lefties and Trump haters to show up anytime, anywhere, anyhow, if they got the chance to stick it to Trump...
FROM RAY
DeleteCheck out Ayn Rand and Nathaniel Branden. Guess their relationship could be called adultery. Didn't seem to bother either one of them. Not sure about how Rand's husband and Branden's wife saw it. Somewhat of an age difference between Rand and Branden, as I recall. Must be a matter of an older woman getting properly hosed by a young stud, in this case.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: In my career working in state prisons I often met a criminal type I called "probers". They would attempt impositions and if confronted resolutely would withdraw, protesting no ill intent. If successful they would of course dare again; they were consummate criminals, as was Hitler, I've read that in public, French people rose enmasse at the news and sang the stirring national anthem when they heard of it. . They knew what was in store.The reoccupation of the Rhineland was ordered by a Hitler perhaps not yet as confident as he was to be but which certainly bolstered his view of the Allies as spineless. What incalculable catastrophe might have been avoided had the Allies marched right into Berlin but they were still understandably traumatized by the fantastic slaughter of the "Great War" and pathetically devoted to refrain from arms.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: I am very happy to have been mistaken recently when I said the lawless triumvirate on Scotus was relatively young and could be the core of a revanchist rubber stamp antiamerican court should Biden win. Daily Caller today says the radicals ( nowadays that means the dems as a whole; those of good will who remain dems have been subjugated) are in a fair old tizzy over the prospect that Justice Sotomayor might have to retire in the foreseeable future. They are already stung to the very quick by the unbearable legal integrity of the present Scotus and this. . . well THIS: if Trump wins and fortune smiles, that raises the prospect of a legal, principled majority of 7-2 and that should be a major incentive to turn out in this election and stay solid for DJT. The lawful Justices like Justice Thomas are not invulnerable and a vacancy among them could also occur. But the preservation of the present 6-3 advantage would enable the establishment of monumentally good case law ;a Sotomayor departure at the right time is a very encouraging possibility. All things considered, America has a very considerable possibility this year of dealing antiamerica a staggering blow.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: Those who advance Mrs. Obama as a certain winner should Biden not continue do but enforce the view plausibly supported by Harvard's recent shame that the far left holds that professional suitability inheres only in immutable traits established at birth. Her apparent refusal to credit these urgings is well taken; what, are radical manhaters as desperate for power that they would endure a President who respects her husband ? Why even politically sainted Hillary had to endure apprenticeship in responsible positions.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: Town Hall reported that Senate dems blocked a vote on a bill to prevent illegal immigrants from voting. Fox, I believe, reported that a bill to prevent the use of illegal immigrants in counting population for determining representation in the House and consequently for use in figuring electoral college votes was also blocked by unanimous dem vote. Maybe the truth is somewhere in between. Well bless me for a fool but do I see a possible expeditious connection between the intentions reflected in these votes and the "fundamental transformation" of our southern" border" effected by the traitorous antiamerican left which dominates the dem party and the Federal administration. Can it be that they expect the illegals to vote for them, their saintly benefactors? Are they looking to backfill blue state populations depleted by American citizens bailing out of increasingly unliveable far left dictatorships?
ReplyDeleteI should have said"by unanimous dem vote plus some GOP help. . . "
ReplyDeleteRay, my take would be: if we discounted the ideas of every adulterer, politics would be much the poorer. Some of the greatest moralists and idealists, in point of fact, were morally bankrupt themselves. Personally, I'm okay with taking the good with the bad. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone, right?
ReplyDeleteJack, it wasn't just the Allies who were "spineless" in 1935-39. It was the Junker generals in Germany too. They overwhelmingly believed that Hitler was leading them into the abyss -- and they did precious little about it.
Jack, it's an interesting question whether, if Trump won in November, the Dems would have time to replace Sotomayor before Biden's term expired -- and their majority in the Senate vanished into thin air. We'd be talking two months maximum. They'd be threading the needle, even assuming they got themselves organized ASAP.
Jack, one of the first things the Biden Administration did was to reverse Trump's order that non-citizens should not be counted when allocating Congressional representation. That sea change, if it had gone into effect, would have been pretty close to fatal to Dem aspirations to control the House. Maybe Trump could dust it off if he wins? The Dems are proving, as we speak, here in NY and elsewhere, that redistricting is never truly done until THEY GET THEIR WAY. Why shouldn't we play the game by those rules too?
Dr. Waddy from Jack: I agree completely: hoist them on their own petards; outnasty them or they will surely and blithely do America deadly dirt!
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