Friends, you won't want to miss this week's Newsmaker Show, which includes extended analysis of internet censorship and the degree to which it has affected political discourse and pluralism. In addition, Brian and I consider the betting markets and the presidential election, the newfound coziness between Russia and North Korea, the sincerity (or lack thereof) of Congressional Republicans' support for Donald Trump, the stock market hysteria surrounding artificial intelligence, and J.D. Vance and the presidential veepstakes.
When we turn to This Day in History, we recall the execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg for espionage in 1953, and the lack of overt partisanship in the politics of the 1950s.
Will listening to this week's broadcast change your life? I can't see how it couldn't!!!
https://rumble.com/v52opws-wlea-newsmaker-june-20-2024-dr.-nick-waddy.html
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In other news, there's a fresh Fox poll showing Joe Biden narrowly ahead in the national popular vote, which is fantastic, because it will put wind in the sails of Biden backers as they try to cinch Sleepy Joe's arthritic grip on the Democratic nomination. These are the last few weeks when the Dems could realistically jettison Biden, so we want him to appear strong (enough) to remain the albatross that will ultimately sink his party. BTW, a bunch of swing state polls appeared today as well, and they're all bad news for Team Biden.
https://www.foxnews.com/official-polls/fox-news-poll-three-point-shift-biden-trump-matchup-since-may
Dr. Waddy from Jack: The Rosenbergs were convicted on well examined and tried evidence of having given monstrous Joseph Stalin American secrets which helped to enable him the appalling acquisition of nuclear weapons. This was an act of incalculable evil and was of course profoundly treasonous. Their execution was just. Too bad the resolve to punish traitors so did not extend to those who enthusiastically gave very public aid and comfort to the murderous and tyrannical North Vietnamese regime when we were at war with it. In doing so they
ReplyDeletehamstrung our military effort and cooperated in the death and psychological devastation of dutiful American servicemen . A highly civilized land like Great Britain executed Lord Haw Haw for his attempted savaging of vital British morale during Britain's ordeal in WWII. We should have done the same to some who have instead led celebrated lives since their treachery. Perhaps, failing this, an extended stay in a
Hanoi Hilton reconstructed in some fetid Gulf Coast setting would have rendered some justice at least .
My above in response to your mention of the Rosenbergs in your latest Newsmaker Broadcast. Jack
ReplyDeleteJack, Wikipedia tells me that the Rosenbergs were the only civilians executed for treason/espionage during the Cold War...and I assume Wikipedia wouldn't lead me astray. Perhaps, just perhaps, the success of the Soviets in obtaining human intelligence in the West owed itself to the weak, uncoordinated, and often sharply criticized counterintelligence efforts that we undertook?
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: Our counterintelligence may have been remiss but traitors bear individual responsibility for their crimes. Guys who are still suffering today from their Vietnam experience may well have been very much damaged psychologically by seeing traitors from that era be "guilty as hell, free as a bird!" (to quote one of them). Leftist attacks on our intelligence community may well have fostered widespread cynicism in those agencies and helped pave the way for their weaponization by antiamerican leftist administrations.
ReplyDeleteDr, Waddy from Jack: I think the reason for the relative lack in the '50s of intensely partisan politics manifesting severe antipathy on both sides is because the far left had been effectively intimidated by the deserved measures directed against it in the early 50s. Too, the multitudinous obsequious cadre they seduced from a tragically naive faction of the boomers was still in elementary school. Unlike today, grade school was free of antiamerican left corruption then. When the domestic commies started realizing that they had an enormous windfall in the radical boomers they started to assert their fundamental tactic of "any means necessary". Naturally, that generated outraged reaction from America. (eg. the Conservative movement).The far left's counterintuitive rise to appalling power, including our White House, Congress and several essential cultural and political institutions , and its relentless depredation: these are the factors which account for the political warfare, sometimes amounting to hatred, which is our lot now. Conciliation with the neomarxist totalitarian left is impossible. Either it will reduce us to serfdom or we will send it back to the historical gutter into which most past Marxist hellholes have descended. This election is a critical confrontation in that conflict
ReplyDeleteI agree, Jack -- giving valuable information to the country's enemies, especially when we're in the midst of combat operations, is unforgivable, and undeniably criminal. The Rosenbergs did this not just with nuclear secrets but with a wide range of secrets. They deserved what they got.
ReplyDeleteJack, your diagnosis of what ails the country, ideologically, may be correct, but that doesn't explain why our ideological corruption has become so partisan in nature. Sure, we had pinkos and fellow travelers trying to destroy America in the 50s, and now we have them LEADING America in the 21st century, but why must so many be Democrats, and why must the opposition to their depredations be mostly concentrated in the GOP? The Dems could have remained a "big tent" party, but they didn't, and it's quite curious, if you ask me...
Dr. Waddy from Jack: I don't know about pre FDR but after him the dems were embraced as the party of blue collar America and the GOP was seen as the party of the swells who had brought about the Depression because of some undefined animus they had toward the lower classes ( perhaps aristocratically perverse resentment at '20s gauchely widespread prosperity, yes?)My father was devoted to the democrat view and was repelled by any hint of sympathy for Republicans. It would probably have been impossible too to recruit the labor unions to the GOP, though later presumptions by punk new leftists in the '60s to redeem union members were answered with a promised and richly deserved punch in the mouth.
ReplyDeleteSo once the radical boomers and their cynical bolshevik remoras realized that revolution was not to be had during the evanescent Age of Aquarius, they decided to swallow their gorge and "join the establishment", the better to destroy it. They have made unimagined inroads since then.
Forced to choose between the two parties which even they had to admit, held the keys of power they , I think understandably, chose to cuckoo the one with a populist cachet. They did this to create a disingenuously democratic appearance to mask their always totalitarian intentI(as had their Russian and Chinese idols);this would have been emotionally unendurable for the poor dears and practically impossible too, in the GOP. Even they could not have mustered the blatant deceit that would have involved (probably unsuccessfully).
Its fascinating now to look back on the commies' descent into Babbitry and its current result. That is, the appalling antiamerican esconsement deep in our civilization which presents an unthinkable but very real possibility of accomplishing that which seemed only a smoky dream after McGovern fluffed : the destruction of the painfully evolved most conscientious massive society ever and its "fundamental transformation" into a totalitarian Marx inspired wasteland. "Tolerance" of a faction grimly determined to impose its unproven views - outlooks which are the stuff of conjecture of a supposed perfect future - invites only contemptuous manipulation by that thoroughly amoral, solely expeditious and now openly and unapologetically unlawful force, even unto perhaps unprecedented regimentation and debasement for we who could have prevented it.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: I would add to my above: during the excruciating depression the GOP, because of its eventually credited faith in freedom, free enterprise and capitalism, was held to be indifferent to the suffering which abounded. Radical leftists were quick to seize upon this and, in academic settings, trained the campus faculty commies who ensnared so many boomers in the '60s and taught them hatred for the freedom loving, merit rewarding U.S. FDR and his dems , who recklessly harbored some
ReplyDeletecynically opportunistic commies , were ,simply for having taken action , (something! some action for pity's sake! ) some of which was futile and rescued only by the WWII effort ,were held sacred and exalted for their obvious "compassion ". As such they were an obvious mark for the antiamerican left which surfed the tidal wave of boomer naivete in the '60s.
Jack, don't forget the rising power and voice of women in politics, who love "compassion" to a fault! I agree with almost everything you said, but you may overstate the degree to which the Dems, i.e. ONLY the Dems, were captured by former hippies and bent to the service of neo-Marxism. The GOP harbors its fair share of RINOs and moderates who have been touched by the same basic ideology. Half the time, Republicans ape the Left, seemingly to ingratiate themselves with the public and to insulate themselves from charges of racism, sexism, etc etc. But I don't think we can discount the possibility that more than a few conservatives have actually been taken in by the Marxist delusion, to one degree or another. We're only mortal, after all, and Marxism has its allure, morally and intellectually, which is what makes it so dangerous.
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