Friends, do you think the title of this post is inappropriate? Well, get used to inappropriate, because that happens to be Tim Walz's speciality! He'll be calling Trumpers names and dispensing sexual innuendo from here to November. But hey, good taste is overrated, and at least lefties will get some laughs, albeit at our expense. The bottom line, as I discuss on this week's Newsmaker Show, is that Walz is unlikely to change the dynamics of the race much or add to Kam-Kam's appeal. That's the good news. The bad news is that the race is already a dead heat.
In addition to Walz, Brian and I talk about the evolving landscape of the Trump v. Harris campaign (which mostly involves Harris accepting the accolades of the press without ever actually talking to it), the interesting question of who is making the decisions in the Biden-Harris administration, the potential for the Democrats in Congress to veto the American people's choice of Donald Trump as the next president, the relative decline in the polling numbers for all the third party and independent candidates for president, the partisan dimensions of the debate over cryptocurrencies, and the Olympic medal count and what it suggests about national strength.
When we turn to This Day in History, Brian and I explore the "Purple Heart" decoration and its roots in American history, the Gulf War and the lessons of war, and turning of the tide in WWII in the Pacific theater.
Enjoy the Newsmaker Show while you still can!!! No doubt Brian and I will be on the same chopping block when the neo-Marxists take over...
https://wlea.net/newsmaker-august-7-2024-dr-nick-waddy/
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In other news, X, formerly known as Twitter, is suing everyone in sight for a "systemic illegal boycott" of the platform by advertisers. I say: nice try! All boycotts are "systemic", and I'm not sure why any of them would be illegal, although, as the Dems have taught us, everything is illegal, or can be, if only you try hard enough to make it so. My guess is that X won't have much luck with pursuing this tack, and in fact I'm pessimistic about X's and Musk's ability to stand up to the withering contempt and calumny flowing freely from the leftist establishment. Musk is a funny guy, though. He's stuck by his guns and even moved further to the right and towards Trump in recent days, weeks, and months -- possibly because he now feels he has no friends left among progressives? In that assumption he's probably correct.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: While I'm on this tear, let me add: the far left has made this "deplorable " bed, in the "rank sweat "of which our culture languishes to a lamentable degree. Let us not excuse them by allowing them to avoid lying in it themselves
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: While I'm on this tear let me add: the far left has made the truly deplorable bed in the "rank sweat " of which our culture languishes to such a lamentable degree. Let us us require of them that they lie in it too,
ReplyDeleteThe site erased the comment to which the above was my addition . I don't know why. I'll try to reprise it; I'll do it in parts in case it does it again. Jack
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack : Thanks for broaching the subject of "inappropriate language" I haven't listened to the broadcast yet so any reprise of a comment there on my part is unintentional.
ReplyDeleteI lived through it so I witnessed the still astonishing degradation of our public life by the far left in the '60s. Itstill shocking beyond measure. It was they who gleefully spit on Vietnam veterans, called policemen pigs, mocked religion, introduced the venerable Anglo-Saxon adjective into polite conversation, excoriated patriotism , etc ad nauseum. They advanced a withering, terribly ungrateful disdain for an America which afforded them almost fantastic prosperity, freedom and painfully evolved justice.
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DeleteGlad you mention the 1960's, which has now come home to roost, and with full force plus. And of course, the spoiled brats who led it were the product of World War 2 survivors who produced them! There were certainly sane, decent people during the "60s, but I would say half the boomers were products of these left minded WW 2 veterans.
Actually it germinated in the 1950's with the "Beat Generation" and morphed into the hippies out in California. You might remember that one book that really sparked the movement was "On The Road" by Jack Kerouac. It was like a bible for apprentice hippies. Interestingly enough, a lot of churches then blacked away from taking a stance on anything, and school boards everywhere let the education go to hell. Fear? Who knows?
At the same time, a bunch of middle aged leftist professors were brain-washing their education certification students into going out there and brain washing the next generation.
I think both of us know of what we speak. As a baby boomer I served in the Armed Forces, and had a Family member (sister) go hippie for years. And now she is going to vote for Trump (Ha!), seriously.
You probably also know that some of those
mental type hippies got a higher education, and ended up wearing suits, (and underarm deodorant), and getting into politics. And these same people have been running the country since the 1990's including Bush, who was a hippie type in the making, in my opinion.
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DeleteI meant to say "a lot of churches backed away".
The Clintons are perfect examples of "well groomed hippies" who managed to go to the right (no pun intended) schools, and then ended up ruling the nation. As you recall, first on their regime agenda was "Gays in the military" which of course is full bloomed now as LGBTQ. But their policy was at least somewhat sane with "Don't Ask. Don't Tell".
I always had a theory (and that is all it can ever be) but I really do believe (to some extent, but not 100%) that enough good men (not necessarily just the Marines) died in, or were maimed mentally and physically in WW 1 and WW2, that the best genes never reproduced themselves. Yes I know, it's a wild theory, but it might have some merit. Very depressing too.
Mentioning WW 1 reminds me of Jack Reed, who is the only American buried in the Kremlin (or was), who was the first American (as a full blown Marxist) to write about The Russian Revolution titled "Ten Days That Shook The World". There was also a movie about him our very own Hollywood made called "Reds". Check him out. My point here is that Marxist thinking was already in The U.S. over one hundred years ago, and in fact after our Civil War (1861-1865) then thousands of dedicated east European Socialsts immigrated to the U.S, and brought that ideology with them.
Well, time for me to shut up! Just thought I would share some of my thought with you.
Frankly, if Trump does not win in November, I kind of have my doubts about any really free future elections where anyone on the right of the spectrum will be able to run for anything. Harris is radical left, and wants the government to run everything, as any true Marxist does. And if she gets in, things will go that way, a lot more.
Not no matter what, God is still in charge, and by that the Christian God, in a sea of atheism and false religions. Want to blame it on the pagans, but even the pagans had an elaborate religious system, and ironically early Christians were called atheists because they did not believe in the pagan gods.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: They have since then viciously fostered a disastrously influential and increasingly forceful, reflexively iconoclastic stance toward seemingly everything America holds sacred. Of course they hold their icons to be unassailable.
ReplyDeleteThey established the most obscene couple, the Clintons, the very exemplars of radical boomer nihilism ,in our White House and when the majority of our members of Congress purposed his removal for blatant cause termed the action "ridiculous". Particularly offensive was their presumptuous parody of the institution of marriage.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: Recently they have directed an unspeakably vicious, almost murderous campaign of excoriation and personal ruin against a former President who call them what they are. Then, almost unimaginably even for those of their ilk, the far left has openly embraced atavistic savages who demonstrate firm support for the actual extermination of Jews. It is often lamented that the world should never have ignored Hitler's stated inhuman intent in Mein Kampf. Similarly, we must take these latter day monsters at their screedful words.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: It is they who donned the dialectical brass knuckles; we owe them nothing less. Accordingly, aside from anything you would not want said at this sight and aside from slander, I do not refrain from directing contemptuous derogation at them. Haughty , dessicated mavens like Pelosi and Hillary will sniff of "inappropriate" expressions or actions while at the same time speaking of "deplorables" and "fumigating the White House" after DJT's departure. They and their mob presume to call any who question them "hate filled" and Nazis while casually embodying those evils in their own very selves. There are good people who hold leftist views but they choose to be represented by a Dem party obsequiously beholden to the antiamerican, hateful to the core far left. Regrettable that !
ReplyDeleteRay from Jack: Yeah, I remember that; so much of the hippie culture was a crude imitation of the beatniks, who pretty well stayed to themselves. It tickles me that one of the languid, smoky, turtlenecked pseudo intellectual beats is still around - Sanders - though he is uncharacteristically political.
ReplyDeleteI forgot to mention in my repeated comments how the far left has unapologetically overly sexualized our culture. They have delighted in bringing into the unwilling main stream expression that was heretofore sequestered in red light districts and flatulent run down dives for the edification of adults who have a choice. They have even presumed to introduce such effluent into our very schools and are apparently testing the waters to see if they can get away with fostering active sex lives, even with adults, in young children. And these detestables demand our deference?! No sirree bob! They richly deserve the exact opposite so I don't mind hassling them when they ask for it. I'm also willing to engage in creditable dialogue with them, featuring give and take, when they occasionally agree to do.
Ray from Jack: That's an intriguing and creditable thought that some of our best perished in the world wars. That could help to explain the almost incredible degradation of some of the boomers .
ReplyDeleteI get a kick out of people who airly dismiss a defining aspect of most cultures throughout history. That is the faith in an infinitely, incomprehensible higher intelligence. Don't even need to contemplate quasars and black holes for that. We can't even fully understand how a mosquito lives but these dismissive know it alls bask in their powerfully nonsensical willful ignorance of this. Sancta simplicitas!
Ray from Jack: You see, I've always thought theretofore rightfully shunned Marxist academics tried to make automatons out of returning WWII vets who flocked to the campus on the G.I. BIll. I thought they who had seen firsthand the unimaginable horrors of technologically advanced but morally medieval 20th century totalitarianism laughed the commies back into their holes, from which they reemerged only to seduce the terribly naive boomers. But it does make sense that some of those vets may survived the crucibles of the Depression and WWII with leftist views. My combat vet father was traumatized by the Depression and thought it purposely brought on by well to do people jealous of the insolent widespread prosperity of the 20's . That view, as you have maintained, might have been present in many of those vets, who had seen the very worst organized human life can offer and thought it deserving of radical reform.
ReplyDeleteJack, I agree wholeheartedly that the degradation of our culture -- nay, our civilization and even our faith -- is primarily the fault of leftists, many of whom are quite proud of their handiwork. Thus, their protestations about vulgarities on the right ring hollow, indeed. Does this justify or excuse said vulgarities, however? Ah, now that is a separate question. For me, the bottom line might be: to what degree does it work when we sink to their level? In other words, do our personal attacks, even to the point of vulgarity and pettiness, achieve the desired results? Or, instead, do they backfire, do they foster a "race to the bottom" that literally no one can win? I don't pretend to know the answer. I do know that, inevitably, we are held to a different standard than they are. We are under a level of scrutiny that they could never even conceive of. Of course, when we are chided for our excesses, it's the MSM doing the chiding...and the question is whether anyone, or anyone who matters, still cares. They may not.
ReplyDeleteRay, it is most interesting how the hippies of the 60s and early 70s have ended up in such different places. Some were so addled by dope that they became totally dysfunctional. Many put on ties and became half-respectable, but kept their utopian/leftist outlook. Some came full circle and turned into Trumpers, and in fact there are quite a few of those. I know one myself. Interestingly, he loathed Trump in 2016, and now he can't get enough of him. Anyway, a person's politics and ideology are a reflection of his genes, individual history, socialization, personality, and other factors, such that we would we wise never to assume too much based on stereotypes alone. Some of the most obnoxious hippies of the 60s and 70s turned into stalwart conservatives. Some of the cleanest cut youngsters of the same era no doubt turned into neo-Marxists. It's a complicated world out there, and, with God, no one is ever completely beyond redemption.
Interesting thought about the gene pool having been lastingly drained by the bloodshed of the world wars. Could be! I also wonder whether the progressive liberation of mankind from the rigors, and the edifying effects, of natural selection has led to a long-term decline in our fitness. I don't see how it couldn't, quite frankly.
Ray, I would take a pagan over a Marxist any day! At least a pagan believes in something bigger than himself. A Marxist believes ONLY in himself, although he might not put it that way.
Would a Harris victory be the end of democracy? Not necessarily. SCOTUS would be a check on her, and so might Congress, if, as seems likely, Republicans took control of the Senate and held the House. If they didn't in 2024, I bet they would in 2026. But all that signifies nothing if Harris, as president, is ready and willing to use the office to institute a dictatorship. If she is, it could be game over.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: Lots of opportunity for redeeming dialogue here: re the Newsmaker broadcast, last things first; Guadalcanal. I think American morale had been much lifted by the great victory at MIdway about 3 months before Guadalcanal. Sinking four of the six carriers which attacked Pearl was sweet and easy to understand and celebrate.
ReplyDeleteBut Guadalcanal , which I think was the US military's finest " hour" ever, was a different kind of fight. Heck, MIdway was clinched over a five minute span (not to at all gainsay Admiral Spruance's monumental tactical leadership withal); Guadalcanal lasted well into 1943. It was a savage confrontation in which the forces were pretty well matched. The climatic conditions were terribly trying.. The Japanese hit the Americans very hard but the Americans gave as well as they took and ended the myth of Japanese invulnerability. After the war some Japanese officers admitted that it was the beginning of the end for them. But the public mostly didn't know where it was or why we were fighting there . Good thing the radical boomers weren't around to enlighten them and undermine the effort.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: Harris has a widespread reputation for being difficult to get along with. Maybe she is just a sour minded person who just doesn't like other people very much. Uhh, that may not bode so well when it comes to policy and her current hesitancy about getting specific on policy issues may well show that she knows the electorate would not like what it hears if she were to be frank about it. Of course she can go all Clinton and "deny, deny, deny baybee".
ReplyDeleteI feel a little sorry for Walz. Imagine being her factotum? But then he trelexively declares JD "weird" and you are quite right that the left of which he is apparently exemplary arrogates to itself a privilege of using any "self evident"pejorative to describe conservative Americans and readily excoriates any who disagree. Had I the chance I'd simply bid him define the term "weird". He would probably bristle at such an uppity question but really, even if you disagree with JD, a publicly formidablely poised guy like JD is weird? Ah, baloney.
A thought; if Congress were to succeed in deposing an elected DJT would not an also elected JD be inaugurated and succeed to the Presidency in its vacancy, with eligibility for eight ( not four)years of solid leadership of the type the prospect of which makes the antiamerican left soil itself with debilitating dread? He might at least take temporary Presidential power under the 25th amendment (?). Our lawful Scotus would probably get involved and if we win the House the Speaker would loom large. The frantic far left may, if they try to work what would appear to be a coup, find themselves decisively discredited and disempowered.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: Gillebrand's apparent inevitability yet again affirms this view: NY State is a telling example of a one party dictatorship. Exalted Prince Cuomo said it best: " they are just a vocal minnahritty" and "they are not real New Yawkas and should leave the state" in imperiously castigating any who doubted his unimpeachable wisdom. For the sake of objectivity it must be admitted that disdainful Schumer does work energetically at local constituent benefits. But on the national level he grossly misrepresents mostly common sense upstate. On unjust misbalance people of our views have no representation in the US Senate.
ReplyDeleteThe Gulf War; one thing about that war I hear little about is the brilliance that President Bush and Generals Powell and Schwartzkopf. demonstrated, saving myriad American lives in the process. They were superlative strategists. They rightfully assumed that the mainstream media would do its best to bring about American doubt, demoralization and defeat, after which it could enjoy promoting another post Vietnam type national malaise . And that would be handy in their intended denigration of national pride and relief in winning the Cold War "coincidentally". Our war leaders displayed diplomatic but nonetheless comprehensive and unapologetic scorn for those traitors and effectively hamstrung them this time. Of course the "antiwar" brats did succeed in harrying the President's rest with juvenile unrelenting projection of loud music just outside the White House. "Aid and comfort "you know. I hope their futility brought some comfort to those many, many Vietnam vets psychologically devastated by the wrong done them by such people.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: Some speculation, just for the fun of it. What if Japan had not attacked us? They were determined to finally secure the resources necessary to make them an unassailable power in E. and S.E. Asia and forever delivered from the unendurable and realistic prospect of Western domination. Would we have opposed them militarily in this? Maybe by then we would have been fully aroused by the harrowing danger Nazi Germany posed, especially if Britain had fallen. Perception of the importance of China might nonetheless have been a decisive factor though.
ReplyDeleteGood point, Jack, that Midway was probably much easier for the public to wrap its pea-brain around...
ReplyDeleteJack, Harris' desire to say nothing, in lieu of saying something, is understandable in political terms...but she is taking this well-worn tactic to its logical extreme! I agree that her unwillingness even to speak to a fawning press corps suggests massive insecurity, for which she may have very good cause!
Jack, denying Trump the White House, even after he wins the election, would require buy-in from Republicans, in one form or another. The results in a state are certified by the Governor and transmitted to Congress. Congress can only disavow those results with a majority vote in BOTH chambers. Now, assuming the Dems captured both chambers, then I suppose they could unilaterally invalidate Trump's win...throwing the election to the House, one assumes, where Republicans are likely to control most state delegations, even if they lose overall control. Assuming Republicans hold at least one chamber, then invalidating Trump's win seems much less likely. Of course, if you can get a few electors to flip, or get a few Congressional Republicans to go along with the Democrats, then all bets are off -- not an impossible scenario, given how loathed Trump is in Washington circles. The other possibility is that multiple slates of electors are created and their various votes are transmitted to Congress, in which case I imagine all hell breaks lose, procedurally, or maybe the courts would clarify matters in time? Bottom line: no system is immune from hijinks. But, to your point, if Trump isn't elected, there is absolutely no inevitability to the idea that Vance would be. If you can ditch one, then why not both?
Yes, Bush and Co. brilliantly orchestrated not only American public support for the Gulf War, but widespread international support as well. Of course, they did so by setting conservative goals...and thus leaving Saddam in power.
Oh boy! I personally believe that American belligerence in WWII was far from a foregone conclusion in 41-42, absent a Japanese provocation. FDR was wily and determined, but moving Congress and the American people would not have been easy. Of course, a massive Japanese thrust towards southeast Asia, that didn't account for the American presence in the Philippines, or rather bypassed it, would have left Japan's flank exposed. Sooner or later, we might have bestirred ourselves...but by then it might have been too late to matter. The key for the Axis, in my humble opinion, was always finishing off Russia, and the Japanese weren't much help in that regard!