Friends, my latest article, which appears in the Olean Times Herald, is an updated version of my plea to Republicans, conservatives, and Trumpers to express some kind of remorse for their (largely evidence-free) questioning of the integrity of the U.S. election system. We'll see if I get any hate mail in response!
In other news, Ukraine has used its U.S. missiles -- which, in all likelihood, may well be U.S.-operated too -- on targets deep inside Russia, and Russia has already updated its nuclear doctrine in a manner meant to suggest that it could nuke Ukraine -- or the U.S.! -- in response. We'll see about that, but there's no question that Joe Biden is going out with a bang in terms of our stance in Ukraine.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0mzjm7knw7o
Ole Sleepy Joe, who we've grown to know and love as our bumbling Commander-in-Chief, has made comical headlines for apparently wandering off into the Amazon rain forest. I fully expect some indigenous tribe to acclaim this fine specimen of a man as their god!!!
Finally, in a sign that a tiny amount of sanity might return to the nuthouse that is MSNBC, Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski made a pilgrimmage to Mar-a-Lago, potentially presaging a reconciliation between Trump and two of his bitterest critics. Personally, I see no evidence that the MSM is laying off Trump, but I see plenty of signs that the American people and corporate America may be sick and tired of the MSM.
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ReplyDeleteThe U.S. election system is the most honest in the world, and that's why Trump won.
While requiring different messaging, I hope the outcome of the last election doesn’t diminish the resolve of those striving for meaningful changes to improve election integrity. I’m certainly not an election denier (heaven forbid), but there still seem to be irregularities that straightforward legislative and procedural adjustments could address.
ReplyDeleteAs for the Scarborough/Brazinski pilgrimage, I had no idea the extent of Scarborough’s political journey! Morning Joe was a key player in the 1994 Republican Revolution under Newt Gingrich. Among his strongly conservative stances, he championed balancing the federal budget, privatizing government functions, and (gasp) was pro-life!
His resignation and the circumstances surrounding it certainly raised eyebrows—but what a transformation since then! It’s almost hard to believe.
And yet, here we are—he and his bride potentially venturing down to Mar-a-Lago to suggest that perhaps it’s time to "play nice." SMH
Dr. Waddy from Jack: A couple days ago I would have said we should look forward to Biden's welcome departure from the office he has sadly disgraced. But this latest Ukraine insanity. . . ! What is he thinking? He and his advisers have to know how risky this is. And for what?! Ukraine was not a national security issue for us until his administration, with potentially tragic hubris, made it so. I lived through the Cuban Missile Crisis and it was no fun.
ReplyDeleteThe late Dr. Stephen Cohen, a Russia scholar of Princeton and NYU ,years ago warned that we risked a Cuban Missile Crisis in reverse if we were seen by the Russians to be promoting Ukrainian membership in Nato. This time we would be the aggressor pushing a nuclear armed country into a corner by presenting it with an unendurable affront and threat. It wasn't gospel but it was expert advice.
Dr. Waddy and Jack: I would hope that any emissaries from antiamerica are greeted by DJT with the same intransigence which Lincoln showed to the Confederate spokesmen he sat down with late in the war. He was courteous but firm; he held all the chips and had little need of concession. He made it clear: slavery was finished and the Union WOULD be restored.
ReplyDeleteFor DJT to accomodate an antiamerican left which directed almost unlimited personal, legal and political savagery at him, and by extension the America he champions (an America absolutely fed up with wokeness and all far left imposition on our country) would be to squander our hard won victory in this election. He can be courteous but he must be firm: "his administration will use the power afforded it by democratic election to decisively confront wokeness and the far left captured Dem party in all points. He will restore sanity to our Ukraine policy and he will enthusiastically advance the return of the Federal judiciary to lawfulness."
Let DJT follow General MacArthur's policy in the Pacific during WWII. That was: to bypass Japanese strongholds and let them wither. Similarly, MSNBC , an outlet which long ago declared "no quarter" on common sense America and most evilly, on DJT and his family, stew in its own fetid juices and then rot!. Scarborough chose to align with them and has
thereby forfeited trust. Let his possible olive branch be regarded as an empty gesture. It can't be that MSNBC could pull off a disingenuous "fundamental transformation"; they don't have that kind of humility in them. We have these people reeling; let's put them down for the count!
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ReplyDeleteI have NEVER questioned the integrity of the U.S election system, as long as election officials who are registered Republicans run it.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: We have been granted yet another august title by one Tera Setmayer ,a "anti Trump pundit" as quoted in a RealClearPolitics article: "degenerates". We are now declared"deplorable, degenerate garbage" by gracious leave of our betters. This is fun.
ReplyDeleteRay from Jack: Such automatic distrust of the Dems is well taken. Unless they renounce their amoral "any means necessary" dominant element it makes no sense to give them a play on anything. "Discrimination"? Prejudice? Sure is , its common sense and they richly deserve having it directed at them.
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ReplyDeleteThe only remorse I could possibly have, is that election officials who are registered (Woke) Democrats were not supervised more closely by election officials who were registered Republicans during the 2020 elections. Fortunately, these discrepancies in election official competency were corrected during the 2024 General Elections.
Ray from Jack: Despite the almost incalculable damage Biden did our country with his purposeful imposition of millions of illegal immigrants, it may be seen someday that DJT's ordeal in the wilderness after 2020 redounded to America's favor. He emerged from it stronger and smarter than ever!
ReplyDeleteChurchill endured a similar period of excoriation and disempowerment. But when the existential challenge came he was up to it. On a perhaps less immediately critical but still decisive level, DJT stands restored at a time when if the election had gone south we might have been facing an irrevocable turning point toward eventual far left triumph and the totalitarian capture of America. Its not inconceivable; history has seen equally remarkable and tragic "fundamental transformations" (eg. Russia after 1917; for awhile before that they were on a promising track ).
Dr. Waddy from Jack: So, a missile termed an ICBM has been used in actual warfare for the first time in history, by Russia.WHAT'S NEXT!? The "suggestion" that it could have been carrying a nuke is obvious because a nuclear warhead can be delivered on a smaller vehicle; I believe the Russians have advanced beyond vacuum tubes. This is getting really bad, really fast.
ReplyDeleteRay, I'm not sure I'd go that far, but our election is system is "honest enough", and that's...enough.
ReplyDeleteRichie, Scarborough isn't alone! Look at Liz Cheney. What a long, strange, and pointless trip it's been for her... Trump really has transformed American politics. He's turned a great many conservatives into liberals-by-default, but he's also turned a great many swing voters and even some Democrats into Trumpers. It all evens out, apparently.
Jack, I would tend to agree that reconciliation with the likes of MSNBC is virtually impossible, and I say that not because I hold the supremos at the National Broadcasting Company in high regard in terms of intellectual integrity, but because their business model is founded on stirring up the anxieties of aged progressives. Without feeding those poor souls constant red meat, I don't see how the network can survive. No one open-minded will ever turn it on, that's for sure.
Ray, I wouldn't necessarily assume that an election official's party registration tells you everything you need to know about their trustworthiness. After all, many Democrats have integrity. Many Republicans, especially in government service, are rabid Trump-haters. The bottom line remains that there just isn't much evidence to support the idea that election officials are counting votes that were never cast.