Oops! Looks like I posted this Halloween missive in entirely the wrong place! I must be getting senile. Hey, it happens to the best of us, right? Even presidents!
Friends, I wish you a very Happy Halloween!!! Kinda ironic that Samhain secrets itself in the dark heart of election season, isn't it? Anyway, I have a treat for you: this week's Newsmaker Show! As you'd expect, it's full to the brim with election analysis, including rumination on Joe Biden's "garbage" remark and the self-destruction of the Washington Post. Not surprisingly, there was so much to digest in the news that we didn't make it as far as This Day In History.
Meanwhile, President Trump, legendary showman that he is, is capitalizing on the pile of "garbage" that this campaign has become by appearing in a garbage truck. You have to hand it to this guy: populism comes naturally to him. Good luck getting Kamala Harris anywhere near a garbage truck.
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/10/30/trump_how_do_you_like_my_garbage_truck.html
The Dems, true to form, are trying to use lawfare at the eleventh hour to embarrass Elon Musk and force a halt to his $1 million/day sweepstakes in Pennsylvania. Thanks for the timely reminder, dastardly Dems, on why you can't be permitted to win this election!!!
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cx2n4l79dn7t
Finally, as you know, I'm a generally tolerant guy. On the abortion issue, I can see both sides, and I respect most points of view. When it comes to eating babies, however, I draw the line. Sleepy Joe -- back off!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14022815/biden-joe-jill-panda-halloween-white-house.html
RAY TO DR. WADDY
ReplyDeleteListen Nick, you need to back off on Crazy Joe? Understand? This is his last chance to say anything to the American People before he passes into the dustbin of history as one of our worst presidents, ever.
Also, in his dotage, he may get in an inner tube at Rehoboth Beach, float out to sea, never to be seen again. I hope his SS detail will not let this happen. His only hope is to move to L.A. and get into comedy, with George Clooney as his sponsor and mentor.
I'm willing to bet this election will be highly contested, to say the least, and that we won't really know who the winner is for at least a week after November 5. If course I hope I'm wrong "but I am girding my loins" for it, and also the dark possibility that the Harris-Walz demolition (destroy the country) team may be declared the winners, so The U.S. can go through another four (year) of secular national Golgotha.
Finally, if Harris-Walz do win, we both (you and I), might pass into the dustbin of history after we are liquidated, and there is no trace of us.
Well good luck to us garbage people this coming week.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: I have not listened to the broadcast yet so if I reprise anything you said it is inadvertent. What I like most about DJT's response to the "garbage" screed was the immediate humorous repartee it manifestedin him. It conveys an image on DJT's part not of overconfidence but of comfort. He has gone all out. He has fought the good fight, has he ever! I'm his age and I can still get around but I could never conceive of enduring the trial he has undergone in the last four years and then, this epic campaign. He has a real chance of winning and that alone would be , for a time before he gets down to business, to be celebrated with the intense relief which comes from knowing our America has been spared perhaps decisive neomarxist oppression.
ReplyDeleteWhat a contrast his response presents compared to Biden's initial crude and vicious excoriation and his shambling retreat from what was a purely honest expectoration on his part . Harris's disingenuous and pedantic rationalization of the faux pas, couched in solemn and euphemistic humbug, was nonetheless equally cynical.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: Re Biden's bizarre behavior: he is becoming increasingly pathetic. Should Harris win I would not be surprised to see calls for him to step down immediately.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: In taking on Musk in vindictive snit at his having spurned them, the Dems have challenged a man far more competent than anyone in their crowd. Musk, Tulsi Gabbard and to a lesser degree (in my opinion)RFK Jr.: the dems have brought great shame upon themselves by alienating personages who could well have been very beneficial to them. Sometimes, perhaps soon, their halfway common sense loyal rump is going to have to have it out with the radical leftists who have cuckooed their once mainstream American party. It will be either that or abject surrender to the forces of incipient Marxist dysfunction and possible descent into political hell. In this their better side would have profited from leadership from these three exemplars of refugees from the shamefully radicalized dem organization. But they are probably gone for good; it was not without serious consideration that they rejected the dems in the first place.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack : Samhain? Pray, what is that?
ReplyDeleteRAY TO JACK
DeleteSamhain is the origin of Halloween. It was a pagan festival celebrated by Celtic people over 2,000 years ago. They believed the living could visit with the dead at that time. That's one of the reasons The Jehovah's Witnesses don't celebrate it. Come to think of it, The JW don't celebrate Christmas or Easter either, for other reasons.
Ray, like Trump, I now remember Sleepy Joe fondly. I still don't think he's totally senile. A bit wobbly, sure, and not exactly silver-tongued, but when was he ever that? Anyway, he's ancient history now. His only utility lies in his ability to step all over Kamala's message, embarrass her, and thus make it easier for Trump to win. And thus I say: keep it up, Sleepy Joe! Eat as many babies as you need to. Fight the good fight.
ReplyDeleteWill the election be close? Anything's possible, but the data I see suggests otherwise. I think there's a high probability that Trump will win every swing state. Time will tell.
Jack, I wouldn't call Biden pathetic. I'd call him irrelevant. Quite possibly Kamala already has more power in the day-to-day running of the country than he does...although that's arguably a low bar.
Yes, the Dems have alienated an awful lot of luminaries, and even more workaday Americans, by their high-handedness and their ideological extremism. So far they haven't paid too great a price for doing so, either, but let's hope they're about to get their just desserts.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: Since you routinely refrain from jumping to premature conclusions, I take alot of heart from your prediction above about the swing states. To win would be great good fortune; a landslide, bringing lots of GOP Congress members along with it (or perhaps because of their efforts - same same) and spelling unparalleled disaster for antiamerica would be a monumental confirmation of ever America. It just might mark the beginning of the end for the bizarrely counterintuitive era of reflexive mindless iconoclasm we have endured.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: Re the Newsmaker broadcast: The current toxic nature of political discourse and the severity of partisan political opposition is often portrayed as attributable to excess by both sides.I disagree; I think it plainly originated with a still astonishing turn to excoriation by one identifiable side , the far left,against the American mainstream. I followed politics from 1960 to 1970 (and beyond) and the change was theretofore unimaginable. It was brought about by proponents of the historically condemned counterintuitive doctrine of Marxism who were able to con a large portion of the multitudinous baby boom generation into supporting them. Their baleful influence continues to this day and it is the cause of today's conflict.The blame is their's ,not that of America as a whole and certainly not that of those who are increasingly assertive in their fight against those who seek to "fundamentally transform" an America which does not need such sweeping change and would destroy America in a futile effort to impose it.
ReplyDeleteThe solution: defeat and marginalize that force which has fostered this cold civil war and free our country of the baleful, hate filled and destructive politics of the antiamerican left. There would be plenty of room left for positive, principled and productive political discourse inspired by common sense and faith in our heretofore proven political system.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: Supposing a well meaning intelligent extraterrestial entity had, in 1943, have bade all the combatants "why shame on you all; you need to break bread together and learn to tolerate your differences." What injustice that would have done those who were fighting to defeat aggressive murderous totalitarians. Similarly, we must fix the blame for today's intense political conflict in our country squarely upon the faction which initiated it.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: Politically motivated violence is routine and planned by the antiamerican left (eg. 2020, attacks on Scotus candidates, personal disguises) It is a vital part of their convenient "by any means necessary" conviction, both in promise and in execution.
ReplyDeleteJan.7 was a planned peaceful demonstration by undisguised participants intending to voice America's consummate resentment of the antiamerican left's unrelenting assaults on all we value. The then latest offense was the certainty that the Dems attempted to steal the election. It got out of hand but it was an abberation, not an assertion of a perceived "right" to do anything they please which characterizes the radical left.America is a lawful country; antiamerica is lawless.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: I forgot to mention above the most recent egregious example of presumptuous far left violence: the antisemitic outrages on our already shamed major campuses which could not have proliferated without the far left's proven skills in mobilization.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: I didn't know that 200,000 subscribers have abandoned the Washington Post because it declined to endorse any Presidential candidate. Why, the poor dears; but then they have a tried and true source of eastern megalopolis far left bias just a little to the north: the NY Times. Even the local news , dominated in both locations by rampant excused politically correct crime of all sorts and inept leadership, is easily interchangeable between the two locations.
ReplyDeleteBut all of my snide humor aside: your comment on the Newsmaker broadcast that the slap at the Washington Post by subscribers incensed by its failure to support Harris is very important: that really got my attention. That it could herald the beginnings of cracks in the foundation of the onerous neo Marxist structure which purposes forcing the unneeded "fundamental transformation" of America is very encouraging.
Could it be that grievously compromised vital institutions such as corporate America, entertainment, mass information sources, secondary and elementary education, sports, the rule of law, the use of the military for traditional purposes rather than as a vast laboratory for far left social experimentation, our " nonpareil" fossil fuel industry etc., may also decide to readopt proven common sense? Could it be that ,as a result,the entire far left edifice will eventually or perhaps sooner than expectable, implode of its own dead weight, like Soviet communism did? In suggesting that the Washington Post's rejection might herald the incipient commencement of such a salubrious development, you have made a plausible conjecture on what could be a monumental development.
Dr. Waddy from Jack : I deliberately left the American Academy off my list of institutions corrupted by the far left. Of all of them, it may be the hardest to redeem; perhaps it will persist as an irremovable fistula in our body politic. Its insularity, made so by the intensive specialization inherent especially in graduate studies, may allow it to persist in increasing isolation.
ReplyDeleteJack, I would remind you that "murderous totalitarians" both won AND lost WWII...
ReplyDeleteAgreed: violence and lawlessness are exceptional on the right. It's fair to say they're exceptional on the left as well, but the difference is that violent leftists know that they can count on the MSM to look the other way.
Jack, I truly believe, as I opined in the Newsmaker broadcast, that driving a wedge between the leftist ideologues and extremists and their corporate backers would be the beginning of the end of the Left's political viability. Marxism and corporate capitalism have always been strange (though not impossible) bedfellows. It's time to remind the corporate elite that it has options -- and indeed much better options than Pelosi, Schumer, Biden, Harris, AOC, et al.