Friends, President/President-Elect Donald Trump is off to a fast start in naming his new cabinet and key advisors. Of course, good ole Elon is in the mix, but some of the other names are downright obscure -- suggesting that Trump is more concerned about loyalty, competence, and ideological synchronicity than he is with star power. In particular, early signs are that he means business when it comes to enforcing our border laws and deporting illegal immigrants. Fine by me! Also reassuring is the fact that he plans to move aggressively to prohibit federal government interference with free speech. Amen to that, I say! The toxic marriage between the bureaucracy and media and social media censors has to end, once and for all.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2m1ey10rxo
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/nov/11/editorial-trump-takes-censorship/
Dr. Waddy from Jack: This has been the most memorable week of all the 64 years I've been following American politics. The insufferably arrogant antiamerican left has been humbled. They really messed up when they toyed with DJT.
ReplyDeleteMusk and Ramaswamy; what a team! I hope they end the presumptuous tenures of the National Endowment for the Arts and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Oh I know, the effete Pelosiesque snobs consider most Americans to be philistines, bereft of any appreciation for the finer aspects of life and in need of compelled enlightenment for their own unrealized good. But gee, I'd rather they enjoyed depictions of Santa's elves having sex or a crucifix dipped in urine (God help us) on their own dime. Cable broadcasting and the Internet offer virtually infinite variety crossing all tastes. There is no justification for clearly leftist biased taxpayer funded redundancy . Don't worry, you who crave such edification; you are not going to be prevented access to your cultural, political and artistic preferences; your far left in complete power would of course hasten to suppress any perceived blasphemy or heretical expression.
Pete Hegseth for SecDef. That's an astonishing choice. I know this: he loathes wokeness. I am confident, the majority of those in the military and law enforcement, and those who wish them well, are fed up beyond measure with antiamerican antimilitary and police hating leftist insouciant use of the dutifully compliant services for loony social experimentation, virtue signaling and revenge. Relief is on the way I think.
Jack of effette Pelosieque snobs:
DeleteWell good sir! We share the same most memorable week and time frame! Politically it may surpass Reagan's 1984 landslide!
Homan, Waltz, Musk, Ramaswamy, Ratcliff, and Hegseth (et al) are all excellent choices. They demonstrate a willingness to execute an all-out offensive and take no prisoners approach.
The plan appears to be attack early and simultaneously. Let's go!
It will be interesting to see what the MMM uses as the new negative term for the full frontal assault!
I fully agree: it is vital that the toxic marriage you lament must be ended. I really like the idea of moving the offices of some Federal departments to flyover country. Some creditable commentators have opined that perhaps the MSM has met its Waterloo this time. I hope they are right; it would be wonderful to see it reduced to the status raucously enjoyed by the Jerry Springer show or professional wrestling.
ReplyDeleteRAY TO DR. WADDY AND JACK
ReplyDeleteToo bad our system is not set up where The President-Elect (Trump in this case), becomes The "President-In Fact" the very month he is elected, inauguration and all, so he can sit in the oval office and get things done officially, instead of having to wait while some damn fool (Biden in this case) sits around for almost three (3) more months and does nothing at all, or damages the country even more.
Richie from Jack: Its a great feeling to know we are on the "right " side in this second Civil War and that our side has just won a smashing, perhaps even decisive victory.
ReplyDeleteI always dump on the NEA and CPB because I consider them especially and obnoxiously exemplary of the leftist presumption that it is ok to misuse tax payer funds for things THEY think are just "nice", not necessary or almost universally favored. There is way too much of that kind of thinking about: I saw lots of it when I worked in NY state government.
Let's help the beleagured MSM coin a term for the onerous situation they share today with the many institutions of incipient leftist totalitarianism, all of whom are adrift just now in a veritable sea of lugubrious dread and despair, the poor dears. Let's see; how about "The Slough of Despond"? But oh no, Dante has already used that; it does fit though. Maybe "The Occupation"? After all, that is how we of common sense in NY state regard our servile status. That is not to suggest any degree of common sense in the doctrines of the antiamerican left, though.
DJT has harnessed a long simmering cauldron of resentment against antiamerica's all out onslaught on all that Americans cherish and value. So it would be monumentally tragic were Maga to waste this almost complete ascension to decisive democratic power. We have an incalculably fortunate chance to take our country back and set it back on the path of measured, carefully and wisely conceived progress always taking care to conserve and preserve those many redeeming features which grace our civilization. I agree, it looks like that is how DJT is directing it. Yeah, we have before had both the Presidency and Congress but never in combination with such a lawful Scotus. So an unrelenting resolve to carry this possible salvation of our country from the curse of neomarxism to culmination is vital. And it is much promised by the emerging character of this administration.
I think the antiamerican left rashly directed an all out intended ruinous assault on DJT and his family which the American electorate recognized and spurned as an essential element of their character. It is fully predictive of how they would, in the totalitarian dominance they seek, treat us all! In doing this they have raised in an American whose fortitude they have presumptuously and contemptuously misconceived, a grim determination to set things right, not by personal vindication primarily but by working a long way to their lasting discreditation, disempowerment and their reunion with their 20th century marxist exemplars on what President Reagan so presciently and effectively termed " the ash heap of history".
Dr. Waddy from Jack: According to the BBC article, the DOGE, which Musk and Ramaswamy will be directing ,will not be a formal organization. Good; I would loathe to see those two brilliant executives weighed down with the suffocating conventions of the establishment and conduct of a typical bureaucratic government department. Antiamerica would of course hasten to corrupt it and relative independence would allow that promising pair to avoid its misuse of rights of staff tenure and deference to slow them down. Let them bustle, the better to root out the purposeful degradation of our government imposed by a far left convinced since 1972 that the path to dominance had to be pursued painfully and deceitfully by cynical internal sedition.
ReplyDeleteRay from Jack: Yeah, the Brits seem to be able to manage a quick transition. All they have to do is visit the Monarch and then walk across the Commons chamber.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: The question is being bandied about much now: who can the Dems turn to for leadership now.I'd suggest it will be AOC; she is already craftily moving to dispel her well deserved image as an anarchic reflexive extreme left "bomb thrower". Records of her having queried of some who apparently voted both for her and DJT show her displaying sweet reason in refraining from instant excoriation of such blasphemy.
ReplyDeleteAnd she was broadcast lamenting the "phony" aspect displayed by Harris in her campaign. Ol' Brer Rabbit would be proud of her: "why I'd always be honest with you" she will protest as she commences a counterintuitive progress to the center . Why should she refrain from taking advantage of the leadership vacuum in her party? She is already quietly distancing herself from the detested "squad" I think. She's going to go for it I'd guess, just as unlikely Obama did in 2006, when he commenced his astonishing rise.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: I'd like to see Musk and Ramaswamy each get a rubber stamp saying "Defunded - not government business!" and wear it out in jack time.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: Wow; this year, which we knew would be astonishing, certainly has proven so. Tulsi, RFK Jr and Pete Hegseth possibly in the Cabinet and Musk and Ramaswamy ready to BUSTLE against waste; its been a long time coming. So good to see successful businessmen given a decisive role. Good luck to the AG nominee too (his name escapes me now). That department deserves a real spanking and that guy is just the one to do it! An OUTSTANDING reward to a gutsy American and his supporters this election is.
ReplyDeleteI do share your concern about the risk possibly inherent in recruiting several GOP House members for the Cabinet. I am confident that its been well planned out by team Trump but it is a thin margin. But the Dems are subordinate in all three branches!!!
Dr. Waddy from Jack: I can empathize with devastated Dems now. When Clinton was elected I wondered if we even had a country anymore, the thought of him winning was so counterintuitive. Oh well, "elections have consequences" eh Barack?
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: I think it was popular Civil War historian Gary Gallagher who opined: "at the time, Gettysburg was not necessarily viewed as the turning point". Actually it is still not seen as so by some creditable historians but just for ducks, lets go with the present majority perception of its importance as the turning point, which of course is graced by hindsight and exhaustive study.
ReplyDeleteI have always thought that our civil war between comprehensively America hating antiamerica and common sense America would eventually reach a point at which the outcome would someday be determined but not immediately ,widely and convincingly perceived as such.In 2016 I thought Hillary would bring it about with her terribly vindictive lifelong resolve to right all wrongs with power she gained through very painful travail. It would have been most obvious in her reduction of Scotus to an obsequious rubber stamp for her far left dictates. DJT put paid to that.
OK, have we reached a real turning point now though? Is the far left finished? Alot of commentators think so; can it be that they are right?How dramatic it is that we are even able to consider any possibility of such deliverance and reendorsement of our country's ON BALANCE justice and the wisdom of conserving and preserving it in its present form being at hand. All we CAN do now is consider it, no clear proof can be possible yet.
The wisest course for us now is to keep the heat at maximum, to keep landing haymakers on a staggering and retreating far left which can be prevented from destroying our country only by complete defeat, discreditation and disempowerment.
I still think this marxist oppressed era in the US will come to be historically regarded as a bizarre interlude, if we stay true to our convictions and utterly untrusting of a proven America hating rump. Support for DJT brought us to this promising turn; continued support for this phenomenal man is the best way for us now.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: A WSJ article reprinted today in RealClearPolitics says that Gertmany opposes Ukrainian membership in Nato but still supports Ukraine in the war. Prevention of Ukrainian entry into Nato and a plausible guarantee that Nato troops will never be deployed to Ukraine may be enough for Russia to agree to an armistice.
ReplyDeleteIn consequent negotiations it may be best for Ukraine if it accepts the loss of its Great Russian majority area. Wars sometimes take on lives of their own and acquisition of territory , though not the reason for Russia's invasion, may, because of the frightful cost of this war, now be an important factor.
The article says that some European countries may seek to strengthen a post war Ukraine in order to protect it (and them) against a future invasion by Russia. That could raise problems for us if some Nato members thereby get into war with Russia. Perhaps a politic approach for Western Europe would be to assure Russia that only "defensive" weapons would be provided.
Russia's vital national security conviction for " No Ukraine in Nato, no Nato in Ukraine, never, ever, NYET!!!" must be assuaged. There is nothing for it but that. It is an onerous. Russia just might agree to the 20 (or more) years refrain from any possibility of Ukrainian membership but I would think that 20, 30 or a century later this issue will remain for them a fundamental affront and threat.
Ukraine's proximity to the brutal Great Russian nation is a grim and endlessly poignant reality in this hard world. But perhaps preserving their independence is the best they can hope for. They have fought heroically and in doing so, may have done so.
Would accomodation of Russia in this regard encourage Chinese aggression against Taiwan? Several factors obtain: China has no experience of amphibious warfare and as the War in the Pacific proved, it takes a lot of experience to get it right. Also, China's historical ties to Taiwan are not nearly as profound as are those of Russia and Ukraine. Taiwan was not China's prototypical homeland; the Chinese conquered it only during their last Imperial dynasty. And having a perhaps overwhelming array of perhaps allied naval powers determined not to allow China to break the crescent (either defensive of offensive) of powers arrayed around China in the East and South China seas , is a much different matter than invading by land.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: So Biden has "approved"the use of long range weapons acquired from us, against and presumably into, Russia. He may yet bumble us into WWIII.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: How could ANY nation not regard such an affront as an act of war? How would we have responded in Oct. '62, even if those IRBMS had firecrackers in their tips?! In two months we will get a common sense administration, even though the inauguration may have to take place in Yellowstone Park.
ReplyDeleteJack, I don't know much about Hegseth, but he seems like the kind of guy who would work feverishly to change the culture of the military, and that in turn will accelerate the purge of the woke outliers still in it. I say: bring him, and it, on!
ReplyDeleteTrump's picks are indeed daring, even provocative, and of course hitting us with all barrels at once makes it pretty hard for the Senate to nix more than one or two of them, if it can even muster the gumption for that. My guess is Trump will bat something like .900 when all is said and done.
Ray, it is a pity that the interregnum lasts so long. I'm still wary of dirty tricks. I would check for sappers planting mines under Mar-a-Lago...and Jewish space lasers, too!
Jack, that is a good point that words are failing the lefties at this stage. "Felon" didn't work. "Fascism" fell flat. How can they reestablish their grip on the discourse??? Don't count them out. There are some subtle minds slithering in the swamp.
AOC for Prez, huh? Maybe in the fullness of time, but surely for starters she needs to ascend to the Senate or the governorship, no?
Jack, I would temper the triumphalism. DJT's winning margins are easily reversible, and more importantly the Left still controls many of the REAL levers of power: culturally, for instance. We need to get busy wresting our key institutions out of the grip of leftists, and, if we don't, we'll be right back where we started, and worse even, in short order.
Jack, I wouldn't suppose that anything that has happened in Ukraine makes China more likely to invade Taiwan. The Russia-Ukraine War has created immense suffering and bloodshed and very little else. The Russians had experience of war and still blew their chance to conquer Ukraine. China has no experience and little reason to suppose an amphibious invasion would go smoothly...
The approval of the use of long-range missiles against Russia feels like a last, desperate ploy to give Ukraine leverage in the end stages of the conflict, and more importantly in the forthcoming negotiations.
RAY TO DR. WADDY
DeleteAre those "Jewish space lasers" kosher?