Friends, 2025 promises to be a wondrous experience for Trump supporters, and a deeply disspirting one for Trump haters. Of course, Trump isn't the ONLY person or thing that will define the year ahead. I'd love to hear your thoughts on what the top stories of 2025 are likely to be...
In the meantime, if you're a typical denizen of the internets, you're probably dealing with a lot of anger and self-loathing. Not to worry! WaddyIsRight has your back. Here are some tips on how to make 2025 your happiest year yet... I recommend buying (or renting) a puppy.
China is getting increasingly bold in its hacking of Western companies, governments, and opinion leaders. What does this mean? If we retaliate, which presumably we will, could this digital cold war escalate into a hot one?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c86w2evj05do
The recent airplane crash in South Korea is a real puzzlement. Some aspects of it just don't seem to add up. Hopefully in the days ahead we'll have more to go on.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn9g40v898do
Lastly, feel free to reflect on the passing of Jimmy Carter. In my humble opinion, he was a mediocre president, at best, but it's certainly conceivable that he could have won reelection and thus forestalled the Reagan Revolution. Indeed, that's what almost all insiders and experts expected. Democracy can really throw us a curveball now and then, no?
We got an insight into what to expect in 2025 today. Hours after the mass killing in New Orleans, Trump put out a post that suggested the perpetrator had been an illegal immigrant. Turns out the killer was born and raised in TX, and served in the military.
ReplyDeleteWhat's scary is that Trump has promised to increase the number of crimes on the federal level eligible for the death penalty, and that he will make sure those who receive a death sentence will be executed. This is the man who took out a full page ad to call for the death penalty of the Central Park Five -- who ended up being released on appeal because the evidence would not sustain their guilt.
Trump's judgment is faulty. He makes YUGE mistakes.
Rod
ROD
DeleteTry not to be upset, please. Your arch enemy Trump is only going to be President for four years.
ROD
DeleteHowever, if you can't stand four years of Trump, you might consider suicide. Jumping off a Trump building would no doubt be headline news, with a Leftist journalist writing a good article about Trump driving people to take their lives in protest. If you decide to take this route, please appoint someone to tell Dr. Waddy that you have taken the dive, no pun intended, and your file will be marked DSAF (Did Society a Favor).
I think the two posts above were attempts to be funny, but since neither contained a bit of humor, I can’t be sure.
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Rod:
DeleteAnonymous' posts obviously weren't funny and not indicative of values true conservatives hold. Welcome back to WaddyIsRight. Your perspective adds a little spice to the convo.
In response to your earlier post, there has been plenty of "faulty judgment" in recent days. The way information about the tragic events in New Orleans was initially communicated left a lot to be desired. A lack of clarity and transparency only fueled confusion and speculation.
If there were more openness and earned trust with federal law enforcement, people would be far less likely to jump to conclusions based on incomplete or misleading information. Unfortunately, to say those institutions have reaped what they've sowed.
Hey Rod
DeleteInstead of blasting Trump with a typical Leftist barrage, why don't you start making comments that reflect your disdain for him, by stating exactly why you don't like something Trump says or does?
Make your case instead of coming up with remarks like "What's scary......"
You are supposed to be a journalist, so start acting like one instead of attacking someone with convoluted logic and demonizing them because you don't like their politics.
If you cant do that now, stay the fuck off this site
until you can, or continue to make a fool of yourself. We all know you don't like Trump, so tell us why, in detail instead throwing rocks like a pouting little juvenile puke.
Beyond the fact that Trump has cheated on multiple wives, I don't like Trump because of his serial lying. No presidential candidate or president has lied as much as Trump has, and those lies (election fraud in 2020, the NOLA murderer was in this country illegally) have been highly irresponsible.
DeleteTake the economy, for example. Trump claims during his first term he delivered the greatest economy in history. He merely continued the Obama economy, which was good, but not historically great. GDP growth during the first three years of the Trump administration was 2.6-2.8% (in order to be fair and not count the COVID year, the exact GDP number is a bit variable). Under Biden, GDP is 3.2%. Trump claims that under Biden inflation has been the highest ever. The highest inflation number under Biden was 9.1%, which was exceeded during the last two years of the Carter administration and the first two years of the Reagan administration (it was highest in 1920). Before the pandemic, Trump saw about 180,000 jobs created per month. Over the past two years (since employment caught up to pre-pandemic levels), the Biden administration has seen job growth of over 225,000 per month. So, Trump did not have the greatest economy in history. In fact, he didn't have the best economy in this century.
But, because he repeated the lie so many times, his MAGA followers (who won't, or can't, critically evaluate his claims) returned him to the presidency. If the country is lucky, Trump won't mess things up too much. But, when someone who doesn't have the first clue about how tariffs operate promises to have an economic policy that features their use, our country may long for the days of 9.1% inflation.
Rod
RAY TO ROD
DeleteOkay for starters, although I hardly agree, or ever will.
As I recall, and if you are the same Rod I think you are, you have advanced/graduate degrees in mass communications, and your last name starts with the letter "C".
With that said, why don't you contribute your wisdom to this site by posting your full name to each comment you make. In other words, create your own site within the "Waddy Is Right" site as a worthy adversary from one PhD to another. No humor here, no sarcasm, no satire. I''m serious!
You might want to include a cameo of your face also, plus a snap shot biography, with each comment you make.
Think about it. I would even be willing to fade out completely, and enjoy what Dr. Waddy has to say in reply to your "rants and raves".
RAY TO DR. WADDY
ReplyDeleteLooks like (literally) someone decided to express their disdain for Trump and Musk in front of a Trump building. What a way to kick off 2025! As usual, someone has to get killed or injured. I suspect, more of this to come during the Trump administration.
I will be real interested (an understatement) to see how the people Trump has selected will be handling these various events. I will be especially interested to see what happens at our border with Mexico. The Czar in charge of the border actually looks like he might do something to stop the unrestricted flow of illegals invading our country. Hoping Trump will authorize the use of our Armed Forces to protect the U.S./Mexico Border.
Rod from Jack: with respect for the restraint and empirical objectivity you demonstrate in your commentaries, I would opine that by far the most disingenuous President was Clinton. "Denah, denah, denah, baibee". That was his reflexive credo.
ReplyDeleteHe employed it in his draft dodging gaming of his draft board ( I mean who were they to deny a Fulbright scholar a reprieve , during which time his draft lottery number prevented his being consequently drafted and to his amoral mind, excused him from his promise of eventual service. After all, unlike most draftees, he had a promising future in store!. Ironically enough, he would probably have had a rollicking good time in the army, having used his carnival huckster skills to secure a posting close upon the stews of Amsterdam , far from Vietnam. )
Of course coincident to that was his rise to ultimate power, which he used to work his moral turpitude upon any pulchitrudinous enough to garner his lascivious attention. The dem party went to the wall for this low life and that denies it any moral authority to fault DJT.
Ray from Jack: Totally agree with you on the use of the Armed Ser vices to close the border. Their salient purpose is to protect America, especially from direct invasion, albeit by wretched people desperately reduced to inhuman misuse by sociopaths.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: I think those who have predicted that the next big war will be fought by 15 year old hackers were only half joking.Meanwhile, we may well be getting a telling demonstration of the present state of conventional land warfare between opponents on the same continent in Ukraine and the Kursk region.
ReplyDeleteWishing you the best of 2025. I did get a kitten instead of a puppy though, so I'll have to see how that goes.
ReplyDeleteThe Jeju Air crash is definitely puzzling. To my knowledge they hadn't radioed any sort of distress to the ATC in the area prior to it going down. Just made a beeline to the runway and the rest is history.
Maybe some sort of bird strike or mechanical failure which also damaged the antenna or radio if it's not foul play like a sabotage. I guess we should see a report on it in the future once they decode the flight recorder and cockpit recorder's data.
Either way I feel for the families.
Rod (if that was indeed Rod) is correct that Trump gets plenty wrong. Unfortunately for Rod, the American people seem to find Trump's wrongness more convincing that the Left's wrongheadedness, and I can't say I blame them. A factual error can always be dialed back. An erroneous worldview is inherently more problematic. Anyway, let the record show that Rod has defended the honor of Shamsud-Din Jabbar against DJT's libelous suggestion that he wasn't an American citizen. Bravo, Rod!
ReplyDeleteI agree with Rod and Richie that suicide humor isn't very humorous. Raymundo's acid wit sometimes gets the better of him.
Rod, you know as well as I do that a president's economic record is subject to plenty of spin, and that no president, in truth, has much control over the economy anyway. If you take out the outlier COVID years of 2020 and 2021, Trump and Biden's records in terms of GDP growth are...almost identical, which proves that both Trump and Rod are equally full of it when engaging in economic analysis. So, surprise! You have more in common with Trump than you thought, Rod. Maybe the next four years won't be so bad?
Ray, it now looks like the bomber in Las Vegas was a big fan of Trump! Obviously he had a funny way of showing it. But yes, I expect plenty of sick people to do outrageous and criminal things in the next four years to express their TDS. Buckle up!
Dilan, there was, as I understand it, a mayday call from the airliner, but it looks to me like they rejected the landing, raised the gear and retracted the flaps, panicked, circled extra quick, and then forgot to lower the flaps and gear. That seems like the most logical explanation. Time will tell! I feel for the families too, and I don't envy Boeing stockholders either.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: For 2025 I'm thinking that widespread social disorder purposefully fomented by antiamerica will manifest. That the far left is stung to the quick by the "execrable" reality that America denied them and that the curtain is about to rise on an entity (to them, not a human) who is to their fevered minds their absolute antithesis, they have foamed at the mouth since the election. What insanity might they enact when he takes office and begins EXERCIZING his lawful authorized power? For them, the very worst they can imagine will actually TRANSPIRE, oh dear!
ReplyDeleteYET, their reaction since the election has been curiously restrained compared to their frantic display after the 2016 election. Maybe they are busy building their subterranean networks from which to conduct underground "resistance" to this "ultimate" injustice, since of course the pedestrian electoral process which always offended their totalitarian miens has so oppressed them this time.
But, perhaps they may also have beat a strategic retreat, with full intent to return to their distruction of America as soon as credulous America allows them to do so; good luck on that!
Dr.; Waddy from Jack: But for the immediate future; what humbug is intended by the far left in this "sentencing ploy". That they have no shame in fomenting this hugger mugger is clearly demonstrated by this Vishinsky clone Judge Mersan. He states he is not "inclined "to impose jail time. Why bless us all for fools, we lost alot of sleep over that! And he asserts, with righteous dudgeon worthy of a Biblical prophet, that he cannot find it in himself to "grant" the "drastic and rare relief "sought by DJT''s personal defense! Well! "All praise be to the rule of law" in this heretofore lawless political assault, yes ? Ehh, Not!
ReplyDeleteI'd predict this will generate a tentatively affirmed "conviction", pending appeal in effect, which will either trigger a patronizing and discrediting pardon from Biden, which I hope DJT will reject with marked contempt, or a ridiculous pretext for a continuation of guerrilla lawfare by a desperate far left.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: I'd also predict that a generalized national ambience of disgust with the exaltation of criminals fomented by the outgoing administration will be manifest.
ReplyDeleteWe actually experienced such a sea change in of all places, NY state under GOP Governor Pataki some 20 years ago. His denial of the free mail, free college and generalized indulgence to convicts was of course widely undone by emotionally captured successor Dem Gov. Andrew Cuomo after his touching epiphany, when he "broke bread" with some of the "the guys" in a deservedly maximum security state prison.
But in that America free of NY or CA style far leftist dictation, righteous resolve to visit full consequence upon criminal victimizers and full sympathy to their victims, exemplified by a Pam Bondi headed DOJ determined to derail lawfare and restore the rule of democratically promulgated law, should be very popular and should be affirmed at state and local levels