Friends, you thought workplace conditions at Fordow were bad? Things could get a whole lot hairier for lefty federal judges from this point on... SCOTUS today seems to have curtailed the ability of district court judges to issue so-called universal injunctions, which prevent the executive branch from doing, well, pretty much anything, on the whim of whatever judge feels like issuing the order. These injunctions have been the bane of DJT's existence since taking office in January, and curbing them could mean a HUGE shot in the arm for the agenda, broadly conceived, of the Trump Administration! We'll see how the dust settles, but I am most impressed by SCOTUS's resolute stand, and I am deeply grateful to those six conservative Justices who are, FINALLY, earning their paychecks (and then some)!
In other news, there is "outrage" that Donald Trump said a thing that is kinda true, but then there's always outrage about everything Trump says, so what's new? Trump compared the decisiveness of his bombing of Iran's nuclear facilities to the war-ending impact of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Now, as a historian, I actually don't agree that those atomic bombings were as central to Japan's decision to surrender as many people assume, but that doesn't change the fact that they were an important part of the ruling junta's calculus as it made the decision to cry uncle. Will Trump's bunker busters prove similarly transformative? Well, only time will tell, but it's not outrageous to hope so!
Dr. Waddy from Jack: I celebrated today's Scotus decisions on your last post before this and I agree with you completely. I especially like your metaphor, it carries with it the implication that the now much inconvenienced far left's response to these decisions is analogous to the futile and laughable "we won" assertions of the Iranian regime after the deluge. This President can't lose for winning and the radicals can't win for losing. The "American" far left just met a Vicksburg after last week's Gettysburg. (A rough comparison I know but its fun!)
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: I visited Nagasaki in American uniform 23 years after the Abomb and stood at a ground zero which had to be marked as such because it did not look at all like the spot where such an indescribable explosion took place. In an atomic bomb museum they have there a Japanese man obviously old enough to have been an adult at the time of the bombing , and I, attempted to converse. Neither one of us had enough of the the other's language to be able but I sensed no hostility from him.
ReplyDeletePerhaps some day Iran can , to its great benefit, rejoin the family of civilized nations as did Japan.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: Back when Slick Willy was first elected, Streisand remarked "well, how do you Republicans FEEL now that you've lost everything?Well Babs, how do you feel now that you dems have lost the Federal Judiciary, which lately has been everything to you? . And we do know how very much store her far left puts in feelings.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: Back to NYC's onerous dilemma: Momdani, who is a declared "defund the police" believer ,has proposed the replacement of the police with a cadre of (paraphrase) "persons trained in managing conflict". Well!
ReplyDeleteBut gee, how would these gentle souls do this? Would they travel in step vans brightly decorated with prayer wheels and broadcasting endless choruses of Kumbayaa and exalted mantras? Perhaps the city would set up automatic corner kiosks where soothing renditions emphasizing the theme of " there are always two sides to a disagreement", delivered by Dear Leader Momdani himself , would be readily available upon deposit of now worthless pennies. Maybe the Hare Krishnas could be reformed and sent out to roam the mean streets ;of course we know that under a "Democratic Socialist" Mayor , they would have a choice in this.
Why, recent liberal arts grads, who are finding it hard to get jobs with the current administration's proletarian emphasis on vocational training in the "hands on" professions, could be afforded make work as mentors. Yes, they could recreate in crime ridden neighborhoods the smoky dorm bull sessions where they figured out all the world's problems by the end of sophomore year. Or they could heed the librarian I knew who said that librarians are the perfect examples libraries are ideal settings for enlightening and redeeming even the most degraded and hardened criminals. "Teach them how to look it up rather than fight it out" was her mantra. Yes, that's it: require thugs to sojourne in libraries until thoroughly made over. I'm sure the law abiding patrons would tolerate it.
I'm sure the lawful public, especially crime victims and the most vulnerable, like senior citizens and kids, would be as patient as to endure the time it would take for criminals to freely choose these alternatives to the overpaid and out of control police. They'd better be because something like these ideas may actually be in store for NYC. God help them!
Dr. Waddy from Jack: There appears to be much optimism among some Dems over the possibility of AOC and Momdani being the Dem party's redeemers from this, the long dark night of their soul.
ReplyDelete"Why Trump got where he is by being frank and open with his detestable beliefs and intentions and showing complete contempt for ours'. We must do the same and maybe these two are meant for this exalted mission. All democrats except heretic Fetterman embrace the positions so openly pressed by these
young newcomers but they are just afraid to say it! If we are going to outdo Trump and his successors we must stand up to them in equal unapologetic assertion!
If their current counterintuitive intensification of the far leftist screed which cost them the election continues it may well be that the dem powers that be are convinced it is their only way back to the power necessary to end the abominations they endure daily from their hated Nemeses .
They have a point; without its its neomarxist , incipiently totalitarian , America hating reality on full display, why have a Dem party at all? Go for it Dems, go for it!
Dr. Waddy from Jack : Saw a good commentary today on Fox on where Mondami and AOC get their popularity. Gen Z is offered as the key to it. Since the oldest members of this group are in their late 20's they are said therein to be most concerned about a cost of housing so high that it prevents them from owning and makes rental very painful. So, it says, they see Socialists, with their characteristic control of prices as attractive prospective rulers.
ReplyDeleteIt's easy to see how NYC's insane housing costs could manifest frustration , amounting almost to despair among NYC Gen Zers. Can that be harnessed for national gain for the far left? I know a mid 30s professional in Buffalo who is convinced she will never be able to own a home. Buffalo is a far more common sense place than NYC but its dominant Dems just nominated a firm leftist for Mayor.
Socialism is a doctrine catastrophically discredited by history but a perhaps considerable faction of Americans are open to trying it. They need listen only to anyone who has suffered Socialist misrule to have ample warning but so many have minds closed by far left indoctrination, often in the "American" academy to which so many of them have flocked and from which their fellow travelers have cursed our public schools.
Could this mean President Mondami or AOC? Very probably not but it does offer a very plausible prospect of some states becoming Socialist hellholes perhaps eventually necessitating Federal rescue from guaranteed far left oppression. NYC dominated NY state may be well on the way.
"Be careful what you wish for, you may get it"is a maxim that those willing to give Socialism a chance would do very well to consider. Certainly the "masses" who live or have lived under it would never give it another chance (eg. Venezuela). Mondami obviously scorns capitalism and doesn't hesitate to state that frankly. He freely suggests extending that animus to freedom, property and prosperity too.
I don't think America will ever go for it and with regret for the millions of common sense NYCers who would be made "subjects" by these wrongheaded disdainful dreamers , I think his effort is much to the benefit of America as a whole as a telling ominous example. Nobody considers NYC normal but then, neither is a hernia or amoebic dysentery and the amoeba on the Hudson may give their political equivalents baleful life within our very borders.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: I see I am still misspelling Moonbeami's name above. I plead Chronic Bidenic Cognitive Disability and invoke the Americans with Disabilities Act to my succor. I fully expect my ever righteous and litigious boomer generation to submit a class action suit after this fashion as this dysfunction is common to us. So there!
ReplyDeleteJack, funnily enough, the case of Hiroshima and Nagasaki might lead us to assume that, when a proud people is a-bombed, they become infinitely more amenable (and fast friends with their former mass murderers)! Of course, the real world effects of the use of atomic weapons depend on a great number of factors. One thing is for sure: blowing up a few bunkers in Iran really isn't the same thing as winning World War II, much as Trump might like to pretend otherwise.
ReplyDeleteWith respect to the end of universal injunctions, one has to wonder whether lefty judges would still possess this power if they had simply used it more sparingly. Probably, they would. God bless those lefties and their tendency to panic and overreact!!!
Would Mamdani, as Mayor, have the ability to translate his various harebrained proposals into policy and law? I dunno, but I suspect he would struggle. The city council likely doesn't have a socialist majority. Of course, in some ways NYC is already circling the drain, thanks to the collapse in commercial real estate. Could Mamdani push it over the edge? I agree, however, that concerns about the cost of living, especially in a place like NYC, are reasonable. Sure, the promise of free (or "cheap") housing will win over some struggling youngsters, but the Dems have a dreadful record when it comes to delivering on these fantasies. In fact, in the states and cities they rule, they consistently deliver MORE EXPENSIVE housing than what red jurisdictions can offer. On the other hand, if Mamdani drives NYC into bankruptcy and all its white/affluent residents into flight, that would have the effect of lowering real estate values, so maybe there's method to the madness???
Dr. Waddy from Jack: Whenever they think they have a winning tactic the emotionally captured far left over reaches. "See, we were right all along!' You hit it on the head; they really put their foot in it this time and do they deserve the rebuke they got. The principle they advanced to support their gross misuse of the Federal Judiciary was absurd. Had they used it occasionally and with care it might have served them well on some very important issue. But when you are convinced that you are unimpeachably just, such rectitude and timidity is shameful. They were in a pretty deep hole already and they are still digging.
ReplyDeleteThey have taken a real haymaker on this one and there is another one coming for them when the "big beautiful bill" passes. BTW a poll today says Mayor Pete is their leading - dah, dah, dah dah - Presidential contender. I fail to see how the mayoralty of South Bend Indiana and an undistinguished stint in one of the most discredited administrations ever earns one such glory. The dems must be hard up.
Maybe the far left should reconsider its parasitic relationship with the dem party (actually, maybe it is). After '72 they resolved to join the loathed "establishment" and ride it to eventual dominance and disposal. Whadda they have to show for it after half a blamed century.? America is going strong and they are whirling down the bowl with
sickening velocity.
Yeah, even if he fluffs on most of his ardent dreams, if Mandami drives the accomplished and successful out of the city he will have gained the emotional fulfillment which is the fond reward all radicals seek.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: I think Japan's friendship with us is genuine and I base that in part on my experiences of friendship in Japan. But I think it derives from our brilliant administration of Japan when we occupied it. They expected to be savaged and were amazed when we treated them with generosity and some respect for their culture.
ReplyDeleteMayor Pete, eh? He's the darling of affluent intellectual white leftists, who in turn consider themselves the darlings of America, so why not??? He'd make such an excellent foil for Vance. I hope it comes to pass!
ReplyDeleteGood point that we won the Japanese over with mildness and generosity -- and of course the split-screen image the Japanese had of us and the red horde descending on mainland Asia didn't hurt our image any, either.