Friends, a hearty congrats to the Right Thinkers organization in the Southern Tier of New York State, spearheaded by the incomparable Connie Wolfinger and Nate Smith. I've been privileged to be a part of the Right Thinkers for almost their whole five year run, and we've come a long way together! Just a few months ago, we were contemplating what might have been the end for American conservatism and our democratic/Constitutional system, and today we're envigorated daily by President Donald Trump's achievements and his vision for the country. All I can say is: if we conservatives stick together, there's no mountain we can't climb!
https://www.oleantimesherald.com/2025/07/29/right-thinkers-marks-5-years-conservative-discussion/
In other news, the U.S. economy grew at a 3% annual pace in the second quarter, which sounds good, and is good, although there are some warning signs that trade turbulence could catch up with us in the third and fourth quarters...
https://www.wsj.com/economy/us-gdp-q2-2025-359c022b?st=ENJB6g
Speaking of tariffs, we just inked a deal with South Korea, which is fantastic, but we also announced sanctions and stiff tariffs against Brazil, largely because of that country's suppression of (conservative) dissent. Will Brazil pay us any heed? I hope so, for their sake and for the world's. Brazil is a cautionary tale of how Western "democracy", such as it is, could unravel, due to censorship and lawfare.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czxpvl9krxwo
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crlzn72eg25o
Finally, leftists are incensed because of...an ad for blue jeans??? Their ability to read "Nazism" into anything and everything never ceases to amaze me. The poor dears! How will they survive the next four years???
RAY TO DR. WADDY
ReplyDeleteA few days ago, I started rereading a book by my favorite professional historian, the late John Lukacs (died 2019), titled "Democracy and Populism, Fear and Hatred", (pub. 2005). In my opinion, Lukacs was what I call a Real Conservative, which is probably why I am getting a feeling of unease about the current administration. I was greatly relieved to see Biden fade into the mist of history, but I am beginning to have my doubts about what Trump and his people really represent.
Anyway, if you are not familiar with Lukacs, check him out.
With that said, and on that note, I'm not finding any conservative news about Trump that is looking at him "with a jaundiced eye" so to speak. (No, I'm not talking about your site). What I am getting is a lot of propaganda dished out by Fox News, which makes Trump look almost divine, with hardly any criticism I can recognize as objective. I fear the U.S. is moving from one brand of B S into another brand of B S.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: I thanked Jim Eckstrom, the very fair minded editor of our Olean paper, for the coverage he gives our group and the increased credibility and support it objectively and with journalistic integrity, affords the conservative majority in our five county area. Its grassroots politics at its best and the attention paid our gatherings by area office holders, activists , candidates and concerned citizens is very redeeming. In a dem party dictatorship like NY state ( alot of our participants are from common sense Pennsylvania too) , it is very encouraging to know we are yet a part of an astonishing revival of common sense in our national politics and part of the rout to which our extraordinary President has put the incipient totalitarian, America hating far left.
ReplyDeleteYour very well informed and expressed commentary on our panels sets an example for the disgracefully far left American academy ,of which you are a courageous dissenting part, of intellectual objectivity and support for viciously attacked doctrinal freedom in our "universities".
Dr. Waddy from Jack: The jeans/genes ads. Once again the far left, the politically correct thought police, have shot themselves in the foot. They can't get out of their own way!
ReplyDeleteThey go ahead and attack a tactic probably so basic to advertising that it is taught to freshmen marketing majors: good looking people draw attention to advertisements and very successfully send a message that one may enjoy some of the success obvious in the public presentation of such attractive visual models. "Oh no!" the far left roars, "you must not give any credit to such'politically blasphemous ' expression of 'lookism' and once you give us the power, we will very forcefully suppress such obscenity and punish both its purveyors and its customers, haaarrrumphh!"
Gee, but that's just the kind of finally widely realized incipient totalitarian dictation of which common sense America is now, and militantly so, nearing full realization in our own country. And folks, its just a hint of the kind of microscopic inspection to which every aspect of our lives would be put should these budding "commissars" ever achieve full power. Just read any account of 20th century communism in action and you'll see enough. (eg. the book Lenin's Tomb).
Shakespeare once had a compulsive character express a willingness to "cavil (argue) on the ninth part of a hair" . Yes , if one were to 'cavil" one might perceive, if one really might, a miniscule hint of racial antipathy in this much nonetheless very repeatedly and closely examined advertisement (mind you , only for creditable dialectical purposes) . But sorry, you the frantic and beleagured far left retreating column, the "people" don't give a fig! But do expend your ever depleting supply of expository gas on it, oh do!
Dr. Waddy from Jack: President Trump continues to defy convention and manifest beneficial results doing so. His creative use of tariffs is exemplary.
ReplyDeleteFact is , we have often interfered in the politics of other nations. Most often it has been in our own interest to do so but it is historically proven that our intercession sometimes works favorable results for countries we treat this way (eg. Iraq). Some times we act to counter injustices we see in other countries (eg. boycotting S. Africa when apartheid was the law ). Perhaps it is a simple fact of international life that great powers act in these manners; when it is a relatively humane and civilized country like the U.S. it is good fortune for the world.
So, should we put pressure of any sort on Brazil to affect its domestic politics and governance? It would be against our interests to have an enormous potentially far left country which could dominate both S. America and the S. Atlantic. And we can be completely confident that the farther left a country goes , the more intense is the totalitarian oppression the people suffer. History proves that. So does justification for our use of tariffs to try to mitigate Brazil's "progress" to the always tyrannical far left obtain? We should always be hesitant to bully but on balance perhaps it does.
Dr. Waddy from Jack:The far leftists are really scraping the bottom of the barrel if they can't find anything better than their more than worn out effete old saw of (gasp!) Nazi!!! when we commit the slightest offense to their oh so high strung political psyches .
ReplyDeleteI'd like the chance to challenge them to a quick quiz on Nazism , I mean they use the term so confidently, they must really know their stuff, yes? So: "define the following terms: 'arbeit machts frei !' ( for extra credit say where it was customarily displayed); Sonderkommando; Gauleiter; SS; lebensraum". For what is "Nazi "an abbreviation? Identify the following persons: Reinhard Heidrich , Adolph Eichmann, Ernst Roehm, Alfred Rosenberg. " "Give a one paragraph review of the book The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William Shirer, perhaps the most well known history of that phenomenom. Cite at what page you became physically ill as you read it, as you surely have done , yes? "
"What, you say you can't? Well bless me for a fool; I was certain that anyone as free as you and your compatriots are to use a term as catastrophically condemned by history and decency as "Nazi", to describe fellow Americans who dare to disagree with you on anything, would be well informed on just what "Nazi" means!"