Friends, you'll love my latest article, which praises the economic record and stewardship of President Trump, and places his accomplishments in the context of the high anxiety that the financial "experts" and MSM talking heads were displaying back in April...
https://townhall.com/columnists/nicholaswaddy/2025/08/30/trump-wins-againon-the-economy-n2662515
In related news, a bunch of lefty judges have found tariffs unconstitutional AGAIN, and now it's up to the Supremes to save the day...
Oh, and I am prominently mentioned in this Sputnik News article about the likelihood of a George Soros prosecution for RICO violations:
https://sputnikglobe.com/20250830/can-trump-lock-up-soros-1122686710.html
Finally, it appears I made an oopsie. Inconceivable, you say? Normally, I would agree with you, but back on August 23rd I attempted to post to the blog, as per usual, and I posted to the wrong page!!! Boy, do I have egg on my face. But, for posterity's sake, I am reproducing below the original post. Enjoy!
Friends, I've been having a delightful summer, full of adventures with friends and family, and I hope you have too. Here's a picture of me at the National Bank Open in Toronto, a first-rate tennis tournament just a few hours from where I live in Western New York. The point is that, despite our political engagement, we conservatives are living our lives, prioritizing those we care about, and making the most of the all too brief sojourn we have on this jewel of a planet, instead of spending our days wringing our hands and shaking our fists like certain hardcore leftists we know. So that's my advice of the day to anyone who cares to listen: politics is interesting, but don't let it distract you from, well, YOU, and those in your circle who mean the world to you, as they should.
In other news, my latest Newsmakers interview is out, and it's a doozy! Brian and I cogitate on numerous weighty subjects, including the federalization of law enforcement in D.C., the tossing out of the massive civil fraud penalty that Trump and his business were supposed to pay, developments in redistricting, voter registration gains by Republicans, and more! It's not to be missed.
https://wysl.podbean.com/e/newsmakers-8-23-25/
Also, a note to the Supreme Court: please overturn this latest judicial abomination!!! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!
It looks like interest rates will finally be coming down, and you have to wonder whether DJT's "bullying" is part of the reason... If so, thanks are owed to President Trump. I personally think the concerns about inflation have been greatly overblown, and whatever inflation tariffs engender has got to be transitory anyway, because the rise in tariffs is a one-time event.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/08/22/fed-powell-september-rate-cut/85768429007/
Finally, I recently had dinner at Cracker Barrel. Why is this news? Apparently everything Cracker Barrel does is news!!! Having said this, the "rebranding" of the logo is an interesting political (?) sideshow.
https://amgreatness.com/2025/08/23/why-the-cracker-barrel-logo-matters/
Dr. Waddy from Jack: Thanx for citing those dire predictions, most of which were the apparent product of the terrible hold emotions have on the far left and their Dem factotums.
ReplyDeleteWe are living through remarkable times: the tenure of a great President. The left invited Nemesis upon itself when it messed with this stalwart man!
Dr. Waddy from Jack: Its perhaps not surprising that a successful businessman heavily involved with very high finance would have a good visceral perception of what is favorable for the economy. Of course hindsight makes it far easier to say this. But I wonder if DJT's obvious fitness for the job will open the American mind to the "suit"ability of other business leaders for the Presidency. Eg. V. Ramaswamy?
ReplyDeleteOur President is a man of action so his hectoring may well have had decisive influence on the Federal Reserve Chairman. If interest rates come down I look forward to witnessing yet another subsequent Trump triumph. Its a heady time we are living in in our country.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: I listened to the doozy and as is customary there was plenty of , well , doozy! Lots of provocative discussion there.
ReplyDeleteI liked your comment on the Dems being put in a tough spot with the move of the National Guard into DC. They have either to painfully feign support for it (which is viscerally close to impossible for these emotionally captured America hater or they must once again affirm their honest "loathing " for the military and law enforcement and their touching sympathy for vicious criminals. The latter had a significant role in denying them in the '24 election and will garner them few friends in a country which is moving belatedly, redeemingly and with despatch to the realm of long repressed common sense.
Should an example be made of one of the conspirators in the Russiagate why not make it the Queen Bee herself? Pres. Nixon paid a heavy price for his excessive anxiety about losing to another Kennedy in '72 and so should she (although her anxiety proved to be well founded, as unlikely as it seemed).
Dr. Waddy from Jack: More registered GOP than Dems nationally; what great news that is! We, the common sense minority in NY especially appreciate it because we bear the brunt of an almost unbeatable Dem majority in our benighted state and the far left dictatorship which is its inevitable consequence.
ReplyDeleteOne grotesque factor in the NYC mayoralty race is the highly flawed nature of Cuomo's candidacy. One can almost imagine him sneering to himself "why these people are so stupid and malleable that they would actually vote for me, after all which happened when I was Governor! Actually, why not? I'm almost as far left as Mamdani and my newly adopted 'moderate ' front is just that.
Actually. I think Cuomo has worn out his welcome, though his monstrous ego and his cavernous speaking maw deny it. I'd predict Mamdani will bury him politically, hopefully for good . Then let Mamdani learn how very much anathemitized his views are in the common sense America just outside his walls. NYC did elect Guiliani and that indicates a core of common sense which probably still exists. Maybe Sliwa can redeem them but if not , probably Mamdani will when his far left reign of terror and the inevitable national reaction commences. I think Mamdani will endure his current , obviously deceitful "moderate" stance only as far as election victory. Then he will set to with a vengeance. And he will do our side a signal service by clarifying what his side really is. Yes, they are Marxists every bit as potentially vicious as were 20th century Marxists in power; yes its true! Believe it; its right here in our USA!
Dr. Waddy from Jack: Why have a Dem party at all? Its essence now is its far left conquered, America hating horde. Its "moderates": I think the only one who may partly deserve the term is Fetterman and he is a voice in the wilderness. In a pathetic sense, such as Schumer and Pelosi are relative moderates but only in contrast with the ever more honest Marxists who have hijacked the Dem party. But that duo and their followers have never ever been friends to common sense America (i.e. every place between Binghamton and Bakersfield) and they obsequiously enable dedicated America haters like the Squad. Their failure to run these budding Pol Pots out of their "democrat" party says it all.
ReplyDeleteSo what good does a Dem party do at all.? "Moderates" have no place in it now and its far left captors will run it right into the ground with their Marxist fanaticism. Let them go the way of the Whigs, of the "Know Nothings" , of the Bull Moose or of earlier "American" commies. There is more than enough healthful competition in the arena of ideas without these utterly intolerant, incipient totalitarians , whose convictions have been catastrophically discredited in those countries unlucky or unwise enough to be so cursed.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: Soros is already condemned in a sense, by history. How any Hungarian of his generation, knowing how the marxist Soviets raped Hungary in 1956, can lend such support to "American" marxists is beyond my ken. He might reply: " Why these American radicals are nothing like the marxists who oppressed Hungary". A good reply to him would be: "then stop trying to empower them! Marxists in power are CERTAIN to dictate with unlimited oppressiveness!"
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: I see Ill. Gov. Pretzles is still huffing and puffing about "responding" to Federal troops should they be ordered to Chicago. Okay. . . well, Governors Faubus, Wallace and Barnett talked that way in the late '50s and early '60s and Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy , both decidedly men of action, did what they had to do. One advantage Pretzles may have is his generous girth; he might succeed in personally blocking the troops whereas Wallace failed.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: I agree with your comment that the Dems may well regret that they got into a reflexive tiff about Texas's much needed redistricting. They were the ones who made it necessary in the first place, though I do not expect this truth to move them at all. Then again by their absolutist lights maybe they had no choice. They are far too arrogant and captured by far left incipient totalitarianism to admit any shortcoming and to seek a more reasonable position.
ReplyDeleteSo, they want to fight it out ehh? President Trump and the red states are ready for that . As you say, the Dems may well come out of the mix with a smaller minority than the present one which has nonetheless, under Mike Johnson's skilled stewardship, caused them so many Maalox moments.
Jack, there's a long way to go before the American people can "look back on" Trump's economic record, but the early indications are that the markets have a head of steam, jobs are going to native-born Americans by the millions, and our dependence on cheap foreign labor and cheap foreign imports is rapidly diminishing. Of course, plenty of factors beyond Trump's control could undermine all this progress, and at virtually any time.
ReplyDeleteTrue, Jack, Mamdani's (probable) victory over Cuomo doesn't signify much except that Cuomo is a dreadful standard-bearer for "moderation". Mamdani's mayoralty, however, may prove much more consequential...
It would be wonderful to see the Dem Party implode, but then again who knows what would replace it, and whether it would be better or worse. The Dems, to their credit, are reliably obtuse, and I like that in an opposition!