Friends, hearty kudos to President Trump and First Lady Melania on their very successful state visit to England, which helped to solidify the "special relationship" we have with the Brits, and which, because of its smoothness and sheer splendor, irritated lefties to no end! I thought the touching words that Trump and King Charles shared about the closeness of our friendship were well chosen, and I expect that, despite the machinations of our common enemies (neo-Marxists rising to the top of that particular list), our alliance will continue to prosper.
In other news, Jimmy Kimmel is...cancelled? He's suspended, for sure, and none too soon, if you ask me. His latest "jokes", which labeled the assassin of Charlie Kirk "MAGA" (for no reason except that Kimmel is an arrogant lunatic), were a bridge too far. We've seen quite a few lefty agitators in Hollywood and in the news media bite the dust in recent months. Here's hoping we can add Kimmel to that Wall of Shame!
Dr. Waddy from Jack: I am in complete sympathy, empathy and enthusiastic agreement with your comments on our President's reception in our mother country. God bless America and Rule Britannia, God save the King! I watched only a little of the banquet and the procession but it certainly appealed to my Anglophilia; I really enjoy British pageantry.
ReplyDeleteIts redeeming to see such affirmation of our special relationship with this historically great nation to whom so much of the world owes its political stability and consequent strength in this hard world.
It made me think of the very intriguing scene in the outstanding HBO series "John Adams" where Adams has a post war audience with George III. I hope it was authentic because it was very dramatic; deference was shared between them even though George was a King and Adams was an Ambassador. Of course the "relationship" had yet to suffer through another war and the burning of Washington D.C. by British troops and a near clash in 1861. Even in the 20th century the U.S. Navy had plans for fighting the Royal Navy if necessary; perhaps if Lord Halifax had ascended in 1940 and given the fleet to Germany it might have come about. De nada, despite recent "readjustments" this present tribute to the friendship and respect so hallowed by FDR and Churchill was very redeeming I think.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: Far left commentators on Mr. Kirk's assassination are encountering deserved sometimes reflexive reproach for their "insensitive" (a term which should fill far leftists with shame, due to their constant use of it for convenient castigation of any who trouble them) remarks. Maybe they will learn a little respect from the experience. But probably not and that is ok. America is on the offensive now and the incipiently totalitarian "American" far left is reeling and that is how it should be.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: An article today in RealClearPolitics was entitled approximately"What would a big tent Democrat party be like".
ReplyDeleteImagine it is January , 1945. The appalling success of the German onslaught in the Battle of the Bulge has brought the Allies to the negotiating table. " Our ruling Nazi party will consent to abandon some of its most extreme views; eg. the death camps will be closed; it is obvious that they have been a source of contention and have earned for us an unfortunate reputation. You can trust us . "
So far lefties, you don't like being compared to Nazis? How does it feel? If you don't like it stop doing it to us!. Your passionate advocacy of the free and convenient killing of unborn humans has resulted in a holocaust of innocent infants since 1973. So you have no moral right to affix that detested label on anyone else.
Anyway, as it would have been madness to trust the Nazis in WWII negotiations , so it is most unwise to think that a Dem party reluctantly moved to disingenuously "renounce"some of its defining principles since it let the far left take command of it, is advancing anything other than an insincere ploy to buy time to regroup. The far left captured dem party must be completely defeated and marginalized. Their pusillanimous surrender to "60s style radicals says it all about them. There is plenty of room in the American polity for responsibly contested views without including a party which allowed itself to become the vehicle for marxist America haters and in doing so condemned itself, yes, like the Nazis, who are now a pitiful miniscule faction. Until the Dem party is similarly politically reduced, they will pose a fundamental threat to all that America cherishes.
How can we all help? First by resolving never to vote for a Dem for office at any level. Even that good neighbor who is running for local office as a Dem will be constrained to support a national party with only the most demonstrated destructive intentions.
RAY TO DR. WADDY
ReplyDeleteWonderful! Our very own Oliver Cromwell sits down with the King of England to enjoy some yummy and rockabelly deli royal food.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: The Memoria for Charlie Kirk: its said that security will be on the order of the Super Bowl. Why? Partly of course because assassination , both of character and body is now SOP for the far left. The President and the V.P. will attend and besides the obvious that also raises legitimate concerns about . . . protests! Protests mind you, fur the luvva. . . . Is it possible that the far left would delve that far into depravity? Sadly it is conceivable and their record which supports that view is one of immeasurable proven degradation and disgrace.
ReplyDeletePerhaps they will relent, probably because they know they are already paying a heavy political price for their amoral blasphemy at a time when they are in deep trouble with America; conceivably they might reluctantly acquiesce in that they need not commit such an abomination. But perhaps the decent but terribly misguided among them can even without this factor restrain the characteristically far left "by any means necessary" types. Perhaps the sguad can take a sick day, yes? Its humanly possible I suppose.
The far left and its Dem party apologists have to know that its relentless castigation of America and those who support America's proven verities has careened far enough to produce an ever increasing abandonment of their party by people who had to be persuaded to make such a , for them, disturbing change. A demonstration of detestable disrespect for Charlie Kirk and those multitudes who have, even some since his death, embraced him and what he stood for, could very well ,redound to the far left's final descent onto the slippery slope toward their deserved expulsion from our polity. They have been an incalculably malign parasite in our civilization since the '60s.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: Maybe, just maybe, Disney is beginning to recognize that its surrender to wokeism was a big mistake.They may never quite return to the grace and innocence( except MAYBE for featuring Wernher Von Braun ) which endeared them to my generation but canning Kimmel up was a good thing .
ReplyDeleteRAY TO DR. WADDY
ReplyDeleteThis is NOT a trick question! My understanding, is that you are a member of The Episcopal Church. With that said, my understanding is that The Episcopal Church tends to be "liberal" (whatever that means these days). On that note, do you have any problems reconciling your apparent religious beliefs with your political beliefs? I have heard that The Episcopal Church is liturgical and catechetical, and that it is a mix of people with varying ideas and so on. Set me straight. Thanks. I ask these questions in the light of the fact that I seem to be drifting towards TEC as a Church that gels with my personality and preferred method of worship.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: I live in a very conservative area in the rural Southern Tier of NY state which borders common sense North Central Pennsylvania. We are represented faithfully and consistently in the House of Representatives by Rep. Nick Langworthy.
ReplyDeleteYesterday a democrat party aspirant to that seat was quoted: 'I'm going to flip that red district into a blue district". In taking such a position he raises a very interesting issue. How does he propose to do this? It would be quite a feat; he must be very sure that we need radical change, forced if necessary
We are conservative in this district because we hold well founded and lived conservative principles, like those common sense beliefs exemplified and now empowered by President Trump . How then does this earnest young man plan to "fundamentally transform" us? Either by employing the characteristic, disingenuous advancement of an image of moderation, of sweet reason, of willingness to cooperate, of dishonest rejection of extremism, so obvious in NYC mayoral candidate Mamdani's campaign. If elected , he would then vote as the very far left dem leadership directs him too and as his high far left conscience bids him. Either that or he is one of extraordinary charisma and capable of convincing us to abandon our primitive ways in this backwater we willfully inhabit and follow his lead into political correctness. "Flip us" indeed !
I expect he is being offered by the dem party as cannon fodder to run in a district irreparably enmired in common sense ignorance.
Of course, should N.Y. Gov. Hochul succeed in her threatened redistricting we could well find us ourselves in a district with Ithaca, N.Y., a socialist "oasis" where America hating Cornell U. is located. That area, with the help of some other islands of lala in mostly common sense upstate NY, accomplished by sinuous Illinois like connecting corridors, might , yes, "flip us". But it will never change our vital convictions. They will never make us a willingly nominal blue area. And it is a very telling measure of their essential totalitarianism that they would even try. They are like mindless invasive algae; they can only be stopped by being swept away, politically that is, as President Trump is doing nationally.
Jack, I adore pageantry too! I would sell several of my least favorite relatives for a two-minute ride in the royal coach.
ReplyDeleteJust as well that we never went to war with Britain after 1814, since it would have been a fool's errand on our part. The Brits may have forfeited an empire in the 20th century, but they don't often lose a war...
Perhaps you are right that negotiating with the Nazi rulers of Germany in 1944-45 would have been pointless and dumb, but negotiating with German generals, had they succeeded in bumping off Hitler, might have been an extremely good idea.
Ray, I reject the comparison of DJT to Oliver Cromwell. After all, President Trump hasn't beheaded any of his predecessors...although I grant you there's still time.
Jack, I wouldn't worry about your district becoming blue. The Dems can gerrymander all they like, but there will still be SOME GOP districts in NY, and it's hard not to put several of them in WNY. In fact, the slyest maneuver they could make would be to dump all the Republicans they can in your district, and shovel Ithaca into some more light blue district. In other words, your district is more likely to get redder than bluer.
Ray, I'm quite happy in the Episcopal Church, but that's only because, attending the occasional service, it's easy to forget about the woke sympathies of many in the church hierarchy. The sermons are almost never political, and the theological interpretations are always mild and inoffensive, to a fault. Yes, Episcopalians are extremely diverse, politically and theologically, and basically the church allows us to chart our own course. Meanwhile, the churches themselves are beautiful, and the liturgy is reassuring and pleasant, as far as I'm concerned. If you look too deeply into any church, you'll find cause for concern, so my advice is...look on the bright side, and let God sort out the wheat from the chaff.