Friends, the Department of Defense is for weenies! That's why DJT is giving the Pentagon a makeover. He's renaming it the "Department of War", which is what it was called before 1947, when for some reason we decided that "war" was icky and we don't do war anymore. This change makes sense, if you ask me, because Trump wants the military to focus exclusively on war-fighting...although its current foray into America's cities does somewhat obscure that goal.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgr9r4qr0ppo
In other news, RFK, who doesn't lack for courage, took on the Senate today, and of course the Dems had it in for him from the start. He didn't back down, though, and it appears that the reign of Big Pharma may be coming to an end.
Alligator Alcatraz is back in business, thanks to a federal appeals court! Hooray! More importantly, the federal deportation machine is just beginning to shift into high gear, so expect a lot fewer illegals in the months and years ahead.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alligator-alcatraz-appeals-court-florida-trump-administration/
Finally, the great state of Missouri is doing its part to keep the House of Representatives in GOP hands. Will more states redraw their House districts before the midterms? It's sure looking that way.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/04/politics/missouri-redistricting-republicans
Dr. Waddy from Jack: Good point that President Trump and Secretary of War Hegseth want to restore war fighting and constant readiness for war in this hard world as the military's common sense prime purpose ,not that of Hillary inspired forced social experimentation using the dutiful armed forces as highly disdained subjects.
ReplyDeleteWe are at war on several fronts. We recently struck murderously America and Jew hating Iran a right old blow in disabling their unendurable progress to an atomic bomb. We are starting to use main military force to combat the narco terrorists who have thrived on the pusillanimousness of the Biden and Obama administrations to flood our country with deadly drugs. In the 19th century forced importation of opium into China was a major cause of China's near dissolution. One Chinese provincial Lord declared instant death for anyone using opium in any way more than a month after his declaration. Modern Singapore has hanged drug dealers; they remember what a hellhole their country was when their Brit rulers tolerated the drug trade. I'm fully supportive of President's Trump's recent lethal interception of drug dealers; they are dealing death, let them feel it instead. I know from my experience in state prisons that many from drug exporting S. American countries are unfortunate and ignorant souls who have little understanding of what they are involved in and who seek only to make a living somehow. One could say some of the same of enemy soldiers in conventional wars but it is sadly necessary to fight them in order to protect our own from them.
Our inner cities are war zones and our President has declared war on domestic crime: good for him! I think it entirely fitting that our military be used against those vicious criminals who force this iniquity on their peaceful neighbors beyond the capacity of overworked and way underrespected police departments. It is appallingly obvious that high government officials who pledge resistance to Federal intervention in their crime ridden cities do so because they fear the consequent negative effect on criminals, who many of them consider to be oppressed, rather than the oppressors they are.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: RFK Jr is apostate from the Dem party and is,according to its Dem inquisitors, thus due no courtesy, let alone respect. I enjoyed watching him do verbal combat with such as reflexively dismissive Elizabeth Warren. I know next to nothing about health care policy but I know I don't trust the Dems on it or much of anything else.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: The Dems long ago embraced the principle that the "end justifies the means", courtesy of the '60s radicals who infested their "tolerant" party . And it protects them from the bothersome moral limits which had otherwise hobbled them. Those limits included empathy and it is very satisfying to see them being hoisted on their own petard now. President Trump couldn't care less if they object to his policies and when they squeal about it it falls on deaf ears. And do they deserve it! So count on him, Dems , to outredistrict you.
ReplyDeleteJack, I have no scruples about using military force against our enemies, but I do wonder whether militarizing the (endless) "war on drugs" will accomplish anything except, perhaps, restricting the flow of such drugs and thus increasing their cost (and therefore the violence done to control the trade). Oh, maybe, by force of arms, we could compel some Americans to switch from one drug to another, but would that be such an achievement? I know it's anathema to most conservatives, but legalization of drugs might be worth a try.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: Some very perceptive points. Unintended consequences are certainly a creditable possibility when venturing an effort like our President's war on those who would serve our country's apparently insatiable appetite for certain drugs.
ReplyDeleteI would legalize all but the most harmful drugs and then go to war against the really bad ones. But, sans the legalization part, that appears to be President Trump's strategy anyway.
These Dems remind me of the Japanese in 1945. They hoped a savage war of attrition might move the U.S. to a negotiated settlement. This constant lawfare by the Dems, is a sign of desperation because the President is usually winning eventually. But meanwhile we had to go through all the hassle of planning and partial accomplishment of a move of Alligator Alcatraz's guests. Well, they tried to wear DJT down with personal lawfare during his interim and all they did was to make him grimly all the more resolute. That suggests that it is HE who will be driving THEM to distraction and more and more into the deadly embrace of their now dominant far left gang. They are also, I think, trying the patience of Scotus with their cynical misuse of our legality.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: Legalization of some drugs (especially , lets lay off any limits besides age on marijuana, fur the luvva. . . ) will be necessary if we expect this new assault on the criminal importation of drugs to succeed. So many of those who do drugs WILL HAVE their drugs no matter what! Sometimes drugs are one of the few consolations in very unfortunate lives. Just like with alcohol , let's not stand in their way of accessing some means of escaping hard lives. Of course that does not include tolerating the abuse of children, which often results from the omnipresence of drug dealing criminals in their neighborhoods and even their homes.
ReplyDeleteAnd believe me, I think this based on my prison work experience; many who deal drugs do so because either they honestly think they have no other way of making money or they consider lawful employment to be for "chumps" , both of which are perceptions often "encouraged" by hardened criminals. The former perception is sadly true; many of those who lead drug defined lives are completely unequipped to lead positive and constructive lives. What of them? Should drugs be brought under control, they may simply seek other ways, free of the conventional work standards from which they think themselves excluded, to make a living. To help to dispel this belief we could use the "tough love " methods pioneered in NY's Shock Incarceration program so as to try to convince them that positive, constructive lives ARE worth living. Meanwhile , we must, for the good of all , take permanent custody, including mostly incarceration, of those whose merciless drug dealing defines them as incorrigible
So, I suggest: leave several lawful sources of chemical consolation readily available at the reasonable prices which MAY result from legalization. Then go after those who encourage vulnerable people to think that ONLY their illegal product is sufficient for their needs; go after them with a vengeance . I would venture that most of us use chemical mood altering drugs such as alcohol. That's just the way it is in our often high pressure society. With sensible limits which anathematize the provision of them to those under 18 and establish DRACONIAN penalties for impaired operation of motor vehicles , lets give in to human nature.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: According to news I've seen, demonstrations against the arrests of illegal aliens include the use of molotov cocktails in Portland , Oregon . Those infernal devices got their name when they were used by Hungarians in 1956 against invading Soviets. Molotov was the USSR's obsequious Foreign Minister. Their earlier use in East Berlin in 1954; well, one MIGHT say that Soviet tolerance in 1954 of any German resistance, after Germany's unforgivable ravaging of Russia in WWII , was humanly unavoidable.
ReplyDeleteNot so much so with Hungary, which was a minor Nazi ally in WWII and wished only to shed its own Marxist regime.
These Portland puke far leftists have no such conceivable justification and it would be very appropriate for our Federal gov't , hopefully with the cooperation of the probably very willing in their ranks, local police, who have long endured the disrespect of city and state government, to crush them, since their own city and state decline to do so. The use of Molotov cocktails by these dreamy radicals would justify use of compelling physical force against them. Our President owes the vast majority of Portland residents, law abiding Americans long victimized by these presumptuous far left termites, the full protection due to all AMERICANS facing such invasion of their homes.
Above: instead of " humanly unavoidable" I should have said "was too much to ask". Jack
ReplyDeleteJack, I agree that (American) lawfare has mostly backfired, and I share your hope that SCOTUS will see ongoing leftist lawfare for what it is: a craven attempt to game the system and circumvent the rightful consequences of the 2024 election.
ReplyDeleteYou may be right that some form of "flexible response" is best on drugs. I suppose we already have that, insofar as some very dangerous drugs are legal, and other fairly innocuous drugs aren't. Maybe my blanket legalization approach would be reckless...but then again the criminalization angle hasn't exactly solved all our problems either!
You've convinced me: the National Guard needs to occupy Portland pronto!!!