Friends, I'm sure you've noticed the rash of lefties celebrating the demise of Charlie Kirk, and the fact that many of them are finding themselves disciplined or fired by their employers. Pity, that! The latest casualty is a columnist for the ultra-left Washington Post, and she joins a long list of left-leaning "journalists" who've had to find new work opportunities since DJT became president. Has the MSM redeemed itself, by purging these miscreants? Not by a long shot! However, we are seeing what may be a substantial and lasting shift in the culture of the news media that could, in the end, presage a golden age for conservatism and the death of the Left, at least as we know it. I'm encouraged!!!
Meanwhile, since I'm currently sojourning in the British Isles, I thought you might find this tidbit interesting. The Conservative Party, i.e. the Tories, is really struggling these days, but an upstart party of genuine conservatives, led by Nigel Farage, called the Reform Party, is going strong, at least if the polls are to be believed. Today, a prominent Conservative MP jumped ship and joined Reform. Could the sand be shifting beneath the feet of British politicos? Stay tuned!
Dr. Waddy from Jack: Have you witnessed any of the demonstrations opposing perceived preferential treatment by the government of illegal aliens and /or the apparent inability or refusal of some immigrants to adopt British culture or even to refrain from castigating the UK?
ReplyDeleteIf Labor is wearing out its welcome that is great news. PM Farage would redeem Britain I think. In the states I think more and more working class people are becoming sadly convinced that the Dems hold them and their culture(s) in contempt. Has Labor earned such a reputation for itself?
What a wonderful time of year to be on the Sceptered Isle! Done any historical sites? In my experience England itself is one big historic wonderland but I know you know it far more extensively than I do.
Hi Jack. I haven't glimpsed any demonstrations, no, but I have seen a lot of English and British flags, which I gather is a sign of anti-immigrant/pro-Reform sympathies, or at least it often is. Refreshing!
ReplyDeleteHave I done any sightseeing? Oh yes. I'll send you some pics. Osbourne House, where Victoria and Albert lived on the Isle of Wight, and Winchester Cathedral have been highlights so far.
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ReplyDeleteHave a wonderful time in Great Britain. I seem to recall that after Albert died, Victoria spent a lot of time on the Isle of Wight. Not positive about that, but read something to that effect years ago.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: In the BBC article that list of at least temporarily disempowered far lefties is astonishing! In the case of that WAPO columnist to whom the article gave extended attention, she appears to have violated even the American academy's uhh , "liberal preferences" .
ReplyDeleteHer Columbia U. employer has been taught a bit of respect by the present Administration.
Their employers have turned on them because of a very healthy application of political persuasion enacted and inspired by a President who faithfully reflects America's disgust with these America haters. Perhaps Bezos is sincere about it but probably these vicious little totalitarians, these chattering thugs who have for so long intimidated publishers with the prospect of being denounced to the dread politically correct Inquisition from which no appeal short of auto da fe is possible (which in any case only serves to hasten execution); perhaps these nasty things, have finally met their match in unapologetic expedition! And do they ever deserve it.
To those who have quit in despair at what does appear to be a cultural shift in our country's public life, welcome to a real country which may well be reemerging from the disingenuous fog your kind has fixed on it since the '60s. For those who have been fired: good! It was what you have deserved for so long for your limitless hate filled expressions , especially after the death of Mr. Kirk.
To all the above, except Bezos, take heart!Seasonal employment is available in sweltering summer tents where you can join the grotesque attractions still to be found in some unreconstructed settings. And like caged elephants you'll have pitiable leave to fling effluent missiles at otherwise unnoted targets.
In my comment above on the demonstrations in the UK ,I should have said ". . . inability or refusal to honor British culture. . . " Jack
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: The English cathedrals I've seen (St. Paul's, Westminster Abbey (not really a cathedral I think but equally impressive), Yorkminster and Southwark) are some of the very transcendent glories of our Middle Ages and Renaissance (1600s for St. Paul's) and its no wonder they inspire faith. Are we even capable of reprising their terrible beauty? Maybe the rebuild of Notre Dame will show if we are.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: I've thought for a long time that a throttled far left might go underground out of emotionally unbearable frustration. I wonder if we are seeing in them a move toward the cusp of that abyss.
ReplyDeleteHow much more frustration might it take? President Trump is unrelenting in his onslaught on their policies. If they tank in the midterms that may push them over the brink. Their vicious pleasure at the death of Charlie Kirk; the accension of clearly unhinged , influential, violently expressive demagogues like "Rep." Crockett; the astonishing percentage of polled dems expressing approval of assassinating the President; their demonstrated hostility toward Jews and their expressed hopes for the actual annihilation of Israel; their reflexively violent demonstrations; the rise within their ranks of a genuine Marxist as probable Mayor of the world class city NYC:all these may bespeak of them an ever increasing tendency to extremism, even physical violence , as a political tool.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: A Town hall article quoted an AAUP ( American Association of University Professors - I know you know that)statement that it is most troubled by action taken against some of its members for expressing some measure of rationalization or even fairly obvious approval of the killing of Charley Kirk. They bleat that it violates the absolute academic freedom they (maybe disingenuously)maintain is indispensable especially now with what they choose to publicly interpret as unprecedented Federal government attack on this "sacred" principle. It is a sacred principle but for them to seek sanctuary in it is blasphemous.
ReplyDeleteWhat powerful humbug this is on their part! Where has their expressed passionate antipathy toward any control of free speech been when the American Academy has cringed in obsequious deference at the dictatorial biddings of the "American" far left(eg. DEI and the "political correctness it enforces)which BTW, dominates their ranks?
Let the reaction to the vicious celebration, so freely blatted by the "American" far left in so many professional settings introduce them to a newly redeemed America which does not tolerate such incipiently totalitarian hypocrisy in our, yes, democracy.
Supposing an AAUP member had suggested in class or publication that the slaying of Medgar Evers had some perceived justification? They would have been summarily subjected to personal, professional and even legal ruin with that august body's full complicity. No doubt frank expressions of views at all contrary to those of the "American" far left have cost courageously frank (anyone who thinks them frivolous needs to consider the laborious journey to a PhD) seekers after academic professions both in employment, grants and recognition. If the AAUP denies this , then, in the light of the shameful submission of the American academy to far left doctrinal intimidation, they have plainly failed to live up to their exalted reputation for academic integrity! AAUP's protests against the decisively negative reactions to the immeasurably shameful countenance shown to the killing of Mr. Kirk and its alleged perpetrator(s) shows it up for gross , professionally discrediting, hypocrisy. And hypocrisy carries with it a deserved condemnation in the traditional Academy which can be ruinous to an academic career.
Dr. Waddy , as a professional intellectual and academic do you think I'm on the right track with what I've said above?
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ReplyDeleteI heard you were invited to a banquet at Windsor Castle to be knighted. Have I been misinformed?
Dr. Waddy from Jack: The hornets' nest is really riled now; Jimmy KImmel has been knocked off the air indefinitely for being casually snide about the murder of Charlie Kirk
ReplyDeleteSome of the statements for which people have been fired or chastised have struck me as being , though negative and insensitive, not egregious when evaluating a public figure. Can it be that the "microaggression" charge is being directed against some far leftists? If so there is some justice in it; let them "feel" what it is like to be so summarily disparaged.