Friends, this week's Newsmakers show looks back on my trip to England and all I learned there. Trump's triumphant visit to Windsor while I was "in country" solidified the "special relationship" we have with the U.K., and of course as an Anglo-American I couldn't be happier. Meanwhile, Britain itself is undergoing a political transformation, as the two traditional leading parties, Labour and the Conservatives, are in their death throes, and a rising new populist force, Reform, looks set to shine the light of Trumpism on all things British. Oh boy! Check out this week's show, and brace yourself for profundity!
https://wysl.podbean.com/e/newsmakers-10-4-25/
The big piece of news this weekend is apparent progress in ending the war in Gaza -- the key word being "apparent", because we've seen this pantomime before. It usually ends with an apartment building exploding and dissolving into a cloud of dust. There is quite a bit of exhaustion on both sides, however, so maybe this time will be different?
Dr. Waddy from Jack: Welcome back and thanx for taking time while you were in our well loved mother country to keep WaddyisRight going.
ReplyDeleteRe the Newsmaker broadcast: I am very glad for your observation that our special relationship with the UK is alive and well. It would be tragic for it ever to be sundered. And the present promising position of Farage's Reform party is a very hopefull development. A confident surge of and possibly an actual governmental empowerment of Farage's Trump like determination to defeat the curse of the incipient Marxist totalitarianism atavistically advanced by a Labor Party which was never really embraced by Brits, which even in Labor's executive advent in 1945 in the UK's post war austerity was always too far left, is to be celebrated I think. As you say, it could be a very significant turn in the UK's politics ; I think it may be one which preserves that nation's historically evolved very great character. The UK was reminded in such a timely manner of its essential integrity and worth by PM Thatcher and just in time to prevent Marxist unions from taking over. Farage may well prove her successor in redeeming the grand and good Britain.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: It is so good to see a combat vet like Hegseth leading ,in both authoritative and personal physical example , the return of our armed forces to common sense, to their return to a fundamental mission never doubted but for the '60s advent of America haters who correctly perceived that our military protects our core American values from foreign foes and ignorant and ungrateful domestic detractors,and the fanatics they unleash.
ReplyDeleteHis declaration that necessary evaluations of physical fitness will be governed by male standards, to which ALL are welcome to strive to comply , is a breath of common sense and fresh air
and fresh air is unendurable by the smoky, dreamy far left. They have only their tired and worthless accusation of "sexism" to offer in return. Let them stew in their own juices. They deserve it! In their time they had no tolerance for any doubt of their counterintuitive views and tyrannically imposed intentions.
Those poor dears in the MSM: they simply cannot comprehend what was common knowledge before the ''60s, the contradiction of which would have been regarded as at best foolishness and at worst treason.Our country's peace is guaranteed only by strength - WWII reaffirmed it - and our armed forces manifest that strength against a world of amoral danger.
So SecWar Hegseth's presentation is reflexively seen by the MSM as "icky" , chauvinistic and "Nazi". They are incapable of seeing it as anything else. Luckily , their ever accelerating descent to the level of ridiculous "professional" wrestling is thereby boosted.
The same may be said of the "touchy feelies" in government who wax offended by such "militaristic" (whatever the Dickens that means) vituperation. Don't like it youse? Apply for visas to heavenly N. Korea then and relieve common sense America of your vicious yesteryear bigotry.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: A very good point that Mamdani's marxist assault on NYC's economy may have onerous consequences for NY state. Yes, if he drives enough of the productive people out of the city , its tax base might be reduced as much as to send Mamdani mewing to Albany for forced NY state taxpayer financing of his humbug dreams. And with a gubernatorial election next year, Gov. Hochul may see political benefit in giving it to him. This situation is going to get much worse before we can look for any hope of delivery from always catastrophically wrong headed far left government .
ReplyDeleteI agree completely with you on the mortal danger ICE agents, common sense Scotus justices , and maybe even the President are put in by the vicious castigation directed at them by such as Schumer ("you are going to reap the whirlwind, Kavanaugh. . . !"), Gov. Pretzles, Chicago's tiresome succession of incompetent Mayors, the Squad . . . ad nauseum.
Oh faaar be it from them to ever intend to actually motivate the unstable to carry out physical affirmation of their demonization of those who dare to oppose them. I mean yeah, we all agree, Nazis are monsters. When you accuse someone of that automatically condemning evil, well gee, someone just might decide to give'em what they "deserve". Shakespeare's Iago, in the emotional torture he inflicts on Othello, drives an Othello he knows to be susceptible, to kill his wife. Iago's artful denial of any such intent reminds me of what these far leftists do, though certainly some of them are just stupidly reckless.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: Oh my, the far left is OUTRAGED, yess, OUTRAGED at our President's deployment of the , after all, NATIONAL Guard to protect the vast majority of law abiding Americans even in far leftist cursed places like Portland and Chicago and perhaps more soon as the "spontaneous" far left ehh, "protests"spread.
ReplyDeleteBut gee, their own disciplined, uniformed , trained , motivated strike force, eg. Antifa, is ready for swift deployment wherever the "American" commie high command orders it. Oh , they may hold off a bit to see if local governments are capable of keeping their police dep'ts in line to prevent them from interfering with the consummate justice done by looters and Molotov cocktail throwers . If there is a local "university" , it can well be the source of numerous irregulars for use as impromptu dissemblers. But by "Che" ,if its all going south, then the "pros" are promptly transported to the front.
Oh ok but the slightest consequent appearance of the well regimented National Guard is then presumptuously and bizarrely castigated as "authoritarian" by the far left and by gosh, they are right. The President has and is justified in authoritatively using the force at his command to prevent totalitarian far left bigots from forcing their dreamy assumed "right" to use "any means necessary" to prevent enforcement of our democratically established immigration laws. Of course, were these radicals ever to acquire the force the President has they would fix a reign of authoritarianism on us all in the manner made traditional by their murderous Marxist predecessors in those lands so cursed.
RAY TO DR. WADDY AND JACK
ReplyDeleteNot much to say here on my part. Thanks for your article Dr. Waddy, and your posts/comments Jack.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: So Illinois Gov. Pretzels considers National Guard troops' deployment to "his" state an "invasion. Well yes it is: it is a lawful invasion of the misused authority by which he and the equally ridiculous Mayor of Chicago have denied millions of law abiding Americans protection from far left anarchists and the illegal aliens they succor and manipulate.
ReplyDeleteIn 1957, when Ike sent in the Airborne to assure several little girls access to their high school, Arkansas Gov. Faubus got on TV and told Arkansas "we are an occupied state!" I doubt Gov. Pretzels has even heard of that but his hyperbolic humbug is of a piece with it.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: Jonathan Turley, a law prof. at George Washington U. and a big favorite with regular Fox viewers, was reprinted today in RealClearPolitics commenting on Mamdani's plan to eliminate special education in public schools for gifted students because, since such classes now serve only a politically inadequate number of ethnic minority students, they are by definition "racist" and "discriminatory", accusations for which there can be no defense in far left eyes. And so, invoking the now time honored far left solution to such purposeful "injustice" he will simply eliminate the programs for gifted students. The delicate psyches the far left attribute to all minority members will be thereby assuaged and the by definition privileged gifted will be put in their place.
ReplyDeleteOf course we saw this in the 20th century in countries cursed by Marxist takeover, of forced reduction of all except for party cadre and luminaries, to equality of mediocrity, cynicism, rickety new housing, meaningless jobs, never ending supervision of their daily lives and often even to destitution and starvation , all in the name of the "equity" so cherished now by the "American" far left.
One is reminded thereby of the mythical Greek monster Procrustes. He bade weary travelers enjoy his guest bed. If they were too "short" for it, he stretched them by some horrid means; if they were too tall, he started chopping. Though out of date, this myth does provide a useful analogy for murderous marxist futility. And its best not to dismiss a Mayor Mamdani's capacity for corporal persuasion in some settings. He would after all have a Police and Corrections staff under his disdainful command at least until he drove them beyond principle and endurance . He might also impose a Soviet style exit tax or confiscation system for those who flee NYC to be free of his vindictive reforms.
In the early 1920's the Soviets tried a "New Economic Policy" which had even some common sense measures which took human nature into account. (like limited free enterprise). Mao tried a "let a hundred flowers bloom, let (many) schools of thought contend". Having thus brought their doubters out of hiding , Stalin (eventually)and Mao proceeded to crush them. I'd fully expect Mamdani to initially pursue a similarly disingenuous policy of feigned restraint prior to his planned crackdown on all political incorrectness.
Of course, those able to do so would remove their children from such mind deadening settings. But I wouldn't put it beyond this unapologetic Soviet avatar
to establish a system of taxation and confiscation for those who , of necessity, desert his realm.
It can't last; this is the U.S. after all. But he will do immense damage before facing a Federal takeover . Or will he? Maybe this guy is a neomarxist with a new plan. So many of today's marxist protest "oh we just didn't get it right the first time in the 20th century; we deserve another chance."
Oh?! How many hundred of millions killed or ruined by their own governments need we tolerate yet again? Any suggestion of a return of that monstrous doctrine on any executive level must be regarded as a threat to all America cherishes and must be democratically defeated.
Oh, maybe just 10 million this time? Oh well then. . . . Jack
ReplyDeleteJack, I too would love to see Prime Minister Farage, but we can't overstate how loathsome many Britons find him. Most dislike him, but a goodly number HATE HATE HATE him. Of course, you might say that DJT is in the same position, but look how the phenomenon of Trumpism (and its discontents) almost torpedoed our democracy. I fear the elite in the UK would similarly do ALMOST ANYTHING to stop Farage, meaning that, as he gets closer to power, the dangers to Britons' rights and freedoms increase.
ReplyDeleteJack, I honestly don't know what the relationship would be between Gov. Hochul and Mayor Mamdani. Boy, would he put her between a rock and a hard place! It might be worth voting for him just for that reason?
Jack, I think the Dems would be far better off welcoming the National Guard in the streets of our bluest cities, and handing them bouquets of flowers to thank them for their service, than they are howling about authoritarianism...but I thank them for their mean-spiritedness all the same, since it redounds to the benefit of the GOP in 2026 and beyond.
You are most welcome, Ray!
Jack, you may not be aware of it, but many public schools and school systems across this country have long since eliminated programs for the "talented and gifted", while also enormously expanding programs for the slow and unruly, based on precisely the neo-Marxist/"egalitarian" assumptions that you suggest. Having said this, I'm sure Mamdani can find ways of making a broken city school system even worse. I believe in you, Zohran!
Dr. Waddy from Jack: Sounds like the cradle of democracy could facing another fundamental test of its durability. Past examples might be when Charles I violated the House of Commons by entering it; when Churchill was driven from office by Labor after saving the country and maybe the world and when PM Thatcher stopped Marxist unions from taking over. PM Farage would no doubt step on a lot of toes. I'm hoping for the best for "that earth of majesty" and thinking that Farage could be its redemption.
ReplyDeleteJack, the Reform Party has a long way to go before it's a cohesive, disciplined organization, but I'm rooting for its success.
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