Friends, the lefties are out in force again today, shaking their fists at Trump and Trumpery. Good for them. What could be more American than wasting an afternoon bellyaching? Of course, Trump is no monarch, although, if it irritates the "progs" so much, I say let's enthrone him for just one day... All hail His Majesty King Donald I!!! P.S. I don't want to be a pest, but surely a promotion to Emperor is called for? I mean, DJT is kind of a big deal, and emperors trump kings every time.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93xgyp1zv4o
In other news, George Santos, liar extraordinaire, has had his sentence of seven years in prison commuted by none other than the iron-fisted tyrant, Donald Trump. I support this decision. It's patently obvious that Santos was targeted by the Left for political reasons. Sure, he's guilty of...lots of stuff, but solitary confinement seems like a pretty stiff penalty for being a fibber. Let the man pay a reasonable penalty and try to get his life back on track.
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115391767709119144
This story puts the "Living God" in a whole new light! Increasingly, people are using chatbots to "talk to God". Chatbots can be amusing and enlightening, on some level, but I think it's worth remembering that essentially their role is to tell us what we want to hear. Of course, quite a few priests and ministers are no better...
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20251016-people-are-using-ai-to-talk-to-god
Finally, I encourage you to listen in to this week's Newsmakers broadcast to find out what I really think about the "No Kings" movement, Gaza, the NYC mayor's race, Trump's upcoming summit with Putin, and more! As usual, it's a feast for the ears.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: YES! Let's give them a King for a day. Knowing how expeditious DJT is he would make of it very solid accomplishment. The old maxim " be careful what you wish for, you may get it" is almost comically applicable to an "American" left stung to its very quick by the willfull disrespect shown its smoky dreams and its hyperbolic presumptions by a wiseass President who knows them and who themselves, they dread to contemplate , are fully aware that he knows them for the Marxist incipient totalitarians they most certainly are.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: In Shaw's St.Joan, two princes of the church discuss how it would be for them if their flock knew about the legerdemain they used to convince them of miracles and manifestation of the Divine. "Why they would disown us but if it builds faith it is good" was the effect of their conclusions. Perhaps that is a constructive way to think of the use of AI in religion.
ReplyDeleteIt may be trite to say so but we can see much which is infinitely beyond the comprehension of the wisest among us by simply viewing the sky on a dark clear night. What sublime wonders actually exist out there!They suggest that almost anything is possible. That apparent reality endorses faith in the Divine I think and as AI expands our knowledge perhaps beyond any exceedingly well informed expectation of the future we the living may someday reach objective, empirical realization of what billions today creditably hold to be the Truth.
Dr Waddy from Jack: I dunno: if Santos actually did commit theft of identity he did something which causes people much anxiety and almost limitless hassle; well that's a rotten thing to do to anyone.
ReplyDeleteI was teaching a class of prison inmates on the subject of information playing a major role in constructive, positive living and they were laughing about it. I blew up at them: "do you people actually realize the worry, the dread, the expense for security devices, the pain and the
loss you force on the public when you decide to do crime!!??
He was in a Federal Minimum Security joint and even that is no day at the beach, so maybe he got wised up in there. It IS highly inconvenient but so is crime victimhood.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: But President Trump was very much justified in noting one of the myriad crimes casually excused by the far left left and the ehh, irony of their political aims (to reduce GOP membership in the House)in pursuing Santos.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: Re the Newsmaker broadcast:
ReplyDeleteSome thing occured to me which is probably already obvious to most people. I always maintain that Russia has a fundamental national security issue in keeping Ukraine out of Nato and will not relent on it. But Ukraine also has what it sees as a fundamental national security issue in keeping the Russian jackboot off its neck. Both sides have objectively and understandably compelling national interests in this conflict. Its going to be very hard to get either side to compromise after all this and unchangeable geographic juxtaposition and the 20th century relationship between these two countries. Probably only force or the credible promise of it can resolve this and the prospects are chilling. I wish we were not involved but I share your guarded hope that this upcoming summit might end the mayhem. I do not doubt that in his business life, President Trump has confronted people with as much potential for heartless measures as is Putin.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: You made a very good point in noting the widespread personal antipathy to President Trump but observing that it has not prevented him from working astonishingly successfully, yet really common sense , measures in his yet short tenure in his triumphant second term (eg. a closed border, a direct onslaught on far leftist incipient totalitarianism such as "wokeness" , forceful intolerance of street crime reminiscent of Mayor Guiliani's monumental reforms in shamefully apologetic to criminals NYC).
ReplyDeleteThere are many on the left who, with good will, oppose President Trump's policies. But they are cynically urged by by definition amoral "American" far leftists to castigate this good and courageous man. The singular motivation of these radicals is that President Trump has heretically dared to contradict their unimpeachable wisdom in all legal, social, political , "scientific" and diplomatic matters. Their murderous (yes murderous, it already has resulted in attempted murders) condemnation of him fairly predicts the savage , utterly intolerant bigotry they would enforce should they ever achieve the rule they seek. They are faithful Marxists .
Dr. Waddy from Jack: So millions turned out for the "No Kings" love feast.
ReplyDeleteI remember the mass demonstrations of 1970 and "71 , also cynically managed by opportunistic America hating far leftists. And I remember their consequences too: the boat people; reeducation camps, mass murder and forced dislocation, hundreds of thousands fleeing for their lives and freedom to places like the U.S. or Canada(surely difficult places for people from a tropical Far Eastern culture to resettle in; imagine leaving everything behind!) a U.S. military the victorious efforts of which were forfeited by treason at home; unforgiveable mistreatment of servicemen returning from Vietnam ; U.S. military morale devastated by the contemptuous lack of support it received; permanent communist rule in a country for which we risked our national life to deliver them from that always inhuman doctrine.
Mass demonstrations are not necessarily redeeming phenomena.The Russian bolsheviks also skillfully organized mass demonstrations including, as these "No Kings" efforts did, many people of good will. What they produced was 70+ years of hell on earth for unlucky Russia and those drawn into its totalitarian orbit.
That there are many millions of Americans who loath President Trump is certain. Many more know him for an incipiently great President . He has already stymied their worst efforts to disempower him. Oh the "American" far left still has power to cause serious disruption and dysfunction in a country it hates. But I'm put in mind of Hitler's last gasp, the Battle of the Bulge in Dec. 1944. . He hit very hard but not hard enough; perhaps the totalitarian minded "American" radical mob faces similar richly deserved defeat.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: I'm sure dessicated '60s radical survivors gloried yesterday in reenacting 'the way we were" for their worshiping young avatars. But we who were on the other side then and are now also remember "the way they were" and the incalculable damage they did and are determined to reprise.
ReplyDeleteHmm. Could AI help to expand faith...or even prove faith justified? I suspect AI can and will do whatever its programmers wish. Ergo, I advise the Vatican to start investing heavily in AI!
ReplyDeleteJack, Ukraine may want the Russian boot off its neck, but it has done, and is doing, an awfully poor job of achieving that end!
Jack, I have to take issue with your analysis. The mass demonstrations in the late 60s and early 70s didn't achieve any of the (dastardly) things you mentioned. Arguably, they achieved the opposite: two terms for Dick Nixon! It was Watergate, i.e. subterfuge, that achieved our loss in Vietnam and the myriad other setbacks you chronicled. I maintain that demonstrations, in themselves, signify very little. The Left will always excel at demonstrating...and it will often lose elections and forfeit power despite that.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: I agree with you on the demonstrations having been a major factor in the elections of President Nixon. But by the time of Watergate, the fix was in. The far left, with the indispensable aid of the "New Left"brats and of such as Cronkite and Rather, had convinced enough Americans that the war was unwinnable and unjust. It was neither but President Nixon knew the political will of America had been sapped beyond redemption and that his job was to make the best of it. The guaranteed Marxist atrocities commenced soon after we left; Cambodia was already being unimaginably savaged by an educated Marxist monster. I think the demonstrations were wrongheaded on the part of those of good will who supported them and were amoral, heartless , cynical and yes, treasonous (aid and comfort to our nation's enemy in time of war) on the part of those who managed them.
ReplyDeleteHmm. You may be right that public opinion had turned decisively against the Vietnam War by the early 70s, but then how do we explain Nixon's landslide win in '72? He was perceived as the architect of the conflict by then. We would also have to ponder how much the protests, in themselves, created this change in public opinion. Protests are always a double-edged sword.
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