Friends, everyone loves the grandeur and pomp of the presidency -- when they love the man holding the office. When they don't, of course, every display of ostentation is an offense against the spirit of democracy. Well, I support Donald Trump, and I support his plan to add a ballroom to the White House. In fact, I'm surprised it wasn't done long ago. Since this ballroom is DJT's brainchild, I fully expect every surface to be gilded and/or jewel-encrusted...and I couldn't be happier! Our is a great nation, and it requires a grand and majestic room in which to revel in said greatness.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ced6np51532o
In other news, the federal courts continue to give President Trump the backing he needs. Once again, the gripes of a rogue district court judge have been set aside by a higher court that sees progressive/establishment obfuscation for what it is. Long may it last!
Dr. Waddy from Jack: President Truman (the first President I lived under): during his tenure the White House was so much reconstructed that he had to move to nearby Blair House (and came close to being assassinated there by FALN Puerto Rican nationalist terrorists some of whom were later succored by the Clintons).
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I completely agree with you on the desirability of the White House being reflective of America's greatness and if it gives opportunistic and disingenuous offense to the "American" far left, de nada! Besides, I think President Trump is paying for this new ballroom; I'm sure the sour minded far left will find reason in that to cavil on this too in its continuing all out onslaught on this to them unbearably heretic , "illegitimate" President.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: If I were a far leftist I would quake to think they MAY not be able to depend any more on their faithful servant , the left coast's 9th Circuit. That has to have "a frosty sound " to them. If not this once loyal body, then what? Oh yeah, they can always dip into a deep pool of obsequious Federal District Court "justices" who, with their airy privilege of "national injunctions" snatched from them by that nastily lawful Scotus, still retain some injunctive power within their districts. But their's is only an increasingly futile gesture , a "holding action" which garners only "sore LOSER" "cachet "for the Dem party.
ReplyDeleteWell: Federal Circuit Court Judges are legal professionals who have traveled a long and hard road through that demanding field and some of whom dream of ascending to Scotus. Being reversed or overturned, especially in company with irresponsible insular legal radicals whose sun may have started setting when Hillary fluffed, probably does not enhance one's Scotus resume and is a humiliating experience for most Judges. "Critical Legal Studies", their gospel, may be going the road of "separate but equal" , especially now when those of the boomers who have celebrated their arbitrary and unsupportable radicalism for 60 years are now on the cusp of mortal reality.
Measure for measure, the far left is losing its last ultimately decisive position in our Federal Government. What now? Do they fall back on a "deep state" which is under very direct assault from the Trump administration? It may be dawning on them that their now 60 year campaign to destroy our country and replace it with a presumptuous Marxist contraption may be doomed. But we do still have a Federal system and they may think to retreat to sympathetic refuges like N Y and California and there incubate a recumbent far left against the day when something like the apparently promising "Democratic" Socialist movement ascends and embraces them. Why, when their bete noire, Donald Trump ,passes from the political scene, "all may be well" ehhh?
Dr. Waddy from Jack: I was wrong about President Trump paying for the new White House ballroom. Fox reports its being paid for by private sources coordinated by President Trump. Perhaps he is kicking in too.
ReplyDeleteHakeem Jeffries and Elizabeth Warren made haste to sneer about it, using analogies too ridiculous to repeat. Their reflexive and almost comprehensive condemnation of our President cannot but be regarded as strongly indicative of how they would rule. Their unprecedented antipathy to him is motivated by the unprecedentedly unapologetic opposition to them he has demonstrated , despite their most vicious efforts to destroy him. That is how it would be for all of us if they were to achieve the unchallenged sway they seek over all aspects of our lives , public and "private, after their celebrated Marxist tradition.
The armor piercing artillery shell was developed to penetrate armor with a narrowly directed charge and once past the armor, to explode in all directions. That to me is a plausible analogy for what the "American" far left sees as its intended "fundamental transformation" of our "erring" and "reprehensible" America. Penetrate the defenses of the most successful democracy in the world with a cadre of idealistic people and once within , then discard them and let the true revolutionaries bustle in summary and destructive mayhem and then, using the now enslaved but hapless idealists together with the defeated Americans, proceed to impose a typically inhuman Marxist hell hole. Ask those of good will who, too late, found out what the Bolsheviks were really like. Their accounts of their ruined lives are readily available.
The Stalins, Maos and Pol Pots were once apparently normal people, save for their activism. Once in power their fronting stopped and the catastrophic reality of their terrible intent was revealed: " Koba "- Stalins nickname - "go over to such and such an area and hang 5000 peasants so as to prove our devotion to our cause. Da! Comrade Lenin, it will be done!"
It may seem overly imaginative but we have willing Lenins and Kobas in very respectable positions in our tolerant civilization right now. If they achieve the totalitarian power they seek they will reveal their faces. I don't think they will get that power. The soul of America is a free one. But they will do incalculable damage in trying. The corruption of the American academy and the elementary and secondary school systems are already obvious; their prostitution of our legal system to their "lawfare" and the subjugation of the MSM to their "Agitprop" has served to lower much of the latter to the level of professional wrestling. The fundamentally tyrannical imposition of common sense defying DEI in so many areas of our legality and society is a deserved object of attack by our common sense President.
The prominent dems' expressions of contempt for the President's intent in improving OUR White House are, while in themselves dismissable , yet manifestations of their withering disdain for our country and any who defend it. Our President fully comprehends their antipathy and the actions it generates . Support for his policies is a way in which all of us can directly confront the , yes, profoundly America hating far left which has taken over the once loyal Dem party. The concerns expressed and carried out by FBI Director Hoover, Senator McCarthy and Richard Nixon over communist intent were creditable and are being proven worthy of our closest vigilance now.
President Trump gives the nation a free ballroom, and the Dems are outraged! Most presidents spend millions in public funds on unnecessary renovations, and the Dems are silent. Tells you everything you need to know. TDS is a progressive disease (pun intended!).
ReplyDeleteThe loss of their (much diminished) bulwark in the federal courts must be incredibly disheartening to the Left, yes, but I find it hard to imagine that they could ever become passionate secessionists and give up on the federal government itself. I mean, federal and bureaucratic power are at the heart of their ideology and their "movement", such as it is. I might have added federal dollars, since the whole edifice becomes awfully shaky without those.