Friends, kudos to President Trump, who tonight wisely addressed the nation directly, conveying a message of positivity and touting a sterling economic record that few Americans are remotely aware of. Trump shared numerous statistics documenting wage gains and price declines. Of course, Trump haters will scoff, but, for at least as long as Trump spoke, he was able to circumvent the talking heads whose soul purpose is to undermine and denigrate him, and thereby to counter lies with truth. I've often wondered why Trump doesn't make primetime speeches like this more often. Sure, they don't reach everyone, but if even a sliver of independents and persuadable voters tuned in, the upside could be substantial -- and, more importantly, Trump has literally nothing to lose by making the attempt. Here's hoping that we'll hear much more from our incomparable Commander-in-Chief in the next three years, and that Trump supporters will pick up where he left off, and spread the word that, on the economy, help is not only on the way -- it's already here!
Dr. Waddy from Jack: I agree completely with what you said above.
ReplyDeleteIt is probably futile to expect anything he says or does to accredit him to a reflexively disdainful faction of our polity. But such a presentation does incidentally provide some antidote to the ehh, hip shooting adventurism of some of his casual commentary. It is an honest manifestation of a great President.
He has been criticized even by supporters for remarks about Rob Reiner which are reasonably thought to be inappropriate. But an article in today's Town Hall quotes some of the vitriol and very frankly expressed hatred Reiner directed at Donald Trump : "I didn't like Bush but I hate Trump!" Yes, those now passed deserve deference but so does a dutiful President and for that President to express the fact that he was excoriated by Reiner and that he considered it counterproductive, is understandable ,I think. Our President is a human being with human feelings.
Dr. Waddy, the President affirmed the well supported conviction you have expressed and empirically supported, that our economy is in very promising shape. He is not a wizard or a Lenin , who could command instant change in an economy, the former only in fantasy, the latter in tyrannical and utterly ill conceived tyranny.
President Trump has laid a very experience driven, knowledgeable foundation for our country's return to its characteristic economic. vitality after its Marxist misuse by Biden's puppeteers. It is of course fundamental of the now far left commanded Dems and their casually detached Marxist wishers well to reflexively regard any economic well being in the U.S. to be proof of the consummate injustice and evil of our democratically imbued and sensibly tempered free enterprise essence. This, in the face of the utterly and finally convincing 20th century condemnation of proven guaranteed inhuman Marxism in its always hellish nature in actual command power.
President Trump is fully aware of this contradiction and is devoted to reaffirming the redeeming values with which we have achieved in this country a standard of living and justice the revelation of which would have filled the most perceptive and good willed thinkers of the past with astonished admiration. His speech was an affirmation of this firm intent (try doing what he is doing and enduring what he continues to endure at age 78!) and flies in the very face of his vicious castigators. Good for him ( and us)!
Ahh yes, tyranny is indeed tyrannical. Jack
ReplyDeleteAlas, the battle of ideas is sometimes a zero-sum game. That is, the truth can be crowded out by lies, and in the MSM it is, more often than not. This is why we need to break this hateful machine in a million pieces, and/or repurpose it and remind it of its once-lofty professional and ethical standards.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: The MSM may be doing a good job of discrediting itself. But it persists at least for now. The proliferation of conservative and /or better balanced news outlets may have a cumulative effect we have not fully realized yet. Perhaps political
ReplyDeletepressure on its sponsors can help. A "Saturday Night Live "type show featuring well known public figures might go good. Gutfeld's cutting satire in his 10pm weekly show on Fox could perhaps be shown earlier.Productive Americans are more likely to have jobs to go to in the AM. rush. Our President and his administration are unrelenting and unapologetic in exemplifying the public contempt for "fake news" which may eventually pave the way for its downfall. All of this and more may be steadily compromising the foundations of this contemptible organ of disinformation
It would be very redeeming to see at least the "news" functions of the three traditional and very bigoted networks go under. They richly deserve the disdain of an America increasingly aware of their past and present support for America haters and their totalitarian intent to "fundamentally transform" an America which does not need or want their "good graces". What these professionally disgraced prevaricators need is scornful rejection by a now aroused and renewed America.
Jack, there's little doubt that the mainstream media is in terminal decline. Of course, some of the new media is left-oriented too, and some of it is pretty darn effective. I doubt the big three news networks will disappear, but it's increasingly hard to use that descriptor ("big") without guffawing, and there's the rub. Now, it looks like CBS at least is gradually morphing into something that conservatives may not find odious, thanks to the Ellisons. CBS could be the canary in the coal mine. I'd like to think that more networks will "evolve" similarly in the fullness of time. It's all about money, in the final analysis.
ReplyDeleteMakes sense! Jack
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