Friends, Trump has threatened to intervene if Iran uses excessive force against the recent wave of protests, which is, if you ask me, all well and good if it's meant to destablize the mullahs and/or express sympathy for the regime's victims, but, if it represents an intention to literally attack Iran or to undertake regime change there, it's a terrible idea. No one looks forward to the return of Iran to the fold of civilized, modern, democratic and quasi-democratic nations more than I do, but intervening militarily would be just as likely to strengthen the Ayatollah and friends as it would be to undermine them, and of course it would run the risk of dragging us into a wider conflict. MAGA starts at home, if you ask me, and the Iranians will therefore have to solve their own problems.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0q4z33pnnyo
As 2025 becomes 2026, what's the state of Trump's popularity? In a nutshell, it's not great, and it's not terrible. It's in the range where Trump and Republicans definitely have to worry about a blue wave in 2026, but then again such a wave is by no means inevitable. Unfortunately, with the mainstream media and many other powerful forces in America and worldwide working feverishly to undermine Trump, it won't be easy to raise these numbers appreciably.
https://x.com/TomBevanRCP/status/2006382575682789646
Finally, New York City now has a "democratic socialist" as Mayor, and he's promising that the "warmth of collectivism" will blossom in the Big Apple. Ha! There may be collectivism, of a dingy, bureaucratic sort, but there sure won't be warmth. New Yorkers are about as friendly as Red Army commissars -- speaking of which, it will be fun to see how much Wall Street fat cats and rich celebrities enjoy paying through the nose to foster greater "equity". My guess is that Florida and Texas will be the big winners, as the migration of high earners to those states will soar. Maybe Zohran could build a big wall around the city to deter escapees?
Dr. Waddy from Jack: It will be redeeming to see limousine liberals in NYC brought face to face with what they have been supporting in smug detachment for so long. But for the productive and lawful it will be an undeserved ordeal. I trust our President is weighing his options in intervening to preserve the rights of Americans in occupied NYC.
ReplyDelete"Collectivism" eh? Why you don't say ,Comrade. Jack
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: Well, once again ours is "the flag that makes you free" in sharp and telling contrast to the flags that make you flee!Sorry, America haters like Comrade Mamdani and AOC but we've gone and done it again. Dear Leader Mamdani was quick to accuse us of "illegal invasion of a sovereign state" but one can recall no comparable condemnation from him on the" Intifada's " Oct. 7 neomedieval onslaught on Israel. In fact he has bade the "Intifada " claim world wide support. Oh that's right, Israel does not deserve to exist, so the customary far left excuse of "by any means necessary" is his "authority" for his stirring endorsement of "affirmative action" with that purpose. My my, but the NY Mayoralty has assumed national spokesmanship with unbecoming dispatch. "Oh but no, he's not the new face of our party."
ReplyDeleteBut I digress: Dr. Waddy I'm looking forward to your views on the dramatic news today from Venezuela and how it may effect South America. Marxist regimes always degrade into something beneath their saintly intentions upon their ascension . In Venezuela's case I think Chavez's perfectionist marxist dreams (which may have been sincere in his way but were imposed with characteristic marxist "inconsiderateness") were used upon his departure by a typical voluptuary El Jefe to ,well, have a good old time at the expense of "the people". Ehh, he won't be having a good time in our custody; it will be correct but oh so very austere. No more fun for him and his. The news tonight describes jubilation both in Venezuela and in Venezuelan/American neighborhoods in Florida. No doubt this manifests ingratitude for Maduro's benvolent rule.
It also describes condemnation on the action by a House Minority Leader Jeffries who is miffed because Congressional dems were not given advance notice . What ? So they could leak it and get alot of despised American soldiers and airmen killed and maybe even repulsed in their "illegal" mission!?
I would suggest that the leaders of the Mexican drug cartels commence to reserve rooms in Pyongyang.
"If only we had the power America has " lament the increasingly intimidated thugs of this still hard, hard world. "We wouldn't foolishly waste time on those whose wretchedness is of no moment to us".
Dr. Waddy from Jack: Its unlikely that Mamdani can build a brick and mortar wall to keep his subjects in , though he might want to do. But I think he might try to confiscate the assets of those of means who leave NYC to escape his unapologetic marxist misrule. The Soviets of course set the model for this confiscatory tyranny though the Nazis generated defacto abandonment of the wealth of emigres simply by terrifying them into precipitate flight. I expect to see Comrade Mamdani attempt to establish some kind of exit "tax" for individuals and businesses. I mean, in order to freely spend other people's money who have to get your mitts on it in the first place.
ReplyDeleteOf course, he will also, with vindictive enthusiasm, "tax the wealthy". But gee , somehow the far left definition of wealthy always seems to engulf all of the productive people. No matter their income or property they are, by radical definition, simply lucky and deserve to have their earnings "appropriated" so as to give justice to the unproductive, including those willingly so due to their choice of negative lifestyles .
But today, sincerely"proletarian" Dear Leader is said to daily depart his austere lodgings using the "people's" physically hazardous subway system. Why now, isn't that just, well. . . "just folks"?! The predictably less than favorable consequences of his making this system "free" may put a cramp in his style though; of course HE will have a choice.
Bless me for a fool but maybe we should wait and see how this "democratic" socialist proceeds before we "judge" him. Its just that "democratic" socialist makes about as much sense as a "vegetarian" wolf .
" . . . you have to get your mitts on it ." rather . Jack
ReplyDeleteJack, I would think Job One for Mamdani will be to raise taxes on the wealthy. It remains to be seen whether he can accomplish said task. The wealthy won't go quietly into the night. They never do. And I doubt that an exit tax would fly. Americans have a constitutional guarantee of freedom of movement. I should think that includes their money.
ReplyDeleteJack, conspicuously absent from the coverage I have seen of the Venezuela coup de main, mainly from the BBC, is an acknowledgement of the joy that many Venezuelans -- and not just the Floridian sub-type -- feel at the fall of their dreaded oppressor. The knee-jerk sympathy for Maduro on the Left is pretty disgusting. Oh well. What could we expect? Of course, excising Maduro from Caracas is not quite the same thing as ending the criminal/Marxist regime in Venezuela, and that we have yet to accomplish.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: Perhaps the discreditation of a dictatorial regime which could not even protect "Dear Leader" is well commenced. Has the BBC forgotten what the UK did when jack booted Argentina violated the well being of UK citizens in the Falklands back in '82? As for our MSM, they continue to disgrace themselves as they approach ever closer to comic ridiculousness.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: Probably you are right about some kind of exit "assessment". Then again the far left sees compliance with the Constitution as optional. Remember how Obama chided the productive by saying "you didn't build "the public infrastructure upon which your enterprise depends. I could see a far leftist like Comrade M declaring "so you are relocating your business outside NYC ehh? Well you benefitted from tax payer funded services and facilities and you aren't going to leave without paying your full debt to 'the people' " Yes, that pesky Constitution has always been a much resented obstacle to far left "progress" but as demonstrated by NY state's enacted contempt for the 2nd Amendment, radicals ain't skeered to try it. Comrade M no doubt sees his tenure as "Democratic" socialism's grand debut in executive power in the very heart of detested freedom.
ReplyDeleteJack, if Mamdani believes he holds the future of "democratic socialism" in his hands, that may be because he very likely does. Lefties, at any rate, have a long history of forgiving enormous practical failures in their leaders, so long as those leaders keep railing at "fascists" like you and me. I predict Mamdani will accomplish 5% of his goals, at best, but that won't stop his fans from swooning, necessarily.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: Point well taken!
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