Friends, if the legions of protestors tomorrow are to be believed (a big "if"), then our country has already achieved the pinacle of perfection: we've made the great and glorious Donald J. Trump our King-Emperor, and thus we've left democracy in our regal dust. Oh, if only it were so! The powers of President Trump seem all too limited, from what I can tell. He doesn't even command respect, let alone obedience. Be that as it may, I wish the lefties a pleasant day of kvetching, which is surely their favorite pastime.
Meanwhile, President Trump is trying to solve problems created by Democrats, as per usual. He's ordered that TSA agents should be paid, despite the partial government shutdown. Can he do that? Probably not, since liberal judges won't let him do anything, but I applaud him for making the effort!
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2026/03/27/no-kings-protest-trump-iran/89331992007/
Dr. Waddy from Jack: Luckily I live in a solidly common sense America loving area. Predicted today here is a demonstration the perps of which insist will include many more of "the People" than attended their last impassioned declaration of "no KIngs".
ReplyDeleteIn our area the local organizers arrogate to themselves the title "We the People "; so I guess that we who disagree are not of the people?!Since it is coordinated with a nationwide "No Kings" uprising it is reasonable to think that it may be commanded by the "American" far left and its obviously highly organized relentless effort to "fundamentally transform" a "fundamentally guilty and unjust Amerika". I wonder which Commissar from Central Committee manages today's "struggle session"in our benighted area. Did it bring reinforcements from outside our flyover country?
This effort has miniscule probablity of seducing hearts and minds in our down to earth area. What it will do is reaffirm in our minds the very widely held conviction that these demonstrators nationwide reflexively seek to discredit and disempower our present Administration in ANYTHING it does. Why? Because "we hate you" is their credo. "No Kings "ehhh? Why they hell you say! But they would welcome a national all powerful and all knowing"Dear Leader" to RULE our country, as is customary for Marxist worker ants.
Oh and BTW, we will surely in their regimented ranks today and again see"timely" clarion calls to "defund the police " and "abolish ICE". Why, take heart comrades, if you do succeed in destroying loathed America we would all be graced by the ubiquitous presence of very different kind of police and a border control bureau the purpose of which would be to stop all emigration rather than illegal immigration. Even illegal immigration would be crushed in time after it has outlived its subversive utility.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: I can just see it: 1943: " We've had enough of these inconveniences brought on by Roosevelt's war! Gas and food rationing , no new cars, the draft, no travel; I mean, yes, we all would like to see Hitler and Tojo and their barbarian hordes "stopped" but c'mon. That Churchill has FDR all wound up! Enough already. "
ReplyDeleteNo its not a direct analogy and certainly the Iran War cannot alone compare with WWII, But the Iran War and President Trump's groundbreaking , unprecedentedly wide ranging campaign against the now 60 year old relentless "American"far left campaign to destroy American civilization and replace it with forced historically discredited Marxist totalitarian presumption, is CRITICAL , very possibly sine qua non ("without which:NOTHING!").
Should those incipient dictators accomplish their yet unneeded and certainly unwanted "revolution", the total effect on our country would be as catastrophic as loss in WWII could have been.
These sour minded professional America haters and their ,yes, sometimes of tragically misled good will worker ants together with their historically faithful neoBrown Shirts, have in the enervating gloom they have experienced since the unjust political toppling of their darling Hillary, the incomprehensible return to power of anathematized happy heretic Trump and the premature throttling of their great illegal immigration invasion and its surely consequent "fundamental transformation " of their loathed country, fairly stewn in their own juices. For them , this is decisive civil war, waged to relieve them of their torturous and dominating emotional hurly burly at being thwarted in bringing political and moral redemption to such a condemned nation! "By any means necessary" is their grim and sincere byword and if we fail to recognize its present and all out threat to all we cherish and value in our ,yes, "unforgivably" imperfect country, we are are assured of its eventual crushing triumph.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: Good for our gutsy President for ordering the payment of TSA salaries. Though not approximating the longtime "by any means necessary" submission of the "American" far left to exemplary Marx and Lenin, our President is right to stand against far left totalitarian bias in some of the Judiciary and certainly in the now subjugated far left/ Dem party. If they don't like his insolent opposition to their unchallengable righteousness , whadda they gonna do, huh?! Sue him , slander him , indict him , impeach him , knowingly inspire assassins? They've tried all that and they can't keep the guy down . They want to play their power games? He'll be right back at 'em and that kind of resolve is something they assumed they would never see in an American Administration. Surprise, surprise, you commie low life's!
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: Some commentators have noted a predominant number of "over '60s " in the "No KIngs" crowds yesterday. Lets see: a 60 year old would have been born in 1966, so they could not have participated in the "anti war" (actually anti America; "Ho, Ho , Chi MInh!" isn't exactly "My Country is of Thee")demonstrations which so encouraged the murderous Vietnamese commies. But 70 year old boomers could have and plenty did and I would guess the very decisive and seditious effect those efforts had is one many of them would like to reprise today. Oh my, "the way we were", yes Babs?
ReplyDeleteTrouble for them is , there is no draft now. For so many of the hyperactive precociously enlightened then the real deal was the dread prospect of having to bother with serving the country. "Why this is the 'dawning of the age of Aquarius and we are golden stardust' and , like, you know , we're gonna live forever so step off from 'pushing too hard on me' , '
cause 'all that ah wawnt issa to be free. . . .' The first time a Sergeant gives me an order, I'll freak! "
"Gee, what sweet nostalgia and maybe, just maybe we can do it again ehh comrades."
"Ho ,Ho, Ho Chi Minh" ain't exactly "Give Peace a Chance" either. Jack
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: Well, it looks like a manned circumlunar mission is on schedule for next week. What memories it conjures! I was a typical 1950's kid astronomer and scifi enthusiast and I followed the space race closely. But Apollo 8 in '68, which did, I think, 10 orbits of the moon after previous flights of "only "eight hundred miles up was an intensely wondrous event. Me and my friends were out in the Tonkin Gulf so we didn't see Cronkite temporarily departing from his regretable misrepresentation of the War in Vietnam. We did hear the majestic Christmas Eve broadcast from lunar orbit . Today it would probably have been nixed for fear of "offending"those who do not practice Christianity. That those who do practice that faith thrilled to that broadcast would have been denounced by virtue signalers and few else.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, it was a wonderous experience and for me the very best of the beyond astonishing space program partly because it came on us so fast. Hope this one will be equally thrilling and I hope the America haters grant us respite (even albeit grudgingly ) from their reflexive castigation of all things which grace America.
Jack, the dominance of the aged in the No Kings demonstrations is an interesting phenomenon, but I suppose you could say that the well-seasoned dominate American politics as whole, or at least the electorate, on both the right and the left. Maybe not the protesting class, however, which makes the No Kings movement a little different. As you point out, the ideology of the protestors, such as it is, is incredibly diffuse. It's less about ideology, though, and more about emotional commitment, which one can never doubt that MSNOW and CNN viewers have in spades. And they are elderly almost without exception.
ReplyDeleteHow cool that you experienced that Christmas broadcast in the Gulf of Tonkin, of all places. Yes, you really have to wonder whether any American accomplishment or commemoration (like the 250th) can possibly bridge the gap that separates patriots from grousers these days. Speaking of which, I'm still waiting for the new and improved FCC to impose a semblance of discipline on the professional agitators and dissemblers who run most of our "news" networks. The time is now!!!
Dr. Waddy from Jack: I assume that the airwaves are regulated because without such control they would be an unusable cacaphony. I wonder if the standards for FCC license address ideological balance in the totality of the medium. I think I remember an abortive regulation pushed by deservedly unpopular leftist talk radio advocates which required "equal time". Either it didn't help them or it was canned.
ReplyDeleteIf its still in force it might be used to require of the MSM some grudging restraint from their obvious biases. It would have to be carefully applied or amended so because of course the far left would try to use it against spectacularly successful Fox news.
". . . . spectacularly successful, by definition not MSM, Fox News. " Jack
ReplyDeleteJack, I'm pretty sure the equal time requirement is obsolete, but it would certainly be against FCC guidelines to spread dangerous and knowing falsehoods, which it seems to me the MSM does all the time! In the final analysis, I suspect the FCC Chairman and his commission mates have broad latitude and exercise their judgement...or exercise no judgement at all, as the case may be.
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