Friends, just when you were sure you were living in "the best of times", they go and get even better! For one thing, I asked for "more kings", and it turns out that Britain's King Charles III is about to arrive for a state visit. Marvelous! Will he shower DJT with titles, awards, and fawning praise? I can only assume he will. Might DJT crown himself emperor to mark the occasion and one-up his regal visitor? Could be! Let's cling to hope, shall we?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3w3dpgjzj8o
But there's more!!! Eric Trump has unveiled plans for the Trump Presidential Library in Miami, which looks less like a library and more like an opulent futuristic skyscraper. I know I would enjoy visiting it someday. Of course, if the Dems have their way, after he leaves office Trump will be locked away in a Supermax prison, but that's only if they get their grubby mits on the White House again, and I trust my fellow Americans won't let that happen. Well, I hope they won't!
Dr. Waddy from Jack: Its far too much to expect from such reflexive dissemblers as our "No Kings" neo '60s mob that they keep a respectful distance from His Majesty and his Queen.But I'm confident that our country will ensure that the Royals will be free to enjoy our hospitality and our affection for them. Our shameful national rump , will, I think, at the hands of this no nonsense President ,be confined to the gutters from which their '60s idols emerged.
ReplyDeleteI doubt that it occurs to many of these Marxist automatons that the very freedom to work the dissent they so casually and presumptuously wreak is directly inherited from the nation for which these Royals are anciently Sovereign. The historical and political evolution which informed and inspired our country's founders cannot but have been inherited from any other than the "Sceptered Isle" (and its profound effect on the Enlightenment's popularizer Voltaire) and its Monarchy has been an indispensable factor in Britain's survival , prosperity and its consequent benefit to the world. I mean, the Brits tried to do without it for a very little while but quickly realized that they couldn't do without it.
Our separation from our mother country was not a cordial one but I am reminded of a passage in Howard Fast's biographical novel Citizen Tom Paine. In it Paine, when he returns to his native England post revolution is told by a Brit: "you rejected us Sir but it was a good British rejection". Churchill , a man with perhaps the most comprehensive understanding of British history, celebrated the special relationship between the "Great Republic " and its vital cultural fount in Great Britain.
Not that these "No Kings" totalitarians , whose intellectual development ends with thoroughly historically discredited Marx and Lenin , are capable of appreciating such "imperfect" reality!
Dr. Waddy from Jack: The Scotus decision today striking down regrettably far leftist subjugated Colorado's ban on counseling on "conversion therapy" being afforded to minors generated one of the few creditable statements made by very junior justice Jackson. She averred that it will have a far reaching precedental effect, one most offensive to her.
ReplyDeleteOh I hope so . Several states have enacted similar laws ,all probably tainted with the same far left presumption that the First Amendment is uniquely disqualified from denying them the sanctity of their unimpeachable views and their unassailable justice. Since counseling on conversion therapy is heretically offensive to their comprehensive pronunciamentos of their proprietary convictions on the subject of "gender", why then, only Trumpian tyranny can expose them to the counterintuitive dictation of a Constitution they honor only when they "feel" like it. Colorado is the first to be so oppressed and Justice Jackson fears there will be much more of this disgraceful lawfulness directed at other states. Let her emotionally based concerns be objectively affirmed!
Dr. Waddy from Jack: Fox predicts that President Trump tonight will broach the possibility of our quitting Nato, to the nation.
ReplyDeleteThere was speculation for ever so long about how it might be if a businessman was elected President. We are getting an intriguing view thereof with this bustling President. I doubt that there are many successful big business enterprises headed by milquetoasts. And this guy is none of the kind. Big business, with the dread sanctions of the "bottom line", competition, government involvement and with bigoted ideologically driven social and cultural animi always at contest with it , is no place for other than "take charge" and "lets get to work!" types at the helm.
I make this digression to opine that if he does get us out of Nato he will yet once again have worked us a gutsy and prescient move seemingly nobody else in government, now or then, would have dared to try.
Ho hum, we can be certain that the juvenile Trump haters in the far left/Dem coterie in the Senate would reflexively block an official break with Nato, if only out of brattish snit. If out of dominating emotional animus to the President it reflexively blocks formal withdrawal , can it prevent this hombre President from playing executive power games to make us "non grata " to a cynical "ancien" Europe which has chafed at its necessary dependence on bumpkin America since 1941? (Eg. DeGaulle). Again, this guy, as a big business executive , is accustomed to and glories in , the fray. He's native to that real world from which so many professional politicians have timorously fled.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: It is probably within the President's authority as Commander in Chief to order our forces home and to "encourage" them not to automatically cooperate with Nato.
ReplyDeleteAllied European nations , Canada and Turkey , especially with the recent addition of the hard fighting Finns and Swedes, probably have the power to repel an unlikely Russian expansion. Despite Putin's reputed heartfelt desire to reprise the Soviet Empire , Russia's essential foreign policy purpose is to prevent any repeat of the indescribable agony it experienced in its "Great Patriotic War" repulse of the invading Nazi monsters. We cannot gainsay this conviction on Russia's part; we are humanly incapable of comprehending and empathizing with what Russia suffered . It sees in Nato's advance to its very borders a palpable threat to their nation's geographic integrity. And it follows that they probably regard once apparently imminent Ukrainian membership in Nato as an unendurable affront to that vital concern.I think it is for that that Russia invaded , not for any expansive intentions. Russia and Ukraine share an extensive and intense cultural and historic heritage. I do not mean this in any way to express justification for Russia's gratuitous cruelty in Ukraine, both in the '30s and now.
So, does Nato have good reason to fear Russia? Maybe so; Sweden and Finland , both of which know Russia full well, made haste to join Nato, reversing decades of independence. Their motivations manifest at least the wariness much of the world , including us, have demonstrated toward that rugged and once again proven shamelessly
brutal country.
Nato without the U.S. probably has the military power to repel an at least now improbable Russian advance beyond Ukraine. If it doesn't have the will, then let it muster it, free of an outdated American presence it still somewhat disdains.
Such a withdrawal need not necessarily prevent a measure of military cooperation with Canada and particularly, a UK which may soon be led by Nigel Farage, a man with whom we can productively work.
Dr, Waddy from Jack: I listened to Scotus Justices Alito and Gorsuch questioning one of the attorneys for the side opposing the administration's efforts to limit automatic birthright citizenship. They appeared to have doubts about most of her reasoning. Fox said last night that some of the Justices appeared to tend toward opposing the proposed change in this practice. But Alito and Gorsuch sounded to me as if they found the defense of the practice to be faulty. Of course we can probably assume the doctrinaire leftists will as usual vote their reflexive pre"judice " against our President.
ReplyDeleteShould "citizenship harvesting " ,which the morally "compromised " "American" far left expects would in time yield a generous helping of receptive foreign worker ants be ended ,the radicals would sustain a staggering blow to their already threatened dream of inevitable takeover. And China would see the end of their cynical lively enterprise in this practice. Just imagine if the roles were reversed between China and us in this.