Friends, normally, challenging a sitting Congressman in his party's primary is a lost cause, but in the case of Thomas Massie a lot of Republicans have been critical of his waywardness and his tendency to make life difficult for poor Mike Johnson. Personally, I think he was also partially responsible for the political currency of the "Epstein Files", an imaginary cache of pseudo-evidence that "proves" that Trump and every prominent Republican (but nary a Democrat!) is a pedophile and a murderer. I say: good riddance, Massie! And welcome to the House Republican Caucus, Mr. Gallrein. (Granted, you still have to win the election in November, but that shouldn't be too taxing in the state of Kentucky.)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy2vw8j0ddo
In other news, DJT has taken the bold step of endorsing Ken Paxton in the GOP Senate primary in Texas. In all likelihood, this will seal John Cornyn's fate. I have mixed feelings about this, since Cornyn isn't dreadful, and he would probably be a stronger candidate against Talarico, but I think Trump saw that Paxton was probably going to win regardless, so why not take credit for it? The big takeaway in most contested primaries in the GOP this year has been: don't tangle with or aggravate DJT, because the Republican Party is his party, like it or not.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: The truly astonishing rise of Donald Trump to the Presidency in 2017 could in itself have gained him acclaim for his having denied bitterly vindictive Hillary her expected "rightful" satisfaction for her long time endurance of her "husband's" churlish misuse of their "marriage". She was also incensed by her rejection for the nomination in 2008, in favor of a man but dared not be open about it since the nominee, Obama , was even more politically correct than she. She would, from day one , have launched a vengeful manhating assault on half of the US population and any heretical woman who supported any by definition despised male.
ReplyDeleteThen in his first term he merely gave us a dependably lawful and principled Scotus. Yes, much of his first term was made difficult by his necessary on the job orientation to the Presidency after a career outside of politics, BUT. . . .
After his questionable defeat in 2020 he entered a " a dark night of the soul" as he was subjected to indescribably vicious castigation and harrowing legal hazard by a "by any means necessary" "American far left" which was terrified that he might be reelected. He not only per sonally and politically survived that prolix ordeal , he was reelected by a clear margin by an America appalled by blatant far left overreach (eg. open borders) from 2021 to 2025..
As a far more seasoned President this time he has proven himself to be the America hating far left's worst nightmare; he is a happy warrior and undeterred by the radical intimidation routinely practiced in their imperious expectation of eventual totalitarian triumph.
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DeleteI know this sounds "far out," but there are times when I really believe that four years of Biden, and the threat of a Harris presidency was a good lesson for those of us on the right to learn about how low things can sink. The threat of Republicans not winning The Presidency again come 2028 should wake us up, I hope.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: It is America's great fortune that his rise is coincident with the appalling rise of the Marxist "Democratic Socialists of America " into the mainstream of our polity. Whether or not his successes motivated that , it was inevitable and it would by now have swept the RINOS aside. The far left affirmed that when it cuckooed the tenure of pathetic Biden to enable an unlawful invasion of our country by unexamined immigrants which that far left assumed would aid them in dissembling and eventually destroying America.
ReplyDeletePresident Trump has confronted that invasion with all the executive power he can muster. And he has severely challenged and done great damage to, the "American " Marxist rump's haughty presumptions of their "unquestionable truth and justice" which they use to justify their contempt for our laws and our traditional culture.
It is imperative that America support this great President now, in this existential domestic Cold War we are in. That he should take action against those office holders in his party who betray his intents is courageous, consistent and worthy of the demonstrated gratitude of our country. Faced with the threat to all we cherish posed by the unrelenting , increasingly bold force to which one of our two major parties, the erstwhile "Democrats" has shamefully surrendered , unwavering support for our gutsy, America loving President, is VITAL.
RAY TO JACK
DeleteOur traditional culture (whatever that was) has now been replaced by Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce.
Above re Hillary: ". . . a vengeful manhating assault on the rights of the male population . . . ." Jack
ReplyDeleteRay from Jack: In 2024 the DSA/Dems nominated a hapless candidate but I agree that that , plus the far left outrages countenanced by pore ol Biden , did do a lot of wakening up on our side.
ReplyDeleteThis recent ascension of the DSA to dominance of the once loyal Dem party had better motivate us to keep on keeping on with MAGA or President Trump's historic redemption of our country may be catastrophically wasted. His astonishing rise could be a one time only chance to prevent our dissolution by the relentless curse of revived Marxism. Its ever more unapologetic incipient totalitarianism, devotion to amoral strategy, imperiousness, Jew hatred and bigotry is increasingly and alarmingly obvious (eg. Hasan Piker and his admirers and beneficiaries, open aid and comfort to our enemy in time of war, the elections of DSA candidates to big city mayoralties, dreamer Bernie Sanders seen as the "sage" of the disgraced DSA/Dem obstructionists).
RAY TO JACK
ReplyDeleteWhat we have now, in my opinion, is a form of populism posing as the Republican Party. If nothing else, it's the MAGA Party. As for the so-called Dems, most of the "leaders" and followers now are too stupid to be effective Marxists. And, I'm sure you remember that the origins of Marxism in the U.S. go back to the 19th Century with the flood of eastern European legal immigrants that flooded in here after the Civil War.
Ray from Jack: These primary results tend to show that President Trump and Maga are in charge in the GOP . And that movement , with its emphasis on common sense reassertion of proven American values , is certainly populist, I agree. Oh yeah, I too think most Marxist worker ants , especially the students ,couldn't creditably define Marxism to get a D plus or to explain just what they are carping about. BTW,don't students by definition have a lot to learn !? So why do some of them act as if they know it all ? Its partly because we tolerate it. Radical students need to be put in their subordinate place. )
ReplyDeleteIn her The Proud Tower (her best book I think) , Barbara Tuchman describes the late 19th century surge among laboring classes and their advocates, of Socialism and Anarchism in Europe.
I worked in the mid 60s in a big , noisy, dirty and dangerous steel plant in Buffalo. Some guys there had worked there in the thirties and they said working conditions were very much worse and the pay was lousy. So I can just imagine how bad it had to have been in the late 19th century in such settings. So immigrant Eastern European advocates of revolution must have found ready listeners. We know now though, that Marxist revolution would only have made conditions far worse and that labor in the US did get justice through unions. Democracy worked after all, while Marxism produced universal subjugation and constant economic dysfunction in the luckless countries it conned. "Big Bill" Heywood , a leader of the important Wobblies labor organization during the tough times , found that out to his dismay when he went to live in the Soviet "workers' paradise". Some of the guys I knew at the plant had nice homes in "da 'burbs" after growing up in "da ward".
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ReplyDeleteI had a political science teacher in college "back in the day" who had gone to the Soviet Union several times, many years before she taught me. She took these guided tours which were very propaganda loaded. She was aware of the problems the USSR was having, but she still believed with all sincerity, that Stalin wrecked the dream, and that had Lenin lived longer, things would have been just wonderful. When anyone questioned her to the contrary, she would get real upset with them. Interesting how some people get sucked into a lie isn't it. I think how one is raised and their personality determines, at least in part, if they go left or not.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: Texas is common sense America's flagship and the very thought of a , uh, person who makes certain to dictate that there are at least 6 human "genders" ,presumptuously asserting that he can "represent" Texas, is onerous in the extreme. I'm confident in our canny President's endorsement of Paxton.
ReplyDeleteRay, the horrors of Bidenism certainly did motivate the right. We turned out in big numbers in 2022 and 2024. It seems that we forgot those lessons in 2025 and so far in '26, though. The Dems have been running rings around us, in terms of turnout.
ReplyDeleteRay is right: the rise and fall of Western Civilization pales in significance compared to Taylor Swift's latest album.
I agree with Ray that the election of Democrats in 2026 or 2028 would not necessarily lead to the institution of "Marxism", whatever that term has come to mean. We could expect lots more identity politics under the Dems, and a flood tide of social spending, but actually the various factions of lefties find it hard to agree on much beyond that. I don't want to minimize the danger that they pose, but to my mind it becomes rather hard to swallow the claim that EVERY election is THE ELECTION that will determine our collective fates and potentially plunge us into totalitarian agonies. Not necessarily...
As for the USSR, it's interesting that Western leftists were defending its accomplishments and its supposedly compassionate and equitable social system long after the Soviets themselves had given up on it. To be fair, the Soviet people were far better off in 1991 than they had been in 1917, but there's also no doubt in my mind that they would have been infinitely more prosperous (and free) had they stuck with the Czar and merely restrained his excesses with a decent liberal constitution. Oh well. Hindsight is 20/20.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: I think though that with the far left siege of America now in entering its 7th decade, that every national election does present very dangerous possibilities. So much of the onerous effect frantic radicals have had on our culture (eg. the cynical transformation of heretofore rare and little noted sex change into a fundamental issue) was unthinkable in times very recent.
ReplyDeleteMy view: the far left consistently seeks either serendipitous or purposeful progress to a point where its totalitarian takeover is guaranteed in a near future. Sen. Sanders is an exemplar; what would that Marxist dreamer do if he were to acquire irresistible power ? Hillary would have striven to take us over the hump onto the slippery slope of inevitability. I think the plausible expectation of the catastrophe that would be should motivate us to view every national election as critical, more so than ever now with the infusion of openly Marxist DSA into our political mainstream.
Ah, but what you're forgetting is that those political developments are merely symptoms of long-term cultural shifts that are far more important. The DSA philosophy reflects the "entitlement mentality" and victimology that have become deeply embedded in our culture. For now, at least, there is a vigorous debate about these matters, and the traditional institutions that parrot leftist doctrine are of declining relevance. That keeps us in the game.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: Yes, but those misapprehensions you creditably cite may be about to be esconsed in one of our very most vital institutions: the national ballot. There is a very real possibility that a DSA stalwart will in the near future be the Presidential candidate on one of the first two lines on our list of choices , even in the very small town former village school voting site I go to. That appalling prospect should be of vital concern to all Americans; it raises the plausible possibility of a true Marxist this time doctrinally controlling our Federal Executive branch ( the Obamas are Marxists I think but they were quickly seduced by the comforting perks of office ).
ReplyDeleteA fair point, Jack. Lots of leftists are squishy neo-Marxists, but we've never had a Marxist ideologue, per se, in the White House, and I don't relish the prospect.
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