Friends, Trump's DOJ has retreated from its plan to create a $1.8 billion fund to compensate victims of the Biden Administration's "weaponisation" of the justice system against them. Numerous Republicans objected to the fund, which is a testament to just how many in the establishment believe in the myth of an "insurrection" on January 6th, 2021. Be that as it may, proceding with the fund without securing the necessary support amongst his fellow Republicans was a mistake, and retreating from the idea when it's criticized only makes DJT and Co. look indecisive and bumbling. Not a good day, all in all. Of course, quite a few January 6th "insurrectionists" were egregiously persecuted, and they deserve some sort of justice.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c87q9d7r57yo
In other news, CBS has fired 60 Minutes anchor Scott Pelley, which is clearly part of the general shakeup at CBS News and its realignment towards, uh, news coverage versus leftist propaganda. I applaud CBS for taking a stand against woke grandstanding!!!
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62rpdkem0mo
Finally, it's looking like California voters will be getting genuine choices on the ballot in November, with Steve Hilton as a potential GOP Governor and Spencer Pratt as a potential L.A. Mayor. Neither is particularly likely to win, but a Reaganite/Nixonite can dream, right???
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ReplyDeleteWhy do you think Hilton or Pratt can't win? Is the system "rigged"?
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ReplyDeleteBBC is a great source for news! You can always count on the British limp dick lefties for being completely unbiased.
Let's call them the RePOOPlicans and the DemoCRAZIES
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy from Jack: My understanding is that the California system involves a final runoff in Nov. between two final candidates. If Pratt is Bass's opponent that gives him time to fully engage her.
ReplyDeleteI was homeported in Southern Cal. for four years and I couldn't wait to leave. My chief objection was that , in my opinion it manifests "too much 'too much' ". Too much traffic , too much frantic instability, too much crowding, too much sun, too much attraction for low life's (it was no surprise to me that the Manson family was a Southern Cal phenomenon), too much superficial sillyness and smug disdain for the American verities which enrich so many other areas, too much excess in everything! L.A. is the nexus of this vacuous culture, I think.
I think Mayor Guiliani's miraculous transformation of a NYC which had declined into depravity showed that even LA might be redeemable. Feckless Mayor Bass is utterly incapable of this but perhaps Pratt or Hilton can work real change . Otherwise Southern Cal. will continue to exemplify the worst of American culture.
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I graduated from High School in SO CAL "back in the day". It was screwed up then, and must be a lot worse now. Doubt Pratt or Hilton will be able to reform the place. By the way, take a look at Pratt's background, and then draw your own conclusions.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: Objections from people fronting concern for "independent journalism" in this CNBS shakeup are laughable. Pelley's protests of political bias and prejudice leading to his firing are a characteristic far leftist assertion that their's are the only creditable views
ReplyDeleteSheesh, it must have taken something pretty compelling to have moved the erstwhile Clinton Broadcasting System to exile one of its faithful mouthpieces! I'm sure its painful for them but they may have grudgingly realized that their doctrinally guided "journalism" has finally worn out its welcome as more and more Americans realize how they have been contemptuously used by these "agitprop" America slimers .
Dr. Waddy from Jack: In having characterized SoCal as I have I neglected to mention the many very liveable areas and sensible people there. My brother, who lives in San Diego, calls much of that area "Iowa on the Pacific" . Perhaps the glitz in some parts of So Cal tends to obscure this reality.
ReplyDeleteRay from Jack: I'll read more about Pratt and get back to you.
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DeletePlease do read up on Pratt. Thanks. Will be interested to know what you think. Thanks again.
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DeleteWhat I'm seeing on Pratt is a well-paid entertainment guy whose mansion burned down. I doubt if the bank where he keeps his money burned down.
He claims that he and his family live in a trailer now, and then stages a promotion clip to show how bad things are for him, which he thinks qualifies him to run the city of L.A. which controls the huge county of L.A.
With that said, if he wins, that's fine, but I'm not knocked over by him or his background. For sure, he is not destitute. I also I question some of the moral issues of his past.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: Last night on Fox I saw an excerpt from an MSNBC commentator's declaration that after their far left is assuredly delivered from its present ordeal into its rightful station as the "American" doctrinal elite, it will be necessary to impose a period of "deMAGAfication" on the country. Surely the MSNBC sage did not mean that term to be synonymous with the post WWII deNazification process, oh no! These frantically doctrinaire far leftists simply cannot accept the unthinkable and "inconvenient truth" that they were outvoted in 2024 and that , well, elections do have consequences , right Mr. Obama? Of course, should these democracy disdainers ever seize the arbitrary totalitarian power they seek, policy making and administration would become ever so much simpler.
ReplyDeleteDr. Wady from Jack: I agree with you about the Jan. 6 participants. The Civil justice system is available to them but is probably beyond the means of many of the participants. If a class action suit can be won it might begin to provide compensation for them. As a recipient of Federal compensation for Agent Orange exposure I know my benefits are a result of legal, legislative and administrative action mandating them. It took relentless advocacy to motivate or direct the VA to provide them.
ReplyDeleteRay from Jack: Ok, I read about Pratt. I've never watched any of the shows with which he was involved . From what I've read he appears to be a morally cavalier LA slicko. I like his policy positions but can he be counted upon to stay true to them? Normally he would not be a good choice but the far left is by definition incapable of offering candidates other than those devoted to their incipiently totalitarian Marxist humbug.
ReplyDeleteIf only to deny insufferably arrogant and incompetent Mayor Bass any further tenure I would, if I was an LA voter, reluctantly vote for Pratt. If he is true to his stated positions he might well bring into the Mayoral administration some principled policy makers and subordinates.
Luckily I think it unlikely that either one of these less than exemplary individuals will ever have any effect on my life. Much of California is a swamp of far left bigotry and governmental dysfunction. Its interior and its north beyond hopeless Frisco , impressed me when I was there as being common sense American. I've heard that the central valley around Bakersfield is that way too. Conservatives in NY state can empathize with the misgovernment and misrepresentation those people get from the far left dictators in their state and big city governments. Its often said that American culture "advances" from California. I'd suggest it is only the superficial , morally flaccid, glitzy low points of our civilization which originate there. That's clearly demonstrated by the resentment Mountain West residents display when some emigres fleeing California's counterintuitive ambience settle in their areas and try to force their California ways on people who know better.
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DeleteThe bottom line is that California has NO effect on your life.
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DeleteI was raised in Oregon and California when those places were more sane, but I sure would not live there now, to include Washington State.
Ray from Jack: I was stationed up in Bremerton, Wash.for nine months in '70-71and I liked it there, including Seattle. Thought of going to that state when I got out but now I'm glad I didn't . The impression I have is that it is Californianized now. Of course NY state is just as politically degraded but at least its home. Where I live is really down to earth and and its very close to God's Country North West Pennsylvania.
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ReplyDeleteThe bottom line is that you can deal with the West Coast bullshit that came to your home, because it's your home. Reminds me of what some Frenchman said to an American Soldier during WW 2, who told the Frenchman that French cigarettes stank, and the Frenchman told
him that they did stink, but they were at least French.
Dr. Waddy from Jack : I can't wait to see a PM Farage in the grievously far leftist ravaged UK . Consider the nearly incredible incident of the police arresting and handcuffing a surely obviously dying man because his attackers accused him of racial bias against them. The police had not witnessed the attack, in which the dying man, he of the historically majority race in Britain ,was stabbed many times. They gave the benefit of the doubt ,AS IT WERE , to the immigrant attackers
ReplyDeleteSurely the Officers used poor judgement in arresting a terribly bloodied and very apparently doomed man but what motivated them? Were they forced to act in this manner despite its tragic absurdity? Is this incident the insane fruit of radical presumptuousness and utterly wrong headed reasoning? I think so.
I'm retired from law enforcement in a NY state the far left government of which barely tolerates even handed administration of criminal justice to anyone. It is resolved to extend the protections afforded "protected classes" in employment to extensive relief from responsibility for crime.
High ranking government bureaucrats , well insulated from the direct consequences of this bias imposed upon them by virtue signaling higher authority , for fear of their careers order their subordinates to carry out such reverse bigotry. Their subordinates, who supervise those in direct contact with law breakers , do what they have to do. They have bills to pay too. So many of them, having risen through the ranks , know full well that lawbreakers will take full, cynical advantage of such distantly and detached well intentioned but counterintuitive measures.
Looks to me like that intensely unjust incident in the UK was the result of such "politically correct' incipient totalitarianism. And accounts hold that Farage has spoken out with force and with common sense against it. Sounds to me like just the kind of gutsy leader needed to unapologetically confront this now harrowingly powerful systemic ,miscarriage of reason and those who cynically misuse it. We have much the same kind of Chief Executive in the US and his common sense measures (eg, deploying the National Guard and ICE) against the unrepentant criminal horde , have yielded results contrary and offensive only to those with far left brain fog.
Ray, California elections are "rigged", in the sense that they send ballots willy-nilly to all voters, and who fills those ballots out and returns them is a mystery. It's hard to prove a negative, however, so in the absence of proof of malfeasance the Dems get away with it. As it happens, though, the Dems don't need to rig the system to win in California, because the vast majority of Californians are now left-leaning. Why? Because they've imported lots of new lefties (from the Third World), and driven out millions of conservatives. As a result, sad to say, the numbers just don't add up for Hilton or Pratt. If either gets on the ballot in November (which may well not happen, given current trends), they'd be lucky to get 40% of the vote. I'm just being realistic.
ReplyDeleteJack, don't forget that the redoubtable Bari Weiss is now Editor-in-Chief at CBS News. You better believe that the Scott Pelleys of this world won't stand for THAT!!!
Jack, once upon a time San Diego was refreshingly middle class and conservative. Now it's as bad as LA was back in your day. Maybe worse.
Ray, I respectfully disagree: California DOES matter to me and thee, mainly because of Hollywood. Our popular culture is still manufactured, as it were, mostly in SoCal. If that doesn't send shivers up your spine, nothing will.
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DeleteSad to say, you are right. We can still expect to see the DemoNISTAS retain political control of California. You are especially correct that our popular culture is manufactured in SoCal.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: California provides America with a laboratory for how far Marxism can "progress"in a still Constitutional America. So far the results are harrowing.
ReplyDeleteI didn't know from Bari Weiss,but from what I've read now it looks like the edifice of reflexive far left support manifested by the three traditional networks has taken a smashing blow from her. She dares to violate but some of the irrefutable truth and justice of the far left! Why, of what unthinkable heresy is she capable?! And. . . she supports Israel! Convene the Inquisition!!!