Friends, possibly there's some other stuff going on in the world -- who cares??? -- but the important thing is that today is DJT's 80th birthday, and anything that makes him happy (like continuing to be alive) makes liberals sad, and anything that makes liberals sad makes us happy!!! So enjoy this blessed day. 😁😁😁
In other news, the BBC is admitting that the U.S. economy is...kinda good??? What's up with that?
Dr. Waddy from Jack: The best of wishes to this remarkable American on his 80th!
ReplyDeleteOccasionally I gather myself and sample MSNBC to experience the revulsion its screed is guaranteed to generate. Today they "allowed" "Trump is 80; this is what 80 is like". They just could not find it in their pinched sensibilities to say President Trump. Too icky for them I guess, the poor dears. Anyway it will be a patriotic day at a DSA caucus when I heed personal advice from MSNBC.
Too, they bleated that Mr. Musks acension to trillionaire status "raises concerns about equality". Equality of what , pray? They don't know; its simply an emotional trigger for such as MSNBC.
What? Shall we arrogate to "the state" leave to confiscate all of Musk's wealth and distribute it equally among all Americans ? With apologies to my math teachers I'd estimate that to be around $3300 per American . Well! It isn't enough to pay off the mortgage BUT it would bring the the heart warming satisfaction of having "equalized "perfidiously productive Musk , yes.?
Trouble is, we have 109 years now of rock solid objective history which proves that the fanatic pursuit of "equality" is , given human nature, unattainable. Oh and humanity paid 100, 000, 000 lives in the 20th century to affirm that common sense truth. If we were to go "equal" on Musk could most any of us "equal" his enterprise , foresight, intellectual strength and courage ? Could we replace the perhaps incalculable number of jobs and consequent livings his efforts have afforded so many?
Rather ". . . the fanatic pursuit of "equality" is . . . futile." Jack
ReplyDeleteDr. Wady from Jack: Just from what does this reflexive far left compulsion to force comprehensive "equality" derive? Their sainted Marx urged a "dictatorship of the proletariat " but we know now just who constitutes the "proletariat" don't we: luxury loving Stalin , Brezhnev , Mao, Madame Mao, Ceaucescu, Fidel and good old "Che", Ortega, and some of their obsequious cadre. But not "the broad masses"; for them "equality "meant shared dictation , destitution and dysfunction.
ReplyDeleteAh but Bernie, AOC, Platner, Mamdani and the "Madame DeFarges" who now "guide " Virginia and Seattle, WOULD do us "equal" , yes. As humanly impossible as that is, nonetheless , they would do it or turn America into the latest Marxist hell hole trying. They would of course excuse themselves of the "necessary" sacrifice they would impose on us all to pursue such fantasy.
Why don't we just stick with the principle of distribution of advantages congruent with demonstrated individual merit and enterprise, tempered with sensible regulation and proven American generosity? Best wishes and many more to Mr. Musk!
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ReplyDeleteDid I hear right? I deal with Iran has been made, and will become official when it is signed this Friday in Switzerland. What a birthday present for President Trump! As of now, the Straits of Hormuz has been reopened.
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DeleteLet's rename it The Straits of Hormones.
Well, we certainly don't have economic equality, strictly speaking, in the good ole USA, but we do have unparalleled prosperity, which has to be an acceptable second best, surely??? And Musk's wealth, I hasten to add, is lodged primarily in the stock market, and it's the stock market that undergirds the wealth of countless middle class Americans like, well, me! I say: what's good for Musk is ultimately good for America and Americans.
ReplyDeleteRay, that's what I hear...but the proof is in the pudding.
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DeleteI'm sure President Trump is well aware that the regime in Iran can't be trusted in any way, and will keep an eye on them without ceasing. They are true believer's in their religious ideology, as I am sure many ordinary Iranians are. In that regard, it is hard to believe that they are not planning some sort of revenge. What was it that Admiral Yamamoto was supposed to have said about Pearl Harbor?: "I Am afraid all we have really done is awaken a sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible resolve".
Dr. Waddy and Ray et al from Jack : Our vigorous 80 year old President has had a banner two weeks in an already great tenure.
ReplyDeleteFirst is the preservation of an unbowdlerized ICE , free of far leftist "reform" and defunding , on the job as always, dutifully upholding the rule of law, not of emotion. Like Speaker Johnson said: " they tried everything to stop it and what did it get them? Nothing!" BTW , I think Johnson is playing a largely uncredited major role in MAGA's redemption of America. Let's keep him there!
Second, a "deal" with Iran which could work, unlike Obama's "America last" charade which was never meant to work for us.
"No Kings" ehh? No dice !
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ReplyDeleteMy previous comment does not imply, in any way, that President Trump did wrong on Iran. He confronted Iran directly, which was 47 years overdue. I applaud and support him and our Armed Forces for what they are doing, but my comment was a reflection on how much I mistrust Iran.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: I read the BBC article; I have always been a neophyte on economics but the sense I got from the article is that the US economy continues strong and resilient. That doesn't surprise me ; we have an Administration now guided by the principle that the US economy has a vibrant life of its own and that necessary regulation of it should yet be demonstrative of very careful , well informed restraint by government. A prime example of this is President Trump's eminently common sense demonstrated conviction that it is unproductive in the extreme to place restrictions , especially empirically unverifiable , doctrinally dictated strictures, on the immensely dynamic US energy industry. The salubrious results of this rejection of the far left 's dreamy dissembling in this vital field are described in the article. In addition it has made us energy independent , a condition terribly unpalatable to a radical "American" rump which wishes all dysfunction of our country so that they can take over.
ReplyDeleteI mean: for the far left manipulators of Kumbayaa 1965 Biden it was just peachy to summarily shut down an oil pipeline which generated myriad jobs both by, well, efficiently transporting Canadian oil to our welcoming industry, but also by generating incalculable ancillary opportunity in all the enterprises which are effected by the availability of oil. "Well after all , oil is icky , 'Mr. President' , so shut it down" And he did ! And alot of theretofore trusting people were hurt, many badly. "Oh well, there are lots of green jobs available for oil field roustabouts and electric cars are so groovy. And those people should have known they were working in an unjust industry! We know 'cause we've been to "universiti "
The article quotes an expression of concern over income "inequality" in the US and "the pain it causes". I'll assume that the person who expressed it is of good intent and not of the far left reflexive animus to economic success.
For the those of the latter , the difference between Mr. Musk's income and that of a counter worker at a fast food place is ample justification for a Marxist revolution , "by any means", in our by definition unjust land. A hyperbolic analogy is it? Check out MSNBC lately and they are just the far left's obsequious spear carriers. They are of course beyond principled dialogue.
But for those of good will and intellectual integrity who express plausible concerns about income equality I respectfully pose this question: as long as people who lead productive law abiding lives which recognize the truth of the "symbiotic " relationship between labor and agreed upon compensation for it are able to secure a decent level of material well being, why should it matter that some people make a lot more? Our economy is far too complex to be a zero sum game and I do not believe that any organized and /or official force purposely denying economic opportunity for ANYONE who lives responsibly, yet obtains in 2026 America. Of course for those who consider employment a right free of any responsibility and /or constructive behavior it is still indeed difficult to advance: understandably so.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: So MSNBC and presumably its mostly far left devotees , think that the President's presentation of popula refereed athletic combat before the White House was "inappropriate". Those of us who have worked in bureaucracies are very familiar with that euphemism for condemnation.
ReplyDeleteWell gee , where was the far left's indignation when sainted Obama had the White House bathed in lights in colors unmistakeably celebrating a Scotus decision very many Americans found "inappropriate" too, That was, the legalizing of gay "marriage "which was very disturbing to the myriad Americans who saw it as an attack on the integrity of the institution of marriage. But then, their views did not count. So is similar dismissal of the concerns of those who found the fightfest "inappropriate" not in itself , well, "appropriate"?
Jack, I didn't see the much ballyhooed cage fight, but I suspect it would have been far more brutal if Nancy Pelosi or Hillary Clinton had been involved. That's an idea for next time!
ReplyDeleteTrump is a very energy-friendly president, to be sure, but the truth is that the revival of the U.S. energy industry, and the increase in U.S. fossil fuel production, is a very long-term trend that has been abetted by Democratic and Republican presidents alike -- not that the former brag much about it, of course. Much of the increase in natural gas production occurred under Obama, believe it or not.