Friends, mighty warrior DJT continues to direct airtrikes against the Islamic Republic of Iran, but to what purpose? The promised aerial armaggedon never quite arrives, so the Iranians keep absorbing their losses and lobbing yet more missiles and drones at a wide variety of targets, precious few of which they hit. How long can this charade go on? Pretty long, would be my guess. No doubt some of Iran's elite want to capitulate, given the fact that their economy is circling the drain, but as long as a few diehards in the regime want to keep the conflict going, it won't be easy to stop. Oh well. For Americans, the only real downside is $4 a gallon gas, and that's not exactly the end of the world...
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c74gwdzywmeo
In other news, there's a big ole primary fight happening in Michigan, where the DSA candidate is facing off against a moderate Democrat to become the party's Senate nominee. It'll be fascinating to see who prevails. Would El-Sayed be the weaker candidate? That's what many Republicans assume...
Lastly, our old pal Tony Fauci appeared before a Senate committee yesterday...and refused to answer questions, asserting his Fifth Amendment rights. Does that hold water, given the fact that he enjoys a presidential pardon protecting him from prosecution? His lawyers would argue that he's still vulnerable to perjury charges, since that would be a crime committed after Sleepy Joe's pardons. Probably he can't be forced to testify. That's my assumption. Oh well. What are the chances that we'd get straight answers anyway?
Dr. Waddy : This DSA imposition on America is getting very interesting. Their unrelenting effort to take over the beleagured Dem party structure is entering a decisive phase the outcome of which is in less and less doubt as it "progresses" apace. They are increasingly likely to succeed in making the DSA one of the two major parties, on the ruins of a once loyal American Dem establishment.
ReplyDeleteThough largely unanticipated , this development is not overly surprising. I have thought for a long time that most Dems want to force "fundamental transformation " on an unapologetically unjust America. But they have not dared to be completely frank about it for fear of being marginalized and bereft of power.
The DSA Marxists who will probably soon be running the Dem ship do not fear disempowerment. Either they actually think they can sell or con a majority of Americans on their utterly counterintuitive intents OR they think that electoral rejection will motivate and lend perceived justification to a revolutionary cadre to help them seize power OR they are simply throwing effluent at the wall to see what sticks.
The real test will commence in November , when they must face common sense America rather than the dessicated refugees of a party stewed in its own long simmering juices. Widespread election of DSA commies would set the stage for a terribly important election in '28. I know we seem to think all recent national elections are of that significance but this one, well. . . !
America has been shown that it can be redeemed from the seemingly run away onslaught of wokeism and its far left opportunist incipient dictators. DJT has led the campaign to show that with leadership which courageously believes in the long proven virtues of America and of what an incalculable tragedy it would be to lose them by shrinking from resolute opposition to America hating revolutionists. He proved it almost instantaneously by closing a border the Dems were loath to control. He has attacked political correctness in "universities" and almost now all reaches of American education, almost all of whom receive taxpayer largesse; he has moved with promise to eliminate misuse of taxpayer funds by America haters to promote, well, eh. . . hatred of America at taxpayer expense; he has unapologetically used America's prepossessing , historically proven overall good willed , coercive power to confront those who would propagate tyrannical and atavistic doctrines like neo medieval vindictiveness and historically abominated Marxism. America now knows that such evils CAN be prevented, they are NOT inevitable and America will have a chance to prove it appreciates this in November when it faces the triumphant DSA and again, maybe finally, in '28.
Ronald Reagan was right when he posited that " democracy is only a generation away from destruction". He had as his examples the Civil War and its origins plus the American Bolsheviks' efforts to use the Great Depression to condemn American democracy and free enterprise plus the '60s punk radicals to offer as examples. A national crisis such as those which supported his opinion may now be at hand and we'd better prepare to rise to it, for all we cherish, especially if the DSA enters 2027 flush with victory.
Dr. Waddy: I don't know enough about Dr. Fauci's conduct during COVID to have an informed opinion. I did think it a bit unseemly of one of the Committee members to ask him what color tie he was wearing. Contempt of Congress is not ok. Perhaps gratuitous contempt from Congress ought also to be considered so.
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"Warranted Contempt" or
"Justified Contempt"
It's past time to be informed.
Richie: MIght well be warranted; Congress speaks with our voices and there are probably many who were wronged by Fauci's policies and who have good reason to get short with him.The Congressman's remark rubbed me wrong at the time but I'd be glad to learn more about Fauci's actions.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy is Right to raise eyebrows after Fauci took the Fifth. Presidential pardon or not, the man’s track record even before recent events doesn’t exactly scream “I’d love to give you straight answers.”
ReplyDeleteI have zero empathy for this guy’s circumstances. To your point on the Newsmaker show, the imposter no doubt has a significant Louis XIV complex!!
Here’s just some of the shenanigans he has to own regardless of how his hearings result:
- He swore to Congress the NIH never funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab. Then, to the surprise of some, the paperwork and his own former colleagues showed the experiments they paid for made those bat viruses more dangerous in animals. Funny how the narrow little definition he hid behind was already being argued over for years before anyone ever heard of COVID.
- Early on, he waved off the lab-leak idea like it was some right-wing fever dream. Meanwhile, his own private notes and the phone call he set up with other scientists show they were taking it seriously from the jump. Lab accidents with SARS viruses and shoddy safety at Chinese labs weren’t some new revelation—they were already on the books.
- March 2020: “Masks? Nah, regular people don’t need them.” A few weeks later he’s the high priest of universal masking. The thin evidence for community masking against regular respiratory bugs was old news long before the pandemic. Suddenly it became gospel.
- The sacred six-foot rule got treated like it came down from Mount Sinai. Later, Fauci shrugs and says it “sort of just appeared.” No solid studies, just a number that somehow justified shutting half the country down.
- And who can forget the “vaccinated people become a dead end to the virus” line? Turned out they could still catch it and pass it on just fine once the variants showed up. Anyone who’d looked at flu shots already knew most respiratory vaccines are a lot better at keeping you out of the hospital than at stopping the bug cold.
The real-world fallout from his twisted messaging wasn’t just theoretical:
- Hundreds of thousands of Americans (nurses, soldiers, cops, pilots, teachers) lost jobs or careers over vaccine mandates that were sold as essential.
- VAERS and other systems logged large numbers of serious adverse events, including a clear spike in myocarditis (especially in young males) that officials were slow to highlight.
- Kids were locked out of school for months or years, racking up measurable learning losses, higher anxiety and depression, and social isolation whose effects are still showing up.
- Meanwhile, early treatment approaches using existing drugs were actively discouraged or blocked while the focus stayed locked on the new shots and lockdowns.
None of this was a series of innocent “oops, the science evolved” moments. It was a consistent habit of saying whatever protected the narrative, the funding streams, and the institutional reputation—while the media and political class treated him like a saint who could do no wrong. That’s why the Fifth Amendment appearance yesterday feels less like a legal technicality and more like the final chapter of the same playbook. Fauci deserves judgment and severe consequences that he will likely never see because of Sleepy Joe’s Magic Sharpie.
Please forgive my snark, Jack. But I’m not the least put off by a Senate question about the color of the Fauchster’s attire. I just wish the consequences for his actions were far more severe than a little justifiable sarcasm.
Richie from Jack: Your opinion on the Fauci situation is very well said, well supported and convincing; my use of the word gratuitous was clearly inappropriate. I often employ snark in my commentaries. We are going through a serious time now, maybe comparable to the 1850s and the actions of many of our, present and prospective policy makers are of grave concern. What the late, great David Horowitz termed "The Politics of Bad Will" are increasingly openly characteristic of those who advocate "fundamental transformation" of our country on the condemned Marxist model. I think President Trump sets the right tone for us in going unapologetically toe to toe with them,
ReplyDeleteJack, I doubt the outcome of the moderates versus DSA battle royal will be decisive or straightforward. Might the DSA become ascendent in the Democratic Party for the present? It might, but as Trump and Trumpism have demonstrated, even multiple election wins for populists won't dislodge the establishment altogether. I suspect the crusty octogenarian insiders who run the Democratic Party will hang in there just fine, and the establishment will still be patting itself on the back long after the DSA has been confined to the dustbin of history.
ReplyDeleteRichie, you encapsulated Fauci's and the medical/pharmaceutical establishment's failures and sins during COVID very well. Shutting down schools and businesses had very profound consequences. So did the trillions in additional debt we accumulated. You could chalk all that up to an excess of zeal (and/or pure blinding fear) on the part of the decision makers, few of whom meant ill by their words and actions, in my view, but to conclude, after all these years, that "mistakes were made" does seem like a woeful lack of accountability!!! Oh, and add to the list of unaccountable scumbags the CCP, which still disclaims any responsibility for unleashing the virus on the world.
Richie: My bad: Horowitz's book is The Politics of Bad Faith.
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