Friends, the peoples of the Americas are a little closer to comity tonight, as the great nation of Colombia has rejected Marxism and now has as its president a bonafide conservative. Bravo!!! Long may he reign.
In other news, President Trump's White House ballroom project has been put on hold by the D.C. Court of Appeals. Shockingly, the judges who ruled against him were appointed by...Democrats??? Who saw that coming? Let's hope SCOTUS makes this right.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/appeals-court-says-trump-needs-151920281.html
Lastly, you won't want to miss my appearance on this week's Newsmakers show, because, well, I'm basically the star!!! I like to think you'll learn a thing or two: about Britain's new party system, about Trumponomics, and more!
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ReplyDeleteMy understanding is that this ballroom project is $400 million. How important to the well being of the nation is such a project, seriously?
Dr. Waddy / Ray —
ReplyDeleteNo doubt a shocker that a District Court steps in to place hurdles in the President's path! Though there does appear to be grounds for congressional approval for this type of project.
On the $400 million and “how important is this?”: Fair question. The East Room seats about 200. Bigger state dinners have been stuck under tents on the South Lawn for years with weather, logistics, and optics all consequences. The new space fixes that permanently and puts a modern, state-of-the-art, hardened bunker underneath, capable of thwarting current weapons systems. That’s not trivial for hosting foreign leaders or for continuity of our government.
The ballroom portion is privately funded. The security upgrades underneath are the part that involves public resources. The group suing is the National Trust for Historic Preservation, which is clearly funded and governed from a Progressive perspective. They have a right to litigate, but one would have to pretend hard that this is a neutral historic-preservation action.
It will be interesting to see if SCOTUS takes this case and, if so, how they would rule. There is some precedent for Presidents making renovations without congressional approval, but not of this scale. Regardless, it appears private checks don’t rewrite who governs the property, at least from the District Court’s perspective. But neither does a proper indoor ambassadorial venue and a better bunker seem unusual or frivolous.
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DeleteThanks for that explanation. Appreciated. You make a good case for it.
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DeleteSorry about that. Apologies. Good explanation on the ballroom case. I don't post very much anymore, but when I do, I think that only Dr. Waddy and Jack do. Anyway, thanks again for your comments on the ballroom.
Ray:It was Richie, not me, who posted that creditable explanation.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy: No surprise when a DSA/Dem judge rules against anything President Trump wishes to accomplish. Many of them have minds sedated by Law Schools dominated by the Critical Legal Studies School which holds that our legal system has been designed to protect only the interests of the "privileged". For them it follows that it is just to use "any means necessary " to counter those who uphold that injustice. So, to find ANY rationale to legally thwart DJT in ANY matter is by definition justifiable and laudable and is a vital factor in the far left's onslaught on all fronts against our President and his defense of common sense and the cumulative wisdom of our laws through their bases in precedent .
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy: Re the Newsmaker broadcast: There is no escaping Alaska's weather , which in much of the state can be very deadly. . In rural Alaska it can be advisable to carry bear spray or a 12 gauge slug gun even when going between houses. Such an environment leaves in its inhabitants little room for the kind of frivolous dreaming which is characteristic of the far left. It appears to offer hard living but with the incentive of free living and it seems unlikely that rugged Alaskans would knowingly submit to the doctrinal totalitarians who have cuckooed the DSA/Dem party.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy: In the UK it looks like we might see increased cooperation between Labour and the Conservatives in trying to drive a wedge between Reform and "Restore Britain." Maybe an ad hominem attack on Farage's less palatable characteristics will be the tactic they would choose; I think you recently mentioned that possibility. Farage's similarity to DJT might make that likelier, although it helped generate a grimly determined and far wiser second term President Trump.
ReplyDeleteMy guess is that a decisive majority of Brits are terribly and irrevocablely disturbed by government sympathy for criminals, often to the terrible injustice of the law abiding; government refusal to halt the infusion of hostile immigrants and government insistence on increasingly discredited climate policies blocking the use of North Sea oil. Its probably a conviction that MUST be satisfied in order to win a national election.
The name "Restore Britain" can be a welcome clarion call to reestablish the primacy of proven British verities in the formation of national policy .
Dr. Waddy: Returning to the recent discussion of President Nixon on this site: I saw a well done documentary on his life and career today. Henry Kissinger was quoted : "Nixon was a brilliant man undone by his personal flaws but also was plagued by an extraordinary array of enemies who were completely lacking in compassion for him".
ReplyDeleteI remember an account of a final meeting he had with Republican colleagues in which some of them sank to the floor weeping over his resignation. My guess is that their grief might well have been prompted in large part by the dolorous fact that his vicious detractors had, after all his gutsy successes , nonetheless finally "gotten "him.
I think we see in many of those who unrelentingly seek President Trump's ruin a very similar grim and unwarranted pathology. It ranges from crude expletives like Madame Pelosi's prediction of a need for "fumigation" of the White House after his tenure, to serious wishes that he may befall incarceration or physical destruction and to lawfare which shames our legal system . Among those of the far left who have lately manifested actual serious intent to acquire "transformative" power in America are these low life's. They would gladly reward an America which unwisely empowers them with subjugation.
The documentary reminded us that very good people are sometimes undone by serious personal shortcomings that Greek and Shakespearean drama often portrayed as tragedy. I do think that Nixon was a tragic figure.
Ray, building a great big ballroom isn't a vital national interest, true, but why would the nation turn up its collective nose at a fabulous new venue that is being paid for with private money??? It would only do so if it were fantastically dumb, if you ask me!
ReplyDeleteRichie (or Jack?), you have indeed made a good case for the ballroom. Does the President have the unilateral authority to build it? I dunno, but I would hope that Congress would have the wisdom to give him its full support, in this instance.
Jack, I hope Alaskans are as wise as you suggest! It would not be entirely unprecedented, however, for them to falter momentarily.
Jack, it is a very interesting question to what degree Labour and the Tories might be willing to cooperate in future. The latest polls show public support for those two parties (and Reform) fairly even, meaning that Reform's chances of victory, if they joined forces, are slim, but then again they might both feel they have victory in their grasp, and so might eschew the cooperation they might have contemplated if they were somewhat more desperate and anxious... But, in any case, we're a long way from the next general election.
Jack, I think it was in some ways Nixon's ordinariness that made him relatable and genuinely likeable to many of his supporters. In some ways he was a natural born underdog, and many of us root more passionately for such a figure. And to see a man who fought so hard, and so valiantly, against such despicable enemies, finally succumb must have been a very bitter pill to swallow. Maybe not so bitter a pill as two terms for DJT was for the Dems, mind you!!!
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DeleteI stand corrected.
Dr. Waddy: Those who would destroy the most prosperous and free country in world history and replace it with, of all things, the proven most economically dysfunctional and savagely totalitarian system in that history, deserve a bitter and utterly disempowering pill. Nixon and by extension the America he exemplified, did not. The wrong the far left did him was yet another of their endless march of terrible injustices. Would that Rousseau and his 19th century German successors had never lived. Their legacy is an abomination and a curse on modern civilization.
ReplyDeleteDr. Waddy: New Colombian President President de la Espriella must be a man of "unconquerable constancy" ( to quote Churchill)and rarely paralleled steely courage! It is very encouraging to see all the Latin American leaders who attended his inauguration; perhaps the Venezuelan people can be counted among them too at least in spirit. In the so often far left bigoted and subjugated third world, his praise of Israel and the US is also to be lauded. He appears to embrace the truth that the only way to deal with criminals and do right by the law abiding is to forcefully and intolerantly disempower the victimizers. Gutsy guy!
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DeleteMy understanding is that the new President of Columbia has a four year term (until August 2030), so let's hope for the best that he will be able to clean things up a bit, an understatement. Good luck to "El Tigre".
Dr. Waddy: You know the old saw "be careful what you wish for, you may get it!" These now so called "moderate" Dems can tell us about that. They've been blatting '"fundamental transformation" of a "fundamentally flawed" US for awhile now. Well ok, now they've hatched a DSA brood which is hot to actually DO it and it may include a sizeable and influential part of a young generation.
ReplyDeleteHey, good going you bad willed dilettantes; you invited the barbarians and now they're at the gates, slavering for the totalitarian power to impose utterly insane policy. Its just what a lot of you wanted anyway but now that they are here and bustling , you're getting the willie's aren't you. You should because they will put you in the tumbrels right along with anyone else who irks them. And for the dessicated Aquarians in your ranks: you are going to get one more chance to destroy this hell hole country you've loathed since the '60s.
Dr. Waddy: What do you think explains MInnesota? They lent us the most asinine VP candidate ever in 2024 and just nominated a DSA type for the Senate. They gave us breathlessly histrionic and idealistic Hubert Humphrey for decades and monumentally futile Mondale for President in '84. To be fair: Humphrey made a principled and courageous stand against the Dixiecrats at the 1948 Dem convention but he later championed a 1964 Civil Rights Bill which evolved handily beyond equal opportunity into forced quotas, clumsy artificial equality of results and limitless demands for mandated imposition of "equity" in myriad settings. He had assured America this would not happen; he probably believed so, the poor 'ol windy dear. What is it about Minnesota that makes it an incubator for such types? I mean NYC : one can understand its fantastic mien. But North Country Minnesota? !
ReplyDeleteThe Northern reaches of the US usually manifest cultures chiefly consisting of rugged, down to earth common sense types. Why not this state of big woods and bracing winters?
Dr. Waddy : Can you imagine if the Bolsheviks had promised Russians of the inhuman measures they eventually imposed? They might well have lost their Civil War .
ReplyDeleteThe world had no previous experience of Marxist revolution so it had little basis for predicting the evil the commies manifested in power. In 1917 , sensible people might have seen their stated agenda as hopeful and potentially just. A few might have seen the French Revolution's descent into insanity as a warning and almost nobody would have invited on Russia the monstrous betrayal it suffered from the "comrades".
The history of Marxists in power undeniably schools us on what to expect from these DSA totalitarians. The intent they now express very openly is bad enough but we have to know that what they would actually do would be almost unimaginably worse!
Jack, it is indeed heartening to see Colombia return to the fold of solidly conservative Western nations, where it was firmly ensconced for so long before the pesky Petro interlude. The Latin Americans, interestingly, do not disdain Trump or "Americans" in the same way that most Europeans do. They have more common sense.
ReplyDeleteJack, your question re: Minnesota is a stumper, I must say! Demographically, states like Minnesota, Washington, Oregon, and all of New England, ought to be red. It's rather ironic that, oftentimes, the whitest states are blue, whereas the most diverse ones are red. Go figure. It just goes to show how complex American identities can be.
Jack, I doubt anyone, before the Bolshevik Revolution, could have imagined the depths to which its exponents would sink. What an object lesson in the wide gulf that can exist between rhetoric and reality!!! Of course, beastliness is nothing new. Sadly, the modern states gives (human) beasts vastly more scope for action than they ever had before.
Dr. Waddy: I think what makes the French revolutionaries and the Bolsheviks different from traditional oppressors is that they took power by promising justice and well being. Their betrayals probably made their merciless injustices even more bitter for their hapless subjects. In Cambodia it started right from the minute they took over.
ReplyDeleteBut in doing so they have provided us an indispensable warning of what would no doubt be in store for us if we foolishly play with fire and give power to the DSA, a Marxist force and so by definition totalitarian. Naturally they downplay their true convictions , just as they are doing now in order to be elected even in the susceptible regions in which they play their democratic charade.
Traditional tyrants simply mustered enough physically coercive force and then summarily applied it. But of necessity America's budding Stalins and Pol Pots know they must do vexatious time appearing to be loyal. And applying the bitter experience of the cynical "revolutionary" deception manifested in the 19th and 20th centuries , it is, I think, no exaggeration to believe that those monsters are the exemplars of what such as the DSA would do.