Friends, you'll find that this week's Newsmakers show features me at my pedantic, professorial best! I analyze in depth the results of the midterm elections, and I forecast what their effects are likely to be. In the process, I like to think I dispense a little wisdom here and there. You be the judge!
https://wysl.podbean.com/e/newsmakers-11-7-26/
In other news, Susie Wiles is out, and Stephen Miller is in...as DJT's Chief of Staff. As far as Democrats are concerned, Miller is, if anything, even more demonic than Trump himself, so it's not a conciliatory appointment, to say the least. It certainly suggests that Trump won't retreat from enforcing our immigration laws, which is welcome news to me. Nonetheless, Trump will have no choice but to work with Congress on many issues, most especially the budget, so let's hope that Miller will play a constructive role in that sense. I wonder what the relationship is between Vance and Miller, because, above all, Trump should be thinking in the next two years about what he can do to pave the way for Vance to be our next president. That, more than anything else, would cement Trump's legacy -- not to mention keep him out of jail (or worse). Food for thought.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: The appointment of Miller to succeed Wiles is appropriately defiant. Maybe Wiles will be working to promote a JD - Donalds ticket in '28 (?)
ReplyDeleteA lugubrious commentator on MSNBC was "lamenting " President Trump's alleged comment that he "could work with the 'Dems' without insulting them. "Oh please Brer Bear, don't throw me in that briar patch".
Either side claiming intent to "work" with the other side is being euphemistic. We are at complete loggerheads and Civil War II's political intensity has increased by a league.
Dr. Waddy from Jack; Re the latest Newsmaker broadcast: It certainly is preposterous to for any American voter to think that the "Dems" can be trusted to promote the well being of the economy! So why did so many of them demonstrate such reckless belief last Tuesday?
ReplyDeleteMaybe they were like an emotionally restless sleeper rolling over in usually futile hope of better slumber ? But as you noted, "affordability"was probably the salient issue , not the war. And as you also asserted, the economy is steaming along in fine fettle. So why do so many Americans think its sputtering?
Well, the America hating far left has an unprecedented task in bringing Marxism to an America which is plainly very properous and which provides an almost miraculous standard of living. Can't think of any country once flim flammed into that proven evil doctrine which desperate. . But we are not desperate so I suppose the radicals are determined to make us THINK we are so. They do it by "whatever means necessary" subversion of our educational , informational and now, our political organs . The maxim of "the perfect is the enemy of the good"has been perverted by them to "the perfect is the indispensable solution to the good." Since perfection is unattainable it holds that such ruthless, well, perfectionists, are never satisfied and are viciously hostile to anybody who advocates the use of common sense in policy making. in practice that makes for unrelenting and monstrous dysfunction and injustice.
Too, in being Marxists they are reflexively obedient to Marx's injunction to them that they identify and exacerbate "contradictions" (read "imperfections")so as to destroy confidence in a civilization (say, in its economy?) and bring it to anarchic dissolution. Having done so, they are resolved pick up the pieces and bring about perfect justice.
Since the DSA is probably fundamentally Marxist I think we'd better assume this is how they think, plan and fully intend! They did a rare old job of it in this election .
Dr. Waddy from Jack: The streaking "American" far left is slavering now over the prospect of imposing another Vietnam style disgrace on the U.S. But two ingredients which were decisive in that abomination are lacking in the Iran War and that made the war an issue inferior to "affordability" on Tuesday.
ReplyDeleteThere is no draft and there have been very few American casualties. We are learning whether today's youthful generations yet have within them enormous factions perverted by the terrible ingratitude which was characteristic of far too many of the boomers. But I think that as of now , that is not convincingly manifested . Besides, the radicals are smugly satisfied by their now accomplished subjugation of many of the graduates of the last five decades' antiintellectual American academy . They may perceive little need to proselytize on the war issue now and may not bring quite that '60s style visible and demonstrated fanaticism to today's "anti war" movement (read "anti American success in any war at any time ; all power to the 'enemy' "). Besides, today's America would NEVER countenance the castigation the '60s far left rendered the military and Vietnam vets. And of course, with the rise of the DSA, the "American" far left's salient object of hate now is world Jewry.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: Re the Newsmaker broadcast: I think the wealthy are some of the most positive, hard working and productive of Americans and that they have every right to enjoy what they have earned or inherited. As long as anyone who is willing to work and obey the law has a fair chance for a decent life we should not politically castigate the wealthy per se. Our economy is far too complex and dynamic to be a "zero sum" game. Why even perfectly just Marxist dreamlands can't be "zero sum"; they are just ZERO.
ReplyDeleteBut some of the well to do apparently suffer from guilt about the good fortune their elite "university" educations bade them renounce. And so they seek to "virtue signal" in recompense by requiring of us all allegiance to fantastic far left doctrine . Of course they stand not to lose from such measures . One is reminded of most of the Kennedys supporting "school busing " in areas for which this practice created terribly counterintuitive conditions. Many people who could ill afford it HAD to send their kids to private schools to keep them out of crime ridden neighborhoods. But the Kennedys sent their kids to private schools they could easily afford. . That is typical guilt ridden "liberal "behavior and it explains why so many of means support a "Dem" party they think floats their emotional boat. And of course, like everyone they DO want to be like their friends. I remember reading about some NYC airy snob who lamented " how did Guiliani get elected ; nobody I know voted for him". Nah; the traditional "Dem" party is no more. And nothing supports that truth more than that party's imminent takeover by the totalitarian DSA. How much more proof do we need that the DSA are increasingly assertive totalitarian Marxists than their open talk about confiscating property or completely reworking our national government into one, for example, lacking a Senate ? The Senate was wisely created to assure some measure of power to the small states which are, as some of the Founding Fathers feared , always vulnerable to subjugation by populous areas in which the civilizational values of the rural areas are dismissed? How about the DSA's expressed intent to free criminals from punishment or any other inconvenience? Clearly the DSA wants the support of these self declared "victims" in forcing their savage rule on an unwilling America.
These fey dreamer may even think they can gain the gratitude of the grimly expeditious"by any means necessary " seasoned far left. But the French revolution style tumbrels are already being prepared to transport them and anyone showing a hint of "inequitable " well being to what Churchill termed "the cold light of the execution yard". "Too much" it might be said? The murderous records of the French and Bolshevik revolutions are undeniably exemplary.
Dr. Waddy from Jack: So will the triumphant Congressional DSA/'dems" spend "political capital" by enforcing unrelenting investigatory authority against those who have officially yet insolently practiced heretic contempt for their unimpeachable wisdom and justice?If they do engage in such alleviation of their emotional torment over the last two years they certainly face the possibility of backlash in'28 from an America not even fully yet intimidated by their actual threat to all we value and cherish in the U.S.
ReplyDeleteIf they are smart and patient they will refrain over the next two years, preferring instead to pave the way for continued Congressional rule and the capper: a DSA devotee or obsequious vassal as President. AOC as the former and Newsom as the latter prospects, come to mind. AOC would be relatively honest but Newsom would cynically present himself as the "common sense" alternative to the DSA while fully intending in office to float their boat .
RAYMUNDO TO DR. WADDY
ReplyDeletePersonally, I would rather see Marco Rubio as our next President.
Oh, Trump and the Dems will work with each other...to a point. Sooner or later, we'll need a budget, for example. I have no doubt that, meanwhile, they will insult one another viciously as well. Politicians are pretty good at saying one thing and doing another, after all.
ReplyDeleteJack, I think your comparison of the American voter to a person rolling over in bed during the night is an apt one. Sometimes, it really is as simple as: well, I tried going right, and I hate it, so now I'll go left.
Jack, for what it's worth, young people went for the Dems this cycle, and by large margins, but I don't think there's much evidence that the Iran War was the reason. "Affordability" and generic Trump-hatred are more germane factors.
Jack, I've always regarded the Dems' class warfare as intrinsically hollow, and I'm pretty sure most wealthy Dems feel the same way. Of course, the rich really do pay more in blue cities and states, but thus far it hasn't been enough to send them packing in droves. Don't forget that a lot of affluent people also got that way not in spite of big government but because of it, and a lot of super-wealthy people pad their bank and stock accounts by cozying up to the government and feeding at the trough. The support the wealthy give to the Dems is not as self-negating as you might think.
Oh, I think, realistically, the Dems will have to investigate Trump and Co. a lot, and they will have to impeach DJT and other cabinet officers here and there. The hard left will accept nothing less. But most people will tune all that out. It may not impact the Dems' chances in 2028 much, especially if it's mostly over by then and public attention has shifted.
Ray, I like Rubio too and would be happy to see him as our standard-bearer, but Vance is my man unless and until I see a good reason to forsake him.