Remember when there was concern because of Reagan's age? And his declining mental faculties? Seems like a young pup and sharp as a tack by comparison now. Wow!
Sep 5, 2023·edited Sep 5, 2023Liked by Heather Heying
It kind of seems like the job that you want to finish is the United States of America itself. In which case, I’m afraid you may be succeeding. -- So many "quotables" in this richly deserved rant!
But as Joe is a total placeholder, who or what is it that is leading the charge to finish us off? I am beginning wonder if we aren't in Obama's third term? The end of his second term was bad enough in terms of civil liberties. It used to be that the "baddies" were post WW2 right wing industrialists & their political puppets. Nowadays we see the ranks being overtaken with authoritarian leftists -- so-called "progressives" -- who have likewise gained wealth and power through exploitation. How is it that being a politician now results in 11 million dollar beachfront property? Uniparty, indeed.
Still, I am nostalgic for an uncomplicated view that says we can "course correct" to the things that did once make our nation so attractive. I feel an increasingly patriotic allegiance to our Bill of Rights and Constitution. And I plan to vote in each election as through it matters. Despite my grave doubts about election integrity, go Kennedy 2024!
Meanwhile by jettisoning wisdom and every moral & ethical constraint we seem to be living in a zombie democracy that may well a be heading toward a financial collapse that will make the secure and complacent upper-middle-class life that my children have enjoyed a past dream. The most valuable thing we have imparted to them is that God promises to restore all things by his justice which has served them as a bulwark for mental and spiritual health in a world full of corruption.
[Side note: How to read yourself into complete skepticism about post WW2 America: John Perkins, Confessions of an Economic Hitman; Gary Webb, Dark Alliance (about crack cocaine and the Contras); Tom O'Neill, Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret History of the Sixties; David Talbot, The Devil's Chessboard, Allen Dulles and the CIA; Whitney Webb's Two-Volume One Nation Under Blackmail -- you’ll never believe in “accidental plane crashes” and “suicides” again.]
In the early days of the 2016 campaign my refrain was, "In a country of 320+million people, can we not find a candidate whose last name is not Bush or Clinton?"
For the 2024 election my refrain is and will continue to be, "In a nation of 320+million people, can we not find a candidate who is under the age of 70, whose name is not Bush, Clinton, Obama, or Kennedy?"
Although, I must admit there is much that I like about RFK.
Was the war on poverty a success? Viet Nam wasn't. Are race relations better now than in 68? Are our kids more highly educated than when Carter created the department of education?
Would you keep bringing your car to a mechanic who can't diagnose a problem, and his repairs continually make things worse?
Reagan spoke for those of us who believe government is, at best, a necessary evil, when he said "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help. "
Have you noticed that the parties have flip-flopped? I think we need to get over the old names for political parties. Liberals are no longer liberal. They are authoritarian. People that traditionally vote left can see the changes that have occurred in policy and ideology. What they can't see is that the political party on the right has changed too. It appears that the left-wing party now supports BIG BUSINESS and the right-wing party supports THE PEOPLE. We need to get over partisan politics and vote on merit and policy.
I have never understood why people believe in the marketing image politicians project. I have never understood the hysterical reaction to Trump and his exaggerations and bombastic statements. I always figured he was making fun of the ridiculous images other pols play. Reagan the cowboy, Biden the Everyman, Bush the veteran supporter. I believe/hope RFK, Ramaswamy, DeSantis and Trump all have US and voter’s interests in mind. I would vote for a blade of grass before I would vote for Biden or any other dem except RFK. I voted for independent candidates for POTUS in most elections. I’ve voted for one dem (twice) and one republican (twice). I’ve been independent most of my life, until the dems decided to nuke themselves by using pedos to separate children from their parents, before they promoted carving up children, before they decided to annihilate female sports, privacy and safety.
I go back a bit farther than you, Heather. My first presidential election was in 1968, and as a newly minted Ivy grad and avowed SDS member (remember the Port Huron Statement?), I ended up voting for Dick Gregory, unable to stomach the mainstream choices of HHH and Nixon, one of fewer that 50,000 people who did. At least I can claim to have voted for a Black man in a presidential election before nearly one else. I am pro-abortion, anti-gun, anti-religion (including wokism), and I could countenance voting for Trump in a Trump-Biden contest. Sure hope for a different choice, and as a citizen of NH, I'll have at least one small primary vote to affect things.
I feel for you, Heather. There was a time that the Democrat policies seemed positive. Political conservatism seemed a better fit for me, but the Republicans haven't done that well either. As Mark Steyn has said too many times to count, America is ruled by a bipartisan permanent political class when it is not ruled by unelected bureaucrats. For all of Trump's failings, the Republican establishment had every bit as much to do with his downfall as the Democrats. Trump was the ONLY candidate talking about a wall. That's what he was elected for but the political establishment wants to tell us what to think, rather than be told what we want them to do. Will I vote for Trump if he is the Republican nominee? Probably not. DeSantis? Not after he threw the people of Florida who reelected him under the bus for his Quixotic run for the Presidency.
Bravo, Dr Heather! fist-pumping over here! as another homeless liberal (who's being pushed more and more to the right) I'm in 100% in agreement with every freakin' word.
"Let's finish the job" hummmm, excuse my naughty but I'm thinking he's referring to the blow job he's giving the globalists!
To me, the "job" he wants finished is to finally get his main political opponent behind bars. "Together, we can finish the job!" then, seems to be a "dog whistle" of the kind the Repugnant-cans are allegedly so skilled at blowing...
Well I'm a bit older than you. I was first eligible to vote in 1976 and *of course* I voted Carter. No sane person could support that party of uptight Nixonian crooks! By 1980, having graduated college into a job and housing economy that made Gerry Ford's silly "Whip Inflation Now" look like Easy Street, I'd figured out that both major parties were full of...beans. From that time to this I have never voted for a national candidate who ended up winning. I defy anyone to claim my votes were any more "wasted" than anyone else's.
I had to read all the way down the court document to find the real meat of the 'win' against the FDA and their preposterous IVM tweets.
"FDA is not a physician. It has authority to inform, announce, and
apprise—but not to endorse, denounce, or advise. The Doctors have
plausibly alleged that FDA’s Posts fell on the wrong side of the line between
telling about and telling to. As such, the Doctors can use the APA to assert
their ultra vires claims against the Agencies and the Officials.
Even tweet-sized doses of personalized medical advice are beyond
FDA’s statutory authority. We REVERSE the district court’s judgment of
dismissal, and we REMAND for further proceedings."
(I'm no lawyer but I would have thought they might have had an easier time suing the individual pharmacists that refused to fill legal Rx for IVM. anybody have any insight into that?)
Remember when there was concern because of Reagan's age? And his declining mental faculties? Seems like a young pup and sharp as a tack by comparison now. Wow!
It kind of seems like the job that you want to finish is the United States of America itself. In which case, I’m afraid you may be succeeding. -- So many "quotables" in this richly deserved rant!
But as Joe is a total placeholder, who or what is it that is leading the charge to finish us off? I am beginning wonder if we aren't in Obama's third term? The end of his second term was bad enough in terms of civil liberties. It used to be that the "baddies" were post WW2 right wing industrialists & their political puppets. Nowadays we see the ranks being overtaken with authoritarian leftists -- so-called "progressives" -- who have likewise gained wealth and power through exploitation. How is it that being a politician now results in 11 million dollar beachfront property? Uniparty, indeed.
Still, I am nostalgic for an uncomplicated view that says we can "course correct" to the things that did once make our nation so attractive. I feel an increasingly patriotic allegiance to our Bill of Rights and Constitution. And I plan to vote in each election as through it matters. Despite my grave doubts about election integrity, go Kennedy 2024!
Meanwhile by jettisoning wisdom and every moral & ethical constraint we seem to be living in a zombie democracy that may well a be heading toward a financial collapse that will make the secure and complacent upper-middle-class life that my children have enjoyed a past dream. The most valuable thing we have imparted to them is that God promises to restore all things by his justice which has served them as a bulwark for mental and spiritual health in a world full of corruption.
[Side note: How to read yourself into complete skepticism about post WW2 America: John Perkins, Confessions of an Economic Hitman; Gary Webb, Dark Alliance (about crack cocaine and the Contras); Tom O'Neill, Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret History of the Sixties; David Talbot, The Devil's Chessboard, Allen Dulles and the CIA; Whitney Webb's Two-Volume One Nation Under Blackmail -- you’ll never believe in “accidental plane crashes” and “suicides” again.]
In the early days of the 2016 campaign my refrain was, "In a country of 320+million people, can we not find a candidate whose last name is not Bush or Clinton?"
For the 2024 election my refrain is and will continue to be, "In a nation of 320+million people, can we not find a candidate who is under the age of 70, whose name is not Bush, Clinton, Obama, or Kennedy?"
Although, I must admit there is much that I like about RFK.
Was the war on poverty a success? Viet Nam wasn't. Are race relations better now than in 68? Are our kids more highly educated than when Carter created the department of education?
Would you keep bringing your car to a mechanic who can't diagnose a problem, and his repairs continually make things worse?
Reagan spoke for those of us who believe government is, at best, a necessary evil, when he said "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help. "
That slogan “we can finish the job” sounds malevolent to me. And Heather lists all the reasons why it does. Excellent essay.
Right on, Heather! The only job either could reliably finish is to complete our move to a feudal society.
Have you noticed that the parties have flip-flopped? I think we need to get over the old names for political parties. Liberals are no longer liberal. They are authoritarian. People that traditionally vote left can see the changes that have occurred in policy and ideology. What they can't see is that the political party on the right has changed too. It appears that the left-wing party now supports BIG BUSINESS and the right-wing party supports THE PEOPLE. We need to get over partisan politics and vote on merit and policy.
I have never understood why people believe in the marketing image politicians project. I have never understood the hysterical reaction to Trump and his exaggerations and bombastic statements. I always figured he was making fun of the ridiculous images other pols play. Reagan the cowboy, Biden the Everyman, Bush the veteran supporter. I believe/hope RFK, Ramaswamy, DeSantis and Trump all have US and voter’s interests in mind. I would vote for a blade of grass before I would vote for Biden or any other dem except RFK. I voted for independent candidates for POTUS in most elections. I’ve voted for one dem (twice) and one republican (twice). I’ve been independent most of my life, until the dems decided to nuke themselves by using pedos to separate children from their parents, before they promoted carving up children, before they decided to annihilate female sports, privacy and safety.
I go back a bit farther than you, Heather. My first presidential election was in 1968, and as a newly minted Ivy grad and avowed SDS member (remember the Port Huron Statement?), I ended up voting for Dick Gregory, unable to stomach the mainstream choices of HHH and Nixon, one of fewer that 50,000 people who did. At least I can claim to have voted for a Black man in a presidential election before nearly one else. I am pro-abortion, anti-gun, anti-religion (including wokism), and I could countenance voting for Trump in a Trump-Biden contest. Sure hope for a different choice, and as a citizen of NH, I'll have at least one small primary vote to affect things.
I feel for you, Heather. There was a time that the Democrat policies seemed positive. Political conservatism seemed a better fit for me, but the Republicans haven't done that well either. As Mark Steyn has said too many times to count, America is ruled by a bipartisan permanent political class when it is not ruled by unelected bureaucrats. For all of Trump's failings, the Republican establishment had every bit as much to do with his downfall as the Democrats. Trump was the ONLY candidate talking about a wall. That's what he was elected for but the political establishment wants to tell us what to think, rather than be told what we want them to do. Will I vote for Trump if he is the Republican nominee? Probably not. DeSantis? Not after he threw the people of Florida who reelected him under the bus for his Quixotic run for the Presidency.
Bravo, Dr Heather! fist-pumping over here! as another homeless liberal (who's being pushed more and more to the right) I'm in 100% in agreement with every freakin' word.
"Let's finish the job" hummmm, excuse my naughty but I'm thinking he's referring to the blow job he's giving the globalists!
To me, the "job" he wants finished is to finally get his main political opponent behind bars. "Together, we can finish the job!" then, seems to be a "dog whistle" of the kind the Repugnant-cans are allegedly so skilled at blowing...
Well I'm a bit older than you. I was first eligible to vote in 1976 and *of course* I voted Carter. No sane person could support that party of uptight Nixonian crooks! By 1980, having graduated college into a job and housing economy that made Gerry Ford's silly "Whip Inflation Now" look like Easy Street, I'd figured out that both major parties were full of...beans. From that time to this I have never voted for a national candidate who ended up winning. I defy anyone to claim my votes were any more "wasted" than anyone else's.
The joke’s on all of us. The Blue side of the Uniparty will pull ‘ol Joe out last minute and replace him with Gavin Newscum.
Whether Officer Harris remains is a mystery.
I had to read all the way down the court document to find the real meat of the 'win' against the FDA and their preposterous IVM tweets.
"FDA is not a physician. It has authority to inform, announce, and
apprise—but not to endorse, denounce, or advise. The Doctors have
plausibly alleged that FDA’s Posts fell on the wrong side of the line between
telling about and telling to. As such, the Doctors can use the APA to assert
their ultra vires claims against the Agencies and the Officials.
Even tweet-sized doses of personalized medical advice are beyond
FDA’s statutory authority. We REVERSE the district court’s judgment of
dismissal, and we REMAND for further proceedings."
(I'm no lawyer but I would have thought they might have had an easier time suing the individual pharmacists that refused to fill legal Rx for IVM. anybody have any insight into that?)
Yes, another face-off would be a farce-off of the lowest order.