Passing Thoughts on Today's News

By Rich Kozlovich

 

Powerline regularly runs a feature called "The Week In Pictures", none of which I can reproduce in P&D, so I've decided to do a paraphrased and embellished article using that post as the source.  But there's a lot more in the Powerline offering to so go to the original to see all the pictures.  

In the meanwhile, here are a few thoughts of mine on the passing scene, starting with the American Eagle Sydney Sweeney "jeans" ad.    

After the furor over the American Eagle ad featuring Sydney Sweeney the Democrat party decided their platform for the 2026 midterm elections would be: 

We hate capitalism, Jews, and hot chicks.  

Why do they hate Sweeney?  Because she's in an ad that's clearly nothing more that racist Nazi propaganda.  Right? Or could it be because she's white, blond and pretty?  So, American Eagle needs to rerun that ad with a fat transgender, or have Sweeney gain 100 pounds, get a brush haircut and claim to be a black lesbian if they want leftists to stop attacking them and buy their jeans.  Oh ......wait...  I just had a thought.  I never saw the original ad, and probably would have never seen the ad if it wasn't for the left throwing this gigantic hissy fit.  So.... isn't that kinda like free advertising?  A lot of free advertising!  I'm betting the next quarter will show an increase in sales.   Kinda like a reverse to the damage the Dylan Mulvaney ad had on Bud Lite.   Whaddaya think?

Originally the New York shooter was declared white by the media and they ran with it with total enthusiasm.  When it was discovered the New York shooter wasn't white as previously  reported it decided to move on until they could find a actual white shooter.  

And here's a thought or two.  Why are some Cherokee vehicles white like Elizabeth Warren.  The CIA will no longer use waterboarding on captives.  They're going to read Kamala's new book to them instead.  Then there's a new swirl that Kamala Harris is being influenced by the Russian agent... Smirnoff...... and she says she's backing away from politics to spend more time with Smirnoff.  When a fat Hamas leader claims Gazans are being starved, should one have to wonder if it's because he's stealing their food?   Pedophile is a really big word for the nine year old bride of a middle aged Muslim man and when feminists march in favor of Islam to they realize if Islam takes control their marching days are over? 

How successful has socialism been anywhere?  Well, if you had a $100 dollars for every time socialism didn't work, you'd have zero dollars.   If you had a $100 dollars for every time it worked, you'd still have zero dollars.  If Congress is incapable of passing a balanced budget, pay off the national debt, save Social Security and Medicare, why would we believe they're capable of predicting the what world's climate will be fifty years out, and altering the planets weather and temperature?

If liberals were merely stupid the laws of probability would dictate at least some of their decisions would serve American interests.  If it's grossly unfair that the female athletes of the WNBA are being grossly underpaid compared to male counter parts in the NBA, in spite of the fact they're losing millions every year, then why is it fair men are grossly under paid compared to women in the fashion world that's making millions every year?   However, here's an interesting thought.  It takes the entire WNBA to match Stephen Colbert's losses of 40 to 50 million a year.   

Final thought. The term "far right" really means to be right about everything?   

 

Passing Thoughts on Today's News

By Rich Kozlovich

 

Recently there was an article comparing the similarities of Alexander Hamilton's life and J.D. Vance's life, and generally when I see piece praising Hamilton I chuckle, more of a snort actually, roll my eyes and shake my head.   They invariably leave something really important out.  

 

Hamilton was a believer in a strong central government with more control over the states. He was the first promoter of crony capitalism, in favor of big business over society, and supported the Whiskey act, which taxed the sale of whiskey. The distillers in the major cities liked that as it would cut competition from the farmers, which was the goal of the Whiskey act.

Farmers turned their corn into liquor, which was easier to transport from the back woods than corn, and it was more profitable. That triggered the Whiskey Rebellion and Washington sent troops. All of which clearly violated the spirit of the Constitution, if not the letter. 

Why did he take that stand?  The Whiskey Act was passed in 1791, and the Constitution was completed in 1787, ratified in 1788, and became operational in 1789.  Just two years earlier, and their concern was to garner support for the Constitution from the business community.  In short, he sacrificed the struggling common man for the benefit of the wealthy and powerful.    Let’s hope Hamilton and Vance don’t have that much in common.

Here's an interesting piece comparing the Democrat's backstabbing of Biden and the literal stabbing of Julius Caesar.

Both power mongers, both corrupt, but Caesar's murderers were trying to save the Roman Republic, which wasn't going to happen since the Empire was getting too big for their system, and they weren't inclined to create a Constitution as that would have restricted the power structure of Rome. 

I always hate it when I see Caesar glorified, but considering the culture of Rome, he played their corrupt game better than his rivals, by being "far more" corrupt than all of them.  But here's the point.  If you compare the violence, selected rioting, protesting, public intimidation, and corruption being orchestrated by the left, it would seem they got their lessons from Julius Caesar and how he took power in Rome

The author left out a lot about Caesar, especially his rendition of the Gallic Wars, which seems to be as much self promoting propaganda as it is history, but his point was well made.  

The Democrat party is made up of Girondins versus the Jacobin in France's revolution, and Mensheviks versus Bolsheviks in Russia's revolution, both resolved by murdering the opposition.  In America, that's not so easy.  So, the solution for the conflict between the moderately radical and the extremely radical creates a potential for a third “Democrat” party with the disaffected Girondins/Mensheviks/RFK Jr. Independents/disaffected RINO’s, who have all now been relegated to bleating, whining, and groveling before leftist media hacks. 

But, like all leftist collaborations, it won’t last and America won’t care. The benefit is it won’t be long before we will start to hear blessed silence from them as no one will care what they have to say, including what’s left of the MSM, which is losing readers/viewers. 

A  couple of years ago I read Amity Schlaes book “Coolidge” which I highly recommend if for no other reason it highlights there were RINO's before they were defined as RINOs', and there were John McCain's before there was a John McCain, practicing all the slimy tactics we've seen in recent years.

Calvin Coolidge was the greatest president of the 20th century, and has largely been forgotten…unfortunately.  As it turns out, 1928 was a seminal election in America.   Coolidge hated being President and refused to run for his own second term. was then elected and set a chain of events into motion that brought in  FDR's New Deal, the  massive spending, borrowing, the deep state, and the nation to where it is now.

For decades the only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans was the Democrats wanted to take all our money, take total control of our lives, and do it “now”! The Republicans were willing to wait a week. Their goals were always the same, the only difference was in tactics, and who were going to be the beneficiaries.

Is it any wonder they hate anyone who’s trying to disrupt that gravy train. 

Here's a good article about the corruption of the media.   The truth is the media, which in days gone by was just newspapers, then radio, then television, were never neutral. The difference is in the many years before WWII the newspapers were openly partisan. Newspapers even had the name of the party they supported in their name. Everyone knew where they stood. After WWII they deliberately hid their bias and lied to America, and learned how to do from journalism schools.  They did it well, and Walter Cronkite was among the foremost leaders in hiding their bias.   But eventually they’re corrupt obfuscation of the truth became obvious with the introduction of the internet and the alternative media. Then the Cronkite acolytes started to fall.   was among those first big named “journalist” who was finally brought down with his lies, which he and he MSM still justify.

Truth and time are on the same side, and history isn’t kind or unkind, it’s just history. However, history can be forgiving or unforgiving, and history will not be forgiving of the mass corruption of the media, or Dan Rather.   

Here's an incontestable truth.  After 1920 communists/socialist infiltrated the newspapers, radio, Hollywood, the federal government, unions, academia, many of whom were Stalinist agents, and public education starting in the 1890's.  And we know that because of the release of the intercepts in 1996.   

That's history!  That's incontestable! And Joe McCarthy was right!