A well-meaning but tragically dumb academic goes on and on about how citizenship evil and should be done with because it degrades human beings and brings nothing but death.

If one were to tell the facile idiot that she is servicing the most pressing needs of liquid capital, she’d just stare at one with her little dumb eyes and not get a clue.

Since uh-oh turned out to be one of Klara’s very first words, I realized that I do say it a lot. Opportunities to say it abound because I spend all day dropping stuff, forgetting things, tripping over toys, walking into closed doors, stumbling into furniture, and spilling food all over myself. 

And this is great because it teaches Klara an important lesson: Mamma is not perfect. You don’t have to be anything even remotely resembling perfect to be happy and loved. I think this is a crucial piece of knowledge. 

Without meaning to or even knowing it was going on, this immigrant participated in the Day Without Immigrants. I had to cancel class because of a massive attack of barfing. 

Unfortunately, it doesn’t count if it was unconscious. 

What’s really funny is the pouty wriggling of the losers who were all “Hillary is as bad as Trump” throughout the campaign. Like the brain-dead Susan Sarandon:

To the people that would “attack” her for her statements, she asked, “Really? That’s where we want to spend our time and energy?”

Sarandon sat stone-faced when Hayes pointed out that the “status quo” she feared may have just gotten “much, much worse.” . . . ‘Do you really think Hillary Clinton would have been worse?’”

“What is the point of even saying that?” Sarandon shot back…

If at least these fuckers had the courage to recognize the consequences of their actions. Why not just say, “Hey, I fucked up, sorry. Will try to blab less and chew more in blessed silence the next time around”?

N and I have never seen SNL but I can’t convince him to watch.

“A parody of Trump?” he says. “No way it can’t be funnier than the original.”

I find it hard to disagree. 

From a partisan point of view, it’s fun to observe the chaos in the White House. But from the point of view of not wanting to see the nation-state go down the crapper, it’s very bad news.

Of course, markets celebrate every new iteration of the nation-state’s collapse. At this point in history, the nation is nothing but an obstacle to them. 

N’s analyst asked him today if he feels rage towards Trump. I’m guessing Trump’s been the major topic of discussion for his clients and he’s wondering why N is silent on the subject. 

N said he didn’t. And I feel the same way. I look at Trump like one does at those cockroach races – it’s repulsive in a slightly entertaining sort of way. 

My rage is directed against the incompetent losers who let him get elected. And I also feel a lot of pain for people who think he will defend their interests. I feel rage against the journalists who act like it’s huge news that he’s Putin’s puppet. There would be no Trump if it weren’t for all these people, so why blame him for pursuing his self-interest? It’s more rational than their collective self-sabotage. 

I feel the same way about Putin. I have zero anger towards him. It’s the freaks he robs while they worship him that I detest. 

I’ve spent an amazing day with Klara, and now I’m in the mood for silly jokes. This one is from Facebook. 

Putin hates the West and wants it to collapse. When that happens, Russia will be able to occupy its place of leadership and appropriate its cultural, political and economic hegemony. He is no secretive about this goal. To the contrary, he spells it out very clearly every chance he gets.

What will the collapse of the West look like? Here are a few things that the Kremlin propaganda machine has been advancing as the positive scenarios that would benefit Russia:

1. The collapse of the EU.
2. Another global economic crisis.
3. The turmoil in the US political system that would demonstrate that the democratic institutions are weak and rotten.
4. Animosity between different US states. Ideally, talk of secession or profound regional tensions in the US.
5. Demonstrably falsified elections in the US.
6. An explosion of racist and xenophobic violence in Europe and the US.
7. Far-right governments in power in Europe and the US.

While Obama was president, Putin limited himself to a practical advancement of the first of these goals. Now the rest of the goals have opened themselves up as serious possibilities. With Obama in the White House, Putin wanted to rule part of Eastern Europe and that was that. Now he knows he can get a lot more.