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This – and many other bad things – is what happens when you vote for a candidate who took record-high donations from the pharmaceutical industry.

A friend who is a high-school teacher explained why teachers loved lockdowns so much. Instead of teaching, they’d turn on a video and play it all day while doing something else. What’s not to like?

Took me 5 months to decipher the name of the “Chicken Salad Chick” franchise. But now that I did and tried it, it’s actually very nice for fast food.

This book is a biography of the writer Jean Rhys and it proves that, in what concerns artistic talent, God (or nature) gives out this gift in ways that have nothing to do with fairness or human reason.

Rhys was a very talented author. Very talented. She was also a truly contemptible, worthless human being. Lilian Pizzichini tries to put as positive a spin as possible on Rhys’s behavior but even that doesn’t help.

Rhys was a prostitute. Not out of any particular poverty or need. And not because of any interest in sex, for she had none. But simply because she couldn’t be assed to figure out anything else to do. If a female friend tried to help her, giving her a very nice job and a beautiful place to live, she’d immediately try to sleep with her husband. Not out of any sort of uncontrollable passion but because why not? Men would fall in love with her and try to give her a nice life but she’d drive them away with constant moping, whoring, and a complete lack of responsibility.

Rhys had two children but couldn’t be assed to take care of them. As a result, one of the kids died in infancy because of simple neglect. Friends tried to raise the surviving child but Rhys kept dragging the girl away and then abandoning her whenever it served the purposes of some relationship du jour with yet another man.

Pizzichini keeps offering excuses for Rhys’s behavior. She was depressed, she was helpless, nobody taught her how to take care of children, she was traumatized, she was under the weather. This soon gets boring, though. In a biography, you want to see some growth, a journey towards some sort of an enlightenment. But Rhys is like one of those perennially infantile women I wrote about in my first book. She’d commit any atrocity to defend her right never to grow up.

As I said, Rhys was a talented writer. But God, what a contemptible piece of human refuse she also was.

A famous Spanish philosopher said that there are two types of attitudes towards individual rights, Romanic and Germanic.

The Romanic attitude entails believing that you are endowed with inalienable rights by virtue of existing.

The Germanic approach, on the other hand, posits that the only rights are the ones you went to battle for, won, and then successfully defended every day.

I’m not sure how meaningful the words “Romanic” and “Germanic” are in this context but I’m definitely in the second group. Nobody is going to give you freedom. You’ll have to take it and defend it every day. Works this way in interpersonal relationships, in the workplace, society at large, everywhere.

If you are babysitting a group of 4-year-olds, you know that you can’t praise one without praising the rest. They aren’t yet emotionally equipped to realize that praise received by a friend doesn’t put them in any danger.

As they grow, kids get over it. At least, they are supposed to. Healthy human development leads you to knowing how to deal with praise received by others without falling apart.

This simple and self-evident process, however, is not accessible to the woke crowd. Leftists think that praising one person or group means condemning all others. This is why I had to explain at length why using the words “Hispanic civilization” in a course title doesn’t mean I’m suggesting that somebody else (I wonder who) is “a savage.”

Much of what people take for a political position is in reality a product of immaturity. And it’s obviously not just a thing on the left. If you are in doubt, I suggest you subscribe to the Twitter of a couple of libertarian groups. Or “trad” groups.

What is this if not projection? These people are ascribing their nasty, disgusting feelings to all of us. Never in my life would it occur to me to see some kids as troublemakers because of their race. But of course it’s easier to hide a tree in a forest, so the nasty people who have these feelings try to ascribe them to all of us to feel better about themselves. “Oh, it’s not me who’s racist. It’s everybody!” No, it’s actually you, buddy. You stink.

The reason why I’m so certain of the things I say about COVID is because I put in the work. I practically picked up a new career in a field that I have no interest in. I read and read and read, dragging myself through forests of incomprehensible jargon. As a result, I can know and not guess.

A new study just came out showing that HCQ+AZM dramatically improve the chances of COVID patients on ventilators. Just as I’ve been saying since October. HCQ+AZM work. I had to find out because I needed to know what treatment to insist on if I caught it in a serious form. I read dozens of clinicians who were using the HCQ+AZM protocols. And then I knew.

So it annoys me when people say “your guess is as good as mine.” No, it’s not. Unless you invested at least half as much time into studying it as I did.

First, people outsource the control over the information they consume to the NYTimes, and then they get upset with those of us who didn’t.

If you read in Spanish, I highly recommend a book-length essay España by Santiago Alba Rico. He is a Spanish writer who was very leftist but recently realized what an absolute ass it made him.

The essay is beautifully written and says extremely important things. I’m telling you, folks, there’s an enormous anti-leftist (meaning, anti-neoliberal) awakening in Spain right now. Maybe in other European countries, too?

Alba Rico’s book speaks in support of patriotism, rootedness, family, reading good books, and rejecting the inane moralizing of the left. He says the left has brought back the Statutes of Blood Purity, and he’s right.

This is precisely the stupid, ridiculous, idiotic neoliberal mentality that got us into this mess. You can’t control everything. Some things don’t lend themselves to being “worked on.” Human interventions don’t do dick to this virus. It comes and goes away in waves.

The same people who terrorize us all with the idea that humans have zero control over their own emotions can’t comprehend that humans can’t completely control nature.