Please observe the armed lady and the bunch of unarmed cucks behind her, and never ever be too critical of the US culture. You could always be… whatever these sad bastards are. And you are not, so God bless America.

Klara’s school was doing class photos today, and I purchased her sparkly clip-on ear-rings that she wanted for the occasion. I grew up in a family where putting clear nail polish on my nails at 15 merited me a huge scandal with repeated prophesies that I was going to grow up to be a prostitute. As a result, I welcome any manifestation of my kid’s femininity.

Then she told me that she and her friends had a discussion and decided that to make the earrings really pop, she needed to wear black velvet. The cuteness of a bunch of 7-year-olds discussing black velvet and ear-rings is overwhelming.

Kids are such a joy.

Hyperbole is the American national pastime. Americans like to exist in a state of high drama. They are always one step away from the “loss of our democracy”, the collapse of all institutions of government and society, the climate apocalypse, the total destruction of the economy and the immediate death of all the perennially wounded minorities from fascism, Nazism, authoritarianism and unpleasant pronouns. This trait makes them extremely endearing and profoundly annoying.

In the current tensions between Poland and Ukraine, I’m on Poland’s side. As we all know, I’m loyal to principles and detest partisanship. Poland is standing up to the EU’s high-handedness, and kudos to the Poles for that. And Ukraine, as a johnny come lately of the euro-integration process who’s too busy with its own problems to understand the intricacies of the EU politics, is acting like a bull in a china shop.

I have no doubt that the two countries will figure it out and will be as friendly as ever. And I hope that a wide-eyed admiration of the EU disappears from Ukraine for good. I dedicated a whole chapter of my book, explaining how Spaniards shot themselves not just in the foot but in every extremity when they traded sovereignty for the fantasy of being considered “real Europeanness”. They never asked themselves, I say in the book, why the label of Europeanness was being awarded by somebody else and why it had to be paid for so dearly. It’s best to ask these questions before than after.

“What’s the point of dying to defend your sovereignty from Russia to then go and cede it to somebody else?” I ask in the book.

By the way, my mother is loving my new book. This is a great sign because it’s aimed at regular people, not academics.

She says it sounds like my father wrote it which is a great compliment because he’s the smartest person I ever met.

My mother isn’t normally generous with compliments, to put it very mildly. So it’s not like she’s blinded by maternal love and can’t be objective. She’s…. erm…. not like that, so to speak.

American postmodernists love futuristic dystopias because their readers’ lives are so comfortable, they like to titillate themselves with visions of imaginary religious autocracies interfering with their sex lives.

Realists write for normies with actual problems, so they don’t need to invent anything.

AI is actually quite weird. I tried one of those AI apps that finds research articles on the topic you indicate and gives summaries of article PDFs.

The AI is adamant that I should only read research from former USSR countries. It gives me nothing outside of lists and lists of Kyrgyz, Uzbek and so on sources.

It overanalyzes, and the results are unusable. It’s like a suitor who tries too hard to please and ends up scaring one off completely.

A woman came late to yesterday’s event. She crashed through several rows of attendees, deposited herself at the front, and emitted a large string of mucousy, barking coughs.

After covering the first three rows of the audience in sputum, she reached into her bag, extracted a grimy single-use mask and put it on.

This attitude was topped by that of one of the moderators who wore her mask whenever anybody else spoke but removed it every time it was her turn to speak.

People have the most unusual relationships with their masks. I’m sure they have some sort of a theory about what these masks do but I can’t figure out what that is.

George Saunders is a famous postmodernist writer. He’s also mega-woke because wokeism is an outgrowth of postmodern thought.

But it’s really funny because his books show how far leftism has traveled in only a few years. In Saunders’s 2006 short story collection In Persuasion Nation, there’s a character who’s an irate, prudish conservative. This character insists that… get this… feminine men are actually women, and mainly women are really men. If a man has longish hair, a soft voice and a passion for baking, he’s really a lady.

In the short story, this is all presented as sexist insanity coming from an angry conservative. Fast forward to today, and conservatives are banned from social media for saying that a dude with a soft voice, long hair and a penchant for baking is still a dude. I watch these dissident far-right podcasts in secret where people say that women who don’t like color pink and frilly dresses are still women. Shhh, don’t tell anybody I know. I don’t want to be a social pariah.

It’s very funny that in 2006 liberals worried that conservatives would insist that any deviation from the most rigid sex stereotypes meant you are actually the opposite sex. And then those same liberals went and did exactly that. I wonder if Saunders remembers that story he authored as he diligently refers to dudes in dresses as “she” and rants about “life-saving gender care”.

Everybody is surprised that Trump is running as a centrist. He’s saying a federal abortion ban at 6 weeks is insane and wouldn’t even make a firm promise at 15 weeks. He’s refusing to say that a man can’t become a woman.

The only reason why this is surprising is that people have bought into the silly news coverage that keeps trying to present him as a far-right autocrat.

In reality, Trump has always been consistently centrist and the most open to bipartisan thinking of all presidents since I can remember. Forget the noise and think back to what he actually did in what concerns crime, immigration, COVID – everything.

Trump is far-right like Obama was a Communist. And he’s an authoritarian like Biden is a teenager.