Did Trump say anything I need to know in yesterday’s speech? I didn’t watch, and there’s nothing except raw emotion on social media.

Totally true. And it’s the best thing about adulthood. You get to be the master of your emotions and not let them eat you up. Once you get it, it’s a really great thing.

Should have gone with DeSantis. Let’s see if the federal authorities shut down the Florida investigation.

BlackRock just bought two ports on both sides of the Panama Canal. And 40+ more ports in 23 countries.

Or are we on BlackRock’s side now? Just in case I missed the most recent directive.

The past several days have been a big letdown for us, right-wingers. I’m not into partisanship or personality cults, and everybody who is interested in that are asked kindly to proceed to the left where crawling on one’s knees for some dude or another is normal.

It’s concerning that billions in funding, free speech limitations, and UN voting are being decided on the basis of subservience to Israel. I support Israel but I want to live in a nation-state, not a branch office of Israel.

The efforts to portray us like the pro-pedophilia party proceed unopposed and include not only the mysterious disappearance of the Epstein files but the goofy posing of right-wing influencers with fake files and moronic jokes of the House GOP Judiciary Committee. These are self-inflicted wounds that are a result of sloppiness.

The situation with Ukraine is completely mishandled. JD Vance is making bizarre statements, calling Britain and France “random countries”, then saying it’s not what he meant. The whole thing reeks of playground cattiness and a lack of seriousness. The plan to make the European war the responsibility of Europe was proceeding apace, and now this absolute goof is meddling and opposing an excellent plan in which the EU was taking responsibility on its own shoulders. You want America First? Excellent. Go do that. Speaking of which:

Lutnick went on record with a statement worthy of the losers who praised Bidenomics, saying, “there may well be short-term price movements.” What is this, bloody USSR? We now have our own novoyaz to avoid saying that prices will go up? We need to hear what is happening to the economy and why.

None of this is OK, and we shouldn’t be cowering in fear, like a bunch of lefties, and failing to point this out. That the President himself is going to mete punishments to idjit students who think wrong thoughts, I’m sorry but this is Obama-style crap. Everything I listed above reeks of Obama. Not in the conspiracy sense that he’s pulling the strings but in the sense that sloppy unseriousness has infected both parties to a degree that currently looks irreparable.

I’m the squarest of squares. Went on Google looking for a pot and received the kinds of answers I wasn’t looking for. Most hilariously, I didn’t expect them.

I don’t have an imagination, unfortunately. Imagine the novels I could write if I did. But I never was a teenage girl in America and never spent time with any. What I wanted most dearly when I was a teenage girl – menstrual products and no sexual harassment in the streets – already exists in America. My imagination doesn’t stretch beyond that.

Friends, can you help us out? What makes life good in a healthy, positive way for an American teenager?

Thank you for “wrote beautifully”, by the way. I’m surprised anything is left in me after the work I’m putting into Neoliberal Love.

A movie that stars a Russian propagandist and war criminal and glorifies prostitution. An actress that makes a speech saying she supports prostitutes. I don’t know how exactly she supports them and I’d rather not find out but this degeneracy is off-putting.

And yes, Elon Musk with his tube baby #14 and the Tate brothers are just as degenerate. This is not a partisan problem.

This is exactly what we voted for. Right?

Especially in conjunction with the now mostly forgotten Epstein files, it’s all we ever asked for, yay.

I’ve completely made my peace with the restructuring of my university in the direction of an expensive trade school. I’ve moved on mentally, and it feels great.

But daily doses of interacting with people who are in the grip of denial are getting to me.

“No, they aren’t going to fire tenured faculty.”

“I asked the Dean, and he said, yes, they will, and that’s the whole point of the exercise.”

“Maybe you misunderstood.”

“There were 30+ witnesses in the room both times I asked. The answer was always, yes, absolutely, we will.”

“No, he must have meant tenure lines won’t be filled when people retire.”

“I asked that question and he said this was tried and didn’t generate the needed savings. So now the play is to fire faculty. He said this in these exact words.”

“No, you must have misunderstood.”

“There were 30+ witnesses in the room… etc.”

I’ve started avoiding people even more than I normally do but they seek me out, grab my elbow and ask in pitiful, terrified voices, “You don’t think anybody will really be fired, do you? That’s just a way of speaking, right? You are not really worried, are you?”

One thing I’m not qualified to do is provide psychological help. I don’t know how to do it and I don’t want to have to do it. People are trying to get from me what I don’t have.

I can’t observe people’s woundedness by reality. That same dean who said yes, people will be fired. I asked him, “Did you receive any written guarantees that the money you save by firing people in the college that you run will remain in the college and will not be taken away and given to Dentistry, Engineering, or whatever other unit or initiative? Do you have anything at all in writing to this effect?”

And he gives me a pitiful, scared look and mumbles, “Well, I don’t think they’ll do that. I mean, I’d be very surprised if anybody did that.” Not a year ago, the money he saved by slashing our budget was taken out of the college’s accounts without anybody bothering even to inform him. But he doesn’t think they’ll do that. No, sirree Bob. Surely they won’t, right? Right?