Author: Clarissa

Grandpa Lenin Is Back

~ Clarissa ~ 2 Comments

Things are accelerating, my friends. The Harris campaign is now receiving slightly Americanized versions of the letters to Grandpa Lenin we read by the bucketful in my Soviet childhood. Whoever is familiar with the Grandpa Lenin genre will recognize the weepy tone, the grandiose claims and the subservient verbiage:

Ms. Harris, you are a light in the darkness for girls like me who dare to dream of a better future. I believe in you with all my heart. . . Ms. Harris, you are our last hope. You’re fighting not just for yourself but for all of us who see America as our home, our chance, our only hope for a better life. Please keep going. Keep inspiring us. Keep showing us that dreams can come true, no matter where we come from or what challenges we face.

https://www.gcvfriends.com/p/a-letter-to-vp-harris?r=1bfkeq&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Before you laugh, I need to let you know that Harris supporters are sharing this in all seriousness and without a shade of mockery.

I most sincerely hope that no actual 11-year-old girl was involved in the creation of this document in any capacity because a child doesn’t deserve this, no matter how peculiar her parents are.

Hu/hu for President

~ Clarissa ~ 4 Comments

The absolute gall of these people calling anybody else weird:

The job ad itself is actually even worse, if you can imagine it.

Negotiating with Terrorists

~ Clarissa ~ 16 Comments

It’s exactly what I said. Russians will manufacture as many of these dissidents as they like, and the US will keep exchanging them for warlords, spies, and murderers again and again. It works, so why not keep trying if Americans refuse to learn?

Price Controls

~ Clarissa ~ 37 Comments

I remember when Hugo Chávez in Venezuela tried that. Then citizens ran away and those who couldn’t ate rats and animals at the zoo.

What needs to happen for people to get it into their very thick heads that price controls don’t work?

To think we could have had DeSantis and avoided all this.

Subscriber Beware

~ Clarissa ~ 1 Comment

One more reason to not subscribe to Disney+:

Not that I was going to subscribe anyway.

For Stupid Readers

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Well, duh. There was BLM in Trump’s last year, and it caused the murder spike.

These headlines rely on readers being extremely stupid.

Which they tend to be.

Literal Nazis Everywhere

~ Clarissa ~ 15 Comments

Her opponent is a very progressive Democrat. He’s far to the left of the overwhelming majority of Americans. And he’s black. But he disagrees with Omar on the minutiae of their leftism, so he’s “a literal Nazi.”

Everybody is a literal Nazi if they disagree on absolutely anything with whichever leftist is currently in charge.

Somehow I doubt that this comment will generate as much outrage as JD Vance’s admittedly gauche “childless cat ladies.”

School Traditions

~ Clarissa ~ 15 Comments

Nobody told me that for the first day of class you need to photograph your child holding a little billboard saying, “First Day of 3rd (or whichever) grade.” It’s a tradition I discovered by absolute chance on social media.

Not that my child would agree even if I had known about it. I can only imagine her deeply sarcastic look if I suggested something so momsy.

Reagan Conservatism

~ Clarissa ~ 31 Comments

“Reagan conservatism” is simply an initial stage of neoliberalism. It inevitably leads to moral collapse in its subsequent stages. I’m sure Reagan himself didn’t anticipate that but not thinking through the consequences of your actions is not conservative.

Since the times of Reagan and Thatcher, neoliberalism has been embraced passionately and excitedly by the Left. (See Leftism Reinvented by the leftist professor Stephanie Mudge). Neoliberalism, with its emphasis on constant change, is natural to the Left and unnatural for conservatism. The reason why we can’t go back to Reagan conservatism is that it’s impossible to replay the initial stage of a process that moved on and mutated. You can’t stuff a butterfly back into her cocoon. Competing with the Left on the field of neoliberalism is a losing game.

Moneymaker

~ Clarissa ~ 6 Comments

I found a way to trick the self-checkout register at our grocery store into charging between 2 and 5 cents for any amount of any type of produce.

Obviously, I’m not going to use it and I alerted the staff. Then I alerted them again a week later. They look unwilling to do anything, and I’m wondering if everybody hates me for spoiling a good little moneymaker.