Putin’s interview with Tucker is precisely why I’m not very worried about Trump siding with Russia if he wins the election. Putin knows that Tucker is on his side, yet he repeatedly mocked the poor dude during the interview. “You are too dumb for a serious conversation, you are just an entertainer, I know your secrets, you have been rejected by the CIA.” That’s just how he is. He can’t control it.

Trump might make some overtures to Putin, sure. Then he’ll get mocked and humiliated, which will make him angry, and we’ll have him exactly where needed.

Trump and Putin are both undisciplined, reactive, and pouty. Such people are bound to aggravate each other easily.

And yes, Biden is half-dead, so that’s another problem.

Also, people keep saying, “Putin had an opportunity to make his case to American right-wingers. Why did he not use this chance?”

The answer is what I’ve been saying for years. Putin’s actions are internally motivated. His audience is in Russia. Everything he does is aimed at saving his life in Russia. Russians enjoy seeing Americans humiliated. So Putin gave them what they wanted. And this is just some boring old Tucker. Imagine the brownie points for humiliating a US president.

This is exactly what my Jewish friends in academia say. Why should I be shocked that this Corbyn dude repeats this conspiracy theory?

The human brain is fascinating. All of a sudden, I had a strong memory of a certain book by a prolific author. There was this powerful compulsion to locate the book on my Kindle. I did and discovered that exactly a year ago on that day I started reading that book but then something interrupted me and I never finished.

My brain knew it was the anniversary of the book’s abandonment even though I had no memory of that.

On another day, I felt ill and anxious for no reason. The idea of food was particularly repellent. I told a friend how I felt and she gave me a weird look. “Don’t you remember what we were doing on this day a year ago?” she asked. It turns out this was the anniversary of the day when we sat at a restaurant for 7 hours, waiting to hear from her oncologist. My brain enacted the anxiety and nausea I had felt exactly a year ago.

Look at El Salvador. It was a total shit hole (and I say it as a passionate advocate of the great Salvadoran literature). Crime rates worse than Chicago. OK, not that bad but still pretty sucky. Nobody had a good word to say about the country, least of all Salvadorans themselves.

But people got themselves together and elected a young president with fresh, innovative ideas. They didn’t get stuck on an old man who babbles incoherently like Putin, Biden or Trump. Now the crime rates have dropped dramatically, and things are looking up.

Or take Argentineans. They elected a 53-year-old dude who’s turning the country around.

Russians are used to worshipping the dead bodies of their politicians. They still queue up to stare at poor Lenin’s corpse. They’ll probably be rolling out a mummy of Putin to greet visitors a century from now. But what are we doing here in the US? Why did we embrace senility?

People keep saying there’s a cult of youth in this country. OK, where’s the youth? I’m not seeing any youth. Instead, we are caught between two Lenin-like products of taxidermy.

My Twitter thread is filled with guys yelling at each other, “No, your dude is more senile than my dude.” It’s embarrassing.

I hear that Putin bombed his interview with Tucker, Biden bombed his presser, and Trump just generally bombed.

It’s very sad when frail, mentally foggy elderly people can’t just retire already and let us all be.

Don’t worry, though. Once Trump gets elected, he’ll pass the amnesty bill and primary the Republican Congressmen who are currently resisting it. Jared “he moved the Embassy to Jerusalem” Kushner loves immigration.

Let’s all hope Ivanka doesn’t decide to trans her kids, or Babylon Bee’s prediction that Trump will choose Dylan Mulvaney as his running mate will come true.

No, folks, there won’t be any magic pills or omnipotent saviors. Everything we want will be achieved by a slow, painful, incremental grind.

Or not at all.

My progressivism has atrophied into utter insignificance. But the diagnosis is spot-on. I have zero interest in being loyal to an idea, party, or worse yet, a specific politician. Political partisanship is a low-IQ pastime.

I like this test. It’s very accurate.

What I do wonder about Tucker’s Putin interview is which Putin he got assigned. I hope it’s the Udmurt. That dude is funny, personable.

Every time I decide that Trump is too far gone and maybe I should vote for Biden, the President comes out with something like this. The extraordinary dishonesty of this statement feels like a slap in the face.

What the flying bucket do we, the voters, care whether the migrants are inconvenienced for 6 months or 60 years? What we want to know is how many of them will be dragged over the border to await the “asylum” decision. Another important question is what percentage will be denied and on what criteria. (For those who don’t know: the bill radically lowers the criteria). Yet another question is how many will be deported if the decision is negative.

This “border security bill” is amnesty, pure and simple.

“Here! We have proposed measures for border security! They consist of rubber-stamping more immigrants faster! The only reason why Republicans don’t want this brilliant solution is because they are afraid Trump won’t be able to run on immigration after it.”

Biden is saying it completely openly. And people are so anaesthesized by the media spin that they nod and say, yes, this will solve the problem, totally.

Republicans oppose this bill because voters don’t want amnesty. Voters want an immediate and massive reduction in migration numbers. All voters, not just Republicans.

And, folks, this is just one small part of the bill. It goes on and on, listing the categories of illegal migrants who should be speedily given green cards. It’s an enormous expansion of who is entitled to a legal status. Will that expansion reduce the number of people eager to cross the border? The answer is obvious.

Men are women, amnesty is border security. And people get caught up in these language games every single time. We should be thankful that there is still a handful of Republicans who are refusing to accept this absolute travesty.

And hey, do you know what people in Ukraine told me about this? One person said, “please, don’t let Democrats push this through. We desperately need military aid but if you let this bill get signed, the next step will be that the Dems will force us to accept 5,5 million migrants. They’ve already been talking about this.” This is a direct quote from a guy who just returned from the front lines. I heard similar things from others.