So the hostages did get released. Wow, this is an extraordinary win for the Trump administration.
I’m almost tempted to watch CNN to see how they are explaining Trump achieving the ceasefire they seemed to passionately desire.
Author: Clarissa
Women’s Expenses
I want it known that Eve Jobs, the daughter of Steve Jobs, the most thirsted after woman on Twitter has:
– $1200 hair cut and color (Margot Robbies stylist around this)
– $1500 worth of makeup
– $1000 nails
– $1200 facials/skincare
– $120 eyebrow waxing
– $700 lip filler (done subtly if she has any, most affluent women have)
– $10,000 clothing
-$5-10k health and fitness
After this litany of expenses, I thought the woman had to be sixty years old, at least. Turns out she’s 27. At 27, and honestly when at 47, nobody needs to put in so much money.
This exchange happened in response to a tweet pointing out a regular woman’s beauty costs:
Nails, OK, but everything else, I don’t know. Even my hair doesn’t cost anything close to $350, and I have a lot of it. Clothes, if it’s her entire wardrobe, fine, so I hope it’s not one outfit that the poster means.
It doesn’t cost that much to look pretty unless you are in your sixties and going for a young woman look.
AI Knows
I never use AI translation for YouTube videos. Never turned it on. I watch everything in the original language, whatever it is.
Yesterday, I decided to watch Tucker Carlson’s interview with Sam Altman. No matter what device I use to access the video, it plays in Russian. I switch it off but whenever I pause, the Russian translation comes back on. It sounds funny because Russian words are longer, so everything gets accelerated to fit in the Russian voiceover.
AI knows.
Naked Protesters
Old people have been protesting for months in front of the library in my town, yet it never occurred to any of them to do a funny and get naked. Look how creative the Portland protesters are:
It’s raining, too! This is what I call true dedication to the bit.
I’ve seen a lot of mean jokes about them on social media but I find these goofballs to be endearing and very American in their absolute lunacy.
Numbers
I’m blanking on 33 1/3. Does it mean anything beyond the obvious?
Who Pays?
A terrible story.
Who do you think pays these costs for illegal migrants? They give birth in the same way, experience complications in the same way, have all sorts of medical conditions. Who pays? The five million (by the most conservative count) brought in by Joe Biden—who is paying for their healthcare?
Adult people who listen and nod when the TV tells them that there’s no free healthcare for migrants should be ashamed of their gullibility.
Open borders and welfare do not coexist. It’s not a possibility. Infinity migration always means crime, trash everywhere, slumification of many neighborhoods, rising traffic mortality, endless waits in emergency rooms, proliferation of scams and harassment, and absence of the institutions of state who should do something about all this. Because the nation-state is the only form of state that cares about this stuff. The post-nation state only cares to send police to shut you up when you complain about it.
The Husband of the Girlfriend
There’s a couple at work who have been living together for many years. In his absence, she refers to him as “my husband.” He refers to her as “my girlfriend.”
I always wonder if they know this about each other.
Q&A: Queer Women
I only know one woman like that, and in her case, it’s done for a very clear purpose of career advancement. There’s a quarter-mil salary with a 5-hour workday riding on it. The woman comes from dire poverty and has an elderly mom, three complicated siblings, and two small children to drag through life. Who’d blame her, honestly?
How come you meet so many of them when I’m in academia and only every encountered one? I’m hearing this is now a working class phenomenon but I refuse to believe it.
Book Notes: Days of Rage by Bryan Burrough
The murderers, rapists, arsonists, bombers, and kidnappers of the 1970s won. They won everything they could have dreamed of. Today, every public and non-denominational private school teaches their beliefs like the absolute truth. Every conference in the Humanities does little else but repeat their slogans. The government spent billions on indoctrinating residents of every country in the world into the beliefs of rapist Eldridge Cleaver and murderer Assata Shakur. Terrorist Bill Ayers put his protegee Barack Obama into the White House.
The shocking thing in Days of Rage isn’t that domestic terrorism existed. It’s that it won so decisively. Even the author of the book believes much of what the terrorists wanted us to believe. It’s instinctive, unthinking, and completely unselfconscious. We breathe air. We agree with Assata Shakur.
But it gets worse. We not only rewarded these criminals by adopting their ideology. We took their ideas much further, reaching the depths of leftist absorption that Dohrn and Levasseur couldn’t imagine. We gave them everything they wanted. And then we gave a lot more.
As bad as the events of 1975 were, they dissolve into nothingness in comparison with their consequences.
“There was a sense that these guys might go on doing this, the bombings, literally forever,” a retired FBI officer told Burrough. Back then, I’m sure, it felt like the worst case scenario. Small groups of radicals lashing out violently against a society that didn’t accept their beliefs. Now we know that what’s much worse is when these radicals don’t need to live underground and rob banks to pay for food and dynamite. Because they are in charge and whoever disagrees with them becomes a marginal loser. They dynamite our institutions from within and do a mich better job of it than Weathermen or FALN.
And that’s a real shame.
Ideology and Nature
The extraordinary smugness of people who know nothing but slogans is again on full view:
Somebody posted an old Soviet joke in response and it’s a perfect illustration of how leftist ignorance about the world never changes:
Brezhnev calls in a team of Kosmonauts into the Kremlin.
“Comrades, I have a mission of grave importance for you. The American imperialist capitalists have landed on the moon. This cannot be allowed to stand unchallenged. The Party has therefore decreed you will fly to the sun!”
This announcement caused understandable consternation among the Kosmonauts.
“But Comrade General Secretary, we’ll be incinerated!”
“Worry not, Comrades,” said Brezhnev cheerfully. “We’re not fools. The Party has thought of everything. You will obviously fly at night.”
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