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Does Trump Clip Coupons?

~ Clarissa ~ 11 Comments

It’s extraordinary that such an egregiously unintelligent person would condescend so majestically to people who are clearly much smarter than she is.

Voters don’t support Trump because they think he clipped coupons and swung hammers. None of the elite class did that, and nobody needs them to. Pretending to be “coach Tim” or “Ebonics Kamala” is embarrassing. It’s cringe.

The idea that voters need relatable politicians who live just like them is stupid. Nobody’s naive to the point of thinking that a presidential candidate clips coupons in the evenings. Just be normal and stop faking, is what everybody wants.

And @KamalaHQ actually posted this clip which reveals great cluelessness.

Is the UK All Right?

~ Clarissa ~ 9 Comments

I read this five times and I still don’t get it:

Even I, the most heat-averse person in existence, wouldn’t refer to +26°C (79F) as “blasted by a heatwave.” I call this temperature “a blessed relief.”

How do you even post this headline with a serious face?

Illegal Discrimination

~ Clarissa ~ 2 Comments

My university suddenly discovered that discriminating by race and sex is unconstitutional. So offering scholarships to “black female students in chemistry”, for example, is a violation of Civil Rights laws.

Why it had to take a lawsuit to clock on to this is a mystery.

We already abolished “diversity statements” during hiring, which had also taken a complaint to the Office for Civil Rights.

All of this is already illegal. The only thing that’s needed is a single complaint. The people who make an effort to file these complaints (instead of just complaining on social media, like I do) are achieving great progress.

Alpha

~ Clarissa ~ 5 Comments

What does it say about me that baristas routinely hear my name as “Alpha”?

Stop the Presses

~ Clarissa ~ 1 Comment

The Trump assassination attempt received less coverage than this non-event. Stop the presses, a politician sought out a photo op during a campaign! This is so shocking that we need to talk about it for weeks.

Next Time

~ Clarissa ~ Leave a comment

The next time I’ll be invited on the show will be to talk about the US elections. That should be fun. My mother says if I express what I really think about the US election, I’ll be deported. Which represents a clear-eyed, if pessimistic, assessment of where the US is headed.

My YouTube Stardom

~ Clarissa ~ 2 Comments

I’m on Romanenko today at 10:00 am CT (in 40 minutes) to talk about the Spanish Empire:

The title is “Technologies of Conquest: How to Build an Empire”.

I will explain why I don’t use the word “imperialism” to describe the actions of Russia.

I look much better today because I’m no longer sick.

Is Trump Better for Ukraine?

~ Clarissa ~ 36 Comments

Dude’s totally right. So I’m thinking, Harris will continue to get a pass on getting Ukrainians slaughtered, refusing to send the aid that was passed by Congress months ago, lying constantly about what’s happening, making deals with Russia to prevent Ukraine from winning, and so on.

Trump won’t be able to do it, whether he wants to or not. So then, why shouldn’t we vote for him? His accountability will be much higher simply because the press hates him.

The only president who was worse for Ukraine than Biden was Obama. Harris is a mix between those two, so there’s no reason to hope for anything better.

This deserves serious consideration.

The Raw Milk Debate

~ Clarissa ~ 1 Comment

I drank raw milk as a child. It was normal in Ukraine. I was a big-city kid with relatives in the countryside and I first got to milk a cow on one of our visits when I was four. It didn’t work out because I was afraid to tug, and nobody was going to be able to persuade me that the cow didn’t mind and, in fact, welcomed being able to lighten the burden of her udders. An adult would always end up doing the milking and give me a cup “fresh from under the cow”, as it was called.

I didn’t like the taste, so I never sought out raw milk since then. But I’m very much alive, as we can see. I get why people would drink raw milk “from under the cow” but seeking it in stores looks like an affectation. The transportation, the storage – the purported freshness is an illusion after all that.

In short, nobody is going to die either from drinking it or not drinking it. Getting emotionally attached to either activity is silly.

The Chase Bank Glitch

~ Clarissa ~ 31 Comments

We often forget where many people are intellectually and then feel surprised when their actions affect us.

The Chase Bank glitch is a case in point:

A ‘glitch’ at Chase bank’s ATMs which allowed customers to withdraw money from their account after depositing fake checks for large sums has seen a wave of people flaunt their cash online.

It appears some Chase customers wrote checks with outlandish amounts and deposited them to get tens of thousands of dollars that weren’t theirs, which had some calling it an ‘infinite money hack.’

But experts say this isn’t a harmless life hack but rather a case classic check fraud, which is punishable by fines and jail time in serious cases.

“Experts say” is particularly lovely, given that anybody with a 3-digit IQ would know not to deposit fake checks without needing to consult any experts.

People say Chase did this on purpose to discover fraudsters but the people who participated in the “free money” extravaganza, posting their exploits on social media and expecting not to have to return the fraudulent gains or pay fines, are profoundly stupid. They don’t have anything that Chase might want to take, so the purpose of an organized glitch is unclear.

I’m not very interested in Chase – which is probably the worst bank in America anyway – but these people could vote. Or let their ballots be harvested, which is more likely.