Does anybody know? Why is Scotland so… unusual? Why, in general, do separatist societies these days tend to be so far left? And why are they so heavily into the police state? It’s like they want nationhood to snitch on each other all day.

Yes, Je me souviens, I’m looking straight at you and your intense COVID-era snitching. And the rest of your leftie antics because the stories I could tell are quite out there.

I’m happy that I don’t watch the news anymore. It does wonders for my blood pressure not to listen to blatant lies and manipulation.

But the downside is that I have no idea how to pronounce the names of the people in the political process. I only read about them from a large hodge-podge of trusted sources. For instance, I’ve been accenting “Vivek” wrong in my head this whole time.

Christo Grozev’s investigation regarding the Havana Syndrome:

As I’ve said, I’ve known for 10 years, and this has absolutely been silenced until now. The silencing took place during the Obama administration.

I never liked libertarianism. Not that I hate it or anything but it’s simply not my thing. But now that I spend a chunk of my professional time interacting with Ukrainians, I’m really warming up to it. Ukrainians are very libertarian, in case people don’t know.

It’s really pleasant when you don’t have this huge bureaucratic superstructure dominating every activity. Everything is easy. Everything happens fast and effectively because it’s just people doing what they believe they need to do. No compliance paperwork. No paperwork of any kind. It’s just people talking to people and getting things done. It’s kind of really cool.

I now feel a strong desire to reread Ayn Rand because I’m in touch with this very Randian environment, and it’s definitely attractive.

First, the Biden administration refused to close the border in return for aid to Ukraine. Now it refused to allow natural gas export in return for aid to Ukraine:

The Biden administration has rejected an agreement with U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson to connect Ukraine aid with lifting the Biden administration’s pause on new liquefied natural gas (LNG) export licenses.

https://kyivindependent.com/white-house-dismisses-linking-ukraine-aid-to-reversal-of-natural-gas-policy/

Poor Mike Johnson who has been bending backwards to reach an agreement is being vilified as intransigent while the Biden administration refuses every reasonable offer that’s good for the US and the world because all it wants to do is service the far-left agenda.

Almost nobody knows about the Republican efforts to reach an agreement because it’s not on the news.

But it gets worse. The Biden administration is trying to prevent Ukraine from destroying Russian refineries so that the world stays dependent on Russian oil and natural gas. At the same time, Biden is preventing the US oil and gas industry from taking the Russian spot that Ukraine is freeing up for us. And Biden also does everything to refuse the aid that Ukrainians would use to take out more Russian refineries.

It’s the Republicans who are supporting our enemies to the detriment of the US, though. That’s the official narrative, and one has to battle one’s way to actual facts like a miner in the coal mine.

The best video I’ve seen in days is this one:

The president of Guyana shuts down a smug Western journalist: “Who are you to lecture us on climate change?”

The rudeness and entitlement of the Lefty journalist is off the charts. Please watch. It’s just a couple of minutes long, and it gives the entire problem of why everybody in the world is tired of the obnoxious Anglo preaching in a nutshell.

No, it’s because everybody is sick and tired of you inventing more and more categories of “victims” that justify your endless jumping up.

I support Israel but a little self-awareness from the American author of this meme wouldn’t hurt. I mean, maybe sit down already and you’ll notice that those evil “they” who keep coming for your invented victims are not real. But those who came for you are.

OK, so get a load of this. Somebody is talking about how the Left has become a prison where zero dissent is tolerated:

Well, duh, one wants to say. Everybody knows all this. But guess who posted this today. It was Brianna Wu, a far FAR Left agitator.

The Lefties are human! They hate it all, too. And they hate the hideous flag, like any normal person does. That’s so heart-warming.

We can cancel the national divorce, my friends. If even Brianna Wu says the Left has become a panopticon police state, then most of them are getting fed up with all this.

JK Rowling is single-handedly destroying Scotland’s new anti-speech law, and it’s beautiful.

Do we have any artists in the US who would – or, rather, will – do this when this comes to us? We’ve got Chris Rufo but are there any celebrities? I can’t think of anybody who wouldn’t immediately weasel out but maybe there is somebody I’m forgetting.

This has been a consistent policy of the Biden administration, and I’ve done God knows how many facepalms when hearing how Biden is pro-Ukraine.