In one of the novels I analyze for my book, a mega wealthy movie director burns down the house of one of his workers in order to film the man’s devastated face when he discovers the incinerated house. The rich filmmaker believes that since he compensated the loss of the house with a cash gift, it’s all good. That the fire destroyed the family heirlooms, the photo albums, and the beloved knick-knacks of the worker’s family is of no interest to him. The worker can now buy a new house and all the new stuff, so what’s the problem?

The movie director is, of course, very left-wing.

I always think of this scene when I read the endless chatter regarding how the looting and the destruction during leftist riots is not a big deal because “insurance pays for it.”

The entire mentality of (neo)liberalism is here on full view. Everything is replaceable, and a new, shiny version is always better than the old one. The idea that objects are repositories of meaning and people are repositories of culture is alien to them.

The novel is Salvar el fuego by Guillermo Arriaga. I can’t recommend it highly enough. And yes, it’s five trillion pages long but each page is a linguistic delight.

Russuan asset Tulsi Gabbard in 1 minute blockbuster trying to convince you that russia is entitled to attack neighboring countries, mass murder people, abduct children, and spit in your coffee as long as they have nukes… and pay her enough rubles. https://t.co/v51GNifl78

— Kate from Kharkiv (@BohuslavskaKate) June 10, 2025

She’s not an asset. She’s a low-IQ aging bimbo who’s getting overheated unnecessarily.  Unfortunately, there are many of them around. This happens to childless post-menopausal women a lot. Not always, mind you, but it’s a definite and real danger.

She used to be quite normal but human biology is relentless and unkind.

Over the weekend, I translated a text from the drug trials of a new medication for bladder cancer. One of the test animals died as a result of the trial. The rest survived and the overwhelming majority showed notable improvement. The trial will now proceed to human subjects.

The entire drug wasn’t ditched because it caused one spotted pig to die. The potential benefits of the medication outweighed that one case.

Similarly, I don’t think that we need to ditch the entire nation-state model because in one case it led to Hitler. In all the other cases, it didn’t. To the contrary, it led to many wonderful things we all enjoy. This worldwide trial demonstrated that nation-states don’t inevitably lead to Hitler. Moreover, alternative systems also sometimes lead in the direction of Hitler. The only conclusion I can draw is that we shouldn’t get rid of the nation-state on the off chance it might produce Hitler.

People are not perfectly rational machines that calculate risk-reward benefits before doing something. People are emotional, persuadable, tribal, and often extremely self-sabotaging.

Many migrants from Mexico and Central America don’t want to be here in the sense of being deeply attached to the need to be Americans. People cross into the US because of family pressure, peer pressure, a desire to avoid legal problems in the home country, because they don’t want to feel like losers, because of “look at María’s son, he crossed and is now sending money for grandma’s medication”, because of large houses built with the money of the neighbors who crossed over, because of “everybody else is doing it”, because of “hey, at least it’s an adventure”, and so on.

By removing the temptation of the open border, we are doing those countries a big favor. We are undermining their oligarchies that have gotten extremely rich by exporting large percentages of their populations. We are leaving people in peace to figure out their lives in their own countries. The only kind thing to do is to end this travesty where we drag millions across the border, leaving their countries in abject misery.

If Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum is deprived of remittance money, she’ll have to figure out how to keep the economy functional. She’ll be motivated actually to do something for the Mexican people. That’s a good thing. Once we close the border to people and money, she’ll have to show up, and Mexico will become a great country it deserves to be.

This is actually a good idea:

Trump is setting up index fund accounts for newborns seeded with $1,000, where parents can then invest up to $5,000 a year, tax-deferred.

If parents max out the accounts, kids will have well over six figures for their education when they graduate.

Genius.pic.twitter.com/NdHpyAUuYb

— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) June 9, 2025

It’s not a measure to stimulate the hyper-irresponsible to procreate. To the contrary, it helps people who will be responsible, intelligent parents capable of long-term thinking. The kind of people we want to have children.

Whoever came up with it is smart.

I had a lengthy conversation about food in Munich with my German chatbot on Duolingo. I was feeling very proud of myself for sustaining such a long dialogue. Did a little happy dance to celebrate my proficiency, and all.

Then I read the transcript and realized that the chatbot was mocking me the whole time.

And that’s before any actual deportations:

President Trump’s net approval on immigration has skyrocketed.

Turns out Americans like a president who defends Americans from illegals.pic.twitter.com/oxCoWY6K2O

— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) June 9, 2025

Because guess what? A large majority of Americans has wanted less immigration for the past 30 years. This is a winning issue for anybody who is willing to do what the people are asking for. That there’s been nobody willing to do it (including Trump in his first term) should be disturbing to all of us.

The entire American literary scene is female authors writing about women wanting more sex and 60-year-old male authors writing about how Trump is bad.

I’m writing, I’m on a roll, got to a segment where I discuss why neoliberalism is in conflict with Christian morality. Found a great book by two Catholic professors of theology. But no, I have to get up and leave because bathrooms have been closed in my building and the neighboring ones, and I’m a woman who gave birth twice, which means that the gaps between toileting are not vast.

Nobody wants to admit this, but Ronald Reagan granting amnesty to millions of illegals in California was part of the problem.

— Pro America Politics (@Pro__Trading) June 9, 2025

Well, duh. Forget Democrat or Republican. Think, instead, neoliberal or not. Neoliberal is always pro-open borders. Originally, neoliberalism was concentrated on the Right (Reagan, Thatcher). By the end of the 1990s, more left-wing political parties in the West were neoliberal in comparison with right-wing parties. This is one of the most widely analyzed phenomena in social studies.

You can’t be “freedom above all” and not be in favor of one of the most important freedoms of all which is the freedom of reside wherever you are. People who are shocked that Rand and Massie are pro-open borders are not paying attention to the degree that’s quite scary.