So much information is coming in that it’s impossible to track everything. Please give a link where Hegseth said this because I need to know what I’m responding to. In the video posted earlier, I discussed what Hegseth said yesterday. Then today he backtracked on that but from your comment it sounds like he went much further since today’s NATO presser? I looked but I’m not finding anything.

Please, whoever knows what this question is in reference to, leave links or, ideally, quotes.

While we wait, I can say that I’m grateful for everything Hegseth said yesterday and confused as to why he decided to backtrack today.

Except for my haircut. That’s completely my own.

I have such severe issues with recognizing people that nobody believes it’s possible. For instance, you know that guy who interviews me every week? I talked to him for an hour today. And not only am I completely unable to imagine his face, I can’t even say if he has facial hair or what color eyes he has or does he wear eyeglasses. Which I assume he does because everybody does at this age. Bit I don’t have a specific memory of it.

On the other hand, I remember by heart large portions of texts that I read 20 years ago. And I remember where in the book they were located. And where on a page.

It takes me years to remember the faces of my lab workers. Every time I discover what I think is a complete stranger at the front desk, and people have to tell me, “It’s Pedro. You didn’t recognize Pedro? He’s been with us for 3 years.” And to me, he’s a complete stranger.

Do English-speaking readers have a way to understand my videos? Is there a technology somebody is using? I spoke for 50 minutes on tomorrow’s video about Trump and Ukraine. I have a new haircut, by the way, and I look ferociously good. But in any case, will anybody be able to understand it? Or should I repeat it here in writing? Or in video form in English?

I don’t know about “everything” because that’s a little grandiose but this is the perfect writing strategy. As I always say, don’t sit down to write a book. Sit down to write one sentence about a very specific thing.

US and Canada have the same obligations to all their citizens and vice versa. It would be bizarre to assign any moral value to groups of citizens based on how their ancestors ended up in the area where the nation-state eventually formed.

So the answer is, if they are citizens and enjoy the rights of citizenship, then that’s it. Nothing else is due.

I’m kind of surprised by the question because it’s hard to imagine an alternative position.

Today I found out that N and I will both probably lose our jobs soon and I also dropped a tray with 30 cupcakes, so you can imagine the mess, but I don’t care because my kid turned 9 today, and nothing matters if you have a kid.

Absolutely nothing but joy have I gotten from this child. She’s everything that’s good in life.

As for jobs, neoliberalism, fluidity, we all know how it goes. Only people who are completely out of the loop expect something different.

https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/1889420964678783410?t=A-gWcUWw1flNVDPGY2uTVw&s=19

I also eat lunch very much alone because I work with people and it gets tiresome. Eating with co-workers is like continuing to work even on my break, so I understand these white construction workers.

I don’t know what “little Debbies” are but sandwiches sound less disgusting than tacos to me. I’d eat sandwiches over tacos or pozole. I get what point the author is trying to make but Mexicans don’t eat healthy. Their obesity rates are worse than the US.

So remember the neoliberal administrator at my school I’ve been talking about for several years? Because that’s when he was hired, several years ago. For these several years, we’ve been discussing his austerity measures and neoliberal lunacy with colleagues.

Today, I was out and met a colleague. “Have you heard that loon’s latest?” I asked. “He’s turning our university into an expensive community college.”

“This is the new normal of the Trump administration!” the colleague exclaimed.

I stared in confusion.

“Why the Trump administration?” I asked. “This dude is a far-left BLM hire who came on-board in 2021.”

“Yeah, but the Trump election made everything completely crazy!”

Strangely, the only person I end up being in agreement with and vice versa during faculty meetings is our wokest professor. We have the worst round of austerity so far coming up. Departments will be closed, tenured people fired, Humanities completely eviscerated. And the only two people who had something of value to say at the meeting today were me and the BLM dude. Everybody else was in the “these are such important measures and I’d accept them if they came accompanied by praise for how hard I’ve worked” mode.

What is this, the horseshoe theory? Far left and far right being kind of the same? The dude and I are political opposites but on practical matters we are scarily in sync.