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I dedicated about 10 hours a week to teaching this semester. This is 2 hours a day, so hardly onerous. But I perceived it as massively time-consuming because the idea of teaching 4 courses per semester was so shocking.
In reality, it was all in my head. I felt overwhelmed and very busy because I trusted an illusion.
People are insistently asking me about Alexander Vindman. I don’t want to talk about him because I get very upset. So I will be brief. He’s a traitor to America and a scourge on Ukraine.
I don’t know if he’s a sincere idiot, a paid Russian agent, or a pawn of certain Ukrainian oligarchs who made their fortunes by servicing the Western left. But he’s done a lot of damage, and I so wish he and his equally annoying brother just go away.
I have no idea why, in addition to all the problems Ukraine already has, God decided to saddle it with Vindman.
So. I need a new promotional photo. The old one is very nice but it’s from 2019, so it’s time to move one to avoid working under false rpetences of me being a spring chicken which I no longer am.
Here is the old one, in case people don’t know what I’m talking about:
How about this new one?
Or is this better?
I like the first one more because in it I look pinker and less self-righteous. I took more but they acquired a weird greenish tint for some reason.
What does everybody think? One or two? Or both are no good?
Without looking it up, can you guess if this dude is on the left or the right?
No, you can’t because anti-Americanism has conquered the entire political spectrum. Both left and right gladly pick up every libel that some tawdry dictator wields against their own country and slobber over it happily.
Forty years of “America bad” education, and people no longer ever notice that they are filled with self-hatred. Of course, nobody is going to procreate or do anything to ensure their culture continues if they are convinced that culture is terrible.
WSJ reports that Biden won’t have time to transfer the promised $6.5 billion in weapons to Ukraine before Trump takes office due to logistical challenges.
https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1861887649318937087?t=7gl07B17Wockh8FGiQ9pNw&s=19
It has been exactly like this for almost 3 years. All of these promises are lies. And people who keep having fainting fits over these fake “escalations” should get a grip on themselves and stop jumping up and down like obedient doggies whenever Biden winks.
Well, obviously the Chinese weren’t going to take the initiative themselves. Unless Massa gives a command, they won’t move.
People were eager to see the very light pink faux fur coat, so here it is:
Tomorrow’s show will be about Canada, its immigration policy, the recent riots in Montreal, and the need to unseat Trudeau as soon as possible.
On the positive side, I’ve pretty much decided to write a book on Canadian literature in Ukrainian when I go on sabbatical. Now I have to read up because I have no organizing idea yet. You will be the first people to know once I figure it out.
Holy moly. MAGA is losing their mind over an uncovered video from 2016 where Donald Trump says people should use the bathroom they feel is inappropriate and speaks out against trans bathroom bills. RT this so MAGA implodes.
https://x.com/CalltoActivism/status/1861033427476091309?t=1eMmmecoamllXUw-5OwiKw&s=19
I’m seeing a lot of such comments about Trump, Nancy Mace, and others. It’s supposed to be a gotcha of some sorts but it’s the opposite. Everybody who today is horrified by what “trans rights” have become started from the baseline of wanting to be kind and accommodating on this issue. Everyone, including me. And including, clearly, Trump.
We all fell for the line that it’s such a small thing, such a tiny group of people, such a rarity, let’s just humor them in this tiny, unimposing aspect, it’s the kind thing to do.
We all as a society were prepared to humor and be kind. But our kindness was turned against us. We saw male rapists in female jails. We saw girls beaten into a disability on a sports field. We were publicly and shrilly diagnosed with non-existent mental illnesses for not believing that men are actually women. I was directed at my job to remove all syllabi that are “transphobic.” You know what that means? It means the ones that mention the words “woman” or “man”, “male” or “female”.
Progressivism is the mentality of unimpeded, constant movement. It’s always in search of more, more, more. Any concession leads to more demands. You’ll have to stand up to progress sooner or later because otherwise there’s no end to this journey.
So yeah, we changed our minds. We all collectively decided that our kindness has been abused enough. The hand that we extended as a gesture of goodwill and consideration has been spat into. Our generosity has been turned into a cudgel to beat us into submission.
We changed our minds. I used to wear a Hillary Clinton badge the size of a dinner plate and now I vote for Trump. Trump was a New York liberal and now he’s not. There’s an exodus of Biblical proportions from your side because nobody can take your incessant demands any more. But go on, keep pouting and demanding. We can use more people on our team.
I’m in Canada, wearing my new light pink faux fur coat specially for the occasion. And guess what? It’s bloody summer here, too. I’m fine outside in short sleeves.
We are driving up North on Wednesday, hoping to get some relief there.
Does anybody have any suggestions for what I should discuss on this week’s show? I’m too frustrated by the weather to think of anything.
Here’s yet another illustration of why I consider people who unironically use the expression “human rights” to be clinically retarded:
The Ontario Human Rights Tribunal has found the township of Emo will have to pay damages after refusing to proclaim Pride Month back in 2020.
Borderland Pride requested Emo to declare June as Pride Month and display a rainbow flag for one week but the township refused, resulting in a years-long process in which the tribunal ruled against the township.
The tribunal ruled Borderland Pride will be awarded $15,000, with $10,000 coming from the township itself and the other $5,000 coming from Emo mayor Harold McQuaker.
In Ontario, it’s now “a human right” to force other people to put up a rainbow flag. As I’ve been explaining for months, a right is whatever a specific interest group can recruit institutions of power into supporting. There are no vague human rights floating in the air outside of the societies we build. Whatever is or is not “a human right” depends on who in society has a larger stick to beat everybody else into submission.
The shift in usage from “rights” (meaning, a specific list codified in the foundational documents of the nation-state) to “human rights” (a meaningless expression that is supranational by its very nature) allows to expand into infinity the list of petty grievances of invented identities under the rubric of humanity-wide interests. “Human rights” exist to deprive us of our constitutional or charter rights.
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