Regarding point 3 on the list, isn’t this exactly the kind of crap that caused the global economic crisis of 2007?

And regarding point 2, isn’t this exactly the kind of crap we saw during COVID and that contributed to the inflation spike?

And aren’t the rest of the points exactly the kind of crap that is swelling our national debt and making the economy unsustainable without an endless massive influx of illegals?

As for cash payments for babies, this was already tried in many countries, specifically in Russia. The result is always that the only people motivated to give birth to receive a cash payment are the dregs of society. They piss away the cash payment on booze and drugs and become a huge drain on society. The only way to get rid of these lumpenlosers is to send them to die in a war.

That surely can’t be the goal, can it?

Every single one of these policies has been tried and tried and tried and never led to anything but misery, impoverishment, and crowds of angry, confused people raging for another handout.

I have a vague feeling that some marginally important category of people is missing from this celebratory post but what is it?

Hmm, a mystery.

The history of plagiarism by Kamala Harris is very long and fascinating. It’s impossible to list all of the currently known examples here but I wanted to mention a really egregious case.

Harris took a fictionalized story about an imaginary prostitute in Washington, DC and copied it almost verbatim, changing only the location to pretend that this was a real event in California:

In Harris’s retelling, “Kelly” became a real person rescued from pimps in San Francisco. It’s truly bizarre that an Attorney General would steal fictional material and present the events in it as her achievement.

Nobody accidentally misspells Washington as San Francisco. This isn’t simply plagiarism. This is intentional misleading of the worst caliber. And again, this is one of a very large number of examples.

Words can’t express how much I despise these people. Ukraine went from being the world’s third largest nuclear power to having to beg for ammunition because your country spent 30 years and tons of money disarming it, you stupid fuck.

Since the Illinois minimum wage hike went into effect, we’ve been raising the hourly wage for our lab workers in one-dollar increments. Obviously, nobody gave us more money to enable us to pay the higher wage. So we fired half of the workers. And cut lab hours for the existing ones.

It was exactly what I predicted when the law was first passed. I don’t take much credit because a blind monkey in a stupor could have predicted this.

I also predicted that COVID closures would be catastrophic for higher ed. People scoffed into my face back then but now everybody keeps saying, “God, this is catastrophic.” Yes, shocking. If only anybody could have predicted this.

Along with our partners at @FEMA, we will continue with disaster recovery as a result of Hurricane Milton. The safety of the American people is our top priority. pic.twitter.com/l8NfS8dPlc

— CBP (@CBP) October 17, 2024

I don’t understand, are they doing this on purpose? Are they trying to mock the victims of the hurricane?

I watched three times and I don’t get it. Why would anybody at a government agency think it’s a good look to make a mockery of the results of a natural catastrophe?

One fails to watch the news for 3 days, and already things become incomprehensible.

You gotta love Americans. Wonderful, kind people. I had to make a left turn across three lines of very dense traffic that went on for as far as eyes could see. I thought I’d be stuck there for half an hour but guess what? I didn’t wait for even 10 seconds. All three lines immediately stopped and gave way. Nobody honked, nobody was an asshole. These are tired people who are coming home from work all the way from STL, and the highway sucks ass at this moment. Yet nobody was irritable or mean.

Every time this happens, I’m touched almost to tears. Such great people. Such an incredible country.

The kind of personality that is the most successful in the current economic system combines a highly focused, controlled, disciplined and regimented side with an audacious, risk-taking, mercurial and independent bent. Somebody who accepts no disciplining from an outside authority but has a very deep source of inner discipline.

Usually, the mercurial, bold and dynamic idea-generator and the patient, focused plodder are two different people. It’s combining the two such contradictory personalities into one that’s difficult and rare.

US presidential candidate Donald Trump has said that he threatened Vladimir Putin with a strike on Moscow if he invaded Ukraine.

Trump once again reiterated that he had a “great relationship” with Kremlin ruler Vladimir Putin and got along with him very well.

“I said, ‘Vladimir, if you go after Ukraine, I am going to hit you so hard, you’re not even going to believe it. I’m going to hit you right in the middle of fricking Moscow,” Donald Trump said.

Even just hearing about this is activating all of my pleasure centers. At the Catholic dinner last week Trump spoke at length about the religious Ukrainians and pro-Ukrainians who approached him and spoke about Ukraine, and it has clearly made an impression. This is what I’ve been saying for months, since I finally got a platform in Ukraine. Reach out, explain, make your case. Don’t assume you know what the reaction will be. Don’t trust the propaganda.

Now finally they are waking up and doing something, and I’m glad.

Let’s take a moment and imagine Moscow wiped out as our happy meditation to start the day off right.