People keep asking, how do you write so much, publish so much, read so much? Where do you find the time?

People, have you noticed how much you talk? You really talk a lot. I’m sure you get a lot out of it but I don’t. I do other things instead. There’s no judgment here but you can’t have everything. I engage in very little sociability, so I have time for other stuff.

Normies are very talkative, and they keep repeating the same thing, it’s disturbing.

The difference between Biden and Trump on immigration is that Biden gave his base exactly what it wants while Trump didn’t. Biden’s base wants no borders, and it’s got no borders. Trump’s base wanted a wall and a dramatic reduction in immigration, and it’s got… no wall, no borders, and a dramatic increase in immigration.

This happened because Biden’s base is tenacious and active. It has been aggressively protesting the non-existent “Gaza genocide” for months, wrangling out all sorts of extraordinary concessions from terrified politicians. Trump’s base, in the meantime, is weak and passive. It accepts vague fairytales about “the Deep State” and “the swamp” and lets itself be duped again and again.

The actively evil always defeat the passively sweet. Yesterday, there was a large pro-Hamas protest that bullied Biden on his way to give the State of the Union address. On our side, we have an actual, real grievance – the murder of Laken Riley but all we got was the embarrassing MTG turn Laken into a joke with her clownish performance. As a result, the Hamas lovers squeezed a whole port out of Biden. And we wrangled out … words. Biden “said her name”, which we are supposed to see as some sort of a symbolic victory.

We don’t get any real victories, so we have to settle for symbolic ones.

I went on Twitter, and people are saying that in the State of the Union Biden spoke about Snickers bars, IVF, and building a port in Gaza. I’m choosing to believe that this is partisan coverage aimed at making him look demented.

I’m desperately looking for reasons to vote for Biden because I can’t stomach four more years of impotent “Law and order!” tweets while nobody but unhinged rioters is allowed to go outside. But a port in Gaza is just about to tip me over.

So? What happened during the State of the Union?

Come on, people, I’m on kid duty here all day, minding children while pacifying three grumpy grandmas at the same time. Can somebody return me to the world of adults by sharing their impressions of the event?

When I’m in Montreal, I’m mostly confined to an expensive pretty suburb but today we ventured downtown to entertain the kids. The very first thing we saw in the Old Port was a homeless, pantless addict, defecating in the middle of the street. My kid is not used to such sights, so I had to make a speech about drug addiction and homelessness.

There was nothing remotely similar in Montreal 15 years ago. This is a problem that has been manufactured since then. This was the most livable city in North America, and it’s being murdered in the same way as all North American cities are being murdered.

What’s great about being in a Canadian bookstore is that there are books by Canadian authors.

OK, one of them isn’t Canadian but still, two are better than nothing. I often get asked about Canadian literature, and I need to be able to give at least a couple of names.

I’ll post my impressions as I go along.

I have now read everything that Eric Rickstad published so far. Dude is very woke but he writes well. He’s going to release a new very woke novel in a couple of weeks, and I wonder if the talent will outweigh the politics. It has for me so far but the upcoming novel is about “gun violence that men use to victimize women and children.” There needs to be a serious amount of talent for me to disregard this kind of idiocy.

Talented people are often very stupid.

Leaving aside specific personalities, a presidential administration should have employees who understand cultural differences and make sure that embarrassing gaffes don’t occur.

Don’t offer the Prime Minister of India a nice, juicy steak. Don’t make Holocaust jokes to the Israeli ambassador. Don’t put people from warring countries next to each other.

We are drowning in incompetence, and it’s visible in everything.

I really, really hope this is one of WashPo’s habitual lies. The Biden administration couldn’t have possibly insulted the wife of the Ukrainian president this way.

Russians murdered 5 Ukrainian children in Odessa a couple of days ago. The youngest was 9 months old. We are all mourning. And Biden chooses this moment to humiliate Ukraine’s First Lady by seating her next to some piece of trash neo-Nazi widow. Which will strengthen Russia’s propaganda narrative that Ukrainians are all Nazis and even Biden knows it.

Even if Yulia Navalnaya were a decent person (which she’s not, and I’ve been explaining this for years), this would be a horrible idea. You don’t sit Jews next to Germans, even nice Germans, while the Holocaust is ongoing. Ukrainians are burying children every day. Hearing Russian speech is painful. Hearing Russian accents is very unpleasant. Looking at the happy, smug Russian faces while they prattle on how it’s not their fault because Putin made them is torture.

Navalnaya is a grifter, like her late husband. She already created a foundation in his name and is collecting money. For what? “To fight Putin”, of course. How will she fight Putin with money? That’s never explained. But it’s convenient for Biden to pretend that these crooks will defeat Putin because this allows him to continue to do next to nothing to honor the US obligations and help Ukraine.

It’s not enough to betray people, you also need to humiliate them into the bargain.

Polyamory is the Uberization of love. It’s the sharing economy of relationships.

Isaac Rosa, Feliz final