Clarissa's Blog

The new president of Argentina officially rejected Russia’s invitation to join BRICS.

I told you, the guy is solid. Latin America has finally received a chance of leaving the backwater of history and becoming something. Whether it uses that chance or not remains to be seen but it’s a big, unexpected development.

The new world order is forming at this very moment.

These polls are completely worthless. Haley supports transing children, supports increased immigration, supports Internet censorship and has zero conservative thoughts on anything. I have been able to discern zero differences between her and Biden. And for the voters who like Biden, there’s actual Biden to vote for. Between Haley and Biden, I’d go with Biden.

We are stuck with Biden versus Trump because no candidate wants to be anything other than Biden and Trump. And instead of going for an imitation, it makes more sense to go with the original.

I have absolutely no idea why, with so many candidates, we can’t have a single one who isn’t trying to slavishly imitate the candidates from 2020. That wasn’t a great year or a good campaign. I’d really like to move on but, clearly, Americans disagree and want to keep redoing 2020.

N’s new company not only gives the employees a 3-week paid vacation, it also gives a paid week off on Christmas and another paid week off around July 4.

This is really weird in a very good sense. It’s definitely an improvement on the previous owners who made people work even on December 24 and 31.

I really like the patriotic aspect of honoring Christmas and July 4.

This is so insulting to me as a voter from both of them. You bloody fools, who the ef cares about your stupid Civil War trivia? Start doing your jobs, you absolute losers.

We deserve the politicians we get, we really do.

Americans in election town halls and on social media are back to debating why the American Civil War began back in 1861. Now they’ll get stuck on who hasn’t yet again denounced slavery as loudly as possible, and it will all go on in circles like it always does.

It’s great to be a nation without any real problems so that you can obsess over what happened back in 1861.

What’s really funny is seeing a large number of gay men on social media react with the stunned exclamation of “He’s a straight dude!” to every “queer trans non-binary two-spirit” prestige figure.

Once oppression Olympics start, everybody who is not an absolute douchebag loses. It’s not about actual oppression. It’s about shamelessness and lack of dignity. Nobody cares who’s gay or not. It’s all about who can give the most out-there performance.

Straight white men are actually really smart. Who could have thought they would find a way to crush the competition in diversity Olympics? All they had to do was to say they are women, and they can easily eviscerate actual women and beat down black folks into the bargain.

This is all bloody brilliant.

Yes, most men (and women) don’t want to play these games. Sucks to be them.

When translating medical compliance documents for Nordic countries, we are required to dumb down all terminology to the level where a 12-year-old would be able to understand it. There’s zero likelihood that any 12-year-old would read this kind of paperwork that is addressed only to medical professionals (not patients) but that’s what the local legislation requires.

I wonder how they will go about the understandability requirement with the increasing numbers of migrants.

And also, why is it not OK for professional fields to not be inclusive? Why does everybody need to understand what specialists within their fields say to each other? Every professional field has its jargon. I’m sure I wouldn’t understand what car mechanics or electrical engineers say to each other. So what? Yes, I’m excluded. But they are equally excluded from my chats with a colleague about how better to teach the Spanish subjunctive.

It’s getting so, I break out in hives when I hear the word “inclusive”.

We have a “Barack Obama Highway” near St Louis.

And then people say that Trump followers are a cult.

Do people not understand that naming things after living politicians is cringe?

God, Obama. The war in Ukraine, the terrible situation in Yemen, the BLM, the spluttering post-Recession economy – all brought to us courtesy of Obama, and we can’t even let some time pass before running around, naming things after this inept, self-involved fellow.

What Americans used to be and what they will be again. For absolute certain.