The guy just completely invented a text and then posted a document showing that nothing of the kind was ever said.

Is he posting for people who can’t read cursive?

I have no love for Joe Biden, obviously, but I do take exception to careless readings of texts.

Behind the desire to treat animals as if they were people lies a wish to treat people as if they were animals.

Juan Manuel de Prada

Is anybody else as freaked by “furry babies” and “pet parents” as I am? Besides Juan Manuel de Prada, that is.

Jennifer Egan is one of the most talented writers in the US today. A great, great talent. Her books are invariably enjoyable to read because she writes beautifully.

But I forget every page the moment I finish it. It’s the weirdest thing. It’s enough for me to interrupt the reading to visit the bathroom to lose all memory of what I was reading before I paused.

Egan is talented but she doesn’t have much to write about. It’s the third book by her that I’m reading, and I can’t tell you what they are about to save my life. I do know that I’m massively enjoying the process, that’s all.

Apparently, the prosecutors don’t think it’s a crime, either. They didn’t charge Trump with attempted murder or inciting murder. They charged him with civil rights violations. Nobody charges civil rights violations if they have real charges to bring.

Imagine that conversation. “Dude, we’ve got the bastard on attempted murder! We got the evidence, everything. Let’s put him away!”

“Nah, forget about all that. Let’s do him up on civil rights violations instead. That’s a really serious charge, not like that silly murder crap nobody cares about.”

Again, it’s the same with the Biden allegations.

“But what do you think Biden was saying on those phone calls?” people keep repeating.

Well, thankfully, your thoughts (also known as your imaginary life) are of no consequence to anything. “But isn’t it just common sense that it’s what he did” is a phrase particularly beloved by clinical morons. As much as they want to believe that being disliked by them is a chargeable offense, it’s not.

Of course, these are all problems of a country with no serious problems, so let’s rejoice that life is good and people have the leisure to entertain themselves with these inflated scandals.

And by the way, I would like to get some recognition for my dogged avoidance of cheap popularity with any partisan crowd. It would be so easy to delete the part either about Trump or about Biden and have a bunch of people like me. But no, I condemn myself to being liked by noone.

I missed yesterday’s anniversary of the start of the Warsaw Uprising but I still want to talk about it for a bit.

The heroes of the Polish Armia Krajowa organized this massive uprising to liberate Warsaw from the Nazis. The Poles timed it to coincide with the approach of the Soviet troops, relying on their help.

But Stalin gave orders to stop the advance of the Red Army to let Hitler wipe out the Polish resistance. This was the uprising that the Soviets had encouraged and promised to support. But of course they lied. Stalin wanted to control Poland and he didn’t need any uppity Poles thinking they can rise up against tyrannies.

For 63 days the uprising raged. Nazis murdered between 150,000 and 200,000 civilians while the Soviet troops snickered in the distance.

After the Nazis were done, the Soviets moved in and took Warsaw, almost razing it to the ground in the process.

The surviving leaders of the anti-Nazi uprising were sent to Moscow and put on trial.

They were charged with being Nazi collaborators.

Our genius administrators decided to eliminate graduate assistantships to save money. Graduate assistants get a tuition waiver, and the administrators thought that if we don’t offer them, students will pay full tuition.

We tried to explain that applicants choose the most competitive package when deciding where to apply. If you don’t offer a tuition waiver, people don’t go to graduate school. Even Harvard doesn’t charge for graduate studies. And we are not Harvard.

The administrators scoffed at us in loud, obnoxious ways and eliminated half of all graduate assistantships.

Then the graduate enrollment dropped off a cliff.

Now the same administrators are sending us long, desperate missives asking us why our graduate school is disappearing.

All the administrators involved in this scheme are extremely woke. This cluelessness of theirs is a result of that. They sincerely believe that human beings are blank slates and interchangeable widgets. They think they can engineer people’s behavior into pleasing results. And it never works because humans are more complicated than that and have agency. But the poor darn fools never learn.

To be fair to all sides, this big drama over Biden being on Hunter’s business calls is as big a load of inconsequential BS as today’s Trump indictments.

If people assumed that Biden would do something for them and rolled out the cash to Hunter as a result, it’s completely on them. Hunter is trash. Those bribe-givers are absolute trash. But unless it’s proven that Biden a) asked for money and b) did something in return, this is all baloney.

Both Trumpers and Bidenites respond to these points with an insulted “But doesn’t it matter that he lied???”

No, it doesn’t. People lie. Get over it. It’s a sign of being stuck at the mental age of 6 to be so upset over lies.

This most recent Trump indictment is so ludicrous that it’s actually funny. Fraud? Civil rights violations? I mean, this is really embarrassing.

Notice that nobody is indicting Trump on inciting the Jan 6 riot. There’s even less evidence of that than of civil rights violations.

This is all a cringe-worthy show.

Mind you, I’m not saying it for partisan reasons. I won’t be voting for Trump in the primary. I’m voting for Mike Pence. But it’s funny to me how people gin themselves up over these silly indictments when even the people who bring them don’t take them seriously.

Remember what I said: tiny little steps that are easy to ignore.