Clarissa's Blog

You could have never guessed what would finally sour them on their favorite president:

https://twitter.com/DrKimSue/status/1550450493918527489?t=VQr2jYzYPJY0260HwfnKnQ&s=19

Turns out that he’s too… hardworking. Who could have possibly guessed?

Truly, one can never plumb the depths of this perverted mentality.

Russians signed an agreement to let grain shipments leave Ukraine unimpeded. And then a few hours later Russia bombed the main Ukrainian port that ships grain. Just a few hours later. The few hours during which the NATO didn’t expand, I might add.

I don’t know what else needs to happen to make it clear to people that appeasement won’t work. “If I give the bully my lunch money, he’ll become sweet and won’t hurt me again” is not a workable plan.

“Why did the Russians sign the agreements if they weren’t going to honor them?” naive people ask.

They signed precisely because they weren’t going to honor them. It’s so much fun to give false hope to the people you despise and then crush it.

Finally, they are catching on but not before many people were needlessly drugged up with God knows what side effects. Of course, this can be said about all sorts of other COVID vaccines drugs.

Apparently, it’s now fashionable to take a drug called Paxlovid and inform everybody you come across about this fact. Our Dean started the annual summer meeting today by informing us that he took Paxlovid last month. This is the first time in my memory people share their medication history with a large group of people at work.

COVID did something weird to some of us. We’ve all had opportunities to take medication in our lives. But normally people don’t make reports on their meds to colleagues or distant acquaintances. And they still don’t, thank goodness, unless COVID is involved.

Eltz Castle in Germany (in the picture below) has belonged to the same family for 33 generations. More than 850 years!

I hope they start suing. But God, who even cares about that after the damage has been done? The person in the video is clearly unwell, too, because this is somebody who thinks the main problem with being unable to have an orgasm is that your relationships might suffer.

An event was cancelled on my campus today because of, and I quote, “BA.5 subvariant of the Omicron variant.” The event obviously included free food for the faculty.

You truly can’t make this stuff up.

Conservatives embraced Reagan out of desperation. As a result, they experienced a tactical victory and a strategic – I can’t even say defeat because it’s a nearly apocalyptic creaming that’s much bigger than a simple defeat.

From the beginning, Reagan made it clear that he wasn’t a conservative in any meaningful way. “Liberalism is conservative. It’s stuck in the past,” he said. “Our movement, on the other hand, is progressive because it’s forward-looking.” (I’m quoting from memory but this is the gist of Reagan’s statement.) Note the unquestioning assumption that “forward” and “future” always equal “good” and “past” always equals “bad.”

Reagan rejected old-school liberalism in favor of a new brand. We now call it neoliberalism. It’s a deeply progressivist movement that abhors any rootedness. “Change”, together with “choice,” is its key word. That’s why the ultra-neoliberal Obama adopted “hope and change” as his slogan.

Today, Reagan’s open borders and austerity are embraced by the most left-wing movements in this country. And conservatives are horrified with the results of Reagan’s neoliberal revolution. Without it, we wouldn’t see the idea that humans should be free to change physical reality by naming it. We wouldn’t face the results of putting the pouty freedom of entitled consumers above every other consideration.

It’s actually quite funny that Reagan’s open-border policies have made it impossible for Reagan’s party ever again to have a meaningful presence in Reagan’s own state of California. It’s a fitting punishment for embracing a progressivist slick talker. Democrats made the same mistake when they embraced Bill Clinton, a neoliberal Reaganite, and forever lost the working classes, becoming the party of the chi-chi fru-fru folks.

Democrats in Illinois are running on guns, abortion, and vague promises to “address inflation” and “reduce crime.” Nothing whatsoever is said about COVID. It’s like it never existed. This is silly because COVID mitigation is a major electoral issue in the state. Terrible things have happened. Only the most partisan and brainwashed voters have forgotten.

A bunch of kids who are Canadian citizens have been barred from entering their country after an overseas trip because the ArriveCan app glitched. I’m stunned that nobody in Canada has even tried to question the new policy that bars citizens from entering their own country without an app.

I’m also stunned that the government of Canada has farmed off its border control functions to commercial airlines and nobody has a word of protest to say about this. The airline personnel doesn’t follow the complexities of Canada’s Byzantine and ever-changing border control policies. As a result, they err on the side of caution and demand COVID tests when the Canadian government doesn’t. This happened to me. An American Airlines worker – who is probably not a citizen of Canada – tried to refuse to let me, a citizen, board, because she creatively (and incorrectly) interpreted the Canadian border policies.

As usual, even more than the policy itself, it’s the bovine indifference of the citizens to this plunder that gets to me.