Clarissa's Blog

Klara came up with a joke:

What did a cucumber say when he couldn’t get to a pickle jar?

“Well, that’s a pretty pickle.”

I think it’s really funny.

It’s really funny, so I want to share it. Don’t look under the fold if you are still planning to play today.

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We traveled in a group, with kids, wearing Ukrainian symbols. Everybody stared at us with kind and respectful curiosity.

And when at the security control my sister revealed that she travels with a Nespresso machine in her handbag, people must have decided we are refugees who escaped with a single, dearly beloved appliance.

A small quote from Arestovich:

The Europe that gave us Descartes’s “I think therefore I am” is now giving us the worldview based on the idea of “My feelings were hurt, therefore I am.” And that’s a dead end.

He also mocks the woke obsession with “green” fads in a really funny way.

What I find interesting is that there are clear similarities between Arestovich’s thinking and that of the conservative Argentinean historian Marcelo Gullo Omodeo. Both say that Europe has amputated any possibility of the future for itself when it started on the road of self-denunciation and historical guilt. Now, Arestovich and Gullo Omodeo say, Europe is only a museum for tourists from other parts of the world. The parts of the world where people love life and don’t think we all need to live in pods and take a shower once a month “to save the planet.”

I’m sure Arestovich and Gullo Omodeo never heard of each other. This is good because it means these ideas are cropping up in many different places.

The only time YouTube (or any website) gives me Republican political ads instead of a barrage of the Democratic ones is when I listen to the chief Ukrainian ideologue Arestovich. He’s a brilliant man, speaks beautifully, and has the kind of insight that is sorely lacking in the world since Zygmunt Bauman’s death. I was listening to Arestovich explain why the EU is a doomed project when the video was interrupted by a Ron DeSantis ad.

Folks, oy vey, someone make this go away. I love DeSantis’s policies. He’s amazing. But I don’t think he can win nationally. He has a horrible voice and the charm of a meat grinder. I love the words he’s saying but the voice and the affect are so off-putting, I didn’t listen to the end. Most normies outside of Florida have absolutely no idea who he is. I don’t know how he’ll be able to win them over.

To start your weekend off right, here’s a beautiful video of Ukrainian soldiers coming home from the war and reuniting with their loved ones:

https://twitter.com/volodarskijo/status/1545719245182484480?t=VIc__lfQPz4VexjbWeqnOg&s=19

In spite of the warning that appears on some devices, the content is sensitive only in the way that it gives you the feels.

My news feed is filled with stories of unbelievable bravery of Ukrainians fighting for sovereignty. And every once in a while I come across something like this:

https://twitter.com/williamlegate/status/1545399299084779522?t=R22fUSMGtbSpgOnFR9Hcww&s=19

It’s amazing to think that people would waste their lives on something this pathetic when they’ve been so fortunate as to live in peace and opulence. When I imagine how proud of themselves they are after this pitiful prank, I feel deep compassion for their castrated lives.

These are the famous Ukrainian wheat fields that are symbolized by the lower half of the national flag. Russians are setting them on fire on purpose:

Notice how similar globalists’ actions everywhere are. Putin burns fields while the authorities in Netherlands beat up farmers. I’m not suggesting that they conspired with each other but that they have identical sensibilities. They hate the same things and the same people.

Truly, it’s impossible to lose your mind just a bit. Once it starts, it never ends. Tucker has done a segment on a man in Harlem who sliced another man up with a knife, killing him. The prosecutor did his job and charged the man with murder. Now the jury of his peers will decide if the killing was justified as self-defense. That’s the American way, right? The police arrest, the prosecutors charge, the lawyers defend, the judges preside, and the juries decide. If you are on the law & order side of the political equation, you should be happy that the old criminal justice system keeps churning along.

But Tucker decided to take the anti-conservative position that the prosecutor should have usurped the duties of the jury and decided to not charge the killer with anything. Why? Because he has a heart-warming immigrant story and he says he acted in self-defense.

This is exactly the kind of thinking that is destroying Chicago. The prosecutors refuse to bring charges. Because the suspect had a hard life, because the suspect says the victims started shooting first, because this, because that. There’s always an excuse to keep putting people back in the street where they continue to re-offend.

Finally, there’s a prosecutor in Harlem who doesn’t think it’s his job to enact social policy. And instead of celebrating this small victory for limited powers and people simply doing their jobs, we start attacking them from the conservative side.

I never imagined I’d see Tucker effectively justify the prosecutorial misconduct of the Chesa Boudin variety. But here he is.

Apparently, in the 1960s in the UK, when people wanted to say something like “suck it up” or “get over yourself,” they’d say “hard cheese.”

I think it’s really pretty. I now also feel like having some cheese.