Some Swiss guy named Urs Gehriger interviewed Tucker Carlson. There’s a change of pace! Being a Carlson fanboy of sorts I found the interview fairly interesting. There were no big surprises but the questions and answers were fairly satisfying.
One of my favorite quotes is toward the very end of the interview:
Weltwoche: In general, what gives you hope in a rather worrisome time, looking into the future?
Carlson: That the stakes have suddenly gotten so high that smart people are rethinking their assumptions. I see it all around me. I see people all around me asking themselves, “I used to believe this. Is it still true? Was it ever true? What is the truth?” People are focused on questions of truth and falsehood, I think, much more deeply than they ever have been, and that’s a good thing.
I also see an awakening of spiritual awareness and religious faith in the United States that I think is great. Not everyone is reaching the same conclusions that I’m reaching, but that’s okay. It’s better than thinking that Amazon’s going to make you happy, because Amazon is not going to make you happy, actually. That’s not true. That’s a lie. And more and more people seem to be concluding that it’s a lie, and I think that’s a great thing.
That Tucker Carlson thinks there are “smart people” who are rethinking their positions on important issues might give me some cause for hope. He has access to some of the movers and shakers and maybe there really is a change going on among the elites. I haven’t seen any proof of that. In fact, the exact opposite seems to be the case. The term “doubling down” seems to be the order of the decade. But maybe he can see that starting to happen. At least it leaves a sliver of hope.
“And as the morning light comes streaming in you get up and do it again, amen. – Jackson Browne
As we all live our lives it sometimes seems that the radical changes and disruptions in our society that the Left has instituted must overwhelm the system and everything will come apart at the seams forcing us to abandon normalcy once and for all and take up a new existence as 21st century hunter-gatherers living off the released zoo animals and other feral survivors of a better age. As we struggle to survive, the weak will go to the wall. When cannibalism reappears the hopeless, like John Fetterman, will be the first to go in the pot. And he may have his finest hour as soup or stew.
But what I notice is that despite the almost unending downward spiral of our world, people get up every morning and throw some water on their faces and figure out how to put food on the table and fuel in the oil tank. And somehow, they do it with a laugh and a joke. Now it may be gallows humor for sure. But they still manage to make the joke.
And they’re right. You can’t get through life no matter how bad things get with your teeth perpetually gritted. You can do it for a while. But if you keep it up too long, you’ll go mad. Sure, when the latest atrocity occurs, you’re got to rail against it and shake your fist and maybe say terrible things about your enemies. And maybe some people finally crack and go berserk.
But if you’ve got a wife and kids or even if you don’t, somehow you have to make it to Friday and you have to do all the things that get you there. And more than that you have to somehow find some joy in the world. Unless you’re a Dickensian villain like Uriah Heep or Ebenezer Scrooge grinding through your entire life clutching at thorns without a friend in the world is a fate worse than death. Even a man on death row probably talks to the guards sometimes just to break up the monotony.
And that’s something I rediscovered recently. After the 2020 election I was morose to a remarkable extent. Other than family I couldn’t see what was going to keep this world going for me. Disillusionment with our government was total. I had little interest in day-to-day events and the news from Washington was nauseating. And I think this had a deleterious effect on my peace of mind. Apocalyptic thinking was becoming routine.
But even though things have continued to degrade in our day-to-day life I have had a chance to reflect. Rather than thinking that the world has truly hit some all-time low, what I realize now is that we were formally living in a kind of golden age. And through the foolishness of malicious people, it has been stamped out. And in reality, most of mankind’s existence has been under conditions much, much worse than even this.
If we’re not as free as we once were, at least no one has branded us and sent us to work in the salt mines. We may not be middle class Americans anymore but we haven’t reached North Korea levels of starvation. We’re no longer proud of our leaders and our government but so far inflation hasn’t reached triple digits.
We live under a banana republic but so far, I can still make fun of Dementia Joe and the Keystone Gestapo he employs. No one has dragged me off to the gulag yet. And I seem to have rediscovered my sense of humor.
So yeah, things are bad. As Howard Beale said “We know things are bad – worse than bad. They’re crazy.” But when things are crazy you still have to live and maybe you can laugh at the crazy once in a while, even if you laugh while cleaning up the latest result of the crazy.
Connecticut is demonstrating how absentee ballot fraud is done on a wholesale basis. A surveillance camera captures a state employee repeatedly dumping batches of absentee ballots into a drop box. And the Democrat state officials look decidedly uncomfortable explaining how this impossible thing; voter fraud, could end up on a video feed for all to see. And that’s the wrong part, as far as they’re concerned, the part where they get caught.
Well, from now on I’m looking forward to hearing all the fairy tales that the Democrats are ready to tell. Just a few bad apples, nothing to see here, blah, blah, blah. But this was a Democrat primary and the incumbent was the one who won by the margin in the absentee vote. Will the Democrat who got cheated just roll over? Should be very interesting.
We've seen the video, and now we know who it was stuffing a bag full of ballots into a ballot box:
"A video obtained by the Gomes campaign allegedly shows a city employee and Mayor Joe Ganim supporter stuffing white envelopes into an absentee ballot drop box."
Christopher Rufo has made a ten minute video claiming to define the current psychopathology of the Left as the “Cluster B Society.” It describes four different personality disorders that taken together allow for the phenomena that we see at work in the world today. And being an academic he is able to draw the clearest examples from the college campus where narcissists, border-line personalities, sociopaths and hysterics have indeed captured the campus and established their own stable institutions that everyone else there must endure.
I don’t find myself competent to judge the accuracy or the importance of the details that Rufo is using to prove his thesis about the particular personality types that he points to in this video. But the overall effect that he describes is familiar to everyone who has lived through the last ten years. The feminized and hysterics-driven environment we find ourselves in is all too clear to those of us who grew up in a much saner world.
I’m not sure who is the audience for this video. Maybe those with a grounding in psychology. Even lacking that background I found it interesting. But I’m not sure how it can be used to change the problem. But I acknowledge that Rufo might find this explanation for the dysfunctional campus useful for someone like himself who is attempting to purge a particular college of its shrieking madwomen. Kudos to him for that.
American culture has been sent adrift. In a new short film, I show how a strange new pattern of psychopathologies has deranged our institutions and plunged our public life into hysteria, narcissism, and moral theatrics—all in the name of "care."
John Fetterman, the brain-damaged hobo-senator from the great state of Pennsylvania will now be allowed to wear his trademarked ensemble of thuggish “hoody” and grimy gym shorts into the “august” senate chambers from now on.
And logically it makes sense. Now his appearance and his utterances will match. They will both portray the experience someone would get when approached by a deranged homeless man on the streets of Philadelphia. Kudos to Chuck Schumer for this intelligent bit of stagecraft. The US Senate is now a richer performance space because of his clever change. Now all they have to do is eliminate the ordinances on lice and fleas.
“The U.S. Senate will no longer enforce a dress code for members of the upper house elected by those they serve. “However, others entering the chamber must comply with the dress code. Coats/ties for men. Business attire for women,” tweeted Chad Pergram, Fox News senior congressional correspondent.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., quietly sent the directive to the Senate’s sergeant at arms, news website Axios reported. The change allows Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., to continue to wear his trademark hooded sweatshirts and gym shorts while working for Americans.”
Walsh provides a concise and compelling answer to the “trans community” as to why we’re fed up with them and have no sympathy for them anymore. Well done.
"You came after our children. You seek to suck them into your suicide cult just to make yourself feel better. You want my children to share in your confusion so that you can feel better. And you wonder why that makes me angry." pic.twitter.com/Tdfkw54b8W
