Blazingcatfur

We’ve entered an age of delusion, impossible longings, and ritual self-mutilation.

Asked whether she could provide a definition of the word “woman,” Ketanji Brown Jackson, Supreme Court nominee, magna cum laude at Harvard and graduate of Harvard Law, seemed perplexed: “I’m not a biologist,” she observed. Yet we are told by Jeremi Carswell, a specialist in the field, that children know perfectly well which of many genders they wish to grow up to be “from the moment that they have any ability to express themselves.”

During the 2020 pandemic, because of safety concerns, San Francisco took draconian measures to keep adults apart and children out of school, even as it promoted and protected the use of dangerous drugs by a large homeless population. That year, 257 San Franciscans died from the virus, while the number of overdose deaths climbed to 697.

I remembered this essay from 2024 and it seems even more appropriate in light of events. We face an enemy that is willing to kill to protect its delusions.

President Donald Trump issued his most explosive remarks yet following the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, blaming the ‘radical left’ for obstructing national healing and explicitly calling for billionaire Democratic donor George Soros to be jailed under racketeering laws.

In a phone interview with NBC News, Trump said he hopes the country can recover from the shock of Kirk’s killing but swiftly shifted blame to political opponents.

‘I’d like to see it [the nation] heal. But we’re dealing with a radical left group of lunatics, and they don’t play fair and they never did.’

The day after Charlie Kirk was killed, an acquaintance of Tyler Robinson’s posed a question to him in a group chat.

The F.B.I. had just released two grainy surveillance images of a skinny young man in a cap and sunglasses walking in a stairwell on the Utah Valley University campus, and had asked for the public’s help in identifying the suspect.

Tagging Mr. Robinson’s username on Discord, a messaging platform, the acquaintance attached the images and wrote “wya” — where you at? — with a skull emoji, suggesting that Mr. Robinson, 22, looked like the man being sought.