The Free World is Developing Eastern Bloc Political Culture

That dangerous senile idiot, screaming and ranting, tells us one thing that really matters: America’s ruling class is obsessed with punishment. It wants, more than anything else, to hurt its critics. There’s nothing in it but id and appetite, unmoderated by consciousness. It’s like a furious Roomba, bumping into opposition and then slamming into opposition to harm it for being there. Stop existing, furniture!

The Biden thing is barely a person, at this point. It’s just a drugged-up container of entitled rage.

There is no opposition party to speak of, as the high school drama club response suggests. Also, please hear me sigh heavily enough to run out of air and pass out at this:

But the out-of-body experience was watching the alleged reaction, as the political witness class leaped to its feet to applaud.

The sewage box is suggesting that Peggy Noonan compared Ranty McShouty to Harry Truman, but let us pass over this possibility in aggressive silence. Seen here: actual footage of MSNBC panelists reacting to a Joe Biden speech:

The punitive tone and themes, the degradation of opposition, the synchronized overpraise: deeply familiar, and not from America.

At the moment American government is transitioning to screaming at dissidents and group-applauding a Brezhnevian party hack as he shambles around at the top of the political ranks, Canada is screaming a warning at the world. The Canadian government proposes to imprison people for mean tweets — and to subject critics to house arrest if they’re suspected of future thoughtcrime. I encourage you to give some time to this discussion from Trish Wood about the extremely dangerous Online Harms Act, which comes from a perspective that’s both well to my left and very welcome at this moment of cultural nosedive-level decline. “Free Speech is Dying in Canada,” the discussion is titled.

It’s dying everywhere, in a casual assault on the culture of freedom.

What a repulsive figure this man is.