I’ve been quiet for the last few days. There’s a simple reason: there hasn’t been much to write about. I couldn’t be interested less in Charles III’s coronation. So far I’ve held off from needling some of my anti-monarchy Brit friends about it, the better part of valour, etc.
The partisan squabbling over the debt limit is entertaining in a perverse sort of way. What’s to be said that hasn’t already been said? In the place of the Republicans in Congress would you take Joe Biden’s word that he’d gladly negotiate spending reductions on Tuesday for a debt limit increase today? Statesmanship is a perfectly good argument but what makes anybody think that any of those involved are statesmen? I heard some political positioning to blame any impending recession on the Republicans. Will that work?
Depressing as it is mass shootings are a daily occurrence now. Nobody has any practical solutions for them. We’re not going to ban firearms. Even if we did there are so many of them out there banning them would do little good. Will we ban shopping malls? How about schools? The underlying problems are anger and attitude and, especially, mental illness.
The spring counter-offensive in Ukraine is beginning to look more like a summer counter-offensive. The media narratives are so pervasive I have no idea how anybody really knows what the heck is going on.
The surge at our southern border looks like it will become a torrent. I’ve already made my suggestions but the reality is that any reform worthy of the name to our immigration system involves denying entry to somebody and the further reality is that we’re not prepared for that.
As I’ve written before I think that things are coming to a boil for Joe Biden and, indeed, the rest of us. His age, the economy, immigration, the war in Ukraine, possible prosecution of his son, violence, urban disorder, you name it. It’s going to be a long, hot summer.
