Jaber Borran

Category: Politics

  • Autocracies Thrive on Indifference: A Personal Reflection

    Autocracies thrive on indifference not fear. And autocrats benefit more from those who don’t care than those who are scared. I know this first hand. It’s true that I was only 6 at the time of the revolution in Iran that ultimately toppled the Pahlavi regime and handed the reins of power to the Islamic…

  • Put Your Money Were Your Mouth Is

    Over a year ago, when I used to vent a lot about Elon Musk’s heavy involvement in the Trump administration, shutting down many government oversight agencies that had active investigations against him or his companies (estimated at around 70% of all the affected agencies), a good friend of mine made a comment that I should…

  • Reflecting on the Reflecting Pool

    U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro moved to dismiss a felony vandalism indictment against the former U.S. Olympic canoeist David Hearn. Her office stated the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool damage was due to a botched contractor installation, not vandalism. This is after so much fanfare and headline-grabbing statements in press conferences by Pirro assuring that there was…

  • The SAVE Act

    I had previously quoted a professor of mine that if someone offers you an oversimplified solution to a complex problem, either they are a fool, or they are taking you as a fool. The SAVE act is a very good example of the scenario in that quote. I will explain, but let me start by…

  • Not Just a Right, But Also a Responsibility

    To those friends of mine who did not listen to their wiser friends and voted for a lunatic communist Marxist in 2024: I kept telling you that voting is not just a right, but also a responsibility, but you laughed at me and told me things like: “what else? now I am responsible for what…

  • Senate Confirmation Hearings

    I’m tired of seeing the Democratic senators asking, during their confirmation hearings, Trump’s sycophantic nominees for cabinet positions or federal judgeships or other important positions of power, that “who won the 2020 presidential election,” only to hear the rehearsed response that Biden was certified as the president in January 2021, or more recently, even outright…

  • Senator Lindsey Graham

    Death of a person is not something to celebrate, no matter how evil we perceive that person to be. In fact, I am not sure whether anybody can be willingly evil. I believe that to be an illness, like cancer or depression. But that is an entirely different topic for a different time. This post…

  • Bias Blinds

    Sometimes ago, a friend of mine expressed, with awe and astonishment, that during the Iranian uprising of 2009, he had witnessed very smart and knowledgeable colleagues support Ahmadinejad. And wondered how it would be possible for someone capable of solving very complex problems in their field of expertise, to not see through the deceptions and…

  • Hope

    Three things that keep me hopeful about the future of the country, and humanity in general: Long live the King!

  • Shameless Crimes and Coverups, then Name Callings and Deflections

    A large portion of this post is extracted from a recent Talking Feds Substack newsletter. Last Friday, DOJ shipped to the House Judiciary Committee some documents about the Mar-a-Lago prosecution against Donald Trump led by Special Counsel Jack Smith. These are documents that the AG Pam Bondi must have thought would be damning to Jack…