Subscribe to Peak Stupidity's financial newsletter (NOT!)
Posted On: Sunday - December 28th 2025 10:41AM MST
In Topics: Scams
You know how Peak Stupidity has our ears to the ground about the big picture of Global Financial Stupidity*, right? It's the peak of this particular stupidity that we reckon will cause all stupidity to decline, barring a turn toward Communism.
Shouldn't you be a subscriber to our financial newsletter then?
We kid. There is, and will be, no financial newsletter. Anyone who know so much about the near future of stocks, bonds, commodities, etc., one of those After-the-fact Explainers, really would be better off keeping it to himself to make more money on those trades.
In our review of the Strauss & Howe books we mentioned a clever financial newsletter scam in the context of making predictions. I wish I'd thought of it, not because I want to scam people out of their money, but just because it's a clever simple mathematical idea I SHOULD HAVE thought of. It's also an idea just made for the internet age, having been almost infinitely more costly in the age of paper letters and postage.
Here's what you** do: You send out a series of 10 emails to a million recipients that deign to demonstrate for the them how well your financial eNewsLetter predicts moves in the market. OK, well, maybe you send them to 100 million people, as (hopefully) not one in 100 people are clicking on this crap in this day and age. (You can see why email beats the living out of letters with postage.) The predictions you make are binary, as in, this stock WILL rise this week, or this commodity will fall next Tuesday. If you do give numbers, you make them over a fairly wide range.
You write a simple little program that tailors these emails. Let's take 10 separate financial predictions that your advertisement for your pricy eNewsLetter predicts over a series of 10 emails to each recipient. Every combination of rise/fall for the first prediction is covered, so that's 10 different initial emails, with hopefully a million or so (just a very rough ballpark #) of each being read. Now, you've got 1/2 of these recipients a bit impressed that you "got it right" with your prediction by next week. The set of ad emails sent next week only go out to the 1/2 of the recipients to whom you had sent the correct prediction last week. Again, computers would be very helpful in this endeavor.
1/4 of your original set have now read ad emails that got 2 market calls right, one week after the next. That's better than the average Jim on CNBC. By now, some may already decide to subscribe. Wait until it's 1/32 of the recipients who have seen that you got "all" 5 predictions correct! They'll be signing up. Even if it takes 10 predictions in a row to get these recalcitrant losers off their asses, that's 1/1024 of your original list, still maybe a (very rough, cause SPAM folders) thousand people who totally believe in your system. Hell, why not buy a lifetime subscription of $1,800?! I mean, you're gonna save over the annual rate, and you'll be SO RICH that the $1,800 will be peanuts to you.
Another way to go might be to put all 10 predictions in one advertising email, with your software inserting all the combinations to make 1,024 different emails. Stretch the predictions to a month time-frame, and by the end of that, they'll be begging for your eNewsLetter. Dang, I wish I could do this with blog posts...
PS: Our posts may be coming few and far between this week, as, per my comment under the previous post, I am without the normal electronics temporarily. Some hotels have decent desktop computers on which one can save images and everything. This one has inop CTRL keys, which explains why you may see only the one topic key for a while.
* There are also many more related posts with the subject with the Economics and Inflation topic keys too.
** By "you", we mean here, "you people in Bangalore or Bombay".
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The TSA - A word to the wise
Posted On: Saturday - December 27th 2025 11:10AM MST
In Topics: US Police State
Apparently, it's NOT OK to say "this is kinda faggy" when being felt up by an OFFICER of the TSA.
Though Stupidity is our Core Competency here, we feel it incumbent upon us to occasionally provide some of that "News You Can Use". That was such.
Our file photo below - supplied purely as clickbait - from this old post, shows a somewhat parallel situation but even worse. I.e., I don't think the TSA guy in my case was gay, but I probably wouldn't have been kicked out to another checkpoint if he had been... Just sayin'... queue up Third Rate Romance, Low-Rent Rendevoux.
Nope, no Humor tag today.
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Merry Christmas from Peak Stupidity
Posted On: Thursday - December 25th 2025 9:39PM MST
In Topics: Music Bible/Religion Holiday from Stupidity
A friend of mine recommends Johnny Mathis' Oh Holy Night as his favorite Christmas song ever.
Now, here's Enya with Adeste Fedeles. I hadn't known that she even sang Christmas songs. The New Age music she is famous for was/is part of a movement that goes in a different direction, religiously. In this case, one can pick up some Latin, a whole lot easier to understand than whatever she sang in - Klingon, was it? - in some of the best of her Shepherd Moon and Memory of Trees days.
Then, I'm still partial to John Lennon's Happy Christmas. No matter what you think of the guy's politics (he hasn't been with us since 45 years ago), this is a great one.
Peak Stupidity will be really slow in posting for about a week, starting... right now... actually earlier today.
PS: Finally, because, Spirit of Christmas Present(s), I like this headline: Lawyer Wins Legal Battle With Homeowners Association Over Christmas Display – Uses Settlement Money to Buy More Lights. Ha, I have not heard of too many good experiences with Home Owners Associations, and maybe William Shakespeare was wrong. First, let's not kill ALL the lawyers. I like this guy's spirit!
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Strauss & Howe - Generations and The Fourth Turning
Posted On: Wednesday - December 24th 2025 7:00PM MST
In Topics: Music History The Future Books Muh Generation
(Continued from Strauss & Howe - Generational Theory.)
Here's a little bit of psychology of memory to chew on: Do all people use location to pin down their memories and even thoughts? I have found that I usually remember when I read a book, or even when I had a certain important thought, by where I was at the time. For this post, I was trying to pin down when I read these books to be reviewed first. I got a pretty good idea this way.
Where I lived at the time is important, but it was a wider range than I wanted. I know that I first took out William Strauss & Neil Howe's book Generations; The History of America's Future, 1584 to 2069 in the mid/late 1990s. The book was published in '91, but I took it out of the library later, going by where I was and what I was generally doing then. I can pin it down to '97 because that's when I realized the www was becoming a big thing, and this is related to my thoughts after reading the book. Hey, if it works - easier than Michael Scott's technique (go to 02:55).
The book was interesting enough that I recall I took out their 2nd book (from '96), The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy—What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny soon afterwards. OK, that was fun, but, wait a minute, what is this crisis of which you speak? Crisis, what crisis? (Yes, a Supertramp song is long overdue on Peak Stupidity.)
Hell, in '97 I didn't see how we could even be in an Unraveling "turning". I mean, the internet was the next big American-made thing, and everything important with it was going on in America. The President at the time, Bill Clinton, being nothing but a pussy-hound and lover of power, didn't really have the kind of destructive ideals that one can see in the ctrl-left of today. Congress had him somewhat restrained, the Hildabeast was back in the Whitehouse kitchen baking cookies, and politically, things were still under control. Economically, the Globalists were in the process of outsourcing manufacturing to China, but this was early on. Things did not look bad at all 28 years ago, but I was 28 years younger too, it so happens.
By chance, I found one of these 2 books, I'm pretty sure The Fourth Turning, at the library in the early '00s, with that time not being so easy to pin down - say somewhere from '05 to '08. The funny part here is that I took the book out from the library with no recollection of my having read it or its companion book before until I was a chapter or so into it! Anyway, upon this reading, well, yeah, I could see how we were in a late-3rd or early 4th turning alright. That made the books seem pretty dang prescient. Remember, Strauss & Howe got the first one, Generations, published in '91, now over a third of a century back. "Hey, this saecula, turnings, and archetype crap just might work!" I figured. OTOH, was it just luck though?
I've been involved before with people who were into horoscopes. All manner of things can be explained by various and sundry movements in the night sky, and what, with the stars, planets, sun, moon, hell, maybe asteroids now, how you are doing can be "determined" on a daily, if not hourly, basis due to what's up there, depending on what or who is in conjunction with Uranus at the moment. The Chinese, with their 12-year cyclical calendar, are on a much longer time-scale with their Year of the Whatever silliness. What year you are born (within a lunar, not Gregorian calendar) supposedly has something to do with something. Really, the Chinese way is: so long as you get into a good school and buy a house with a view of some water, NOBODY CARES!
As I wrote in the previous post, there's a whole lot to this Generational Theory. There are many concepts explained that don't involve anything like astrological or Chinese silliness.
Firstly, let me bring back that note about the whole theory being made to fit Anglo-American history. Oooops, well, though immigration was brought up, IIRC, it was not in a critical fashion, just that some of the disunity during the current (at the time of writing) UNRAVELING involved that issue as one of many. No kidding, it's an issue! The thing is, if America has changed its demographics this much, does Strauss & Howe's Generational Theory mean anything? Should they write revisions for some one-third Hispanic/other foreigner saecula? Let's get past that for now, as otherwise this review would be over!
It could become somewhat tedious for the reader of these books, but I think many readers would really like that the examples of this cyclic history are thorough - each saeculum is covered, and each turning within is discussed, from the 1400s to the present, with some near future predictions based on the theory. The archetypes are explained thoroughly, and each named generation - all 25 of them - are covered, with discussion of how they fit their archetypes. The birth years of these cohorts are laid out, which is kind of nice if wants to know exactly what "muh generation" is. As I wrote, and as one can see in the big table shown in the last post, it's all very neat and tidy.
The examples, well, those are where I'll start getting critical. Peak Stupidity has mentioned this Strauss&Howe cherry-picking before, so we're FINALLY getting to it here in the very book review. The examples of why this turning occurred on schedule, how this generation became the type of people they are, all that is reliant on snippets of the culture at the time. Often, especially recently, since there's so much more documentation, it's pop culture references that are used. See, the G.I. Generation was permissive with their children, as noted by these couple of quotes by these politicians, these movie lines, these lyrics in the popular songs.
The problem with this is that millions of quotes, movie lines, song lyrics, etc. can be found every year to explain ANYTHING. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure it was fun for the writers, and for the readers it rings very true if one lets it. I imagine the writers believed they were on the right track, but one could find quotes, movie lines, song lyrics, etc. to prove exactly the opposite for every turning and generation. In this way, it's not THAT unlike horoscope predictions and that time we (with a girlfriend) went to that fortune teller one day, and man, how'd she know all that?! This all reminds me of that financial newsletter email scam that I really wish I'd thought of. (I'll put that in another quick post.)
Another problem with the entire "Muh g-g-g-generation" thing is, again with another post coming, that the scores of millions of people in each of these generation do NOT all think alike. Even if you just discuss the generalities, when it comes to politics, no, not all Boomers voted for this and not all the Millennials voted for that. On important issues, 60-40% is considered overwhelming. Yet, that's 4 in 10 people born in those years that are NOT like this (whatever).
I wrote in the previous post that I don't have these books on me as I write. In this review then, I may have missed a few things I didn't like, but one big one just came to me (see, my memory can be pretty good at times). These two writers are big Statists. In all their discussion of the history with their examples to back up the theory, government seems to be a factor in way too much of it. I could see that being the case for the last couple of generations with this Feral Beast we are subject to, but that was certainly not always the case. Many American lived their lives without dealing with the US Gov't at all for much of the history of the country. The examples in these books lean way to heavily on what this government department did and how this election went and so on. Nah, there's been a whole lot more to life, affecting the raising of children and other aspects that have "made" the archetypes and turnings what they were that have NOTHING to do with government. As a part-time Libertarian, this was a big turn-off for me.
Back to the prescient predictions of this Fourth Turning, now, I doubt any Peak Stupidity readers would deny that America is in some kind of Crisis stage. These books are fair, or they are hedging, in that they note that not every Crisis stage will end up in a new First Turning HIGH. It may be that the country just goes a different direction, as in, it all ends. In that case, Strauss & Howe will have still not been wrong... so there's that...
I may get ahold of The Fourth Turning yet again, just to see what matches what between 1996 and 2026. I can't expect specifics about smart phones, AI, and the like from 30 years back, but I'm curious if much of the predictions about the now-already-passed UNRAVELLING turning and this current CRISIS turning at least conform to the theory with the set up we got: You've got your Baby Boomer Prophets in old age, as your 13th Generation Nomads are in mid-life "running"(?) things, your Millennial Heroes (I know, right?) are in Young Adulthood, and those Homeland Generation Artists, none of them born yet during the writing of The Fourth Turning, are mostly done being born and are from toddlers to college students.
It's thoughtful and fun. It's probably a bunch of hooey. No matter what, you'll get a little bit of history out of these books, and if you don't realize we're in a CRISIS by now, you
Now, since I read and wrote "Nomads", I've got a song in my head from earlier that decade I first read these books. This Nomad archetype was enjoying Indigo Girls music, before and after they had to be known as Lesbians. The following song from their excellent Nomads, Indians, Saints album has a really great melody and a good acoustical guitar riff with great harmony with lyrics from the title, AND it kind of fits all this heavy thinking.
Here you go...
I'm coming home with a stone strapped onto my back.
I'm coming home with a burning hope turning all my blues to black.
I'm looking for a sacred hand to carve into my stone,
a ghost of comfort, angel's breath,
to keep this life inside my chest.
This world falls on me.
Dreams of immortality.
Everywhere I turn
the beauty just keeps shaking me...
The Indigo Girls were (basically):
Emily Saliers
Amy Ray (lead singer on this song)
PS: Don't forget that William Strauss & Neil Howe, wrote these 3 other books based on their Generational Theory: Abort, Retry, Ignore, Fail?, written with also one R.J. Matson) back in 1993, Millennials Rising: The Next Great Generation*, written by William Strauss only in 2000 and The Fourth Turning Is Here: What the Seasons of History Tell Us about How and When This Crisis Will End from just 2 years, back, '23) written by Neil Howe only. Mr. Strauss died 18 years ago. I'll have to check out these books.
I'm sorry, no offense to William Strauss or that whole generation of upcoming HEROES, but this is an excerpt from the goodreads site by reviewer Lesley Reed on Millennials Rising:
A sampling of their potential influence in this decade: pop music will become more melodic and singable and sitcoms more melodramatic and wholesome; there will be a new emphasis on manners, modesty, and old-fashioned gender courtesies; and they'll resolve the long-standing debates about substance abuse. "They will rebel against the culture by cleaning it up, rebel against political cynicism by touting trust, rebel against individualism by stressing teamwork, rebel against adult pessimism by being upbeat, and rebel against social ennui by actually going out and getting a few things done."Wait, WUT?
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Strauss & Howe - Generational Theory
Posted On: Tuesday - December 23rd 2025 7:11PM MST
In Topics: History The Future Books Muh Generation
It's about damn time ... for a book review of 2 books I read in the late 1990s and early '00s! This is also long in coming in that I've written probably a half dozen times here on Peak Stupidity that I'd have a review of the books, Generations and The Fourth Turning, errrr, any day now. (They go together, and there are now 3 other books I believe, that these authors, or one of them, have written on the same subject that I haven't read.) Today is that day ... well, bleeding into tomorrow too.
Is it feasible to do a book review of 2 books I've read a couple of times 20 and nearly 30 years ago? In this case, I think so. The main and very interesting theme of these books is very well known at this point, explained well on this wiki page on "Generational Theory" for your or my reference. Therefore, in this post, I'll do my best to explain that simply, and in at least one further post, I'll review the books. Keep in mind, that, as interesting as all this is, I am not really down with the whole idea, and the book review will not be all favorable.
Strauss & Howe's big idea is that the history and future history of the Anglo, British and then American*, people, can be described not as a linear progression, but as a cyclic process. I would describe it as a spiral, as there's no contention by these writers that things return, economically, politically, etc. to their same state after each cycle, but we'll use the terminology that's in the books. There's LOTS of terminology in these very organized view of the cycles, the 4 periods ("turnings") within each cycle, and the 4 different archetypical peoples of the different generations that are each in 1 of 4 stages of life progression during each. Whewww! Don't worry - there are lots of tables.
It's so neatly tied up that there are people that seem to take this series of books, or say Generational Theory, as their bible. One I recall is the pundit Jim Quinn, featured on ZeroHedge still (after my seeing him on there over a dozen years ago too) with writing from his Burning Platform blog. (I generally agree with his views.) Steve Bannon is also said to be an acolyte. Another reason one might think of these books as some sacred texts is that if he had read them soon after they were published, they would seem pretty darned prescient at this point or even 20 years ago. I'll get to this in the review.
Again, you could just read the wiki page, but I hope the reader will get this quick summary and use the wiki page for more reference.
Here's the gist of Strauss & Howe's Generational Theory: The cycles of Anglo-American history, or "saecula", are about 85 years long, a long human lifespan. Each of them contains 4 roughly generation-long (21 1/4 year average) periods within called "turnings", a term that is unfortunately confusing. One would think that turnings would be the short periods when society goes from one of these 4 periods to the next, but a 'turning" IS the period itself, hence the name of the 2nd book I read. There are 4 TYPES of turnings only, Highs, Awakenings, Unravellings, and Crises**, but each individual turning is named and associated with a generation, such as Baby Boom generation, that name referring to the people born during that 20-odd year period, during the Great Depression and WWII crisis. That "Boomer" generation was probably the first widely known by a name, well before these books, but Messrs Strauss & Howe got pretty creative in naming the 25 generations from WAY BACK WHEN to today's infants. That's half a Millenia worth of generations.
Back to the saecula, they are all named too, going back to before the Reformation, yes, THAT Reformation. The start of this known cyclic history (?) is the last 2 turnings of the Late Medieval Saeculum going back to the year 1435. The authors just describe the Unraveling Turning, named Retreat from France, and the Crisis Turning, named War of the Roses.
The Reformation Saeculum is the only one that completely took place in the Old World still, England, that is. Within that one, just as one example (the rest being in the tables) there were these generations in the corresponding turnings: The Reformation Generation (has a nice ring to it) was born roughly during the Tudor Renaissance HIGH turning. By "roughly", I don't mean the generation in question had a hard time coming through their respective birth canals here, but the periods when the different generations were born correspond roughly, but not exactly, to the turnings to which they are attached in the tables.
Next, there were the Reprisal Generation, born during the Protestant Reformation AWAKENING turning, the Elizabethan Generation, born during the Counter-Reformation Reaction and Marian Restoration UNRAVELING turning, and the Parliamentary Generation, born during the Armada Crisis, well CRISIS turning. Not all the names of the generations are so political in nature, BTW.
These turnings (periods, remember) and generations are so far back in history that it's difficult for anyone but a Historian of Britain to make sense of it, so I'll do the same for the most recent COMPLETED saeculum - that'd be the Great Power Saeculum, which went on from 1865 to 1946. I'll phrase it differently in case that helps, but I'll also add in the "archetype" for each generation, something we'll get to shortly.
The HIGH turning, the Reconstruction***, Gilded Age (1865 - 1886), was the period, approximately, when the Missionary Generation (of Prophet archetype) were born (1860 - 1885). The AWAKENING turning, the Missionary Awakening/Progressive Era (1886 - 1908), was when the Lost Generation (of Nomad archetype) were born (1883 - 1900). The UNRAVELING turning, World War I, Roaring Twenties, Prohibition (1908 - 1929), was when the G.I. Generation (of Hero archetype) were born (1901 - 1924). The final, CRISIS turning of the Great Power Saeculum was The Great Depression, World War II (1929 - 1946), when the Silent Generation (of Artist archetype) were born (1925 - 1942).
About the archetypes now, the theory is that the mentality, I guess one could put it, of the many generations in history changes in a cyclic fashion too, and among 4 archetypes. The archetypivity, if I may, is both the cause of the direction of society during the turnings in which they live and is determined by the stages of life (again of 4 stages - so very neat and organized!) that these "cohorts" in a generation undergo during each turning of their lives. (So, go the turnings of their lives, goes the old American
In this way, with both causation and effect being functions of these many generations' stages of life as the cyclic societal periods go by, Strauss & Howe distance their theory from a basic long-term horoscope.
Strauss & Howe made a great effort to explain why people born during certain types of periods (turnings), and not just that, but are young adults during other certain periods, in midlife during others, and old during others, act as they do, generally. (This theory is not a big complex high-brow horoscope - that should be duly noted on the back covers of the books.) Note that "generally" I wrote - Strauss & Howe are not absolutists, but still, in the review, I'll explain a couple of reasons the pigeonholing of people into named generations is generally bunk.
What these writers are very common-sensical about is that they don't draw out solid round-numbered years for the saecula, turnings, and generations. There's some shrinking and stretching of the periods to match history, and I don't see that as cheating. As one real off-theory exception, the Civil War Saeculum has its 4 turnings but with only 3 generations attached. This saeculum is only 72 years long. It's Nomad-archetype Gilded Generation is followed by the Artist-archetype Progressive Generation, with no Hero-archetype generation in between. I give them credit for making it all fit and for seeing and dealing with an appropriate exception to their neat 4-of-everything theory.
That small table, taken from the wiki page, shows one aspect of society that is said to be changing through each saecula, ending up at the same level at the same turning every time around. The book presents many more aspects. All are explained by the presence of the 4 different archetypes of people being in their certain stages of life at the time. Permissiveness of parents is one example. Because society is like "this" during an Awakening, the Artist parents are more permissive, and their Nomad kids grow up to be like "this", which means that in the next turning, "this" will happen, etc. It goes on like that, everything is neat cycles of history.
I'll leave the big table below for the reader to peruse. If this Generational Theory developed by Strauss & Howe seems too hokey already, you can stop here. Our review will appear tomorrow, hopefully, if you want to know more to decide whether these books might be good reading.
* The reader may already see a problem with this theory coming into play right here. If these book are to predict the future of THESE people, how does that work after the massive immigration changes to our demographics? We'll get to this in the review.
** The authors make a comparison of the 4 turnings of a saeculum to seasons of the year. A High is compared to Spring, an Awakening to Summer, an Unraveling to Fall, and a Crisis to Winter.
*** I don't at all see the so-called "Reconstruction" of the South being any part of a HIGH, not for anyone involved!
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Creedence Clearwater Revival - Up Around the Bend
Posted On: Saturday - December 20th 2025 10:58PM MST
In Topics: Music
Well, I got mostly done with the 1st post of a couple on (FINALLY!) the Strauss & Howe books and their Generational Theory, but it's getting late, and I am not ready to mash [Submit].
We'll therefore go back to an old Peak Stupidity practice of putting random great Rock or Pop songs up. Creedence Clearwater Revival, from El Cerrito, California (across the bay from San Francisco) was one of the best of the best rock bands of the best era in Rock. Under this name*, CCR made 5 great albums in the 2 years, 1969 and 1970, and 7 albums during the years '68 - '72. They were short-lived but made much music that was the soundtrack to a generation. (We'll get to that "muh generation" stuff next week.)
(Goin') Up Around the Bend is my all-time favorite from this band. It's 2 minutes and 45 seconds of great guitars and vocals by, IMO, the guy with the best voice ever in Rock history, John Fogerty
CCR was:
John Fogerty - lead vocals and lead guitar
Tom Fogerty - rhythm guitar
Stu Cook - bass guitar
Doug Clifford - drums
The other band members sang back-up vocals and occasionally lead vocals too.
No, we haven't been as productive as CCR this week, but we'll have the Strauss & Howe posts and various and sundry stupidity posts next one. Thanks so much for reading and writing in, Peakers. Happy Sunday.
* They played since the end of the 1950s as first The Blue Velvets and then The Golliwogs before becoming CCR.
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Discriminatory Neighborhood Watch signage
Posted On: Thursday - December 18th 2025 11:05PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Lefty MegaStupidity University Race/Genetics
This one's no big news, just some general stupidity that we run into every day.
It's really pretty non-discriminatory and welcoming, to non-criminals of different ethnicities.
Instapundit linked me to the following from a site called MLive, "M" for Michigan, I gotta assume: Here’s why ‘Neighborhood Crime Watch’ signs in Ann Arbor are going away. Ann Arbor is not just a college town, it's one of the very biggest, the college, that is. The University of Michigan has 53 1/2 thousand students.
Somewhat coincidentally, I came upon another MLive page about UM enrollment near the top of my search for that. Undergraduate enrollment is up 3% from last year, while grad student enrollment, composed of the bulk of foreign students, is down. Guess why. Guess who, more like it:
International students have been subject to increased scrutiny by the federal government. In April, the Donald Trump administration revoked visas or legal residencies over 20 international UM students and graduates.Ha. Gotta up that game, but that was a valiant effort... something completely O/T of my post here though*, other than, yeah, it's a college town, so you're gonna get some really unintelligent, stupid stuff happening quite often.
The federal administration restored the records of those students and graduates, officials said in an April 28 update.
We can't blame the foreigners for this bit. It's usually local people, as these college towns often have many hangers-on, people who can't get themselves to leave. They don't change their views from that indoctrinated university mindset. City councils go far left. I had a landlady long ago who told me that November to make sure and vote the local Commies out of office. I was glad to try to help her, but the place was truly hopeless.
Oh, this post is about "Neighborhood Watch" signs. I remember them. There was a point to these, back 25 years ago, before the age of ubiquitous cameras. Though the signs do make it seem like there is some sort of camera involved, nah ... The program, I assume having spread all over the country since it was started by the National Sheriff's Association in 1972, involved residents actually getting together in person and arranging their own watches of the neighborhood to prevent burglaries and maybe worse.
Perhaps by at least a decade ago**, all that's been left of most Neighborhood Watch programs has been the signs. At some point, criminals figured out they mean nothing. As a lady in the article stated, the signs are like furniture - I could not tell you where any of them are near me, even were there a dozen of them. So, OK, take them down. This will prevent eye clutter, hopefully cut down a few instances of vehicular damage involving Chinese grad students, and, from my quick calculation, the 5-10 tons of scrap steel would net the City of Ann Arbor ~$500 - $1000.
"That's very reasonable, so where does this get stupid?", you ask, reasonably. Here:
Neighborhood watch programs emerged in the 1970s during a period of national anxiety about crime and social change, but research shows they don’t reduce crime and often reinforce racism, council stated in a resolution.This is called "showing one's ass." That's technical terminology for which I felt obligated to go to (very appropriately here) this Urban Dictionary page. The bolded part of the definition is what I'm getting at:
“These programs were often rooted in assumptions about who did and did not ‘belong’ in a neighborhood, reinforcing race-based hyper-vigilance and suspicion particularly toward Black, Brown, and other marginalized residents and visitors,” it states.
“This dynamic encouraged informal surveillance practices that disproportionately targeted people of color and contributed to patterns of exclusion under the guise of public safety.”
... making yourself look like a jackass or an asshole, being a dick. embarrassing yourself or the people you are with in public or in front of other people, usually by doing something socially unacceptable. exposing your true colors in a negative way, also, having a nasty attitude in a public setting.The Neighborhood Watch program was unwelcoming to criminals. I'm sure you'd have read NOTHING about black and brown people. "Marginalized residents"? Well, if that means burglars and murderers, yes, the idea was to keep these people outside the margins of the Neighborhood Watch zones. "Yeah, we had to marginalize some folks."
This one gets stupider with every movement of the scroll bar.
But for many other residents and visitors, particularly people of color, the signs are very visible and the message they send is not one of welcome, but of suspicion, [City CouncilwomanThis statement had an obvious implication that it's these "people of color" who are the criminals. Yes, you're showing your asses here, Jen Eyer and the rest of the Ann Arbor City CouncilPeople. This story comes across as downright Babylon Beesque.KarenJen] Eyer said.
The self-defense shooting of Travon Martin in '12 was brought up by these people too.. I'd almost forgotten, but George Zimmerman had kept an eye on young Trayvon as part of his Neighborhood Watch group activities.
The tragedy of Martin being fatally shot by a neighborhood watch volunteer in Sanford, Florida, did not happen in isolation,...No, it happened because young Trayvon was beating Mr. Zimmerman's head onto the concrete.
... Harrison said. It happened in a broader environment that normalized surveillance over relationship and fear over familiarity, she said.They do, and it doesn't. I can't believe people still say that with a straight face.
“Neighborhood watch was built on an old idea that heterogeneous neighborhoods create danger,” she said. “Ann Arbor is built on the understanding that diversity creates strength.”
As a university city, unfamiliar faces are not an exception, they are the norm, Harrison said. People from around the world come here to live, work, study and visit, and the city’s public messaging should reflect that, she said.Having unfamiliar faces as the norm is the opposite of having a community. I'd want to keep a watch on the potential criminals. That's the kind of discrimination that BUILDS communities.
* This and local happenings - yet MOAR building of student housing, I think - does have me thinking of that University Bubble and when it will pop.
** There's still a website up.
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Chile turns blue?
Posted On: Wednesday - December 17th 2025 7:36PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Liberty/Libertarianism Geography Race/Genetics World Political Stupidity
Besides obvious weather jokes here, this title has another point, one that may be a little confusing. A couple of days ago ZeroHedge reported Chile Turns Hard To The Right: Tough-On-Crime, Anti-Immigration Candidate Easily Wins Presidency. One expects ZH commenters to make appropriate corrections, and at least once commenter below the article noted that being against crime and invasions is not necessarily "right" ideologically. It's just right logically and patriotic.
This is not the old "the Right" of Latin America. Peak Stupidity has written before - see Mormons, Commies, Shitholes, and Crown Jewels for one example, that the Latin American countries seem to jump back and forth from Communism to (somewhat) too-far right Caudillo*-led semi-dictatorship regularly. The word "Junta" comes from that neck of the woods. From our post:
Let me tell you about South America, though very generally, and about Venezuela. Back in the 1980's that country was the "crown jewel" of the continent. For various reasons, probably good stuff for another post, all the countries in Latin America has have been run badly for most of their histories. Simon Bolivar was the guy who liberated more than 1/2 the countries in South America from the Spaniards, who were no Magna Carta-drafters or Constitutional scholars themselves. Subsequent to these liberations, the mixed native-Spanish people have been running these semi-shitholes into the ground, pulling them out of the ground and back, in 10 - 50 year cycles. Some have been in the shithole phase for their entire histories so far - bad timing, that, huh? In general, down there, military juntas come and go, Commies take over for long periods, death squads try to get rid of the Commies, along with other people they never did like and so forth.Things have changed somewhat lately. Argentinian President Javier Milei is a Libertarian. You don't see that much down in Latin America, and we continue to wish him good luck with all that...
Now, per ZH, one Jose Kast was just elected President of Chile, and he's another Trump/MAGA acolyte. Love him or
In an election where the decisive themes echoed mounting concerns in the Americas and Europe, a conservative who's vowed to crack down on illegal immigration and crime trounced his Communist opponent in Sunday's presidential election in Chile. The result confirms a major political current that now has many Latin American countries embracing right-wing politics.He won the election 58% to 42% over Communista Jeannette Jara. (Miss Jara declined Peak Stupidity's phone calls.)
Crime weighed heavily in the contest, with 63% of Chileans saying it was their biggest worry. That's about double the global average. Illegal immigration (40%) is the second-biggest concern. The two worries go hand-in-hand, as a 50% surge in murders from 2018 to 2024 is largely the work of international criminal gangs. Chile has more than 300,000 illegal immigrants, many of them Venezuelan.We were there, only in Santiago, unfortunately, back in '18. It's difficult for a Gringo rube to distinguish among Chicanos, but I do have some pictures somewhere of people in a park in that city that looked like they didn't fit in.
At Kast's victory rally, supporters wore red "Make Chile Great Again" hats,...Ah, geeeze!
... Guiding off the inauguration date, he has repeatedly warned illegals of how many days they [have] to self-deport, before his administration kicks them out. Self-deporation, [sic - WTH, ZH?] Kast has said, will give them the opportunity to bring their possessions with them, while avoiding detention. "If you don't leave voluntarily, we will detain you, retain you, expel you, and you'll leave with what you have on," said Kast. Kast's looming victory had already had a striking effect, with wary illegal immigrants surging into Peru ...
... so much so that Peruvian President Jose Jeri declared a state of emergency in late November. Meanwhile, authorities along Chile's border say illegal entries have plummeted.We've commented on this game of illegal alien hot potato before. This is an international version of the game being played down there - that and futeball. I don't blame most of the people for trying to get out of increasingly shitholic places, but I guess you've just got to fix your own places. This ain't the 1800s. Most countries are full enough...
All that written, my real impetus to write this post was the one map below. Peak Stupidity loves our Geography.
Note a quirk here, something the lack of a legend doesn't help with. It looks to me like the left-leaning countries, none dare call them Communist(?) - are depicted in red. The new allegedly right-leaning countries are depicted in blue. Now there's a bit of common sense that you just don't see on maps in this country. For the life of me, most times I STILL have to think "Oh, right, it's backwards... need to flip it around."
This map is based on the leaders of the countries, so it only means so much. The colors may not have much permanence. It is interesting to see Brazil in red, a country that is said to have had its own cheatfest election back in '22. The incumbent Jair Bolsonaro was allegedly beaten by Communist Lula da Silva 50.9 - 49.1%. Mr. Bolsonaro has been given the '21-'24 Trump treatment, this in a country with even less rule-of-law.
Then there's Venezuela (kinda wish we'd just stay away), a basket case, from Crown Jewel only 40 years back. My feeling from talking to people from Columbia is that it's a much better place than during the worst of the drug production years of the 1990s. The Guiana's? Besides the rocket launching site in French Guiana, these places are demographically "unsound"**. I mean, the Jonestown Massacre was probably the best thing that's ever happened in the Guianas!
Bolivia is a mystery, known about or visited by only Los Banditos Yanquis, as far as I know. Paraguay, sure, I can see it being blue, what with the grandsons of Nazis and all residing there. A poor Commie doesn't stand a chance.
Uruguay, well, our report about the place is still coming - sorry about the delay. I just read that in the '24 election, in a run-off just before we visited, one Yamandú Orsi of the Broad Front defeated Álvaro Delgado of the Republican Coalition. The former is also big in the Movement of Popular Participation. OK, if you're in a country with parties named "fronts", expect Communism to arrive any day. The Broad Front and the Movement of Popular Participation. That's extremely Monty Pythonesque. "What ever happened to the Broad People's Popular Front, Reg?" "That's them over there on the side of the building. "Splitters!"
That mural with the whole set of (Steve Sailer-coined) Conquistador-Americans must have been there from before the election. I saw this in Colonia del Sacramento. In Montevideo, I "snapped" the following picture:
Except for the first guy to chime in, I found this pretty refreshing, I mean if you're gonna have graffiti everywhere... which Montevideo most certainly does.
Finally, regarding the map, one could probably extend the red right on up the road, through the Darien Gap ... and on up, bypassing only El Salvador (based on leadership only, remember), right up through
No, that wasn't finally actually. If we're gonna mention the country Chile, we will have to include the weather report. It's a big country north-south-wise, with various micro-climates and large features. I am primarily interested in the weather on January 6th of '14:
* Thanks go to commenter E.H. Hail for his bringing this term to light here. (That's in regard to a certain orange dude.)
** I had an idea that these countries that hardly any Americans know about, and the less the FedGov does the better, would be good bug-out places. The demographics nixed that one.
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Not your Daddy's Gear Jammers
Posted On: Tuesday - December 16th 2025 8:09PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Music California Trump Peak Stupidity Roadshow People's Revolt
From ZeroHedge - Replacement Of American Truckers With Unvetted, Unqualified Migrant Drivers Must Stop. Unvetted? Give me a break!
(NOTE: The excerpts below are all from a different article. We'll discuss the above one later.)
Peak Stupidity has written about the story of the dangerous imported truckers that are plying the roads of America before. We covered a lot of, errr, mileage in our post Sick Sikh "trucker", tribalism, and making hay of it all at the end of this summer. Let me recap, with an addition based on our thoughts from the recent post (of last week) Better Hooverville than Hooverstan - those thoughts are what's been inserted and are in italics:
My next point is that with all the talk of California's and Washington's role in these deaths, along with the immigration system, I don't want to hear about "more vetting", "harder CDL tests", and "reading English"**. Let me put it this way: I wouldn’t care if Sikhs were the best damn drivers in the world. I wouldn’t care if they spoke and read English better than all Americans other than William Safire. I don’t care if they will now be vetted down to the number of times they were put in the RTC (Responsible Thinking Center, aka detention) in elementary school back in the Punjab. I don't care that the traffic is no worse, due to that these guys driving the roads are not adding to the traffic because they are only replacing the other ... American drivers.(!)I won't link to them all, but The Gateway Pundit is good for immigration horror stories such as these, and there have been more publicized horrific wrecks since that post due to incompetent foreign (generally Indian) truckers in Texas, Oregon, and Washington. I'll look at the stories and be somewhat glad - hate to say it in light of the carnage to the innocent motorists involved - that Americans might finally get outraged and some might DO SOMETHING.
They shouldn’t be here to begin with!
In that previous post, it was Ron DeSantis who was doing something about it. He can only make efforts that affect Florida and Florida roads. President Trump, OTOH, CAN affect the whole country. He has been making efforts to get the corrupt, negligent driving schools, CDL issuers of the California government, etc to cease and desist. He's obviously got some good help, as he has been attacking the problem - one that Trump does know is really about that these people are in America to begin with - on various fronts.
This has been more of that administrative action, as the UniParty Congress won't act. One silver lining of the Welfare State we have is that your .org's, .edu's, .gov's, and a bunch of .com's too suckle on Uncle Samantha's teet, one that Trump can pull away from them and turn them into squealing runts.
California Governor Gavin Newscum is one such squealing runt. He doesn't like ...
... the decision by the Department of Transportation (DOT) to hold back $33 million in federal funding for commercial vehicle safety programs because of the state’s decision not to comply with the federal requirements.He doesn't like how...
The English language requirement was reinstated by the DOT in May of this year... and ...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that the United States would pause the issuance of worker visas for commercial truck drivers.... and ...
“We’ve now knocked 9,500 truck drivers out of service for failing to speak our national language—ENGLISH!” Duffy wrote in a Dec. 10 post on X. “This administration will always put you and your family’s safety first.”... and ...
Around 44 percent of the roughly 16,000 truck driving schools in the country could be forced to close.ohhhh, so sad ... and ...
Late in November, the DOT warned that Pennsylvania could lose up to $75 million if the state does not immediately revoke the commercial driver’s licenses (CDLs) issued to foreign nationals and “correct dangerous failures” identified in its CDL program.The latter was about Pennsylvania, and Newscum doesn't care about what Pennsylvania does... or does he? Here's another article from ZeroHedge (originally, The Epoch Times):California Sues Trump Admin Over $33 Million Withheld Due To Trucker English-Proficiency Rules. The Governor of California, probably any governor of California there might be these days, does not even pretend to care about the horrific traffic deaths caused by these incompetent and unprofessional foreigners. As with all of the ctrl-left and the Globalists, they are in this for the destruction of the White Middle Class. This requires changing decent Middle Class careers into low-wage unprofessional labor done by foreigner replacements. Though it's not his State money, Newscum would support Pennsylvania and other States when they do the same. They've got a common goal.
While perusing some other articles searched up with the text string "horrific Indian truck driver wrecks" I had another thought about this travesty. Perhaps this replacement of good American jobs in the trucking business is not ONLY being done for the usual reasons the Population Replacement Programme has been implemented.
Some articles about trucker protests came up. It wasn't the first time truckers have made use of their economic importance en masse, but we all remember the huge and important Canadian anti-mandatory-vax trucker protest in the Winter of '22. For a reminder, here's a PS post from that time - Inspiration from the Canucks, eh?.* (I wondered how many Sikhs were involved - a quick web search says quite a few were.)
That "People's Revolt" up in Ottawa had the whole world watching. Though the protest eventually dispersed, with many involved getting not too much short of the J-6 treatment, it might have scared the Globalists. If you recall, that was the time they promptly changed course to an orthogonal heading, the Infotainment of the Ukraine-Russia war. Do they want foreign replacement truckers in the White countries also so that there will be no more such uprisings? Low-paid foreign non-owner/operator gear jammers are not likely to start or lead such a movement.
We've embedded a couple of trucker songs already, but I'll paste in George Thorogood and his Delaware Destroyers here. From their 40 year-ago Maverick album, this is Gear Jammer:
* See also Tired of Tyranny - Tucker on the Truckers and An optimistic take of the Canadian trucker protest from Timur the Lame, too optimistic, especially wrt Canada, I say in hindsight. In the aftermath, we posted The Semi Fascists O' Canada.
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Don't Cross the River
Posted On: Saturday - December 13th 2025 8:38PM MST
In Topics: Music
... if you can't swim the tide.
I can't leave that nasty BLM woman at the top of the Peak Stupidity site for the rest of the weekend.
My favorite America song isn't Sister Golden Hair, one we featured last Saturday. It's very short, but Don't Cross the River, also from half a century ago, is my favorite.
The live version is slower than what I've been used to and doesn't have the banjo. Here's the album version.
Enjoy a restful Sunday, Peakers. Thanks for reading what little we've had lately. Next week's posts will hopefully be more frequent and more interesting.
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Mon Sheri Amore, bigger than the Milky Way...
Posted On: Saturday - December 13th 2025 8:24PM MST
In Topics: Race/Genetics Female Stupidity
From ZeroHedge, we read Social Justice Gone Wild: Oklahoma BLM Leader Indicted On Fraud, Money Laundering Charges.
These stories come weekly and often daily. There are tons of them. It usually involves black women in government positions because that's where the money is. I can't list them all. I just look a shot at finding out the percentage of Mayors of American cities who are black - the search has not been too fruitful, but a 7 y/o CNN article bemoaned that "Black women govern only 4% of the biggest US cities." As something like 8% of the American population that is too lo ... WAY too high, because some of us don't like to see our property tax money totally blown on Style-and-Profile Mercedes, handbags, and expensive vacations. They can't seem to help themselves.
Tashella Sheri Amore Dickerson, 52, served as Executive Director of Black Lives Matter OKC (BLMOKC). As Executive Director, Dickerson had access to BLMOKC’s bank, PayPal, and Cash App accounts, where federal prosecutors allege she looted the organization “for her personal benefit,” including travel to Jamaica and the Dominican Republic, tens of thousands of dollars in retail shopping, more than $50,000 in food deliveries, a vehicle, and six properties.It's bad enough that women in general aren't prone to caring about Rule-of-Law so much over their own neeeeds, but black women are at a whole 'nother level. It's not just Rule-of-Law they don't care about, but they don't particularly care about doing the right thing, period. That American society, aka, the ctrl-left-run Institutions, have encouraged a feeling of entitlement in them has made the problem of black woman political grift ubiquitous.
I know, almost all US Senators come in with a normal amount of assets and leave as multi-millionaires. They are still mostly White and mostly men. Congressbroad Nancy Pelosi's story, for example is something else, a success story for the ages.
Let's leave the Somalians out of it just for the moment because we haven't counted all the $Billions yet. They're in a class by themselves - they could do Big Tashellas's $3 million in grifting in half an hour.
When you see a politician make a 10,000% profit in, say, cattle futures, it's time to investigate. For these black women purporting to be in charge of budgets, when you see one has gained over 100 lb while in office, subpoenas should be issued.
At least this time it wasn't any of my money.
PS: Note the Culturally French-Black! name of our grifter of the day, She's middle-named Sheri Amore. Old Steve Wonder fans would recognize this name as coming from one his many great songs. Mr. Wonder's title is in actual French, Mon Cherie Amore, "lovely as a summer's day...", translates to "my darling love" or "my lovely darling".
The grifter above was born in 1973 +/1 a year, while Mr. Wonder wrote his song in 1969. No matter, you'd have to be blind to write a song about this fat grifter of the BLM. (Sorry, Stevie!!)
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It's twenty degrees, and the hockey game's on...
Posted On: Thursday - December 11th 2025 7:18PM MST
In Topics: Music Bread and Circuses
...could you beam me somewhere, Mr. Scott?
Peak Stupidity has explained what our problem is with "Sportsball". Posts on the subject can be found with that little-used topic key Bread & Circuses, the use of that tag alone pretty much doing the explaining. There is a specific series though - see Intro. - - Unlimited Breadsticks - - The Greatest (number of) Shows on Earth - - The Media Circus and a Conclusion.
Using "Sportspuck", however, would sound kind of awkward, but we did go to a, and my first, pro Hockey game. A friend hooked us up with some very good seats too.
The regular PS reader may have determined without hiring a Jim Rockford at $2,000 a day ... plus expenses (he's gone up!) that our headquarters is not in Edmonton, Alberta, Toronto, Ontario, The Maritimes, or even down south in Minneagadishu. We don't play hockey. Nobody here plays hockey*. Nobody from around here is on a pro hockey team, because he wouldn't have had a rink or frozen pond to practice on. If I could PLAY hockey, this whole post would have to be revised.
But, hey, they were good seats, and I'd promised the kid. Here are some impressions:
The lighting is amazing. They can turn the whole rink into a big advertisement now. Loud music - at least it's rock sounding - is played right up until that ump guy drops the puck during the face-off.
Where are the air horns nowadays? I went to a minor league game way back, and people had those loud boater-emergency-style air horns. You'd hear them on the games on the radio too. I think it's a good thing they've been apparently banned. There are enough fights down on the rink.
Well, you'd think in today's NHL, rather than going to a fight and seeing a hockey game break out, as the old joke goes, we'd have to endure a lot of mean tweeting and un-LIKE-ing on the ice and difficult "conversations". No, they still do have fights, the about only one we saw was pretty minor ... league. I didn't come for that.
The crowd was very well behaved. The fights were contained to the that one on the rink. In a metro area that is 15-25% Black! and with 25% or so foreigners, the crowd was 99% White. That might explain some of it... In fact the only black person I saw was a girl with the 2nd biggest Afro I'd seen since the 1970s, not quite as big as the one on the escalator in our recent post on this important matter. With our great seats, that was not a factor.
"Our" team won. OK, that's getting to the Sportsball matter now. What's exactly "our" team? We didn't live in this city, but the people from there ALSO don't play hockey and can't ice skate (maybe a few transplants with their own skating rink somewhere can), and don't have high school friends in the NFL, etc. That "local" team is made up of Canadians and Europeans, and Russians, one of whom, going by name, may well have had a great-grandfather involved in the story of Doctor Zhivago. "Our team", my ass. What does it mean to "support the team" really?
I guess that's OK. I don't begrudge the people their Bread & Circuses. We can't all be discussing and blogging about politics all day as a hobby. In fact, our host, being not much more of a fan than I, but with the tickets, is big into politics too, very much on OUR side. One can't help but wonder, though, how different things would be if Americans had paid 1/10 the attention they pay to the Sports-ball&puck to what's been done to their country over my lifetime. Rather than the voices of a few crying in the wilderness being ignored, imagine if Americans had cared enough about the politics that has been interested in them, rather than fixating on their favorite hockey players from far off places that don't even want to know them.
Yet, they've got the jerseys. At the arena, I checked one of them, and it cost over $200, before tax! Hats were cheaper, at something like $40.
I get buying a team shirt or hat, if nothing but to show pride in one's town. I can't see EVER caring enough about the Bread & Circuses to buy a jersey of a certain player. (As my kid noted, what if he gets traded?)
Well, now we'll get to this Jimmy Buffett song again. It's appropriate this season.
Boat drinks,This one is from 1979, from Mr. Buffett's album Volcano.
the boys in the band ordered boat drinks.
Visitors scored on the home rink.
Everything seems to be wrong.
Lately, the newspaper mentioned cheap airfare.
I've got to fly to Saint Somewhere.
I'm close to bodily harm.
It's 20 degrees and the hockey game's on.
Nobody cares, they are way too far gone.
Screamin', "Boat drinks!"
Somethin' to keep them all warm.
My favorite part:
This morningJimmy Buffett, no longer with us, was from south Alabama, but he spent much of his life in the Florida Keys or on mother, mother, ocean. His Coral Reefers and the Parrotheads all would rather go where it's warm.
I shot six holes in my freezer.
I think I got cabin fever.
Somebody sound the alarm.
I'd like to go where the pace of life's slow
Could you beam me somewhere, Mister Scott?
Any old place here on Earth or in Space
You pick the century, and I'll pick the spot.
* I've ice skated twice, and contrary to advice given to me that it's not like rollerblading, it IS a lot like rollerblading, so I could do it.
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Tim Walz's political career has been seriously retarded
Posted On: Wednesday - December 10th 2025 6:53PM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '24 Lefty MegaStupidity Humor Trump Media Stupidity
Special needs adults have taken offense to the repeated, emphatic description of Tim Walz's mental capacity being somehow like their own.Those guys are pretty funny! No wait, it's NOT funny?
"Saying Tim Walz is one of us is insulting and hurtful," said local man Brett Masterson, who has had a significant intellectual disability since birth. "Comparing my cognitive ability to Tim Walz is one of the most painful slurs I've had to endure. The special needs community deserves better than being compared to Walz. This bigotry needs to stop."
Micheal Scott explains yet again how using the word "retard" is bad:
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Got it. So it's OK if ctrl-left Minnesota Governor, ex-Presidential candidate Tim Walz's FRIENDS call him seriously retarded. President Trump is not one of his friends, however. He really should apologize. The Babylon Bee continues:
President Trump has issued an official apology for categorizing Tim Walz as a special needs adult. "I deeply, sincerely apologize to the special needs community for comparing you lovely people to Tim Walz," said Trump. "No one deserves to hear that they're like Tim Walz. It was very insulting to you, I'm sorry to have said it. Can you believe I'm apologizing? I never do that, because I'm almost never wrong -- but I was this time. I love special needs people, they're some of my favorite people, nothing like that homo Tim Walz."Done, and done. The REALLY funny thing is, is that giving that kind of apology is something Trump really would do.
There are a whole lot of public servants in America that should be in jail. That's another post. That people call them public "servants" is yet another post. Public servant Tim Walz is surely one of them, the ones that ought to be in jail. Peak Stupidity gave our latest opinion on this guy a week back in the post Tampon Timmy and the Somalians. The numbers - that is, money stolen from Minnesota and other American taxpayers, have only gone up since then. Our opinion of Tim Walz has not gone up. He's not just a huge corrupt thief, but he's a traitor in addition. He deserves a lot more than just the President's calling him out with a slur.
Yet, with the Regime Media being all in for the ctrl-left, they have turned, or tried to turn, this huge story about treasonous, corrupt Timmah! into one about President Trump's wrongful use of that slur, "seriously retarded". Hah!
There's a background to the use of the word. As with "idiot", "imbecile", "moron". etc., the term "retarded" had a medical or psychological use. Regarding the progression of a child's intellectual growth, "retarded" simply means that a child's intellect has been held back, falling behind the average. I don't know how long one would have to go back in time to hear it being spoken by a teacher, guidance counselor, or principal.
Yes, it HAS become a slur, though not one of the worst of slurs by any means.* It works for me... every time I write it! It's just very fortuitous that we have the Timmah! Timmah! Livin' the lie! line from South Park to go along with Trump's use of the slur "retarded".
... "Retard! Retard! Retard!"
It's true. The Airbus 320 series (at least) calls the flying pilot who doesn't pull the throttles to idle by about 20 ft up a retard. It's a (mostly) French-built plane, so the accent is on the 2nd syllable, as in, "re-TARD". I mean what kind of retard wouldn't pull the power back yet?
... oh, oh, wait, all this time, I was surprised pilots would put up with that, but it was just the French-written software voice calling for "re-tarding" of the throttles! Live and learn. It all makes sense now, even more so, in fact, were Tim Walz the flying pilot. He's not a pilot, thank God, but his political career is being retarded.
At publishing time, the homosexual community had demanded that people stop comparing them to Tim Walz.LOL!!
Final question: Would President Trump be off the hook and his investigations into Timmah and the Somalians' corruption be welcomed had he called Mr. Walz a "Special Needs Governor"?
* My personal opinion is that the slur "jackass" has been sorely underutilized.
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Better Hooverville than Hooverstan
Posted On: Monday - December 8th 2025 9:35PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Race/Genetics
Hoover, Alabama is not a real town. One might imagine that it would have been some sleepy Southern town with its own Andy and Barney back in the day, but really it was formed from a suburban area on the south side of Birmingham due to ... you guessed it (if you're a regular Peak Stupidity reader).
Birmingham played a prominent role in the instigated race rioting and destruction and the violent attempt at pushback by White Alabamans 60 years back. White people, and really anyone in favor of Freedom of Association, a limited Federal Gov't and all that, lost. As in hundreds of other cities in America, White people fled the new inner city dysfunction. This "town", really just a big suburb, had it pretty good as late as the year 2000, with over 85% White and under 7% Black. By '20, the numbers were 68% and 17%. "They're baaaaaacccck!"
If race relations can be somehow contained, something Alabamans have been dealing with much longer than much of the country, I guess someone somewhere figured they'll make life a little worse for the Alabamans of Hoover, cause, why not, right? The front of the immigration invasion involving Moslems is not the biggest, but it's significant. Cultural Destruction can ruin your town at the pounding of a judge's gavel.
Let me go back to a very old Peak Stupidity post, Nice Church ladies destroy Lewiston, Maine, in which I attempted to describe how and why townspeople will not readily stand up against these efforts to initially infiltrate, and later flood their towns with foreigners:
The poor bastards who’ve got to live with the huge change to their quality of life and culture for now on (with always a downward trend), know right away it's gonna be a bad thing, and may go to those initial town hallAs compared to what keeps happening this looks like very good news:meetings"conversations":
“We’re just bringing in downtrodden families, plus maybe a couple of poor teenagers, from Somalia. I hope there are no racist xenophobes here. If so, it’s only 15 asylum-seekers to our town of 30 thousand – how can you be so mean and nasty to object?!” Well, nobody objects. Nobody in town wants to have everyone else there look at him like that nasty foul-mouthed bad guy that isn’t compassionate enough to provide a “room at the inn”.*
At the next asylum-seeker meeting for another 20 asylum-seekers, its just the same, except you won’t even find 1/2 the people there from town to show up to object, as they can imagine how embarrassing it would be. This goes on for years, and people have kids. People find it easier to move to a different town than to say anything. You’d think that’d be silly… but no, it's pretty much all that's left to do.
This tweet (screenshot here) came from The Gateway Pundit, but I am LOATH to link to its Gateway Hispanic posts*. You can watch or read here about the plans to move Moslem school and community center from nearby Homewood to Hoover.
Hoover citizens fought back at a City Council meeting. The video is uplifting - just hear the elation and relief in the voices of those clapping after the ruling.**
It's a small thing, and after all, these particular foreigners have already been in America, Alabama, and even the same (Jefferson) county. The important question is are people finally standing up?
Uhhhh, it's not quite that great. The reader may recall a few posts we wrote about an attempt, successful too, BTW, to let apartments be built against the zoning codes, and the worry that caused nearby residents. I.e, who exactly would be living right near them? See It's a Beautiful Day in the Leafy Neighborhood and It's another beautiful day in the leafy neighborhood ....
The worries were really about a lot more residents being concentrated nearby and, the locals in the Zoom meeting*** wouldn't say it, but who they might be. However, the complaints were all about "the traffic". Sure, the traffic was something of a factor with all the kids nearby, but no...
In the case of this proposed Islamic school in Hoover, there was another vague explanation about "the guidance for that sector", some "tech village", and the "comprehensive plan", generally a bunch of BS, but "the traffic" was brought up too:
The Islamic Academy of Alabama was met with opposition at Hoover's Planning and Zoning meeting. Residents spoke on traffic issues, sticking to the comprehensive plan, and other reasons why they are against it moving to the city.The site, with the currently empty 100,000 ft2 building, is in Meadowbrook and described as off of US-280 and US-119:
I didn't capture it but the limited access road that curves around at the north is the 280.
Nah. We're talking 265 students. This is not about the traffic - it's about the Moslems! As far as I've seen on this, nobody will or nobody can say that his opposition to the school is about the Moslems. I'd really hoped that Trump's boldness over the years, and his most recent talk about the garbage Somalians especially would have emboldened regular Americans to just, well, tell the freaking truth.
There's nothing wrong with wanting your home to stay populated with your own people. There's nothing wrong to say you don't want mass influxes of strange foreigners to your town!
This is just as on the race issue, for which White Americans have danced around the truth for half a century. They feel the need to do the same regarding the Population Replacement Programme on a local level so as not to be those BAD, BAD, xenophobic, people, the type who wouldn't have let
After a little initial elation, for me this story turned disappointing. Objections claiming "the traffic!" is the problem may have** worked this time. If you use the bogus arguments (very much like "Vetting!") however, you lose the big fight, as it'll be hard for anyone to get by with an objection later when the site for a mass influx of foreigners does not present any realistic traffic problem. Maybe the "newcomers" have all been vetted too, thoroughly, I tell you, by the Defense Investigative Service. Who cares? Just say no!
I suggest people follow the lead of the President of the United States with their wording - how about some truth? I get it, though, The President has a big security detail, but you could be called names. True, you might get fired from your job too, etc, etc... but, NOT if the townspeople of the next Hoover, Alabama ALL together tell their City Council members that "We are against this plan because we want this place to remain America!
* I felt the need to read, and all but some links on the page are in English. I sent to reader to a TV station site - sorry 'bout that!
** It's only an initial ruling to "not recommend" the use of the building for that school. It's not over.
*** This was during the Deep Dark Days of the Kung Flu PanicFest.
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Hair - a touchy subject these days
Posted On: Saturday - December 6th 2025 1:30PM MST
In Topics: Music Pundits Race/Genetics
As an acolyte, one might call me, of Conservative alt-right(?) pundit extraordinaire Steve Sailer, a good many of our posts still start with his ideas. The subject of black women's hair, World War Hair by his running theme, is something Mr. Sailer holds dear. It's one of his subjects we'll discuss today.
I'm sure Mr. Sailer doesn't really care about the specific twists and curls of this non-touchy subject - Don't you dare! - of the hair itself, but it's the whole Regime Media treatment of it, pun not intended but greatly welcomed!, that he's written much about. He reads the New York Times, see... so we don't have to. This sounds like a ridiculously niche topic for him, less interesting than even golf course architecture to "some" of us. We don't complain - Peak Stupidity, after all, has presented more than a handful of posts about exercise machine console energy and power calculations - I! GET! IT! - NOBODY CARES!
There's more to what Mr. Sailer writes about however, on this subject, than just the hair styles. He notices that the media promotes this subject that nobody but the subjects themselves care about, in order to explain the bigger picture.
I'm not sure if every reader here would get the slight facetiousness in our recent post Jet Bridge Carol. The poster, shown again here, is revisionist, in that the woman's hairstyle hearkens to 1970's Bob Newhart Show's Carol the receptionist. However, if anyone is appropriating anyone else's "bit", it'd be White Carol having the Afro that most Afro-Americans* had. Actress Marcia Wallace could have had hair that was best worn that way. I don't know, I don't care. She was the smart-assed funny receptionist, is all.
I have no idea how many machines and different gels it takes to look like this, but it's a pretty nice look.
I really have not paid attention to black women's hair my whole life. There was one cutie from the Islands, possibly significantly White, who I liked. She had fairly straight, flowing hair, but the situation didn't get close to my having a reason to touch it, much less care how she took care of it. Not my job. As I read a few of Steve Sailer's and commenters' discussions of the matter, I realized that I hadn't even known what a weave is, what these woman do with their hair, and how much trouble and expense is involved. I mean, I'd seen thousands of these hairstyles, but I had no reason to care what was going on there. We men look at other parts first, and if they don't do it, the rest is just a blur.
Mr. Sailer's big point is that it's either a WHOLE LOT of trouble and expense or plain impossible for black women to make their hair like, say, this:
Unless they are nearly White, black women can never make their hair look like Marsha Brady did. I am partial to straight hair on women but also greatly appreciate the Farrah Faucetts, Christy Brinklies and the like, to go back to the same era, as White women can do all sorts of beautiful things with it.
Actually, she had much longer nicer hair other times, but this picture stood out for some reason.
If you can tell she's cute even with that Kung-Flu mask on, she's PRETTY, indeed.
I'm not really partial to blondes either, if that makes a difference to any sensitive black women readers, though somehow all examples here are blondes. (They not only have more fun, but they get in more PS file photos.). Whether it's straight, parted in the middle, flowing with curls that do take some effort too, black women are obviously jealous of how much men like this hair. Black women just can't DO THIS with their hair. It also doesn't help when you have a women-of-Wal-Mart body style either.
That's the big point. Mr. Sailer does not rant against the scourge of Feminism as we do here for a damn good reason. However, he understands the ill effects of women in positions, such as "journalism", in which their mode of "thinking", if one could call it that, does not work for us in a well-run society. His Sailer's Law of Female Journalism is a classic:
The most heartfelt articles by female journalists tend to be demands that social values be overturned in order that, Come the Revolution, the journalist herself will be considered hotter-looking.Yes, it's funny cause it's true. Jealousy for men's attention and lust is very important, and you can't fool Mother Nature ... with the compound silicone providing somewhat of an exception. So, black women have it tough - there's no getting around that.
I've meant to write this post for nearly a month, so in the meantime, not only did I run into this ZeroHedge article - Pennsylvania Governor Signs Law Banning "Hair Discrimination", but Mr. Sailer published another "World War Hair" article on his substack site (unfortunately paywalled) - . I oughta briefly discuss them both.
The CROWN Act! Ha, I say we require hats be worn by men at all time, except during sleep time. Some of us men might appreciate that. Or forget hair styles completely, like in the Iron-Rice-Bowl-Hair world of Mao's China. As for women, ZH excerpts Governor Shapiro, working with bill sponsor U.S. Rep. La'Tasha D. Mayes who exclaims in bold:
"Real freedom means being respected for who you are - no matter what you look like, where you come from, who you love, or who you pray to...For too long, many Pennsylvanians have faced discrimination simply for hairstyles that reflect their identity and culture - that ends today..."Yes, it surely will end once the law is passed. Now, I can't see the powerpoint - down in front!
This La'Tasha is a woman. Have you ever noticed that they don't always say what they mean. You think it's this one thing you did wrong, but a month later, you find out that was not what she was mad about at all!
“This is going to help people by making sure that, wherever you work, or wherever you're applying for a job, they can't look at your hair and size you up - not based on your qualifications and all of the professional development you have and all of your education,” said PA House Speaker Joanna McClinton. “They will not look at your hair and decide you can't work here. They will not look at your hair and decide you don't belong in this C-suite. They will not look at your hair and say, ‘you can't be in the boardroom.’”No, it's not about the workplace and professional development, La'Tundra. You want more men to look at you, and if it takes a law to (somehow) make that happen, so let it be written, so let it be done! THIS! MARSHA! BRADY! JENNIFER! ANNISTON! CUTE! FLU-MANCHU! GIRL! SHIT! ENDS! NOW!
"Hair discrimination has taken confidence from our children, but that ends today," Mayes said. "Hair discrimination has taken dignity from workers, but that ends today. It has taken access to economic opportunities, hopes and dreams, but that begins to end today."
Mr. Sailer got back to this niche but illustrative subject of his after reading yet another New York Times article. He wrote Michelle Obama Declares World War Hair, subtitled Are white people really to blame for why Michelle gets her hair straightened? What I could read from that post were well under a thousand words, but they say a picture is worth a thousand words, so here:
That's not to say it wouldn't be an interesting thought-election, Big Mike v Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho.
What can you say to them? We're sorry, but you can't compete with White girls when it comes to hair? It's the truth, as much as they try. Would it not be better if they went back to the more natural easier-to-maintain "Afro" or something such as Jet Bridge Carol's style? I don't find short hair of any kind less pretty than the crazy braided-up weave get-ups either.
Men of other races too surely like the beautiful hair of the Marsha/Jennifer/File-photo-chick types too. Can black men settle for the natural black women, so women will generally be happier? Would one need to ask these question were it 1955 outside?
Well, here's an extreme example:
She seems to like it. We don't go to the movies much anymore, so what's the problem?
Just for the record, though one may bitch about things that can't be changed, it's not like some White hair styles don't require a lot of time and money too. I was witness to a 4 hour long hair highlighting operation one day. If the girl doing it wasn't her sister, that would have cost a pretty penny. (I don't even like that highlighting bit...)
Here's the deal: Pundit Steve Sailer's discussion about black women's hair troubles is not so much out of concern for these poor, jealous ladies, although he's more concerned than I am. He's been relating the big picture, which is that women's personal problems have become causes for political change. That's not the way you run a society.
That wasn't the deal back in the days of America, the band too, I mean. Sister Golden Hair, from the Hearts album, is from right at half-century ago America, and America.
America were:
Gerry Beckley – lead and backing vocals, keyboards, guitars, bass, harmonica.
Dewey Bunnell – lead and backing vocals, guitars, percussion,
Dan Peek – lead and backing vocals, guitars, bass, keyboards, harmonica.
... near the end of this song's long ending, I still hear "... and, we've got a winner!" This song was on for me one of the first times I ever heard pop music on the radio. The DJ talked over the ending, explaining that there had been a number 10 dialer, who won a record or something.
PS: Now, this was just uncanny! Just a day before writing this post, as I'd picked out the big-Afro picture already, I ended up on an escalator behind a woman with hair right about that size, bigger than I'd ever seen in real life before. I was about 1 foot behind her. This is the weird part - contrary to all Steve Sailer/commenters/MY writing before, I DID want to touch it! I couldn't tell, but wanted to know, how much of it was part of her Eskimo-style coat and how much was hair. Far out, man!
* Look, that was just their preferred term at the time - I don't pick them!
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Breaking roofing news
Posted On: Friday - December 5th 2025 10:01PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Trump
There's been so much good news on the immigration invasion counterattack lately, but no, why would I be tired of it? That "tired of winning" line from Trump never made a lick of sense. What I do get tired of is seeing hopeful moves on this existential problem go nowhere. Trump is not very good at following up on what comes out of his mouth. (Sometimes that's a good thing, though!)
We'll see about the actual deportations based on the latest great news about the ending of the "Temporary" Protected Status of many hundreds of thousands of first Haitians, now Somalians. Next, Trump's told us of the banning of importation of people from so far 19 countries. It's not George Carlin's exact list of words you
Afghanistan, Burma, The Congo, Equatorial (NOT Polar) Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan, and Venezuela*That's 5 continents with shitholes in them. I think I kinda got that out of 6th and 8th grade Geography.
We all want to see action, but this talk is heartening at least. What is more heartening is real and personal reporting from a friend of changes due to the Trump Administration's work against the PRP. Operation Charlotte's Web was a big story a couple of weeks ago, you can probably recall. We've got some related news.
There's a big house this friend is involved with, not a McMansion but an actual mansion by my estimation, in the Charlotte area, that needed a new roof due to hail damage. It's a BIG roof, as the place is more rambling than the kind of mansion we usually picture. The cost is upwards of $90,000! Yes, that's the price of a small house 20-30 years ago, and yes, it's too much. However, as my friend discussed, the insurance company is willing to pay that. That this amount is about the same as the total of all his premiums he's paid over the years really makes us both wonder. He says the price is nuts, but if the house sells, that's just a selling point - "It's got a new $90-something thousand dollar roof!"
The big news he told me is simply this: This roofing project has been delayed due to the effect of Operation Charlotte's Web. In other words, the illegal aliens that would be doing it don't feel so comfortable coming out of the shadows and into the sun right now. Will that remain the case? Will the roofing company worry about who its Spanish-speaking workers actually are, or they just laying low until the ICE storm has passed? Would the company even think about hiring Americans, with that increased labor cost... that doesn't mean a hill of beans as compared to the money they will make on this roof?
The deal is, if every roofing company really had to hire Americans, they would still be competitive and make lots of money. As it is today, if you're the one patriotically hiring actual Americans at a higher rate, you'll lose the bids. Any difference you might charge for based on better quality (if there IS any) will not be known about until that 30 year roof starts leaking 5 or 10 years later. By then, nobody is held accountable.
Now, as usual, I need to limit the length of these posts. Just pondering some of the economics of the roofing business had me thinking of 3 more posts. One of them will be based on the "Con" below, another will be about the breakdown of the costs of, and profit taken, from this big roof project, with simple calculations done in various ways to check "Does It Make Sense?", and another will be about a different type of illegal alien labor.
A bigger question than those about this one big roof, would be, is it wise to have the ICE agents detain illegal aliens very publicly as in the Charlotte's Web operation? It surely helped in this case, as it's not likely the couple of hundred illegal aliens detained, of many 10's of thousands (maybe 100's) in the region, just happened to be part of this particular roofing crew! That's one of the pro's of doing these public displays, whether intended to be public or not. Peak Stupidity has discussed before the ratio of self-deportees vs forced-ones back 71 years ago during President Eisenhower's Operation Wetback. Over the 4 southern border States, it varied from 6.25:1 to 9.75:1. I can imagine it going even higher in the current media environment. By all means, Regime Media, bring us some big sob stories!
The big con (as in pros & cons) of the public method is that opposing forces, the ctrl-left judges and others still in control of the Institutions, will have big targets. Instead, imagine continuing a quiet, steady program of a few dozen, maybe a hundred, illegals taken in to custody in each of a hundred large or medium sized cities daily. The numbers will add up, yet how many judges in how many jurisdictions has the ctrl-left got? How big a story can you make to promote your newsroom when the same thing is happening in a hundred other places? There are a lot of Home Depot parking lots, and there are a lot of Chinese Buffet restaurants**!
The one personal anecdote shows evidence of Deportation Nation having at least SOME effect on the labor market.
* Only 40 years ago, this was the crown jewel of Latin America. It really is a shame.
** Yes, them too. I did some quick math in my head on whether these big buffet places could still exist and how it would work out were these ladies out of Fujian (mostly) arrested. Another thing about the Chinese - Indians too - is that THAT news would travel fast. Imagine having to go home across all that distance! Send a few of them home, and they will surely stop coming.
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Power texting
Posted On: Thursday - December 4th 2025 2:04PM MST
In Topics: Artificial Stupidity Big-Biz Stupidity
I decided not to even add the Curmudgeonry tag to this post. I don't think you have to be "plain sick of all this newfangled stuff" to be miffed, if not upset, by incompetence. This is not ordinary people incompetence but incompetence of the Artificial Stupidity we are forced to deal with daily. Other than the people who set it up to begin with, with this kind often no actual humans must be involved.
It started off with some minor human incompetence. Our electric power was acting very wacky, and eventually I determined, by looking in the right place finally(!) that this was due to the ground/neutral wire of our standard 2-phase power being on the ground.* (It is also the structural support for the 2 insulated hot wires, so it's pretty important in that way too.)
Well, though we could have used more of our appliances working, especially the HVAC unit, this was no emergency. The lady on the phone at (I think) the power company treated it as such. OK, well, better yet, a guy would come that evening. I explained to her that we knew what the problem was, that neutral wire. She listened supportingly and said "You'll get a text message..."
Oh, I got text messages all right. First, I was texted that "Hey, we (at the power company) see you have good voltage on your lines. Perhaps you should check your circuit breaker box.", to paraphrase.
I went back to the phones. "I told the lady that the neutral line is off the house. That's the problem. I guess your fancy system can't tell that." Well, we talked for a bit, he got it, and we both agreed that "no, that lady you talked to knows nothing about electricity." Sure, except I did ask her to enter that note... "OK, when will you be here?" "No, I'm not in a truck - I'm the guy that sends the trucks out." It was all perfectly pleasant. "He'll text you when he's on the way."
Next text, again to paraphrase: "It looks like you have good voltage on your lines. Perhaps you should check your breaker box." This one WAS from the guy in the truck, or at least it came from a number that got him... somehow... "Yeah, didn't the guy who sent you out tell you that the neutral line is off the house?" "No, this stuff is automated." Errr, wouldn't you think the other guy could update the "ticket" in the database with this note, say for this guy driving over? Nah, it's just computers automatically doing their thing, based on their knowledge from sensors or other computers. No humans were involved, so nothing was learned by the computers... who are there to inform the humans. Perhaps the system didn't LET humans interact with it... or the humans didn't have to interface with the computers like I did.
It was dark, but the 2 guys arrived, got their ladder in place, and winched the neutral line back up and connected it.* Good power was restored. Again, it was all very pleasant. Besides an electrically-destroyed clock, power strip, and some bulbs, nothing much was harmed.
The next day I got a series of text messages from the power company. Each one informed me that a guy would be out to the house to fix the power by 5 PM.
* They'd taken it down for tree work but not connected it well enough - a guy later said they'd put too much tension on it.
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Tampon Timmy and the Somalians
Posted On: Wednesday - December 3rd 2025 6:35PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Lefty MegaStupidity Trump China Race/Genetics
That is NOT the name of a rock band from the Twin Cities, no matter how edgy and fitting the name would be nowadays. First, see, you'd have to have rock music to have such a band name.
This guy named Walz that came a few cases of laser-printed mail-in ballots and one "blow job gone wrong" from the US Presidency has always been one weird mofo. There was his Lefty Mega-stupidity out of him already during his time as Minnesota Governor, perhaps culminating in his obtaining the moniker "Tampon Tim" due to his push for tampon machines in school boys' bathrooms. Additionally, something Peak Stupidity has not mentioned more than once, IIRC, is that the guy has a LOT of connections to China. I've been either 11 or a dozen times myself, but not for same reasons as Tampon Tim had for his 30 trips there and support from Chinese sources.* We may get into that again.
Mass groups of foreigners like Afghans and Somalians, most especially your Moslem crowd, will generally ally with the ctrl-left, as the ctrl-left pushes for the destruction of traditional America, something these groups also desire. The groups will stick with the ctrl-left until the latter is no longer needed. Though Somalians abound in his State, they may wish now they'd have stayed far away from this guy Tim Walz, however. It's not often that the New York Times, yes, THAT New York Times, along with the government of Minnesooota, don'tch' know, will call out the wrongdoings of one of their very own lefties.
The problem is, as I see it, Tampon Tim and the Somalians have not just been up to the usual $10 million here, $50 million here grift, such as during the Kung Flu PanicFest. I mean, what's $100 million total or so out of $4 TRILLION in CARES Act money? It's 0.025%, is what it is. Nobody CARES. Now, with $1 Billion scammed of just the State of Minnesota's money, the word "egregious" comes to mind, even in the minds of the NYT and the lefty government of Minnesota, you betcha' it does.
This may have started as a personal thing for President Trump, the usual case, going back to those 2 West Virginia Nat'l Guardsman shot in the Federal Shithole, but that's another post. Trump is pissed. This is immigration patriot GOLD right here:
We couldn't have said this better ourselves... though we could have said it 10 or 20 years earlier! Everything Trump wrote has been common knowledge for American immigration patriots for a couple of decades. (I sure wish VDare would come back on-line with full archives.) We know the ills of the PRP are not just about the immoral grifting, and this is NOT just about the money. Minnesota can lose another Billion bucks via stupidity for all I care.
As President Trump sees one more way America and Americans are being scammed, he starts to understand what we've long known. Then, this time around, he's dug deeper into the problem and seen the whole, yes EVEN LEEGULL, immigration invasion as a scam. This is a very good thing. Peak Stupidity would like to see President Trump this pissed off for 3 more years... at least.
Trump's ending of that "Temporary" Protected Status, first for Haitians, now Somalians, is very welcomed. It's something that we'd meant to praise him (and his underling Kristie Noem) for earlier.
Do you remember seeing MAGA patriot Marjorie Taylor Greene trying to censure - it was not really ever going to happen in the UniParty-run Congress - that Congresslady from Somal... errr, Minnesota? No, OK, here ya go. It's a real shame that Trump couldn't see fit to get along with MGT. They're very much on the same page when it comes to Job #1.
PS: "Swaddling hijab", hahahaaa! Ya' gotta love this guy... sometimes.
* Full disclosure [from PS Legal Team]: Peak Stupidity's relationship with the Middle Kingdom was formed long before the CCP, going back to the Poontang Dynasty.
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Social Infertility: New frontiers in Stupidity
Posted On: Monday - December 1st 2025 9:25PM MST
In Topics: Genderbenders Feminism Movies Trump Liberty/Libertarianism Healthcare Stupidity Socialism/Communism Scams
Today, we're temporarily going away from current events, as we used to call the news long ago, back to our core competency, pure unadulterated Stupidity. Gotta pay the bills.
ZeroHedge discussed recently ‘Social Infertility’: Where Biomedical Profiteering Intersects Social Justice. The article was written by one Benjamin Bartee on his substack site Armageddon Prose. OK, first of all, whenever you hear about "Social" attached to ANYTHING,
It's been over a year and a half - wow! - since Peak Stupidity's last post on the the alleged Depopulocalypse. Basically, we wouldn't be too worried at all about greatly reduced fertility in the world were people to generally STAY PUT. This stupidity we've come upon just now though is not your fathers' fertility crisis. (Ha! Apostrophic typo fully intended!) Here:
“The global surrogacy* market was estimated at USD 22.4 billion in 2024. The market is expected to grow from USD 27.9 billion in 2025 to USD 201.8 billion in 2034, at a CAGR of 24.6% during the forecast period,” per Global Market Insights — nearly a ten-fold increase over less than a decade.I feel bad for couples, actual, like men & women, who are medically not able to have children due to either's (or even both's) physical problems. There's still adoption, and yes, there's surrogacy. I liked the 1990s movie Juno which delved into the subject in a poignant and humorous way. No, no, though, that's not the thing...
”*Global surrogacy” being a euphemism for economically endowed homosexuals growing children in Third World women’s wombs so as to commandeer them upon birth — ostensibly to raise them as their own, but realistically for whatever possibly depraved purposes tickle their fancy.The Libertarian side of Peak Stupidity doesn't argue against what these gay people want to do, that is, until it involves a completely innocent and ENTIRE life, that of the children of 2 Mommies or 2 Daddies, as seen in the library books. Raising children, if it can even be called that, in this un-Godly manner is not a victimless crime.
“Social infertility is a newer term used to describe situations where people want to become parents but are not biologically able due to social or relational circumstances. This includes factors like sexual orientation, relationship status, and life circumstances, which might necessitate fertility treatments. In support of this movement, in the fall of 2023, the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) updated their definition of infertility to include “anyone needing medical interventions to achieve a successful pregnancy either as an individual or with a partner” (ASRM 2023).[Bolding changed from the original.] Here's the first thing, as we keep on our Libertarian hats for a bit. All of this is about insurance, hence MONEY. It's a problem for us because ... Socialism. Imagine, if you will, a free market in insurance in which I don't want to pay high premiums for this stupidity. I don't support it with my money. You do, however, Mr. Buttigieg, so sure, pay whatever premiums your company will charge to cover all these possibilities. "Oh, I don't like either of the deals", you tell me? Start your own insurance company. With Big Government involved, the only way you can change the plan, that is, THE PLAN, for everyone, is to vote for someone who will ..., hahahaaa, no, sorry, I don't normally tear up like this - it's the onions in my salad.
Note the "legal language":
Additionally, in 2022, Illinois updated its legal language around infertility to be more inclusive of the LGBTQIA community and single people, recognizing one of the definitions of infertility as “a person’s inability to reproduce either as a single individual or with a partner without medical intervention”Let me go back to what I put in bold above, but in differing order: Includes factors like:
Relationship status - If she won't put out, there will be no children. Otherwise, I don't think that in current society, women are infertile due to their marital status. This isn't 1955. This makes me wonder what it is that the writer is even talking about here.
Life circumstances - Here's one we've discussed quite a bit under in our Feminism and Female Stupidity posts. It's really a shame that young women are led astray by Feminists, as guided by Commmunists who want to destroy the nuclear family and society. These women often realize they've been had, duped, or just been stubborn and stupid, when it's too late, biologically. In one of our earliest posts on Feminism, we warned It's not nice to fool Mother Nature! Should we pay for expensive treatments due to their long-term stupidity? This is at least not the penultimate stupidity, which is:
Sexual orientation - The problem is that lesbians cannot conceive without having some of that go-juice, let's call it, enter their certain woman parts. So, medical intervention is not required. A penis is, though.
For homosexual men, I see 2 major problems. Perhaps the reader does too, like about everybody else who's not into this stupidity. Yeah, I'll leave this trivial exercise to the reader. Sure, you laugh, but your laughter is a thing of the past to these people with their new concept of Social Infertility. Were a gang of funny guys like Monty Python around today, they'd be wise to keep their day jobs.
The Social Infertility idea originally came from a Wildflower (Center for Emotional Health*) article, Understanding Social Infertility: An Evolving Term in Reproductive Health by "Gabrielle Pendley, MA, LCSW, CADC, PMH-C (she/her)". I see a lot of designations that Miss/Mrs. Pendley has accumulated, but M.D. is not among them. Anyone care to take a stab at any? Master of Arts, of course, Low-level Communist Social Worker, Cash Advances from DC, and Post Menstrual Hairless... mental block here... Though the excerpts above come generally from her/she's article, let me include a little more:
Traditionally, medical definitions of infertility require heterosexual sex and are defined in physiological terms.Right. Those medical doctors fixate too much on the birds and the bees.
This means people can’t get an infertility diagnosis unless there’s something “wrong” with their reproductive system.If you can't possibly be fertile, perhaps due to not having a womb or something trivial like that, you can't be said to be infertile either.
Consequently, a significant group of people struggling to become parents are excluded from insurance coverage and other meaningful support, often being left out of conversations about infertility.Oh, right, it's about the money. You want money for trying to have babies... even if the whole idea is ... well, here's that Monty Python scene from The Life of Brian finally:
That was hilarious. 1979, '80, it was a different time, you understand. 45 years later, this is more of the stupidity that is used to humiliate us. Maybe you won't be forced to verbally agree with the idea of Social Infertility but the money would come out of your paycheck as a medicaid deduction.
This picture from the Wildflower article shows a young lady at the 4-way-stop intersection of beauty, stupidity, fertility, and confusion - probably advisable not to roll through it. Unless she's ACTUALLY infertile, this young lady has many years left to make babies. It's another shame here that so many of them have been fed the BLT-G+ garbage such that they can't even imagine how happy they might be being a normal woman.
Finally, let me bring up Trump and his big mouth. [Does he have to be in EVERY post?! - Ed] We've complained many times about him mouthing off stupidly and counter-productively. (Example) We've praised him for mouthing off about something that nobody else would have the guts to mouth off about. (Example) I really can't recall his mouthing off about the evils of Feminism. Trump's usual way is to not care enough until it becomes personal. What could make the evils of Feminism personal to him?
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Tragic Dirt tragically not explained by girls in bikinis
Posted On: Saturday - November 29th 2025 9:47PM MST
In Topics: Race/Genetics Female Stupidity
The male Peak Stupidity reader will have already seen the reason we stated on Thanksgiving that today's post would have something not quite appropriate. Our eyes tend to find certain things very quickly, such as the girls in the video below in bikinis bending over to ... doesn't really matter what, but yeah, pick up trash. This video, billed as YOU’LL NEVER COMPLAIN ABOUT YOUR COUNTRY AGAIN AFTER WATCHING THIS DOCUMENTARY, caught my eye for the same reason it caught yours.
I've thought about writing this post two ways. The first is more honest, yet the second would get more readers to see the more important point of two here. I'll go with Honesty is the best policy, but you'll see what I mean.
The Unz Review commenter who embedded this video in this post about Somalians by Paul Kersey did it for the purpose of showing that Somalia is said to be the very worst (#1 on the list) of countries in terms of pure environmental degradation. I won't argue that point, but something tells me the commenter either didn't watch his own video or wanted us to watch it some ulterior motive such as MOAR clicks.
I'm not gonna lie to our Peak Stupidity readers - I felt obligated to watch this video to - yeah, we're all the same - get to the scenes of the bikini-clad girls bending over to pick up trash. Remember, I went with Option 1 above, so I'm telling you, I went through the whole 16 1/2 minutes and there were ZERO bikini clad girls in the whole thing. Even the still scene seen here does not appear. At the end, I saw that those advertising blurbs of other videos* by this guy or on his channel had other girls in bikinis. "Fool me once ..." I'm not THAT much of a sucker! I've been already to a degree, as I did think, seeing the still scene, "That's a nasty job, and something tells me these girls shown could find some other job in the world to do... something ..."
However, that 16 1/2 minutes of patiently watching was not wasted, it turns out. This video presents a nearly perfect example of the belief in the Magic Dirt / Tragic Dirt theory. (I'd thought until today, the term was coined by either Steve Sailer or John Derbyshire, but, per Stacy ("the other")** McCain here, it came from Vox Day.) We've discussed this silly erroneous mode of thinking before, early on in Part 2 of our review of Keith Richburg's book Out of America 6 1/2 years back and then, more thoughtfully in the more recent post Targeted Cultural Destruction and a deep dive into Tragic Dirt. I think a bit of the latter bears repeating:
So, let me get to the point about Magic Dirt/Tragic Dirt theory*** Other than just pure evil, the motive for the Communist Resentidos types, what else would be the thinking of those who don't seem to have a problem with mass extremely-foreign and non-White immigration?The video here comes from a channel with ~1,500 subscribers called Secret World. Here are some of the notes below it on youtube:
A possible answer to that came to me about the time of the eating of the cats and dogs. I think I've gotten into their heads, so let me write it out here. It goes like this:Haiti is a shithole, for whatever reason. We went there on a mission, and it was just hopeless. I don't want people to have to live like that. We have so many great places here in America they could live. It's not fair for them to have to live in their shithole while we all live in nice places.That's it. I believe that's the thinking involved. There's nothing evil there - it's just plain stupidity. How do we know all this? It's our core competency here.
Let's invite them here. We have enough room to get all of the Haitians away from that shithole. We can help all of them! They will very much appreciate living in our, and what can also be their, nice places.
What I really don't get is those people who complain about some extra people, the Haitians, living in our nice places with us. Do they want them to keep living back in that shithole? How mean!
I already listed what you'll NOT see.
38,073 views [Uhhh, yeah, cause, bikinis] Oct 23, 2025
In this video, you’ll discover the real life in the dirtiest and most chaotic countries in the world — places where trash takes over the streets, water is scarce, the air is almost unbreathable, and survival is a daily battle.
➡️ From Bangladesh to Somalia, passing through India, Haiti, and Nigeria, you’ll uncover extreme realities and unbelievable living conditions.
Get ready for shocking scenes, absurd contrasts, and deep reflections on inequality, poverty, and abandonment.
🌍 In this documentary, you’ll see:
✅ The daily routine of people living among mountains of garbage.
✅ How negligence and corruption destroy entire cities.
✅ Communities surviving without sanitation, electricity, or clean water.
Note the sentence about those "deep reflections". No, your reflections are not deep enough, Secret World - try harder.
I had to go through the video again - hey, who knows what I may have missed?! - to catch some of the terminology that I'd forgotten. Here we go, with Peak Stupidity's deep reflections:
- "Lack of an efficient waste collection system. Trash piles up everywhere." You mean people pile trash up everywhere, and nobody in the country knows how to efficiently collect waste.
- "The question remains, 'How can a country with so much potential still be trapped by so much disfunction?'" Hmmm, because it's one with dysfunctional people, perhaps?
- "How is it possible, in the 21st century, an entire nation still lives under layers of trash, poverty, and global neglect?" Because the same people live there as did in the 20th century?
- "Haiti's reality is one of the most tragic on earth." There you go, it's simply tragic. Tragic dirt.
- "The lack of recycling systems and environmental education only makes things worse." It's not like the people of these countries could develop any of this. Actually, no, they couldn't. I hate to say it, but they could use a good dose of colonization. (Whewww, glad I'm not a subject of the UK - you'd be done reading right here.)
- "A lack of waste management and careless environmental policies make things worse every year." Yeah, unfortunately those policies only grow in places with the Tragic Dirt.
- "The question remains, 'How can a nation with such deep meaning, rich history, and immense potential continue to live in such precarious conditions? Can India, with all its diversity and strength, find a way to balance tradition and progress without sacrificing the future of its people?'" I'm out of ide... hey, wait, bring back the British?
- "The sanitation system is precarious." Fix it.
- "Trash is a constant and unavoidable presence." Throw it out.
- "Somalia is one of the world's most neglected countries..." Ha. We only wish!
The cliches here are endless:
"Life goes on. People still try to live their lives among the filth..." "People keep going, clinging to hope for a better life." "Yet, despite, these conditions, the Haitian people continue to more forward with remarkable resilience." "And yet, what stands out the most is the resilience of the Indian people." "And yet, [Pakistanian] people continue to move forward. coping with pollution and filth with remarkable resilience." So, what's the problem again? With all that strength, diversity, and resilience, the people of these nations should be able to do a bang-up clean-up job.
"The question remains..." He says this over and over.
"How long will the world keep turning a blind eye...?" "What can we do as global citizens to help change this reality? These countries deserve more than indifference. They deserve a future free from filth, misery, and neglect." Maybe instead of strength and resilience they need intelligence, organization, and hard work... unfortunately some things they don't have in them. The question no longer remains.
What we can do is be very thankful that we don't live among the kinds of people of these nations described and displayed here, so we won't be wading in precarious layers of tragic filth ourselves. The people of these nations who the Trump administration has not yet sent back out of Magic Dirt America ought to be thankful that they live among White people, lest they be wading in it all here.
Oh, "Share this video with someone who also needs to see this reality" ...
...and might like girls in bikinis. (This time I was shown a White girl in a green bikini to introduce me to Iceland: Everyone wants to live here.)
PS: Oh, I REALLY don't like this Secret World guy. He made that special effort to pronounce Galgutta(?) and Pocki-ston etc., his voice is overdramatic, and he pulls out the same cliches for these shitholes, one after another. The only secret this guy has is that, THERE ARE NO GIRLS IN BIKINIS in these countries after all!
* I really HATE that youtube will cover up the last 30 seconds of video I'm watching with this stuff.
** "The Other" is a legacy from the time of "The" McCain. that being Juan McAmnesty, a man who will not be sorely missed... or missed at all, in fact.
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