Eternity - a short stay
Posted On: Monday - November 9th 2026 7:28PM MST
In Topics: Political Correctness Movies Curmudgeonry Race/Genetics
We're trying to find a happy medium as far as our movie reviews here at Peak Stupidity. I tend to go on long and tell the whole story at times (maybe more in the book reviews), but then we've got our very short reviews. They are really short because I get pissed off seeing that the movie I got started watching is politically correct and has an agenda to follow.
Our first post of this type was Tried to watch a movie - here's 3 reviews in one!, written in the Summer of '18. (The 3rd movie, made in the 1960s, took.) We've had more abort-reviews than I'd recalled - others of ours were Nine Days to Patton - movie non-review, Peak Rockford Files, Pride goeth before the eject button, and Goodbye to 1923.
As with the movie Nine Days (see 2nd link), the new ('25) movie Eternity, is also about reincarnation. This was one of the choices of movies and shows available on the seat back TV on a long flight recently. I was really looking forward to it. I'd like to be able to tell our readers about it.
I can only provide a review of the first 10 minutes. Since the plot was about reincarnation, one of the main actors dies near the movie's beginning. In this one, we can't say he's gone to Heaven, as in my favorite and non-agendized reincarnation movie titled, you guessed it, Made in Heaven. In Eternity, the old man who'd died arrives in the form of his younger self, maybe in his 20s, to some huge way station of sorts, a cross between a train station and a trade show. The deal is, as advertised in the blurbs, that he had to make a decision on where and how to spend his eternity.
I figured that'd be a great story. It might HAVE been, I mean, it might BE, but I don't know. Thing is, early on as our propagandist is disoriented, wondering where he is, what's the plan, who are these "AC"s, etc., a black woman bigger than Whoopie Goldberg turns up as his Afterlife Coordinator. I take that back - I haven't seen Whoopi Goldberg lately, so she might have been skinnier than Whoopi Goldberg. "Ahhh, here we go!", I figured, and I was right. Within a minute, sick of and impatient with this man's confused questions, she slaps the living out of him. That's when I reached to click [X] for EXIT. I just don't need this sort of thing.
Why do they have to do this?! Put in the token black character, sure. In Made in Heaven, one of the characters up there, who later turned up down here, was a smiling black guy you HAD to like. The scene in question here made me think that'd I'd better start eating a lot healthier, as I don't want to run into a nasty Whoopi Goldberg look-alike* in the afterlife. That's not what I've been signing up for.
BTW, I hesitated on the way to clicking off, and I noted that our black woman told the new arrival to the afterlife that she had no idea about God or any such thing. So, it was gonna be like that, too. I watched 5 episodes of The Office instead. Go figure ... ;-}
I'll add something new to this abort-review, because I'm sure hearing the same complaint can get tedious. I watched (a tiny part of) this on an airline flight. These airlines like to collect data. They also claim to offer the best of all kinds of experiences, in this case "my seat back experience". You can save your choices, unfinished movies, etc. for another flight. That's data saved to enhance the passenger's experience.
I'm pretty sure data is also collected for use by those choosing the in-flight entertainment, as in, which movies might stay up for longer and what to ditch quickly. Would the users of this data even keep up with how long people stick with one "piece of content"? I know they can easily enough. Wouldn't it be neat to be on the combination IT/Marketing team tasked with figuring out WHY movies were abandoned at... hey, the same spot every time, and only when the passenger has a non-black sounding name. What could this mean?
The director of Eternity could really use that kind of feedback. Until he gets the report from the Marketing/IT team, this is the feedback.
* Per IMDB, she is one Meg Roe.
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The Domino Theory - it's not about pizza
Posted On: Saturday - November 7th 2026 8:19PM MST
In Topics: Commies The Russians Trump China
This post is especially aimed at our younger readers. Younger readers may not enjoy history (I know I didn't until my 30s), modern education sucks to the point where it's hard to get any good truthful history there, and even if you seek it out voraciously, it's not the same as having BEEN THERE.
No, I was NOT in 'Nam. I was not "there", next to the radio, that'd be, or reading a 1940's newspaper either, when President Truman had allegedly first used the term "Domino Theory" to justify sending US military aid to Greece and Turkey, both with internal struggles involving Communists. I WAS, however, around during a portion of the Cold War. I read from too many people who act as if the Cold War wasn't any big deal, when it was THE foreign policy issue for America for 40 years.
I'm glad I found the graphic that's at the top, so I don't have to explain that this post will not be about pizza*. Who plays dominos, or WITH dominos anymore, right? I have seen, though, some nice videos of amazing displays of the LITERAL Domino Effect. If you don't know it, see the graphic, from which comes the VIRTUAL Domino Effect terminology, and then we linked to this very short introduction from the site History Crunch in our post China's Covid~Zero testing, health apps, and the human domino theory from the Chinese Kung Flu re-panic.
Yes, fun with dominos often involves setting them up such that one knocks the next one down, which knocks the next one, etc., as planned out in great detail The virtual domino effect involved countries around the world going Communist, which caused them to support becoming, and affect nearby countries to become, Communist themselves, until the Free World (the 1st World as opposed to the Communist 2nd World and the "developing", i.e. shithole-level, 3rd World) was, if we were lucky, that only non-red spot on the map, called America.
This falling of dominos started during the latter stages of WWII. One can argue the justification for America's role in the war, with plenty of alt-history speculation of how the following wouldn't have happened. We won't do that here. Let's just recall that the Soviet Union, already Communist for 27 years at the time, took over 8 countries of eastern Europe, with outliers Yugoslavia and Albania being questionably theirs, along with 1/3 of Germany. This East Bloc was under control of the USSR, aka, was a part of the Soviet "Orbit", for 4 decades even.
How far would the Soviets have pushed into Europe, without American led and greatly American-manned response, including the formation of NATO? They wouldn't have just up and stopped due to, "Don't want to pierce that Iron Curtain, do we?" Though I assume there was much organic about the push for Communism in the always-somewhat-dysfunctional Greece and Turkey, leaders in the West knew that the USSR would provide encouragement and support for nations that could end up nicely in their orbit.
Hence, President Truman brought up the "Domino Theory", used for roughly 25 years thereafter. (I will use the end of American involvement in Vietnam the last time it'd have been invoked other than in discussions of its validity in hindsight.)
Within 4 years of the USSR having taken eastern Europe, the question was being asked by important Americans, "Who lost China?" We have some answers, such as Communists working for the US State Department
Note the skinny guy 3rd from the right, wearing the Mao jacket.
Just as the USSR was the lead domino in Europe, China was the lead domino in east Asia. China was the most populated country in the world**, and it was now lost to Communism. Which east Asian country would be knocked down first, with help from China? President Eisenhower talked about the Domino Theory and Vietnam, but it looked like the Korean peninsula would be the first domino to fall 3 years prior. Was it wise for America to lose 50,000 men defending, by the end of it, one half of the area, in that 3 year war?
Had the whole Korean peninsula fallen, with America having stayed away, would the Chinese Communists have looked toward Japan next? They did have a beef with the Japanese as it stood already.
It was regarding Vietnam that the Domino Theory was presented as a reason for America to get involved there. It's easy to say that was a scare tactic in hindsight. After all, Vietnam is now inviting tourists and making the former Cheap China-made crap in full Capitalist mode. With Saigon named after him, Ho Chi Minh is long dead, and things have changed.
Foresight is another story. During the years the Domino Theory was explained as the reason for the American war in Vietnam, could anyone have foreseen that soon after Mao's death, Chairman Deng would free up China economically, rendering the Domino Theory meaningless in that part of the world. (In the meantime, in Europe, the Cold War was all over a decade after that.) No, that Communism wouldn't take over most of the world was not something to be taken for granted.
What do we have now, CNN and FOX viewers convinced that if Russia takes a part of the Ukraine, next thing you know tanks will be rolling west through the Fulda Gap? (Wait, there's no more East Germany. Fulda is well inside Germany now.)
It was a legitimate worry in the past, but the Domino Theory has not been relevant since the alleged "end of history " at the end of the Cold War 37 years ago. Were it to come back in vogue, it'd probably be with America as the lead domino... Who'd be left in the world to contain Communist Amerika?
* We've gone over this in comments years ago - NY style is inarguably THE BEST.
** China had half a billion people at the time Mao Zedong took the place. America had 145 million then. What's more amazing is that China had more people in the 1850s than the US has NOW (even including 50 million illegals)! That was in the low 400 Millions, estimated vs. the US at 25 million then.
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After a good start, Trump's work on Job #1 likely to cease.
Posted On: Thursday - November 5th 2026 2:41PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Trump
Even during his 1st term President Trump DID accomplish quite a few things to lower the immigration rates. This was done almost all under the radar, while the Legacy Media was attacking and distracting him, the UniParty was (then too) of no help, and he didn't even pick employees that were of much help.
Peak Stupidity had a series of posts from late in that term, mid-October '20, of which the 2nd - President Donald Trump: the Bad, **the Good**, and the Ugly included a lot of welcome but short-lived good news on the existential issue. Our info for that post came from a VDare (still in business then) article by one "Washington Watcher II, NYT Delivers Unintentional Endorsement Of Trump's Immigration Triumph. The title indicates that what the New York Times was livid about was some pretty good news!
That was then. Dark Brandon and his minions not only reversed it all but, as we all know, went throttle wide open arranging a bigger invasion than had ever been seen, to the tune of 10-12 million MORE invaders. Worse yet, from the way it was accomplished, it was a 100x larger Mariel Boatlift - see We are all Miamians now.
Trump-47's work against the Population Replacement Programme started off gangbusters, starting on January 20th last year. We were excited hereabouts, there was then that big H1B visa fight, deportations started, and now it's been nearly 2 years.
To sum the work up in a nice pictorial essay, with the graphs below being about half the pictures, the great pro-White activist Jared Taylor had published What Trump Hath Wrought in The Unz Review.*
I'm taking all of Mr. Taylor's graphs - he didn't make them - and posting them right here. Our readers may want to click to his essay for some small explanations. He's a good writer, and this is all pretty quick reading.
Otherwise, I'll paste in a few comments below each here. It's possible I'll add a few points later, but I'll note this so comments by readers don't stop making sense.
Note, the only other time this went down at all, was during Trump-45, from '19-'20 by a measly 700,000. It’s steeper now. This is not the be-all-to-end-all, as kids are American-born from these people, and then foreign-born people die too.
These are apprehensions. It’s at ~12,000/mo, best I can read this. That still would be nearly 150,000 yearly, a nothingburger were it still the year 2000 or so, but, that aside, almost all these people are being sent back. During Brandon’s time, as we all here have heard about, they were being sent into the interior of America in those high numbers, 1/4 million a month at times!
Great numbers on the LEEGULL side! What’s confusing to me is that student visas are NOT immigrant visas, and I’m pretty sure H1B’s aren’t either by the law, though de facto, they’ve been. The light purple, the biggest chunk at this point, is mostly family reunification visas, per Mr. Taylor, but there are a myriad others within those numbers. They’re WAY down, as are all of them.
A million a month rate, sending most illegal aliens home (with the rest having self-deported) by the end of the term won’t happen. 10,000 daily, or 300,000 monthly
ICE doesn't need 100 747’s a day, per one UR commenter – they have narrow-body Airbuses flying for Global Crossing and this Eastern Air Express that take the illegals out of the country from detentions centers in Miami and Louisiana. The old Air Wisconsin has some airplanes flying smaller groups to the detention centers in Alexandria and that airport in the Everglades. ICE has been working on building more places to temporarily hold people for transport. Peak Stupidity has written about this big operation that was, until a couple of days ago, being built-up, in many posts with the Immigration Stupidity topic key.
These next 2 together are not on the same time scale. These are important too.
The President's State Department has a lot of discretion on visa-approvals. Here, the Naturalization approval rate and the "asylum" approvals are at the discretion of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). They work for Trump. There's more to the asylum approvals though, as there have been immigration judges by the thousands that have been working per Ann Coulter's "It's not over until the immigrant wins" rule for decades ... until Trump's people mass-replaced these traitors.
Yeah, now that the "Temporary" status has been ended, how many are being sent home. I don't know.
Tuesday's election results will been used as a big cease & desist order. I don't know how much of any of this will keep going, much less ramp up to the levels we need (on deportations in particular). A rebuttal to this is that "Hey, you wrote that all this is being done by administrative action. Trump can keep that up." I would like to think so. On a good day, on the right meds, sure, that sounds good.
I know what the ctrl-left is like though. Veto or not, the D-run Congress will find a way to pass laws that include the defunding and destruction of Trump's anti-PRP efforts. The now heavily leftist States** will fight all of this action, and I know which way the courts will rule, even before they've been packed.
In the comments here, as started up by E.H. Hail, there is a big discussion of "Who lost MAGA?" All fingers point to that one orange man, so the question is how. We know that too, generally, and I'll leave that discussion to continue there and for another day. At this point, the graphs above show what has been, and what could have been and more, had Trump not completely screwed the pooch. It's been a bad week.
* Thank you, Ron Unz, for your fairness. As I've been realizing slowly, and as has been nailed own for me recently, the man has no problem at all with the PRP. Still, he still publishes Mr. Taylor's work.!
** The turning of Texas is bad not only because it's a BIG State but, for this existential issue, that it's a border State. Instead of the Governor and Texas law enforcement fighting against the FedGov's opening the border wide, as during Dark Brandon, it'll be the other way around. Texas may invite strange violent foreigners from around the World, and what will the Trump Administration alone do about it?
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University Planet-level Multiplication - that ain't workin'
Posted On: Wednesday - November 4th 2026 10:02PM MST
In Topics: University Global Climate Stupidity
This post comes to you from the back room in a dingy old VFW Hall, where your Peak Stupidity bloggers are working on their first steps of an expensive 12-step program. The election last night was hard on us, so we're still on Stage 1, Gun Cleaning.
We'll get back to the politics, but here is some roots stupidity for this evening.
SciTechDaily, errr, that'd be Scientific Technology Daily, I guess, reports straight from the scientific literaturein Human Bodies Are Producing Two Billion Tons of CO2 a Year. Should we be worried? Should we breathe in more and out less? I hope I'm not the only one reading this article, as I can't help very much all by myself.
A new study reveals that the amount of carbon dioxide produced by human metabolism has increased dramatically over three decades.That was in bold in the article, so that sound pretty alarming. I wanted to know more.
The carbon dioxide produced by human bodies as they convert food into energy increased by 74% over three decades, according to a University of Bath-led study. By 2015, the global total had reached an estimated 2.05 billion metric tons (2.26 billion U.S. tons) annually, highlighting a substantial component of the Earth’s carbon cycle that scientists had not previously quantified on this scale.Nobody included this CO2 in the whole Climate Modeling Industry because... well, it's a wash.
Unlike emissions from burning fossil fuels, the CO2 humans exhale largely comes from carbon recently absorbed from the atmosphere by plants and transferred through food.Yeah, as I said, or as said by others, "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust." Why is the amount of CO2 exhaled going up, more people in the world?
Published in The Lancet Planetary Health, the study found that annual CO2 production from human metabolism rose from 1.18 billion metric tons (1.30 billion U.S. tons) in 1985 to 2.05 billion metric tons (2.26 billion U.S. tons) in 2015. More than 60% of that increase was attributable to population growth rather than a substantial rise in the amount produced by each individual.So, yep. Later in the article:
“What we’ve found is that the increase is mainly because there are more of us."What is that other 40% of the increase due to, people gaining weight?
They combined these findings with worldwide population and body weight data to calculate how human metabolic activity changed over time.Looks like it.
Professor Javier Gonzalez, who led the research at the University of Bath’s Centre for Exercise, Nutrition and Metabolism, explained:Up till now, any Exercise Science Professor could have done this on the back of an envelope, before we went paperless, at least. They like to measure CO2 output of people walking and running on treadmills and that sort of thing. One of said Professors could, if he had to, add it up, by multiplying measurements by the number of people in the world. Did none of them ever get around to that? Does it matter? No, because:
“We all produce carbon dioxide simply by turning food into energy, but until now we haven’t had a good idea how much that adds up to worldwide.
Why Human Breathing Is Not Driving Climate ChangeYeah, because the people are really not going to put up with being told to watch their breathing and lose a few pounds to save The Planet. Cow farts? SUVs? Yeah, sure.
The researchers emphasize that their findings do not suggest people should exercise less, change their diets, or attempt to reduce the carbon dioxide they breathe out. The purpose is to improve scientific measurements of carbon movement, not identify respiration as a contributor to fossil fuel emissions.
Gonzalez stressed the distinction: “The important thing is that the carbon dioxide we breathe out is not the same as burning fossil fuels. We’re not saying that breathing is driving climate change.
“What this study does is give us a much clearer picture of how much CO2 people produce around the world, and how that is changing as the population grows.By doing one multiplication.
This understanding can help improve the accuracy predictions of carbon reduction programs.”What does he mean? Knowing how to multiply can help build better climate models? Well, he's not wrong, but ...
They wrote a paper, Accounting for global carbon dioxide production from human metabolism between 1985 and 2015: a modelling study, published in The Lancet Planetary Health journal this past October 26th. They are:
Javier T Gonzalez, Lorenzo Lolli, Bruno Spellanzon, Greg Atkinson, Ed Maunder, Alfonso Moreno-Cabañas, Jariya Buniam, Dylan Thompson, James Betts, Philip N Ainslie, Heliodoro Alemán-Mateo, Linda Bandini, Ellen E Blaak, Carlijn V C Bouten, Pascal Bovet, Soren Brage, Regina Casper, Prasangi Dabare, Barry W Fudge, Melanie Gillingham, Annalies H Goris, Michael Gurven, Hinke Haisma, Marije B Hoos, Noorjehan Joonas, Peter Katzmarzyk, Misaka Kimura, Sai Krupa Das, Pulani Lanerolle, Christel L Larsson, Marie Löf, Aviva Must, Marian Neuhouser, Theresa A Nicklas, Robert M Ojiambo, Kirsi H Pietilainen, Susan B Racette, Eric Ravussin, Leanne M Redman, John J Reilly, Susan Roberts, Luis B Sardinha, Analiza M Silva, Srishti Sinha, Anders M Sjödin, Eric Stice, Samuel S Urlacher, Edgar A Van Mil, Jeanine A Verbunt, Jonathan C K Wells, Tsukasa Yoshida, Xueying Zhang, Alexia Murphy-Alford, Cornelia U Loechl, Amy Luke, Michele Novaes Ravelli, Herman Pontzer, Jennifer Rood, Hiroyuki Sagayama, Dale A Schoeller, Klaas R Westerterp, William W Wong, Yosuke Yamada and John Speakman.
I'm not kidding. It took 63 authors. They are all getting credit for co-authoring this paper on multiplication. No... that ain't workin'. That's the way you do it... maybe get a blister on your little finger, maybe get a blister on your thumb.
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Elections: Gateway Pundit with stunning prediction
Posted On: Tuesday - November 3rd 2026 6:17PM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '26 Websites Humor Media Stupidity
Although we still get lots of current political news from the Gateway Pundit, Peak Stupidity feels justified in dissing the hype, drama, nasty advertisements, and other stupidity on that site. This is yet another such occasion. From this afternoon and the GP's War Zone (not Room) daily podcast:
That's stunning news.
The results tonight will be...
It depends.
The results in favor of the Republican candidates today depend on whether a lot of Trump voters get out and vote. If they do, the GOP will win. If they don't, they won't.
Youtube had a 10 hour drumroll I could have embedded. That probably beats the noise we'll hear tonight.
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The Internet of
Posted On: Monday - November 2nd 2026 7:44PM MST
In Topics: Internets Artificial Stupidity
That picture from a BBC story is from an ICA grocery in Sweden, but this story took, or is still taking, place mostly in France, and in Belgium and Luxembourg too. People are hacking into the control software of supermarket refrigerator/freezers and turning them way up via the defrost function. That probably doesn't encompass all the mayhem being created via this refrigeration control software, made by Danish company Danfoss.
I've been to a Carrefour store in France before, one of the chains mentioned in this story: French supermarket fridges get hacked, heating to 122°F and sparking fires. That was a few weeks back, and more recently it's been Delhaize supermarkets in Belgium and Luxembourg.
What do the hackers want? Do they later show up at the stores collecting their favorite foods and buying them for pennies on the Euro? That'd have been a clever plan, but Peak Stupidity reckons this is just another part of the western European protests against... not enough crayons or something?*
No matter what the motive, why would a grocery want a freezer that can be controlled by someone who has no business doing so? Our Artificial Stupidity topic key predates the era of AI, and we've got our share of related posts there bemoaning this stupid idea of "the internet of things". For starters, see The internet of
Is the Internet of Things a thing for lazy people? Too much trouble to go set these units, or take some temperature readings, is it? Sure, having numbers right at your computer is convenient - there could be one guy at corporate headquarters overseeing the functioning of all the stores' refrigeration. Well, do you have to be able to control it too? Once you put all that in the software, could you at least just keep it on some private network, not the whole damn www?
The internet is free, though, in a way. It's easy. Too bad somebody can go change your store freezers' temperature settings and spoil all the food. Keep this sort of stupidity up, and we'll soon have the Internet of Mayhem.
* No, we have an idea what it's really about.
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Must be the Season of the Witch
Posted On: Saturday - October 31st 2026 7:06PM MST
In Topics: Music Holiday from Stupidity
I was supposed to write about the Domino Theory today, a follow-up post about the Cold War and Communism in Asia. That'll be next week, I guess.
It IS Halloween, after all, even though we didn't have any candy out tonight, pumpkins, or anything. There aren't so many kids in the area right now. Next year we'll get back to it anyway.
Peak Stupidity featured The Dead's version of Warren Zevon's great Werewolves of London. The Dead played it at the University of South Carolina's old Carolina Coliseum 41 years ago today.
I had a few "spooky" songs in mind, but the www coughed up this one by 1960's musician Donavan out of Scotland. I remember some soft songs by him, part of that flower-power sound. However, Season of the Witch, from 60 years ago this past August, has more of a The Doors sound. It's a bit mesmerizing in parts. Someone made this very good AI video to go with it. At least I think it's AI, or someone spent a lot of money considering "he owns NOTHING!" (Yeah, that's in the youtube description, haha.)
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Inept Somalian Scammers: If it weren't for those meddling Trump kids!
Posted On: Friday - October 30th 2026 11:27AM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Humor Trump Scams
In his most recent substack post, Rep. Omar’s Ex-Husband/Brother Is Gayer Than a $3 Feather Boa, Steve Sailer asks 2 questions with an easy answer in his subtitle. Does he have this answer on the other side of the paywall? (A simple yes or no from anyone here who contributes to stevesailer.net wouldn’t be cheating, IMO.)
Well, first of all it’s “3 dollar bill”* – you’re not gonna be able to get a feather boa for 3 bucks, even at Family Dollar. (I’ve checked.)
Mr. Sailer then wandered off into the gay brusband story. I don’t care, but if you do, here:
(Ross's Mens Dress-for-Less feather boa sold separately.)
Mr. Sailer's questions are in that italic subtitle: How did she ever expect to pull off this scam? Are Somalis less adept at fraud than we assume?
Here’s your answer, iSteve – no charge:
1) This ain’t the time of the 90% (I looked it up) honest White Minneapolis-Nice crowd of Mary Tyler Moore’s day. It’s down to 60% White (estimated**), and the non-Whites include lots of scamming Somalians. The White people of the left don’t seem too awfully nice anymore, and they sure aren’t honest.
That photo comes from a Gateway Pundit post a couple of weeks back, reporting Protesters Gather in Minnesota Park for “Hands Off Ilhan Omar” and THEY’RE ALL Crazy White Liberals!. These Minnesotan ladies may actually think they're being nice, but try laying down the rule-of-law on a few Somalians, and they will morph to Minnesota-Bitchy.
Then, there are the politicians running (scams in) the Twin Cities now. I don't know who ran the place back when Mary Richards worked at TV station WJM with Lou, Murray, and Ted, but, no it's not like 1976 anymore.
Look at Governor Tim Walz, likely controlled by the Chinese CCP. There's that Mayor Frey who kneeled in remembrance of George Floored, and the Moslem A/G, and, wait, there's Moor! None of them have any problem with all the Somalian scamming. (It might help that they skim off of this too.)
2) The so-called Conservatives are still all Minnesota-Nice, and that means they sure don’t want to be called any nasty names like xenophobe, bigot, or racist, don’tcha’ know. No, no, better let the Somalians come into Minnesota in droves. Gotta be nice. We’ve been soooo nice to them, so they wouldn’t cheat the government out of our tax money, would they? Hard to believe. If they did, though, our Governor and Attorney General would surely take care of this. Honesty is the best policy, you betcha’.
So, no matter how inept and obvious the scamming is, the Somalians understand that nobody there is going to touch, much less prosecute, them. The locals who could do anything are corrupt and too nice, respectively. Somalians may not be adept at very much, but you don't have to be adept in that environment.
Omar Tyler Moor, slightly more adept, or at least more industrious, understands this. That’s why she blatantly raises money from the US taxpayers to help support one side of the Somalian civil war (that her Dad was involved with), She admitted to her REAL constituents that she is a “Somali girl” at heart and would like to go back. I'd say, "Who's stopping ya'?", but she's not done scamming the American taxpayers yet. It's almost like work.
This is why Omar Tyler Moor expected to pull off all the myriad scams she has, Steve Sailer. What she, Tampon Timmah, and the rest DIDN'T expect was the 2nd Presidency of Donald J. Trump!
It's been going on since he took office in early '25, but GP had this summary early this month: Trump Immigration Crackdown Drives Tenfold Surge in Somali Deportation Orders in Minnesota. Better make it a thousand fold ... and nuke the 5th Congressional District from orbit... just to be sure.
Holy moley, I just NOW really looked at the idiotic dollar figure at the top of this graphic! It does have the correct number of zeros - we're talking 18 Billion dollars here, but it has too many commas. WTH? These Gateway Pundit writers and editor Jim Hoft are not numbers people. They're not really words people either, come to think of it. They're DRAMA people. This whole country is one big drama, so the GP has its place in this world.
PS: We do seem to rag on the good Minnesotans here. I realize that most people have really no say in these matters as individual. If they had MOAR G. Andersons, it'd all be a different story up there.
PPS: As Instapundit Glenn Reynolds often tells his readers, "Classical reference in the headline." Yes, it's from an old cartoon. Some will get it, and some won't... till they look it up.
* I had some Bill Clinton 3 dollar bills way back. It was a lot of fun passing those out.
** Wiki showed 62% back in '21. Minneagadishu could be LESS than 60% White, now, 5 years later.
*** I couldn't find any real Minnesotans, don'tch'a know. Hell, these two are in North Dakota, but Fargo's right across the Red River from Moorhead City, MN. Ha, no more Moslem puns there - it really is spelled Moorhead.
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Could stupidity possibly have increased from this '02 local maxima?
Posted On: Thursday - October 29th 2026 6:43PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Immigration Stupidity TV, aka Gov't Media
Stuff Black People Don't Like blogger Paul Kersey has a problem keeping the length of his posts' titles under control. His latest on The Unz Review is Twenty-Four Years After Somalis Flooded Lewiston, Maine (96% White City in 2000), Somali Gang Violence Proves Warnings from White Residents in 2002 About This Growing Diaspora Correct. It's all pretty depressing. Lewiston, Maine has not been the only town culturally destroyed, and within the excerpts (the post is mostly 2 excerpts, from then and now), the Somalians note that if the White people don't like them, "they will simply move on to the next city or town, to Augusta or Bath.
Within one excerpt, this from `Sahan’ in America: Somali Migration Transforms a New England City, Newhouse News Service, August 19, 2002, we observe a level of stupidity not before reached in the realm of immigrational cultural destruction. This was 24 years ago, mind you, so it is possible this local Stupidmax has since been exceeded. ("That's too high, Captain. She's gonna blow!") We'll let our readers do the Calculus III.
One man put a sign on his lawn expressing his displeasure with their presence. That angered Kaileigh Tara, who was mayor when the Somalis first started arriving.
“It blows my mind that they can’t connect the dots, that to sit here in their little world and say, `We don’t want these other people here, the rest of the world can take care of itself,’ that that’s why we were attacked on Sept. 11, that that’s how we get airplanes slamming into buildings,” Tara says.
Wait, what? We were attacked on 9/11 because we hadn’t let enough stupid, strange, hateful foreigners enter the country? You're losing me ...
Peak Stupidity has posted before discussion of the confusion of some people with the Cause & Effect within the Steve Sailer-coined Invade the World / Invite the World program. To summarize, a big misconception is that the invading (as much it’s not what I want) has caused the inviting. That doesn’t explain mass immigration from India, China, or even Mexico. If you look a little further away, it doesn't explain mass immigration from anywhere into Sweden.
However, this is a new version of misunderstanding of Cause & Effect within Invade the World / Invite the World program. This Kaileigh Tara reckons that The US NOT inviting the world causes the world to invade the US.
I think one big problem to begin with is that ANY city in America has a Mayor with a name anything like Kaileigh Tara.
We will now dedicate his post to the actor who single-handedly spawned the genre of face palm memes. That would be the late Patrick Stewart, who died today, most famous for his part as Captain Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation. R.I.P. I hope it all makes better sense now to you, Captain.
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3rd-Party deportation to remote places - A heartwarming sob story
Posted On: Wednesday - October 28th 2026 5:43PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Trump Geography
I don't know if the amusement, encouragement, and enjoyment I get from watching the 8 minute video below - "I Didn't Know Liberia Existed" - Deported to Africa by Trump - is an indication that I'm a bad person. This is supposed to be a big sad sob story. What am I doing wrong?!
Before I kick myself too hard, I will note first that if your Geography knowledge is that bad, I'm not even gonna take out that world's tiniest violin for you ... Get a globe!
Anyway, in its great efforts on dozens and probably hundreds of fronts to halt and even reverse the many sub-programs of the Population Replacement Programme, deportations to 3rd-party countries is one tactic. What DO you do if the deportee's home country doesn't want him back, and why would it, come to think of this?*
Thankfully, SCrOTUS hasn't screwed the pooch on this one**, as it did regarding the Bug-out Baby scam, aka "Birthright Citizenship". Here's what that SCOTUSblog has to say about current law on removals to 3rd-party countries:
Federal law is quite specific as to where a person can be deported to. Specifically, 8 U.S.C. § 1231(b)(2)(E), lists where a noncitizen can be taken, such as the country from which the alien was admitted to the United States, the country where the person is a citizen, the country where the person was born, and so on. The federal statutory provision concludes that only “[i]f impracticable, inadvisable, or impossible to remove the alien to each country described in a previous clause of this subparagraph,” may the person be sent to “another country whose government will accept the alien into that country."With a little squid pro quo - money is involved - Trump has made deals with a number of countries spread out all over the world, as we'll get to in the map below. One wouldn't expect these countries to be 1st World places, as said places are already being overrun with people from those OTHER deals, made by Globalists, Government supported non-Governmental Orgs, etc. Here's the sob story part of SCOTUSblog's article:
From this, it is clear that the final category is meant to be a last resort. Taking people who are from Venezuela and Honduras to a prison in South Sudan – a country where they have no prior connections and cannot speak the language – violates this law. Also, international law, such as the Convention Against Torture, or CAT, would require that individuals have notice of where they are being sent and the opportunity to argue why it would endanger them.Sure, they can argue... in Spanish, which is all the guy from Honduras below speaks. Sure, it's only fair to give them notice, once safely on the ground at the destination.
OK, I'll write more below this heart
The Liberians speak English due to that history in which it was to be a place for Africans to leave America to in order to make their Wakanda back in the Mudder Country. So, as Alarmist, from whom I got this video, noted, this Honduran guy had been in America for 8 years, but he didn't learn a bit of English! No English, no Geography - these people are batting a 0 so far.
It was highly amusing to me, just over a minute in, when the narrator told us that the building on the edge of town was arranged as refugee housing for this 3rd-party deal by the Liberian Refugee Agency. Hahaaa, Liberian Refugee Agency! The whole country might as well be a refugee camp.
Then comes more sob storytelling. The Honduran guy is in this country, with no work and extreme crime, in his words, because he doesn't want to go back to "my country where I am in danger because I have no other alternative..." Let's see, if he really had to run from Honduras as a refugee, there are 2 countries in the way between Honduras and the US, Guatemala and Mexico. Would they not have let him stay, as a refugee? Probably not, but that's not America's problem. The Venezuelan guy passed through even more countries fleeing that violence, 7 for a land voyage, per my count.
Then the clips of ICE from weird angles are designed to show America's Police State. Well, we have some of that, but this ain't it. When you gotta go, you go... or you'll end up in Liberia like this. What follows is a statement that more than 1,000 people are being deported a day, on average. I've gotta agree with this Liberian narrator - that's pretty egregious! If we're going to get serious, it must go up to at least 10X that number.
[Hey, there's a Global Crossing narrow-body Airbus!]
Both of these men made it clear that they had committed no crimes. Carlos even described something about "withholding" and his taxes and SS card. Really? Whose actual documents did this undocumented immigrant use? That aside, NO, everyone deported as an alien HAD committed one big crime at least, breaking into the U.S. of A. Maybe it HAS been treated like a parking ticket for some years, but it's different now. We're treating breaking & entering as a serious crime again. We're removing some folks.
The big sob story comes at 5:45 where Carlos was distraught at having been separated from his family in Dallas, Texas. (Again, he speaks no English after 5 years living in America.) Yes, "muy difficile". I am sure it is. It's the same deal as when an American man gets convicted of a felony. He gets separated from his family when he's sent to prison. It's the same for an American man whose wife divorces him for no reason and is given custody of his kids. Welcome to the party, pal!
One CAN feel sorrow for these two guys in the video, yet still understand that this is justice. We can't show mercy to every criminal who comes here, and they all are. Mercy with no justice is what you'd get in a Matriarchy, right before all hell breaks loose.
At 3 minutes in, the video has a nice map showing to which countries these 25,000 people have been removed.
I had to include this because, contrary to the people in the video, I DO like Geography. Without having gone ahead in the video, I identified all but possibly one country, There's the 5 in central Africa and those 3 countries on its south coast, then Libya (haha, WTH, of all place!), Central America excepting Costa Rica (I guess each has taken deportations from others there), The Dominican Republic, then Guyana, Ecuador, and Paraguay in S. America (I'd take Paraguay, were it my choice, but that's just because of a great Jimmy Buffett song), Uzbekistan, what is that, Kosovo or N. Macedonia, and some country between Romania and The Ukraine that is not on my 20 y/o Wal-Mart globe... ahaaa, Moldova (thank you, google maps).
Back to our point here, I hope this video gets seen far and wide. The interviewer and producer(?) hope so too, so that Americans get all sad and sorrowful and decide to have mercy - we'll just let the country get completely overridden and our people will be gone, is all. Peak Stupidity hopes this video gets around as a big Public Service Announcement. We've played the Rolling Stones song before, but You'd better walk before they make you run.
Nobody in his right mind wants to end up in Liberia. Not many would want to end up in 95% of those other countries that are not home. Don't let it get to that point - go home.
Nice job, Trump & Co.! Nice job, Global Crossing and Eastern Air Express!
I feel bad for those 2 guys - I really do. That didn't keep me from being greatly heartened by this story. No, I'm not a bad guy... I see the big picture that they don't want you to see.
* After all, the Brandon/Mayorkas treasonous hordes were a Muriel Boatlift x 100 - see We are all Miamians now. Just as Cuba didn't want these people ever to return, neither do most of the countries "not sending their best". Mexico, for one, needs the remittance money flowing down.
** It's only a stop-gap decision though.
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Inflation Note: Windshield Washer Fluid
Posted On: Tuesday - October 27th 2026 6:47PM MST
In Topics: Cars Economics Inflation
I'm almost out, after having stocked up with 6 one-gallon bottles a few years back. Only 2 of the vehicles in use at Peak Stupidity headquarters have working windshield washer systems, one with a back one too - how fancy! The other ones, well, it's really a pretty easy system to fix, but this is a low priority repair - I'll use the squeegee at the gas station and hose them off when I have to.
Though I'm looking for a sale under which I'll buy 10 or 12, hell, maybe 20, I expected $4 a gallon at the store as the normal price. (If no sale, I'd have just gotten one or two.) No, no, I stepped into Advance Auto and saw it selling for nearly $6 a bottle! I stepped back out, as I still have a quart left after having topped the 2 vehicles. This was the very same stuff I had bought at $4 a piece roughly 3-5 years back.
I want to compare apples-to-apples here, so I will use non special-sale prices. Going back no more than 21 years, because I know where I was at the time, I was still paying $2/gallon. This washer fluid went from a price of $2/gallon to (let's be conservative and say) $5.50 in 21 years. Let me use Money Chimp's calculator yet again to back out the inflation rate under compounding. We get a hair under a 5% average annual cost increase. That's a number we see in these posts very often from mid- even early- 1990s start points.
Sure, OK, I see that Wal-Mart's got the "All Season" for $4.17/gallon. I believe I'll step in there to stock up. It ain't going anywhere but up in price, and the shelf life of methanol and water is long.
That brings me to some more discussion. The typical bottles of this stuff, the blue stuff, have 30% - 50% methanol, some surfactants (I assume a trace volume-wise), and the rest water. My auto guy friend told me I might want to get the 70% methanol orange stuff that also has a little ethylene glycol. We don't need it for the cold, but, if it's less than double the price of the blue stuff (assuming 30% methanol in the latter), I can water that down and come out slightly ahead. An additional advantage will be a savings in storage space.
I did even think about making my own washer fluid. How expensive is methanol or another substitute alcohol? Where can I get surfactants if I even need them? Then, I'd get some blue die - just keepin' it real.
Oh, wait, look at that! Will this make a good solution, pun not only intended but carefully written? You get 500 gallons of washer fluid out of this, at 13¢ each. Wow! No, not wow - of course you must bring your own methanol (and water, of course). This must be the surfactants, making up 0.2% of washer fluid by volume. Any savings in making this stuff out of the same formula is a function of the price of methanol, or whatever you might use to clean and keep the stuff from freezing and breaking the lines.
Hey, a prepper's gotta prep. That is, even if it's not for the SHTF but only for inflation.*
* I see that I wrote more on this subject in a few paragraphs in the post The different levels of Prepping and in The current real estate boom as prepping for inflation.
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Don't just sit there storing value!
Posted On: Monday - October 26th 2026 7:06PM MST
In Topics: Economics Inflation Scams People's Revolt
Note that this ZeroHedge blurb says "Sponsored Content". Those blurbs are for ads, so I don't click and read them.
I can tell what the sponsored content would have been getting at, had I read this one. You can make loans using your precious metals as collateral or something. It may not even be a total scam.
However, the headline implies that if one's gold is just sitting there, that's a bad thing financially. Nope, you're wrong, Mr. Monetary Metals.
That gold is just sitting there, in a safe, vault, back yard, silt under the lake after that unfortunate boating accident. Wherever - errr, if you can find it ... it's there storing value, as opposed to, say, pieces of green paper or bits on a computer that stand for lower and lower potential spending value as the days go on.
Yes, the gold just sits there. That's the whole point.
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Riot inspiration, then and now
Posted On: Saturday - October 24th 2026 5:52PM MST
In Topics: Commies Lefty MegaStupidity
Peak Stupidity has been remiss in writing about the rioting in France, which is spreading throughout western Europe. Perhaps it's not even necessary to state for our readers that we don't think the protests, arson, and other destruction over there are about the lack of crayons and pencil-top erasers in the French Government schools. It's just more destruction by violent black (and for Europe, for something completely different!) Moslems*, who have big grievances. I'll list but a few:
) MOAR free shit!Many such
2) They won’t let us grope the White hotties even during sexual emergencies!
3) The French kids humiliate us by getting better grades due to not being stupid.
4) The beauty of these fancy cathedrals and museums are an affront to our culture!
5) We never get any support money from Singham, Soros & Sons until we get out in the streets burning and breaking stuff.
That's not what I'm here to write about this fine morning. I read yet another Gateway Pundit article about the goings on in western Europe, including a planned big strike**: Communist Parties Cross Borders: Portugal, Spain and Greece Join Calls for a November 20 Youth Strike. Something struck me in there:
A coalition of student and youth organizations across Europe has called an International Youth Strike under the slogan “Fight for Our Future, Not Their Wars.”I had a flashback to the Vietnam protest era. No, I was neither there protesting nor there beating heads, but it was a flashback to my LEARNING about the Vietnam protest era. The protests, BTW were not solely an American thing, as much as Americans, and S. Vietnamese, of course, were the men fighting that war. There was the same sort of protesting in western Europe back in those mid-1960s. There's something about these Communists organizers today using the Establishment's war-mongering as an inspiration for protests, rioting, and destruction that prompts a comparison to 60 years ago.
I take it the organizers today are referring to increasing European involvement in the Ukrainian fight against Russia. No, western European countries sure don't need to get involved in this. However, as of now, there are no French young men being drafted to go fight, maybe get maimed or die in the Ukraine. It's another log on the fire, but making these protests anti-war is not something I see as being a successful tactic.
It certainly was in the 1960s, in America, at least. Young men were being drafted and many came back in body bags. I tend to think that if the big protests hadn't been about the Vietnam War, they may not have gotten as big as they were. America was still a deeply Conservative country. How many young Americans, say the 90% White guys, were going to get out in the streets on behalf of Civil Rights without the war being a part of it?
It's material for another post, but, without taking the subsequent history into account, i.e., without hindsight, the Vietnam war had more of a reason to be fought than some war to support the Ukraine against Russia.
Yet, just as in the 1960s, the Communists behind the scenes are throwing as many logs into the fire as they can come up with. What else can they come up with? If it were up to me, the rioters would be told to raise hell on behalf of border control, "Remigration NOW!" (I guess you could get the Africans to go along if they could still smash and steal stuff - the Moslems might get wise to it.)
However, you can bet that this protesting in France and now more of western Europe will never be about anything that's good for the future of France, Spain, Portugal, wherever. That's not at all the point. The purported reason for the rioting doesn't matter to the Communists behind the scenes. Societal destruction is what they're after.
* Some of the Moslems are black, and some of the blacks are Moslems. It's not my day to keep track of these people.
** Wait, how will we know if they're striking if most of these people do nothing for a living but collect welfare? Same thing, not my monkeys, not my circus.
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Sikh California Man ICES Wife
Posted On: Friday - October 23rd 2026 8:33PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity
We'll rant separately about the ctrl-left's use of Muh Constitution to attempt to turn Americans against ICE's starring role in Deportation Nation. For today, we'll start by noting that Peak Stupidity has seen some headlines about this one of many instances of ICE being put under scrutiny for bad deeds.
This post won't work unless we go in reverse order in our referenced article, so first, we read of "California man" Gurunder Singh's complaint:
According to the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office, Gurinder initially told detectives that ICE agents had taken Jasmine into custody while she was checking the mail outside their Sacramento residence.That sounds too risky. They shoulda nabbed her in the middle of the night while she was putting up yard signs. Jasmine Singh was Mr. Singh's wife - that does sound like a good Californian name.
ICE up and took her away which is surely unConstitutional. We want deportations, but was Mrs. Singh and illegal alien, and was this the proper way to detain her? That was another news story that could have influenced the America public against ICE, until... California Man Who Blamed ICE for Wife’s Disappearance Charged with Her Murder After Her Burned Remains Were Discovered — His Story Collapses as Detectives Uncover Shocking Details. I sure hope he burned her AFTER he killed her, but I'm not familiar with sick Sikh customs. I should probably get more multicultural. However:
There was just one major problem with his story. ICE confirmed that no immigration enforcement activity had taken place at the residence.So, ICE had nothing to do with this story. Nobody was detained by them, as the guy ICED his wife himself. I suppose Mr. Singh knows what works in these times, but, still, not being a real Californian or American, he was never a Boy Scout. It's surely against both the Scout Law and Scout Oath to kill one's wife like this, but, still, one does learn how to make a proper fire.
The allegation that federal immigration agents were responsible for Jasmine’s disappearance began to unravel as detectives investigated her whereabouts. And what authorities ultimately uncovered was far more disturbing than the husband’s original claim. Jasmine Gill was last seen at her Sacramento residence on September 30, 2026.
Four days later, on October 4, her cousin reported her missing to authorities. Investigators also learned that the couple was involved in an ongoing divorce and child custody dispute. Meanwhile, authorities in neighboring El Dorado County had made a horrifying discovery. On October 1, just one day after Jasmine was last seen alive, burned human remains were discovered in the county.
I THOUGHT Jasmine was a Californian or an American at least until:
The same fundraiser said the family was seeking assistance with funeral arrangements, returning Jasmine’s remains to India, and supporting her infant son.Ahhh, geeze! The poor kid... but couldn't have this whole story minus the bogus ICE tall tale have taken place in India? One does tend to wonder whether these two entered America legally or not, hence should have been sent home before all this trouble.
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Moor on Omar
Posted On: Thursday - October 22nd 2026 10:30AM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Female Stupidity Legal Stupidity
There are various flavors, if you will, of stupidity that we would surely like to cover here, and variety is the spice of
I haven't got my heart set on jail time or deportation actually happening on the show. However, the latest utterances out of Mrs. Omar have been awfully suspicion-inducing. (Just as with Mary Tyler Moore, she's got a different show name - anyone remember?)
OK, just to keep you up from previous episodes, there has been the birth year change. Omar had her US Congressional staffers do that, as, at this level of visibility, someone might check that she DIDN'T enter America as a minor. That's important.
Even more important, as it would make the first question moot, is whether her Dad the Somalian warlord has been naturalized AT ALL. There is some type of "certificate of non-existence" around. Proving a negative is not usually easy, but this is a letter from the USCIS Archive branch (don't quote me on all details) that asserts that no record could be found.
Then, there's the marriage to her brother, some sort of crime in itself, but a bigger one as related to immigration fraud. Mrs. Omar's been asked about this before an number of times. Her answers have been in the negative, but her latest answer, since she has resurfaced is... not so legally... sound?
As PJ Media's Matt Margolis describes it, Ilhan Omar’s Answer on Marrying Her Brother Was Just Painfully Bad. I'm gonna go backwards in the article for suspense:
Consider the record. In 2016, Omar said the allegations were "absurd and offensive." In 2018, she broadly denied them to the Associated Press, insisting the claims were “disgusting lies.”Now, the story is:
And the setting literally couldn't have been friendlier. MS NOW host Chris Hayes was clearly running a softball interview designed to help her, and on Wednesday he lobbed the obvious question, asking whether there was any "weird kernel of truth" to the long-running claim that her ex-husband, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, is actually her brother.Yeah, that might be something a lawyer would have told her to say, but he should be fired. "Not to my knowledge" works fairly well for some minor memories one
"Not to my knowledge," Omar said.
What is it that she might not be knowledgeable about? Is it whether this Ahmed Nur Said Elmi is her brother? Is it whether she married him or not? Or is it that she's has no knowledge of what a "kernel of truth" means? Is she not knowledgeable about what is weird and what isn't? Now, I can believe THAT! Yes, Omar, marrying your brother is weird here. You have to go back.
PS: All that is just about the immigration fraud. Then there's all the financial scamming. From the same article:
Pressed on her finances, Omar had the audacity to claim she's "working class" and lives "paycheck to paycheck." Even there, she's clearly lying. Documents she filed had suggested a combined net worth of roughly $30 million with her husband. Of course, she later claimed it was a mistake and revised the figure downward. The D.C. U.S. Attorney’s Office is now investigating those finances separately.Oh, that was 30 million in Somalian money. She had no knowledge of the exchange rate... plus, it was in a suitcase, last seen at the TSA line at MSP... and it's gone...
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Paul Volcker has left the building
Posted On: Wednesday - October 21st 2026 7:37PM MST
In Topics: Music Economics Inflation
Alt-Title: There will be no Volcker 2.0.
Paul Volcker was appointed FED Chairman by President Jimmy Carter in the Summer of 1979. His job, should he have chosen to accept it - and he did! - was to jack interest rates up toward the highest skyscrapers in NYC in order to bring down the high inflation of those times. I mean, instead of pushing a FED Chairman to lower the rates, so "My economy is GREAT!!", Presidents actually thought and cared about the economic future of America back 47 years ago. What a concept!
Four years back, Peak Stupidity discussed some aspects of the high inflation of the 1970s, including my buying into the delusional "wage-price spiral" canard, when the real reason was very simple, in Mister, we could use a man like Chairman Volcker again.... We waxed a little nostalgic there, as the Brandon-era talk of inflation brought back memories:
Just under 50 years later, older Americans may be feeling that Deja vu thing. It took long enough - as Peak Stupidity, with our Inflation topic key has long noted, real inflation since the mid-1990s has averaged 4-5%, not the 1-2% that our BLS green-eyeshade boys have been publishing for years. Now, we hear much more talk about "Hey, I just paid $7,99 for a pound of whatever. Can you believe that?!", and "I don't know why it's more, Sir. It's everything. Shit's goin' up."One of the investor guru type writers on Zerohedge has tried to make a graphical comparison between today's inflation and that of the late 1970s ("late" as in dead, I guess) including the price of gold too. The graph below is from "ASYMMETRIC RESEARCH"'s post The 1970s Inflation Chart Everyone's Sharing, and What It Means for Gold.
Sure, everyone's sharing this chart, including, at this point, Peak Stupidity. We don't fall for the investor guru nonsense, but there's a point to be made here.
Mr. RESEARCH* has slid 1967 to '83 inflation data 48 years later to line up with inflation starting in '15. He did the same for gold prices The absolute values are different between then and now, but it's the shape of the curves he's interested in selling us on. 17 years of data starting in '15 though, means he must project, yeah, sure, "model", the inflation and gold curves through 2031.
We modelled where CPI could head if the historical relationship held and we were indeed at the equivalent of September 1978. The model pointed to US inflation gradually rising over the following two years, reaching 12% and surpassing the 9% peak recorded in 2022.Spelling aside, that ain't modeling. That's making curves match by... matching them. Granted, the already existing parts of the inflation curves do match fairly well.
We are supposed to assume the inflation curves, hence the price of gold, will stay superimposed (but off in value). Yeah, look at that 1979, which should match 2027, though it looks like 2028. Oh, yeah, that's right. That's when Paul Volcker lit up the interest rate Estes model rocket. So, for the current inflation graph to match, do we just need another Paul Volcker, appointed by... well surely not Donald Trump? Even if Trump did that, here's what we explained 4 years back:
Our post title here is a trick. We CAN'T use a man like Chairman Paul Volcker again. As Peter Schiff knows and has explained, Ron Paul has also, and Peak Stupidity has many times on these web pages, the FED is between a rock and a hard place on interest rates. Keep the rates the same, and inflation goes up, up, up, up! (I've been shattered!) Raise them seriously (not 50 basis points*****, no, much more than 500 basis points), and the stock market crashes and the Federal Budget is seen to be the sham that it is (with more than half of tax receipts going to interest).There will be no repeat of 1979. Paul Volcker has left the building, and not just for lunch.
What a great sound! This is from 1996 and one of the best music albums of all time, Melon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. I forgot how fun this video was too, with nostalgia from, at that point only a couple of decades earlier. (See, I could have ridden in that tire in 1979, but not now, without upchucking material from the 1970s.)
The Smashing Pumpkins were:
Billy Corgan - vocals, guitars, drum machine, synthesizers.
James Iha - guitar, backing vocals.
D'arcy Wretzky - bass guitar, backing vocals.
Jimmy Chamberlin - drums.
Alan Greenspan - FED Chairman at the time.
* His real name is Rick Rule. I made the effort to check out his substack site. It's pretty. There may be something to his reporting, but it's not my thing...
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Attention Amazon Shoppers: ID's please - Part 2
Posted On: Tuesday - October 20th 2026 7:00AM MST
In Topics: Internets Websites Curmudgeonry Economics Big-Biz Stupidity
Continued from yesterday's Part 1.
Yesterday I wrote that Amazon's quest to have more of my info before I can shop till I drop might be about upholding their reputation against payment scammers. However, that doesn't explain that one can no longer even read more reviews (than those few "top" ones shown first) without having signed in.
It came to me like a flash a few days ago. This is about real-time pricing, isn't it? Perhaps I'm not using the appropriate "industry" term, but I refer to the recently gained ability of sellers to adjust prices nearly instantaneously based on demand.
Demand can depend on conditions such as, for the famous Coke* machine example, outside air temperature. As the machine's thermocouple detects temperatures farther above a comfortable 75 F, the software raises the displayed and required prices per some schedule determined by expert marketing folk who used experimental data from the Sports Physiology department at Cornell (why Cornell?). That grant money is gonna pay off. At 95F, as you the customer get out from under that POS car with rusted exhaust hangers, you'll scrounge for that $6.45 that this coke machine asks for at the moment. Ker-ching!
Does that mean when it's 15F outside, the machine should start spitting out frozen over coke bottles for free? Only fair, you know... but this will probably only happen once Coca~Cola IT has gone completely Indian.
I don't know if Amazon is the only one, and I haven't personally experienced it, but I've read of this practice being used in web sales. It's all software anyway - no hardware involved - so why not use some demand change factors to adjust prices? I've been told by a friend that he saw a great deal on something, but the next time he looked at it, maybe just hours later, it was higher in price. That could be just bad timing, but it wasn't. (One can get a friend to try it and see some curious discrepancies, but I'm getting ahead of myself.)
Yeah, but how do you determine demand from customers who you don't know and aren't anywhere nearby?
To practice real-time or near-real-time pricing, you use all the data you can collect on HOW the customer is doing his shopping. How interested in this product is he? Did he put this pack of chainsaw chains into the virtual shopping buggy already and leave it for some time? Did he click on lots of different chains from various manufacturers, spending 15 minutes on it? Did he click on many reviews pages ... wait... he CAN'T right now until he ... ohhhh.
There are the "cookie" files on the client side, i.e. info stored on the users computer/device. There is also lots of info stored on amazon's servers. With memory as cheap as it is, the sky's the limit. It's important for the software to connect up page views and such from the same customer. For the cookies, if a customer changes devices, that info is lost. On the amazon side, a customer can be kept track of by, you got it, his account. Info on customers like me, shopping and buying as a "guest", rather than after logging in with a username/email, cannot be connected this way from day to day or even minute to minute.
How can we best get the most money out of each customer, not just via allegedly good deals and "free" shipping, but by raising prices for items based on algorithmically determined demand? Ker-ching! Except, this doesn't work for guests. Amazon's old guests could check prices later on a different device, not to mention just delete the appropriate cookie, and all that effort by the marketing and IT geniuses can't be applied.
Bezos - memo to staff: No MOAR guests.
Peak Stupidity Moderator - memo to self: Shop elsewhere if possible.
PS: Is this real-time pricing idea an economic Libertarian's dream? Shouldn't we (Libertarians) be all FOR this idea? I don't actually know. I think it would make for a good post and some good discussion another time.
* Fine. Don't sue us, Coca~Cola, as we mean "coke" generically. Peak Stupidity understands that your specific flagship product is the real thing, and everything goes better with it, and you all would like nothing better than to just teach the world to sing. WE! GET! THAT! Also, WE! OWN! NOTHING! [Thx - PS Legal Dept.]
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Attention Amazon Shoppers: ID's please - Part 1
Posted On: Monday - October 19th 2026 4:43PM MST
In Topics: Internets Websites Curmudgeonry Big-Biz Stupidity
We're not nearly done with Omar Tyler Moor here at Peak Stupidity. The last couple of weeks somewhat turned out to be Female Stupidity fortnight, with a special focus on Mrs. Moor. We can't do this 24/7 or we might lose our female reader...
... ship.
Nope, I wasn't shopping for a $47 MAGA hat but just having fun with this.
I've been fuming about this deal off an on for a year or more. Amazon.com no longer lets me buy stuff as a "guest". The account I'd had since the time all anyone wanted was an email, username (often one and the same) and simple password to deal with even your biggest sites like Amazon, was lost to me some years ago. I would go look through some yahoo emails for this info, but then yahoo locked me out of 20-30 year-long accounts.
Regular readers will know that this blogger likes to remain as private/anonymous as possible, especially to Big Biz. I'd learned a lesson about this in the middle 1990s, when it had nothing to do with the www.
I realized when creating a new account with these people that they really, really want a positive ID on you. They sent a code to an obscure email address I made just for this, but that wasn't good enough. I was supposed to stick in a phone number for "multi-factor identification". Not agonna' do it... no how, no way. I know, when I buy something they've got the CC info and the address to ship to, so they do know who I am. I'm just not going through this.
What exactly is wrong with letting me buy things as one of your guests, Amazon? You get the CC information, and I'll give you an email address, real or fake as you wish, so what's your problem with this?
My first thoughts were that to protect its reputation for reliability, in the payments sense, Amazon marketing and "tech" people figured they need this extra info to prevent too much of the Indian scamming (see post linked-to above), internal or external. From my inside information on the company from the turn of the century, I can tell you that the servers involved with payments were pretty darned secure even then - only certain people who needed to could go into the rooms or even floor of the building where these servers resided. I can also tell you that, for the possibility of internal hacking vs external, Indians could be involved now either way. Amazon's IT workforce was large majority White at the turn of the century. I highly doubt it is now. Is that a problem? I'm just
Yeah, but not only can't one buy anything without having a positively ID'd account*, one can't even look at more than the top few reviews. That was very surprising to find out. Why not?
I also had wanted to see what the 1-star reviews had to say. I figured they wouldn't be about the material and workmanship of this particular hat, haha.
I've got an idea of what this is all about that has nothing to do with payment security and scammers. I'll speculate in a post tomorrow. (See, rather than having a paywall with an interesting question to be answered just beyond it, we get you hooked on reading here this way. Still there??)
Whatever Amazon.com's reason is for making it harder for me to buy things, it has definitely worked. A year ago there was a great deal on chainsaw chains**, as suggested to me by a friend. OK, Amazon, I tried. After that I went to the website of the manufacturer (or brand, whatever) and found these chains for the same good price. I'm happy this company got the extra money that they'd have forked out to you all. Too bad, so sad.
* I suppose one could get a burner phone to use with that non-identifiable email account and a gift card to buy stuff - it's still gotta arrive to a physical place. Will paranoia destroy ya'?
** They were so cheap that I don't know if it'll be worth it to have any of them sharpened when they get dulled by my screwing up and hitting the dirt. How long will they last? So far, so good.
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Campaign for Green Placenta goes Horribly Wrong
Posted On: Saturday - October 17th 2026 4:35PM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '26 Lefty MegaStupidity Humor ctrl-left Female Stupidity
I have had a hard time getting started here, because I just can't get past the name of the protagonist. The current Arizona District #8 US Congressional candidate goes by the name of Bernadette Greene-Placenta. She's the one who... yes, I know, she might have been better off keeping her the surname from her Mama's side, the Greene, rather than hyphenating it with her Mexican husband's one (named after a town in Orange County, California that also cracks me up!) ... says she was raped while putting out campaign signs well after midnight on in her Phoenix district.
OK, wait, AI has corrected me on the surname as I looked up the background of this piece of work:
Note: The “placenta” in the query appears to be a misspelling of “Placentia,” the part of her name. There is no credible information linking her to any unrelated “placenta” content; the relevant public information is above.Thank you so much, AI!
Benjamin Bartee (goes by "Armageddon Prose)"*, via ZeroHedge reports the story of this Arizona Democrat’s October Surprise Rape!** Let's hear HER SIDE, because women don't lie about rape... it's much more likely they're crazy and it's the voices inside their heads talking. Remember it's not a lie if those voices believe it.
Hmmmm, something has gone wrong here ... That was me. This browser tells me that "Youtube refused to connect". Here's a link for the yt version.. Adam Smith has provided me with the bitchute video below. (I usually check rumble now, but I hadn't checked bitchute for this because hasn't been very helpful in the past. Thanks, Adam.) You still have to sign in though, it appears, to me, at least.
Here's the ZH/Ben Bartee side:
Believable rape survivor Bernadette:The rest, as they, say, is Herstory.
· Has no earthly idea where her rape occurred
· Has no description to offer of her rapists beyond “black boots and small feet”
· Didn’t go to police until two weeks post facto
· Didn’t tell anyone in media until last week even though she’s running for major office and believes the motivation for the midsummer eve’s rape was political in nature — fresh on the heels of the Cornell 7 rape hoax hysteria
· Didn’t take any pictures of the alleged injuries she suffered
· Didn’t go to the hospital despite having been knocked unconscious
· “Took multiple showers and washed the clothes she was wearing” immediately afterwards, thereby destroying any forensic evidence
· Doesn’t sound like a rape victim at all to anyone with an objective ear. On the contrary, she comes off like a fruitcake who’s been consuming too many TikTok reels from fake rape survivors and their advocates, who is enjoying very much the limelight her rape tale has afforded her
At one point, because she was kicking, she says in the video, the rapist said "It's not worth it" and got off (her, I assume). The exact words: "I started fighting, and he said, no, it's not worth it." Hahaa, yes those are the words of a rapist in her mind! No, she's not worth it.
As exasperating as it is to watch, I urge the reader to watch a good part of the video (yt or bitchute) as it's amazing to watch this one long lie. I've heard plenty of lies, but I've never seen someone lie for THIS LONG in one stretch!
It's not worth even listening to these women. The Kelly Kapoor tactic will eventually change things such that, per a ZH commenter, "... it won't be long before a woman won't be believed if she says she has a headache."
Yeah, but, there's an election going on!
Would you rape a woman with a Greene Placenta? The warning was right there on the sign!
* Mr. Bartee is, in his own words, "an exile" in the Far East, Bangkok, Thailand to be exact. He's got a book that might be interesting, Broken English Teacher: Notes From Exile .
** They featured the same story as reported by ZH's own "Tyler Durden" a couple of weeks ago in Arizona Democratic House Candidate Raped While Repairing Campaign Signs: Report. There is probably more comment entertainment there by now, but the more recent article has a good video.
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[UPDATED 10/19:] Swapped out video for a bitchute one, thanks to commenter Adam Smith. Added on line about Herstory.
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MOAR on Omar Tyler Moor
Posted On: Saturday - October 17th 2026 10:13AM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity
Let's just imagine she were a White girl from Romania instead of Somalia. She had lied on forms and gotten into a fake marriage to get into America, and her clan here too weren't exactly on the up-and-up either. Her little Romanian Community enclave was able to get her into political office, so she could pay it forward with favors such as appointments to government positions.
I don't think I'd hate her as much as I do this Ilhan Omar. (Peak Stupidity has been known to dub her IOU, because 3-letters as names is a thing, and hers is Ilhan Omar, Undocumented, and, more recently, Mary Tyler Moor, cause, very funny to me!)
What I detest is not JUST the extreme un-American, un-Western foreignness of this Moslem in that Moslem get-up - the first Congressman to be allowed to wear headgear on the floor, cause Moslem:
The same day that the first two female Muslim congressional representatives in history took office, the House voted to permit religious headwear on the floor for the first time in 181 years.I guess a Milwaukee Brewers ball cap would still out of the question.
The change, which was passed as part of a rules package, amended an 1837 rule that was originally intended to ban representatives from wearing hats on the House Floor. After a vote of 234 to 197 on Thursday, Congress members will now be allowed to wear head coverings, such as kippahs, hijabs and turbans.
More detestable is that this foreigner who's gotten into one of the 454 slots in the US House of Representatives does not even pretend to care about America, other than in support of every Communist program designed to destroy it. Ilhan Omar is in Congress to support Somalians... not even Minnegadishan Somalians but Somalians in Somalia. It's not even all the Somalians in Somalia either, as, since her late father had been a warlord on one side of a civil war before he and her non-minor daughter* entered the US, she supports the Somalians on one side of that feud against the other. But, see, she needs American taxpayer money to do it, in the $Billiions.
The fully detestable Ilhan Omar is in the US Congress for the purpose of running a civil war, and she's perfectly happy to go back once she's served her purpose. She, don't, don't wanna live like a refugee.... She is after all, a "Somali girl", as she told her REAL constituents. (It's an urban myth that any American or American-developed software could ever translate her own language into English.)
This video had changed URL codes on Rumble, so I've got it back into the old post MTG v IOU**, and here it is again:
I wouldn't care if it somehow turned out that Omar Tyler Moor is completely innocent of all the immigration and fraud/scam charges anyone has ever come up with. She's a completely foreign traitorous piece of camel dung that has no business being in America, much less in the US Congress.
PS: Yes, I know, there are other piece of dung there, but it's all-American dung.
* That's one of the important criminal acts that Mrs. Moor could be prosecuted for. She had her underlings change her birth date later by one year, once she got into the US Congress, in order to obscure the lie she told upon entry to the US.
** Yeah, we'll revisit MTG and her opinion on the legal activity against IOU in another post. Politics makes strange... bedwoman. (BedouinWomen?)
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