Belfast - An attempted beheading by another foreign freak and UK Government reaction
Posted On: Thursday - June 11th 2026 8:15PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Orwellian Stupidity People's Revolt
I imagine this guy is in even worse shape, both short-term and long-term, than the Californian recently viciously attacked in a different matter by an American "native". This (northern) Irishman is in his 40s, while the Californian is 20 y/o.
The Irishman above would have been dead from immigrant violence just like Henry Nowak, were it not for bystanders - an Irish gentle(haha)man bashed this Senegalese POS with a shovel, and it STILL took a while to get him to stop sawing on the poor man's neck. That's all I'll discuss about the actual event, something most readers would have heard about.
As with our last post on the notorious young Texas black murderer and our 2 posts (here and here) about Mr. Nowak in the UK, we're here to discuss the reaction.
The reaction to the Karmelo verdict was from stupid and evil black people. They don't really run things here though, a very good thing. In the UK though, the reaction to this immigrant violence has first been from the Irish and UK (or other UK) people, angrier and more fed-up than after all the other acts, mass rapes, murders, etc, and then from the UK Government, telling those protesting and rioting to calm down. Starmer and his people DO run things, and that's the problem.
There wouldn't even BE a problem to riot about had Starmer and his previous ilk, Globalists all, not been doing their utmost to replace the White population over the decades. (It's the same throughout the West.) That's bad enough, the PRP, but it's worse that they don't even care how worthless and violent the replacements are.
Peak Stupidity has been rooting heavily for, and been heartened by, the rioters, both last week, and now this week. I don't know if this one will be the spark, but one spark eventually will set the whole thing off, and the riots will not tail off in a few days. There's a point to these riots, something the UK Government has refused and will refuse to acknowledge. The point can be remembered by looking at the image above and/or the video.
"Don't spread the video around", the UK ministers told the people. That might cause trouble. No, you all have long ago caused the trouble.
The reaction by PM Starmer has been evil but expected. He acknowledges something like "This should never happen here!", yet acts like he doesn't understand that this violence will KEEP happening there until the extreme grievances of the people regarding the immigration invasion are addressed seriously. While Starmer calls for calm, the Irish people are raising the kind of hell that might actually get the problem addressed, rather than expecting their Government to ever address them, because (I'll get to this again), THEY DON'T WANT TO AND HAVE NO INTENTION TO!
The UK Government officials have the nerve to talk about Irishmen "using this incident" to start violence against immigration and immigrants. That is such a blatant big lie. This incident IS the problem and the reason for the riots! (But, no, they're really not that stupid. They think that they can get away with this until it's too late for the Irish to save their country. It might be...)
This rant could keep going if I'm not careful, so let me mention the youtube videos I've been watching or rejecting. Just a few copied youtube headlines here show that the Government line is being spread far and wide:
Police urge calm after brutal Belfast stabbing prompts far-right protest calls • FRANCE 24 English
Belfast Knife Attack: Suspect Charged With Attempted Murder As Anti-Immigration Protests Feared
Northern Ireland minister calls for ‘calm’ after Belfast stabbing | AFP
I've had to click away from many of them. As much as I want to see the actual rioting with nobody narrating, I did find 2 very good discussions, which are embedded below.
First, here's 4 minutes of action from yesterday. A lot more had been going on in Belfast since. There are riots in other place throughout the UK and in France even, but it's hard at this point to determine what particular act of immigrant violence was the spark for each. The Population Replacement Programme has hit all the countries of Western Europe heavily, so there are "many such cases."
All the talking heads, even the most sympathetic, are sure to chime in at some point, or every 5 minutes on the minute, that they don't condone the violence. Irish men in black wearing masks have been setting fires in houses/apartments where foreigners are known to be living. I'm not gonna use the word "condone" here. With this kind of rage, it's not easy for the people to pick the proper target. In the meantime, the protests are mostly peaceful™, though you sure won't hear that acknowledged by the same folks who took a bloody knee 6 years ago for the violent druggie reprobate George Floyd.
Here is a good 15 minute discussion of the Government's unwelcome reaction to the riots, with one Kevin O’Sullivan - seems to be a well-known pundit, interviewing one David Shipley.
If you've got more time, this 50 minute video has one Jeremey Kyle discussing the matter with some cute young sidekick, with listener voice and text messages added. Locations of the callers are given, and boy am I finding out which of the various British/Irish accents are the hardest to decipher! One guy I just punted on - it was pure gibberish to me!
I want to make a few comments here from the last, but they apply to all the talk about the Belfast riots. First, it takes a long time for anyone to ever admit it's not just stupidity that has Starmer and his gang "not understanding" the people's anger. At 35 minutes in, I believe, Mr. Kyle noted that, yes, the Government does not really care to solve the problem. He doesn't go all the way and say (or maybe even understand) that this violence is just a side-effect - only unwanted because it causes these dang riots) of the very much desired PRP.
Next, about racism. It's the same on the streets too - "It's not about race!" Hey, you're already likely to be thrown in a jail, so just up and admit "Damn right it's about race. They are not our race - not even close - so they need to GET OUT." Jeremy Kyle here and his sidekick both note that these days are better than those prior when you were called a racist just for being against immigration. How about go that one last step toward not caring about being called a racist. (It's still a really bad thing there.)
Ever heard of an Irishman named Gerry Adams? Here's what he wrote in what seems to resemble a tweet.
(More importantly, people deserve better spelling...)
The Troubles™, violent disputes about the fate of the 6 counties of the north, went on in Ireland, and spilled over into England, for 3 decades. There was the IRA (Irish Republican Army) and an organization called Sinn Fein (pronounced Shin Fayne). Though Mr. Adams was in the latter when it was more of a political party, he won't admit that he was in the IRA, yet people who were in the IRA say "sure he was". These people bombed cars and restaurants and assassinated people*. I'm not going to take sides here, but let me just say that Gerry Adams is the last guy that ought to be telling people to refrain from violence!
Along with him, this "First Minister" lady, one Michelle O'Neill, also presently lecturing the Irish to calm down and don't make a big deal about one little beheading attempt, was herself involved in The Troubles.
The thing about THESE troubles is, they're not just about Catholics vs Protestants living here or there, and the degree of separation from the UK anymore. This is about the existence of the Irish as a people, on their own Emerald Isle! Perhaps remaining calm and not worrying about the Globalists' evil plans and the violent side effects is not the answer during THESE troubles.
The Irish are reaching the endpoint of that John Kennedy quote:
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
PS: Oh yeah, one more point about the long video is that even this pretty based Jeremy Kyle and the sidekick do not know the real story of the death of George Floyd. They were glad the "coppers" got punished. It's hard to get the real story, even it you are a journalist... maybe especially if you are ...
* Something like 3,500 people are said to have died from that low-level war, many of them complete innocents.
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Austin Metcalf's murderer found guilty - the black reaction
Posted On: Wednesday - June 10th 2026 7:27PM MST
In Topics: Race/Genetics Legal Stupidity Anti-Social Media
We're really trying not to become a news commentary site here. We had plans for some other topics this week and further on. Now, though, the black reaction to the guilty verdict for Karmelo Anthony and the new "troubles" in Belfast after a different case of black violence deserve at least a post apiece. (I've got a feeling we'll posting much more than once about the Northern Ireland riots, and those occurring across the Irish Sea for the same reason.)
Anthony Karmelo killed young Austin Metcalf at a track meet last year in cold blood. "Cold blood" has a specific meaning. He had to have brought that knife to the meet there, KNOWING he was going to start something. He started something, and as they say "he finished it." Yesterday, Texas got finished with him, hopefully till mid-century.
There's plenty to discuss about this murder, but that's not the point of this post. It's the reaction by black people, both on-line, and outside the Collin County, Texas courthouse that I'll discuss.
I don't know the numbers - it's hard to know in this world of anti-social media. Perhaps only a small fraction of black people had these kinds of things to say, such as what's written below, about this murder verdict and the rest are more thoughtful and sane about it. I remember the O.J. Simpson case though. Luckily I didn't have to experience this in person, but it was said that black people generally supported his getting away with murder. It's a tribal thing. We wouldn't understand... yet.
However, what went on in this case in person tells us something. This was a very simple legal case. There is video taken everywhere now. The defense had no argument, and even their star witness apparently caved and told the truth. The trial being in Texas, not southern California, it wasn't a big piece of infotainment*. It took a week, and the verdict was delivered in 3 hours. Normally, that is that... in the White world where truth matters.
What are these outraged blacks thinking? Is White America just supposed to accept an assault, rampage, rape, or murder by black people every so often with no consequences for them and just get over it? Did these people outside the courthouse expect another O.J. verdict?
There are the agitators, as always. Does someone higher up have his sights set on another Summer of George, and for what, more societal destruction? I don't think it's gonna happen, but when you see the stupidity out of these people...
I don't know about this talk about "the Dem base", but maybe by "substantial part" he means black people. This is a racial conflict. If indeed riots and mayhem come out of this, sure, I will believe the usual suspects, Soros & Singham, the CCP (they have a hand in a lot of things!), and others are behind it. Generally, though, stupid black people have gotten riled up. They've been spouting some stupid and downright evil things outside the court.
I saw a video of the Metcalf family leaving the courthouse and walking to their vehicle. The things that were yelled at them, about killing the late Austin's twin brother (whose arms Austin had died in, there at the track meet), and such... it takes a strong will to have said nothing and had no thoughts about slaughtering the lot of these sick people. Actually, I have no confirmation on the latter.
Let me zoom in on one of those messages:
There you go, Domo Julio, whoever you are! Now you're talking sense. You go ahead and organize a boycott. Keep your black thug kids out of the White schools. That'll show 'em!
* From the time I saw the slow car chase on TV, I already knew that the O.J. Simpson deal was a big piece of Infotainment. I wanted nothing to do with it and didn't watch a lick.
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Smart light bulbs, curmudgeonly consumers
Posted On: Tuesday - June 9th 2026 6:38PM MST
In Topics: Curmudgeonry Artificial Stupidity
This post is truly in Peak Stupidity's wheelhouse. We've written before that just because you can create a new product or system based on fast software and cheap, tiny sensors, doesn't mean people want it. Our example in a post from over 9 years back was automatic windshield wipers.
Well, light bulbs aren't just light bulbs anymore, even though I do still have a couple of hundred incandescents, bought at a quarter a piece during the Bush Administration. Yes, I'm almost sure they go back that far or maybe max 2 years later, as it was some proclamation by Bush about doing away with these bulbs that had me making a number of trips to the Big Box home improvement store for cases of them.
Even as a curmudgeon, I still must admit that light bulbs have been greatly improved. They're done with the stupid curly-cue types and on to the LEDs. We tried to do an inflation estimate, but, note the title here - Light Bulb price inflation Deflation - this one's a doozy. You really have to make value estimates based on lumen-life-hours or equivalent-watt-life-hours* to evaluate the value.
I came to the Big Box store the other day for many bulbs. The fixtures in the one place take about 10 different styles, standard threaded screw-in bulbs, two prong ones, little candle-lookng things... They all do turn on when you put them in, at least.
You get almost NO help now at these stores, so I couldn't find one type, but, since I'd made the trip, I looked at these colored bulbs. Years ago, my kid and I got bulbs of 4 colors and put them in one fixture on which the switch allows 2 on, the other 2 on, all on, or off. Now it's been about a year since 2 of them burned out, so memory-jogged, there we go.
Sure, they said "Smart Bulbs", on the box but, they use "smart" with anything now. Smart sells! (Sex sells too, and sex still beats smart.) It looked like there might be a switch right on these to change colors, who knows?
I brought them home, took one out, and stuck it into the fixture. It burned white. No, that couldn't be the whole of this smart bulb technology. Now, let me say that this is NOT, I repeat, NOT, supposed to be a Polish joke, but I had to pull out the directions to operate the light bulb.
The directions said - you may have even seen this coming - that I needed to scan the QR code, then log into the web portal to get colored light, basically to OPERATE these light bulbs. I'm not even Polish! I'm just a country curmudgeon... who said to himself right there, "Back to the store you go!" And, back they went.
Smart bulbs, dumb people. I resemble that remark. The stupidity on my part was in thinking that anything new and improved I bought might be a good thing. I get it, though, that these might be the coolest thing ever for the younger generations. Sure, scan the code, get on the portal, enter some shit, call the help desk, enter the chat ... pretty soon we'll all be making jokes: How many Zoomers does it take to turn on a light bulb?
PS: Also, I think we should change Polish jokes to Somalian jokes and while we're at it, light bulb jokes to web portal jokes.
* Lumens are the SI units of light flux. Using lumens, though, doesn't mean enough to the average consumer to help rate these. The new bulbs are so efficient in converting that electrical energy to light vs some light and lots of heat, that we use ratings in "watts". They aren't the real wattage use of the bulbs. The rating is based on the wattage of the old bulbs that would give us equivalent light in lumens.
This works, as we all have a pretty good idea how bright an old 100 W incandescent is, or a 75 W, 60, 40, etc.
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Why would he do this to me?
Posted On: Monday - June 8th 2026 8:10PM MST
In Topics: Race/Genetics
I don't have a topic key to fit this. "Hatred" might work. Peak Stupidity was going to post something lighthearted today, but we came upon the following story on The Gateway Pundit:HORROR! 20-Year-Old McDonalds Manager Hospitalized With Third Degree Burns After Employee Threw Hot Oil on Him – “Why Would He Do This to Me?” (VIDEO). The video is not of this happening, something I really wouldn't want to view, but of this young White man's Mom in an interview out in Yuba City (near Sacramento), California.
Jacob Smith, 20, was hospitalized following the incident, and he is still being treated for severe injuries, including third-degree burns to his face, neck, hands, and shoulders, at UC Davis Medical Center.It happens in wartime and occasional bad accidents - people getting burned, that is - and it's horrific. Remember a time when you burned a pencil eraser sized spot on your finger, or scalded a square inch of your skin. Then, imagine that multiplied over big areas of your body. It's the worst pain, as far as I know. I remember reading a story of someone who'd been in the hospital 5 years for burns. When he came out, he not only said he'd wished he was dead when in the hospital, but he still wished he had died, so as not to have experienced that much pain.
This was not in war, and it wasn't an accident. I didn't even find anything out about WHY this 25 y/o black man decided to throw cooking oil on his manager, as the guy wasn't expecting it while sitting down in his office. I mean, who expects that?!
The heartbroken mother told KCRA that the burn injuries cover “the whole side of his face, down his neck, all the way down his right arm, and across his back.”It's not that kind of pain, but it is mentally painful to listen to this:
“The pain he’s experiencing is so excruciating that they can’t give him the level of pain medicine outside of the ICU,” she said. “They’re just telling me that their goal right now is to decrease the size of the burn on his back and his neck area to try to minimize the amount of skin grafting that they’re looking at having to do, but, you know, it’s going to potentially become more painful.”
“I want justice to be served. I want him to serve the time that he needs to serve, you know, for what he’s done to my son… I don’t wish bad things towards him,” Smith added. “I want him to understand what he did, like really understand what he did, and the pain that he caused to my son was excruciating.”I'm not sure he could possibly understand all this, unless he had hot cooking oil thrown over his body. At the very least, were I the young man in the burn center, I'd want to shoot him dead.
I won't even try to find the interview (it's on the page linked-to here), because I heard the reporter say "alleged assault". That's also stupid. The young man's in the burn center - he GOT ASSAULTED. "Alleged assault suspect", OK, for legal reasons, though there are cameras everywhere now. They know who did it, this piece of human garbage that goes by Jalani Bluett. Then, we are told that "His family believes the liquid thrown on him was hot oil". Well, that's what they use to cook the nuggets and french fries, so, yes, they KNOW this. Finally, the woman signed off with her full Spanish-accented name, a big turn-off.
"Why would he do this to me?" Because he's a stupid, evil nigger, that's why. I pray for young Jacob, for his pain to subside. Hopefully, Jalani Bluett will spend his life or as much as possible of it, well away from White people.
Tomorrow, we'll get to Smart Light Bulbs.
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Creatively Curating, "Clown World!", cries a curmudgeon
Posted On: Saturday - June 6th 2026 7:30PM MST
In Topics: Music Humor Curmudgeonry
... could our lyrics be more cludged? ♫
Come on guys, it's all alliteration anymore, or actually already was when the trio Crosby, Stills, and Nash first sang Helplessly Hoping 57 years ago. It was 1969, not yet the Clown World era.
That's a poster in an elevator at some hotel. The breakfast is advertised as "creatively curated". Curation is a big thing now. Part of Clown World™ consists of the constant conflation of nouns with verbs, the kidnapping of engineering terms by software types, and strange new uses of old words out of the blue.
Having something curated is apparently something good. The dictionary tells me the verb "curate"* means to select and organize. That applies very well to museum "curators", the only use of that word I'd ever heard until about 5-10 years ago. (I'm pretty sure pundit Steve Sailer brought it up a few times from the things he's read.)
Yeah, but breakfast, creatively curated breakfast? It looks like some blackberries on top of grits or oatmeal, not exactly how I'd select or organize my breakfast. Could they have thoughtfully sourced some bacon, eggs, and toast (whole wheat for health reasons) instead? Hopefully this breakfast was not cooked by the museum curator, because who knows from what eon he thoughtfully sources his materiel for the breakfast exhibits?
Hey, and where's the rest of the alliteration, guys? It COULD fit in that Crosby, Stills, Nash, and (sometimes) Young song anyway, I suppose... Thoughtfully sourcing some stuff for the skillet, she sautes, selecting pink sea salt...
Wiki editors noted not just the alliteration in a number of the lyric lines in Helplessly Hoping, but they also see some double meanings here in the chorus that I never thought of before. (I don't know about that 3rd one - that's sketchy.) Then the voices build from one to two to three, but I don't know about four. Who'd be the fourth voice?**
They are one person.
They are two (too) alone.
They are three (Free) together,
They are four (For) each other.
I wish I could tell which voice was whose here, but I can tell you that in the picture, from left to right, that's Graham Nash, Steven Stills, and David Crosby.
Anyway, commenter Adam Smith noted he really liked this one after I'd strangely mentioned it in this post last week. I like it too. I had a CSN&(sometimes)Y period about 1 1/2 decades after their time. I think what I had on cassette tape was this very debut album pictured in the still here.
We'll get to a comparison, more of a contrast, between that recent horrific police stupidity in the UK vs. the overdose of George Floyd, more about Chinese Communism, confirmation of the slow deflation of the university bubble, Orwellian stupidity in the UK (but, of course!) and then, yes, after a year and a half, our impressions of Uruguay. Have a nice evening and happy Sunday, Peakers! Thanks for reading and commenting.
* The noun is a totally separate word having to do with clergymen.
** Neil Young had already driven his touring hearse down from Toronto to LA by this time but he was in other bands until Summer of that same year, while the album was released earlier in 1969.
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Senator Eric Schmitt on Denaturalization of unAmericans
Posted On: Friday - June 5th 2026 5:59PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Lefty MegaStupidity
We'll put off our Floyd v Nowak / Chauvin v Vikrum post until tomorrow at the earliest. Stuff just pops up...
I came upon this video on The Gateway Pundit - FIREWORKS! “You’re Damn Right We’re Deporting You” – Sen Eric Schmitt GOES OFF on Dem Mazie Hirono After She Argues Fraudsters, Murderers, and Terrorists Shouldn’t be Denaturalized (VIDEO). As is the usual case on that site, things are greatly sensationalized, but this headline got me to watch.
This Senator Eric Schmitt out of Missouri* is an immigration patriot. He understands that America's huge immigration problem is not just about illegal entries. Foreigners who naturalized to become citizens under false pretenses can be deported. Such false pretenses could be that an immigrant blatantly lied when he swore an oath that one day.
It's possible this Senator could be grandstanding here. The guys and ladies like to get these great soundbites out to the public for fundraising purposes.
However, I think Senator Schmitt means it, his point being that it's not at all "astounding" or "bizarre" (as claimed by the idiot Senator from Hawaii) to allow for deportation of naturalized foreigners who have committed serious crimes or treasonous acts within a 10 year period vs. the 5 year period of today's law. What's actually important is that this law be ACTED upon, no matter what the time period is. That requires a State Department and/or Attorney General who WANT to stop the destruction of the Population Replacement Programme.
Enjoy!
Hey, Ken Cuccinelli - I know that dude!
I found another video of Senator Schmitt talking about immigration, this time with regard to the current general term for economic problems called "Affordability". This is the kind of thing President Trump should discuss, were he capable of actually discussing things, as Peak Stupidity suggested early this year.
There's a long intro of sorts before Senator Schmitt gets to the economic disaster that has been partly caused by the immigration invasion, so you might want to skip to 01:30 in if you're tight on time.
* He was elected US Senator from Missouri in '22. Per wiki, he was kind of weird on the Kung Flu PanicFest as the Attorney General of that State at the time.
He was against the Panic generally (mask mandates, limitations on gatherings, etc), but then he sued "the Chinese government, Chinese Communist Party, and other Chinese officials and institutions" (wiki) for suppressing information and not telling everyone how contagious the Kung Flu was. Excuse me? Nobody just up and sues China. Well, maybe Nixon could have... anyway, the humorous part is that it cost $12,000 to translate the complaint into Chinese. One wonders if it even made sense after that...
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When knives are outlawed, only Sikhs will have knives
Posted On: Thursday - June 4th 2026 7:56PM MST
In Topics: Orwellian Stupidity Anarcho-tyranny Guns People's Revolt Totalitarianism
The tweet above appears in the ZeroHedge article UK Police Officers Admit DEI Training Pressured Them To Ignore Dying White Teen Henry Nowak from this morning.
I don't know if I'd put it exactly that way. D.I.E. training likely did teach these "coppers" to treat White British people based on the Tyrannical side of the Anarcho-Tyranny coin. They can't be stupid enough to have believed this - it's just a class you must get through. They all have known what's right and wrong. So, actually UK Police Officers Admit They Are Cowards should be the headline. They were cowardly to the extent that they harassed a young White Briton through his last minutes on this earth rather than help him, cause charges of racism... against murderous but still, favored foreign people.
That's not the post here though, so moving on... The tweet above shows that the Orwellian Tyrant Kier Starmer is not even making a pretense of letting up on the Anarcho-Tyranny. Sure, I've heard that much of that whole duplicitous conniving Sikh family has been arrested, but I think that has been done purely for the cause of quelling the riots.
The British (or whole UK?) population has long been disarmed. It's not always the case that even the perfect concealed-carry gun would help one avoid being murdered by violent blacks (see Iryna Zarutska, the woman just killed on the MARTA, and thousands of other such cases) or immigrant nutcases.* However, in this case, an armed Henry Nowak would much more likely have lived.
One would think that Keir Starmer might take the heat off the people's anger at the police and the PRP by vowing that, from now on, there will be no "ceremonial" knives carried by anyone. No exceptions... besides for chefs? "Common sense knife control is long overdue! We must eliminate the
He won't do it. Keir Starmer is a real Anarcho-Tyrant's Anarcho-Tyrant. He's pretty blatant about it. The British people will remain disarmed, while a group of foreigners can carry big knives for, like, ceremonies, so next time, the same thing can happen. (That'd be fine with Starmer's crowd were it not for the pesky riots. MOAR censorship. MOAR tear gas! No, sorry, the spark will come soon.)
A ZH commenter had this common sense suggestion:
JimmyJones68:Brilliant!, as the Brits like to say. Bishops and deacons, put out the Church bulletin. This should be easy enough.
This is easy, the church of England just needs to make carrying pepper spray and a hand gun part of the religion, then all members of that church can just practice their religion like the murder[er] did.
Another commenter quoted Solzhenitsyn. The Totalitarians aren't even pretending to care anymore. It's late in the game.
PS: Or, is it the case that Keir Starmer is too afraid of the Moslems in his own country to dare to push for a change in the Sikh stabber exemption? Is this just more cowardice on display?
* VDare used to have a topic "Immigrant Mass Murder Syndrome". It is a thing...
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On the "They'll use it against us" argument
Posted On: Wednesday - June 3rd 2026 7:38PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity US Police State Pundits Liberty/Libertarianism US Feral Government ctrl-left Socialism/Communism
I was about to insert "On the old ..." into the title, but the situation has changed in this country since one might have discussed this 40 years ago. The answer is not old.
The principled, but sometimes just practical, point is often made that, if "our side" - and we are really on "sides" now - does one thing that may be violating our principles of rule-of-law-not-men or basic ideas of liberty, the other side would use it against us. They would be justified in using it against us even, because, well, we did it, so, in fairness... Or even if it's not justified, perhaps what we have enabled can and will be used against us, court of law or no court of law.
The headline above is outdated - Massie v Trump was over 2 weeks back. Trump and AIPAC had their way. Just after the fact, Peak Stupidity and Unz Review commenter E.H. Hail, mentioned an Ann Coulter post from day before the election (good try, Ann) The Lies About Rep. Thomas Massie. Ann Coulter bats about a .980 by my reckoning, but, I did find something in that post of hers that brought up today's post, something I don't agree at all with:
Claim 2: Massie “supported transgenders in women’s bathrooms.”No, of course, it's not the header and first paragraph I disagree with. I provided that here for context.
Utterly preposterous. Massie has NEVER supported any bill to allowing biological males in women’s bathrooms in schools, prisons, or federal buildings.
I could leave it there, but I believe they are referring to Massie’s statement that he was against the executive branch using the threat of withdrawing federal funds to dictate campus policies, such as forcing colleges to freeze tuition, or waive it altogether; to abolish entire departments; and to impose a cap on foreign students. Among the executive branch’s other demands was that colleges ban men from women’s bathrooms.
Some Republicans may think it’s a great idea for the federal government to ignore the constitution and force ANTI-woke policies on private entities now, but they’ll be sorry when Democrats are back in control and force their WOKE policies on private entities using the same threat.
Sorry, Miss Coulter, but you are flat-out wrong about Trump's use of the "power of the [Fed Gov] purse" to get his (and OUR!) way. Let's consider first that President Trump often has to take action Administratively, as the UniParty Congress is not there to help. (Besides the SCrOTUS had been improved slightly, the Judicial Branch actively works against Trump's actions against the PRP.) Is this not a good way to do it?
Taking advantage of one of the many evils of Socialism, that the Feral Gov't has its hands in all realms of activity, is a smart move. Hey, Socialists, you done good for yourselves - you've made your programs very difficult for us to back out of. You've got Big Gov in a position to be able to control organizations of all sorts due to these strings you've attached, and the flow of the money*. It's a shame that someone can take power and use it against you. Didn't see that coming, did ya'?
The bigger point than that I am arguing with Ann Coulter about is that it's often said many of the actions we take to try to defeat the ctrl-left will only be used against us later. I'll get back to this particular "purse strings" deal at the end, but let me discuss a few examples of this thinking.
My first example is almost non-controversial these days. That is due to that neither side really respects or even remembers the Constitution, and also it's water long under the bridge, in fact, over a century ago.
Ron Paul and I don't disagree on much either. One minor thing on which we do is the use of eVerify to help (just help, mind you) prevent employment of illegal aliens. It's an invasion of privacy, he'll tell you, what with the US Gov't knowing who works where. I shouldn't have to tell YOU, Dr. Paul, of all people, that, once Amendment XVI was put into place, the US Gov't did have to know where people worked, along with quite a big of other information. Hah, it's unimaginable to just about everyone alive today that "I don't need to tell any government where I work. NOTB!" What? Unpossible! Yes, lots of freedom has been lost.
So, if we use eVerify to find illegal employement, the US Government can use that against us, somehow?. Maybe Ron Paul is worried it will be greatly expanded, but I ... just don't worry about this water under the bridge...
That was a very benign example. On the other end, and also related to Immigration Stupidity, there is the expanded ICE force and the building of detention centers for deportees (they don't have to be illegal aliens either, IMO!) out of unused warehouses. I'm all for it! Peak Stupidity has discussed the Strategy and Tactics of Deportation Nation before. There is inherently a lot to it, and temporary detention centers are a part of the logistics.
The big worry is, will ICE be used to round US up next time a ctrl-left (face it, Communist) President gets in office? Will American patriots be put in these detention centers, since they'll have a lot more room than that one Washington, FS dungeon that held the J-6 Political Prisoners? Should we not open this Pandora's Box? I'll answer this at the end, after more discussion here of Ann Coulter's boner. (Heh!)
Universities get loads of Federal money via various streams. What's wrong with Trump’s use of the strings of Federal money to threaten universities to play ball? As far as the Constitutionality goes, BULL, there's no problem. In this era of Socialism**, you take Federal money, and then you are NO LONGER a “private entity”. You want the money, and this time it’s Trump who says “Jump!”, and you’d better jump, bitches!
That goes for all manner of GSNGOs (That's Government- Supported Non-Governmental Organizations - sounds very Chinese, doesn't it?) too. The left depends on Federal money much more than the right does. Remember USAID, an organization solely supported by OUR tax money working completely on left-wing causes? Any organization that has leaned to the right, has learned that they’d better not go too far, and they’d better comply with the latest D.I.E., BLT-G++, Wokeness business, or the money will go buh-bye. Many figure that’s for the best anyway. Either way, Federally funded institutions will lean hard left.
Yes, that was an easy example to argue for us. It's not as if a light bulb has yet to go off in the minds of those on the left: "Hey, we can control society using Federal money!" That bulb has been lit up since the 1960s.
The serious business of a build-up of a bigger Federal police force and detainment apparatus is a more serious worry. I understand the concern. Those concerned might want to think about a few things:
1) The Population Replacement Programme is an existential problem. If we don't fix this, it's hardly worth worrying about the rest - go Communist, I don't care... there's always Uruguay. (Nah, it's not really...)
2) Unless we use our powers as specified in Amendment II by some point, the ctrl-left WILL do what you are concerned about, whether we Conservatives refrain from it on principle or not! They will use any power they can get away with to silence us, threaten us, and put us away for life.
That goes for every effort for which the worry in the title is raised. The ctrl-left is going to do it anyway. They have ZERO concern for rule-of-law and principles at this point.
Finally, regarding that point at the beginning of this post about 40 years ago versus the present, I can see a different answer to the argument "They'll use it against us" being correct back in the day. With some exceptions, especially in the courts, politics was more civil in the mid-1980s. The US Constitution was actually considered in debates on bills in Congress and the powers of the President. Setting a bad example by trashing rule-of-law might very well cause the other side to do what they wouldn't have otherwise.
That was then. This is now. "They'll use it against us" no matter what we do now. Let's get things done while we have a chance.
* Peak Stupidity considers this evil - the flow of the money - to be THE #1 of the 5 evils (shades of Chairman Mao?) of the Federal Income tax that were listed and discussed here 5 years ago.
** I know, this Socialism is unConstitutional to begin with - again, much water under the bridge.
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Southampton, England - Peak Stupidity is on the side of the thugs
Posted On: Tuesday - June 2nd 2026 7:17PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Anarcho-tyranny Poetic Stupidity People's Revolt
Note: Our topic key, People’s Revolt, has been hijacked from its first hopeful use, when covering the Canadian truckers’ protest against the jab and other Kung Flu indignities back in early ‘22.
I lifted that note directly from one of our posts about the Rotherham riots in the Summer of '24. Peak Stupidity presented 7 posts on these organic riots, that were both against the long-term Anarcho-Tyranny of the hands-off treatment of Pakistani kidnappers and gang-rapers of British young White girls*, along with coming from general anger about masses of "migrants" not only being in England, but being treated (free boarding at hotels, etc.) better than British subjects.
Then, in Summer and Fall of '25, we posted 5 items about the same sort of thing in Ireland and England, the latter outrage coming from the slaying of White children at their party in Southport by some foreigner or other.
Now, there was Henry Nowak, a young White man stabbed multiple times by a Sikh. This story showed the Anarcho-Tyranny to the whole world. (They call it "Two-Tier Policing" in the UK, but that term is not as all-encompassing as the late Sam Francis-coined "Anarcho-Tyranny".) That the "coppers" treated a young man in the process of dying - one knife cut from that Sikh went through a lung and a major vein - as a suspect due to possible racism, is a blatant example of Whites being treated like garbage by their own White cops in their own country. Those out in the streets today, tonight, tomorrow, and who knows, are trying to suggest that it stop right now!
I’ve been writing, likely in more than one of those '24 and '25 posts, that one day some spark is going to set the British people off without everyone going home nicely to his family – I speak of the coppers here too. There’s that Kipling poem about “The Awakened Saxon”, well, I don’t think it has to be Saxons that it has to apply to, but here you go, they are half, I suppose.
While trying to find some good video clips**, I came upon one from "The Sun", which I suppose is the channel from the newspaper of that name. It's titled Thugs hurl bins, bottles & bricks in violent clash with riot cops at protest over Henry Nowak murder. What hypocrisy! I doubt they'd have used that term for the Commie and black rioters, arsonists, and looters of the summer of '20 after the famous George Floyd drug overdose.
I enjoyed the video we've embedded below, ESPECIALLY the part where the righteously angered British men throw trash cans (bins, they call them) at these coppers. The policemen involved in this last year just stood around a young man who'd been brutally stabbed, believing the foreigner complaining about a swollen eye. This foreigner had been right there next to them, and with his family, had been keeping Mr. Nowak from even attempting to escape or make a phone call. Then they handcuffed dying Henry Nowak for possible racism. At least one has been fired.*** That may not be acceptable to this crowd and crowds like it in the UK.
The cops here have made their decision to not call in sick or stand down in some acceptable way. They made their choice. The choice they made is the wrong one, against British White people and for the Globalist scum that have been running the UK. They deserve a lot more than having some plastic trash cans hurled at them.
What's kind of sick here in this "The Sun" video is that the editors have bleeped out the bad language, as if that's the worst thing... say, compared to the Population Replacement Programme's having brought people like these sick Sikhs into Britain in large numbers, and a young man dying with nobody even trying to help him due to this Programme and the usual anti-White Wokeness. (He's, of course, far from the only one to have suffered.)
The cops are in retreat here. Very encouraging!!
The comments under that video are generally very favorable to these patriotic British "thugs":
ItsJonesTheCat:
Funny how there were police in full riot gear at the peaceful protest outside the station today and then pushing WHITE protesters down the stairs at the gathering outside the police station.
But....
When 200 Muslims turn up at Rochdale police station to protest there they all hide inside and not one copper is to be seen.
@pedrorenard8439:
Cops chose their side a couple of summers ago and the very people whose support they could have counted on were betrayed by them.The police have lost public support all for the sake of being Starmer’s hench men. Like him they are finished.
@ChrisPuttockThe last two verses of the Rudyard Kipling peom:
Can’t describe these people as thugs. This is England and this is the mood England is in. Those men and woman didn’t get angry at nothing. Their anger is justified and accountability is the only remedy.
It was not preached to the crowd.Now, one last comment off of youtube:
It was not taught by the state.
No man spoke it aloud
when the Saxon began to hate.
It was not suddently bred.
It will not swiftly abate.
Through the chilled years ahead,
when Time shall count from the date
that the Saxon began to hate.
@Revivethefallen:
I hope this is the tipping point England needs. I agree with these riots. Rest in peace Henry Nowak.
* I don't like the term "grooming". It just doesn't describe what it's supposed to very well, very much like "trafficking".
** I found too many that are made by guys who continually go on about "please subscribe" and "join the chat", and even with their faces in a small box on the bottom left and more crap in a box on the right, to where I CAN'T WATCH! Please, youtubers, let me watch, and you can comment at the beginning and the end. (Yes, I'll probably skip that part.)
*** How does that compare to Derek Chauvin's having been sent to prison for near life, a prison in which he was brutally stabbed himself many times? We can compare these coppers to Derek Chauvin, along with the men George Floyd and Henry Nowak, in another post.
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Being There
Posted On: Saturday - May 30th 2026 9:25PM MST
In Topics: Bible/Religion Peak Stupidity Roadshow
From our recent post on trees, that is again the olive tree in the Garden of Gethsemane In Jerusalem that's said to have been there at the time Jesus was "detained", one would say now, as reported by Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. I touched it, no matter what any sign might have said, when we were on a tour of the Holy Land recently.
This was on an official tour rather than just a trip in which we made our own way. As much as I'd rather do the latter, I think my wife was right that we'd have to do it this way. She's not always. When we visited London in '22, I'd have rather spent more time off the double-decker buses.
There's also the photography problem, as Peak Stupidity has written about here and here. Can we just experience a place without having to take pictures in front of old or famous stuff? Our friends and family will believe us when we tell them we've been there, and there thousands of better pictures of said places all over the internet.
Without being on a tour, we'd have probably had a hard time visiting the sites from the life of Jesus. However, between that and the picture taking, it was much too much like the scenes of tourism one see in the movies. "OK, you've got 10 minutes here. Take pictures, and you'll have a couple of minutes to use the bathroom, and back on the bus. We've got 5 more stops today." That was really no way to appreciate where we were and what had happened there 2,000 years ago.
Back in Rome some years ago, I was kept busy taking a picture here and there, and everywhere, at this, also ~ 2,000 years-old, Colosseum, when what I wanted to do is sit there, BE THERE, and reflect on what people were doing RIGHT THERE, so many years ago.
That hillside is on the north-northwest shoreline of the Sea of Galilee* just to the west of Capernaum. The rotunda you can see is on the top of the Church of the Beatitudes on a nicely kept site up the slope. It was built as an octagon to represent 8 blessings from the "Sermon on the Mount", as excerpted by Matthew in Chapters 5, 6, and 7. OK, one can learn more there and enjoy the view... till the 15 minutes are up and "back on the bus, please."
No, I just wanted to sit on the hillside and put myself back 2,000 years to the time of Jesus. I could have stayed there half a day doing that. Just being there - that's the experience I came for. We may go back one day and do it right...
* The Sea of Galilee is not big enough to be a "sea" really, but it's a decent-sized natural lake. The elevation of the surface is 200 ft below sea level. The boat voyage was great.
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Europeans' Powerful Response to the Population Replacement Programme
Posted On: Saturday - May 30th 2026 12:08PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Trump Pundits
The invaders launch boats, so the Europeans launch Think Tanks. This is how you lose.
There's not too much more to say here today, about Europe, that is. Americans can say what they want about President Trump - I'm strongly against the war, for one thing - but, this kind of thing going on in America has been stopped.
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China's Great Leap Forward: 35 - 55 million Chinamen hardest hit
Posted On: Friday - May 29th 2026 2:59PM MST
In Topics: Commies History China
Somewhat of a series has started here at Peak Stupidity, call it The Evils of Hard-Core Communism. The first was a somewhat random history post with documentary video, The Communist Khmer Rouge takeover, the Intellectuals, and evil Pol Pot. For a prequel with a non-Oriental version - same continent, though - the reader may want to read our book review of Alex Solzhenitsyn's A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. There are a few more biggies, but I don't know how far we'll got with this - there's lots of smaller but more urgent stupidity to cover.
For pure number of his countrymen killed by Communist ideology in all of history (so far), Chairman Mao would get highest honors. Proportionally, Pol Pot killed more, 1/3 of his countryment. Mao only killed 6-9% of the over 600 million Chinese people that were alive before his "Great Leap Forward".*
China had had famines before, but this was caused by deliberate policy come down from on high, the absolute authority of Chairman Mao Zedong. To fulfil Communist idealogy, he decreed that hundreds of millions of peasant farmers should leave their own fields, farm cooperatively, and some would build mini blast furnaces to churn out junk metal for industrial production goals. Hand farm implements themselves (all they had was hand implements) were melted down too to INCREASE PRODUCTION! Yeah, Mao's goal, to go in line with some USSR production goals, was to have China producing more steel than the UK did.** It was just numbers, though, to make one man feel like a real Communist.
Farming was destroyed by the collective economy The local cadres found they had come up with big lies on food production numbers to compete with others that lied to please the Mao Regime and save their butts. This meant that when the Central Gov't came for its 1/3 or 1/4 portion of a district's production, that portion might very well be all there was. The people were left to starve. From the video, it sounds like Mao really didn't have much of a problem with that either.
The video is very well done. I tried to detect AI - the word "dynasty" was pronounced "din-esty" a couple of times. That was the only thing that made me wonder, for just a bit. I really DO NOT WANT to listen to AI, ever, but I think it's human narrator.
People ate mud, clay, bark off trees. Parents buried their little ones. Cannibalism happened. Other famines before in China had been very bad. This one, causing the death of 35 - 55 million*** Chinese people, was directly CAUSED by one man, the Chairman of the Communist Party, Dear Leader of the country, who had absolute power along with being massivly stupid. This is not a good formula:
I know someone whose Grandfather died of starvation due to Chairman Mao's Great Leap Forward. We should all appreciate each and every meal. "Oh, America could NEVER get like this!" I agree something like this IS very hard to imagine happening in America, but just watch for the guys like the Mayor Mamdamis. We can stand a few as examples here and there, and who cares about New York City, really? We just better not let the lot of them get into real power. I have a friend who owes me a few more guns. I'm gonna take him up on this soon.
* The huge Civil War known as the Taiping Rebellion a century earlier resulted in 20 million men being killed in the fighting and perhaps another 30 million more due to the ravages of war, disease and starvation. Is this any better? it wasn't due to the evil and stupidity of one man alone, so I dunno...
** Ironically, right at a half century after the death of this evil Communist, due to the end of hard-core Communism, China produces 400 times - you read that right - as much steel as the UK does. (~ 1.6 billion tons vs. 4 million tops.)
*** The video has details on the numbers.
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Our New Higher-IQ Immigrant Criminals
Posted On: Thursday - May 28th 2026 10:39AM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Scams
That's what the politicians will tell you... are all about the RULE OF LAW, and so these illegal aliens need go back home and come again LEE-GULLY! We need the smart people who can fill out forms and be model immigrants like the smart Indian fellows whose families run 7-11s and by-the-hour No Tell Motels.
Higher IQs, that's what we want, we're told, like in Canada, where the government has insanely turned up the Population Replacement Programme to 11. (See A Former Agent lets loose.) But, they're all LEE-GUL, see, with high IQs, and they're vetted, and ...
... well, down in Los Angeles County, California, The Gateway Pundit reports, Southern California Police Urge Homeowners to Search Their Yards for Hidden Cameras Planted by Illegal Alien Burglary Rings, Thanks to Gavin Newsom’s Sanctuary State Policies (VIDEO).
Southern California residents are being urged to physically inspect their property after the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department confirmed that organized burglary crews, many tied to illegal South American theft rings, are planting hidden cameras in bushes, flower beds, planters, and landscaping to scout and monitor targeted homes before striking.San Dimas. Spanish name notwithstanding, the place sounds so White. However, that was then. It's not your Daddy's LA anymore, and these are not your Daddy's burglars.
The alarming announcement comes after deputies responding to a residential burglary in San Dimas discovered concealed surveillance devices that were actively feeding live video to criminals.
On Tuesday, San Dimas Sheriff’s Station deputies were called to a home break-in.
While investigating, they located a small camera hidden deep in the bushes directly across from the victim’s residence.
The device was wired to a portable hotspot and an external battery pack, allowing the burglars to remotely watch the home in real time.
Approximately one week earlier, a landscaper working in the same neighborhood found a second identical device concealed in hedges he was trimming.
Both cameras were camouflaged with artificial plants, green tape, and surrounding foliage to blend seamlessly into the yard.
Hidden cameras, huh? Portable hotspots and external battery packs, wait are these IT geeks or burglars? Seamlessly blending,
In one instance captured on the bulletin, the suspects used hand radios to coordinate with a getaway driver while a Wi-Fi jammer disabled the homeowners’ own security cameras.No, not your Travon Martins they aren't. These guys don't just watch a lot of Oceans n movies, they live 'em!
California (and coming to a yard near you) homeowners may have thought the advantage is on their side when it comes to break-ins, what with all the technology there is these days. Nope, but the State, and this country, have imported higher IQ criminals to even things out.
Law enforcement across Southern California has linked the tactic to “South American Theft Groups” (SATG), organized crews, frequently consisting of Chilean, Colombian, or Venezuelan nationals who enter the U.S. on tourist visas or cross illegally and then conduct coordinated daytime burglaries.What about the Paraguayans and the Surinamians? Some of these countries have been dropping the ball lately.
In the interest of compliance with our Equal Opportunity Offender policy, Peak Stupidity will not leave mention of China out of this post. The reader might want to learn about Cat burglars and entrepreneurship in China.
Oh, I forgot about the Bolivians. Is this behavior nothing but revenge for Los Banditos Yanquis? That didn't end well, and this immigration stupidity likely won't end well either.
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OMG: Baseball Team Commie and an assist by #99 Alex Stein
Posted On: Wednesday - May 27th 2026 6:40PM MST
In Topics: Commies Media Stupidity Bread and Circuses
OMG is the O'Keefe Media Group, James O'Keefe's organization, widely known for its Conservative undercover investigations. There's probably a better term than "undercover", because Mr. O'Keefe's and female colleagues' investigations go over the covers as quickly as you can say "gone viral".
Regarding these tactics applied by OMG, Peak Stupidity has even reached across the aisle to our political enemy brethren with some advice to the ctrl-left. To summarize:
Look, lefty government employees: If your date is James O'Keefe or a young lady who coulda done better and is THAT interested in your business, think OMG, and clam up!Luckily, or because they wouldn't be caught dead reading Peak Stupidity, we still see videos often with displays of the insanity and evil of these people. The Gateway Pundit features the OMG videos, and the latest is discussed in Washington Nationals Director of Community Relations Admits on Hidden Camera to Discriminating Against Christian Pitcher Trevor Williams (VIDEO).
This time, the same video seen in Mr. O'Keefe's tweet within that GP post is something we could find without Adam Smith's help even.
Because the
The guy this time, rather than being a government official, has the dream job (for some) very much like George Castanza on Seinfeld, working for a Major League Baseball team in some sort of marketing position. TV George worked for the NY Yankees.
Many such scenes! The video below is of unplanned interviewee Sean Hudson, who is in a similar position with the Washington Nationals (about even in wins/losses this season, in case that has anything to do with anything)
While Seinfeld was on TV in that magical period when even NY City Jews made fun of Communism, that period is long over. The city, still seemingly fun in that 3 decade ago era, now has an avowed Communist as Mayor, and now down in the Potomac Regime Capital, this Sean Hudson flat-out uses the word when describing his ideas. Along with all the anti-White, anti-Christian, pro-D.I.E. things this piece of work says to his "date" here (I'm guessing the last one with her), he says he'd like to find a way, as a marketing guy, to divert baseball fan money to the Communist Party.
Mr. Hudson gets pretty Orwellian too here:
“If you ever come to a Nats game, there is someone on our team who is responsible for figuring out everything about you and assigning you into a bucket of people. If you’re accepting cookies, we’re getting a plethora of your Google history,” he said.That's not ... really a problem for me. I don't feel the need to go on-line at a baseball game, and I'll not be attending games in the Regime Capital... especially after seeing this.
There's a lot else that's amazing to hear - these people are evil. The first few minutes are a promo, speaking of marketing, so you'll hear things repeated.
The assist mentioned in the title is by the very funny guy Alex Stein Number 99. We've featured his comedic abilities in front of various town and city councils - for FREE - before. See Alex Stein 99 - Prayers for the Ukraine + Tranny Sports - - A righteous youtuber, and if you've got a lot of time on your hands, End-o-Blog-Week treat: Alex Stein #99 torturing city councils for 2 hours. Alex Stein is working with Mr. O'Keefe now, it seems. It's just very hard to take a guy who is that funny seriously here when he narrates this video.
We are generally not fans of the Sportsball here at Peak Stupidity, the spectator side, that is, but we've got a soft spot for America's pastime baseball. This nasty example of the ctrl-left madness named Sean Hudson neither appreciates the game nor understands that it'd be nice to keep politics out of SOMETHING in this country.
PS: Since he's a huge fan of baseball, I wonder what Steve Sailer would have to say about Sean Hudson's date night chat. I think he'd rather not view low-brow people like James O'Keefe or Alex Stein #99, but if he did, he'd probably come up with some stats and an explanation for the ratio of leftists to Conservatives in Major League Baseball marketing departments or something ... graphs would be welcomed...
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Side Mirror Reflections
Posted On: Tuesday - May 26th 2026 7:08PM MST
In Topics: Cars Curmudgeonry Peak Stupidity Roadshow
A friend of my mechanic friend "lost", to put it nicely, his RH side mirror on his big late-model American SUV recently due to the lanes are just too narrow there. I don't know what Newton's 3rd had the mirror hit on its way bye-bye, and, from what I'm told, neither does he.
Peak Stupidity first wondered and subsequently confirmed (2 years later) a problem with the modern huge side mirrors. They create turbulence that causes an air resonance when you're driving with the windows down at highway speeds. Don't put yourself in the position of being subject to seizures from the buffeting, but if you do, call our Peak Stupidity legal team FIRST THING.
Besides the bigger and somewhat wider view likely pushed by automobile company lawyers, there's another reason these mirrors have to be huge now. They're full of all manner of mechanical parts and electronics. The innards of the mirror from that story are probably more complicated than what you see above. Think about what the functions are in a modern vehicle side mirror: extra turn signal lights, cameras, 2 motors for adjustment, one more motor for auto-stowage (folding), the defrost element, oh, I almost forgot, and a piece of mirrored glass for something or other...
At least working on one of these is less physically demanding than working under the hood or under the car. There's a lot of stuff in there:
That's not the diagram for this guy's SUV. Nobody had to get into it anyway mostly because the mirror is on the road somewhere, so you just buy another one... about a thousand bucks. Installation is extra.
I'm writing this side mirror reflections post now because I just got done swapping out the 2 side mirrors on a mid-1990s vehicle. They'd already gotten fairly big by then on most cars. However, they contain the 2 adjustment motors and mechanisms and a defrost. It was a quick job, especially on the 2nd mirror/door, as I accounted for all the screws that time and didn't break as much plastic!
As I checked the functioning of the defrost (worked), I had some reflections on mirrors of the cars built a half century ago.
These are said to be for a 1970s Ford Maverick. What do you have, a ball-and-socket joint with one screw to tighten or loosen it up? It's a piece of glass and a mount designed to do one thing, HOLD THE MIRROR!
What's so hard about sticking one's hand out the window, yes, even while driving, and adjusting the thing? Yeah, for the other side, you need a rider, or you did it at home with someone's help. It's especially the case if you don't share the car much that all the motorized adjustment business is overkill, never mind the extra signal lights and the cameras.
As for the defrost, I reflect on a good memory of my rolling down the driver's side window on cold mornings, pulling my the sleeve of my flannel shirt out and drying out the mirror that way. Oh, the other side would have to wait for some air flow ...
Somewhere in between then and now, the late '70s to '90s (?), rather than go electric, the auto makers included mechanical cables to adjust the up/down and left/right with a little joystick on the armrest or somewhere. If you don't take perfect care of the car, and the cable locks up, you just do what I did. The mirror was too loose, so I drilled and tapped a #10 screw hole and put in a nylon socket-head cap screw (all I had on hand) for my up/down adjustment. It wasn't rocket science, and was, in fact, far, far from it! Yes, it positively ruined the streamlining. Yet, I could see fine out the mirror, even on cold mornings. My sleeve could dry out on the way...
PS: The mirrors I just installed still have a problem. Since I didn't do much adjusting since I've owned this one, I hadn't noticed that both of the old ones - same with the new - only moved right, not left, nor up nor down. The problem's in the switch. Another one is on order for 30 bucks and should be in soon.
As I knew would be the case, the new mirrors feel like 2/3 of the weight of the old ones, as the plastic is all thinner. (I meant to weight them on a cooking type scale but forgot.)
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Trump says don't listen to the NeoCons
Posted On: Monday - May 25th 2026 8:18PM MST
In Topics: Trump The Neocons
you got three more fingers pointed at you, yeah...
Whaaaa?? Well, he called them "losers", one of his usual meaningless insults, but, NeoCons are who he means, per The Gateway Pundit, “Don’t Listen to the Losers… They Know Nothing” – Trump Responds to Neocons Spreading Lies About Iran Deal as More Details Come to Light. Oh, I left off "JUST IN:"
See, I keep imagining this guy has some self-awareness, remembers what blather he spouted last month, and maybe can think for himself more... you know, like a normal guy. It's not like that, I guess. The whole reason this politically, economically, and personally destructive Iran War started almost 3 months ago is that Trump listened to some people telling him something. They were NeoCons, and no, he sure shouldn't have listened to them.
Now, 3 months in, Trump is trying to extricate America from this new Middle East screwage somehow without losing face, a worse fate for him than for the most Chinese Chinaman ever. NeoCons Miss Lindsey of South* Carolina and Ted Cruz of Texas want the destruction to continue. Trump knows he's in a bad spot, not that he'd admit even to himself that the f___d up. From his TruthSocial account:
If I make a deal with Iran, it will be a good and proper one, not like the one made by Obama, which gave Iran massive amounts of CASH, and a clear and open path to a Nuclear Weapon. Our deal is the exact opposite, but nobody has seen it, or knows what it is. It isn’t even fully negotiated yet. So don’t listen to the losers, who are critical about something they know nothing about. Unlike those before me who should have solved this problem many years ago, I don’t make bad deals!This is very personal for him. It always is. Donald Trump is the guy who wrote that book, and he is proud to be the best dealmaker. Who told you, though, we had to have any deal to begin with? Who told you that Iran is America's concern? Did I tell you that? I didn't tell you that. [/Seinfeld's Jackie Chiles] Some NeoCon did. That's not MAGA, and it's made YOU out to be a loser, Donald Trump.
PS: The caption at the top is a song lyric from Dire's Straits's Mark Knofler, singing Solid Rock off their Making Movies album. Mark Knofler didn't make that up either.
* The writer of the GP post, one Jordan Conradson, put a "(NC)" by his name. Nope, they've got their own NeoCons and idiots.
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Deep Purple Seattle on a proposed Stupidity Heat Map.
Posted On: Friday - May 22nd 2026 9:33PM MST
In Topics: Genderbenders General Stupidity Music Geography
Weirdly, 3 out of 4 of this post's assigned 3 topic keys are together in alphabetical order. That's doesn't begin to compete with the weirdness enclosed herein though.
On our old "About" page (20th Century web term there!), What is Peek Stoopiditee?, we included just two sentences referencing the Geography of Stupidity. (Sounds like a great interdisciplinary field to major in!):
There are many theories of the origin and modes of transmittal of this stupidity, though, as often is the case, it is speculated that epicenter was the southern and central coasts of California. Other theories point to New York City, Washington, FS, and/or Karl Marx's ass.Over the years, stupidity has spread throughout this land, but there are still some major axes, or trunk arteries of stupidity, if you will.
It might be cool to make one of those "heat maps". Though the colors used often seem to represent the Climate Calamity or something, a heat map is nothing but a thematic map that uses a muted rainbow of colors, often yellow through deep red, rather than circles of varying diameters (remember these?) Base maps for something like this could be a basic States of the Union map, a US map with county lines, whatever.
When you read something like the following article, you can just the imagine the shade of stupidity that it would be represented by on a Stupidity Heat Map. Here goes:Seattle LGBT Commission Demands Taxpayer-Funded Housing and ‘State of Emergency’ for ‘Trans Refugees’ Fleeing Republican States, Socialist Mayor Promises Action Despite $175 Million Budget Deficit. Seattle, Washington is in a beautiful area of the country. The people have ruined it. I can believe it's in a State of Emergency all in there, but ... trans refugees? Trans-continental refugees, do they mean?
The commission claims “tens of thousands” of “trans refugees” have fled to Seattle in order to escape “genocidal and vile legislation” passed in Republican states that restrict sex change procedures for minors.As has been said before, the weirdos, we'll always have with us. Were I one of these particular types of Weirdo, of course I'd flee too from a Republican run State in which I was to be hunted down and exterminated. However, that's not it - I read the fine print, so I'll just translate this into non-weirdo-speak:
In an official statement, the advisory body demanded the city immediately step up with housing “run by trans orgs for trans people,” pay unemployed volunteers who are “fighting full-time against this crisis,” and offer protection from the federal government.
These people have fled to Seattle as refugees from States where the non-weirdos WILL NOT PAY for them to have their dicks or titties removed and to take hormones that will modify their bodies and brains.No, there's more:
There are refugees in Seattle who have escaped States in which children aren't allowed to decide themselves to have their dicks or titties removed and to take hormones that will modify their bodies and brains.
Flee, flee, my pretty!! Does this not deserve, if not a deep purple, at least a very dark burnt orange on any Stupidity Heat Map available? Even 10 years ago, that color might represent, I dunno, a city where a Moslem or Communist could be elected Mayor. That'd be a deep orange anyway, and for a place where a Moslem who is also a Communist, yeah, bright purple, at least.
Stupidity may peak first in Seattle, Washington. If it peaks elsewhere, than that just means I'll be a refugee myself. But, I don't... want... to live like a refugee (don't wanna live like a refugee-ee.
Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have kicked you around some... Yeah, at the very least!
It's not his best song by any means, but Tom Petty's Refugee was at the forefront of the Rock Reconquista of Disco at the very end of the 1970s. There was Disco Demolition Night (what a country!) at the Chicago White Sox game in mid-July of '79, right at the time Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers were recording Damn the Torpedos from which the above song comes.* However, it was a few more decades for Disco to be declared verboten - we can thank the Covid Nineteen for that, a silver lining in a really dark cloud. Disco, however, would only be a mustard yellow (not even dijon but French's) on a 2026 Stupidity Heat Map.
* One of my favorites on that album is Louisiana Rain.
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Primary v General Elections
Posted On: Friday - May 22nd 2026 9:55AM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '26 Artificial Stupidity The Neocons
NOTE: I really would like to give many more details, but Peak Stupidity will still try to keep low-keyed as far as location on other IDing info. This makes this harder to write and probably more boring.
I couldn't find a better image yet for this post. From this pretty good interactive site, I screenshotted just the 10 States seen alphabetically. I'd cropped out the legend, so, the open circles are Primary election turnout*, and the solids are for the General. This site is only about Presidential I spent some time with AI for info for this particular candidate last time around - it did eventually help, if I can trust it.
After discussing Primary Campaign Monkey Business of 4 decades ago in national political history and locally as of this week, I wanted to add this point about Primary elections.
Complaints have abounded ever since I've been reading and listening - it's a choice between the lesser of two evils. The evils usually make it to the top, because that's what these people are good at. The time to pare it down to one evil vs one maybe not so bad a guy is during the Primary elections.
Your vote makes more of a difference in the Primary. From AI and about 2 minutes of nuclear power generation, we get a general range of 18 - 39 % turnout in Presidential Primary elections v 56 - 68 % in the General elections. That was not exactly what I was looking for, but it's not called Artificial Stupidity here for nothing.
I find it hard to believe that anywhere NEAR that percentage come out in the primaries that are in off years, when all Congressman and 1/3 of Senators are elected. I doubt 10% of ordinary Americans know the date, which is why it's put on the signs I've been sticking into the ground. I'd guess 5 or 10%. For this candidate, I finally found, it was just over 12% last time around. Some people really, really don't like him, even though he's NOT a cocaine dealer.
I've been trying to get my friends to vote against this NeoCon I mentioned yesterday, and that's one selling point. Your vote matters 10x as much.
Why not come out and try to oust this guy now, rather than bemoan about the fruitless choice later?
I think I will make up my own signs, aligned just slightly more with my take on the long-term NeoCon and immigration traitor. I'll have more time in the week before this election, so this oughta be fun at least.
* "Turnout" means vote count as a percentage of registered voters. Many people don't bother, and this post is probably a lesson in why - we'll see in a few weeks.
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Primary Campaign Monkey Business
Posted On: Thursday - May 21st 2026 9:37AM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '26 History US Feral Government
What?? Vanna White got married to Linda Evans'fiance? Scandalous!
And, who's Linda Evans?
"Monkey Business" was the name of a boat, well, a yacht really, that was involved with the downfall of favored Democrat Primary election candidate Gary Hart (from Colorado). That picture on the right of the National Enquirer front page is famous, but the scandal of the immorality of Gary Hart caused his downfall a while before that. If you don't trust a 39 year-old Enquirer for the story (wow, for only 69¢!),
After the shenanigans out of Bill Clinton in the 1990s, worries about immorality of a candidate for President seemed pretty old-fashioned. Then there was Trump. By 2016, even Evangelical voters didn't care anymore. If you voted based on extramarital affairs and such, you might get a very moral GOPe candidate (probably not), but it seemed morally more important to try to save the country.
Here at Peak Stupidity's locale, we have a Primary election coming in which the incumbent who would like to stay an additional 20-something years in the FedGov is a NeoCon AND an immigration traitor. We want him gone now, as once the General election comes up, he's normally against someone even worse. It's probably hopeless, but I won't give up.
Therefore when a young guy called me (where DID he get my number?) to come by, talk, and bring some yard signs for the other GOP candidate - very good per his site - I was glad to help. I told the young man, and my wife later told this candidate, that the large postcards we've been getting from the incumbent accuse our guy of being a cocaine dealer with many arrests, maybe a coke user... he's apparently a very, very, bad man...
Therefore, nothing is any different. I was not able to be there that day to talk to the candidate himself, but I'd have told him that I don't care if he's the biggest drug dealer in the State or was seen on a yacht with ... I don't know, a dead Furry. He's an immigration patriot, and he's against the American warmongering, so he's actually MAGA (well, per his site anyway...) We're beyond that scandal stuff now in this country, nearly 4 decades after the Gary Hart and Donna Rice scandal. There's no time to worry about candidate morality, so your large postcards are no good around here, [REDACTED Incumbent].
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The Communist Khmer Rouge takeover, the Intellectuals, and evil Pol Pot
Posted On: Wednesday - May 20th 2026 8:06PM MST
In Topics: Commies History World Political Stupidity
Youtube suggested this 52 minute video for some reason. How'd it know this would be interesting to me? Algorithms, my dear boy, algorithms!
I've been conversing with some commenters who are obviously too young or too ignorant to know what the World went through during the middle of the last century with Communism. Other than it was adjacent to Vietnam and the war spilled over there, what with the Ho Chi Minh trail and that, Americans didn't really care what happened in the country of Cambodia... later renamed Kampuchea, but that didn't take, so back to Cambodia. (Vietnam and Cambodia were at war during part of the time in question here.)
However, on a population proportion basis, the takeover of Cambodia by the Khmer Rouge in 1975 and subsequent killing of somewhere near 1/3 of the entire population, could be right up at Number 1 on the Top 40 Evils of Communism chart. There was a movie I saw at the theater, The Killing Fields, about this horror.
How does this sort of thing, Pol Pot's reset of society to "Year Zero" get started? Intellectuals. Both Cambodia and Vietnam were part of what was dubbed "IndoChina" (makes sense - between India and China), and they were colonies of France going back to the mid and late 1800s, respectively. Ho Chi Minh had tried to get an audience with Woodrow Wilson in Versailles at the end of WWI to plead for French rule to be ended.* He wasn't initially into Communism, but that's the road he took for his goal.
A classroom full of the brightest Cambodian intellectuals that had gone to France in the late 1940s is shown in this video. After a few years, these people joined the French Communist party, and things went downhill from there. The man who was later to take the name Pol Pot was one of them. At 10:20 into the video we see a typical clueless White broad, French woman Laurence Pico, as she explains how excited she had been about following one of these intellectual fools to a whole new life turning Cambodia into a nation of "noble savages", Pol Pot's idea.
I'm skipping a WHOLE LOT, of course, as America was involved in various ways.
About the intellectuals, though: It is said that during the worst of the genocide of so much of the Cambodian population, in the quest for this back to the land utopia, anyone wearing glasses was picked out, because, well, he or she must be intelligent, and the Khmer Rouge at this point had no room for MOAR intellectuals. (It's not like you'd need glasses for anything else but reading books, right?) You didn't need glasses to harvest rice and own nothing and be happy... which sounds... eerily familiar ...
Well, that's just some interesting history now. A commenter on TUR did point out to me that, unlike some, say the Ceausescu tyrants of Romania, who were finally put up against a wall and blasted to hell, Pol Pot was never punished in that manner, at least on this earth. In the summer of 1997 he was put on trial and imprisoned for life by his Khmer Rouge after a falling out. He died in mid-April of 1998 of a heart attack, but the large, detailed wiki page describes a claim about this being a suicide, Pot's being worried that he was going to be handed over to the Americans.
Wiki discussed Pol Pot's change in ideology by the 1980s:
Pol Pot frequently commented that "We chose communism because we wanted to restore our nation. We helped the Vietnamese, who were communist. But now the communists are fighting us. So we have to turn to the West and follow their way."So says the know-it-all change-the-world intellectual. This change in his views was all well and good, but Pol Pot had had millions of his countrymen killed by then.
Why bother with these old stories of the Communists of last century, a reader may rightly ask. I think that when the financial crisis that's bound to come, DOES, America will finally be that low-hanging fruit that modern Communists have been waiting to pick. We should be wary of these types of people - better learn who to be wary of now. If not well, hey, Merrick Garland wears glasses... just sayin'.
* Later on, just as with Vietnam, the Japanese arrived, and the French took power back after the end of WWII.
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