President Trump against the PRP - Asylum Denial rates
Posted On: Thursday - July 9th 2026 6:24PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Trump
The PRP is the Population Replacement Programme.
Here's our standard Disclaimer, one that probably should be assumed by the reader, but we'll continue putting it up top:
The man's an annoying braggart, he talks a load of BS, he knows he should get us out of Iran, but, EGO, and, we think His latest thing, getting involved in soccer penalties and the FIFA, is another stupid distraction that should be none of his business. The foreign player in question was a Bug-Out Baby (remember last week?), the US team lost anyway, and NOBODY CARES about some stupid game in which the players are required to run around a field pretending they have no arms!
All that can be quite the distraction, but then, this is no distraction - this is part of Trump's work against the PRP:
This is great progress. I'd thought that the refugee admittance count was zero with the exception of 17,000 White South Africans. The bar graph shows denial rates, not absolute numbers. One may note that the worst admittance rates, close to Ann Coulter's "It's not over until the immigrant wins", were seen at the end of Øb☭ma's first term and the beginning of his 2nd, with 65% of fake* "refugees" admitted. The 20th Century up through '17 (remember the date) saw admission numbers between 45% and higher, but mostly above 50%.
Though things don't look so bad from '21 - '25 RELATIVELY:
1) The absolute numbers were probably much higher. After all, when your chances are good, and the country all but invites you in, there's an incentive for higher numbers to try to achieve "asylum".
2) Dark Brandon let people in via all kinds of methods. The main way was via entry across an almost wide-open border. (Remember the Border Patrol being ordered to cut through the razor wire on the Rio Grande that Texas had put up?)
'25 got us back down to ~32% admittance, but last month it was down to just over 7%!
There's a lot of strategic planning that went into the achievement of these great numbers, not that I believe Trump is that strategic planner himself. Immigration Judges are making these calls. As VDare used to write about for many years, the immigration judges have been extremely pro-immigrant. They've been part of the entrenched bureaucracy, the Administrative State**.
Well, fire them all, and let God sort 'em out, one is tempted to say. Nah, but the problem has been the process, in which these fake asylum seekers are allowed to come INTO America while their cases are adjudicated. Aaaaannnnd, they're gone... into the interior of America. The Trump Administration has worked to change this policy. Last I heard, yet another leftist judge blocked the effort.
Therefore, it's important to replace these judges as quickly as possible with new judges (last I read somewhere, 10,000) who will (hopefully!) play ball.
As I wrote above, there must be some strategic planning, I suppose by Trump's teams under Steven Miller and Tom Homan. I can see that Trump DOES know what's going on and understands the strategy, at least, seeing as how he mentions all these moves.
I'm sorry, Peak Stupidity sick-of-Trump readers, I too, would rather see someone like Ron DeSanity doing this job. We'll have to take what we got though, so long as he's fighting hard against the PRP. This latest data is very encouraging. I'd like to see 2-3% by the end of the year. Some of them might actually need asylum.
* They're almost all fake. The idea of asylum is that you get out and head to the nearest "safe" country, that is one officially a peace. You don't need to go to North America.
** ... NOT to be confused with the Deep State. See also Will the REAL Deep State please stand up...
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California BART - It's no longer the Pong era
Posted On: Wednesday - July 8th 2026 6:35PM MST
In Topics: Humor California Economics Race/Genetics
I stole that one of at least two puns from the Red State article that Instapundit linked me to.
BART is the Bay Area Rapid Transit System. (Why not BARTS?) I've ridden on those trains quite a long time ago but not quite in the Pong era. That's Pong, as in the first video game I ever saw. Well before Space Invaders and Donkey Kong, Pong seemed pretty sophisticated at the time, the end of the 1970s, but for a quarter a game, very pricey. The following video is from close to 3 decades later, but the deal with the corners reminds me somewhat of old Pong:
What one Ms (It's California, plus I don't know) Debora Allen in the video below mentions is the "1970 era" or "Pong era" fare gates that used to be at the BART stations. Interestingly, as I tried to find out whether she is a Miss or Mrs., I found that the former BART Director was far from a D.I.E. hire, born femality aside. Hah, see, speaking of the 1970s, her departure from BART was very much in the spirit of the 1970s, as Divisive BART Board Member Debora Allen Passes Out MAGA Hats to Colleagues On Her Way Out the Door. Hah, nice job! (Imagine Che Guevara shirts or what-have-you - that'd be expected, right along with Ruby Tuesday's coupons.)
In a sign of things to come in the year ahead, as Trump supporters from every basket of deplorables feel emboldened to once again spit in the faces of others and proclaim their dominion, a conservative BART director on her way out gave out a provocative parting gift to her colleagues.Oh, no! Anyway, this fun and provocative lady was NOT to be the subject of this post, but I'll have to have another for her, cause...
The BART board is changing next year with several directors, including Congresswoman-elect Lateefah Simon, moving on.
Allen was notably the only board member to vote against requiring vaccinations for BART employees, and she caused a stir in June 2020 when, after the killing of George Floyd, she tried to gloss over the killing of Oscar Grant by a BART police officer as not "murder."I don't know of this Oscar Grant yet, but wow, yes, Conservative Californians do still exist.
OK, back to THIS post, the video below shows a black woman who tried to scoot under the new BART fare gates that Ms Allen says was one of BART's and her best project in decades.
The viral video of the black lady (she turned her head for a split second, so we know) stuck like a pig under the door is the story of the day for BART. She was told to stay put as moving the gates will only hurt more. This humor is not lost on your Peak Stupidity blogger. That station has got plenty extra gates, and they'll get her out before she gets really hungry. However, there's a bigger story in here though...
This short Bay Area NBC news video starts with who I thought might be Miss Pong actually, but no, she's Jennelle Wang, and then she hands it over to some Hernandez lady. The story has some good Steve Sailer style material that is purposely not completely Noticed™, publicly, by anyone in it, even Conservative Ms Allen.
You CAN still piggyback* if you're quick and agile, but these new glass and aluminum gates have stopped much fare-"jumping" per, let's just call her Miss Pong. They've got numbers. Per current BART Director Liz Ames (also amazingly ALSO White), revenue collected has gone up by $10 million, which will pay off the $90 million fare gate project in a decade or so (well, there's interest).
Maintenance and cleaning costs have gone down too. Maintenance might be lower for now due to the new equipment, but why the savings with the cleaning?
Less [sic - give Miss Hernandez a break - she ain't from around here] fare evaders means less litter and less graffiti... and, she says, "less crime".Hey.... what are you tryin' to say here? The people who weren't paying before don't go in now and they are the ones that littered and tagged the walls and trains and occasionally knifed unsuspecting riders? Look, I don't care who you are, that's there's just plain racisss!
Roll the tape:
There's a 2nd order effect here on ridership. If a lot of those teens - oops, no, I just mean they might be in their teens, you know - aren't riding the BART trains now, the whole experience will be nicer for everyone else, meaning ridership will go and revenue may increase more than expected from just the higher fare collection ratio alone. More nice White people, some maybe even sporting MAGA hats, will result in yet more White people, to the point where BART may yet again resemble the Pong era, an era in which electronic glass and aluminum fare gates WERE NOT NEEDED due to all the White people.
Alas, you can't go home again... even if you don't get stuck under the gate like a pig.
PS: There's a pretty cute black girl who appears for a couple of seconds at 0:43. She seems to know her people, kinda', from what I gather.
* An example shows up at the end of the news story. She's black too.
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Come on, guys, I can't air condition the whole outside.
Posted On: Tuesday - July 7th 2026 6:02PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Humor History Global Climate Stupidity Science
How serendipitous! It was only in the last quarter of the 20th Century that the manager of the buck-fifty movie theater used this line, and I mentioned this snark - most humorous to me at the time - on Friday. The Babylon Bee has picked up on this:
Did I make an arithmetical error? Maybe you can.
I was tired and somehow got the line backward in that post (fixed now), but it's the heating up of the WHOLE OUTSIDE that Climate Alarmist and moonlighting Urban Adaptation Expert Ine Vandecasteele is worried about:
But in the longer term, what happens is, installing more air conditioning actually emits more heat into our environment, so it will actually increase the speed of warming.”I just learned Ine Vandecasteele is not a Dutchman but a Danish woman, so my apologies for the mistake, but she's STILL not from Ethiopia and should know better. She probably does...
How can White people such as your Ine Vandecasteeles and the like have so much disregard for the great White scientists of the 19th and 20th centuries who made the World so much better? The invention of Air Conditioning, something only ubiquitous in America since the last (arguably) 75 years, is an example. It's changed the South completely. We should be very thankful for those White man... who exactly were they?
Wait, wait, didn't the Chinese invent Air Conditioning? You know, they invented everything - they just didn't get around to building all that stuff. I found it humorous that the ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers), on the page linked-to below, had to mention the Chinese. Back in the 0's AD (yeah, you read that right, the 1st Century), someone built a hand-cranked rotating fan. Sorry, but that's not air conditioning! The Japanese, over the last 20 years, have built those great Mitsubishi mini-split systems, as we show here. I'm sure the China-made ones now are just as good... surely...
Anyway, as for the invention of A/C, the name "Carrier" rang a bell for me. Willis Carrier out of near Buffalo, New York, and, later, his companies developed workable air conditioning systems as early as in 1902 (for a color printing plant), and the name Carrier is well known in the field of HVAC. (Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning). However, Mr. Carrier didn't by start using a vapor-compression cycle, and, after looking into it, I see that it was, yet again two AMERICAN White men who invented the process. Though way back in the mid 1700, Scotsman William Cullen first observed that drawing a vacuum over a liquid would create a cooling effect, the ASME credits Americans Oliver Evans and Jacob Perkins thought through the vapor-compression cyclic process in the first half of the 1800s. One John Hague built an ice-making machine based on Perkins' patent and principles in 1882, and working refrigeration systems were built during that last part of the 1800s.
It was Willis Carrier and others that developed usable smaller systems for residential use through the first half of the 20th century. This included the "Heat Pump", which is nothing more than the same cycle with the heat transferred to the inside and heat absorbed from the outside instead of vice versa. So, yes, the condenser coils of air conditioning units transfer heat to the outside world (along with waste heat from the compressor).
How much energy is transferred via convection and radiation from the whole World's air conditioning systems to the Earth's atmosphere? That seems simple enough to find a number for.
It basically is, but I started thinking about the COP, Coefficient of Performance of Air Conditioning units. It's easy to make the assumption that you can't get any more cooling than you have electricity coming in, but no ... the 1st Law of Thermo doesn't say that. Take that proverbial, and useful, imaginary Control Volume around the unit - you've got electrical energy entering, heat from the air entering via the evaporator inside (or through the ductwork to inside), and heat into the air exiting via the condenser outside. The COP is the ratio of the cooling (heat transferred from the inside air) to the electrical input. That ratio can be 4 or 5 in efficient systems. It goes down at the temperature difference between the T of the outside air and the inside air increases.
I know, it sounds too good to be true, but it violates no law. That vapor-compression cycle is a great way to move energy around. In the case of a heat pump, that the COP is much greater than 1 explains why we use them at all. After all, strip heaters turn electrical energy into thermal energy perfectly! Anything with inefficiencies does too, if we can get the heat where we need it. With reasonably small temperature differentials, say, heating a house to 68F when the outside is 45F the COP can be high and we make out well with a heat pump, while with double the differential, it gets inefficient and the strip heaters must come on.
That lesson completed, let me say that in coming up with a number for heat exhausted to the atmosphere from air conditioning the World, the COP doesn't matter. Take another control volume around the whole house. Now we see that if 5 times the electrical energy coming in is coming out via heat transfer, that's a felonious violation of the 1st Law of Thermo. We think for a minute and realize that, at a steady state, the house is of course transferring that extra heat via its walls, windows, etc., or else the unit could shut off for good. ("Don't keep the door open though. Whadda' gonna do, air condition the whole outside?!) Electrical energy in MUST = heat transferred at the condenser + heat transferred from the house.
So, even if this factor of 5 mattered, which it wouldn't so much when compared to that big fusion nuclear reactor up there 93 million miles away (some literary foreshadowing here), we just need the value of electrical power used around the world for A/C to get the heat transferred out. One piece of AI told me it's about 2,000 Terawatt-hours yearly. (That includes simple fans too, but no matter.) That's 2 x 1015 W-hr. Now, with a Watt being one Joule/s and all, another way to put things is that a J = 1 W-second. 1 W-s x (1hr/3,600s) = 1/3,600 W-hr. 1 W-hr = 3,600J. Round up to a nice 1 x 1019 J used in doing air conditioning yearly in the world.
AI also told me that the Sun transfers ~ 1 x 1024 J to the Earth yearly. I really like the easy arithmetic! It tells me all that heat transferred from the World's air conditioning to the atmosphere (and space, but let's not quibble) is 1 / 100,000th of what we get from the sun.
Therefore, Peak Stupidity, in this attempt at an open letter, hereby asks Miss Ine Vandecasteele of Denmark to rest easy. Spend some time away from Brussels, cool your heels at home at 72 or so - for you Euros on that antiquated Metric System, to 22 - and think of this poor blogger with his (now) two window units in place.
We've got 80F and holding steady through the daily high, and it was a HOT ONE today. We can barely air condition the whole house. Just DON'T LEAVE THE DOOR OPEN! I can't cool the whole damn neighborhood, much less accidentally heat the World to speed up Global Boiling.
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Them Quarter-Millennium US Blues
Posted On: Saturday - July 4th 2026 8:09PM MST
In Topics: Music Curmudgeonry Americans Liberty/Libertarianism US Feral Government Holiday from Stupidity
(This might be the signing of the Constitution, a dozen years later.)
Peak Stupidity used the image above back in an early '18 post The founding of America - was it a fluke? We wondered:
Has there been any other time in history when the people have thrown off the yoke of their oppressors and turned the government into something much better, other than the founding of America? You could go back to the time of the Romans and even the Greeks and only then find something close in awesomeness. The closest things were probably the Glorious Revolution in England and other events in the land of the forefathers of our founders.In last year's Independence Day post, we explained:
Whatever we think we can do, let's not give up on it. Looking back and remembering our learning of the original Independence Day in elementary school, we just think of the wonderful end result as a given, and a nice F.U. from the American colonists desiring freedom to the British Lobster-back meanies. It wasn't at all a given. If we reflect more maturely on the scene, we can imagine the feeling of this moment as any man signing this might very well be signing his death warrant, with retribution coming not any longer than some ragtag army could hold off the most powerful military in the World.It's 250 years ago today, a quarter of a Millennium, when these brave men signed the Declaration of Independence. I can remember the Bicentennial (we'd probably write it BiCentennial now) 50 years back.
In today's world what would that mean? What happened leading up to July 4th of 1776 could be compared to current Americans who try to stay off the grid, accumulate guns and ammo, and who don't hold their tongues in blog posts, on twitter, and in podcasts and even (some) using their real names. Some may fight the system in small ways, not obeying the Kung Flu mandates 5 years ago, as a big, visible example, fighting tax bills, resisting REAL ID, what-have-you. A very few did wild impulsive things like fly planes into IRS buildings. None of it is even on the level of the Boston Tea Party. Anthony Fauci was never even tarred and feathered. (It's never too late!)
In today's world, what could we compare to that day 249 years ago, when men put their signatures, meaning, their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor, on the line? I'd say that's be akin to Americans making pacts to shoot back when the Feds come to take the guns, the gold, or even the kids. You put your name out there, and if things get to this state, you will be that same kind of target as those men who signed below back in 1776.
It's hard to separate out the curmudgeonry that comes with age from the march of history. HAVE things really gotten worse* for America? I'm pretty sure.
Back during the Bicentennial, Gerry Ford was still President, the high inflation hadn't been "whipped" yet, foreign cars (and motorcycles and cameras) were encroaching into the auto market, the Vietnam war had only been over for 3 years for Americans and 1 for the Vietnamese, there was too much of that silly Feminist business going on already. We posted 3 songs from that era the lyrics of which sound pretty worried - Paul Simon's American Tune - - Neil Young's Coming Apart at Every Nail and Merle Haggard's Are the Good Times Really Over?.
That was nothin'! The grievances Americans have against "their" US Government and the state of the union seem an order of magnitude larger now. (Make that 2 orders of magnitude, when it comes to financial matters!)
Even if it sure hasn't as a Constitutional Republic, I'm amazed that America as a polity has made it to the 250 year mark, a quarter of ONE THOUSAND YEARS. That's a pretty long time. Making it another 250, up though the half Millennium mark, as a going concern is not something I'd bet even a 2026 buck on.
Merle Haggard asked "Are we rollin' down hill like a snowball headed for hell?" It seems like it. Paul Simon said "We can't be forever blessed", and Neil Young sang "Hey, hey, ain't that right? The working man's in for a hell of a fight." America still had a lot going for it then, I see in hindsight. I didn't see what could be a problem at my age at the time. Could a young man today not see the direction we're heading?
I just continued writing after watching the fireworks that Founder John Adams predicted:
I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more.The fireworks are as good as ever, but there are fewer men left in America that understand what it all was about.
A Peak Stupidity tradition, since ITS founding, has been to feature The Grateful Dead's US Blues every Independence Day. The song is only slightly political. I usually don't bother with what AI has to "say", but I liked this blurb that came up:
Cultural ImpactThis post aside, we'll try to stay upbeat here on this blog.
"U.S. Blues" is notable for its upbeat and carefree spirit, contrasting with the political turmoil of the 1960s and 1970s. The Grateful Dead used the song to celebrate American culture without engaging in political commentary, making it a staple in their performances. The song's playful nature resonates with fans, embodying the essence of the Grateful Dead's music and ethos.
Here was The Dead, just over 2 weeks before America's Bicentennial, singing the US Blues in the Capitol Theater in Passaic, New Jersey. Demographically, you won't see anything the kind of crowd present at the 50 year-ago show in '26 Passaic, New Jersey.
Summertime done, come and gone, my, oh, my.
The Dead didn't seem too keyed up in this one, but I included it due to the date, almost at 50 years back.
Oh, just in case the reader has not celebrated this Quarter Millennium yet, hey, be careful out there!
That is from Adam Smith's youtube channel. (Video description: "Dysgenic Fertility is America's Greatest Strength!") Thanks, Adam.
The comments under the last number of "US Blues" posts were great. I didn't even remember that just last year Alarmist and I talked about the term for a 250th anniversary.
* That question asked more generally was the subject of our very 1st Peak Stupidity post.
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It's not the heat - it's the stupidity.
Posted On: Friday - July 3rd 2026 4:03PM MST
In Topics: Lefty MegaStupidity Humor Global Climate Stupidity
Alt-title: Heat domes, air conditioning, and Urban Adaptation Experts
The "heat dome" is a term for area under the daily max temperature curve, I think. It's an integral, not an actual dome of hot air. The journalists might even learn some math from this story, so there's that ...
Commenter "The Alarmist", who spends most of his time in Europe, brought up this story under a recent post.
I forget the official stat, but the number of deaths attributable to very cold winter is an obscene multiple of summer heat deaths. Like 60,000 for winter versus 800 for summer in the UK. The last two winters were mild, so there’s a lot of dry tinder for the Grim Reaper if the Super El Niño delivers a cold dry February in 2027.Ha! The deaths due to freezing would generally have the same root cause, the recent influence and taking control of the energy sector of Western European economies by the "Greens". They aren't the old timey California whacko types that may have been humoured* a bit, but didn't seriously influence the economy. Germany shut down all nuclear power based on the - stupid and/or evil, take your pick - plans of these Greenies. (Some of them are the "Watermelons", with lots of red on the inside.)
I don’t know the stat for the Continent as a whole, but France is 8 to 1. USA is 2 to 1 … must be all the guns.
It may be somewhat due to some big futeball cup going on around this country, with the accompanying stories of Europeans getting their first personal views of what America is really like, that the story of a big lack of air conditioning "over there" has come to the forefront. It's said to be from 20% to 30%, roughly, of the residences in the main countries** in the region that have A/C.
I've been there once in the Summer as a young man. At that age, and because I spent most of the time outside, I didn't notice a problem. The next time I spent much time there, almost all in Germany, it was winter. Luckily I didn't freeze to death, I guess...
As a ZeroHedge commenter pointed out, these death numbers might be similar to the problem with the stats - death WITH the Kung Flu vs death FROM the Kung Flu. I guess some of them, death by heat stroke or the converse, a frozen corpse accidentally locked out of the house, are easy enough to determine. Comparisons to the US are unfair TOWARD the US, as we've got more regions that get this type of heat regularly than at least the main Western Euro countries, and, in the other direction, with the extremely cold winters of the Continental Climate zone of the upper MidWest. A good analysis would have to integrate dangerous cold/hot periods over population numbers - fun stuff!
That's not what I am here to do today anyway though. The stupidity that we see here is the REASON that many Western European residents are without air conditioning. Their governments still take the Climate Calamity stupidity very seriously. Europe's Climate-First Policies Fuel Resistance To Air Conditioning As More Than 1,300 Die In Heat Waves. ZH bolding here:
Europe continues to rely on alternatives to air conditioning even as deadly heat waves claim lives across the continent. Officials argue that expanding air conditioning is not a long-term solution.What the ...? Short of terra-forming the planet, or maybe launching the Earth into an orbit 10 or 20 million miles farther from the Sun, air conditioning will suffice for the short, medium, and long-term for those who like to be comfortable.
According to World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Europe has recorded more than 1,300 excess heat-related deaths since June 21.I'm just wondering why ANY White Westerner should have to ever take a lick of advice from anyone named Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. The guy's Ethi-freaking-opian. If I want advice from a spokesman from The Who, I'll listen to lead singer Roger Daltrey. He's NOT from Ethiopia.
What these Eurofools are trying to tell the people is that it's better that they die now from the stifling heat inside their homes than later from a projected couple of degrees C temperature rise, ANY DECADE NOW, from Global Warming. I'd like to see a survey asking the people when they would rather die. They might not agree with their Government officials or Mr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. (I'm still partial to Butros Butros Golly!)
But, as the weather gets hotter this summer, the stupidity increases. Remember it's not the heat - it's the stupidity. One Ine Vandecasteele, an urban adaptation expert with the European Environment Agency explains proper use of air conditioning
“It is an immediate response, which can support essentially those who may be vulnerable in hospitals, or in very short term can help. But in the longer term, what happens is, installing more air conditioning actually emits more heat into our environment, so it will actually increase the speed of warming.”Holy cow! Mr. Vandecasteele, who's not even from Ethiopia, doesn't even know or bother with the long-term Climate Crisis theory that at least starts with something real, the radiative absorption characteristics of Carbon Dioxide. The models that purport to use that and EVERYTHING ELSE POSSIBLY AFFECTING THE CLIMATE are garbage, but still, there's a lot of fun Climatology to learn.
This guy says that it's the heat convected off A/C condenser coil fins, and I reckon the compressor waste heat, that is "increasing the speed of warming"... the whole outside.
Well, I might do that simple calculation next week, but the "whole outside" business has me smiling. Long ago, at the dollar fifty movies on a hot summer day like today, one of our friends held one of the outside doors open for a while talking to my brother and me. That can be wasteful when it's 92 outside and you want to keep the theater full of people (emitting 100 W apiece at rest) at 70.
"Hey, close the door, you guys", he cracked, "I can't air condition the whole outside." At that age and time, I thought that was the funniest line ever. I still smile when I think of this, and I use this line whenever I have the chance. It even works in the winter!
Common sense from that urban adaptation expert at the movies in olde America vs. modern European Government stupidity - it's no contest.
* If I'm gonna write about Europe, I guess I've got to write LIKE them.
** We shouldn't count the Scandanavian countries. Like the Pacific Northwest here (where quite a few Scandanavians immigrated to long ago), there is only a serious need for A/C a few days a year. Those people bitch & moan when it's 82F outside with DRY AIR. (That region is like coastal California for 4 months, but with more daylight and... unfortunately, too many Californians.)
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[UPDATED Quarter-Millennium:] I was tired. Not "heat bomb", "heat dome" is the big new thing...
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SCrOTUS upholds the Bug-Out Baby Scam
Posted On: Thursday - July 2nd 2026 10:44AM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Trump US Feral Government Legal Stupidity Morning Constitutional
I gotta give the guy credit. President Trump pushed this as far as he could before the SCrOTUS screwed the pooch. Granted, this decision was specifially about the illegality of an Executive Order* being used to deligitimatize the Bug-Out Baby scam, but this could have been a BIG WIN. Trump is most assuredly not giving up either. Since running his mouth and making smart (and stupid) remarks is his thing, the sarcastic tweet he made hammmers home the stupidity of this, one of the biggest, "legal" immigration scams.
We should have expected a defense of the erroneous "Birthright Citizenship" interpretation of US Constitution Amendment XIV, Section 1 from the 3 Diversitards of The Court. Kagan, Sotomayor, and Jackson Brown are the installed ctrl-left minions, there to rule for more societal destruction. For an important case like this, legalities mean nothing. These 3 are not bright enough to think that way anyway, likely the point of their having been installed.
Then their was another woman, the supposed Conservative Amy Barrett. Her appointment was yet another Trump boner. Should we have expected that her two diverse adopted Haitian kids would have no bearing on her decision making? ("But, muh compassion!")
Then there's John Roberts. I don't think he's stupid - I think he's been blackmailed. Someone ought to get to the bottom of that. Perhaps he and James O'Keefe could go on a date sometime.
I can't say enough good about Clarence Thomas. I understand that Sam Alito is a very good Constitutionalist too**, but I don't extoll Thomas because he's that "good black guy, see?!" I've read through 1/10 so far of his dissenting opinion on the .pdf for this SCrOTUS Case. What great writing! After reading from Thomas, I really think the 3 Diversitard justices should enter the chambers through a different doorway, off a special SCrOTUS short bus.
Anyway, here's what has enabled the Bug-Out Baby scam for many years:
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.It's that "... subject to the jurisdiction thereof..." phrasing that has those pushing the Population Replacement Programme stupidly or more likely purposefully interpeting that as "being here". That's all.
It's true that the whole concept of "birth tourism" and such was not important to 1789 - 1868 America, the latter year being when Amendment XIV was ratified (along with the 2 other
No, this scam was not specified. Section 1 was only about citizenship for the recently freed slaves. The Indians were a different story (see the long Thomas dissent). Anyone else who just happened to give birth here, well, the author of the Amendment himself, one Congressman John Bingham of Ohio explained to the House in March of 1866:
I find no fault with the introductory clause [S 61 Bill], which is simply declaratory of what is written in the Constitution, that every human being born within the jurisdiction of the United States of parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty is, in the language of your Constitution itself, a natural born citizen..Now, if this new baby, just born to Chinese parents in a San Francisco hospital, commits a crime somehow, yes, he would be tried by a jurisdiction in the US. However, he's Chinese. His parents owe allegiance to China.
One Senator Jacob Howard of Michigan, Bingham's counterpart, I guess, had this to say in front of the Senate that same year:
The first amendment is to section one, declaring that all "persons born in the United States and Subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the States wherein they reside. I do not propose to say anything on that subject except that the question of citizenship has been fully discussed in this body as not to need any further elucidation, in my opinion. This amendment which I have offered is simply declaratory of what I regard as the law of the land already, that every person born within the limits of the United States, and subject to their jurisdiction, is by virtue of natural law and national law a citizen of the United States. This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the Government of the United States, but will include every other class of persons.You can argue Originalism, etc. until the cows come home, but this was pretty clear. That's what was intended by Section 1 of Amendment XIV, not the Bug-Out Baby scam.
SCrOTUS has let us down. That was expected here at Peak Stupidity. We're (PS and MAGA?) not giving up, as this scam results in a big avenue for BUT, LEEGUL! immigration.
Those numbers are HUGE, but, besides the 10 y/o age of the data, they don't necessarily tell us accuately what's going on with this scam. I got that Pew graph from a '19 article Number of U.S.-born babies with unauthorized immigrant parents has fallen since 2007. Pew at least explains possible inaccuracies itself:
While the Center’s new analysis provides estimates about the number and share of U.S.-born babies with unauthorized immigrant parents, it’s important to note that the legal status of immigrant parents can change over time. For example, parents who have legal permission to be in the U.S. at the time of their child’s birth might later overstay their visas or otherwise become unauthorized. Similarly, parents who are unauthorized immigrants at the time of their child’s birth might later become lawful immigrants and then naturalized citizens. (This analysis also slightly revises earlier estimates published by Pew Research Center.)There's a lot to this. It brings up one of my 2 final points in this extended post:
Overall, around 5 million U.S.-born children younger than 18 were living with at least one unauthorized immigrant parent in 2016, up from around 4.5 million in 2007, according to the new estimates. The number of U.S.-born children has leveled off in recent years, reflecting the decline in births and the decrease in the unauthorized immigrant population since the Great Recession.
An additional 975,000 U.S.-born adults ages 18 and older were living with at least one unauthorized immigrant parent in 2016. That’s up more than threefold from about 300,000 in 2007. (This analysis does not include adults who were born in the U.S. to unauthorized immigrants and were not living with their parents.) The number of U.S.-born adults living with an unauthorized immigrant parent has risen sharply in recent years as children born in the 1990s have come of age. Meanwhile, other estimates show that a rising share of their parents’ generation are long-term U.S. residents.
1) It's great that this scam has gotten huge visibility due to President Trump and this Supreme Court case. However, I have the feeling from my reading that so many Americans think this is something new! It's been going on for half a century or more.
Nothing changed legally recently, but immigration has been just higher generally. I do wonder which would have been a better SCrOTUS to have brought this case before over the last half century. Maybe the answer is none. Commenters may have their opinions.
2) A part of the big immigration apparatus that enables this Bug-Out Baby scam to work to begin with is chain and family migration. It's not like most parents want to drop a kid, whether across the Mexican border or in a hospital room in Seattle, and not plan to be with him. So, they can stay illegally until the immigration lawyer finally wins (in the former case), or go home, let their kid come over when he's older, and have him reunite the family in America via immigration methods. Everyone is legal now... and they will no longer be on that graph, BTW.
* Peak Stupidity maintains that ALL Executive Orders are unConstitutional anyway. However, that's long been water under the bridge, and it's not the time to refrain - as we explained in a long post.
** I'm not sure I trust Kavenaugh yet. Hopefully that miserable comfirmation experience stays with him.
*** The Dead Sea Scrolls are said to be the original Book of Isaiah - you can only see a copy, unless you are special.
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Uruguay: PS and Graffiti in Montevideo
Posted On: Tuesday - June 30th 2026 9:03PM MST
In Topics: Movies Geography Race/Genetics Peak Stupidity Roadshow
This is the 2nd installment of a quick series from our S. American roadtrip, continued from the 1st.
I'll make this one quick. Graffiti abounds in Montevideo, Uruguay, at least in the downtown. I was a bit surprised. I've thought of graffiti as a mostly Black! thing, but then I haven't been around Los Angeles or Miami much in a long time. I suppose wherever you have gangs, they've got to mark their territory, as cats back up and piss on the corners of houses and vehicle trim. I really like how Michael Douglas's character observes this in one of my favorite movies, Falling Down.
I've got my own start/end, but you may want to watch the whole scene for the 1993 movie:
OK, Uruguay, sure, it's in South America. There are Hispanic people there, but I expected more of the "Conquistador-Americans" (h/t, Steve Sailer) per wiki demographic numbers. They don't plaster graffiti everywhere, do they?
That historic building of some sort is right on the waterfront, this coastline that is geographically a curve from the coastline of the 50 mile wide Rio de la Plata to the Atlantic Ocean coast. The wide strand avenue is called the Rambla de ABC, where ABC goes from President Wilson (uggh!) to Charles de Gualle, to Peru, and Mahatma Ghandi has a big stretch of it named after him. (I have no idea what that was about.) Anyway, nobody is taking care of that building, I guess.
Also right there on the Atlantic coast, CCW from the point, that wall has what seems like one of those combination murals and graffiti sessions. You don't want to piss off the home boys, so you act like this is art. They do that in American inner cities too.
That's an architecturally beautiful old residential building, on what should be a pretty corner in downtown Montevideo. WTH, man? I see that these "taggers" don't bother to get higher than they can reach. Aren't our American taggers less lazy, at least?
OK! Now that there, on a park bench on the touristy walk-street downtown, is some graffiti that I would sponsor myself! Maybe someone can help me here. Does that last line read "Communism is death"?
PS: While trying to find the name of that walk-street (it's been a year and a half) on google maps, I took a look around the city some more. (I can look at maps for hours.) We got around but surely not around 90% of the city. Perhaps we got a bad impression as with someone spending time only in the inner city of a Midwestern medium-sized city here. I am hoping reader/commenter Possumman can fill me in on more as his son and family have spent more time in Montevideo.
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The Battle of Sullivan's Island - a quarter Millennium ago
Posted On: Monday - June 29th 2026 9:09PM MST
In Topics: History
... yesterday. Ooops. Peak Stupidity hardly ever posts on Sundays. However, that's not our real excuse. I've dropped the ball on posts about QuarterMill* American Revolutionary War battles and events and therefore didn't even see this coming until reading a ZeroHedge article this morning.
There was no photography, and the painting is pretty worn out.
I like that ZeroHedge posted a History article, with basically no politics involved... unless your long-lost ancestors were Lobsterbacks, and you're still sore about the whole thing. From one Alan Wakim of The Epoch Times, it was 250 Years Ago: South Carolina Defeats The British Empire.
I guess we can still do this:
It was a quarter Millennium yesterday.A British Navy armada under had come down from New York and, having given up on occupying coastal North Carolina, headed to Charles Towne, at the time, the 4th biggest city in the Colonies.** In command was General Henry Clinton. (Who will rid us of these turbulent Clintons?) British-born General Charles Lee headed the recently created "Southern Department" of the Continental Army.
Colonel Moultrie led his boys in the fray.
Fort Sullivan had Palmetto logs for style.
They could catch a cannon ball from half a mile.
So let me introduce to you,
from Charles Towne cross 250 years.
It's William Moultrie and those British tears....
British vessels were spotted in late May taking soundings and gathering intelligence. On May 31, a Patriot horseman arrived at Rutledge’s headquarters to inform him that a massive fleet had been spotted on the horizon.
On June 1, the British armada arrived and dropped anchor outside the harbor. For the next several days, they searched for accessible crossing channels among the shallow sandbars.
On June 4, Lee arrived with his staff and assumed command. When he inspected Fort Sullivan, he called it a “slaughter pen” and predicted its destruction by naval artillery within half an hour. He ordered the fort to be abandoned and for the men to fall back to the mainland. [South Carolina President John] Rutledge, however, instructed Moultrie to disobey those orders and to continue working on the fort.
On June 8, Clinton issued a formal proclamation to the city, demanding its immediate surrender. His timing proved unfortunate because Lee’s vanguard of roughly 2,000 Continental soldiers from Virginia and North Carolina arrived on the same day.
After his proclamation was ignored, Clinton deployed more than 2,500 redcoats onto Long Island, now known as Isle of Palms. The island was one mile northeast of Sullivan’s Island, separated by a waterway known as Breach Inlet. Lee responded by redeploying Thomson and 780 men to fortify the beaches facing the waterway.
Yeah, both Sullivan's Island and the Isle of Palms to the northeast had nice quite beaches until as recently as 10 years ago.
Over the last 20 years, Charleston has been again threatened by Yankees, and this time they HAVE successfully invaded. Yankee refugees, some perhaps ancestors of those present in Colonial America, most not, have fled from the Totalitarianism in the northeast rather than fighting back with their grievances, as the American patriots did so long ago. It's a slightly different situation, as many of these Yankee refugee are themselves the reason they have grievances to begin with. Now the beaches on Sullivan's Island and the Isle of Palms are filled umbrella to umbrella with these people, and it looks like it might as well be New Jersey.***
I don't know if there were any telephoto lens tricks involved here, but I can tell you it's very crowded there.
... uhhh, back to our story, I'm just paraphrasing the ZH article anyway, but this was history I did learn long ago.
The article notes that the British had planned to invade by wading across the Breach Inlet separating the Isle of Palms from Sullivan's Island. Scouts had thought that sandbars allowed for no more than 18" of water at low tide, but they were mistaken. (This is an area where once can see dolphins these days.) Instead, the British fired on Fort Sullivan, now Fort Moultrie, from their ships.
On the same day that Thomas Jefferson and his committee presented the first draft of the Declaration of Independence to John Hancock.
On the morning of June 28, Parker found sea and weather conditions ideal for an attack. He signaled the fleet to weigh anchor, loosen their sails, and begin their advance, setting in motion Moultrie’s frantic dash back to the fort.
HMS Thunder dropped anchor and fired the opening shots. Within minutes, all nine warships unleashed a thunderous cannonade at the unfinished fort.
The bombardment, however, produced an unexpected result. Instead of splintering into deadly shards, the soft, sponge-like palmetto logs absorbed the cannon’s impact. British officers later acknowledged that the unusual construction made the fort far more resilient than anticipated.
Palmetto obviously means "little Palm". The trees are normally shorter than palms, but the big difference is the spiky "bootjacks" that line the lower trunks of Palmetto trees.
The South Carolinians fought back, in this 10 hour artillery battle.
Moultrie’s men fired slowly and deliberately to avoid using up the fort’s limited supply of powder. Their carefully aimed shots inflicted heavy damage on the attacking ships, especially Parker’s flagship, HMS Bristol, which suffered extensive casualties. Nearly every officer on its quarterdeck was killed or wounded. Parker was among the wounded when an American shot tore away part of his uniform, leaving his backside exposed.
Also wounded aboard Bristol was Lord William Campbell, South Carolina’s deposed royal governor, who had volunteered to serve with a gun crew. Struck by flying splinters, Campbell never fully recovered from his wounds, dying in England two years later.
Enemy fire severed the fort’s flagstaff during the battle. Sgt. William Jasper climbed over the ramparts, recovered the fallen colors under fire, and fastened them to a sponge staff, raising them once more above the fort. His actions became one of the enduring images of the entire war.
The British fleet withdrew in the evening.
Residents in Charles Town had spent the day anxiously awaiting news. When word arrived that Fort Sullivan still stood, celebrations erupted throughout the city. Even Lee, who had doubted the fort’s chances, praised the defenders. He visited the fort during the battle, observed the men’s calm bravery, and fired several rounds himself before returning to the mainland.This victory has long been commemorated by the State of South Carolina both by its nickname the Palmetto State, and in the blue State Flag.
Americans suffered 37 casualties. British casualties approached 220.
That's the short version of the story of the historic Battle of Sullivan's Island. We have no stupidity to discuss today.
* Does that sound like a type of residential interior molding, or is it the best term for the "America-250" commemoration? The proper term for 2 1/2 centuries is Semiquincentennial, but I neither like that one, nor Sestercentennial, the latter sounding too much like Sesquicentennial, the term for a century and a half. Let's think bigger and use fractions of a Millennium.
** Charles Town, now Charleston of course, was behind Philadelphia, New York City, and Boston, in that order.
*** Folly Island, on the other side of Charles Towne Harbour, to the SW, has been subject to the same invasion. It was also formerly nice and quiet.
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More California Stupidity, as Chicagoland vies for runner-up
Posted On: Saturday - June 27th 2026 3:00PM MST
In Topics: Genderbenders Humor California
The Champion gets to go last in these things and the Challenger first.
Peak Stupidity visited* the Georgia Guidestones monument, a kind of American Stonehenge, in early Winter of '21. Alas, they were blown up (see the comment thereunder) in the Summer of '22. This was coincidentally at a time we were doing more writing about the building of the monument and its purpose. (Also, another trip was planned with some friends who hadn't see it.)
Alas, that monument above, the Obamination of Desolation, or, as some dub it, the BOHICA Stones, is still standing in the south side of Chicagoland after over a week since its dedication. The Georgia Guidestones had 10 pieces of advice, each written in 8 languages. It looks like this Øb☭ma MegaPotty has only one promise written on it in only one language, though it might be written in Ebonics on the back. Unfortunately, some President of the United States or other broke that one promise long ago.
You CAN go inside this one, though. Though it was created by Communists, rather than being free to visit with 10 parking spaces as the Georgia Guidestones were, this, what we hope becomes the Obamination of Demolition, is much bigger, and an entry fee of $30 is necessary. Thank you, Adam Smith, for the image.
Yet, this Chicagoland crowd are just pikers.
We had missed yet a 3rd of many pieces of Calstupidity in Thursday's post California Nightmare-in' ... . I'd saved a tab somewhere but forgotten, and that post was long enough already.
California darkens the Stupidity heat map with their new policy of requiring quotas of gay people and other members of that Genderbender crowd for State contracts for utility suppliers. It's a big State, and they take a LOT of money from their people... until they leave ... The Daily Signal reports California Demands Proof You’re LGBTQ for Contracts—but Not Proof You’re a Citizen to Vote.
For something as grave as sovereignty—deciding taxes, judges, crime policy, schools, and the future of the state—citizenship is treated largely as an attestation.The Babylon Bee, America's new "Paper of Record" has found just the guy ready to help with this required vetting, with a more personal touch.
But if a small business wants to qualify as LGBTQ+ owned under California’s utility supplier-diversity system, Sacramento suddenly discovers verification.
The applicant must prove the company is majority-owned and controlled by an LGBTQ+ person. How? Marriage or domestic-partnership records. Health insurance paperwork. Joint living arrangements. A letter from an LGBTQ+ chamber leader. Media coverage identifying the owner as LGBTQ+. A physician or attorney letter. Or, most absurdly, three personal-reference letters from people who have known the owner for more than a year and can attest to the owner’s LGBTQ+ status.
The Champion, California, wins this battle of the stupidities yet again. It's a big State - it's not fair! Minnesota, with Tampon Timmah Walz as its representative, surely deserves honorable mention.
With that, we wrap up the Peak Stupidity blogweek. Next week, we'll have at least one more quick Uruguay post, at least one of the two videos of China at the time of their Cultural Revolution, and some timely stupidity that doesn't fail to pop up. Have a happy Sunday Peakers! Thanks for reading and writing in.
* Here's Part 2 of the report on our field trip. There's also much more about the Guidestones one can read about using the Peak Stupidity Roadshow topic key.
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The most timely movie EVER - Citizen Vigilante
Posted On: Friday - June 26th 2026 11:37AM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Movies
Wording that appeared in the credits at the end of Citizen Vigilante makes this a 2025 movie. I don't really know what that means - filming was finished last year, production was...? I don't know, but it can't mean the official release, as I've just heard of this movie and I see that wiki has a date of one week ago. June 19, 2026. Movies take a while to script, film, produce, whatever (wiki says filming* started in January of '25) so the fact that this movie about a European vigilante exacts justice on violent "migrants" came out just now is timely.
Yes, that is eerily timely when we look back at just the last couple of weeks of stories of violence by angry and deranged strange foreigners to and in Europe, and the long-overdue occasionaly violent pushback. This movie is something like a sequel to half-century old (+ 2 years) Death Wish**, but in Europe and and with "migrants" instead of "thugs".
The star, Armie Hammer, is the great-grandson of oil tycoon turned Global Communist Armand Hammer, a son of Russian Jewish immigrants, the father a card-carrying Communist. Now, lest one wonder how far this apple has fallen from the tree, seeing as this is FAR from a Globalist-friendly movie, Great-Grandpa Hammer's wife was not a Communist, but a Russian Baroness from Sevastapol, while young Amrie's paternal GrandMother was a Texan, his Mom's family are from Tulsa, Oklahoma.
I'm just not the kind of movie "goer" (who goes anymore?) who notices whether the acting was superb, the casting was good, and so forth. I'll mention a few minor flaws, almost all having to do with believability. After all, that's pretty much what I care about. I don't like movie scenes that don't make enough sense.
Citizen Vigilante is indeed the vigilante movie that anyone not completely satisfied with the White World's Populaton Replacement Programme will not only enjoy but want to see in real life. The movie doesn't hold back.
I've read that the inspiration for this movie was an ~ decade-ago gang rape of a young girl in Germany by one of Herr Merkels' compasssionatly arranged "refugees". However, I don't think one needs that particular inspiration anymore. There are everyday events around Europe that are... inspirational
Our hero does his work on behalf of not only raped young ladies as the scene above depicts, but he covers it all - aggressive youngsters on the city bus and in the park, and pretty much all the evil he sees. (One of the scenes has him messing with some potential "date rapists" - meaning drugs involved - who didn't look like foreigners to me.) More importantly, as any immigration patriot blogger would avise him, our vigilante takes it out on the higher-up judges and such who enable the situation.
I suppose I'm spoiling the one scene here, but yes, in addition to explaining his motives and the problems from the foreigners he's aiming at, the man who goes by "Sanders" does shoot the whole family in this scene. He also shoots all the accomplices that have been tricked into coming by.
This is an action movie. The biggest action occurs as the State, well Interpol(ice) come to get him for the cause of democracy and rule-of-law. It's obvious whose side the citizens of this Euro country and the whole world are on, and you'll be on the same side. The justification is unambigous. "What if innocents get killed, and they need a fair trial", doesn't so much come into play in this one.
If you like gore, you'll have gore galore in Citizen Vigilante, almost all of it seen as righteous.
Yeah, it's a good movie, AND it's FREE - below.
Let me just finally add a few criticisms of some unbelievability here:
1) How do you leave a getaway car for yourself out in the country without having an accomplice (a big no-no for this guy) or taking one hell of a walk in the middle of your very busy vigilantism schedule. This character has a job too, owner of 3,500 units of rental property.
2) There's a scene in which Sanders explains to his drugged passenger that the regular person would rather die than break the law. He drives down the wrong side of the road at another car to demonstrate, and the driver goes into a ditch, and his car explodes.
Nah. This is wrong. First of all, I took a very good Defensive Driving course years ago (way before my silly mandatory traffic school sessions), and the instructor told us to drive off the road in these situations. It's very likely the other guy will go back into his lane. Secondly, no, cars don't ALWAYS explode when the overturn off the road. If I wanted to see this, I'd stick to watching The Rockford Files.
More to the point, character Sanders is wrong in this part of his rant. People WILL do whatever it takes to avoid being killed. What I've seen is people obeying the law above using common sense to avoid hurting OTHERS. Drivers will not cross that double yellow even with no other cars on the 2-lane road, yet pass 3 ft away from a bicyclist.
Alright, well now let me get to one important point regarding the politics of the movie. This point is taken from not just the one scene of our vigilante and the family of the Moslem rapist, but that'll do as an example.
I wrote above that the movie "doesn't hold back". Well, that's not completely the case or else, the writer(s) don't understand this. As he berates each of the four of this family for the ills of this Moslem immigration, and the family pleads "refugee", Sanders tells them that they are the bad ones. It's akin to, and probably indirectly taken from Trump's "They're not sending their best." No, they're not, and maybe these movie-migrants are the worst.
Sorry, that's not good enough. Europeans are feeling the violence and finally pushing back, but would they ever, ever say that they'd want these people gone even if they behaved like the best of Europeans? I think our Vigilante Citizen movie makers won't go quite that far. This goes pretty far though, so we'll take what we can get.
Let me insert the movie for you viewing pleasure. Thank you, Bitchute.*** This is pretty much tops in the new, hopefully budding genre of Immigration Patriot Porn:
* All filmed "on location" in a city in Croatia. How is a movie not filmed on location? I'm simply not connected to The Biz.
** Charles Bronson was the vigilante exacting justice against generally black thugs in the inner city. There were 5 in the series, running all the way through 1994, with Mr. Bronson as the star. Bruce Willis was in a remake movie in 2018.
*** Besides the first 2, I had one commercial pop up about 1/4 way into the movie. I thought that would continue, but it didn't. Plenty of the Peak Stupidity readers will be more savvy than I, but, no matter, that's the least I can put up with to chip in, in some way, for a free brand-new movie!
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California Nightmare-in' ...
Posted On: Thursday - June 25th 2026 6:51PM MST
In Topics: Genderbenders Immigration Stupidity Lefty MegaStupidity Music California Legal Stupidity
... on such a Summer's day... ♫
It's not often an American State gets its own topic key here on Peak Stupidity. In fact, California is the only one to have one. It IS the biggest State in population (25% more than #2 Texas... for now) and the most beautiful State by far, and it's also the State with the most stupidity, at this point by a long shot!
Of the 46 posts, counting this one, that have the California topic key, we got to the predecessor to this post way back in #7 - They Called it Paradise. I've got to start from an excerpt from that long post:
"... I don't know why, you call some place Paradise, then kiss it goodbye..." sang Don Henley of The Eagles, the quintessential California band on "The Last Resort". Peak Stupidity could post hundreds of songs about California here, but one could not go wrong with The Eagles' "Take it Easy" or "Peaceful Easy Feeling" "I wanna sleep with you in the desert tonight with a billion stars all around..." These songs and many others evoke images of an amazing place and time that may never be seen again in this world. That's what makes this a sad post.I was speaking of California up through the mid 1980s, 1990 tops. What they've done to the State is pure tragedy. (No, no Bee Gees songs, please! They weren't from Cali anyway.) I explained in the rest of that old post what has happened.*
One doesn't have to be very old to remember a time when he had a friend that "made up my mind, I'm gonna make a new start, going to California with an aching in my heart." "Someone told me there's a girl out there with love in her eyes and flowers in her hair." Whether it was work, the wife, the climate, or the whole rat race that wasn't working out, things were going to be different and better out there, where one could leave the old ways behind and start a new life in an environment that couldn't be more beautiful. It usually did work out better. I doubt many people regretted it and wanted to move "back East". This was a place where people a little bit different would not be bothered about it. There was not the family and friends around with the discouraging words about one's new weird habits or lifestyle. There was so much freedom, but no, you wouldn't get tired of it!
The image at the top here shows
... so long as the big White majority competently did the work it took to run the place and its big industries. Sure, there's this one guy, but, no, he's not at all one of the Competent Old White Guys we have in mind. We and especially California are runnin' clean out of 'em.
The following 2 news stories show how stupid it's getting out there. The Gateway Pundit says New Report From Conservative Think Tank Claims Gavin Newsom Spent a Billion Dollars to Import 400,000 Illegal Aliens.
According to a new report from the Manhattan Institute, California Governor Gavin Newsom not only allowed thousands of illegals to pour into his state, he paid a massive amount of money in order for it to happen.Actually, that's not THAT much money really, for a place where zero miles of high-speed rail costs $100 Billion, albeit in today's dollars. $2,500 per illegal alien brought into the US is not a bad deal... wait, what?? (Oh, and in a tweet within it says "specifically those with AIDS". Sure, why not, if you're trying to destroy the place...? Now, if we could deport them for the same amount, that's an even better deal. (It's pretty feasible, IMO.)
This was done mainly through grants that were given to charities which then turned around and aided in all of this illegal immigration.
This immigration stupidity has been the basic cause of the ruin of California, but the State has other stupid ideas too. The Post Millennial reports California seeks to allow kids to 'divorce' their parents without cause. No fault divorce, an idea that originated in ... let me look it up on the www ... California, back in 1969 was a nice step in the ctrl-left's process of destroying American society via destruction of the nuclear family.
I guess that's been a "Mission Accomplished!" for long enough now, that these Commies aren't going to just sit at the coffee shops twiddling their thumbs. MOAR nuclear family destruction! Let's let the kids decide whether they like their families enough to stay with them. I don't see this as being a big problem, really. I mean it's not like these kids all become teenagers or anything ...
Assembly Bill 1967 is moving through the California Legislature with barely a ripple of public attention. The bill, authored by LGBTQ rights activist-turned-Assemblymember Rick Zbur, would allow children of any age to initiate state dependency proceedings against their own parents. The parents will not even know this has happened until the die is already cast.What's a "residential facility" anyway? That sounds like home. Nah, it's not quite THAT bad.... yet:
The bill allows any minor residing in any residential facility to file a legal application against their parents, without cause or evidence of harm.
Residential facilities include drug rehabilitation programs, boarding schools, wilderness therapy programs, faith-based residential programs, and runaway shelters It does not matter whether the facility is safe and an appropriate placement chosen by the parents. The child can petition the court to strip the parents of custodial authority and substitute county child welfare control or foster placement. The application need not be corroborated by any adult and need not be served on the parents. The child’s statement alone is sufficient to trigger a mandatory assessment of the parents’ home. This assessment can occur without the parents’ knowledge.Ahhh, as one can see based on who's sponsoring this thing, it started with the whole BLT-G++ thing. It looks like it can be used to destroy the families of children not already so screwed up by the genderbender crowd. There's a lot more in the article. Here are a few snippets:
The investigation includes a social worker assessment of the parents’ home. The use of the word “assessment” instead of “investigation” is legally significant: an assessment carries no requirement of a physical home visit and can be completed entirely on the basis of the child’s statements alone, without the parents ever being contacted.
The application requires an allegation of physical or emotional abuse, but emotional abuse is a nebulous category that can be stretched to cover a wide range of parental decisions with which the child disagrees. A parent who refuses to call a daughter a boy may qualify. A child in a pro-reality therapeutic setting can use AB 1967 to move herself into a home or institution that will affirm her transgender identity. California welfare laws require children under state control to be “affirmed” in their gender identity, housed in accordance with their identity and not sex, and given access to sex-rejecting interventions.
Even if the social worker determines that the parents are not abusive or neglectful and declines to file a petition, the child’s attorney can demand mandatory court review. The court must rule within 14 days on whether to order the petition filed, and if it does, the next court day, a detention hearing must be held. At no point in this entire process has any notice been required to reach the parents. Even if a parent receives notice shortly before the detention hearing, the opportunity to mount a meaningful defense is illusory: there is no time to retain an attorney, gather evidence, or respond to allegations built entirely on the child’s unverified statements.Oh, and it's also about the money. Lots of money is involved:
A nonprofit can receive up to $17,616 per month in state and federal funding for a short-term residential therapeutic placement. Meanwhile, the parent faces a long, expensive legal battle to regain custody. Under California law, as many as 60 days can pass before the parents have a meaningful opportunity to contest the allegations at a disposition hearing, and up to 18 months before final resolution of the dependency. Throughout that period, the county controls where the child lives, what therapeutic program he receives, and how often his parents may see him.You know, I haven't gotten to posting the (now) 2 good documentaries on the Chinese Cultural Revolution. I think the California Commies have stepped it up a notch from the antics of Chairman Mao and the Red Guards in 1966.
See, I mean, the old weird California was fun. It wasn't always real, but it could be real fun.
Now, the weirdness manifests itself in flat-out Communism and ruin. That's not any fun at all.
There are many great songs out of California and about California, so I shouldn't have a hard time with this. The Mamas and the Papas' California Dreaming goes with the title here. We've already posted my favorite, as The Dead's Estimated Prophet was in that "Promised Land" post, and I know we've featured (originally Chuck Berry's, but, of course, The Dead's version of) Promised Land before.
No, I'm pissed about California, so we'll embed a song sung by guys who seem pretty pissed off, whatever they are actually singing here...
... all I can make out is California Uber Alles. These are the Dead Kennedys. The song's not about ride sharing, I'm pretty sure.
* Blogger/commenter E.H. Hail wrote a nice post with his explanation - "Who Lost California?” The ‘When,’ the ‘Who,’ and the ‘Why’ of California’s Decline from Midwest-on-the-Pacific to Brazil-on-the-Pacific.
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On yard signs and mother-in-laws
Posted On: Tuesday - June 23rd 2026 7:52PM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '26 Humor ctrl-left
This is a pretty good story. I won't say when, and I won't say who, and it'll be obvious why not on the "who" here. There've been a few elections going on, and candidate signs are all over. One candidate, a young woman running for a county office, has a fairly unique last name.
I'd known that name many years ago, as I and co-workers had a professional relationship with a Professor with that last name. We'd met his wife too. Years went by, and I've noticed this same name on yard campaign signs going back a decade or so. (These people slowly move up from neighborhood council to county this or that...)
When my boy was of that age, 10 - 6 years ago, we often went to a nearby park, and I ran across the wife of that Professor at least a couple of times. She lives around there. I had to ask her about whether the woman on the signs is related. Yes, she's her daughter. I didn't ask this, but Mom told me unprompted, IIRC, that her daughter is a big lefty. Mom didn't particularly agree with that ideology either. That kind of thing sticks.
Jumping to the present, I was about to open the door to the voting place, when a guy got off his chair and asked me if I might consider voting for [REDACTED DAUGHTER]. "Well, I mean, if her own Mom tells me she's a big left-winger, then, you know... no."
It was all very friendly. The guy smiled as I went in, but then I turned and asked "Are you a friend of hers?" "I'm her husband." LOL!
Oh, I can imagine how things will go from here. Will the son-in-law tell his candidate wife? Maybe he'd better not... but, if so, once the Mother-in-Law hears about this - you know she will - will she recall exactly what she told me? I just hope things are settled by Thanksgiving... or maybe the elections prior.
I don't know if [REDACTED DAUGHTER] won. She was not on the ballot I got either, so maybe she's only in a D primary.
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All the President's Stupidity
Posted On: Monday - June 22nd 2026 6:57PM MST
In Topics: Trump US Feral Government Female Stupidity World Political Stupidity Dead/Ex- Presidents
No, wait, we don't have time for ALL of President Trump's stupidity - it's a database storage thing, you know -but the title may ring a bell.
We'll put our disclaimer first: No matter what is pretty sickening about this guy, President Trump-47 HAS been doing a good job on Job #1, fighting the Population Replacement Programme, and he's been speaking out for White people, even if only "in so many words". He's fighting the D.I.E. apparatus with whatever he's got, and, oh yeah, he may be the one (it's he or AI or both) to finally put the kibosh on "the greatest Con-job ever perpetrated in the history of the World."
Therefore, Peak Stupidity writes these posts not to say that we want Trump gone. We cannot have that right now. However, we feel obligated to discuss the downright sickening and stupid personality flaws of this guy. I mean, maybe it's hard to even imagine one at this juncture, but here's a good Conservative who's got a perfectly normal personality. These 2 of many stories come from my perusals of The Gateway Pundit some more - I read this first item and just saw the headline of the second item, along with seeing the usual GP tabloid running story.
That's from a short video proclamation showing the newest Air Force One, a Boeing 747-800 for temporary use until the fleet (3, I think?) of planes under contract are ready for service. The 2 747-400s, a very recent model at the time, were put into service in 1990. I can remember when the Reagan Administration ordered these in the 1980s, though they would not be ready for his use. (The Air Force One jets were still Boeing 707s, believe it or not, through that time.*)
Reagan was into formalities and some pomp and strange circumstances, so I can see why he felt it necessary to order the upgrade. That was a change from Jimmy Carter's ways - whether it was an act or not, I did appreciate that the man showed a lot of humility.
Donald Trump shows ANYTHING BUT humility. The pomposity of out of this guy is the personality flaw I see here. It'd be another thing to modestly talk about the newer safer equipment "required" or (at least back in the day) the need to appear equal in status to the Ruskies or what-not. No, Trump weirdly was "gifted", (such a deal!) from Qatar, and he's there bragging about it, showing off. It's so damn unseemly to me. This is just fodder for the domestic enemies who cry "No Kings!"
Immodesty like this rubs me the wrong way when it's from anyone, but from the President, this is sickening. It is so absolutely contrary to the ideals and personalities of the Founders. I think of George Washington and his refusal to stay in politics after his 2 terms (read the book at 8 years old). Trump would have ridden it until the country got plain sick of him. He is no George Washington.
That's the next item. The Gateway Pundit has employed its National Enquireresqe skills in milking this story of President Trump and Italy's Giorgia Meloni. I just read headlines, as I'm not a 14 y/o schoolgirl.
Apparently, Trump took a picture with Miss Meloni (came close but never been married) on a bench during some meetings/conference/what-have-you in Italy and then bragged later that she begged to be in a picture with him. Well, we've all got our iCrap nowadays, so it was not about the cost of film and flashbulbs. For Miss Meloni, it was probably important politically, as little as she's actually gotten done on the PRP. I don't think this was personal, but were it or not, Trump had to just note that she WANTED him. He was the Big Man.
"No", she said, "something, something, not like that...", but "Yeah," he said, and now he was getting mad at her contradicting his story. So, per GP in its words of hype, used for stories in which nothing actual happens, Trump "nuked her in a blistering response to her triggered rant..." He says they are no longer friends. OK, you two, come on - get a room already. Yeah, I know ... but, no, go ahead and bring Melania too. They like that kinda thing over in Italy. Film is cheap too, BTW. Peak Stupidity would be glad to have the scoop.
Taking world diplomacy so personally is an obvious personality flaw that is juvenile and also sickening to me. I know Trump is straight (hence the room and our suggestion of a 3-way), but is this not how "The First Woman President" might act? We may want to think about that for the future - no Noems, no Blondies, no Tulsis, maybe not even an MTG, and SURELY no Nancy Maces!
This is why I like to read articles about policy changes out of the Trump Administration, but I really, really, don't like to hear from the guy directly. Mister, we could use a man like Calvin Coolidge again ♫ ... though I'd settle for a Ron DeSanity.
* The first Presidential airline transport, not yet dubbed "Air Force One", was the Boeing 314 Flying Boat used to take President Roosevelt to Casablanca in 1943. Next a Douglas DC-4 was used by him to fly to Yalta in 1944. President Truman rode on this same plane and then the new DC-6 in 1947.
The call sign/appellation was given to the Lockheed Constellation first used by President Eisenhower. The AF-1 jet age started in the Summer of 1959, as Ike flew in the Boeing 707 to Germany and around Asia. (3 pf these were built in total.) These were in use right up through the 2nd year or so of the G.H.W. Bush Administration, this at a time when the 707s were long gone from the America's airlines' fleets.
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Wokeness still reigns at the Øb☭ma MegaPotty
Posted On: Friday - June 19th 2026 4:00PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Humor AntiChrist Dead/Ex- Presidents
H/T, The Alarmist.
I don't know what America's Founding Fathers would have thought about Presidential Libraries, now known also a "Presidential Centers". From what I've read, they are not built using US taxpayer money. The Founders were definitely men of letters. Yet, the idea seems contrary to the idea of the "public servant", a guy who sacrifices, if you can imagine that word, a few years of his time to help run the government. The idea of a shrine of sorts... They've been probably rolling around on this one since 1941.
That's when the Socialist Franklin Roosevelt's library was finished, after $376,000 was spent. It was to hold all his papers. (No, there was no internet, so people had lots of papers, I suppose ...)
This is the Øb☭ma Presidential Library, just finished at a cost of $850,000,000, up a bit from the 10 year-ago $300 million estimate.*
It's possible that image was altered by AI. I'm not sure, because the thing looks like an architectural nightmare no matter, and I don't even care about architecture so much. Our commenter The Alarmist had noticed that the structure resembles a Memorial Porta-Potty.
Normally, you just look for the green, take a deep breath, and open the latch. For this one, the entry fee is $30 for adults and $23 for children ($27/$15 if you're Illinois residents - not worth changing residencies, I assure you). These folk got in free, at least for the grand opening:
Are any of them "Men of Letters"? I imagine Bill Clinton could write something of a paper back in his Rhodes Scholar days, but the rest of them... nah. That's the big increase in stupidity of the 21st Century for you.
I'm sorry I've been too busy writing blog posts and comments to have attended the big gala, but I did notice a Gateway Pundit article about one Valerie Jarrett and her welcoming speech at the Presidential Porta-Potty. Remember Valerie Jarrett? I remembered only the name, and all I remembered till now is that I don't like her. The video below does not help.
I've never had the sublime experience of having to listen through a "land acknowledgement". My time of attending lectures has been long over, so I missed out.
I left 3 extra seconds in, so the PS viewer can see how utterly proud Miss Jarrett is to have been able to memorize the tribes these Indians of various sorts who inhabited this Chicagoland long before the Øb☭mans of the Great Rift built their MegaPotty on stolen land.
“We'd also like to take a moment to recognize the original inhabitants of the land upon which we are gathered today. We honor the Anishinaabe, the Council of Three Fires, the Ojibwe, the Odawa, and the Potawatomi Nations.”That's all well and good, Miss Jarrett, but not really comprehensive and up to date. One can see that Øb☭ma's homies in the audience don't really care about all that, like history and sheeeeet. They don't feel guilt for some old Indians.
Were I making this land acknowledgement ACCURATELY, I'd start with "I'd also like to take a moment to recognize the original inhabitants of the land upon which our MegaPotty has been erected, the homies of Jackson Park, who done stole it from the White people and destroyed all that old shit left from the 1893 World's Fair, those White people having built up Chicago out of nuthin' after buying it for pennies from the Anishinaabes, Ojibwse, Odawas, and Potawatomis, who stole it a few weeks earlier from The People, who stole it years before from another tribe calling themselves The People..., who, well, it's peoples all the way down."
I just want to know if the Øb☭ma Library charges for overdue books. A real Socialist system wouldn't charge for overdue books.
PS: This Valerie Jarrett is Persian, as in, from Iran. Couldn't President Trump send her home?
* Oh, it's not so much - the GW Bush one is said to have cost $327 million.
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University Bubble Speculative Update
Posted On: Thursday - June 18th 2026 8:44AM MST
In Topics: University Economics
It's not a Peak Stupidity thing to present a big treatise with tables, numbers, and graphs on sociological phenomena. They can be helpful, but they're only as good as the polling methods (ugghhh!) and non-math-based theories are... i.e. not so helpful, IMO.
We have the graph above at least. I didn't spend much time searching, so I offer Peak Stupidity's sincerest apologies for the y-axis, which should start at 0 if not made by anyone pushing an agenda with his data* and those who use graphing programs lazily, accepting any axes provided by the software. Graphs like this have a good use, but, when axes are set to encompass the whole range of the dependent variable, they purposely make changes look drastic for the innumerate. Rant over. We have highly numerate readers here, I'm sure, but for the record, that's a 13% drop (16.2 - 14.1 million) in college enrollment over the decade ending 3 years ago.
BTW, that graph comes from an article in My Learning World with the title College Enrollment Decline Over Last Decade Could Lead to $2 Trillion Less Lifetime Income for Students Skipping Out. Thanks for the numbers, MyLearningWorld people, but your article is completely contradictory to my opinion here.
Other than that, the only number I'll mention is the 1,200 bedrooms in 2 new apartment buildings designed for yet more enrollment at the nearby university - see University Bubble Housing from a year ago. We operate often in the Edie Brickell I know what I know, if you know what I mean mode. What can't go on, won't go on.
In the case of the University Bubble, that means, parents and some (few?) wise kids will, and are starting to, realize that 4 years of tedious studying, indoctrination, and yes, lots of fun with friends of both sexes might not be worth a small mortgage sized debt at the end. For engineering, the hard sciences, and only possibly computer science, college may still be well worth it. It's not 1980 anymore, and any old major is no longer a ticket to what's left of any white-collar careers. Demographics are a factor too, as the number of 18 y/o Americans period is mildly declining. That's only part of why the U's keep importing foreigners, both as undergrad and mostly grad students. Well, they try - see 17 percent drop in new foreign students exposes universities’ reliance on their tuition, expert says.
Glenn Reynolds, the famous Instapundit and U. of Tennessee Law Professor, has been in a good position to keep up with the University Bubble for many years. He's linked to a handful of examples of the deflation of the bubble recently - all I could find in my browser tabs just now was this one Syracuse University issues financial warning as admissions slump: We’re in the red. Other articles were on smaller colleges completely closing down.
Peak Stupidity does not shy away from blaming the large US Feral Gov't on a whole lot of ills. We've noted the moral hazard inherent in the guaranteeing, and worse, downright issuance, of big money to students by
Additionally, there have been sociological factors too. Everyone is supposed to be able to get through college, and it's been a 4 year inflation in credentialism. Then, that women must do the same and now are a significant majority of university students is part of it.
We'll concentrate on the economic moral hazard here. It has more effects than just on the finances of the poor graduates. Flush with money over at least this century, universities have gone on big building sprees that I'm amazed by - at least that's real - along with "building" up big departments and rosters of employees for the Woke indoctrination of all sorts. They will find it very difficult to ramp down from the latter.
I read these articles, and the plans for cutting costs do not include wiping out whole D.I.E. style departments or cutting half the administration. Those people will fight tooth and nail to stay at their highly remunerated, worthless, nay, counterproductive positions, even if the whole shebang has to slowly go under. As with cadet Mayo in An Officer and a Gentlemen, they "got nowhere else to go!" I don't foresee sane White men fairly implementing a cost-cutting program to get the U's weened off of that student loan gravy train.
I mentioned in The biggest possible University Bubble pin prick last year that State government higher education funding has dropped 40% over the period 1980 to 2011, a huge drop if that is, what I assume, in nominal dollars. Those State legislators back in the day had some say-so about whether there was going to be a 100 employee D.I.E. office. It was a different world.
To be consistent here, I should say that this situation of "the flow of the money" we have now should be a welcome change from the State funding, the worst example being the Federal Income tax, as we've bemoaned. Now, the students and parents are deciding how to spend "their" money. Is it theirs though? That's only the case if the Feds do hold the line and don't bribe voters with loan forgiveness.
If that were to be widely implemented, it would be yet one more way irresponsibility is rewarded in this country. Right now, parents and students don't have to sign on to this increasingly bad deal of 4 years of university "study" in return for a big debt. There are other options. Decide wisely, parents. The Fed Gov has caused the rot in higher Ed, but it's still up to you to participate or not.
* I make exceptions to this rule for additional close-up graphs and also for values/units that don't start at any meaningful 0, such as Temperature in F or C.
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[UPDATED: 6/18 afternoon] Added proper archived link to article on Syracuse U's woes and a link to the College Fix about dependency on foreign students tuition. Thanks yet again, Adam.
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Trump v DeSantis: Retrospective and praise for Ron DeSanity
Posted On: Wednesday - June 17th 2026 10:42AM MST
In Topics: Trump President DeSantis
Peak Stupidity posted an 11 part series Trump v DeSantis that ended with DeSantis taps out on January 22nd of '24. Our topic key President DeSantis was overly optimistic, of course, but we're not changing it. Even I, a big supporter of Ron DeSantis of Florida, wanted Trump to get back into the Presidency after the ctrl-left went after him with bogus lawfare and more.
Here are the old posts, from the Fall of '22 through the end of Spring '23 (with round 10 at the beginning of '24 also): Round 1 - Personalities - - Round 2 - Immunity to Kung Flu Panic - - Round 3 - Immigration Invasion - - Round 4 - Tag Team? - - Addendum - David Cole article - - Round 5 - The Ukraine/Russia War(mongering) - - Round 6 - Quantity of Hatred Generated - - Round 7 - Richard Hanania Substack post -- Round 8 - Birthright Citizenship - - Round 9 - Ken Cuccinelli interview and Round 10 - Vetoing the Hecklers.
Though it's in regard to a small news item and has under 200 views, the snippet of Governor DeSantis at a press conference a couple of months ago caught my attention because... what a difference! It was so nice to see a couple of minutes of an American Conservative talking about conservative matters without being the egotistical blabbing bullshitter that Donald Trump is. As our Fed Gov is very close to being that seen in scenes wrongly-guessed to be 500 years into the future in the movie Idiocracy*, this video is a breath of fresh air. DeSantis' calm speaking manner, civility and rational thinking takes us out of the UFC-at-the-White House Idiocratic world back to sanity. Come to think of it, if Trump had anything good to say about this guy, who has only done his best to HELP Trump on Job #1, he could call him Ron DeSanity. (Yes, I am proud of that coinage, which just now came to me.)
Would a President DeSantis have gotten America into war with Iran? I don't know. Why did Trump? I think of the reasons, the pressure from the big Jewish donors and the reliance on bad advice from others as possibly not being factors with a President DeSantis. There's no way to ever know at this point.
Trump has the right Conservative instincts on most issues, especially the existential domestic one that Peak Stupidity cares about the most. DeSantis does too, and he does more thinking for himself.
BTW, I wrote above "small news item", as this didn't become any national story, AFAIR. However, it's about another lefty judge (a black woman, whatda' know?) who let loose a criminal sex predator who then proceeded to murder a 5 y/o girl. This could have been just as big a story as that of Stephen Ogilvie or Henry Nowak in the UK, but then, this happens even more regularly, and the solution for this home-grown problem is simpler. Ron DeSantis describes the simple solution of impeachment of judges (by his Florida State Legislature.)
Instead of going round and round in circles talking about this murder and writing tweets to the world, Ron DeSantis calmly and sanely described what the Florida Legislature should do.
He does have a big advantage in having a good Attorney General, James Uthmeier, who is working on this, and an 85-34 R-D advantage in the Legislature, more than the 2/3 needed for impeachment if the D's do the usual tribal stonewalling.
President Trump doesn't have that kind of advantage, and he does have more groups of various sorts arrayed against him, many supported from the Singham & Soros types internationally. Could DeSantis handle this? Maybe Trump's brash way with the media and his enemies is a good tool, one that DeSantis definitely does not have. Man, I'd just like to see someone speak about things calmly, rationally, and sanely like this guy. I'd feel like Idiocracy is still a few more decades away.
As far as I can tell from www searching, Judge Tiffany Baker has not been impeached yet. This judge has, however, recused herself from presiding in this case of murder that she indirectly caused, so there's that ...
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Uruguay: PS in Montevideo
Posted On: Tuesday - June 16th 2026 12:57PM MST
In Topics: Geography Race/Genetics World Political Stupidity Peak Stupidity Roadshow
Site Note: I know, looking back over a week to that Saturday's post, I see we hit only ONE of the topics advertised for the coming week.* It's only be 1 1/2 years since we've meant to expound on the following Peak Stupidity roadshow, so we'll catch up a bit.
An infrequent long-gone commenter on The Unz Review went by the handle AaronInMVD. "MVD" was for Montevideo, Uruguay, the large capital city of this small S. American country, with 36% of Uruguay's population. I'd written to this Aaron on his own blog once or twice, and I see (just now!) that he has a youtube channel. I suppose I should have looked at those BEFORE even going there, but perhaps his short videos might be a subject for another post. (I got that usual vibe from the 1st one that is the ex-pat's urge to trash the old country to vindicate his decision.)
Per the title than, this is Peak Stupidity in MVD, about a family trip to Uruguay. Because it was a family trip, my regret is that I wasn't able to give a proper report on the whole country as a potential bug-out location.
Oh, we're almost for sure sticking it out with the patriots here, but about a decade back I had some thought along the lines of out-of-the-way places that might work as such a location. I mean out-of-the-way politically as much as geographically. After all, the Guianas are not that far from the US, but, besides the Jonestown Massacre (former British Guiana, called Guyana*) and rocket launches (Kourou, French Guiana**), who's ever heard of these places? That's what I was looking for.
Then, one looks at the demographics on wikipedia. Bzzzzttt! Nope. Just too black, not agonna even consider... Uruguay, however, much further south on the other side of Brazil, was billed as 90% White, that is lots of Spaniards, of course, but also Italians, Germans, and some English. That's what put the place in my head. On this family trip to South America, our planned destination didn't work out last minute, so since I'd always wanted to go, well, that image above is from inside the ferry terminal for the 3-hour trip from Bueno Aires, Argentina***, to Montevideo, Uruguay. I was pretty excited to have suckered the family into it, finally.
First impressions don't mean everything, but I have to say ours was not good. It's true that one might go on a route from the airport in medium-city America that is not at all impressive either. This trip from the ferry docks to downtown showed us not just the ghetto but Latin American style ghetto. I don't have any pictures of those first impressions.
We did get around the city, with some long walks from our city location and some bus rides to other places for long walks. My big disappointment was with the demographics. I am not color blind, so I can say that Montevideo is simply not nearly 90% anything resembling White. Did I miss some huge suburbs full of these Euro types? Probably not, but anyway, I imagined city life in a place that at least somewhat resembled last century European cities.
My guess is that Montevideo has some of the same immigration invasion problems as the rest of the White and White adjacent world, whether legal or illegal. We'd seen and read about some of the same story in Chile. Montevideo was not what I thought in this important respect.
I'll post additional pictures later to show that it's not that nice a city. The problem with this trip was the "family trip" part. Were I on my own, I'd have either drove or ridden to some cities/towns in the interior of the country. A couple of weeks might have sufficed for a good assessment of how one could make out. That wasn't going to work out for us, most unfortunately, seeing as we travelled all the way down there. As it went, we only went to 2 other cities on the coast, one on the Rio del Plato and one on the Atlantic coast. I'll have a report.
Bugging out means different things to different people. For a single guy, it's a whole different story. For "better" women, one can put up with a different lifestyle, and there's less to lose no matter how it works out. That Aaron with the youtube channel is an example. He lives in the big city, but maybe a good life can be had in the interior for a family of bug-outers.
More to come...
* The reader may want to read our 5 posts in remembrance of this strange story from the late 1970s by perusing our History topic key.
** Being very close to the equator equates to higher initial speed.
*** I'll put a post up about Bueno Aires too. I've been to the place 2 decades before, only for a short stay too.
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Don't we want to end the hate?
Posted On: Saturday - June 13th 2026 7:59PM MST
In Topics: Globalists Media Stupidity Orwellian Stupidity People's Revolt Anti-Social Media
Ahaaa, I'm tried to beat the system with this title - I changed a "do" to a "don't", as the reader would otherwise expect an answer in the negative due to some "law" of titles. (AI is sure not helping me one bit to find it... probably operator error.) No, that didn't work... anyway...
You'd think it'd be easier and easier to get news, what with all the anti-social media. I suppose being on X WOULD probably help me immensely, I will admit. I could follow a podcaster or two right over there in Belfast, someone who wasn't assigned by the UK Ministry of Truth to give me the NewSpeak version.
In fact, Keir Starmer and the UK Gov't are blaming Elon Musk for the riots, because his freer-than-most-of-em platform X is letting people learn the truth. That's, along Starmer's line of
I'm having a hard time following what I WANT to follow on youtube, but the headlines of the pro-Globalist Government side are enlightening. To add to the 3 of them we pasted into Thursday's post, here's what I sawr* (same as last time, I'm not gonna link to the propaganda videos):
Belfast unrest: 'Racists and groups allied to the far right are now unified across Europe': That's very welcome news! Thank you so much, France 24. It only took a near beheading of a poor Irishman (His name is Stephen Ogilvie), and then today a 17 y/o girl somewhere, tomorrow in a different Euro country subject to the PRP... to bring them all together. I will also credit your Jared Taylors, Greg Bovinos, and the brave Europeans that have attended "remigration" conferences to form alliances and try to raise awareness. They just got done with one - listen to Jared Taylor's report.
Youtube watchers aren't buying that guy's lies though - first 4 comments:
@HereBeCivilisation
A 17 year old girl was stabbed in the neck today while walking down the street in the UK. the doorbell footage is horrifying.
@Sherman_13
It will only get stronger and stronger, people are sick of this systemic injustice targeting actual citizens.
@pierrelevenerable171
Heroes!!! Carry on lads. Free your country!!
@ruc.2056
Violence? I don't think there is, mate.
Why Belfast is burning | About That: The narrator, one Andrew Chang, couldn't be more against the British people if he worked for the CCP. (Hmmmm...) The first thing he said was "You hurt one of us. We hurt a hundred of you." That's the way he frames it, like it's a mafia movie or the Catholics v the Protestants. Nah, that's not it at all. You import millions and millions of strange violent foreigners into OUR country, and we eventually get really pissed off." FIFH. (No charge.)
Then, what has "stirred up this latest swell of anti-immigrant sentiment in Northern Ireland?", Journalist Chang asks. He answers himself, "A knife attack by a black man against a White man." Andrew Chang doesn't LOOK that retarded to be able to miss the big picture like this, so he's just lying. He then picked out one video of a man very angry at "undocumented Somalians", and proceeds to tell the Irish protesters and rioters and viewers they are so wrong, as this guy's Senegalese, NOT Somalian, and he's got some kind of documentation too, so there! You're all wrong.
Let me make a digression long enough to say boldly, yet again, this, for the Irish and UK patriots: It's not about the vetting!! Let that go. The Government can vet the living hell, with elementary school tardy/absence records, lifetime credit score, equity on the parents' hut, out of the next guy from Senegal, but I don't care. He's still liable to go out in the street and behead a guy! Please, drop that "we're not racists", "MOAR vetting", and the rest of it, because it's not doing you all any favors. Once you've set cop cars on fire, Starmer's Storm Troopers will not give you leniency for saying these things.
The newest videos popping up are about some supposed “anti-racist” protests. I don’t think they’ll be able to compete with those northern Irish blokes, some who are the sons of the same action-oriented violent men from the time of The Troubles.
One of these videos on the anti-racist protests had “stop the hate” written somewhere. I had to ask these people in my head, hey what do you mean, stop the hate? Do you want the Irish people NOT to hate that their people are being sliced up for the purpose of beheading in the streets by foreigners who shouldn’t be there? Do you want them to stop hating being replaced in their own ancestral lands by strange, violent foreigners? Maybe it’s just me, but I really HATE all that. I am for hate in this case, so no, I shan’t be joining your Sinndig.
Right, so we ended by answering the question in the negative. It's an iron law.
PS: "Hate the sin, not the sinner", they'll tell you. I guess that applies here. It's hard not to hate Keir Starmer and the Globalist running this anti-White program, but one can just hate the program. One can also be FOR removing all of these foreigners from one's land because, WAY LESS SIN!
* Sorry, that English accent gets in my head and comes back out.
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[UPDATED 06/14:] Swapped out image of riots for image of Stephen Ogilvie's facial wounds.
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Who's cheatin' who?
Posted On: Friday - June 12th 2026 7:36PM MST
In Topics: Genderbenders Music Humor AntiChrist
I couldn't help it. Among the sensationalist headlines on The Gateway Pundit and a few good articles, I saw this one:
What hot wife? Is he not gay after all, somehow? Who's this Michelle? How hot is she? Wait a minute, Big Mike's gonna find out about this. Was he told before Christina Laila revealed this to the World?
It makes you wonder, who's cheatin' who, who's being true, and who don't even care anymore. Still you wonder, who's doin' right by someone tonight, and whose car is parked next door.
And I don't wanna hear about Alan Jackson. He sang this song in 1997, but I recall only Charly McClain having sung this. (It was written by one Jerry Hayes.) She recorded this in 1980 at 24 years old, and it went to #1 on the Billboard magazine Country Music chart. Charly is not BLT-G++ either - her real name is Charlotte, but she came not from Charlotte but Jackson, Tennessee.
Oh, and about that library, if I'm ever in Chicagoland, I hope I can find a copy of Steve Sailer's book America's Half-Blood Prince: Barack Obama's Story of Race and Inheritance to peruse there. I hope there are not too many homeless bums on the computers in there jacking off to pictures of ... I wonder who it is?
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NOBODY CARES!
Posted On: Friday - June 12th 2026 6:53PM MST
In Topics: Music Humor Geography Bread and Circuses World Political Stupidity
Listen, Jim Hoft, if your country is allegedly the World's Sole Superpower and it's matched up with Paraguay in Sportsball, pick one choice:
1) It's no longer the World's Sole Superpower.
OR
2) Your country needs to find another sport... something other than Communist Kickball.
Are you ready for some futeball?!! ♫ ♩ No, not really.
If we WERE to watch TV at the pizza place, perhaps, it might be the Stanley Cup finals we'd watch - game 6 is on Sunday, only because my kid cares. I have no idea why, as none of the hockey players on either team grew up playing on the iced up ponds of either Raleigh, North Carolina or Las Vegas, Nevada.
I know a girl at the auto parts store who's from Paraguay. About the only other mention of the place I recall since Western Hemisphere Geography class is in this Jimmy Buffett song.
It's been a while, Parrotheads!
There's a cowboy in the jungle,
and he looks so out of place,
with his shrimpskin boots and his cheap cheroots.
and his skin as white as paste.
Headin' south to Paraguay
where the gauchos sing and shout.
Now he's stuck in Porto Bello
since his money all ran out.
So he hangs out with the sailors.
Night and day they're raisin' hell,
and his original destination's just another
story that he loves to tell.
...
We've gotta roll with the punches,
learn to play all of our hunches.
Make the best of whatever comes your way.
Forget that blind ambition,
and learn to trust your intuition,
plowin' straight ahead come what may.
Well, while we're at it, perusing The Gateway Pundit...
Understand this, Anthony Scott, nobody is going to read your posts if you insist on calling BURMA! "Myanmar". Your own commenters told you this last time. (I went straight to comments - thank you, whomever that was.) And another thing, if you're in BURMA, don't get off the freaking boat!
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