Gun control: Act II?
Posted On: Wednesday - September 17th 2025 6:47PM MST
In Topics: History Liberty/Libertarianism Guns
Again, accepting policy advice from some old suspense/horror novel writer is... unsound. We just put this graphic up because we did a quick search in a hurry.
There have been attempts to blame the guns for mass shootings of all sorts since I've been paying attention and the shooting have apparently* been on the rise. The gun controllers haven't gotten very far though. Trending: Constitutional Carry, bitchez! We're up to I believe over half the States having this common sense gun policy as of recently (S. Carolina). Will the gun controllers try to push it hard after this assassination?
Steve Sailer has done a nice job with his "point of use" vs. "point of sale" gun control comparison.** ( His point is, principles aside because he's like that, if we could frisk and confiscate guns from inner city "youts"***, we'd do a lot more good keeping people from being shot than doing all the gun control on White people (because the youts often have stolen guns) at the stores and gun shows. That's true. I just told my wife - she's NEVER heard this one! - if guns are outlawed, only outlaws would have guns.
As far as the details of gun control efforts and those efforts by supporters of liberty, it may take a whole month, counting bathroom breaks but not much else, but one couldn't go wrong by going through all the videos Unz Review commenter Joe Stalin has embedded in the iSteve threads. (That link will get you to them.)
We can go back to the 1930s when auto-fire machine guns were regulated. That was a very early effort, I assume boosted by mob violence, said mobs having gotten their monetary support from people getting trying to get around Constitutional Amendment XVIII. Let's move to more recent history...
There were 3 assassinations of very famous people in Government and race-mongering within 5 years**** in the 1960s. There were efforts to introduce gun control bills right after the 1st Kennedy got shot, but they didn't make it far. That was the America of the early 60s. They kept on pushing, and the Martin King and Bobby Kennedy assassinations were a big help for these anti-freedom folks. One can see a timeline of gun laws here on the ThoughCo site, and it's easy to see that the 1968 gun control act was THE BIGGIE (from wiki):
On June 11, 1968, a tie vote in the House Judiciary Committee halted the bill's passage. On reconsideration nine days later, the bill was passed by the committee. The Senate Judiciary Committee similarly brought the bill to a temporary halt, but as in the House, it was passed on reconsideration. House Resolution 17735, known as the Gun Control Act, was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on October 22, 1968.There was a lot to this Act, including:
... banning mail-order sales of rifles and shotguns and prohibiting most felons, drug users, and people found mentally incompetent from buying guns. This act also included provisions that redefined the definitions of firearms within the United States and provided more rules for weapons manufacturers and licensed sellers on interstate commerce of ammunition and other firearm accessories.The next big step was the creation of the ATF, now BATF for Bureau, sometimes BATFE or ATFE, with an added Explosives department. (It DOES sound like a big box store.) That happened in 1972.
We all might remember the "assault weapons" ban of '94 signed by President Clinton. The D's controlled 53% of the Senate and just under 60% of the House at the time. Someone was able to stick in a 10 year "sunset" provision, and it sure enough went out into the sunset to die in '04.
There were a number of Federal Gun Control laws were passed right on through the mid-'90s. That period was a true turning point though. It's been 3 decades since then with gun control being such a "Boomer" thing that, well, anyone under 35 would not have heard very much, unless he watches tweets of your old hardcore Pelosis and such.
Will this be cranked up again after this most-widely-followed assassination of Charlie Kirk? I mean, just before this, some lady got killed on a train too!... oh, wait, with a pocket knife. (Even going all you-kay with that knife control stupidity, I don't think pocket knives count, do they?)
You will see some efforts, but I think they will get nowhere this time around. Why?
Even though gun ownership was much easier, relaxed, freer - I mean mail order! - back before the 1968 law, gun ownership has kept on climbing for decades now. Part of it is that Conservatives got organized and slowly pushed back in the way the ctrl-left does on other issues. There's also the black violence angle. it may be lower than during the crack era - Mr. Sailer has all the stats - but it's always too damn high! More people are buying and more people are carrying for self-defense reasons. Then the prepper movement has got lots of errr, us, stocking up. We've mostly got enough. (No, never! MOAR .223, MOAR 9mm! - Ed.)
In the case of the killing of Charlie Kirk, the whole feeling is different than in that old more united America of 60 years back. Rather than all Americans thinking we've got to stop the violence from those guns, both sides of the big cultural war divide are thinking there may be violence, so we really might need them for more than defense against thugs. We need more guns, not fewer, on our side, at least.
Let's hope Conservatives have so much firepower and political power that the ctrl-left won't push it to more violence. Attempts to disarm us will, I think and hope, get nowhere this time around.
* There are stats, I'm sure, and the Regime Media would push this narrative. However, my gut feeling tells me there have been more school shootings as of the last few years... hey, at least by trannies... They didn't used to do that, because they didn't used to BE.
** I happen to have Mr. Sailer's book Noticing right next to me as I write. In his chapter The Geography of Homocide, I figured he might have this line in there. Nope, but he did write about gun control for on paragraph on p. 377. I liked this: "There's much discussion in the respectable [sic] press about legal gun purchases as being the cause (rather than, more likely, the effect) of the historic increase in shootings." I like that one.
*** Anybody else enjoy My Cousin Vinny? They say that the movie does such a good job with the courtroom procedures that law schools like students to watch it. "They" are people on the internet.
**** I remembered that JFK got shot in late November of '63 and MLK, April 4th of '68 (from the song), and then I knew Robert Kennedy (Sr.) got shot during the midst of the D-party primary campaign of '68 - it was June 5th.
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Charlie Kirk's Assassination and the response of the ctrl-left
Posted On: Tuesday - September 16th 2025 8:28PM MST
In Topics: Media Stupidity alt-right/MAGA ctrl-left
Who done it? That's only part of the story. Obviously it matters, as just as if we'd ever find out the whole story about JFK, we'd like to find out who the real enemy has been.
There are lots of reasons to believe that a (probably drug-influenced), internet-based, crazy transgender freak did it on his own. We've seen multiple examples of mass murders of school children by trannies, with no politics involved, just in the last month.
Steve Sailer put his reputation for not making predictions* on the line by writing that this is all he thinks this was about. 2 days back, he wrote Charlie Kirk Was Assassinated by the Transgender Movement with the sub-headline: "I've been urging caution about speculating, but the facts seem clear today."** Mr. Sailer does have a vested interest in this trannie business, as one prediction he did make, years ago, that this transexual thing would become the next big woke movement, was amazingly right on the money! Yes, quit while you're ahead, as I did at the Reno airport years ago - I won a dollar off a quarter in a one-armed bandit and quit right then and there.
OTOH, we have plenty of video evidence of Charlie Kirk's recent changing of his stance regarding supporting all things Israel. That was indeed a major move, as his Turning Point movement is based on Evangelical Christianity. For a 31 year old young man, it took a lot of guts to seek some truth that went against the grain. More importantly, it would have gone against the grain for some of his big sponsors, from what I've read. If Charlie Kirk, with so much influence with the young people, was going off script here, I can see that some of the pros might have wanted to stop him cold ... dead.
Of course, Ron Unz, he of The Unz Review a site with interesting, controversial often strange, often stupid, viewpoints with THE best commenting system in the known world, would be sure it was the Mossad. Mr. Unz too has a vested interest here, as anyone whose read his and his headline writer's material could attest. His latest, not as long as some of his articles, is here. Charlie Kirk had turned away from complete support of all things Israel recently. For his Turning Point movement, based on Evangelical Christianity, that was a bold move. At 31 years old, he was doing more truth-seeking than one would expect. Some of his bigger sponsors might not have expected this either. I can see why the idea that it was the pros behind this is a theory with widespread support.
I will include here a very reasonable opposing viewpoint, contrasting the assassination of JFK vs Charlie Kirk. Under that UR thread, one Giwu Ger wrote:
I think it is safe to say, given Kirk’s over a decade-long subservience to the zionist cause that the “holy state” doesn’t shoot from the hip quite that fast. Kirk was, after all a valuable asset (!) who happened to disagree with the POTUZ (potentate of the united zionist cause) for a couple of weeks.The thread of replies to this were also reasonable and sane... kind of surprising for that site.
Most of us here are on the same page regarding Israel.
But are we really equating John Fitzgerald Kennedy with an influencer? The American president could have easily ended the young state’s imperial ambitions by repatriating Palestinians while prying the atomic weapon from Ben-Gurion’s claws.
Are we really implying the zionists are now handing out Stalinesque kill-orders willy nilly for what amounts to slight ideological disagreement?
Now, that was a long introduction to what I wanted to write about here. America and lots of the world would like to know what this was about.
In the first 2 Peak Stupidity posts on this important happening, Fourth Turning Poin and Two Martyrs?, we only alluded to how big a deal Charlie Kirk was to young Conservatives. I've talked to a 25 y/o guy since then who's told me how big a deal this is to his crowd. It IS like the MLK assassination was for 1960s blacks, ... well, except that these mourners won't burn down cities and ask for more money from the Government.
Charlie Kirk could have won the '24 election for President Trump due to his huge influence on these young people. (This is probably part of why Trump is taking this particularly hard and lashing out.)
I know, he's just a writer of suspense/horror novels. What he says here shouldn't mean a hill of beans to begin with.
However, after the fact, it's been the reaction by the ctrl-left that has been a big story too. Many of them are not just privately glad Charlie Kirk, with his major influence against them, was killed, but they have been openly celebrating. Surprising, for both them, and me too, they are being ostracized, boycotted, and fired this time around. That is new. That is part of the effect on the nation from this assassination.
The problem for those few sane people of the ctrl-left is that they cannot contain the emotions of their useful idiots. The latter have gotten used to disparaging Conservatives and especially Christians in rude, vile ways with no consequence.
Don't get me wrong here. I am not down with President Trump's emotional unprincipled anti-1st Amendment suggestions. He needs to get ahold of himself. People getting fired for celebrating this murder should have that Constitutional right to keep on with that, but Conservatives are angry, and I have seen personally that the corporate big cheeses are warning people to stop or they will be fired. This is unprecedented, as normally it's been a one-way street. Right now, 5 years and a summer after the OD of the reprobate Floyd, try saying just that in a tweet to other employees, and see where ... better update your Link-in account.
Because Charlie Kirk is something of a martyr at this point, like him or not, Conservatives have the moral upper hand. Though the two theories from the two pundits discussed above are the most obvious and make the most sense, I won't speculate right now on who was behind this assassination. No matter who, though, the ctrl-left have drawn fire on themselves by their callousness about Charlie Kirk.
I have no memories of it all, but something tells me those race realists of the right in 1968 were more careful about their responses to the assassination of that other guy... as much as there was plenty to criticize.
Now, I should bring up something from an old post here - Speaking Dead of the Ill - re Juan McAmnesty - that makes Peak Stupidity sound hypocritical. Here's the main point:
I was commenting on a different website about the death of Ted Kennedy way back in 2009. I got in a long back and forth discussion with a lady who was scolding me for saying I was glad he had finally died (and a few things ruder than that, of course). It came down to one thing, I finally summed up to her – really simple – Ted Kennedy was still in the US Senate when he died. He also had been, and still was, very bad for our country.That was harsh, I guess. However, there are 2 factors that make this non-analogous to what the ctrl-left has been doing. One big difference here is that these two weren't murdered. They both died naturally at an old age, and, well, that, and only that, got them out of the Senate. Yes, I was glad both times. I didn't send celebratory tweets out, but then I don't tweet.
Had he been retired at the time, well dying is a sad thing, and it would have been something to just remark on – I may have still spoken ill of the dead, because his whole life was kind of something to make one ill. I would not have written “I’m glad he died .”, though. However he was a US Senator till the end, and if his dying was the only way we could have Ted Kennedy gone from the Senate, then, hell yeah I was glad he died! That's what it came down to.
Imagine if Charlie Kirk were in a position of power in the government, making laws against those poor trannies or what-have-you. To be fair, if the trannie coalition celebrated, that'd be only fair, IF he died naturally. Assassinations are a different animal. He was not in power though, anyway. Charlie Kirk had been traveling to left-wing, aka ALL, college campuses for a decade, calmly debating the stupidity of the ctrl-left. I guess that wouldn't do... for somebody.
* He's stated many times that he doesn't like making predictions. 6 days ago, in this post he said "Lots of people blamed JFK's assassination on the "climate of hate" among conservative Texans. So, don't jump to conclusions." My bolding. I do take issue with something else in this post - later this week...
** He's got another post up today, Yeah, The Murder Was Likely Trans Terrorism, which is paywalled, but from what I see, he's not getting into anything more that the transgender movement behind the one guy. Sub-headline for this one: "On the other hand, don't overestimate how big of an operation this had to be."
And another one! I'd started this post in the morning but had to quit. In the meantime Steve Sailer has yet another post, Trans Terrorism Killed Charlie Kirk. He's really into this.
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Germ Theory and the Exurbs
Posted On: Monday - September 15th 2025 8:07AM MST
In Topics: Race/Genetics Peak Stupidity Roadshow
NOTE: This is NOT a Kung Flu Stupidity post! Do not be alarmed. Dr. Fauci has left the building and will NEVER be back.
On our recent family road trip, I took what used to be a shortcut on the way out. It cut the corner off of a sharp turn - on the larger scale - from one Interstate highway to the other. On my many road trips across this country - I've been everywhere in this here land - I would take the back roads for the better scenery on whatever routes off which they shaved some mileage, out west especially.*
We've been this way 4 times now, so, even though my wife lost her (GASP!) data connection, and the old Rand McNally road was not to be found at that moment**, I did remember the simple "cut off on US XX and meet back up with I-XX East." What used to be mostly a country road only last year or 2 years back is now part of the exurbs. The roads, traffic, and businesses in the new exurbs have a certain look to them. Why are these people all out here, in my way, now, rather than in the nice city here in a resort and retirement area of America?
Think Iryna Zarutska. She was probably a city person, and light rail is so nice, but she'd have been less likely to be dead if she'd lived not in Charlotte, North Carolina itself, but in its exurbs. They are bland, nothing is close by (you wind around 3 miles on your bike and all you get to is a Home Depot or Best Buy), and, oh, there's no light rail stop. Yeah, that's on purpose. The City of Charlotte, N. Carolina would be a nice city without the violent Black! people who haunt it, but that's life right now.
Where does Germ Theory of Disease come in, you may ask? Peak Stupidity, Steve Sailer, Paul Kersey, Jared Taylor, all of us have been over this, but the commenter Germ Theory of Disease, who lives in NY City, has written some very good comments on racial matters in The Unz Review threads.. Here is an excerpt from one of his comments that explains a lot more than just the exurbs, but how White people should be due $Trillions in reparations.
Blacks have no conception of opportunity cost. Or what its comparative features might be, relative to anybody else on earth but themselves. Oh right, redlining, boo the fucking hoo. I grew up in a major US city where roughly 35-40% of the real estate was basically off-limits to white people, because of black and Puerto Rican crime and anti-social behavior, which amounted to ethnic cleansing — my family was personally ethnically cleansed ourselves, due to TNB.Yeah, well, they ain't got the money on 'em right now. "When they get it, we'll get it." Sure. We've been through much of what Germ Theory explained ourselves, but not in the NYC version.
As a result my family, in order to avoid the plague of TNB 24/7, had to pay an exorbitant extra amount just to be able to live in a civilized white neighborhood and go to an expensive religious school and have longer commutes and a million other expenses and inconveniences, JUST TO NOT HAVE TO BE NEAR NEGROES. That’s all money which could have been spent on better, nicer things, but wound up as paying The Negro Tax. This happened in a city which my own forebears largely built (anyone know what a “sandhog” is?), and whose parks and subways and gathering spots could NOT ever be utilized or enjoyed in peace, Because Negroes.
I noted this great concise comment by one Thomas Zaji on another thread: "And Iryna Zarutska as the right wing’s Rosa Parks?" This kind fits in with our idea of Charlie Kirk being a martyr in the style of that old Martin King, but it's all White martyrs and valiant bus riders now. Well, except the Rosa Parks deal was apparently staged, and then, as we've written, I wouldn't be all bent out of shape about having to ride in the back of the bus when White people are not safe ANYWHERE in the damn bus! Ask, Iryna Zarutska ... on your ouija board.
Instead of MLK, Jr. and Rosa Parks, will the New York Times get more up to date than 57 years back and write about the new White Civil Rights movement and Charlie Kirk and Iryana Zarutska? Instead of the NAACP, we could have our own... what? .... America back.
We took the Interstate-only route back. It was 7 miles longer but about 10 to 15 minutes quicker. I gotta admit, at least that exurb route didn't have traffic circles - not a fan!
* I still remember the Nevada basin-and-range country in which I'd have to intermittently slow down to 85 or 90 mph on these 2-lane roads whenever I saw a glint off a windshield from 3 miles away - COULD just be a cop, you never know.
** We've got one in each vehicle, but the insurance company has not given them out in years! They've got pens and sometimes Tootsie Rolls...
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End-o-Blog-Week treat: Alex Stein #99 torturing city councils for 2 hours
Posted On: Saturday - September 13th 2025 5:14PM MST
In Topics: Humor Media Stupidity
We'll get back to the serious stupidity, and yes, mostly EVIL, next week. I've been meaning to show this video - I have not watched the whole of it myself, but I am greatly looking forward to that.
Peak Stupidity has featured the hilarious parodist Alex Stein #99, out of Plano, Texas, twice before. First, we posted Alex Stein 99 - Prayers for the Ukraine + Tranny Sports in April '22, when the Kung Flu nonsense was not really in the past yet either and then A righteous youtuber at the end of that year. In the 1st video in that 1st link, I couldn't help noticing the girl in the red skirt directly behind Mr. Stein at the podium - she was trying hard not to laugh, what, in front of the esteemed Plano City Council and all, but was unsuccessful at that.
Alex Stein makes fun of what needs making fun of, and he seems to be having a blast doing it. It's quite the different tactic from those of Charlie Kirk, but we need all the help we can get.
Enjoy. but don't stay up TOO late!:
More stupidity is coming the day after tomorrow, Peakers. Have a happy Sunday.
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Peter Brimelow and family STILL under attack from NY fatass
Posted On: Friday - September 12th 2025 10:09PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Websites Anarcho-tyranny
Peak Stupidity is far from a news outlet. Our readers can learn more about the story of Charlie Kirk's assassin (killer?) elsewhere - I recommend Zerohedge and, sigh... Gateway Pundit. The 4chans and such have the most up-to-date info, I'm told, but then one can be misled by speculators. Steve Sailer has been keeping up with it pretty well.
We'll have more on what this means, as the Culture War turns hotter. Tonight we will report on something different.
Readers may notice that the Immigration Stupidity topic key appears on top of posts nearly every day. That's the existential issue for America. We are only fully aware of this due to our reading of the great VDare website for the 2 decades before it ceased operations last summer.
At one of the most inopportune times, the year before President Trump-47 and his great, mostly successful efforts on this issue, the lawfare waged by NY Attorney General Leticia James caused VDare to shut down. We wrote about that at the time - see Review: Tucker's interview of VDare's Lydia Brimelow and The Demise of VDare. We'd have loved to have been referring to VDare writing since January 20th here. They'd have loved being able to report on good news more often than anytime since they started up.
Peter Brimelow incorporated his VDare foundation in New York because of free legal services offered for this. Was he to know 25 years ago what a joke of a legal system America would come to have a quarter century later? That was his biggest mistake, I guess, not being prescient enough to know decent rule-of-law would not be around for long in New York. People getting elected for the express purpose of prosecuting individuals (Donald Trump) and organizations is something our Founders would have found horrid. Current Era Leticia James is comfortable with the idea.
We have seen that this woman has had her own, ACTUAL, legal troubles due to her lying on forms to save on property taxes. We know this sort of behavior by those of the ctrl-left Establishment result in no consequences. However, I was very excited to read Gateway Pundit report 2 weeks ago Letitia James Caught Harboring Fugitive! — Jailbird Niece is Hiding Out in Letitia’s “Primary Residence” Mortgage Fraud Home in Virginia. I haven't seen this reported elsewhere, but I was excited for VDare upon reading of this outrage. Wouldn't the NY A/G have enough to do trying to avoid arrest that she wouldn't have time to keep screwing with VDare?
My intention was to communicate this news to the VDare people, in case they hadn't heard. Could they crank the site back up and get the
VDare was a family operation. It's sickening how one evil corrupt public official can single out and persecute such an organization and a decent family like this. We wish the Brimelows the best. I'm told the castle will be OK, maybe no longer as a place to hold conferences without risk of cancellation, but the State of West Virginia will keep it out of the hands of the enemy New York.
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Two Martyrs?
Posted On: Thursday - September 11th 2025 6:04PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Music History Race/Genetics
Recognize that dude to the right of Martin? No, no, no, that's not that Dy-no-mite! guy. it's the very reverend Jesse Jackson. He must be really old now.
As I mentioned in the previous post, the assassination* of Charlie Kirk was unusual in that he is not in any political office - see * again. Usually the goal is to prevent a political official from accomplishing certain policy or to send a message to discourage the others. (No French today.) Sometimes, as with John F. Kennedy, there were so many people with so many motivations of this sort to kill him, that one figures there had to be some conspiracy by powerful people behind the scenes just due to all the possibilities.
Charlie Kirk, though? Was someone trying trying to prevent him from ever getting to be said political official? Yeah, if so he/they succeeded. (Ha! I'm not using the pronouns for the reason one might think - I just don't know if the one trannie that seems to be the assassin was really on his own.)
I see that Steve Sailer has written something similar, in Who Was the Last Opinion Journalist Assassinated? It's strange to me that he sees Charlie Kirk as having been only an "opinion journalist". He was much more than that. Mr. Kirk was more of a political crusader, or in modern parlance, a big meatspace influencer. Steve Sailer wrote that probably due to their interaction, which as an interview of him by Mr. Kirk.
In a previous post, Mr. Sailer was kind to point out that Mr. Kirk not only didn't shy away from interviewing him, but he didn't disavow Mr. Sailer later, as pressure would have had him do. This most recent one is paywalled though, so whaddya' whaddya'? From what I can read, he's funny as usual:
But one thing that makes this case so shocking is that in recent decades, American opinion journalists, especially pundits who comment on national affairs like Charlie, have seldom been assassinated.Heh.
As an opinion journalist, it’s my opinion that that was a good thing.
As I wrote that this assassination/murder/whatever you call it was unusual I did have the exception of Martin Luther King in mind. That man is not a favorite of your Peak Stupidity blogger, mind you, as you may have guessed from our usual messing around with his mile-long appellation list.
Anyway, the situations are somewhat similar. Both men had big influence on their "people", Martin King on the Blacks! and Charlie Kirk on young Conservative Christians. I guess the former's following was bigger due to all black people being a bigger proportion of the population than young Conservative Christians are now, or is it that he was promoted more than Charlie Kirk, what with so many other distractions by other pundits and influencers on the dozens of different kinds of anti-Social Media?
Both men were shot dead when they were young, Mr. King at 39 y/o, and Mr. Kirk, even younger, at 31 y/o. Both were ostensibly Christians, but nahhh, King's religion was Blackety-Black. Charlie Kirk certainly was. Both men were shot with 30-06 rounds, the former from a Remington 760 and the latter by an imported Mauser. Each died an hour or two later from one well-placed shot. The locations of these shootings were kind of appropriate based on their "people", the former at a motel in Memphis, Tennessee, and the latter at a nice outdoor venue in Orem, Utah.
I won't get into anything of the important questions regarding who was behind each assassination, hell, Mr. King got shot 57 years back, and the information is still kept from the public by the Feral Gov't! How long will it take to get to the bottom of the murder of Charlie Kirk?
I'll just answer my own question on whether there will be some comparisons between these two martyrs for their causes, whether intentional or not. No, there won't be much said. Both sides of the Culture War don't want it.
For the ctrl-left, the Reverend J.D., MD-PhD, post-Doc, Martin Luther King, II is a Saint. He's got his very own Federal holiday, for cryin' out loud. Songs by U-2 were written about him. There's no way they want anyone, especially a White man, to share any of this spotlight. It'd be downright blasphemous for... say, Bono to write a song about the assassination of Charlie Kirk, in his prime of life. Wednesday afternoon, September 10, a shot rings out, in the Orem sky....
For Conservatives, the alt-right, and MAGA, well, I can speak for myself that I don't want Charlie Kirk to be compared to Martin King either. Unlike Mr. Kirk, Mr. King was not a good person. Politically, he was a downright Communist. Additionally, that fatigue has really set in, as we've been judging people by their character rather than their color for well nigh 6 decades, and guess what, it turns out that people's bad character is usually indicated by their color anyway. That was a waste of time!
Blacks can go on for another century about their wonderful martyr Martin King, but we know it's a load of bull. Charlie Kirk may or may not become a martyr for the alt-right or for Christians, the Conservative ones that won't stand for being told lies for truth and truth for lies.
No, Bono will not likely write a song to memorialize the assassination of Charlie Kirk, and that's not just because he's old and can't sing or preach anymore. However, Peak Stupidity will feature U-2's Pride (In the Name of Love) anyway. See, we wrote early on in this blog, in What makes a good song?, that lyrics are the least important part of a good song, by far. I honestly can say that I had no idea what this song was about until about 10 years after hearing this hit, from the album The Unforgettable Fire from 1984. I didn't really "hear" they lyrics. It's just a great sound.
I'm thinking of Charlie Kirk now.
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* I've seen in the comments under that post that Adam Smith does not agree with the use of this term. I looked it up quickly, and duckduckdictionary** gave me:
1) The act of assassinating; a killing by treacherous violence.(1) is kind of a "duh!", and (3) is a different definition. (20 fits though. I would think the killing would have to be of a political figure, maybe constrained to be a government official?
2) Killing or murder for political reasons.
3) An attack intended to ruin someone's reputation.
** Says it's from the GNU (free software) version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
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Fourth Turning Point
Posted On: Wednesday - September 10th 2025 6:33PM MST
In Topics: Commies Lefty MegaStupidity Media Stupidity The Future alt-right/MAGA ctrl-left Bible/Religion Books
Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA was shot dead today with a rifle at a rally in Utah. He was just 31 y/o and a father of a just-turned-3 y/o daughter and a 16 month-old baby boy. Their future as a happy family has just been destroyed. Mr. Kirk may have had plans for the future in this regard, but he wasn't even a politician, per se, as in running for office. They don't just assassinate guys in charge anymore (or attempt to) - I guess they are thinking farther ahead now.
Charlie Kirk started his efforts to change the minds of young people toward Conservatism when he was very young himself. I had to check these numbers, but, yes, he, along with one Bill Montgomery, started the organization Turning Point USA when the former was only 18. This has been a religious crusade of sorts for the minds and souls of University and also High School students. The Universities have been one of the American Institutions most earliest and most easily infiltrated by Communists over the years. The ctrl-left brainwashing and coercion is nothing new, and I'd say the infiltration of the Universities could have been called a "mission accomplished!" 20 years ago.
There's always a bit of resistance from the partisans though. Charlie Kirk and his organization were making some inroads. I remember the guy being called a cuck, with some evidence thereof, some years ago. Recently, though, he's realized, I think, that the enemy is indeed evil, not just stupid.* Mr. Kirk has been a big part of the Conservative movement for young people, and with the great support of Donald Trump, he was a real thorn in the side of the Communist ctrl-left.
I have probably not heard Charlie Kirk speak more than 5 minutes, just due to my other internet favorites, but my wife has watched him many times. She was crying when she heard this news, something pretty unheard of around the Peak Stupidity headquarters.
Now, about the Fourth Turning, the big question is "Will Peak Stupidity EVER get around to writing that review?!" We don't put off too many posts for 8 years, but ... well, yeah, we'll get to it. In William Strauss's & Neil Howe's The Fourth Turning and its precursor, Generations; The History of America's Future, 1584 to 2069, the authors are very prescient or just lucky with their predictions of the times America has been facing lately. (2069? Let's not even go there.)
In this "Generational Theory, there are 4 phases of each ~80 year cycle - a spiral, really - in English/American history and future times. The fourth turning, the latest of which we should have gotten into 20 years back, is one of upheaval, called the "Crisis" turning. Now, you may see why people got into these books, but when I first read Generations in the mid/late '90s, I saw no crisis. By the 2nd time I read these books I was not so sure. That was in '05 or so.
As I recall from reading these books those many years ago, the Crisis Turning is a time when there is not just division in political views -that's always the case. It's a time when the positions become un-reconcilable. Both sides find it desirable to destroy the other side rather than to compromise. (Well ,l mean, nobody told us there'd be Communists!) That is indeed the case these days. The ctrl-left has become a true enemy of traditional America - they want to destroy it all. If we don't want them to destroy it all, we've got to destroy the ctrl-left.
However, American Conservatives have not yet resorted to violence, as much as the $PLC, Regime Media, and Dark Brandon have lied otherwise. During this Fourth Turning, Charlie Kirk's Turning Point, with its religious roots, peaceful spreading of ideas to young people that differ from the destructive BLT-G++, anti-White, anti-Christian rhetoric and corercian of the ctrl-left, is, I suppose, an organization that JUST! WON'T! DO!
There was Charlie Kirk, from what I've read, giving the other side a chance to argue back and having nice but firm discussions to enlighten the students on various opinions, yet the $PLC, for one, added Turning Point to it's "Hate Map" 3 1/2 months back. The $PLC compared Mr. Kirk's organization to the Ku Klux Klan. Now he's been shot dead.
Just a few days back, the Regime-Media-buried story of the horrific stabbing of the young pretty Ukrainian lass in Charlotte, NC got "picked up", let's call it, by President Trump. The Regime Media was forced to report something about it, even when it was, as Unz Review commenter David in TN wrote here their claims that this black-on-White violence a) happens all the time, so no point ... and/or b) is very very rare, so why bother ...
The story is out there now, though, and all ctrl-left efforts to squash it have been defeated . Though most Americans who live anywhere other than in lily-White enclaves already understand the plague of black violence and dysfunction, this too, is now out in the open for all to see and ponder on. The ctrl-left that has caused such things as (pretty directly) the death of this young lady just trying to ride the train, now must try to defend all this. That's not working out so well at this point.
These skirmishes in this Cultural War are becoming more frequent. The divisions are getting wider. The ctrl-left simply cannot accept that they won't be able to continue their march of destruction unhindered.
Well, we'll soon find out who the assassin of Charlie Kirk is. We'll see how seriously "our" side prosecutes the guy or digs into who else was behind this. This is just the beginning, I'm afraid. Fourth Turnings are a bitch.
PS: I just saw that Neil Howe has written The Fourth Turning is Here a couple of years ago. Damn straight it is!
* That's one of the posts that was to come this week, postponed for at least a day for this one.
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Illegal Alien labor price differential: Hotel Housekeeping
Posted On: Tuesday - September 9th 2025 7:03PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Economics
Maids, they used to call them, and some still do in non-corporate-speak. We may imagine those French Maid outfits, probably not seen since the 1960's in
It's not the lack of sexy uniforms that concerns us here at Peak Stupidity, but the lack of citizenship, or even more like the lack of being American. In our previous post on the economics of illegal immigration and the supposed great savings for the consumer we discussed the hand picking of produce by Hispanics. Produce is a product. Today, let's do services.
Peak Stupidity was nearly apoplectice when President Trump made his hopefully, BS statements* about excluding illegals that work for farmers and in the Hotel and Leisure "industry" from deportation 3 months back. Therefore, our selective produce post covers the farming angle, and we'll pick hotel housekeeping as a good example of the latter. Trump would know this, as it's part of his own business, but the hotel business is probably close to restaurant busboy/waiter work in the level of illegal alien employment.
From the www I came across the number of just over half a million people, almost all women, we can assume, who work as hotel housekeepers in American motels and hotels. How many are illegal? Ever try to tell one of them you have a different check-out time? (See What we have heah is failure to communicate.) If you CAN get her to understand a word, she just might not be. Usually you can't.
Therefore, getting some quick numbers for this post from hotel housekeepers in hotels I've stayed at recently was not as simple as it sounds. There are exceptions, so lately I was able to get a number of 10 to 17 rooms cleaned per shift. There's a lot to it - I don't envy them. I could not always get statistical info, as if I were asking Steve Sailer, Mr. Hail here, or Commenter Res on The Unz Review, such as on how long one's shift usually is. It's not like that, but I will use a conservative average of only 1 room cleaned per hour. It's probably closer to 1.25 to 1.5.
I may have asked about pay to women that seemed friendly, but I cannot remember - AI (I figured it could at least help with something like this) says average pay is about $11.50/hr. So, keeping it simple and even more conservative, we'll go with $12 as the cost, without overhead, to have each room cleaned.**
I felt lucky to get a rate rounded off to $100 including tax recently at a decent chain place. This ain't the day when Motel 6 really meant $6! (Super 8, I gotta assume, meant that they were at 8 bucks at one point.) It's not even '20 anymore. $120 out-the-door is a good deal for any kind of decent place, it seems, and not in the big city either.
Let me talk about that tax. If you want to raise money for your city or county, why piss off the locals any more than
That cost of the room cleaning is something like 10% of the total paid by a customer. What we're looking at is the differential in cost, were mostly Americans to actually do this work again. Rather than the $30/hr that would motivate me, were I young today, to pick cucumbers in the hot summer sun with no alternative but sitting on my ass, I'd say even $25/hr would be decent for American women for this work. That $13 differential per hour, and per room cleaning is just over 10% of the retail actual out-the-door price of a hotel room. Call it 15%. Is it worth it to pay that much more in a country full of Americans? You could even have a conversation with the
OK, this is no rigorous economic analysis as part of the journal "literature", as we promised, so let's just say we've got these rough numbers that say, salad eaters and hotel guests would only have to pay 10-15% more, and then crops would not be rotting in the fields and bedbugs would not be rotting under the sheets. It's even better than that, though. In our next post on this subject, we will discuss the externalities and that perhaps by sending these illegal aliens home and hiring Americans, we will SAVE money... yes, A LOT!
PS: I could have talked to the hotel managers, I guess, or even gone to the web regarding the rooms cleaned, but I'd rather ask those who do the work.
* This was also when the loudmouth talked about issuing half a million visas for Chinese students.
** The new thing, going along with Peak Stupidity's discovery years ago that Green is the new cheap-ass, is that for stays over multiple nights, one should notify someone if he wants the room cleaned in between. I completely understand that, economics-wise. How messy can the room be after only one night? I guess that depends on who else comes along...
*** This joke doesn't really work well anymore. If you didn't know, the maids used to watch those daytime TV "soap opera" shows, my example being the most famous (OK, Days of Our Lives fans, tone it down!) These were on the 3 big networks, so these women could keep up together with all the goings on. The Mexican women, even some then, could keep up with the La Usurpadora and other Telenovellas from hell.
Now, as everywhere else, they are listening to, or watching, their phones... or even, on the phone all day. Yes, that is done now. If you've gotta do this kind of work, more power to you for making it better.
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Steve Sailer strikes out.
Posted On: Saturday - September 6th 2025 5:28PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Pundits Globalists Deep State
He's supposed to be a genius of sorts. Yet, in the understanding of the ruination of the American nation, Steve Sailer chalks it all up to incompetence, stupidity, and greed, when there's evil people behind it all. It's his latest post on his substack site that has me pissed off enough to postpone the other illegal (and legal!) immigrant employment economics posts along with a fun one for this tonight.
The post is Why Did the Anglosphere Go Hog Wild Over Immigration?, with the sub-title After Covid, English-speaking nations tended to go nuts over immigrants. How come? Seriously? How come?!
How do you not notice that people are evil and are bent on destruction?
Beyond that gut feeling, the Biden Administration didn’t seem to have a well-worked out rationalization for letting in so many immigrants. Instead, they just seemed to feel that it was racist and Trump-like to try hard to keep immigrants out. And then they got surprised when they eased off border enforcement at how many migrants swarmed in, including from places that had sent very few migrants before.Complete bullshit, Steve. After all this time and the actions – the immigrant invasion (“Asylum”) apps, the flying in of foreigners in the middle of the night on US-based airlines (I witnessed some of this – actually broad daylight), and all that, you think still that this was incompetence and stupidity?
As the guy with no, no, none of that, Deep State behind him says when he’s lucid, “C’mon, man!”
Nobody was "surprised". Alee-Hondro Mayorkas wasn't surprised, because this was the program he ran. The Deep State wasn't surprised, as these Globalists behind the official power knew exactly what they were doing, as they had 4 years to go all out.
Steve Sailer’s assumption is that nobody is evil, just stupid. As the guy who runs this particular website, I should agree, but I don’t. Mr. Sailer’s first comment (and no paywall this time, which is nice for me):
Right, a lot of special interests were involved in the insane immigration explosion of the early 2020s.Special interests have always been involved. In ’20, the Extra-Special Interests, the Deep State Globalists, figured they had this PRP thing done now that they had gotten rid of Trump. Their overall plan, above cheap labor, above MOAR Commie votes, was to make sure there will never be a big active White Middle Class again, anywhere, ever! That’s evil. That’s what they want.
But why didn’t anybody notice?
Oh, and we DID notice that. How could a VDare WRITER, not just reader, not “notice” this? WTF?? VDare covered the whole thing until fat-assed Laticia James, New York Attorney General, shut them down with lawfare last summer.* Mr Sailer understands the motives of cheap labor and more votes, but he thinks the ctrl-left would be doing a better job of it were they not stupid:
As far as I can tell, American liberals really don’t think that much about immigration.They like it. They like anything that dilutes the population of White people, themselves often included. They do think about it - MOAR is good!
You want to know who on the left really thinks about it? That'd be the Globalists, with the goal I described above. White Middle Class men, especially, compete with Global corporations in business, with newer, better ideas. They compete with Globalists for power with their thousands of organizations for various causes. Globalists can't abide that if they are to run the show as they were born to do.
I’ve often suggested to liberals that since a lot of people want to move to America, we should carefully devise policies for letting in the best immigrants and keeping out the worst.Yes, true, but those are the useful idiots. There are others behind it. Do you think the above was the mindset of the traitor Mayorkas? He wanted utter cultural destruction. It's a Commie thing, Sailer, you wouldn't understand ... Stop trying to suggest things to "liberals". They want power - it doesn't matter how reasonable you are.
But I almost never get much intellectual engagement on this sensible idea, because American progressives don’t see who gets to immigrate to America as really being any of the business of Americans like themselves. Instead, it’s the fundamental civil right of all inhabitants of the planet to choose whether or not they want to move to America.
In the SteveSailer.net comments there, it's J.R. Ewing for the win:
I think you are right about average everyday liberals and even most politicians, that it was simple bleeding heart emotion, but I also think a smaller subset of politicians was more nefarious and definitely more calculating. That group knew very well that the state of the world in most countries is comprised of an overclass and an underclass and if normal Americans were going to be uppity and not allow themselves to be perpetually ruled over, then by god we’ll just import our own group of people who will. And we will reward them with public benefits in return, paid for by all the racists who already live here.Bingo.
The small group of people in charge of the democrat party are too smart *not* to know what they were doing, while the people who blindly follow them, who have mostly been brainwashed by liberal and non-racist pieties over the past 50 years, don’t know and don’t care.
The reason for Mr. Sailer's graphic shown above is to illustrate his point:
Ted Kennedy sponsored both the 1965 immigration act and the 1990 diversity visa lottery. Did Teddy’s braintrust carefully calculate how to maximize the Great Replacement?First, it was Philip Hart and Emanuel Celler who brought the bills up in the Senate and House, respectively. Lyndon Johnson, probably the worst President in history, INCLUDING Brandon, signed it.
Nah. As far as I can tell, in both cases, Senator Ted drunkenly reasoned, Mayor Quimby-like, that his bills would bring in more Irishmen to vote for Kennedys.
These guys weren't drunk at the time. No, a big open conspiracy to flood the nation with foreigners probably didn't have a carefully calculated plan by the numbers. I'm betting, with the much more Conservative American population around 60 years ago, they figured it'd take a century to make a large dent in the White population. Well, it went better than any attempt at planning it would have anticipated.
It doesn't take written up plans, dummy. The same people wanted the same thing, that's all... for years, 6 decades now. They aren't stupid. They are evil.
* Just now, believe it or not, it's gotten WORSE for VDare. I think I'll get into that in another post, but for now read Peter Brimelow on his substack site: With Instant MSM Support, NYAG Letitia James Moves To Bankrupt Us Personally
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Chuck E. Cheese nabbed in Tallahassee raid.
Posted On: Friday - September 5th 2025 3:11PM MST
In Topics: Humor
ICE was not involved. This mouse is legal.
Chuck E. Cheese, aka, Chuckie Cheese, aka, just some black thief, was arrested in front of his kid customers in Tallahassee. To clear something up, this doesn't make Chuck E. Cheese a "Florida Man" per se. That terminology applies to often drunk or high (or both) White rednecks, who are getting fewer and farther between in the Sunshine State. They might be thieves too, but whatever they do is done in an unusual, wild, fun manner such as the digging up of Bai Dien campaign signs with a front loader or attempting to shoot down Wal-Mart drones with 9 mm pistols.. This Chuck E. Cheese is no Florida Man. Too bad.
In the video below one can see that Mr. Cheese here was arrested for the theft of a credit card. As usual "I didn't do it!", using it to spend money, that is... no, he just had the stolen card on him... for some reason. This is small-time stuff. Why doesn't The Law go after the Big Cheeses in Irving, Texas who've been minting their own coinage for years!
They would't let ME mint my own currency like that! Plus, the skeeball game is rigged. The ball never lands in the middle!
Note too, that they didn't like it when George Floyd spent bogus currency. Speaking of George Floyd, just save or remember this video, in case, in a few weeks, all we'll see is bodycam footage of Chuck E. down on the ground with cops kneeling on his ears and his tail. "I can't breathe!", he will be seen squeaking. We'll be told the cops' story was full of holes, and it will be dubbed a case of mouse entrapment.
Peak Stupidity has no love for the whole Cheesy Texas-based operation. In one of our very early posts, we compared Chuck E. Cheese vs. the US Feral Government. On the question of who's easier to reach on the phone, the Feral Government won! One has to wade through a lot of corporate bureaucratic cheddar to arrange a birthday party at the local place. Never again.
These mice, the Chuck E. Cheese one, and the Disney one, are cultural icons we'd be glad to be rid of, so book 'em,
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Hot UK cops are not to be appreciated - It's the lawr! (not)
Posted On: Thursday - September 4th 2025 7:23AM MST
In Topics: Feminism Orwellian Stupidity Anarcho-tyranny Female Stupidity
The uprisings in the UK that Peak Stupidity has been so hopeful about concern the existential issue of the Population Replacement Program via an immigration invasion. However, our readers have probably read about other stupidity, well, evil, actually, happening in the UK. Some comedian was arrested on his return to Britain due to 3 tweets making fun of the genderbender stupidity. OK, true, it's not funny, not in a "ha ha" way, but a good comedian can make it so.. The UK Ministry of Truth does not agree he should be allowed to or that it's funny either.
I'd seen this next bit of stupidity a few weeks ago and had saved the link and some images for this post. Perhaps, this may be seen as minor stupidity, but it's part of the big picture of Feminism having created a lot of ruin. It's pretty Orwellian too, for that matter.
ZeroHedge's Tyler Durden reported UK Authorities Deploy Undercover Police To Catch Men Who "Catcall". Apparently, Britain is so peaceful that the whistling and verbal appreciation of women's bodies is all there is right now to keep the cops busy ... so there won't have to be layoffs... or something...
The political war on men and masculinity continues to escalate. A long running feminist propaganda narrative is that women in the west deal with random harassment from out-of-control men on a regular basis while walking public streets. Previous attempts to replicate this claim on camera have led to minimal results, with feminist activists wearing revealing clothing pacing back and forth on sidewalks hoping for an incident.Did they try bending over to pick up rubbish to throw in the bin? That might have killed two birds with one stone. (Why do I have to do all the thinking for these people?!)
They catch a few men looking at them briefly, or saying something as innocuous as "hi beautiful", and this is held up as evidence of the terrible plight of women navigating a patriarchal "rape culture". In reality, most men barely take notice. Those that do are harmless and activists are left grasping at straws.How about honking horns at pretty women? Is that still OK?
Jerry Seinfeld is funny, but he got this wrong. The point of honking one's horn is to get the woman to turn around, so we can get a different view for a 2nd opinion. After that... yeah, I don't know ...
Speaking of your 2nd opinions, sometimes all it takes is a close-up view to get one..
I've seen American women cops. It's not their job to look pretty, generally, and they're keeping within their job descriptions. However, these 2 British Bobbettes, well, their respective police departments coulda done a whole lot better. It's probably because we have a college campus nearby 60% front-loaded (and back-loaded) with young women, but I doubt I'd have a whistle to whistle or a harassing comment to utter for these two in the ZH post.
They don't use the Sam Francis-coined term Anarcho-Tyranny over there. Two-tier (yeah I know it rhymes with Kier (Starmer)) policing is what they call it, but Anarcho-Tyranny is a better and more general term. ZH added the following about UK Orwellian Anarcho-Tyranny in general. This is why the place is being mocked by Americans continually (and we helped!):
Police admit that there are no specific laws against these behaviors, but UK politicians and authorities have been using color-of-law enforcement since before the pandemic mandates. In other words, it doesn't matter what laws are written down, if they decide they don't like something you're doing they might threaten you or potentially arrest you regardless.(Oh, and you have to pay a tax to keep your TV. THROW! IT! OUT!) I did not get to screen-shotting the tweets, but the article also notices the differences between the Authoriah's handling of public relations between the sexes in the case of the Moslem foreigners vs the proper Englishmen.
Numerous people in Britain have been arrested for posting memes, praying silently within the vicinity of abortion clinics, and even for flying British flags within the sight of migrants. A widespread indoctrination campaign has been launched to demonize white males in particular, with many PSA commercials, TV shows and other media showing white men as the common perpetrators of harassment and assault. Meanwhile, numerous crimes involving migrants (specifically crimes against women) are buried and the identities of the assailants are kept confidential.
African migrant slaps white woman in the face after she refuses his perverted advances, another migrant then kicks her from behind. They all laugh. These are very sick people.
A migrant attacked and spat at a British woman. She described him, understandably, to the police as a "filthy migrant".These two British cops wouldn't get anywhere near the Moslem areas in their "gettin'" shorts, as lame as they are. The whole department, maybe the Royal Marines, would have to come in and rescue... their bodies. So they will jog on by any such behaviour as described in order to frame and arrest a decent English bloke for appreciating their rear ends, as half-assed ..., well, again, I live near a campus. Cheeks are in style.
She gets a lecture on her choice of language.
It's Feminism, Ararcho-Tyranny, and Orwellianism, working together in perfect harmony in Formerly-Great Formerly-Britain. It's pretty sick.
PS: OK just one (ZH comment), from Finnzero:
To be sure, I only tell women how ******* ugly and stupid they are. That way I won't end up in jail.(The asterisks have been a ZH thing since sometime last decade.)
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Illegal Alien labor price differential: Produce
Posted On: Wednesday - September 3rd 2025 9:57AM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Economics
Don't worry, readers. This will not be a research paper for a graduate level Econ Seminar. First off, there wil be no Calculus. We use the word "differential" in its basic sense, but students are used to seeing it only in the context of the imaginary but useful, infinitesimally small line segments, arcs, areas, and volumes of all sorts in, well, differential Calcuseless*. No, we'll just have basic arithmetic here, and also, because this is not a graduate level economics research paper, there will be no Conclusion full of bullshit.
One could extrapolate the hand harvesting of produce to lots of manual labor that America is said to be dependent on, with NO OTHER WAY. UNPOSSIBLE! Some of these industries would be roofing, yard care, chicken plucking, chicken trucking, you name it. It's only the produce picking that's been done by illegal alien labor for so long, that most Americans really can't remember American's doing the work. Therefore, we'll discuss produce.
VDare, who I really hope will come back online soon**, had writers using the sardonic phrase about the "crops rotting in the fields" regularly. They understood that Big Ag makes more profit using cheap labor, but, no, Supply & Demand says that crops won't be rotting in the fields. (VDare founder Peter Brimelow, BTW, had a successful career as a finance guru, sometimes on TV!)
At this point, before my anecdotal knowledge of the actual rate/cost of picking tomatoes and cucumbers, let me say that I'd completely forgotten our post (I mean, we've got 3,337 of 'em) Holy Moley, we're out of Guacamole! written April 2nd of '19, so 6 1/3 years ago. For some reason, as I got ready to write this post, I had a vision of an avocado... then of a research paper about the harvesting thereof. Let me excerpt a fair portion of it (my post, not the research paper):
As to the question of the labor costs per avocado, I'm not going to use rectal extraction today - I spent 20 minutes (MAX) looking into this and came up with ONE THIN DIME per piece addition in labor costs from increasing the pay by $10/hr, with an extremely conservative estimate. Look at the bottom, below the asterisk line.Note that I copied that link to the 1967 time and motion study.
Now, I know that buck a piece one may pay for avocados on sale is not the price the growers charge. However, even if they must raise their wholesale prices by that whole big dime, it's still only a 10% rise at the store. We wouldn't even notice.
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The thing about this particular fruit is that it is expensive per unit, unlike apples for instance. How much labor cost is involved in picking avocados? This time-and-motion study> from 1967! investigating the benefits of using what we now call a Snorklift, is pretty easy to read. I can only imagine picking rates have gone up since then, with various other improvements short of robotic automation. Just with 1967 data, though, tone can note a pick rate of ~ 18 piece per minute. This time accounts for moving from spot to spot and tree to tree, AND everything else involved (transport, sorting, stacking, everything). The study gives numbers all in boxes, which can vary from containing 20 to 80 pieces. Let's just get a real conservative number by using 20/box. In this time-study, with the use of the Snorklift (and things have only improved) and including all time involved, the observers came up with 6 minutes required to pick 20 pieces.
Now, you see, this is not just rectal extraction here. Just 3 pieces per minute still means that, even with rest breaks, a guy can pick 150 avocados in that hour in which he's making either $5 or $15, depending on whether we want to destroy the American nation or not. Call it 100/hour. I keep rounding down for ease and conservatism, so I come up with either 5 cents or 15 cents (NICE ROUND NUMBERS). That's a difference of ONE THIN DIME. If one did not round everything toward conservatism, and accounted for improvements in methods, well it's probably a nickel or LESS.
OK, as they say, "Now do cucumbers." You got it. See, I picked them for a couple of weeks. Even then, we two were the only White guys, and the rest were Mexicans. This was long ago and, as one might surmise, my Dad's idea.
To digress just a little, did we get along? Nah, not really - they spoke only enough English to do the job, and one day they stole our lunches off the bus.
However, we had been excited to make, in a time of under $3 minimum wage, a buck per bucket of cucombres (well, that's how the Mexicans pronounced it, so it kind of stuck for a while). That was until we saw the buckets. If you are imaging a pail, such as one might use at the beach, the prospect of being able to fill 5 or maybe even 10 of these things an hour - easy, right? - had us enthusiastic beforehand. $5 or $10 an hour! We'd have a whole lot of money, and it'd be well worth being in the hot summer sun all day for this big money. No, but, see, these buckets were about 2 feet wide and a foot deep, and since volume goes as the cube of the... [We promised there would BE no Calculus! - Ed.]
Some basic numbers: We made about a buck or buck and a half an hour. We quit after 2 weeks. OK, more pertinently, I would hazard a guess that each bucket held over a hundred cukes. Another way of looking at that is one could easily pick 5-10 pieces a minute. Even accounting for moving around, resting a big, etc. that 200-300 pieces/hr doesn't quite match my memory of our measly pay pay and the bucket size. It's just been way, way too long.
Let's be conservative and go with 200 cukes/hr and $2 made, so a penny a piece. In today's money, call it a dime apiece. (Interestingly, that matches the avocado-picking cost.) IOW, the Mexicans, Guatemalans, whoever, doing it now, might be paid $10/hr, maybe $15.*** This is closer to 5-7¢, in the ball park here.
Let's talk price differential here, between this alien labor and some rate that American workers could actually live with.*** Look, picking cucumbers was never supposed to be part of a career path. As a summer job for young men who could take it, or even for a period of other-joblessness, could it suffice? How much would make it worth it in today's greatly-decreasing currency? $30/hr? I think Americans would do the work, if they could imagine that Americans COULD actually pick produce.
That's difference of 7¢ per cucumber, a factor of 2 to 3. That latter factor sounds bad, and for the employer it IS a big hit, hence the bitching and the pushing on Trump to say something highly stupid about it all. OTOH, still, how much of the farmer's cost is harvesting? I don't know that.
What I do know is how much of the retail price for cucumbers is that differential of 7¢ a cucumber. My wife's been doing the bulk of the shopping at Aldi's for years. They may not be on sale today, but 79¢ apiece is the price for decent sized cukes with seeds. (I guess you can do better by the lb.. but only a little.) So, the cost differential in retail pricing is about 10%. That's the difference the American consumer would notice (or NOT****) when he goes to the grocery in some new era without that illegal alien cheap labor, after Deportation Nation.
No, nunca! Cucombres will not be rotting in los fields! And screw you, too, cholos, for stealing our lunches that day. (Man, Peak Stupidity can really hold a grudge! Who knew that one day long ago in the hot summer sun, that'd I'd be writing a blog post to avenge myself? Who knew there'd be this internet thingy to write it on either?)
OK, I was gonna do tomatoes, because we picked them too, but ahhhh, manana, amigo. Next post, let's look at services. Because of President Trump stupid (hopefully, BS) talk about agriculture and hospitality, I'll write something about hotel housekeeping staff.
* I write that humorous disparaging form in jest, from an otherwise bright student from long ago who just didn't get it. (You tend to hate a subject, and think less of it, when you don't get it.)
** The latest great news about VDare's nemesis, fat-assed Leticia James, is that not only has she been lying about her property for tax purposes, but she has had a criminal fugitive niece of hers holing up in her Maryland house. Will the Black! Get-out-of-jail card help her out on this one? At least she will be highly distracted.
*** That's untaxed, but let's get to that in the 3rd post of this series.
**** I've written before, in this post about hardware that, compared to monthly rises in prices due to inflation, changes of 10% on small items are barely noticable. These hikes would stay proportionate. Of course, on one's whole grocery bill, were it mostly produce and other items harvested now by cheap labor, he'd see the same 10% increase.
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Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, aka "Dances with Somalians"
Posted On: Tuesday - September 2nd 2025 7:43PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Immigration Stupidity Lefty MegaStupidity Music Humor
What a piece of work the Mayor of
Here he ingratiates himself with his newest constituents. I'm sure they will all vote for him again, or the next ctrl-left Jewish guy running, cause, diversity.
I'm no John Rivolto myself, I will admit, but Jake, you're butchering it!
I thought I'd never say this, the kind of thing kids at school would beat you up over, but, bring back Disco! At least bring back the days when there was Disco.
No, no! The singers were NOT chipmunks. They were people. It was the 1970s - you wouldn't understand. Nobody did.
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Sick Sikh "trucker", tribalism, and making hay of it all
Posted On: Monday - September 1st 2025 7:28PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Music Peak Stupidity Roadshow President DeSantis
I'd rather not even have the sound here, but, besides the use of "migrant", the Sky News Aussies are OK:
I don't use the word in the modern sense, when "sick" can mean daring and amazing. We've probably all seen video and that stupid sick driving move - making a u-turn with a big rig right across a highway! - and the look on that sick Sikh's face after he likely beheaded 3 people in a mini-van.*
Yes, he was yet another illegal alien killing Americans when he shouldn't have ever been here. Sometimes it's violent Latin Americans killing people on purpose, and other times it's drunk Latin Americans killing people by accident, and other times it's just stupid people who know nothing doing stupid things like this, things we'd have better off heard of them doing somewhere not in America, because they shouldn't be here.
Just to recap, this turban-headed (Sikh) Harbinder Singh came into this country across the Southern border in '18 and claimed asylum. The stupidity of a system that lets someone claim this on the other side of the world, let alone start some "pending hearing" process that lets the guy in, is our Immigration system in a nutshell. Then, Washington State officials gave this guy a Commercial Driver's License - "gave" because he couldn't have earned it, as his English was and has been nil. Then, this CDL prompted California to issue him one.
America has had nice things among the various States like drivers license reciprocity. I think if the stupid and traitorous States like those mentioned keep this up, perhaps this will have to end. We can't have nice things... As I looked through some videos, I see that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis explained this whole story in 6 minutes, and it included CDL non-reciprocity (for illegals). I gotta say this again: Ron DeSantis would have been a more capable and much more focused and just plain better President than Donald Trump. However, as one can see here, he comes of very matter-of-factly, with the right details, he's clear and all... but the outrage that Americans feel just doesn't come through. Everything he says here makes good sense. That he doesn't speak to the heart does matter, unfortunately. Anyway...
After that long intro, let me, or rather, American Renaissance's Greg Hood (aka VDare's James Kirkpatrick, aka actually Kevin DeAnna) make the first point about this story. That is, that millions of Indians around the world are supporting this guy based on tribalism. Here is the beginning of his post Defending the Indefensible:
Imagine you are a foreign tractor-trailer driver — let’s say you are German — working in the United States. You make a flagrantly illegal U-turn on a path meant for official use only. You have to crawl across four lanes of traffic to do it, and not surprisingly, a car with members of another race slams into your truck. All passengers die. You offer no assistance. You cannot speak English but are allowed to leave the scene without being charged. You immediately flee to another state 2,000 miles away. Unfortunately for you, you are arrested and returned to the state where the collision took place. Incidentally, you are an illegal immigrant.Nope, they're not.
What would the reaction be from white truck drivers, or whites generally? Can you imagine whites mobilizing in your defense? Would a large organization of Germans demand lenient treatment for you? Would millions of whites around the world sign a petition supporting you? Would thousands mock your victims, because they were not white and therefore, somehow, had it coming? Finally, would you expect the German government to work for you and a German politician to speak up for you?
Most whites would be ashamed to appeal to racial loyalty to defend such a person. Even white advocates believe that racial solidarity should not excuse him.
We must understand that others are not like us.
My next point is that with all the talk of California's and Washington's role in these deaths, along with the immigration system, I don't want to hear about "more vetting", "harder CDL tests", and "reading English"**. Let me put it this way: I wouldn’t care if Sikhs were the best damn drivers in the world. I wouldn’t care if they spoke and read English better than all Americans other than William Safire. I don’t care if they will now be vetted down to the number of times they were put in the RTC (Responsible Thinking Center, aka detention) in elementary school back in the Punjab.
They shouldn’t be here to begin with!
Now, after writing that, I have another thought, something I've written before in these PS posts, that combines these 2 points. Let's take the German example. Imagine if 20 million German immigrants have come into America instead of the last 20 million from 3 dozen mystery countries. (Let's also be clear that these were to be actual Germans, not Syrians come by way of Germany.)
A comment under Mr. Hood's post argued about the skills of foreign drivers, immigrant or not, illegal or not. Who says they're worse on the whole?, he asked. Well, first of all, I guess I shouldn't have picked Germans as the example (just rolling with Mr. Hood's thoughts) because we think of them, at least, as the best drivers. They know how to stay the heck to the right*** from their time on the autobahn (on the 2 lanes/direction you'd better!), they will take their tuned-port-injection, finely tuned machines into the shop first exit after a check-engine light ... all that, we imagine.
Anyway, they might be the best drivers in the world, the incoming Germans, so per the commenter, that's good. Wrecks and fatalities would be down. No, they wouldn't be down, not in absolute numbers. "Well, sure, but we're talking per capita here", you're bound to get in retort. Sorry, I don't care about per capita. I don't want more capita. More capita means higher numbers for all problems, crowded roads of course, more damage to the environment, higher housing costs, higher unemployment rates, you name it, and you could name a whole lot more were they not Germans but Haitians, Venezuelans, and Somalians. Mo people, mo problems.
OK, SURE, I'd much rather see 20 million German immigrants than a continuation of what we've had. They, all Europeans, tend to be more Socialist, but most of the problems we see from highly-strange foreigners, such as some idiot killing 3 people with this Sikh move wouldn't exist.
This has been a big story. I'm glad for that. It's a shame that it seems to take, over and over, Americans getting killed in various ways by illegal aliens in order to keep bringing the PRP issue to the forefront. We shouldn't have to argue this issue based on these horrible events. That the planned invasion is happening at all, were it even of the best and the brightest, and the best drivers in the world, still ought to be a big political issue.
In all the writing about this crash, the common sense that asks "Why don't Americans just drive the big rigs like they used to?" was severely lacking. It used to be a pretty good career. This was that golden time for truckers in the mid-late 1970s in which CB (Citizen's Band) radio was a big fad and truckers and long-haul trucking were looked up to, by the kids at least.
Peak Stupidity has featured both of these videos before, but you gotta love that Skynyrd song (Ronnie Van Zant's Dad was a trucker) and then, Smokey and the Bandit absolutely must appear in this nostalgic look at old White America when American guys, not sick Sikhs, could make a good living and have songs written about them. (We'll find that CW McCall song too.)
Now, let's be clear: This is Westbound and Down ("Eighteen wheels a-rollin'"), played as the Snowman and the Bandit made their way westbound to Texarkana, Arkansas. Eastbound and Down ("Loaded up and truckin'") was played as they made their way back to Atlanta, Georgia with their cases of delicious Coors beer. (Made from natural spring water, or piss, or somethin'...)
PS: Final thoughts: There are pretty good comments under a number of these videos on youtube. Yes, sue the California officials who gave this guy a CDL, Sue the trucking company for hiring an illegal alien. Sue everyone.
* Even had they slowed down to 30 or 40 mph, which doesn't seem to have been the case from the video, airbags don't save you in this type of crash. Most of the cabin just scoots under the truck until metal and human beings hit big pieces of steel. It had to have been horrific.
** When it comes down to it, that this guy's English was nil and he shouldn't have had a CDL due to that is one thing, but it's not the reason he killed these people in Florida. All the roads signs in the world, in Hindi or whatever couldn't fix this kind of stupid.
*** We experience that stupidity on our recent road trip, but I will say that everyone I flashed the lights to (3 times) pulled back to the right. Maybe Trump's deportation numbers have been bigger than I'd thought! (Nah, Americans mostly don't get this either.)
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Starmer's Stormtroopers in Epping, England
Posted On: Friday - August 29th 2025 5:49PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Globalists People's Revolt
Things got too busy for posting yesterday. I had wanted to start on a 3 post series on price differentials for goods/services between illegal alien labor and American labor, first of all, but with plenty more current items to cover.
I won't be posting anything this weekend either, so I had thought I'd leave you all with some really funny stuff from a guy I hadn't thought of in a couple of years, one Alex Stein #99.
However, then Instapundit had a couple of videos of police heavy-handedness against anti-PRP protesters in Epping, UK. Most of the protests are simply about keeping damn foreign, often violent "migrants" out of their local hotels - it really doesn't sound like too much to ask either, or should I say, too much to DEMAND. It so happens that specifically in Epping, some judge (same old, same old) has ruled that an injunction against housing violent foreigners in the hotel doesn't stand. Yeah, you can take you legalities and shove 'em. Brits don't talk like that though ...
One of these days, the Government of the UK, and others with it, will have to start doing a few things that the people want.
Here are a bunch of British people talking, not raising hell in the streets, but you may get something out of this anyway.
Here there's this Emma Dunwell interviewing some Brits on the street that are (mostly) telling it like it is:
(I'm trying to get from a video in a tweet to one I can embed here for you... starting from this Emma Dunwell chick.)
That's a bit too civil and calm for me. That's not the story. Let me embed this long split-screen deal off of Rumble for now. It's cumbersome, so if nothing else, go to Instapundit and scroll down to the first X video (~7 min. long).
Those cops are all White. What is wrong with them? Were they to stand down and go back to the station... even with just that modicum of courage, no one's going to fire them all anyway. Standing down means standing up for your own people. How do you GET like this, Starmer's troopers?!
Does someone up high WANT civil war, because that's the way this is leading, and that's the way it MUST lead, unless the Government reverses course. Who is behind the UK Government pushing for it? Now we're getting to it...
Here's the video I wanted to show, thanks yet again to helpful commenter Adam Smith:
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[UPDATED 08/31:] Adam Smith came up with the video I was looking for. Thanks again, Adam!
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Cracker Barrel - from Fake to Fake & Gay? (And back again.)
Posted On: Wednesday - August 27th 2025 11:02AM MST
In Topics: Political Correctness alt-right/MAGA Big-Biz Stupidity Inflation Peak Stupidity Roadshow
Yeah, The Cracker Barrel Restaurant (shssssh, 1 of 600) has a nice wide porch with rocking chairs. You can set out there and shoot the breeze, then come inside for biscuits & gravy and sweet tea, get some penny candy for the road... "Y'all come back now, ya hear?" ("No, we don't hear, we're out of New Jersey, gotta rush cause we're running behind on our trip to Miami, and my wife forgot her hearing aid.")
It's been fake country the whole time I can remember. The "stores", as they are called in the chain restaurant business, number 600 or so, and they are managed by Corporate in Lebanon, Tennessee.*
Full disclosure here: Your Peak Stupidity Assistant Lead Blogger here (actually, Assistant TO the Lead Blogger) has eaten at various Cracker Barrel restaurants somewhere between 5 and 10 times. It's been a while - besides that as an explanation for that wide range, I also believe I'll be shocked to see current prices next time I frequent one.
I like the atmosphere in the place(s), but I really understand that, say, a talk about business will not be like this, out on the porch:
Yeah, Freddy, it's been slow, but with the County Fair comin' up and all, lots of folks will be drivin' by here. Things oughta pick up. We've gotta still pay Goober back for fixin' that leak in the roof.Nobody's talkin', screw it, talking business out on the porch in the rocking chairs, and the
Folks have been complainin' 'bout the corn bread too. Miss Jemima is so nice, I just hate to tell her that's she's using too much butter ... Also, with the stove actin' up, we may have to raise up the price on the penny candy to pay for it ...
Shoot, I still gotta repaint the darn sign, it's gettin' so faded, but my knees... I can't get up on the roof today, maybe next week...
Same store sales are only up 1.2 % this quarter. The Board says we'll have to cut somewhere, based on last month's print. Guys. Guys! Look at the powerpoint, not my chest. Purchasing says they can make it up by sourcing new biscuit batter and canned gravy through our 3rd-party vendor in Wuhan, China.It's all corporate arranged down-home country goodness. I think, I would hope we - all customers - know that. The nostalgia will still bring people in. Then, there's the food... and the "retro" candy.
Cuupla' more items here... lets see... we'll be shuttering 4 stores in lower Alabama. These ones are in very diverse areas. Not that that has ANYTHING whatsoever to do with it, but we've had excessive internal and external shrinkage in the region.
Some of our stores have had roof leaks. Our vendors are switching to a new source of fake corrugated sheet metal, made out of earth-friendly plastic, so this will look great next time the Board hears from Greta.
Some of the corporate team will be doing store visits next week. No, haha, I'm not gonna eat country fried steak and collard greens**. We'll probably hit up the Ruth Chris's nearby.
Oh, and guys, we've got a new branding campaign coming on-line. We'll start off with $5 million to get it rolling. Gary says we've got a crack marketing expert, new fine arts grad out of Smith. I'm excited ...
I gotta admit to having a severe sweet tooth, and I appreciate the old candy that I don't see at the gas stations too often. I noticed the "7 for $1" "penny candy". I don't recall these being a penny, but if that were in the 1950s, say, that'd be about right with long-term inflation rates, a factor of 15, that is, at 1,400% inflation rate over 7 decades. We've always gotten a few items from the country store area on the way out.
OK, so what's the problem, and why the post here? What, you haven't heard?
The Cracker Barrel controversy has been about the logo, such as on the mustard***-yellow signs. There's the old White guy sitting by the cracker barrel. That had to go, per some corporate marketing genius. Actually, I would think that these people really know that they are hurting the old-timey-country brand by doing this, but they'd figured, getting away from any and all Whiteness is still more important. It WAS, anyway.
Putting some old black guy, as nice as he might seem, in the same place would be just too obvious. You could put some tranny on there ... nah, not country... oh, and also, yeah, that whole Bud Light branding change didn't work out well. I don't know, people are fickle...
So, they went for bland corporatism. That's also not country, but it's at least not gay. Back to full non-sarcastic mode here, I did wonder what the controversy was on this one. Cracker Barrel went from fake to just more admittedly fake country/corporate run.
However, they've purposely distanced themselves from the old White guy, hanging out by the old cracker barrel. People have been finally getting sick of this stuff, and instead of talking about it on the porch, they are on the anti-Social media now, and Cracker Barrel is feeling the heat. It's been mighty hot out this week, whaddya' think, Floyd?
When I looked into it more, I found that the company has been known to give lots of money to lefty causes, such as the BLT-G++ business, SURELY not country in the least. Cracker Barrel would tend to have very largely Conservative customers. Did this branding change clue some of them in to the rest of the story? The publicity from this change must have surprised some of the Corporate Crackers.
Through the anti-Social media Conservatives have enlarged their opposition. Rather than just retro candy, we now have Cracker Barrel eye candy.
It turns out that Peak Stupidity has been so slow to weigh in here, that this story had already taken a turn. Cracker Barrel has relented today.
This is great. It's not that I would care about the sign next time I'd eat at a Cracker Barrel. I doubt I'd notice, honestly. However, Conservatives have shown that they will resist any hint of wokeness or anti-Whiteness now from Big Biz by putting their money, tweets, and occasionally tits, into play.
In the battle of Big Biz v Big Tits, I think we know who wins out.
* At least in the South. That part of Tennessee and central Kentucky too are beautiful country.
** Can't blame her one bit!
*** That'd be fancy-mustard yellow, not French's-mustard yellow. Only the good stuff.
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Kyle Rittenhouse Amendment II Celebration Day
Posted On: Monday - August 25th 2025 5:04PM MST
In Topics: Commies History ctrl-left Morning Constitutional Guns Holiday from Stupidity
Peak Stupidity says drop one of the other Federal Holidays, preferably Doctor Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, because if nothing else, and there's a LOT else, the name is too damn long. I see a problem with the proximity to Labor Day, but then Federal workers could merge it all into one long 9-day holiday, get out of town, and give us all a break.
We don't use the word "hero" lightly around here. The Kung Flu drug store employees who actually braved all the germs and came into work to sell skittles, Arizona Ice Tea, and cold medicine just didn't cut it as heroes. That's just me, I guess. Seriously, there are other cases I could bring up in which the word "hero" is used and I don't agree. Kyle Rittenhouse, however, is, yes, a hero.
He shot and killed 2 Communist attackers and wounded another with his AR-15 in Kenosha Wisconsin in self-defense 5 years ago today. That alone doesn't make him a hero, as much as it was some nice shooting under extreme duress. That he came out 15 miles from home that night to protect businesses under arson and other destructive attack is a good start. He became a hero, I would say, by being there and then doing what needed to be done, and being a great example of one of the reasons for the 2nd Amendment to the US Constitution.
The primary reason for it is, of course, to enable us to defend ourselves against an out-of-control beast of a Federal Gov't, or any oppressive government. Since the antifa and the BLM thugs were basically sanctioned by the Feral Gov't of '20, Kyle Rittenhouse's use of his AR was a pretty close example of the point of Amendment II for us.
Since this is 5 y/o history, the reader may want to refresh his memory of what happened that night - Peak Stupidity posted KYLE'S LIFE MATTERS! 4 days later.
Lest we forget why Mr. Rittenhouse shot 3 men, I will remind readers that Gaige Grosskreutz, wounded in the arm, had been pointing a handgun at our hero. One of the 2 men killed, Anthony Huber, was about to bash his head in with a skateboard. A skateboard is in that case assuredly a weapon. Joseph Rosenbaum, the dumbass, grabbed the barrel of Mr. Rittenhouse's rifle and got 4 rounds to various and sundry of his body organs. Either way you do it, play Commie street games, win Commie prizes.
Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted of the murder charges laid on him based on self defense 15 months later, on November 19th of '21. Maybe that could be the holiday. I like today though.
I'm not so sure about either remark... just sayin..."
Mr. Hail, in the comments here, reminded me of his post “The Ballad of Kyle Rittenhouse” (2021) from Nov. 22nd of '21, possibly written right then due to Mr. Rittenhouse's acquittal 3 days prior. Mr. Hail has got lots of info on the "victims" and more, along with The Ballad of Kyle Rittenhouse by Clifton Hicks:
PS: I'd like to thank the Unz Review/iSteve commenter Old Prude (he's written in here once or twice) for this idea.
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Attorneys General Gone Wild!
Posted On: Saturday - August 23rd 2025 4:20PM MST
In Topics: Humor Female Stupidity
NOTE: Title corrected after our receipt of a nasty voicemail from William Safire.
Cops have bodycams now. Though often "so tiresome", some of the footage taken can be really entertaining. Why do we enjoy these clips of those drunk and disorderly government officials and public figures getting arrested? Think about it. I wouldn't have watched this one were it Chris Christie getting arrested... or even William Safire.
You're gonna wanna' watch this. You're gonna watch because the drunk and disorderly ones are decked out women in slinky dresses. In this one, from the New York Post article RI prosecutor threatens cops to shut off body cameras while being arrested for alleged trespassing: ‘You’re going to regret it’, we can see the teaser of Rhode Island Special Assistant Attorney General Devon Flanagan in her pink dress, kind of unkempt.
Wait, is she really Assistant Attorney General or Assistant TO the Attorney General? There's a big difference:
So, yeah, most views of these clips of Attorneys General Gone Wild! and such are from we men who expect, with all the jostling around and drunkenness, there are pretty good odds there will be wardrobe malfunctions. "Wardrobe malfunctions" are the stuff of clickbait videos that have suckered even me once ... or a coupla' dozen times.
The Assistant (to the?) Attorney General's* friend Veronica Hannan is much feistier in this footage, so yeah... it wouldn't be anything worth watching without her previous consumption of all the wines cooler and Pinas Collada, would it?
Whether you care for all that or not, I ask the reader to at least skip to 05:20 in, when Miss Hannan, the one in the silky lemon yellow dress, is escorted into the unit, that is, the cop car. 5 years back, within a week or less after the reprobate George Floyd overdosed - you may have heard about that - there were lots of videos on youtube that I couldn't find again later.** One was cop bodycam footage of the attempt to force Mr. Floyd into the back of the cop car. (This was quite a while before Derek Chauvin had him pinned down on the ground.) He also had his legs stretched out to prevent the door being shut. Let me tell you, if you notice here that it was a quite a struggle to put 100 lb Veronica Hannan into the back of a cop car, imagine how it went with 6 footer, over 200 lb, drugged-up George Floyd! Worse, imagine Chris Christie, even if he weren't resisting!
OK, here's the video you've been wanting to watch:
Well, there's another blog week for ya'. Peak Stupidity WILL get to those estimates on illegal alien labor savings as a proportion of prices for goods and services. There's other stuff we've been meaning to write about too. Have a happy Sunday!
* I know that ain't right. We're gonna hear from Mr. Safire again, I just know it!
** They didn't even appear in the hour and 42 min. long movie The Fall of Minneapolis.
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An AntiChrist looks at 95
Posted On: Saturday - August 23rd 2025 7:39AM MST
In Topics: Music AntiChrist Globalists Bible/Religion
If you ever have a problem with a post title here on Peak Stupidity, think song lyrics.
I can really see how this guy could be one of the antiChrists. I'd been confused on this issue before, but, yes, there can be multiple small-A antiChrists working under the one big one, per Revelation. Things are pretty bad, but I don't think Big-A AntiChrist has arrived yet on the scene. (Perhaps he has already been hatched in some fetid nest in Washington, F.S.)
About this particular one, Peak Stupidity has been remiss in not noting George Soros's 95th birthday till now - it was 8 days before Ron Paul's 90th. You can go back half a century, 2 years more than half this creature's life ago, and I doubt you'd have heard anyone say "Yeah, he seems like a pretty good guy." No, George Soros life has been about making shit-tonnes of money through financial dealing that occasionally bankrupt entire governments and influencing societies toward his liking. I can't think of anything constructive George Soros has done. Most of his philanthropic projects I've read about have ulterior political and/or financial motives, and I don't like said motives.
I wonder what his childhood was like...
Well, we don't have to wonder anymore, cause we've got Wikipedia, ;-} Check out "Early Life" of György Schwartz here, and note the following lower down on his page:
As a child, Soros fantasized about being a God/. In his book Underwriting Democracy, he wrote, "If truth be known, I carried some rather potent messianic fantasies with me from childhood, which I felt I had to control, otherwise they might get me in trouble." He later elaborated on that passage in an interview saying, "It is a sort of disease when you consider yourself some kind of god, the creator of everything, but I feel comfortable about it now since I began to live it out."Okeedokey, then ...
I only kept up with this possible antiChrist because ZeroHedge touted his birthday... in a way. The writer, one Parker Thayer, celebrates A Legacy Erased: Happy Birthday, George Soros. Alex Soros is one of 5 of George Soros' spawn. He has 4 sons, 2 from his 1st marriage and 2 from his 2nd. Alex Soros, from the 2nd marriage (the other son from that coupling being an artist) is the antiChrist heir apparent, I guess, but it's
Over the last few years, he has handed over control of his empire to his son, Alex, and Alex seems unable to do either of those things successfully.On the money end, Alex seems more of a virtue-signaler than his Dad, the spoiled brat, so he's lost his ass in Rivian (Normal, Illinois) electric vehicles. Then, getting politics involved to help his business interests, he supported that fat-ass Stacey Abrams in Georgia (with a Rivian plant involved) to no avail. The rest of his politics are pure American ctrl-left.
Alex Soros is married to former main squeeze d' hildabeast, Huma Abedin. In the words of George Castanza, I gotta say, "You coulda' done a LOT better!" He's a powerful Billionaire. What stupidity! I guess love is blind, and it's a match made in hell.
Really all I care about is the damage George Soros, with his heir trying to help, has done in destroying America. He does have 3 houses in New York, so I guess he's not done with America. (A guy sent a pipe bomb to him in '18, but that was a bust.) The (very) elder Soros has been clever in his political support. Rather than spend 100's of million of dollars in attempt to sway the big elections, when a guy like Trump can still ruin it all, he started his Soros D/As project maybe a decade back. You might have $18 Billion, but you still have to stay on a budget. So, you spend just a few hundreds of thousands on these much less publicized campaigns for Districts Attorney [No, No, that's NOT it! - William Safire], who will have the power to screw up cities even worse than ever by letting violent criminals go free to kill some more. One wonders how many Americans George Soros has indirectly, but purposely, killed this way.
You can get them elected, but after too much mayhem, even city people will have had enough.
Today, more than a dozen Soros DA’s have been removed from office by recalls, scandals, or simply not seeking re-election. And the spike in urban crime ended up being a key factor for the Democratic Party’s defeat in 2024.Maybe his spawn Alex just doesn't have the fire in his belly, or back where he came from, to do this societal destruction right. The conclusion by Mr. Thayer:
The demise of the Soros DA is more than a rejection of Soros’ legacy on criminal justice policy. It was also a rejection of his legacy on immigration. As one might guess from a name like “Open Society,” Soros is a proponent of open borders. One reason Soros began funding DAs in 2016 was to create “sanctuary cities” that would be the heart of the so-called “resistance.”
The second election of Donald Trump—in a race where crime, immigration, and the IRA were three of the major issues—was America’s personal slap to George Soros’ face. Today, on his 95th birthday, his legacy is in shambles.As usual, I went to the comments for more fun reading, but I haven't found a real standout yet.
Happy Birthday, George!
Parrotheads would already know this, but our title here comes from the title of a very poignant Jimmy Buffet song, if you're a son of a son of a sailor. I'm not, but I know someone who fit this song well. This song not from the Son of a Son of a Sailor album, as one might expect. A Pirate Looks at Forty is from his album A1A* from 1974. This ballad has good lyrics as usual for Jimmy Buffet and with a great tune, very much like He Went to Paris.
Here's a live version from 1991. It's not as polished, and it doesn't the have good harmonizing vocals like the studio version. Also almost 3 minutes of the beginning is some dialog about the Key's sailor and bar fly the song is about. He's still there... in an urn.
PS: Peak Stupidity has written other posts about this antiChrist candidate. See Psychopathic, ex-Nazi, Commie Globalist disses Donald Trump - - The latest actual AntiChrist according to our part-time intern - - 60 minutes with the AntiChrist, and First rule of AntiChrist Club.
* Highway A1A is the Florida east coast road. It's stays to the east of the I-95, but is sometimes combined with the US-1. Jimmy was referring to the portion that connects all The Keys, I assume.
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Africans marginalized by the Mercator Projection
Posted On: Thursday - August 21st 2025 12:25PM MST
In Topics: Music Geography Race/Genetics
The World is a
Well, some Africans are all bent out of shape about th... oh, no pun intended there... they feel kind of marginalized, to put it in 21st Century terms. The Legal Insurrection site (Instapundit Glenn Reynolds links to them a lot) reports that these Africans' problem is the Mercator Projection. African Union Wants End to Mercator Projection Map Use Over “Disinformation”. The "disinformation" is Africa being displayed on maps using this projection as smaller than it is. The sub-headline:
The reason? African Union member unhappy with the relative size of the continent presented on those maps, as it makes them feel…marginalized.It's a mine is bigger than yours thing, but with continents. Why have White mapmakers been marginalizing Africa, hence, any Africans with chips on their shoulders (don't they all?) for well nigh 4 1/2 centuries? It's gotta be just pure hate.
It's not all maps though, but the Mercator Projection, as normally aligned, has this error of areas nearer the Poles displayed as larger than areas nearer the Equator.
First of all, what IS a projection? See the figure above. To get that Wal-Mart globe paper onto a flat rectangular one must find a way to "project" the sphere's surface onto a rectangle that is positioned around it. One can think of this "projection" as using a light source to project every (almost) part of the map onto said surface and the tracing it out on the flat surface. Or, what you really do, after imagining this, is use math.
Math??? Yikes. I was led to believe there would be no Greek!
The diagram above from wiki shows the idea behind a Mercator projection It is one of multiple ways to transfer the surface-of-a-sphere picture of the world to a map sailors and, dare I say, World Conquerors and Colonizers could use. Why didn't they just carry globes? Kinda' hard to plot a course on one in the Captain's quarters ... In fact, as compared to other projections, the Mercator was deemed best for sailors keeping Rhumb Lines. These course that cross latitude lines at the same angle were easier to sail than other methods. They, BTW, are not Great Circle routes*, though for small distances, such as day-long drives it doesn't matter. In fact, the Flemish Geographer and Mapmaker Gerardus Mercator (see, he wasn't Greek, so...) who first presented his namesake projection in 1569, mentioned the difference:
Even for longer distances, the simplicity of the constant bearing makes it attractive. As observed by Mercator, on such a course the ship would not arrive by the shortest route but it will surely arrive.That's always the main thing. (This was well before Greta and the Climate Calamity™.)
Well, see, most people don't do a lot of sailing across the ocean these day, what with the long-range widebody airliners and all. Those who do sail have GPS and other than navigating the harbor and to the marina, probably couldn't even tell you on a globe where they really are. So, why use this Colonizer-made, Africa-marginalizing map projection now? (And let's not forget the Central Americans!)
Besides that we are used to this projection, that it preserves angles between lines/curves such as roads, makes a variant of the Mercator the best for the web mapping companies** and their amazing very usable software. Yet they bitch...:
Criticism of the Mercator map is not new, but the ‘Correct The Map’ campaign led by advocacy groups Africa No Filter and Speak Up Africa has revived the debate, urging organisations to adopt the 2018 Equal Earth projection, which tries to reflect countries’ true sizes.Sure, that explains the gap.
“The current size of the map of Africa is wrong,” Moky Makura, executive director of Africa No Filter, said. “It’s the world’s longest misinformation and disinformation campaign, and it just simply has to stop.”
Fara Ndiaye, co-founder of Speak Up Africa, said the Mercator affected Africans’ identity and pride, especially children who might encounter it early in school.
Yes, Africa is a huge continent. I remember learned how huge when reading the book From Cape to Cairo*** a couple of decades back. It's 6,000 miles from Cape Town, S. Africa to Cairo, Egypt!. I noted in our post on the old S. African Airways, 1st World Memories of Suid Afrikaanse Lugdiens (CtDC - Part 7) regarding a fuel stop in Kano, Nigeria:
... of the 5,600 statute mile shortest distance, Jo-burg to Palermo - the latter [segment] which could be considered entry to Europe on a direct route - is 1,130 miles, 4/5 of the whole route.Yet, with such a big continent to draw talent from, I don't think any Africans invented ANY map projections. I don't think they know how to make maps. What's to map there, anyway?
As the Chinaman said:
Oh, and who made the best music about Africa? A pale White lady out of some Celtic place named Enya did, that's who.
PS: I watched the entire Empire of Dust docu-frustration recently. We'll have a review of that one.
PPS: I've never watched The West Wing and likely never will. Commenter Adam Smith sent me to a web page about this map envy business and it had the following video from that show. If fits this post pretty well. Thanks, Adam!
* See Peak Stupidity's quick discussion of Great Circle routes, in Moslem call to prayer and the Great Circle route. Our follow up was titled Peak Stupidity is an Equal Opportunity Offender. One might see why we needed that 2nd part.
** We saw one of those google cars while driving home the other day, and it came right by our house as we were exiting the car. Unlike last time, I didn't have the time and wherewithal to flip off the camera. (I still have a blurry screenshot of me in front of my car flipping off the camera long ago.)
*** Were I to review it, I wouldn't give it too many kudos due to minor anti-Whiteness. Also, there is another From Cape to Cairo by some African author. Beyond that, there is also From THE Cape to Cairo, written about a trek over a century ago.
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[UPDATED 08/23:] Added West Wing video seen in page from Adam Smith link in comments here.
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