PS: "I believe PS criticized this decision, but now that we know the identity of the pilot(ess) who made the critical error(s) in the helicopter, it looks a lot stronger."

Mr. Hail, did he know about her early on? If so, though, he would not have called out (only) ATC. (for ATC, I could see the long term staffing thing, but it wasn't all due to D.I.E. The PanicFest has a long aftermath when it takes 3 years to really train someone to be a productive controller.)

Anyway, my point was to be that, and in no way defending the lady, but the Aircraft Commander, "Captain" non-military-speak is still in charge. Was he spending too much time correcting her? This mistake of not seeing the right traffic and not being situationally aware took a couple of minutes, so I don't think it was some quick move by the D.I.E. hire to just point that helo toward the ill-fated PSA 5342.

No matter what, I'm glad we have a President who would say something like this.

Got a post coming in the morning. Actually I wrote almost all of it - this thing is taking too much of my time though... I imagine you could see that.

PS

ICE arrests of illegal aliens with intent to deport (not physical removals)

January 23, 2025
538

January 24
593

January 25
286

January 26
956

January 27
1,179

January 28
969

January 29
1,016

January 30
962

January 31
913

February 1
864

February 2
736

February 3
715

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Average in period: ca. 925/day.

Annualized rate: ca. 337,500.

Four-year rate: ca. 1,350,000.

5%: approximate share of total U.S. illegal-alien stock to be deported during Trump-II term (Jan 20, 2025 to Jan 20, 2029) at this rate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_deportation_of_illegal_immigrants_in_the_second_presidency_of_Donald_Trump#Statistics

PS

Ann Coulter has been praising the Trump-II actions and stances, including the choice to immediately blame "DEI" for the helicopter-plane mid-air collision.

I believe PS criticized this decision, but now that we know the identity of the pilot(ess) who made the critical error(s) in the helicopter, it looks a lot stronger.

PS: Any side discussion is always welcomed. Thank you for the fun discussion of Mr. Peanut and how AI and the Lyin' Press (for a long time before) can distort history.

Two more things:

1) Nope, we will not be celebrating 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤! history month at Peak Stupidity this year. When the US Feral Gov't says "jump", we say "how high, Sir?!", and since our President has wiped it off the Feral Gov't agencies' agenda, we must follow suit. Now, if another Dark Brandon were to come into power as King and change it back. we'd have to ...
... say "Screw you, asshole!"

2) There has been lots of erroneous info out there about that Worcestershire Sauce (great for marinating beef jerky, BTW) It was first marketed by a Texan. This Texan saw a bottle of this stuff at the grocery store and asked "Hey, what's this here sauce?", hence the name...

OK, that doesn't even make sense, but it's funny!

PS: Hello SafeNow. Thanks for the compliment of the Guidestones posts. There are a number more about the pseudonymous Mr. Christian's book and then the destruction. Right before they were blown up in summer of '22,

1) I was really set to visit again, bringing a couple of friends who hadn't been.

2) I got through 2 posts of the 10 - one for each point of advice written in all 8 languages on the stones.

Oh, and when reading one of them just now, I saw that I'd written that a Georgia Guidestones v Stonehenge post should be coming. Well, I don't always get around to remembering these ideas anyway, but here's a comparison:

Stonehenge is still up... for 2 reasons that we already know:

1) Water or corn-starch-based spray paint is easier on monuments than explosives

2) During the thousands of years before the Stop Oil people - what they have against Stonehenge is beyond me - dynamite and plastic explosives had not been invented.

It would have been a good comparison though. The GGS were by far a more polished (get it?) professional job. The astronomy though - I'm not sure, but I think Stonehenge had more in that sense. No need for writing either, if nobody could read then and there! I wonder how much of a "private sector" project Stonehenge was... probably a typical Druid government boondoggle that the DOGE committee (Druid Organization to cut Government Excess) would have nixed ....

PS: oops, I didn't get to the important part of that comment of yours, Mr. Hail. I see it differently. They are just ramping it up, and, yes, the media hype is a good thing. If the numbers stay in the 500-1000 a day range, that's not good enough and also, after a few months when the Lyin' Press has (hopefully!!) many more other things to rant about with Trump, the incentive to self-deport will completely fade away. I mean if only 1% of your fellow illegal aliens get deported in a year, what do you really have to worry about?

However, I don't agree with this comparison to the situation with Bai Dien. The BP or ICE were deporting some, I'm sure, probably without too much knowledge by Bai Dien himself. (What did he even keep up with?) If these numbers are nearly the same, the difference is in the YUGE drop to nearly zero of those coming in. Bai Dien was exporting, if even that, 10% of the amount coming in! Right now, births* of illegals is one thing, but otherwise there is a small net loss. That's not the same as with Bai Dien, Obama, Bush, Clinton, hell, you've got to go back to Operation Wetback to be sure.

Here's hoping the numbers keep going up, with goals like the DOGE ones here, but completely attainable with the right attitude and courage. 10,000 a day would be decent, but even then, we're talking 10 years.

BTW, I'd love to see Trump send ICE in to these areas in which Mexicans are marching in the roads with Mexican flags. A move to arrest as many as possible and send them home would be the most heartwarming and popular move yet for MAGA, and probably a large majority of Americans. There'd be statues build ...


* Of course, that's not to mention the huge legal numbers, H1B's Diversity Lottery (I hope that goes away with an E.O.), etc, that may or may not include the Bug-out Baby loophole, depending on how you classify that.

PS: Mr. Hail, regarding Ann Coulter. I'll have to keep up with her more (used to read her on VDare, of course) including this latest column you referenced. I think she is absolutely correct in understanding that immigration is the top issue and should be the MAIN priority for Trump. He does seem to be able to do a lot of things at once - amazing compared to his distracted self of '17 to '21! However, let's hope he does keep pushing or at least let Mr. Homan and Mr. Miller do what they were meant to do.

I am also curious if Miss Coulter has dropped her "woman scorned" attitude - she was pushing that a little too far even for me, and we were all scorned by his incapability last time. I'll read more of her and find out.

PS: Mr. Hail, regarding deportations (some more) and the economy. I do see how the mass immigration has added that much more to the burden of the Socialist Welfare State, in addition to the Black contingent already existing. Sometimes, we hear numbers that tell us, no, they are all making their own way, entrepreneurs they are! Valedictorians! There are people who calculate the monetary costs to society (in addition to the cultural ones), with ER use, "free" schooling, cheating like hell on taxes, etc., but somehow the Lyin' Press has never seen fit to print much of that.

However, even without any of them - say we're 1980s Sweden*, I still think it would all come to a head, maybe much later though You can't keep borrowing to the point at which your borrowing costs take up a serious part of your whole budget. But, that's as you wrote - fiscal Hiroshima (rather than D-Day, IMO) would occur much later, and, yes, it could be gotten through peacefully. There was that Great Depression 1.0 in a fairly unified USA, and if Roosevelt hadn't had gotten us into war, it would have been gotten through peacefully. (The economics were nothing like the disaster of today, though.)


* I was in Sweden then (only 2 days), and I could see that I did not like the Welfare State. In other ways, the Whiteness of it all, sure, at this point it's a place to dream of, for Westerners, even including the Swedes!

PS: Good morning, Dr. Hail,

https://i.ibb.co/x8650P9N/AI-Overview.png
https://i.ibb.co/Q38W4TR8/Gemini-Worcestershire-Sauce.png

While google claims that AI Overview is powered by Gemini, the two programs return very different results to the same questions and/or statements. It seems to me that Gemini is more accurate and more difficult to trick.

I think George Washington Carver may be an interesting anomaly not only because the gods of The Right Side of History attribute so many inventions to him but also because of his status as a powerful 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤! National Folk Hero. (An example of 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤! moral superiority doctrine in action.) I think a little more investigation is warranted.

https://i.ibb.co/xKxxGzwd/GWC-Watermelon.jpg

Cheers! ☮️

PS: Good morning, gentlemen,

https://i.ibb.co/CqhGHQ0/GWC-Worcestershire-Sauce.jpg

𝐶𝑎𝑟𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑚𝑎𝑑𝑒 𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑑𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑜𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑏𝑜𝑡ℎ 𝑎𝑔𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑑𝑢𝑐𝑡𝑠. 𝐻𝑒 𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 325 𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑝𝑒𝑎𝑛𝑢𝑡𝑠, 108 𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑠𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑡 𝑝𝑜𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 75 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑑𝑢𝑐𝑡𝑠 𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑑 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑠. 𝑆𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑑𝑢𝑐𝑡𝑠 ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑙𝑢𝑑𝑒 𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑖 𝑠𝑎𝑢𝑐𝑒, 𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑧𝑒𝑟, 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑐𝑜𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑒, 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑚, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑊𝑜𝑟𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑢𝑐𝑒.

https://www.nps.gov/people/george-washington-carver.htm


Yes, 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤! man and national hero George Washington Carver invented buttermilk, axle grease, synthetic rubber, and Worcestershire sauce, as well as hundreds of other inventions, many of them ingenious. He was a great inventor and the gods of The Right Side of History will not stand by as he is mocked. Googling "who invented Worcestershire sauce" is 𝐍𝐨𝐭 𝐖𝐡𝐨 𝐖𝐞 𝐀𝐫𝐞.

(But I did it anyway...)
https://i.ibb.co/xSP1tNk7/who-invented-Worcesterhire-sauce.png

Happy Tuesday! ☮️

PS

(Sorry for the many "Peanut Butter Invention Controversy" posts. Will there be a PS Black History Commemoration 2025? If so, I have something to share, if and when that thread is created.)

PS
Hail’s “On replacing government spending - How? Who?” lays-out how to think about the how/who situation better than anything I can recall reading - - anywhere. Especially well formulated, I thought, is his sequential ordering of what would have to happen: “To criticize public spending, there needs to be a model of how it could be replaced.” He acknowledges, in closing, “…the possibility of “a huge trauma that goes in unpredictable directions.” I found this sobering.

A Peak Stupidity metaphor for a follow-up to Hail’s closing? It might lie in Mr. Moderator’s road trip to visit the Georgia Guidestones monument a few years ago. (A great two-part post) The Guidetones’ concept was that a social or economic calamity was coming, and here is help. Well, after Mr. Moderator's visit, someone blew-up the Guidedtones with explosives. Authorities proceeded to dismantle the remaining parts. There was talk of rebuilding it, but alas, that was not feasible.

PS

-- Trump deportations, still (so far) unimpressive --

Ann Coulter has something of a mantra: "immigration is the only thing that matters" in U.S. politics. I think my previous on-topic comments in this thread (about "entitlement spending") endorse that position.

(I'd add something on ideology, which overlaps and reinforces the "immigration is the only thing that matters" maxim: An ideology hostile to the norm of the White-Heterosexual Male will tend towards being pro-immigration, by default I'd say, under current conditions. There is probably no easy compromise: softness on the ideological side plus rigorous enforcement of "immigration law" is not a combination easily made or easily held together.)

I remain quite unimpressed with the supposed Trump deportation program. It looks, to me, like more hype and marketing than real action. It may begin "in earnest" at some future date. It has little reason to begin, though, if the orange-man thinks his base is placated by the hype and marketing.

There are reports that many of the 'televised' deportations we've seen were actually on a backlog from the Biden period. It's unclear how many "fresh" deportations there have been at all. It's the two-week mark, so those who want to give the Trump-II people slack will urge patience. (Another group of people said this, as well, in the late 2010s, giving birth to the ridiculous Q-Anon cult, whose central slogan was: "Trust the Plan.")

The pace of reported arrests suggests an actual annualized rate of deportations that will be similar to the Biden years. TrumpII-trusters will say "Maybe there won't be many more deportations, but the marketing will so so sleek and cool that it will dissuade new Third World border-jumpers and may induce some millions of net self-deporters." I say, we saw a Trump Slump before in immigration numbers, but it didn't really last in the way the USA desperately needs (the USA's Augean stables need a full cleaning; the migrants have to go).

We see zero indication, so far, that there IS any "mass deportation program." That is if we define it as "deportations far above the norm under Clinton--Bush--Obama--Trump1--Biden."

(There is also the possibility of Trump, towards the middle or end of his term probably, after the midterm 2026 election, wanting to do another made-for-tv dramatic turn in which he offers amnesty for "the good illegals" in exchange for deporting the 10% or less of "bad illegals" and "securing the border.")

PS

Moderator wrote:

_____________

"If we really kicked out, with self-deportation as a big factor too, 30-40 million illegals, somehow nearly shut down legal immigration"
_____________

I say: In such a case, there would likely be no longer be a pressing need for major emergency overhaul of social-spending. For a supermajority-White population, social-spending D-Day would fade off into a further future, and, with control of our own fate again in our own hands, we would sort things out much more easily.

Western people's innovation and ingenuity have proven themselves again and again, through centuries and millennia. The model we are stuck under is not quite classical-Western model. It reminds me more of the accounts of the dysfunctional elements of the Russian Empire in parts.

The social-spending models proposed in the 19th century, and adopted in the 20th century by Western governments, were predicated on relatively-high-trust, all-White, culturally-Christian populations. In other words, "for us, by us."

The real "pinch" in our time is not the faultiness of those social-spending models (though it/they may be faulty, I don't seek here to argue that point); but rather the fact of the late-19th-to-mid-20th-century models of social programs still sitting around while Third Worldization has occurred (and continues) in the meantime.

PS

(Why does the Twitter LLM-bot think so highly of George Washington Carver and want to lean on the side of promoting his supposed "invention of peanut butter"?)

(It's definitely milder than the outright-wrong claims generated by the Google-LLM best-guess bot as pointed to by Dr Adam 'Washington Carver' Smith. I believe that Google LLM-best-guess-bot switched suspiciously soon to a different name, Gemini; everyone calls these "AI" for short, the success of the marketing efforts of the heavyweight players in the field. How intelligent is it?)

PS

-- What to take from the Peanut Controversy? --

The Twitter/X info-bot says this:

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"GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER did not invent peanut butter but made significant contributions to the popularity and use of peanuts. He developed hundreds of products using peanuts, which indirectly helped in promoting peanut butter. His work was crucial in finding alternative uses for peanuts at a time when the cotton industry was facing challenges due to the boll weevil. (...)

While George Washington Carver did not invent peanut butter, his work significantly popularized peanuts, indirectly contributing to the rise of peanut butter's popularity in the U.S. (...) Carver's role in the promotion of peanut products, including peanut butter, was undeniably influential."

_______________

This is quite a lot different from my account of the Black-Inventor Peanut Controversy.

As it's an LLM, with who-knows-quite what tinkering behind the veil. As with all LLMs ("AI"), it tends toward bland vagueness. The tendency reminds one of how a poorly prepared student "pads out" his writing, or speaking if presenting in front of the class.

Still, the impression a reasonable White man gets from the above (tell me if you disagree) is: Yes, the Black man called George Washington Carver more-or-less did invent peanut butter, and "hundreds" of other inventions, many of them ingenious uses of the peanut. He was a great inventor and the gods of The Right Side of History will not stand by as he is mocked. Fact-checking the peanut-invention claims is Not Who We Are.

The subtextual message put into more-direct language: Hey, you detractors out there. You should just be quiet about this, honor a BLACK HERO, call it a day; discard their white robes, donate to the NAACP, and live out DOCTOR KING'S DREAM!

PS: Good evening, everyone,

While it may be true that Dr. George Washington Carver did not invent the peanut, the sweet potato or the watermelon, the google AI bot credits the good doctor with inventing a whole list of important everyday things that we all use and love. Here are just a few...

https://i.ibb.co/BHxNmMFZ/Axle-Grease.png
https://i.ibb.co/0jRS7QR7/Bleach.png
https://i.ibb.co/C3KPv2m2/Buttermilk.png
https://i.ibb.co/gbFZV1CB/Chili-Sauce.png
https://i.ibb.co/pBpyQ69F/Creosote.png
https://i.ibb.co/jvkv6Lf1/Gasoline.png
https://i.ibb.co/nsrNwLtV/Ink.png
https://i.ibb.co/gZF1bM8n/Instant-Coffee.png
https://i.ibb.co/rKdKpmqd/Insulation.png
https://i.ibb.co/KpgkyCyD/Linoleum.png
https://i.ibb.co/Jw4G3062/Meat-Tenderizer.png
https://i.ibb.co/1YCb7Tg0/Shaving-Cream.png
https://i.ibb.co/1Jd53PjM/Shoe-Polish.png
https://i.ibb.co/mVHKsQRH/Synthetic-Rubber.png
https://i.ibb.co/0Rjysfbn/Worcestershire-Sauce.png


Happy 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤! History Mumf, everone!
I hope you all have a great evening.
(I'm going to go read Achmed's post and everyone's comments now.)
Cheers! ☮️

PS: Great comment, Mr. Hail.

"Trump will not be the guy, as Paul Ryan and others were talking about 15 years ago, to "cut entitlement spending." Trump wouldn't even do his usual bluffing and threatening tactics with this. He just wouldn't do it."

No, and though I hate to say it, he SHOULD NOT be the guy. If he took that on, something that he would not at all relish because his most of his people (and everyone else still) would no longer like him, all it'd do is ruin his chances to continue this Blitzkrieg and all the other great moves he's been making.

We've got to let it ride for these 4 years, as Trump, somewhat amazingly to me, is doing great work. Yes, things will get worse, budget-wise.

We can hope that 2 things - public confidence that at least we don't have anyone bent on destruction of the country in charge and that the modest cuts that these people can do (but, will they stick?) are enough to keep it all in one piece for 4 more years while other important work is done.

If we really kicked out, with self-deportation as a big factor too, 30-40 million illegals, somehow nearly shut down legal immigration, worked on deporting those whose legal status is bogus (quite a lot), built the real border, and put a LASTING immigration control system in place, perhaps in 50 years we could have the unity that this country had 10 years after the last immigration cut-off. I say 50 instead of 10 because the foreign-ness of the new people is so much higher than that of those who'd come in the 40 years up through the early 1920s. Now, this time it's already been 60 years of the flood. If people had listened to Peter Brimelow over 30 years ago ... different story.

Oh, I wrote that to say that were the country more unified the coming financial mess could be handled perhaps without political strife. (The Commies never miss these opportunities though ...)

PS

-- On replacing government social spending: How? Who? --

"$3.14 Trillion is being spent on Social Security and Medicaid/Care"

Of 27 Trillion total GDP --- Two programs, 12% of all economic outpit?

That's also just the public spending from two social programs, and NOT either total social spending or the "total GDP-cost" to care for: the elderly (17% of the U.S. population is over age 65); non-elderly disabled (4%), and poor people (12% in 'Medicaid'). It's just the public funds dispersed to those groups.

Trump will not be the guy, as Paul Ryan and others were talking about 15 years ago, to "cut entitlement spending." Trump wouldn't even do his usual bluffing and threatening tactics with this. He just wouldn't do it.

It's hard to imagine the U.S. in the near term moving away from the public-spending model. SOMEONE has got to care for the elderly who are in poor health and cannot work, the truly disabled (although the percentage claiming disability of working-age adults seems has been suspiciously high for years), and the poor. Who does it, if the rug were pulled out from government spending? Who did it before? Families, private charities, churches, goodwill groups or self-funded volunteer organizations, communities, such things as that.

Do we have the private social infrastructure, the "will," the ability, the vision, the social trust, to do much of that?

The USA's race-demagoguery of the past sixty years, and Third World immigration of especially the last forty-to-fifty years, jumps out here and presents itself in full splendor for the seeing.

Third World immigration now has yielded children and grandchildren by the tens of millions who have created a mediocre mush-population, Americanized to a lowest-common-denominator sense along Third World standards, and able to be seen here and there all across North America, quite heavy in parts of many Blue metro areas. White institutions are to pick up the slack to privately care for Third Worlders? It can sort of work when imposed by the government (just like the military sort of works because orders are imposed and followed, with a dissenter washing out or being ejected/discharged).

In the height of Wokeness towards the late 2010s, you began hearing influential people explicitly saying: "Whites MUST PAY Nonwhites large sums to apologize perpetually for racism, colonialism, slavery, and that terrible golf-course discrimination they imposed on poor immigrants over the years."

This kind of social attitude would create a strange climate for social-giving on a scale that matches and replaces government public-spending for the same.

To criticize public spending, there needs to be a model of how it could be replaced. Self-imposed shock therapy on the model of 1990s Eastern Europe would be a huge trauma that goes in unpredictable directions.

PS: Thanks, Possumman, for the correction. My eyes saw Michigan, but they were mistaken. I'll fix it now.

PS: There I was, though, Mr. Hail, in about the 4th grade, reading a book about the man that said he invented that stuff. That's what they do to you. It can take a lifetime to catch up to the truth.

Hey, there's an "American Pravda" article for Ron Unz: "How Americans were fooled about Peanut Butter"

"I didn't think much about peanut butter other than the difficult choice between smooth, crunchy, and that new stuff with honey blended in. Then, in 6th grade I read Syd Hersh's expose on the real life of Mr. Peanut and last week I read Glenn Greenwald's take. So, I read 18 books over the weekend, and now I know how much history has been buried and revised by Big Peanut."

"It turns out that it was a big conspiracy to steal the secrets of peanut butter from the Chinese. During the retreat of US General Stillwater's forces from the Communist inventors of peanut butter up in the Misty Mountains working for Mao to feed the people, a Chinese general named Chiang Kai-shek, aka, Mr. Peanut, smuggled the recipe in the right wheel well of a DC-3, flew over The Hump to India and points west."

"Anyone who could possibly believe anything else is some random right-wing ranter."

PS. Ratskin as he is known here- is from Maryland.

PS

RE: Peanut Butter

It seems a series of White-Christian inventors, tinkerers, and innovators developed and began to produce and sell at small scale what we know as Peanut Butter between the early 1880s and late 1890s. Some say the real launch to a mass audience comes with the St Louis World's Fair of 1904; the city of St Louis was where one of the early innovator-marketers happened to operate.

George Washington Carver's love of the peanut as a food and a potentially-widely-used product is well known, but he is one of millions of 19th-century people in the USA who loved peanuts. The earliest involvement he himself had in any sort of "peanut research" was his appointment, in 1896, by the head of a Black college in Alabama to head the academic department of agriculture. By this time peanut butter had already been invented and was being marketed, although its big break-through lay ahead. No work out of his academic institute doing something we can reasonably call "inventing peanut butter" was produced.

Only in later years, mid-1910s to mid-1920s, did George Washington Carver publish anything on "peanut butter" at all, more than thirty years after White-Christian innovators began producing peanut butter.

PS: No, it was future President Jimmy Carter, a White man, of course, who invented the peanut. He used to wear a top hat and a monocle while driving his tractor - they called him "Mr. Peanut".

PS: George Washington Carver did not invent the peanut.