Posted On: Friday - February 7th 2025 6:14PM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '24 Lefty MegaStupidity History Trump alt-right ctrl-left Zhou Bai Dien Karmakarma Kameleon
What is the ctrl-left of the D-squad had not stolen the election of '20? This speculation has been made by loads of pundits since the '24 election and more so since his E.O. Blitzkrieg started 3 weeks back. Instapundit Glenn Reynolds wrote one of his weekly NY Post columns about this, as have many others. Peak Stupidity does not purport to have nearly a majority of original material, so we'll get in on the speculation here too. It's fun, and it's schadenfreudealicious!
There's a genre of fiction writing called "alt-history". Often it has science fiction elements in it. It's very enjoyable to imagine one small event or phenomena having caused the future we live in now to be different, maybe even better. There was "alternative rock" back 35-30 years ago, but we didn't call it "alt-rock", because "alt-" still sounded stupid then, unless you were a Unix geek. There's the "alt-right" now. How about we call this genre of speculation "alt-rec history" for alternative recent history?
So, yeah, what if the ctrl-left Commie radicals had let the election results of the night of November 2nd '20 stand? We remember Trump-45. Besides a few helpful but incomplete non-permanent moves on the Immigration Invasion, he didn't accomplish much. The ctrl-left really didn't have a logical reason to hate him other than was not of the Regime-favorable UniParty. (They had plenty of irrational reasons, as usual.) The worthless Mike Pence was still Trump's vice-presidential candidate. Was the distraction of Russia! Russia! Russia! even over with? If so, there would have been more of them. Trump had not learned that much yet. He'd been harassed and railed against but not put through the fire as he has since then.
4 more years of that muddle-headed bloviating, with that small chance of, whoop-dee-freaking-doo!, Mike Pence now carrying the GOPe torch... we'll he'd have gotten trounced anyway, as the ctrl-left would have had someone more powerful and odious than the Bai Dien crowd and Kamala Kamelion ready to go.
We can be very very thankful that the ctrl-left made mistake after mistake after mistake since the time of Trump-45. First off, they picked Zhou Bai Dien, a former plagiarist, half-century-running Washington grifter to run in '20. No, I guess they didn't know how soon dementia would set in, but still... and then, due to the help Bai Dien needed to win that early South Carolina primary from those old black church ladies, there was a deal with that race-mongering Jim Clyburne to put a black woman in the high positions, VP candidate, SCROTUS judge, or both. Could then not have found someone, ANYONE, other than Kameltoe? Nobody voting in the D-primaries liked her. If they couldn't find their Oprah or Big Mike, how about a block man (but I repeat myself) instead. There are plenty of race-mongering Commies, such as, just as an example, Kameltoe's Dad. (Just an example. He would have been on the old side and lives in Jamaica, but so??)
Then, what'd they do? With the (real, not administrative) Deep State running things, you don't really need the guy to be cognizant. Things still get done. However, in the re-election campaign of '24, you've to to know when to fish or cut bait. They could have kept Bai Dien in the basement again, but like idiots, they put the guy in a debate. Hilarity ensued.
Then, instead of taking some stock in the situation in early Summer of '24 and putting some just-as-odious, but less ditzy, drunken-crack-whore-resembling, person in the primaries and having a contest of meritorious evil, they went with Kameltoe. They thought they'd pull off the My Fair Lady routine, but she was too far out in the weeds. They'd only WISHED she'd had a Cockney accent! That drunken sorority sister rambling thing is, well, by George, I think they were screwed! Again, hilarity ensued.
The ctrl-left made ... errrr, even more "mistakes were made" due to hubris, as the ctrl-left did everything they could think of to put Trump out of commission. The massive Anarcho-Tyrannic lawfare efforts could have worked on a less-helaciously-wealth, less-confident man.* All this did, early on, was to get people like me to drop all other candidates and rally around the man, because reasons. This effort did put a drag on the time of this high-energy guy, but the backlash from potential, say, DeSantis supporters , overrode any possible downsides to all the missed campaign opportunities due to court dates. Possible Regime-friendly contenders like Nimarata Haley were all falling by the wayside due to our resolve to not let the lawfare win. Nice going, ctrl-left!
Then, they went all out, going back to their Leninist Commie roots. Trying to shoot the guy dead thing almost worked. It was not a mistake as far as their idea, I gotta admit, but NOBODY expects a blessing of that half-second turn of the head that saved Trump. That was divine intervention, if anything was! Who sees that kind of thing coming, these days?!
Then, I'm sure they tried to cheat again, and very close they came, but we were miraculously unburdened of 4 more years of ctrl-left destruction.
Trump-47 has had 4 years to mull over the mistakes of Trump-45. He HAS learned a lot, and, yes, this has taken me by surprise. You can call some of the moves Trump has been doing revenge, but going after people who've tried to take him down comports with the rule-of-law anyway, as we explained here. He has many reasons to be angry and at a lot of people in the government. These happen to line up very well with what MAGA wants too.
The ctrl-left really screwed the pooch with that '20 cheat-fest. They thought that they had their destructive plans sewed up by that point and would mop things up with the use of old Dark Brandon. Nope, but I guess it wasn't over completely. 4 more years of old-Trump from '21 to '25 would have slowed down their plans, but they'd have been in a good position now. Oops! MAGA is having it's day in the sunshine NOW.
Oh, the fun they would have had, in that alt-rec history scenario. Were it not for those 5 or 10 big mistakes ... Too bad, so sad.
* Hell, they did on VDare, which is a married couple with some help from a few good people, and this was without any even BOGUS charges!
Comments:
Moderator
Tuesday - February 11th 2025 6:43AM MST
PS: Mr. Anon, all those Totalitarian/Tyrannical moves by the left are different kinds of mistakes by the D-squad from the ones I was summarizing. They can't help being Totalitarians. It's just in them, like the deal with the scorpion. I think they went full-bore on all that because they really thought that was the end for traditional America. They've had a lot of momentum built up. Trump-47 has been like a brick wall reducing their momentum to 0.
Moderator
Tuesday - February 11th 2025 6:42AM MST
PS: I'll get back to some of these videos, Adam. I should have watched the remainder of the K-pop/hot sauce one - she is indeed very pleasant compared to what people are used to.
Greta Handel ("Get a handle? - never though about that, Hail, but it makes sense) has an on-line demeanor that doesn't sound girlish. One commenter called her out for being a man, and she(?) didn't write back - that doesn't mean everything though. It made me thing about the tone of Greta's comments. Now that you bring up the name idea, I think he's a guy even more so.
Wow, $40 Billion (for the charging stations) is still 100 x what I was guessing!
Greta Handel ("Get a handle? - never though about that, Hail, but it makes sense) has an on-line demeanor that doesn't sound girlish. One commenter called her out for being a man, and she(?) didn't write back - that doesn't mean everything though. It made me thing about the tone of Greta's comments. Now that you bring up the name idea, I think he's a guy even more so.
Wow, $40 Billion (for the charging stations) is still 100 x what I was guessing!
Hail
Monday - February 10th 2025 1:26PM MST
PS
Adam Smith: "Greta Handel is a guy? (Could be.) I haven't really paid that much attention and I've always assumed Greta is a girl."
Greta Handel, I think this is a play on "get a handle," an order from someone like Ron Unz to anons. Another wise-guy registered the name "Unique Pseudonymous Handle" or something like that.
The one that really bothered me, and still haunts me today from time to time, was my failure to recognize "Jenner Ickham Errican" for so long. I wrote about this on these PS pages before. I can't accept that my mind read that as "Jennifer" for so long!
Adam Smith: "Greta Handel is a guy? (Could be.) I haven't really paid that much attention and I've always assumed Greta is a girl."
Greta Handel, I think this is a play on "get a handle," an order from someone like Ron Unz to anons. Another wise-guy registered the name "Unique Pseudonymous Handle" or something like that.
The one that really bothered me, and still haunts me today from time to time, was my failure to recognize "Jenner Ickham Errican" for so long. I wrote about this on these PS pages before. I can't accept that my mind read that as "Jennifer" for so long!
Mr. Anon
Sunday - February 9th 2025 7:19PM MST
PS
The thesis of this post is an interesting one and, I think, probably correct. Had he won in 2020, there would be no Trump 2.0; it would have just been Trump 1.0.
What happened in the intervening four years? They tried to bury him and it made him mean. Perhaps it even focussed him, or at least focussed the people he brought in with him.
Also, the Democrats bought themselves a lot of animosity aggressively pushing COVID tyranny, anti-white policies, and the transgender insanity. Trump's victory in 2024 was in part a referendum on the COVID regime (for which, let us not forget, Trump bears some blame) and cultural degeneracy.
The thesis of this post is an interesting one and, I think, probably correct. Had he won in 2020, there would be no Trump 2.0; it would have just been Trump 1.0.
What happened in the intervening four years? They tried to bury him and it made him mean. Perhaps it even focussed him, or at least focussed the people he brought in with him.
Also, the Democrats bought themselves a lot of animosity aggressively pushing COVID tyranny, anti-white policies, and the transgender insanity. Trump's victory in 2024 was in part a referendum on the COVID regime (for which, let us not forget, Trump bears some blame) and cultural degeneracy.
Adam Smith
Saturday - February 8th 2025 8:19PM MST
PS: Good evening, Achmed,
As is usually the case we are in much agreement here.
โข Joe Rogan does seem like a good guy even if he's not real bright. (Not that he's stupid. Just average.) Later in the show one of his employees comes in to "fact check" the EV charger info. Turns out it was $40 billion allocated, much of it not yet spent. Still, a $360 billion difference. That's almost like real ๏ผ๐ ๏ผdebt based currency๏ผ/๐ ๏ผ money.
I do think he's "on our side" (though I could be wrong). But yeah. Most of the debt and the deficit is not coming from this program alone. USAID is but a few drops in a giant ocean of waste, corruption and fraud. I thought the video was interesting.
โข ๐ฟ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ข๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ ๐กโ๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐... grew on me after a few more listens. I think it's a solid song even if it's not musically that interesting or special. I like it.
โข I think it's fair to say I'm a fan of Roseanne Park even if I'm not a fan of her music. (I like her voice. And her legs. I think she is a good live performer. She has good energy. But I don't care for her music. The other songs of hers that I pulled up I turned off quickly.) She seems like a good person. (Maybe she's not and she just comes across that way as these sorts of things are public relations stunts to help promote her and her music. That's entirely possible.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQoJMIgNdjo
I do find it interesting that this song has so many views on youtube (and listens on spotify) so quickly. (One billion in 105 days. Not counting the other versions.) Maybe it's because of the collaboration with Bruno Mars?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn8KvdWagfo
This song here (which I think is one of the best versions of this song) has 2 million views in 18 years...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye7H6yMy1Ks
This one has 605,000 in 18 years...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-yUO15brzU
And this one has 106,000 in a year...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AHWrNzCDNg
So a billion+ in 3 months is pretty impressive.
Apparently people like something about it.
โข ๐ธ๐ฅ๐๐๐๐ก ๐๐๐๐ฆ ๐๐๐๐ข๐ก 1/2 ๐กโ๐๐ข๐โ๐ก ๐กโ๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐-๐ก๐๐ ๐ก๐๐๐ ๐๐๐...
The spicy wings video gets better as the wings get hotter. They even bring out ice cream to help with the heat. Apparently the stress ball helps too.
โข So, Greta Handel is a guy? (Could be.) I haven't really paid that much attention and I've always assumed Greta is a girl.
Yeah. It does seem like Steve is wrapping it up on Unz. Maybe he finds it too lowbrow or something? I hope he posts a couple things weekly as the commenters there are an interesting bunch. I guess time will tell.
Happy Saturday! โฎ๏ธ
As is usually the case we are in much agreement here.
โข Joe Rogan does seem like a good guy even if he's not real bright. (Not that he's stupid. Just average.) Later in the show one of his employees comes in to "fact check" the EV charger info. Turns out it was $40 billion allocated, much of it not yet spent. Still, a $360 billion difference. That's almost like real ๏ผ๐ ๏ผdebt based currency๏ผ/๐ ๏ผ money.
I do think he's "on our side" (though I could be wrong). But yeah. Most of the debt and the deficit is not coming from this program alone. USAID is but a few drops in a giant ocean of waste, corruption and fraud. I thought the video was interesting.
โข ๐ฟ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ข๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ ๐กโ๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐... grew on me after a few more listens. I think it's a solid song even if it's not musically that interesting or special. I like it.
โข I think it's fair to say I'm a fan of Roseanne Park even if I'm not a fan of her music. (I like her voice. And her legs. I think she is a good live performer. She has good energy. But I don't care for her music. The other songs of hers that I pulled up I turned off quickly.) She seems like a good person. (Maybe she's not and she just comes across that way as these sorts of things are public relations stunts to help promote her and her music. That's entirely possible.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQoJMIgNdjo
I do find it interesting that this song has so many views on youtube (and listens on spotify) so quickly. (One billion in 105 days. Not counting the other versions.) Maybe it's because of the collaboration with Bruno Mars?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn8KvdWagfo
This song here (which I think is one of the best versions of this song) has 2 million views in 18 years...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye7H6yMy1Ks
This one has 605,000 in 18 years...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-yUO15brzU
And this one has 106,000 in a year...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AHWrNzCDNg
So a billion+ in 3 months is pretty impressive.
Apparently people like something about it.
โข ๐ธ๐ฅ๐๐๐๐ก ๐๐๐๐ฆ ๐๐๐๐ข๐ก 1/2 ๐กโ๐๐ข๐โ๐ก ๐กโ๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐-๐ก๐๐ ๐ก๐๐๐ ๐๐๐...
The spicy wings video gets better as the wings get hotter. They even bring out ice cream to help with the heat. Apparently the stress ball helps too.
โข So, Greta Handel is a guy? (Could be.) I haven't really paid that much attention and I've always assumed Greta is a girl.
Yeah. It does seem like Steve is wrapping it up on Unz. Maybe he finds it too lowbrow or something? I hope he posts a couple things weekly as the commenters there are an interesting bunch. I guess time will tell.
Happy Saturday! โฎ๏ธ
Moderator
Saturday - February 8th 2025 6:22PM MST
PS: Yes, not 6 million tabs, but damned close! Haha.
OK, that explains it likely. It does suck, as the guy (I'm pretty sure) named Greta Handel wrote, to have to wait around for moderation. I was in that mode for about 3-4 years. I have no idea what switched. It wasn't about sending money, as I sent Mr. Sailer money 3 times EARLY on.
I guess that blog will be done. I was hoping Mr. Unz could have him write a couple of posts weekly, which would be fun for the commenters (who don't have 6 million tabs open), but I guess it doesn't work like that. I do agree with the speculation that, besides the more money to be made on his substack site, Mr. Sailer doesn't want to be associated, i.e., have his readers "subjected to the headlines of", some of the stuff on The Unz Review. Which stuff in particular is a good question.
OK, that explains it likely. It does suck, as the guy (I'm pretty sure) named Greta Handel wrote, to have to wait around for moderation. I was in that mode for about 3-4 years. I have no idea what switched. It wasn't about sending money, as I sent Mr. Sailer money 3 times EARLY on.
I guess that blog will be done. I was hoping Mr. Unz could have him write a couple of posts weekly, which would be fun for the commenters (who don't have 6 million tabs open), but I guess it doesn't work like that. I do agree with the speculation that, besides the more money to be made on his substack site, Mr. Sailer doesn't want to be associated, i.e., have his readers "subjected to the headlines of", some of the stuff on The Unz Review. Which stuff in particular is a good question.
Moderator
Saturday - February 8th 2025 6:21PM MST
PS: Good evening, Adam. I watched all 4 of your varied videos.*
Comments:
1) The USAID investigations have opened up lots of peoples eye, mine, even wider. I would have expected some of these shenanigans, but not quite at that high level of expenditures.
That said, I've thought before that Joe Rogan is not that bright a guy. He seems like a good fellow and is a good listener. I've watched now about 4 hours of him, most of it being that Trump interview. Rogan just doesn't know about too many things besides MMA fighting and all that. He seems to want to learn, but I don't know ...
At 5 min in, he exclaimed something to the effect of "so THAT'S why we have this big budget deficit!" Uhhh, no, as my recent post title said. It is important stuff in terms of seeing the evil ways of the ctrl-left, but the money, as compared to SS, Medicare/aid, the military, etc., is still not much. He then brought up some number like $400 odd Billion for charging stations - must be $400-odd Million. You have to have an idea of the size of these numbers.
He's on the side of good, though, but I quit watching after that.
2) The tune was just OK, but those lyrics to the Blue Bonnet song were very nice. Thanks for that one.
3,4) Yes, this Korean Rose does come off as a sane, non-ghetto-trash-talking individual. She seemed like she'd be a nice girl to date, were she not a K-Pop star. I liked the song OK - this was the one she explained to the guy in the interview - but the style is still too modern for me. I liked the Chrissy Hyndes, Ann and Nancy Wilsons, Linda Rondstatzs, Natalie Merchants, etc.
However, that said, I suppose there's not much difference between her band and ABBA, as far as showing off skin. She and her friend had a drummer, but they were missing their own Bjorn and Bennies. (I think I got those names right.)
* Except only about 1/2 thought the spice-tasting one.
Comments:
1) The USAID investigations have opened up lots of peoples eye, mine, even wider. I would have expected some of these shenanigans, but not quite at that high level of expenditures.
That said, I've thought before that Joe Rogan is not that bright a guy. He seems like a good fellow and is a good listener. I've watched now about 4 hours of him, most of it being that Trump interview. Rogan just doesn't know about too many things besides MMA fighting and all that. He seems to want to learn, but I don't know ...
At 5 min in, he exclaimed something to the effect of "so THAT'S why we have this big budget deficit!" Uhhh, no, as my recent post title said. It is important stuff in terms of seeing the evil ways of the ctrl-left, but the money, as compared to SS, Medicare/aid, the military, etc., is still not much. He then brought up some number like $400 odd Billion for charging stations - must be $400-odd Million. You have to have an idea of the size of these numbers.
He's on the side of good, though, but I quit watching after that.
2) The tune was just OK, but those lyrics to the Blue Bonnet song were very nice. Thanks for that one.
3,4) Yes, this Korean Rose does come off as a sane, non-ghetto-trash-talking individual. She seemed like she'd be a nice girl to date, were she not a K-Pop star. I liked the song OK - this was the one she explained to the guy in the interview - but the style is still too modern for me. I liked the Chrissy Hyndes, Ann and Nancy Wilsons, Linda Rondstatzs, Natalie Merchants, etc.
However, that said, I suppose there's not much difference between her band and ABBA, as far as showing off skin. She and her friend had a drummer, but they were missing their own Bjorn and Bennies. (I think I got those names right.)
* Except only about 1/2 thought the spice-tasting one.
Adam Smith
Saturday - February 8th 2025 5:19PM MST
PS: Hey Achmed,
https://i.ibb.co/fzBvgzwV/Comment-170.png
(Because it might be a couple days until Steve approves it.)
It's a reply to this comment...
https://www.unz.com/isteve/my-substack-stevesailer-net/#comment-6984632
Cheers! โฎ๏ธ
https://i.ibb.co/fzBvgzwV/Comment-170.png
(Because it might be a couple days until Steve approves it.)
It's a reply to this comment...
https://www.unz.com/isteve/my-substack-stevesailer-net/#comment-6984632
Cheers! โฎ๏ธ
Adam Smith
Saturday - February 8th 2025 5:11PM MST
PS: Good evening, Achmed & friends!
I'm still not a Trump fan but I'm cautiously optimistic. So far, some of what has happened is encouraging. Speaking of, have you seen this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj9jXMEzCZY
(And now, a couple off topic music things...)
I'm generally not into country music but I like this one...
(Even if it is fit for a funeral reception.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxRHMzK9TX0
I'm also not into Korean pop music (or Bruno Mars) (or whatever this is) but I learned about this Rosie girl last night...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EPFy-WXVCI
She seems nice. (And nice on the eyes.) She's out there promoting her first solo album and singing what just might be the catchiest party song I've heard in years...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW8qaemx74g
The original video racked up more than a billion views on youtube in just 105 days. Kinda refreshing that she's not some obese, tatted up, depressive freak like so many other celebrities today. (She actually seems normal.)
Happy Saturday! โฎ๏ธ
I'm still not a Trump fan but I'm cautiously optimistic. So far, some of what has happened is encouraging. Speaking of, have you seen this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj9jXMEzCZY
(And now, a couple off topic music things...)
I'm generally not into country music but I like this one...
(Even if it is fit for a funeral reception.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxRHMzK9TX0
I'm also not into Korean pop music (or Bruno Mars) (or whatever this is) but I learned about this Rosie girl last night...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EPFy-WXVCI
She seems nice. (And nice on the eyes.) She's out there promoting her first solo album and singing what just might be the catchiest party song I've heard in years...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW8qaemx74g
The original video racked up more than a billion views on youtube in just 105 days. Kinda refreshing that she's not some obese, tatted up, depressive freak like so many other celebrities today. (She actually seems normal.)
Happy Saturday! โฎ๏ธ