Posted On: Saturday - September 27th 2025 8:16PM MST
In Topics: Commies Music Trump US Feral Government ctrl-left
I'd written in the comments that the video by Youth Advocate Violet Aflac, with fun comments, would be another post. We'll have to get to that later. Additionally, this was supposed to be Go Trump! week, as he really has been doing/saying some great things lately. (I know, "saying" means nothing, or does it? You'd never have heard any of it from about anyone else.) Then, there's the interesting story of the 275, maybe 300 FBI agents having been mixed in with the J-6 crowd.
All that's important, but keeping up with just the important and pertinent news is too much for Peak Stupidity. We'll get back to our roots here of making fun of extreme pure stupidity, with another to come next week.
The Gateway Pundit reported on a feel-good piece of stupidity today, out of where you'd expect it, Portland, Oregon. Portland Anarchists FIREBOMB Rapper Ice Cube’s Tour Bus After Reportedly Mistaking It for ICE Deportation Bus. OK, "reportedly mistaking". Did the bus have an Ice Cube logo on the side? I don't know how the guy's doing financially, but if not so well, the tour bus could just be for hire short term - not worth a paint job, but maybe a big magnet?
Perhaps the antifa Commies saw banners or the marquee at the show's venue. If true that they mistake these "musicians"' conveyance for an ICE vehicle, it's very funny.
The fire occurred early Tuesday morning, September 23, 2025, shortly after Ice Cube’s performance at the Moda Center on his “Truth to Power: 4 Decades of Attitude Tour.”Now, Peak Stupidity doesn't want to see anyone physically burned, although for the one party here, the perpetrators, I can't say I "strongly agree" with my own statement. They may burn later - not my call. The driver, just an average Joe making a living could have gotten hurt. However, it's not like this was, well, I can't think of anyone current, so, say, Kiss's tour bus. I'd have been livid. Instead, it's some rapper they call Ice Cube.
Video footage showed the tour bus with its front passenger tire on fire and heavy smoke rising from the vehicle parked near Southwest Broadway and Oak Street, according to KPTV.
Portland Fire & Rescue crews responded quickly, extinguishing the flames and ventilating the smoke. The incident left the bus with a shattered driver’s side window and visible scorch damage along its exterior.
I won't pretend I'd never heard of him, or Vanilla Ice, or Ice T, but, first, come to think of it, WTH is that naming convention all about? I CAN safely say I've never heard
I suppose we shouldn't underestimate these young skinny clueless violent antifa folk. They are true believers, the useful idiots of the Soroses and such who have them believing that they really are fighting the tyranny of a Totalitarian President who is recruiting all these storm troopers to round up the people... well, except that "the people" are criminals by definition and they are being sent back home, is all. Will ICE get mission creep and be the enforcers of an Orwellian nightmare? I don't know, but first we've got to get rid of 50 million illegal aliens. That'll keep them busy enough for a decade.
Those behind the antifa are very clever to have tricked these antifa, who are the ACTUAL lawless violent ones, into believing all this is the right thing to do. Sometimes, mistakes are made. Who knew that Ice Cube is not Immigration and Customs Enforcement? These antifa punks wouldn't, as they are not grassroots men of the poor downtrodden races that do all that rapping stuff.
Back to President Trump, he went on, with less of his usual around-and-around style, about the violence of the left vs the lack of such in the right in today's America*:
“But the radical left is causing this. Radical-left Democrats are causing this problem, and it gets worse, it gets worse, and it’ll be a point where other people won’t take it anymore. That will not be good for the radical left. And we don’t want that.”Or do we? Something came to me from the recesses of my mind... not quite the same statement, implying both sides are equally to blame (not the case) but sang somewhat more eloquently than Trump speaks, and with a great sound out of the rest of the band. In case you're reading, Ice Cube, or ICE agents for that matter, even antifa punks, HERE's actual good music. Listen and learn.
"And the parting on the left
is now parting on the right,
and the beards have all grown longer overnight."
The way those rock bands of 4 youngsters were, The Who didn't necessarily know what they meant by their lyrics. To me now, 54 years after this song was sung (off of Who's Next?) I see it telling us to beware those agitators trying to overturn society with their "new" ideals. All the same was seen before, a century ago, as the Communists got their way in Russia and very nearly in Germany. It's been done elsewhere too. We can read. It's all on the internet. Let's hope and pray We Don't Get Fooled Again.
That's Roger Daltrey singing, Pete Townshend playing guitars and keyboards, John Entwistle playing bass guitar, and Keith Moon drumming.
* What a turn of internet events - rather than going though the lying-fact-checker blurbs on 4 or 5 pages from duckduckgo , I went first to this WhiteHouse.gov page. After that, I found that Yandex was much better, as it at least got me to the NY Post for the statement I remembered.
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Moderator
Monday - September 29th 2025 5:23PM MST
PS: "𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑡 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟 𝑡𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑎 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑏𝑢𝑠 𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑒..."
Sarcasm received, but you've got a few sporty cars, right Adam? Maybe this will happen to you but not on the north Georgia mountain roads. Also, perhaps you've got those big slotted rotors that dissipate the brake heat better too. Don't piss off the local antifa though... (north Georgia? GTFOOH!)
Sarcasm received, but you've got a few sporty cars, right Adam? Maybe this will happen to you but not on the north Georgia mountain roads. Also, perhaps you've got those big slotted rotors that dissipate the brake heat better too. Don't piss off the local antifa though... (north Georgia? GTFOOH!)
Moderator
Monday - September 29th 2025 5:20PM MST
PS: Nice graphic of Corvinus, Adam! I suppose I could paste that in, in TUR threads, but I've tried to keep my vow to never answer the guy, and normally not bother reading answers to him either unless I'm really bored. I have stuck in my favorite "The Office" clip a couple of time already and may do so again. Nothing' stopping you though, haha...
"Corvinus is a time-waster who doesn't argue in good faith. I don't really understand his goals. It's his hobby to contradict everybody else and spout predictable talking-points." Agreed. He makes an effort to not agree. You could write exactly the opposite opinion a few days later, and he'll argue with you then too.
Maybe someone should invite him onto the SS substack threads. Tell him that he would be able to make better use of his obviously valuable time there - can't really do both though ...
Speaking of commenters, I generally read the Sailer substack threads when the posts are non-paywalled.* Guest007 was one of my least favorites on TUR, and nothing has changed for him (me!) after he moved. However, it's a relief for us UR commenters, as is, mentioned recently the scarcity of commenter HT (in both "venues").
* Unless it's about golf or architecture, or golf course architecture, and sometimes movie stars or the movie business. I just couldn't care less about it.
"Corvinus is a time-waster who doesn't argue in good faith. I don't really understand his goals. It's his hobby to contradict everybody else and spout predictable talking-points." Agreed. He makes an effort to not agree. You could write exactly the opposite opinion a few days later, and he'll argue with you then too.
Maybe someone should invite him onto the SS substack threads. Tell him that he would be able to make better use of his obviously valuable time there - can't really do both though ...
Speaking of commenters, I generally read the Sailer substack threads when the posts are non-paywalled.* Guest007 was one of my least favorites on TUR, and nothing has changed for him (me!) after he moved. However, it's a relief for us UR commenters, as is, mentioned recently the scarcity of commenter HT (in both "venues").
* Unless it's about golf or architecture, or golf course architecture, and sometimes movie stars or the movie business. I just couldn't care less about it.
Hail
Monday - September 29th 2025 3:28PM MST
PS
Ice Cube has confirmed (via Twitter) that one of his tour buses (but not his personal bus) was firebombed near Portland. Many reports continue to say the attacker(s) were leftists targeting it for the word ICE. Ice Cube called the attacker "a coward."
_________
Ice Cube wrote:
"Wasn’t my bus. It was a crew bus. Parked in front of the hotel. Everybody was upstairs sleeping. Nobody hurt. No equipment damaged. A coward set fire to the bus. My bus was actually in Oakland getting serviced."
_________
Someone wrote:
"I am glad nobody got hurt. It is one of your tour buses and you were targeted by leftist domestic terrorists. Posting that this is 'only' the crews bus is absurd on your part."
_________
Ice Cube, responding to the guy:
"'Only' is your words not mine. I was stating the facts. Being in my business is absurd on your part. So STFU."
________
.
Later asked by Newsweek if he was angry at the Antifa attack on one of his tour buses, Ice Cube said:
"I'm not taking this incident as a personal attack. A coward like that would burn anybody's property that was out there at the time."
Ice Cube has confirmed (via Twitter) that one of his tour buses (but not his personal bus) was firebombed near Portland. Many reports continue to say the attacker(s) were leftists targeting it for the word ICE. Ice Cube called the attacker "a coward."
_________
Ice Cube wrote:
"Wasn’t my bus. It was a crew bus. Parked in front of the hotel. Everybody was upstairs sleeping. Nobody hurt. No equipment damaged. A coward set fire to the bus. My bus was actually in Oakland getting serviced."
_________
Someone wrote:
"I am glad nobody got hurt. It is one of your tour buses and you were targeted by leftist domestic terrorists. Posting that this is 'only' the crews bus is absurd on your part."
_________
Ice Cube, responding to the guy:
"'Only' is your words not mine. I was stating the facts. Being in my business is absurd on your part. So STFU."
________
.
Later asked by Newsweek if he was angry at the Antifa attack on one of his tour buses, Ice Cube said:
"I'm not taking this incident as a personal attack. A coward like that would burn anybody's property that was out there at the time."
Hail
Sunday - September 28th 2025 10:25PM MST
PS
I copy-pasted your comment, Mr S.
I will expect a sharp barb in response, from Guest007. about how bad it is to fall for crazy ideas like "Antifa firebombed Ice Cube"; or "Covid Lockdowns were/are a bad idea"; or "Steve Sailer was right about Invade The World, Invite The World ideology."
I copy-pasted your comment, Mr S.
I will expect a sharp barb in response, from Guest007. about how bad it is to fall for crazy ideas like "Antifa firebombed Ice Cube"; or "Covid Lockdowns were/are a bad idea"; or "Steve Sailer was right about Invade The World, Invite The World ideology."
Adam Smith
Sunday - September 28th 2025 8:17PM MST
PS: So...
𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑡 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟 𝑡𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑎 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑏𝑢𝑠 𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑒...
Sounds legit. (I hate it when my tire catches fire.) ☮️
𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑡 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟 𝑡𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑎 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑏𝑢𝑠 𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑒...
Sounds legit. (I hate it when my tire catches fire.) ☮️
Hail
Sunday - September 28th 2025 5:33PM MST
PS
I tried asking the Sailer-Substack people whether anti-ICE ideology was behind the mysterious fire of the ICE CUBE bus. The way Substack comments work, very few people probably saw the comment.
Guest007 rejected the notion and says it was a coincidence. He also added a line disparaging my ability or willingness to read ("Try reading").
https://www.stevesailer.net/p/diversity-in-poland-the-blind/comment/160712107
I tried asking the Sailer-Substack people whether anti-ICE ideology was behind the mysterious fire of the ICE CUBE bus. The way Substack comments work, very few people probably saw the comment.
Guest007 rejected the notion and says it was a coincidence. He also added a line disparaging my ability or willingness to read ("Try reading").
https://www.stevesailer.net/p/diversity-in-poland-the-blind/comment/160712107
Hail
Sunday - September 28th 2025 5:30PM MST
PS
Corvinus is a time-waster who doesn't argue in good faith. I don't really understand his goals. It's his hobby to contradict everybody else and spout predictable talking-points.
When I was writing this comment:
https://www.unz.com/isteve/isteve-open-thread-12/#comment-7320157
...Corvinus came to mind as an example of the modern higher-"brow"-aspirant person who wants to signal that he has higher-brow (higher-class) beliefs. He doesn't really do it well. He doesn't make affirmative statements, just negative ones. The long story short, he is a classic "Internet troll," meaning someone who tries to get a rise out of others as the main goal.
Corvinus is a time-waster who doesn't argue in good faith. I don't really understand his goals. It's his hobby to contradict everybody else and spout predictable talking-points.
When I was writing this comment:
https://www.unz.com/isteve/isteve-open-thread-12/#comment-7320157
...Corvinus came to mind as an example of the modern higher-"brow"-aspirant person who wants to signal that he has higher-brow (higher-class) beliefs. He doesn't really do it well. He doesn't make affirmative statements, just negative ones. The long story short, he is a classic "Internet troll," meaning someone who tries to get a rise out of others as the main goal.
Adam Smith
Sunday - September 28th 2025 11:26AM MST
PS: Good afternoon, everyone!
https://i.ibb.co/35t6NvFL/Corvinus-Says.jpg
☮️
https://i.ibb.co/35t6NvFL/Corvinus-Says.jpg
☮️
Moderator
Sunday - September 28th 2025 7:45AM MST
PS: "So the "We won't get fooled again" was likely seen by them as fulminating against whatever program the US had recently introduced, as not being big enough (like what they thought Moscow had).
In retrospect it can be read as having a deeper meaning. That the ones out of power, if you put them in, will become the like the ones currently in power.
Asking artists what their art means, is not often productive. If it's any good, they've put a lot of themselves into it, often far more than they intended to."
Agreed, M. There are some songs that I get a lot of meaning from while knowing that the musician(s) who wrote it hadn't intended that at all.
In retrospect it can be read as having a deeper meaning. That the ones out of power, if you put them in, will become the like the ones currently in power.
Asking artists what their art means, is not often productive. If it's any good, they've put a lot of themselves into it, often far more than they intended to."
Agreed, M. There are some songs that I get a lot of meaning from while knowing that the musician(s) who wrote it hadn't intended that at all.
M
Sunday - September 28th 2025 6:18AM MST
PS
That period had some pretty good music, but listening to the lyrics for meaning is generally a waste of time.
I'm pretty sure that the Who were all good leftists, bowing to either Moscow or Beijing unwitting, depending on who the rabble-rousers they liked that day were parroting.
So the "We won't get fooled again" was likely seen by them as fulminating against whatever program the US had recently introduced, as not being big enough (like what they thought Moscow had).
In retrospect it can be read as having a deeper meaning. That the ones out of power, if you put them in, will become the like the ones currently in power.
Asking artists what their art means, is not often productive. If it's any good, they've put a lot of themselves into it, often far more than they intended to.
That period had some pretty good music, but listening to the lyrics for meaning is generally a waste of time.
I'm pretty sure that the Who were all good leftists, bowing to either Moscow or Beijing unwitting, depending on who the rabble-rousers they liked that day were parroting.
So the "We won't get fooled again" was likely seen by them as fulminating against whatever program the US had recently introduced, as not being big enough (like what they thought Moscow had).
In retrospect it can be read as having a deeper meaning. That the ones out of power, if you put them in, will become the like the ones currently in power.
Asking artists what their art means, is not often productive. If it's any good, they've put a lot of themselves into it, often far more than they intended to.
Moderator
Sunday - September 28th 2025 6:01AM MST
PS; I have generally avoided being tormented by that tendentious person for most of the nearly 9 years I've been commenting on TUR, Mr. Hail. It's better that way. It's about the time wastage more than anything.
Hello, Alarmist, see I went to that Vanilla Ice video (the ad before it had something about a vanilla ice cream cone, BTW, strangely), and I thought "Oh, another PS moment, like saying I'd never heard that 115th Dream before, when I had." That was from the bass line. Nope, that was stolen from David Bowie's song "Under Pressure", I realized right away. I hadn't heard that Vanilla Ice song.
Hello, Alarmist, see I went to that Vanilla Ice video (the ad before it had something about a vanilla ice cream cone, BTW, strangely), and I thought "Oh, another PS moment, like saying I'd never heard that 115th Dream before, when I had." That was from the bass line. Nope, that was stolen from David Bowie's song "Under Pressure", I realized right away. I hadn't heard that Vanilla Ice song.
Moderator
Sunday - September 28th 2025 5:53AM MST
PS: Or, maybe it WAS some other rapper, you know the way the get all bent out of shape for being dissed or it was about money.
Then, I get to thinking, no, black rappers wouldn't have the wherewithal to make up "firebombs" of any kind (likely Molotov cocktails). They generally don't have the patience or smarts for such planning. They'd just take shots at the bus with their Glock's held sideways for accuracy(?)
So, there's the psychology aspect from Mr. SafeNow, reasonable enough. "It goes back to Jung; so don't call me stupid." Haha!
Then, I get to thinking, no, black rappers wouldn't have the wherewithal to make up "firebombs" of any kind (likely Molotov cocktails). They generally don't have the patience or smarts for such planning. They'd just take shots at the bus with their Glock's held sideways for accuracy(?)
So, there's the psychology aspect from Mr. SafeNow, reasonable enough. "It goes back to Jung; so don't call me stupid." Haha!
The Alarmist
Sunday - September 28th 2025 5:21AM MST
PS
I hope Robert van Winkle is keeping a low profile these days...
So much ICE they dropped it twice...
https://youtu.be/rog8ou-ZepE
Bonus, from In Living Color... White awhite Baby
https://youtu.be/Mx7kzarSwGE
Word
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I hope Robert van Winkle is keeping a low profile these days...
So much ICE they dropped it twice...
https://youtu.be/rog8ou-ZepE
Bonus, from In Living Color... White awhite Baby
https://youtu.be/Mx7kzarSwGE
Word
🕉
Hail
Sunday - September 28th 2025 1:09AM MST
PS
Whenever there is "ambiguity," and whenever there is any "woodwork" nearby, you'll always get people coming out of the latter to exploit the former.
They'd say: "It's UNPROVEN that Antifa bombed the Ice Cube bus just because it had the word ICE on it." By this they mean it hadn't been proven in court. Or maybe they mean, more tendentiously, that it wasn't Antifa but another group using a different name. Or who knows what.
I am being tormented by one such person now:
Corvinus wrote, today: "You and your boy Achmed just shat on this fine blog."
Whenever there is "ambiguity," and whenever there is any "woodwork" nearby, you'll always get people coming out of the latter to exploit the former.
They'd say: "It's UNPROVEN that Antifa bombed the Ice Cube bus just because it had the word ICE on it." By this they mean it hadn't been proven in court. Or maybe they mean, more tendentiously, that it wasn't Antifa but another group using a different name. Or who knows what.
I am being tormented by one such person now:
Corvinus wrote, today: "You and your boy Achmed just shat on this fine blog."
SafeNow
Saturday - September 27th 2025 10:06PM MST
PS
The driver’s side of the tour bus makes it clear, in giant letters, that this was the rapper’s bus. So what went on, mentally? My august journal, “Psychology Today,” to the rescue: This was “guilt by association.” The despised party is perceived to have a connection, a commonality - - however tenuous and dubious - - with an innocent party. The commonality is deemed to suffice to attach blame. An example given in Psychology Today is finding linkages, during the McCarthy persecutions…such as having common friends. Here, the rapper got linked-up due to common names, ICE. Thus, an Antifan could claim, hey, it was not stupidity, but rather a reflex to a recognized thought process; a form of projection; it has a name; it goes back to Jung; so don’t call me stupid.
The driver’s side of the tour bus makes it clear, in giant letters, that this was the rapper’s bus. So what went on, mentally? My august journal, “Psychology Today,” to the rescue: This was “guilt by association.” The despised party is perceived to have a connection, a commonality - - however tenuous and dubious - - with an innocent party. The commonality is deemed to suffice to attach blame. An example given in Psychology Today is finding linkages, during the McCarthy persecutions…such as having common friends. Here, the rapper got linked-up due to common names, ICE. Thus, an Antifan could claim, hey, it was not stupidity, but rather a reflex to a recognized thought process; a form of projection; it has a name; it goes back to Jung; so don’t call me stupid.
I didn't want the post to get too awfully long, so I left out that, yes, Ice Cube's, crowd, though they are not really antifa supporters, would be up for ready-made broken glass next time to make an easy entry to steal sneakers and bling. Additionally, out of blind stupidity, his crowd would generally be on the side of the anti-ICE people. Again, that's why I'm not too bent out of shape about this one - a WIN/WIN, as far as I'm concerned.
With some wise exceptions, the black people will not connect immigration invasion insanity with any problems for the lives of their own people. That is, with the exception if any of their free shit is being pilfered to give to the "newcomers".