Posted On: Wednesday - October 1st 2025 5:45PM MST
In Topics: Humor Trump Media Stupidity Bread and Circuses
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President Trump has been on a roll! Maybe it's just that Peak Stupidity has been on a roll enjoying some of the hilarity out of this President. See, this is good hilarity, not bad hilarity. As much as I'd rather see a capable strategic unemotional thinker like Ron DeSantis or Ron Paul as President during these times, Donald Trump's Reality-TV star background really comes in handy at times. He truly knows how to use the Regime Media, any media, to his advantage.
It might be accidental, it might be smart calculated moves, or, most likely, it's pure instinct that Trump has elaborated the MAGA stance on the Feral Gov't shutdown based on drawing the line at taxpayer funding for healthcare for illegal aliens or BS refugees* in his own way.
The deep-fake AI video** of ctrl-left D-hack Charles Schumer and this Hakeem guy stating the pretty-close-to-actual real reason they want to support illegal aliens has obviously been widely viewed. (I mean, since even I saw it.)
What happened next? What happened next is what Trump wanted to happen next and PLANNED to have happen next, the ctrl-left went ape-shit about the political incorrectness of it all, especially the sombrero, on top of Hakeem Jeffries head. He's a black guy. He's therefore urban, but the Urban Sombrero hasn't been in fashion since forever... in reality.
ZeroHedge has an article - Democrats Get Frantic Over Trump's "Racist" Mexican Bandito Meme*** - with a sequence of videos that lay out this story of Trump's Reality-TV savviness.
Here's the original. I'm not too keen on the whole "we're getting all the diversity's votes" implication, but that's not the main point. It'a about the ctrl-left support for the PRP with Americans being made to PAY FOR IT! It's also about making fun. Ridiculing the enemy is important.
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There was a little backlash from one Congressenora Teresa Fernandez of New Mexico, excuse me, Teresa Isabel Leger Fernรกndez to be exact (that long name would likely have been pretty sexy to hear out of her 50 years ago - not anymore). There was a glitch in her response, though. When she got to bitching about that sombrero, she said "sombrero" in such a thick, angry annoying, South-'o-the-Border accent that I didn't even know what she said at first. This is really a turn-off for me, and I doubt I'm the only American that would be the case for. Therefore, she made the whole thing worse. See?:
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That's great, if you're President Trump. Now, you get to make another response - hey TV is still more fun than, like, listening to, uggghhh, those advisors with all the plans and all the damn numbers... boooorning, and... it's who he is.
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What'd Juakeem say, "a bigger tree will get you nowhere?" To riff off of this UR comment by Mr. Hail****, a bigger tree will get you more nuts - that's where we are today.
Hey, isn't that Mariachi music that Frito Bandito theme? I really hope Leticia James doesn't bring up a copyright suit on behalf of Mr. Bandito. He's got enough on his plate... well, both of them.
The guy fights. I know, this is not as head of a battalion busting antifa heads in downtown Chicago. He's not launching a phone barrage with threats to every Congressman and Senator on the fence about passing a big deportation and Bug-out-Baby elimination bill. It's silly stuff on the internet. Yet, this DOES matter. There's a real issue behind it, he's gotten that issue in front of the whole country, and he is standing firm against the virtue-signaling backlash. The battle of words still matters, and Trump doesn't back down and pushes even harder. You gotta' LUV that sombrero and the Mariachi music! I'm grinning as I write.
Oh, and about those sombreros, I'm really thinking of getting one. Red MAGA hats are admittedly more wearable, and the high summer sun is gone. It's hard to wear a sombrero on an airliner. Still, like one of my favorite novelists, Lionel Shriver*****, I'm thinking of getting a sombrero for similar reasons. Could this be a great new trend? (Yahoo news - Trending: Sombreros) I guess I'll have to get one online, because the internet has pulled up no haberdasheries for my entire zip code. You think the internet is useful, then....
* I've got a great story to tell here from my own family, but I first want to make sure it doesn't become any kind of news story. I'm holding off for a week due to worries about doxibility.
** ... really, not that awfully deep, when the sombrero doesn't turn with that Hakeem dude's head. Do better next time.
*** Criminy! Now, they've got that Frito Bandito song in my head. It's REALLY politically incorrect, plus it's making me hungry! Aye, aye, aye,, aye...
**** Who got it off the old iSteve commenter Reg Caesar.
***** Check out the books topic key for a number of reviews of her novels.
Comments:
Mr. Anon
Friday - October 3rd 2025 10:58AM MST
PS
"WTH is that?? He's been doing that, such as with Jeff Sessions last uncheatable term. I told my wife that this was that Reality-TV mode. You put your feud with your underling out there to be part of the show. Any normal executive would talk to Blondie in private, tell her what she's got to do if she doesn't want to "resign to spend more time with the family." It went on for a couple of years with "Sleepy Jeff". That stuff is what I really hate. (He also was very vindictive wrt Mr. Sessions later on.)"
The way that Trump treated Sessions was shameful. Trump got his first serious support and endorsement from Sessions in 2015, when everyone else treated him as a clown (which, to be fair, he is). Sessions is an honest and principled man, one of the very few in the Senate, who actually cared about the well being of his constituents. He had been sounding the alarm on uncontrolled immigration for a long time.
So what is the effect of treating your best, most principled administration appointees like dirt? You get an administration filled with unprincipled connivers like Trump got in his first term or one filled with toadies and suck-ups like he has now (and I'd wager a lot of them are unprincipled connivers too).
For the time being, Trump seems to be getting his way, and some of that way (though certainly not all of it!) is my way too. But I saw the first movie in this series, and sequels usually don't end up better.
"WTH is that?? He's been doing that, such as with Jeff Sessions last uncheatable term. I told my wife that this was that Reality-TV mode. You put your feud with your underling out there to be part of the show. Any normal executive would talk to Blondie in private, tell her what she's got to do if she doesn't want to "resign to spend more time with the family." It went on for a couple of years with "Sleepy Jeff". That stuff is what I really hate. (He also was very vindictive wrt Mr. Sessions later on.)"
The way that Trump treated Sessions was shameful. Trump got his first serious support and endorsement from Sessions in 2015, when everyone else treated him as a clown (which, to be fair, he is). Sessions is an honest and principled man, one of the very few in the Senate, who actually cared about the well being of his constituents. He had been sounding the alarm on uncontrolled immigration for a long time.
So what is the effect of treating your best, most principled administration appointees like dirt? You get an administration filled with unprincipled connivers like Trump got in his first term or one filled with toadies and suck-ups like he has now (and I'd wager a lot of them are unprincipled connivers too).
For the time being, Trump seems to be getting his way, and some of that way (though certainly not all of it!) is my way too. But I saw the first movie in this series, and sequels usually don't end up better.
M
Friday - October 3rd 2025 3:51AM MST
PS
"As much as I'd rather see a capable strategic unemotional thinker like Ron DeSantis or Ron Paul as President during these times"
The problem with managerial politicians is that we've had these for at least half a century now and they've gotten us in the mess we're in.
People need to see this stuff, so they actually pay attention to the politics.
This is a particular problem with conservatives, since they have jobs, and so can't be full time activist types. This leaves those activist types to have outsized influence on the elected politicians. It also allows the activists to creep into the agencies.
Yeah, it's unpleasant to have to pay this much attention. But it's like machinery maintenance. If you don't pay enough attention to it, it stops running. We haven't paid nearly enough attention to it, and we are paying the price.
There is the potential problem that drama will not be followed up by effective action. But that requires *more* attention, not less.
"As much as I'd rather see a capable strategic unemotional thinker like Ron DeSantis or Ron Paul as President during these times"
The problem with managerial politicians is that we've had these for at least half a century now and they've gotten us in the mess we're in.
People need to see this stuff, so they actually pay attention to the politics.
This is a particular problem with conservatives, since they have jobs, and so can't be full time activist types. This leaves those activist types to have outsized influence on the elected politicians. It also allows the activists to creep into the agencies.
Yeah, it's unpleasant to have to pay this much attention. But it's like machinery maintenance. If you don't pay enough attention to it, it stops running. We haven't paid nearly enough attention to it, and we are paying the price.
There is the potential problem that drama will not be followed up by effective action. But that requires *more* attention, not less.
Moderator
Thursday - October 2nd 2025 8:15PM MST
PS: I missed a chance to get a grenade launcher recently. It was sold along with an AR and a few other things, but I thought the guy was asking too much. He came down in price and sold it to someone else.
Mr. Hail, I know your feelings re President Trump. About this: " I think Trump himself is quite hopelessly addicted to drama, and only vaguely cares about follow-through. Trump is the jester of his own court!" Yeah, my wife brought up Pam Blondie - that she was not seriously going after people. I agreed, and then she told me that Trump had written posts of some sort to say she's not getting the job done or something.
WTH is that?? He's been doing that, such as with Jeff Sessions last uncheatable term. I told my wife that this was that Reality-TV mode. You put your feud with your underling out there to be part of the show. Any normal executive would talk to Blondie in private, tell her what she's got to do if she doesn't want to "resign to spend more time with the family." It went on for a couple of years with "Sleepy Jeff". That stuff is what I really hate. (He also was very vindictive wrt Mr. Sessions later on.)
There are people working for Trump that DO take the actual job seriously. Maybe Trump really thinks the entertainment is more important. However, something like this Sombrero thing - it did the trick in bringing up the (alleged, I gotta add) WHY of the shutdown. "See, the D's want you to continue to pay for healthcare for illegals and refugees. That's why you can't buy stamps today, or visit Yosemite, or whatever. As soon as they agree we won't support illegals, then the Government will be back up. It's up to THEM."
I think he's handling the shutdown better than any other President I've seen do it, including himself in '18. If you don't make it ABOUT something, then everyone just blames you for being a meanie and shutting off their free stuff.
Mr. Hail, I know your feelings re President Trump. About this: " I think Trump himself is quite hopelessly addicted to drama, and only vaguely cares about follow-through. Trump is the jester of his own court!" Yeah, my wife brought up Pam Blondie - that she was not seriously going after people. I agreed, and then she told me that Trump had written posts of some sort to say she's not getting the job done or something.
WTH is that?? He's been doing that, such as with Jeff Sessions last uncheatable term. I told my wife that this was that Reality-TV mode. You put your feud with your underling out there to be part of the show. Any normal executive would talk to Blondie in private, tell her what she's got to do if she doesn't want to "resign to spend more time with the family." It went on for a couple of years with "Sleepy Jeff". That stuff is what I really hate. (He also was very vindictive wrt Mr. Sessions later on.)
There are people working for Trump that DO take the actual job seriously. Maybe Trump really thinks the entertainment is more important. However, something like this Sombrero thing - it did the trick in bringing up the (alleged, I gotta add) WHY of the shutdown. "See, the D's want you to continue to pay for healthcare for illegals and refugees. That's why you can't buy stamps today, or visit Yosemite, or whatever. As soon as they agree we won't support illegals, then the Government will be back up. It's up to THEM."
I think he's handling the shutdown better than any other President I've seen do it, including himself in '18. If you don't make it ABOUT something, then everyone just blames you for being a meanie and shutting off their free stuff.
Moderator
Thursday - October 2nd 2025 8:04PM MST
PS: " Is that a sombrero or a sombrrrerrro???"
I cannot do that r-rrrrolling thing, Possumman. Of course Congressputa (sorry!) Fernandez CAN talk like that, but she doesn't have to. That was for her base, but ... not helpful!
I cannot do that r-rrrrolling thing, Possumman. Of course Congressputa (sorry!) Fernandez CAN talk like that, but she doesn't have to. That was for her base, but ... not helpful!
Hail
Thursday - October 2nd 2025 7:37PM MST
PS
Note, on the Census Bureau daily population estimates, I should've known they were just running an interpolation from earlier estimates:
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About the Population Clock and Population Estimates
"(...) At the end of each year, a revised series of population estimates from the census date forward is used to update the short-term projections for the population clock. Once the updated series of monthly projections is completed, the daily population clock values are derived by interpolation. Within each calendar month, the daily numerical population change is assumed to be constant, subject to negligible differences caused by rounding."
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We have to wait to 2026 to get fresh estimates for total population in 2025.
It doesn't seem likely it'll have down by 4 million. Not on current trends and policies. That (-4 million) is the kind of net-decreased that would be needed in 2025, and every other year to 2040, to shore up ethnopolitical population-stability. And the first x millions would be so easy, low-hanging fruit, illegals with the shallowest of roots possible (the Biden Illegal-Crossers).
Note, on the Census Bureau daily population estimates, I should've known they were just running an interpolation from earlier estimates:
_________
About the Population Clock and Population Estimates
"(...) At the end of each year, a revised series of population estimates from the census date forward is used to update the short-term projections for the population clock. Once the updated series of monthly projections is completed, the daily population clock values are derived by interpolation. Within each calendar month, the daily numerical population change is assumed to be constant, subject to negligible differences caused by rounding."
_________
We have to wait to 2026 to get fresh estimates for total population in 2025.
It doesn't seem likely it'll have down by 4 million. Not on current trends and policies. That (-4 million) is the kind of net-decreased that would be needed in 2025, and every other year to 2040, to shore up ethnopolitical population-stability. And the first x millions would be so easy, low-hanging fruit, illegals with the shallowest of roots possible (the Biden Illegal-Crossers).
Hail
Thursday - October 2nd 2025 7:25PM MST
PS
"The guy fights."
"It's silly stuff on the internet. Yet, this DOES matter."
The problem with the Trump people is not that they lack an apparent fighting spirit, or that they lack Internet "memes" or any other sort of big-talk sensationalism. They have that stuff in abundance.
The problem is, it really tends to be too much of their focus, as if the fight IS the goal. I think Trump himself is quite hopelessly addicted to drama, and only vaguely cares about follow-through. Trump is the jester of his own court!
While it's exciting and entertaining, I find myself having to check the initial reaction and ask hard questions: Is this really useful, or is it just entertaining?
The sensationalism, big-talk, boasting, trolling, self-promotionalism, reality-tv politics, memes, squabbles, vendettas, drama/theatrics, and extra-constitutional overreach (seizing unprecedented-in-peacetime executive-branch power) -- these things are not ALL they have. We can all agree they are doing some good things.
What worries me is they are MORE INTERESTED in those things than in actually governing, than in coldly and rationally pursuing policies.
In other words, the old label "reality-tv presidency" is too close to reality for comfort. There are many examples, every week. The AI-video mocking Schumer and the other guy is one of these examples. Governing is not the same as producing a reality-show (Trump's 12-year career, 2003-2015).
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I posted at the Steve Sailer Substack a few days ago that the USA should have, as its goal, something like a net-population reduction per year, every year, a number into the millions. Amounting to a large-scale ethnocultural-demographic stabilization program.
(Of the kind almost any other country would have, probably without fanfare but also without apology; such as Singapore's very-deliberate policy to maintain a supermajority ethnic-Chinese citizenry despite huge fluxes of people through their wealthy city-state). Here:
https://www.stevesailer.net/p/should-trump-sell-camp-pendleton/comment/161574159
This is the (kind of) way I want to judge Trump-II:
According to the Census Bureau
https://www.census.gov/popclock/
The USA on January 19, 2025, had:
-- 341,218,756 residents.
The USA on October 2, 2025, has:
-- 342,590,953 residents.
WHY IS THE OCTOBER NUMBER *HIGHER*?
Taking those numbers as absolute truth (which can be debatable), Trump-II is on track for a +7,700,000 in total population in the second four-year Trump term, which is less than happened under Biden, but hardly some positive-good on its own right.
Remember that the number of Whites, given sub-replacement birth-rates for so many decades now, is well into the period of absolute contraction. It would be quite an irony if White-minority status becomes a numerical reality under Trump-II, which, at this rate, it might (depending on how you count Whites).
"The guy fights."
"It's silly stuff on the internet. Yet, this DOES matter."
The problem with the Trump people is not that they lack an apparent fighting spirit, or that they lack Internet "memes" or any other sort of big-talk sensationalism. They have that stuff in abundance.
The problem is, it really tends to be too much of their focus, as if the fight IS the goal. I think Trump himself is quite hopelessly addicted to drama, and only vaguely cares about follow-through. Trump is the jester of his own court!
While it's exciting and entertaining, I find myself having to check the initial reaction and ask hard questions: Is this really useful, or is it just entertaining?
The sensationalism, big-talk, boasting, trolling, self-promotionalism, reality-tv politics, memes, squabbles, vendettas, drama/theatrics, and extra-constitutional overreach (seizing unprecedented-in-peacetime executive-branch power) -- these things are not ALL they have. We can all agree they are doing some good things.
What worries me is they are MORE INTERESTED in those things than in actually governing, than in coldly and rationally pursuing policies.
In other words, the old label "reality-tv presidency" is too close to reality for comfort. There are many examples, every week. The AI-video mocking Schumer and the other guy is one of these examples. Governing is not the same as producing a reality-show (Trump's 12-year career, 2003-2015).
________
I posted at the Steve Sailer Substack a few days ago that the USA should have, as its goal, something like a net-population reduction per year, every year, a number into the millions. Amounting to a large-scale ethnocultural-demographic stabilization program.
(Of the kind almost any other country would have, probably without fanfare but also without apology; such as Singapore's very-deliberate policy to maintain a supermajority ethnic-Chinese citizenry despite huge fluxes of people through their wealthy city-state). Here:
https://www.stevesailer.net/p/should-trump-sell-camp-pendleton/comment/161574159
This is the (kind of) way I want to judge Trump-II:
According to the Census Bureau
https://www.census.gov/popclock/
The USA on January 19, 2025, had:
-- 341,218,756 residents.
The USA on October 2, 2025, has:
-- 342,590,953 residents.
WHY IS THE OCTOBER NUMBER *HIGHER*?
Taking those numbers as absolute truth (which can be debatable), Trump-II is on track for a +7,700,000 in total population in the second four-year Trump term, which is less than happened under Biden, but hardly some positive-good on its own right.
Remember that the number of Whites, given sub-replacement birth-rates for so many decades now, is well into the period of absolute contraction. It would be quite an irony if White-minority status becomes a numerical reality under Trump-II, which, at this rate, it might (depending on how you count Whites).
Possumman
Thursday - October 2nd 2025 4:45PM MST
PS. Is that a sombrero or a sombrrrerrro???
Adam Smith
Thursday - October 2nd 2025 3:52PM MST
PS: Good evening, Mr. Alarmist!
Thank you for the practical advice. With a kill radius of ~16ft it sounds like the M406 HE would be an appropriate choice...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAAiFLr4y6w
Happy Thursday! โฎ๏ธ
Thank you for the practical advice. With a kill radius of ~16ft it sounds like the M406 HE would be an appropriate choice...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAAiFLr4y6w
Happy Thursday! โฎ๏ธ
The Alarmist
Thursday - October 2nd 2025 1:42PM MST
PS
Good Afternoon, Mr. Smithโฆ He should have known better than to let that many get that close. A M203 grenade launcher with a M406 HE round at at least 150 meters out would have been a better tool for the job.
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Good Afternoon, Mr. Smithโฆ He should have known better than to let that many get that close. A M203 grenade launcher with a M406 HE round at at least 150 meters out would have been a better tool for the job.
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Adam Smith
Thursday - October 2nd 2025 11:02AM MST
PS: Good afternoon, everyone!
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https://i.ibb.co/rGRBLRKm/Save-the-West-Simulator.jpg
Meanwhile, in other news...
After running out of hateful numbers ADL scraps hate database...
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/01/anti-defamation-league-removes-extremism-research
https://i.ibb.co/fznqB8tG/Penny-Glued-to-Road.jpg
Cheers to another wonderful day/evening! โฎ๏ธ
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https://i.ibb.co/rGRBLRKm/Save-the-West-Simulator.jpg
Meanwhile, in other news...
After running out of hateful numbers ADL scraps hate database...
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/01/anti-defamation-league-removes-extremism-research
https://i.ibb.co/fznqB8tG/Penny-Glued-to-Road.jpg
Cheers to another wonderful day/evening! โฎ๏ธ
The Alarmist
Thursday - October 2nd 2025 7:06AM MST
PS
You donโt have to shoot them if you sink the damned boats well offshore.
In a saner age, invaders would be repelled. We have too much estrogen in our halls of power, and its not just in the gals.
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You donโt have to shoot them if you sink the damned boats well offshore.
In a saner age, invaders would be repelled. We have too much estrogen in our halls of power, and its not just in the gals.
โฏ๏ธ
Moderator
Thursday - October 2nd 2025 5:31AM MST
PS: "Overwhelmed ERs and massive use of โprovidersโ are on the way." Some of that has been happening anyway, SafeNow. Obviously, the loss of taxpayer money will make it worse as it's just cost-shifting. At least the pressure to send these people home will be higher, coming from sorta private organizations. To me, cutting off obvious incentives to stay is always a good thing.
SafeNow
Wednesday - October 1st 2025 7:38PM MST
PS
William Buckley, in his review of Camp of the Saints, asked โWill you shoot them? Will you starve them?โ I fear this same rhetorical question applies to medical mortality and morbidity. Buckley added a comment about the power of a single heartstrings-tugging photo - - and that was BEFORE the advent of the internet. This wonโt be allowed to happen. Not for long, anyway. Overwhelmed ERs and massive use of โprovidersโ are on the way.
William Buckley, in his review of Camp of the Saints, asked โWill you shoot them? Will you starve them?โ I fear this same rhetorical question applies to medical mortality and morbidity. Buckley added a comment about the power of a single heartstrings-tugging photo - - and that was BEFORE the advent of the internet. This wonโt be allowed to happen. Not for long, anyway. Overwhelmed ERs and massive use of โprovidersโ are on the way.
I would add: That I agree with everything that commenter "Hail" said (as usual).