Under the influence
Posted On: Tuesday - September 22nd 2026 6:17PM MST
In Topics: TV, aka Gov't Media Media Stupidity
We've got no new news here. It's just some memories and a rant. I was thinking of family political leanings over the years and the influence or lack thereof, of TV.
I feel very blessed that my Dad was an arch Conservative from at least before I was born. Who knows how this blog would read otherwise?!
The story is that during the 1964 Goldwater v Johnson Presidential election my Dad did not give up hope until the very end of the election returns. It didn't look good. My Mom said he kept on saying "Wait till they get west of the Mississippi!" (This was before you had to wait for next week or Christmas time.)
My Mom was most definitely not conservative other than in the social sense, which was still a pretty good thing. However, she was pretty mum about it her leftist leanings, as Dad led, dominated, and ended any and all political discussions. He was gung-ho enough that he even promised gifts for us kids if the R guy won the election. It was probably stuff that I wish I still had today to sell on ebay. Dad was obviously very influencial.
My wife was a different story. "Women should stay out of politics" she told me, until about 10 years back. Then, she asked me to help her register to vote. We both HATE HATE HATE paperwork and bureaucracy, so that's something we got* ... ;-} "OK, I will if you promise to vote for Trump." "Well, I don't know, maybe I ..." No. That wasn't good enough. I didn't help, so she wasn't registered. 8 years later she was giving money to the Trump campaign, at one point to the tune of $47** a day! (Yes, that was a mistake and yet another problem with autopay, and she got it straightened out prontomundo.)
How'd she come around? It wasn't due to any lecturing or direct influencing by me, as she didn't want to hear it. It probably came from my talking to our son about things over the years, back when he was keen on listening to everything. (They unfortunately become teenagers for a while.) Things must have sunk in slowly. Alas, no "You were right"s are ever forthcoming including even after her bout with the Covid... PanicFest.
Back to that critical and tragic election of 1964, I think back, and I remember the family could not have had a TV then. That must have been on radio or at some friends' house. TV usage was very minimal in our household, until those teenage years of ours. Long afterwards, I realized that my Dad would rather have us at home rather than raising hell and getting in trouble with certain friends. That was a wise move there, but the TV was definitely not on during the daytime except for certain sports events.
Because it's been 27 years since I've been hooked up to TV, it's weird for me to see homes in which the TV is on, in the evening, especially in the daytime other than Superbowl Sunday, and, most weirdly, day and night. What do they have on all day? It's CNN or Fox news, I gather. The stories drag on for weeks or months, always with a few "new developments".
Fox is the "Conservative" channel, and CNN is the lefty channel, something for everyone.... yeah...right. Were I to be forced to watch, I'd choose Fox, but, either way, having that idiot plate blaring out for hours cannot be anything but a bad thing. How can one help but be brainwashed and under the influence after years of this?
Now the young people don't have the idiot plate on much, at least with input from the old network signals. The new way is, they watch and listen to people whose purpose in life is to be an influencer. I don't like this way very much either. Influence me, I dare you. Change my mind.
PS: The image above of "snow", video static, if from an old post here, TV force-feeding in the lobby. There's been some good news on the force-feeding since then. Airport terminals finally have gotten rid of them, from what I've seen. They need all the monitor space for showing connections (at the hub) or current seating zone or status of stand-by passengers. No more CNN all over the place with plug-ins too high to reach. Yea!
* Old musical reference there. Chime in if you caught it.
** That was 47 for Trump-47.
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Move Along - There's Nothing to Learn Here
Posted On: Saturday - September 19th 2026 12:57PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Immigration Stupidity ctrl-left
From Moslem bashing week, Peak Stupidity smoothly segued into "muh feelings" week for the previous post and this one. This story here is sad, no matter what we think of its protagonist. The Gateway Pundit reports Lifelong Democrat Tells Congress She Is ‘Ashamed’ of Her Party After Illegal Alien Truck Driver Licensed in Gavin Newsom’s California Killed Her Newlywed Son and Bride.
You may have read of this one of many cases of hazardous driving by immigrant truck drivers, often given, and I mean GIVEN, Commercial Driver's Licenses from the State of California. Around Thanksgiving of last year,
This happened at night. In this day and age, it IS possible to figure out from GPS devices (with timestamps recorded to go along with position) how long the truck had been there, but I haven't learned this information. If gear jammer Kumar had not just made the stupid move when the car came along, then, well, a professional trucker anyway, would have put on all his lights possible and could have set up some flares even. Alas, even the American drivers are not nearly as professional as when OTR trucking was closer to a profession in the country.* Foreigners given out CDLs like candy are even more dangerous.
Our picture shows the Mother of the couple killed, her just 2-weeks-prior married son William and his bride Jennifer, testifying before Congress. Dennis Carter is the Dad, and I have no idea why he wasn't mentioned or asked to testify.
Elizabeth Carter, a self-described lifelong Democrat, testified before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement on Tuesday that she is “ashamed” of what Democrats have done on immigration after an illegal alien semi-truck driver wiped out her son, his new wife, and even the family cat on a dark Oregon highway.She's at this point very in favor of deporting millions of illegal aliens. Wait, isn't that a Trump policy?
“We allowed 10 million people in under Biden. How is there a different suggestion as to how to process them, other than the same way they came into the country en masse, leaving?” she said.She's a “self-described lifelong Democrat“ AND from western Oregon (Springfield), so there's no doubt that she was all FOR the poor poor "migrants" getting to stay in America for our opportunities and shit... right up until the time she got that phone call late at night.
There's that hard-to-spell German word, but I don't feel that right now. I am sorry for this woman's loss. I don't think that this one sad lady has learned something here the hardest way I can imagine will change anything, Congressional testimony before the House Judiciary Subcommittee or not. Those who run the Population Replacement Programme don't have anything to learn from poor Elizabeth Carter. They don't need to learn a thing, period - the accident that night on the US-20 is immaterial to their plans.
Now-finally-detained Kumar came into the US at Lukeville, Arizona, and was released by Brandon's and Mayorkas' peaople into the country, but I must add here that this sad story should not be yet another warning about illegal aliens. It makes no difference if these cheap labor imports come to and/or are in (two different possibilities) America legally or not. This quest for cheap labor results in acute tragedy of this type, but there's the long term tragedy of the cheapening of a once decent and pride worthy trucking lifestyle that could support American families. But, yeah, be careful out there among these clueless and dangerous semi drivers.
PS: Hey, wait, the US-20 you say, east of Brothers? The town names on the road and the home town of the young man killed (Dechutes) ring a bell from times long past. I've been everywhere in this here land and traveled that stretch of road westbound on one of my long cross-country trips. This was back when I loved driving.
At Bend, I got on the US-97 north, then on the US-26 west at Madras, then up, up, up, and after picking up some hitchhiking hippie at Government Camp who broke out a joint in the car, then down, down, down, into Portland. I remember picking up some huge pine cones in the Cascade mountains on a stop - can't remember the nearby town anymore...
* That's another post I've been meaning to write.
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Peak Offensiveness and HITKIST
Posted On: Friday - September 18th 2026 11:44AM MST
In Topics: Political Correctness Race/Genetics Bible/Religion
Peak Stupidity has been on something of an Islam kick lately, "kick", as in our kicking the Moslems in the ass verbally "on these pages". It's not that we are particularly against the Moslems vs any other group that we have a problem with - we are nothing if not an Equal Opportunity Offender. (Oooops, yeah, that was another one!)
A number of the points we made, such as in The Whole Truth (and, see follow up post) could be made for any other large conglomerations of non-White and/or non-American people that are in increasing existence in this multicultural clown show of a society. It's very obvious that assimilation doesn't work for these large numbers. Even a number like "only 1/2% of the country" is close to 2 million people - have you BEEN to Dearbornistan or "the ghetto", to take this in another direction? We expressed our thoughts nearly 9 years ago: Immigration invasion, assimilation, and refugees.
Going in that same "other direction", to the problem of black dysfunction, I will bring up the SBPDL (or Stuff Black People Don't Like) blog of one Paul Kersey*, hosted on The Unz Review. Lately he's shifted to more podcasting (with 2 other guys) and less writing.
Going back well over a decade, the name of Mr. Kersey's blog was originally a parody of the Stuff White People Like website. That was itself was** a humorous parody site I may have perused a time or two. I can think of a dozen things, but bicycle paths, health food store, and recycling surely had to be some of these things. Paul Kersey got more serious with his blog, and he has been bravely describing and trying to explain black violence, dysfunction, and destruction for a decade at least.
One of Mr. Kersey's terms in use for years had the initialism IKAGO. That stands for I Know A Good One. It's not like there are no decent black people in America. There are many. It's just that there are too many who are not, way too many to just ignore the problem with "them". So, yes, we all likely know a decent black person, or many, but that doesn't mean "See, there's this great guy I know, so we shouldn't talk about any of this."
Peak Stupidity thinks it's really another factor that's at work in inhibiting serious discussion. HITKIST is Hate If They Knew I Said That. I really could use some help because I don't like the "They" that could be taken as a modern stupidly used pronoun. "H" for "He" would be better, but then the acronym would suck. We'll consider this is in reference to more than one friend then. No doubt, being afraid to be penalized for Political Incorrectness does cause our reluctance to talk about certain behavior. However, even if we get beyond that, I believe a bigger one is we'd just really hate for good friends of ours to know we said that.
I have had one good black friend, but I'll go back to Islam here and mention another friend also from long ago. His family was from Pakistan, I was told, based on his name, but he'd shortened his first name to one easy for us to pronounce. That itself shows a willingness to fit in, rather than the modern way of daring us to say it wrong, or, worse, say "Can't you shorten that up or something? This is ridiculous!" As best as I can remember, this guy did come from Dearborn even, but he would have grown up in a time - last century - when his family might have made an effort to fit into America.
This Moslem friend was in a month and a half long training class with me and a dozen others. It was not a fun time for any of us, as the training was difficult, and we weren't getting paid a cent the whole time. People were living off of credit cards, and my friend had paid his dues in this field like the rest of us. Now, I don't recall having made any Moslem jokes, but if I had, I couldn't see this guy getting any more offended than we were all already offended, offended by getting paid nothing, with no housing provided, so that we could start off making $20,000 a year. (Yes, it WAS in this century too, but early on.)
He was a good guy. I don't refer to my old friend in these posts about Islam. I would hate it if he knew I said some of that. Let me just note that, and we'll press on.
* We've said this before, but, again, "Paul Kersey" is a pen name taken from the main character (played by Charles Bronson) in the 1970s Death Wish movies.
** It's still online, but the most "recent" post is from '09.
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Monty Pythonesque Rules for Radicals
Posted On: Thursday - September 17th 2026 5:21PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Anarcho-tyranny
I don't have the original article from which came this image. I remember that it's from Great Britain. At first glance, I would suppose it shows a corporate sponsored prize being awarded to the winner of some sort of Ninja warrior match, best 2 out of 3, no holds barred. That's nice.
Oh, wait, here's another image I'd saved at the same time:
So, he.... errr she, as far as we can tell, is not a Ninja Warrior at all but instead a proper British citizen. I can tell she's British because the plaque she's being given has that cute misspelling of "honor". I can imagine right now Khadija Patel there speaking of being honoured in a posh British accent. Actually, a Cockney accent would be even more amusing. "The rine in spine sties minely in the pline." By Mohammed, I don't think she's got it!
Now under that black tent may very well lie the body of a Sidney Sweeney. You just don't know...Ackshully, no, I CAN'T imagine that's even a woman at all, when I look at the eyes.
Yet, there's that English gentleman, playing along for the sake of his job that yes, this is the one of the Citizens of the Year, "dedicated to making a successful difference..." it says on the plague. It's possible the gentleman really believes that "British" is just a word on a passport, and, what, with due rule-of-law and all, Khadija Patel and her
Just as in America, the British people never asked for this. Over the last couple of years, some few brave lads have had enough and said "Right, then!", and have taken it to the streets. (Usually it's been sparked by some beheading, normal slaying, or other not so prim and proper criminal activity, but they shouldn't need that excuse.) During some of that protest action in the town of Portsmouth*, there was a story of the gentleman below.
That's no lady for sure - he's a British man involved in the protests against the Population Replacement Programme. Because of the Anarcho-Tyranny, in which the police will levy heavy charges on British
4) Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.It's mostly (4) being put to use.
5) Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. There is no defense. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage.
I mean, the man fancies himself a woman, and who are you, Ms. Bobby, to question that? Then, along with identifying as a woman, she is quite enamored with Islam, and you surely wouldn't tell a Moslem woman ANYTHING, especially something like "Take that stupid get-up off - I'm serious!"
That seemed to have worked. Woke lady Bobby was in caught in between a Politically Incorrect rock and a Politically Incorrect hard place. That worked for that time being, but I read that the man was arrested later. Alinsky's Rules might only work against a system that plays by a set of rules itself. The UK Regime does whatever it wants, especially in the cause of stopping the British people from any effort to block the Population Replacement Programme. Rules for thee, no rules for me = Anarcho-Tyranny.
Yes, the scene above was very Alinskyesque, but it's also quite Pythonesque too, wouldn't you say?
* I've been through Portsmouth, New Hampshire, but this is the original Portsmouth, Hampshire.
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Peak Bestiality at the FBI
Posted On: Wednesday - September 16th 2026 5:49PM MST
In Topics: General Stupidity Humor US Police State US Feral Government
Kash Patel Defends New FBI Hiring Policy On Bestiality. Does this level of stupidity even require further commentary?
I can't help it, so let me give it a go and then turn it over to a few of the best ZeroHedge commenters on the planet. I've got to clear this up: Director Patel's argument is not about FBI applicants who might have voluntarily committed bestiality prior to their interview for employment at, just, "The Bureau", the former home of the famed Elliot Ness who took on The Mob. These applicants have always been the Untouchables.
No, the proposed relaxation of hiring standards is only with regard to those applicants who had been FORCED into bestiality... "I don't recall if it was a Brown Bear or a Grizzly, but he got behind me and started whispering sweet nothings ..." and haven't yet learned to lie about it on job applications. The HR people must be still ultra-conservative and behind the times on the new trends. Some of the Moslem applicants are still forced to lie about the goats, which works, because the goats are not there to defend their honor, and, well, lying IS part of the job description of an FBI agent anyway, after all.
It's just... are there not more important issues to be brought before the US Congress? ZeroHedge commenters comment:
Agarn [he's a Premium ZH member]:
Kennedy said to Patel. “We’re having a tough time attracting agents, good quality agents we all can trust....Why would you even get into bestiality?” he asked.Patel, "Don't knock it until you try it."
ObamaBidensucks:
I'm sure a lot of great current Fbi talent has f.ucked animals from A to Z, Crayfish, Zebra's you name it.
Muad'Dib69:
"Applicants who have engaged in bestiality means they were victims of bestiality because they were forced to do so."
So... there are documented cases of prospective F.B.I. candidates getting forcibly sodimized by farm animals? What state did this happen in?
LastMan1964:
People who were "forced" into bestiality as victims of human trafficking and later applied for the FBI must be an awfully small subset of the human race.
MontgomeryScott:
Ask your doctor if goat-sex is right for you.
Side effects might include Waco, Ruby Ridge, Nine-One-One, USSLiberty, and Quinn Martin Productions.
Col. Braddock:Peak Bestiality or Peak Mandatory Bestiality - either way, we're very close to Peak Stupidity.
how is this even a thing? Someone got paid to come up with this ****?
I can see them now all sitting around at the morning meeting thinking about things to work on and one guys says "Ya know we havn't updated the bestiality hiring policy in a while... its probably due for a revision." and his boss "you're right get right on that and report back in a week..." WTF?
Disband the FBI now...
PS: All this time, I thought it was Beastiality, you know, as in beasts of the earth.
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U2's Bono - tell me who has won?
Posted On: Tuesday - September 15th 2026 2:22PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Music ctrl-left
Peak Stupidity features a whole bunch of music on this blog, most of it great rock songs from what now seems only an anomaly, that great 1960s through '90s era. OTOH, we've long been sick of the musicians who feel it's their job to mouth off about politics during their concerts. "Shut up, and sing!" is the standard reaction, one I might have come to myself had I the opportunity.
Great Irish rock band U2's lead singer John O'Bonohan, no, actually Paul David Hewson (however you get "Bono" out of that!), aka, Bono, is a musician we called out at the beginning of this blog. The post, from nearly 10 years back(!), was Bono, you'd be serving up
Bono is a great rock singer, yet U2 would have been nothing without the great guitar sound of The Edge, also not his birth name. He's David Howell
Now, let’s bring up this Bono again a decade later. I want to thank Unz Review commenter MEH for posting a version of U2's Gloria from their June '83 show in the scenic amphitheater at Red Rocks, Colorado. That was in response to a memory of mine of Bono yelling "This is Red Rocks! It rocks!" I’d forgotten how great that live album, Under a Blood Red Sky, was. I had it on cassette for years. That got me started...
Bono has been political for nearly the whole time I’ve known of U-2. Some of the band’s early songs were about Irish political causes. Sunday, Bloody Sunday was about “The Troubles”, as was Peace on Earth. Their long played hit New Year's Day*, that I'd always thought to be about some Irish thing - I mean, who really listens to lyrics? - is said to be about the anti-Communist Polish "Solidarity" movement and its leader Lech Walesa. That's pretty cool.
Then, Bono sang Pride (In the Name of Love), lyrically all bent out of shape about the death of some Communist race hustler years before. After that, U2 played in the HUGE “Live Aid” concert 41 years ago. The musicians/bands were there raising money to help out starving Ethiopians. Bono’s causes since then have been AIDS in Africa, poverty in Africa, everything about Africans and nothing more about Irishmen.
Here we must, of course, insert this standard Bono joke, not of our own making:
Bono got onto a rant about world hunger in the 2nd set between Sunday, Bloody Sunday and Where the Streets Have No Name:No, that wasn't me, but just after this time, in the late 1980s, I was on a tour of my own, of Europe. That was with a backpack and a rail and youth hostel pass. I didn't play any music on this tour besides playing someone's guitar for a bit at a pub in Ireland. During my week and a half in Ireland, U2 was to do a big concert in Cork. I hadn't the money for this, but I could see how proud the Irish people were of the famous rock band.
“The people in Ethiopia need our help! Do you know how many people are starving there every single day? It’s every couple of seconds that someone dies from starvation in Ethiopia!”
Bono starts clapping at a slow cadence. “Each time I clap my hands, someone dies in Ethiopia.”
From the audience: “Well, stop bloody clapping, mate!”
There's been so much good Irish music over the centuries, with it's being the root of American Bluegrass music, the old poetic ballads and all, and later there were Enya, Dolores Mary Eileen O'Riordan - if that ain't Irish? - of The Cranberries, and that woman they called Sinbad O'Conner. However, that stuff wasn't the same for these young people who were going to see THEIR U2. This was rock! This is Red Rocks:
Now, four decades later, Bono’s and U-2’s native land is being overrun with foreigners. The Troubles ended 3 decades ago, but they were nothing at all in comparison to today’s troubles in Ireland, the mass immigration invasion. Peak Stupidity has been pretty excited to see the young, and some old, Irish blokes in the streets** finally having had enough of the new Troubles and rioting against the replacement of the Irish people. Some of has been going on in County Cork, back where that U2 concert was held so long ago.
A mass people's movement against the Population Replacement Programme could use all the inspiration it can get, and we know that good rock music can be pretty inspiring. The sound of U2 is inspiring to me, but to what end?
You spend almost all your adult life with a huge following whom you can influence, urging them to help the Africans and other downtrodden. You write about the Mothers of the Disappeared*** poor Commies in Nicaragua and El Salvador, yet have nothing to say about the thousands of Americans disappeared into African-run dungeons in the Federal Shithole for years? You sing about "The Troubles" between Irishmen and other Irishmen that have been over with for 3 decades, yet have nothing to day about the invasion that is an ongoing existential threat of their being no Irishmen in the future?
Back in his heyday, Bono could see these shitholes around the World and harangue the audience about it but still always come back to his Emerald Irish Isle homeland. Within a few more decades, Ireland may no longer be his homeland the way things are going.
He's not dead yet. Why won’t Bono write a song or two on behalf of the Irish that have been standing up and protesting and rioting against the mass invasion of their and his land? U2 should be doing a bloody Irish Aid concert in support of his own people.
Why won’t Bono make himself useful and become relevant again?
Answer: He’s either really stupid or a coward, and it’s the latter.
PS: I'd be remiss if I didn't mention U2's great bassist Adam Clayton and drummer Larry Mullen, Jr. These 4 have played together the whole long time, though I myself last kept up through the album Achtung Baby from, OMG, 35 years ago!
* The album title Under a Blood Red Sky comes from a lyric line in Sunday, Bloody Sunday. That song is on the album, recorded live not at Red Rocks, but at the Freilichtbuhne Loreley venue in Sankt Goarshausen, Germany. That would have been in West Germany at the time, still 6 years before the Wall came down. The video above IS from Red Rocks, but it's just not the one included on this live album.
** To give equal time, we've posted videos and discussion of the same happenings in England and in Northern Ireland.
*** That is a slow ballad on the band's excellent album The Joshua Tree from 1987.
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A quarter century since the ... loss of our Republic?
Posted On: Friday - September 11th 2026 11:04AM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity US Police State History Deep State
Peak Stupidity has had our say on this 9/11 attack, disaster, whatever you wish to call it. From the date of the 20 year anniversary, you could read At Peak Stupidity club, YOU! DO! NOT! TALK! ABOUT! 9/11!. Commenters are welcome to, of course.
Our point 5 years ago was we don't have any special expertise here to be confident in debunking the official story. Regarding the other theories of what might have
I just went through the TSA line this morning. A quarter century after the fact*, rather than cutting off immigration from the Middle East and staying TH out of there militarily, the solution to make sure "it never happens again" is still the same old searching for water bottles bigger than 3 oz and checking the laptops and this or that. In the meantime, about 25 – 50 guns are found in hand luggage weekly, and I really don’t have a problem with that at all.
I have a problem with the increase in mass immigration from the Middle East SINCE 9/11/01 and pretty much anywhere. They have a Moslem Mayor in NYC now of all things, the very spot of the attack. If you had taken a survey of New Yorkers on 9/12/01 and asked them whether that'd be OK with them, they'd probably have attacked the pollster for even asking. A quarter of a century later there are different New Yorkers.
Some still photos (I suppose with the use of an auto-winder) from a different vantage point that I came upon:
The Steve Sailer termed Invade-the-World / Invite-the-World program has been going strong almost this whole time. (President Trump has ramped UP the former at the same time he has been finally shutting down the latter.) Shutting this policy madness down starting on 9/12/01 would have been an actual solution, but the Globalists running things don't want any of that. "9/11 Never forget!" is on posters often near the TSA 4th-Amendment-non-Compliant checkpoints. What happened in NYC 25 years ago has NOT been forgotten, but implementing any REAL solution, so it'll really be "Never again!" HAS been forgotten.**
Readers may not appreciate our ambivalent opinion on what happened 25 years ago today in NYC and Washington, FS. We'll go as far as to say we can easily imagine the Deep State knew something was coming and LET it happen and possibly even encouraged it. What we ARE sure of is that 9/11, just as with the Kung Flu PanicFest 18 1/2 years later, was used very well after the fact by anti-Liberty elements to further implement the US Police State. I could see it coming about 5 years earlier, but perhaps it was 9/11 that heralded the end of any semblance of that olde United States Constitutional Republic. 225 years was a pretty good run. (Some may quibble over the last 100 or so...)
The end of the Republic was not just about Motherland Security, the TSA, and airline travel. That's just the part of it I'm most familiar with day-to-day, including that one day, 9/11/01.
I was going flying myself that fine morning 25 years back from today, after a group of us at this company watched the attack on a small B&W TV in the office. I got as far as taxiing halfway to the runway…. didn’t get back up into the air for 3 days.
* Minus about a year, IIRC, as it took a while for the TSA to be ramped up.
** Steve Sailer has a post, The 9/11 Story Only I Tell, on his substack blog today with long excerpts from his only somewhat coincidentally prescient posts from less than a year earlier than 9/11. He wrote about foreign relations with a big immigration dimension and about the cowardly backing off of any profiling of potential terrorists in the 2000 Presidential election campaign, Bush v Gore. It also includes the story of that gate agent in Portland, Maine that day, who just knew the 2 guys he was ticketing were absolute "Profiles in Terrorism". But, profiling is bad, mmmkaayy...
You can probably read his full old articles that he links to, but this post from today is paywalled after a lot of the excerpting. It's very interesting reading.
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Money for nothing but the chicks ain't free
Posted On: Thursday - September 10th 2026 5:24PM MST
In Topics: Music Trump Economics US Feral Government Inflation
I don't know. On this blog, Peak Stupidity shows much appreciation for President Trump's work against the Population Replacement Programme. That makes up for about all the stupidity of his personality we've commented on over the years. This latest idea out of his mouth though, Trump Floats $5,000 "Stimmy" Checks For Every US Adult Citizen If GOP Holds Congress, is right up along the top of the graph there.
Oh, yeah, I know, "The Democrats do that too!" Yes, they do. They get the whole Black! Bloc vote, for example, due to "free shit".* Along with all the taxpayer money giveaways, we've discussed Dark Brandon's having tried to bribe college students and graduates with loan forgiveness as a recent example. Then too, Trump was President when those Kung Flu "stimulus" checks came out, stimulating the young people to get up 2 hours later to play video games or spend the day on youtube. That was "different" - we almost all died, so, yeah, a couple of thousand bucks... first, do no harm.
Should we just figure, screw the budget - if the other side plays hardball this way, who are we to worry about the silly deficits and debts and stuff? Plus let's call it a dividend, per Trump, as that sounds a lot more Republican than stimulus check.
I've been thinking about this money. If doling out $5,000 per American adult (go midterms!) is GOOD for the economy, why not make it $10,000? Actually, just, how about $25,000? In some ways, that's an even rounder number. The $5,000 will put the US Gov't only another $1.3 Trillion in the whole. $25,000 will put us $6.5 Trillion farther, so up to about $47 Trillion total in November. As with prices of goods on the shelf, just stay under the next big number and people won't notice. Trump understands this. Bondholders, on the other hand ...
It'll be great. This extra cash will enable Americans to easily pay those higher gas prices, and the higher grocery prices, and higher car insurance and higher rent and building material prices, and higher auto and auto parts prices... This is the way to fight inflation, right? Give people enough money to pay all those higher prices. It's a #WIN/WIN.
After that, we can work on fighting inflation as Trump said he's gonna do. Trump knows what he's doing here, right? His wife Melania, after all, had advertised herself on the internet from eastern Europe as an Economist. Well, sure, that's home economist, as in "homemaker"**, a little bit lost in translation, but still... Gotta say, Trump didn't get his chicks for free either, but money for nothin' should be no problem.
This isn't nearly my favorite Dire Straits song***, musically. The lyrics are really great though. Someone spent a lot of time on the video too, back in the heyday of MTV (mentioned in the song). That's (the Police's) Sting singing the intro and the high backing vocals, and he also shares the writing credit with Mark Knofler.
My favorite verse:
And he's up there, what's that? Hawaiian noises?Haha!
He's bangin' on the bongos like a chimpanzee.
That ain't workin', that's the way you do it.
Get your money for nothin', get your chicks for free
* Anyone remember the use of the term FSA, the Free Shit Army? Boy, it's been a while - I might resurrect that one here.
** Well, yeah, and she was also a Leggy Super Model. That always helps with the LIKES.
*** From their mid-1980s album Brothers in Arms, which had 3 hit songs at least.
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Justice under the Matriarchy
Posted On: Wednesday - September 9th 2026 7:23PM MST
In Topics: Female Stupidity Legal Stupidity
As a nation, we ain't livin' long like this...
It wasn't Peak Stupidity's intention to even mention the Lindsey Clancy child-killer Mom infotainment. I'm pretty sure you all could get the latest on the story elsewhere. It's a sick story. Many such cases. What I'm catching up on is what seems to be a combination of the question of sanity of the defendant and the murder trial at one time. Isn't there normally a hearing to determine if a defendant is sane enough to stand trial?
We don't pretend to be Legal Eagles here, so what I've gathered is that the deliberations that have resulted in a 2nd mistrial up in Massachusetts are on the verdict itself, with either an outcome of guilty or innocent by reason of insanity. Is that it? There's inherent stupidity there anyway, as sane or insane, if you're found guilty I see no reason the verdict should be any different. In case you've followed the case even less than I have, Mrs. Clancy confessed to having strangled her 3 kids, methodically too.
That there are being bat-shit crazy people like this woman on trial is one thing, but that juries too are full of clueless emotional women is another. There were 9 women out of the 12, all who wanted to see this child murderer be set free, cause, feeeelings, both theirs and that of the woman who killed all of a man's (yes, he's a victim too) family other than her crazy self.
I'm glad to hear there was one actual man on the jury, doing a man's job. He stood firm rather than fit in with the 11 jurors who would not provide justice. The rest of the jurors are angry at him. So be it. One of them said he "had the hardest time getting off the fact that Lindsay viciously killed her children." No, he couldn't get "off" that. He shouldn't. Lately, the story is of one of the jurors (aren't they supposed to keep their mouths closed?) ... of the women jurors (oh, yeah) has said that she was ready to find Lindsey Clancy guilty, but then wanted to fit in with the rest. Additionally, she figured that the defendant wouldn't get such good help with her "problem" in jail.
Ha, I could say the same for the worst of the murdering, torturing and raping, MS-13 gang members. They commit some horrific crimes, but the problem is, if you put them in prison for that, it won't help them any. We don't want to help them. We don't want to help Lindsey Clancy. The time for that passed when she murdered her 3 children in cold blood.
That was just a rant and nothing you can't find elsewhere or in your own mind. My point today about this story is this: It's nothing too new to me, but for some of the billions (probably) of people who've followed this story, they've got to start wondering if women should be allowed on juries. It wasn't the case in the past that they were. Though they had served on them before, it wasn't until 1941 that Vermont officially made it policy that they could. In 1975, the Supreme Court ruled in Taylor v. Louisiana that women couldn't be treated differently in the jury selection process.
The right to vote is one thing. This right, guaranteed to women in the US since the odious Amendment XIX* was ratified 126 years back, had long-term consequences. With women on juries, however, the consequences are acute. If you find yourself depending on women on a jury deciding your guilt or innocence based on emotion, it will be a terrible feeling. I don't kid that your fate may very well depend on the phase of the moon. We can't have this. That's not justice. The Matriarchy can't serve justice.
The crowd of women online and in person supporting Lindsey Clancy, 3-time child murderer is another problem.
Besides keeping women off juries, what else did they do in the past to keep this problem at bay? Does Massachusetts really need to resort to this again?
As a parting thought, it seems like I haven't heard that "But think of the children!" cry so much anymore. Definitely those 9 women jurors in Massachusetts don't think that way.
* See also Part 2 and Part 3.
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GenGap 2.0 or MyGenerationGap?
Posted On: Tuesday - September 8th 2026 6:52PM MST
In Topics: Artificial Stupidity Muh Generation
The first problem with being a blogger from one of the older generations is you often don't remember you've already wrote about this generational stuff ... or anything else. Upon perusing a recent Steve Sailer substack post (just up to the paywall) on the naming of generations, I saw his great line stating that "Generational Theory is Astrology for MBAs." I really like that, and I know I'd read it before. A search got me to an older Unz Review Steve Sailer post / Takimag article Generational Gobbledygook: Astrology for MBAs. Ahaaa, there.
I also see that - this was only 3 1/2 years back, mind you - in the comments under UR post, I'd written a whole lot*, because I am familiar with William Strauss & Neil Howe's set of books on this Generational Theory. I hadn't written the background + review posts yet, but I stated that I'd use what I wrote in those comments whenever I did.
I did, obviously, but at that point I neither referenced Mr. Sailer's article with that great line nor all my comments in review of the books! What a tangled post we render, when we don't practice to remember..
From that recent post by Mr. Sailer, it's this graph that got me started here.
ngrams - lots of people like them, including Mr. Sailer. Here's where I disagree with him:
There’s a huge amount of talk about generations lately, although it’s not obvious that there is much of a generation gap in reality. The Generation Gap rose and fell from about 1964 to 1976:That was his paragraph above the ngram graphic. The problem with searching for certain phrases is that another new-generational phrase may take its place. Nobody says "generation gap" (Peak Stupidity excluded for these posts) anymore, because that was a phrase used by Boomers and the parents across the gap. How about if one ngramed "OK, Boomer" or "Damn worthless Millennials". I'm guessing you'd see some more recent peaks. Then too, most of the discussion about it would not be in books but in text messages and x's.
Let me quickly summarize 3 posts on the Boomer v Millennial generation gap I'd almost forgotten too from 4 1/2 years back, titled Millennials v Boomers.
Part 1 was about political differences. There's lots of writing in there about Presidential elections and the votes cast by the Boomers. Looking at some numbers, I saw that the strong political divisions have been not ever been really lopsided among Boomers, so I don't agree with the impugning of that generation based on politics. It's not like you end up with one entire generation of Communists and another of Libertarians. Each generation has its own different struggle that divides it.
Part 2 was labeled Digital vs Analog thinking. There's a big difference that leads to the main point here.
Part 3 was labeled Muh-muh-my g-g-generation g-g-gap. In this post, the widely differing economic and demographic conditions that Boomers lived under vs. the Millennials was described. There's a big gap in the understanding of each other.
Nowadays, I believe an even bigger generation gap is being formed. Digital vs Analog thinking - say, the competence with physical tools vs competence with digital electronic tools, aka, software was the start of it. However, the use of the smartphones has been a major change in the operation of society. It's a fundamental thing. My generation got our information about the world from other people, usually direct and in person. The young generations get information about the world from collective knowledge, often "curated" by people we'd rather not have do that.
The iPhones had been widely introduced by the end of '09, per my search. Someone born since '06 would not remember a time when he didn't see others carry around smartphones and use them incessantly. That puts 20 y/o's at the beginning of this new generation. Without good parenting, as in the control of "screen time", the use of the devices by these children themselves would mean that they had some
This difference in the very method of thinking between my generation and the younger ones hit home on long night last summer, as I wrote up in Uber Stupidity. The gist of it is that young people trust what comes over the internet and is displayed on an app versus a live individual person telling them something directly. "Never trust an app under 30 (Megabytes)." may be the new "Don't trust anyone over 30", as said by the young Boomers 60 years ago. (Thinking in Megabytes and other numbers may be pretty sus too, come to think of it.) Maybe it'll just be "Don't trust any one person."
Calling this a "Generation Gap" would be like calling one of the lower-profile cross-over vehicles a station wagon. OK, Boomer, that's just insulting. Let them come up with their own new term for the same thing. Even "GenGap 2.0" or "MyGenerationGap" sound too old and Microsofty.
How can we bridge this... whatever we want to call it? We haven't even mentioned AI yet.
* Mr. Sailer even nicely wrote me back a quick comment.
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Meatball Ron and the hecklers - Take 2
Posted On: Friday - September 4th 2026 4:00PM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '26 Humor Media Stupidity President DeSantis
I like Florida Governer Meatball Ron, both the name and the guy. I don't know if 3rd-time-around candidate Donald Trump used that nickname for him - he LUVS nicknames - as a slur or to be affectionate. See, he first tried out "Ron DeSanctimonius", which didn't make any sense. It's good wordplay, sure, but the guy isn't sanctimonious, so nahhh, that didn't stick.
He settled on "Meatball Ron". Peak Stupidity's reason for using this nickname is simply that we have to think about spelling each time we write (see?!*) "DeSantis", but not when we write "Meatball" and "Ron".
From our fairly-unused topic key President DeSantis, the reader can tell we had high hopes for the guy. I think it was only due to the Regime waged hard-core tyrannical Lawfare on Trump for a couple of years that Ron was left way behind in that election.
Also under that topic key, the reader will find a 10 round Trump v DeSantis series, spread out just a bit, mostly from Fall of '22 through late Spring of '23. (Then, the lawfare superqualified one of the condenders.) Round 10, all the way into '24 was titled Vetoing the Hecklers. In it, we compared videos of each of these guys calling out hecklers at their events. Trump won this one with a big knock-out. Amazingly, both short videos are still up, so you may want to watch these first.
I'll say it again here, Trump and his "Go home to Mommy... yeah, go back home to Mommy... Bye!" was pretty juvenile, BUT he came out with that right away and it's just silly enough to have me (and everyone else) laughing... I mean every time I hear it, years later I just crack up. I'm smiling as I write this.
Ron DeSantis eventually came up with a decent come-back, but it took 15 seconds! You can't DO that! It's a campaign. This was but a stage and you were merely players. You must play the part right.
OK, well, perhaps Meatball Ron has been perusing Peak Stupidity and taking our criticism constructively, as I just ran into another example of his handling hecklers from the other day. He has gotten.... errr, he's working on this. The casting director has not put out any ads for a new leading man at least. We're in The Biz, so Meatball Ron can consider this post payment-in-kind.
Bear in mind, what's described here is all important for campaigning. Meatball Ron has more intelligence in his pinky fingers than Trump has in total, but you can't lead with all that if you don't get elected. That's what this is about. Trump is very good at putting the act on, everyone would surely admit. Roll tape!
Unfortunately, I cannot get the video I've seen on X, so I'll paste in this one, made by a guy who's no Meatball Ron supporter at all. Don't mind the title. The guy hates him in fact, but he's got almost all of the portion of video I wanted to show. To set the scene here, the good Governor was in the middle of making a great comparison of Florida to New York State. Our host wiped all of that, but, take it at 0:41... lights, camera, action!
No, no, you're butchering it... CUT! Look, Ron, first of all you're acting angry. That's not what this scene calls for. You have to show humorous disdain. Our screenwriter gave you a good first line to work with: "Soros isn't paying you enough, because you're not very good at this!"
Of course, were I the director, I'd tweek that just a bit. The main problem is you kept going on, way too long. (I know, kinda like some of these posts, haha.) Say the line, and be done with it. After all that, you finally smiled (0:58), but, no, that was only because you felt good for at least remembering and quickly saying a line this time around. That was a real smile but one inappropriate for right there. You needed a smirk, sigh...
Is there any way we can get back in touch with Leonardo DiCaprio? This is just ... OK, sorry, uncalled for... I liked that "Not my first rodeo" bit, if that makes your feel better. We'll keep that.
One more time, let's do this thing. [Ron DeSantis on the campaign trail insulting the Commie hecklers, Take 3] lights, camera... aaaannnd, action!
* Spellcheck is telling me with red underlining that I'm spelling it wrong, but spellcheck is an ass.
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Is or isn't this Ironic?
Posted On: Thursday - September 3rd 2026 7:43PM MST
In Topics: Music Humor
One of mid-1990s Canadian rock star Alanis Morissette's most well-known songs was Isn't that Ironic?, from her album Jagged Little Pill. Thing was, and still is, the ironic part about that song is that its lyrics didn't really describe anything ironic. The only non-tautological definition I have for the adjective form goes:
Poignantly contrary to what was expected or intended.I suppose I could call it a poignant song, but then I'd have to look up "poignant", and heck with that - I could be here all day! The events sung about in that song aren't unexpected...
... but what IS ironic is that the artist that gave us Jagged Little Pill, Alanis Morissette Sues Former Tour Manager for Fraud and Extortion, Accuses Him of Blackmail by Threatening to Report Her for Drug Trafficking. Drugs are bad, mmmkay? Trafficking them? Well let me ask Michael Scott about that...
“On Tuesday, the singer filed a complaint alleging her ‘disgruntled’ ex-employee Keren Urinov threatened to report her for drug trafficking, according to court docs.”I don't know how I was supposed to know this, but Keren Urinov is a chick too - Gateway Pundit headlines are plain wrong, pretty regularly.
Urinov reportedly filed her own suit against Morissette 13 days before. At this point, it is unclear what allegations she is making against the singer.
“Morissette claimed Urinov attempted to extort the Grammy winner into ‘employ[ing] her as a tour director for fifteen years and pay[ing] her massive compensation’, per the filing.”I'm guessing this is not just about the drugs. About the drugs, though:
“She alleged that in June 2025, Urinov’s bag was seized at the airport while flying to Spain for a concert for allegedly containing marijuana and xylazine, a non-opioid animal tranquilizer.OK, whatever, but how about this, is this part ironic?
[…] However, Morissette claimed Urinov and her attorney then ‘sent a series of increasingly extortionate letters’ and threatened to ‘file a patently frivolous lawsuit against Morissette in the United Kingdom for unspecified claims if Morissette refused to tell British law enforcement that the alleged drugs were hers’.”
Morisette wants a jury trial and compensation of over $75,000.Seventy-five THOUSAND dollars! [Oww, my pinkie!] Though I think of her as a "one album wonder"* Jagged Little Pill was such a big hit for Alanis Morissette - #1 on the Billboard magazine album charts, that she HAD to have made A LOT of money off it. She still ought to be, in fact, from royalties... probably from the Muzak versions too.
Even with steady high inflation, $75,000 is not peanuts for most of us yet, but for someone who's had a Billboard #1 hit music album in the '90s, that's basically chump-change level. (Maybe that's to compensate her for the lost drugs?) Nah, hell, that's not irony either, it's just stupid.
As for the song, it's got a decent melody, and Miss Morissette sings well, but Isn't it Ironic that the lyrics, the least important part, have me picking another of her songs today? You can see those for Isn't that Ironic? in that link, and you can see that most is not ironic but just shows a lack of common sense. Here:
- Don't play the lottery. It's for suckers - you're not gonna win.
- Too bad about your wine.
- You probably should have been executed long ago anyway.
- Have a back-up inside venue for your wedding. It does tend to rain sometimes.
- Wut?
- Think for yourself
- Airline travel is safer, miles-to-miles
- Give yourself an extra 5 minutes for traffic.
- Smoking is bad, mmkayyy?
- One word for you, "Plasticware".
- Don't be a slut.
It's kinda too late for most of this advice for Alanis Morissette. Peak Stupidity will therefore feature another hit from that big mid-1990s album, Hand in my Pocket.
I never saw this video before. The mid-'90s were an odd time for music videos. Music videos on TV weren't a big deal anymore - MTV had turned into NTV (you can guess about the "N") and VH-1 wasn't a big deal among all the cable TV channels. Yet, due to internet connections consisting of dial-up modems providing a couple of thousand bits per second, one couldn't watch any video on the internet, especially in real-time, unless he was, I dunno, a member of the intelligence community.
For me, the songs in Jagged Little Pill seemed to have a good sound back 3 decades ago, but now, she sounds just annoying. I don't like Alanis Morissette anymore. I particularly remember from back then that, among other lyrics that I wouldn't expect to make sense, she uses the word "chickenshit" wrong. She means "chicken" for cowardly, as "chickenshit" has been a word meaning relatively very small or unimportant, such as a lawsuit asking for $75,000 from a musician who'd had a #1 album.
* There are the many "one hit wonders", but this one album had 4 or 5 hit songs on it. There was that one big album, but I could not remember song from any of her others.
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Just read what's on the paper, Comrade, and you'll get home in one piece.
Posted On: Tuesday - September 1st 2026 9:37AM MST
In Topics: Commies Humor Race/Genetics
There's yet another Moslem Communist - what a concept - running for office, this time Federal, 1 out of the 100 Senators and likely to be one too. Peak Stupidity hasn't posted anything about this Abdul El-Sayed character due to ... sickening. Like his fellow radical Commie in NY City, this guy looks normal and talks normally, as far as Islam goes anyway. (I imagine he dons the full garb when campaigning in his people's districts.)
The funny video below, no intentional comedy show, AFAIK, does not put El-Sayed in the bad light, except just by his being there. Being a "Michigan man" himself, at least a Senatorial candidate BASED IN Michigan, Sayed has got to stay on the good side of the United Auto Workers Union. So, it's not really his fault that he had to put up with the micro-witted black woman at the podium.
You'll see why the memester who we got the clip from, just a quick first pick, named it "Please, blink twice if you are being held hostage..."
That was yesterday. In fairness, I'll link to the Gateway Pundit article on which I first enjoyed(?) this - Social Media ROASTS Far-Left Abdul El-Sayed Over Painfully Awkward Endorsement Video That Looks Like a “Hostage Tape” — Woman Struggles Through Talking Points as El-Sayed Nudges Her Along
No, the UAW is not sending their best spokespeople, and, yes, this was painfully awkward. I don't like the Communists, and I don't like the Moslems here en masse (nothing personal otherwise wrt the latter individuals), but I don't think this Abdul El-Sayed is stupid. This was so awkward for him, but, hey, she's on his side, right, what with the auto union proletariate members set to rise up against the bourgeoisie and all. Go Communism! As he wears his other hat, or dish towel as the case may be, this dullard is also against the White man, so good. Go anti-White anti-Christian Islam!.
I saw El-Sayed's empty right hand a couple of times, but one can't help but wonder if he did stick a revolver - the Commies are nothing if not nostalgic - into her back at some point. It was getting embarrassing. You gotta do something! Holy cow, this D.I.E. spokesperson LaShay Garrett* was skipping through a bunch of pages that are supposed to be notes or something, just to find the couple of lines she was supposed to spout. (What's wrong with "Line, please!"?) I'd first thought she's extremely slow-witted, but I think she is not someone who's comfortable talking in front of people... but D.I.E... and, she can't memorize a few lines.
One Eric Dougherty of Right Line News is quoted thusly:
“Abdul El Sayed has this woman out vouching for him but it looks like a hostage video. Abdul keeps nudging in, pushing her to keep going. She does not look like she wants ANYTHING TO DO with this Jihadist! Straight-up struggling to read the campaign-fed talking points. Yikes…”Maybe he's right. Is this spokeswoman not just uncomfortable and not so bright, but instead under severe duress? The lady to her right and behind is one Michigan State Senator** Mallory McMorrow. She seemed pretty perturbed too at the slow pace of the UAW statement of support for El-Sayed. I'm wondering if perhaps this LaShay Garrett is not as fat as she looks either but is just wrapped with a belt of explosive charges with Senator McMorrow's hand on the detonator switch.
Whatever it takes to win - gotta break a few eggs... BIG Humpty-Dumpty fans those Communists are...
PS: I just noticed The Simpsons Mr. Smithers at the end. Nice touch!
* Peak Stupidity cannot confirm this spelling. Her name is written in neither the GP article, nor in the tweet that is the GP writer's "original source material". I couldn't find it written (typed) anywhere.
** She represents Wayne County (what's left of the old city of Detroit) and Oakland County (just to the north, including Pontiac and some other nice areas.)
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The 40 Trillion
Posted On: Monday - August 31st 2026 6:08PM MST
In Topics: Music Global Financial Stupidity Economics US Feral Government
Peak Stupidity has written about The Eleven many a time. That has been The Number of illegal aliens in the US this century. It's not even a round number, and it has more precision than it should based on known accuracy, but my real problem with it is it's been ridiculously low, based on simple influx - outflux over this whole quarter century. My guess is the number is 40 - 50 million, not quite the 100 million that "Commander" Greg Bovino has it pegged at, but at least he DOES have a nice round number!
The 40 Trillion is not a count of people but of US dollars owed by the Feral Gov't to its lenders, the Treasury Bond holders.* It's a pretty good round number, one I'd expected we'd hit in early October. Why early October, you may ask? We did a simple estimate a couple of months ago based on the numbers on the the US Debt Clock site.
Peak Stupidity has linked to that site before. The value of the US National debt is much easier to come up with than that prior (even more!) important number. We will not get into why this debt is "unexpectedly" becoming a real problem for America's finances, as we've been through this ad near infinitum.
That US Debt Clock site has all the US (and State/Local) revenue/expenditures/deficit/debt numbers we could possibly ask for**, precise to the nearest dollar, were your mind able to distinguish one microsecond from the next. The accuracy is probably good, as one of the jobs, the least it could do, of the Feral Gov't is to tell us how much money is being wasted and how quickly. It's not the numbers with 10-14 significant digits that makes the site useful but that the numbers turn over in some sort of real time so that the scale of the changes is evident to anyone.
What I did was use a stopwatch to time the debt number to the precise nearest million over 10 minutes. The less than half a second errors in the mashing of start/stop compared to 10 minutes meant I had a fairly precise number to extrapolate with. It told me I should set a mental note to get back on in early October and them maybe get a chance to take a screenshot with $40 and lots of zeroes, maybe to the nearest 10 million, chump change in the scheme of things here.
Ooops, I started reading about the 40 Trillion over a week ago. It was like missing a Lunar Eclipse! Luckily I was not in the shape Christopher Columbus' crew would have been in, stranded on his 4th voyage (see that post) had he no Astronomical Ephemeris book onboard.
My assumption was that USDebtClock used some large-time-scale numbers, the big spending bills, the average monthly tax receipts, etc, such that my estimate would get me close enough to a time when I'd start viewing the site much more regularly and then home in to capture a screenshot within seconds of the Big Four Oh. I guess they got a few big receipts in, or last month businesses got fed up and started cheating on their taxes harder.
I don't know. I was WAY off, so I missed it. Dang! I compared this to missing a Lunar Eclipse because they aren't rare at all like solar eclipses are. Nah, I just looked. I'm no professional Astronomer (though I used to dabble in it) but I calculated that sometime late this evening, barring too much cloud cover, we could see the debt owed flip to $40.1 Trillion. $50 Trillion, a REALLY nice round number, is just around the corner. I'll go find my eclipse glasses and possibly buy a case of Corona... I mean, no, this won't likely coincide with a Solar Eclipse, but who knows if a nuke will get set off, what with the political turmoil that that comes with the world's loss of confidence in that almighty US Dollar.
It's probably again time for Coldplay, come to think of it. Clocks is a great song!
I like the bit where singer Chris Martin starts a new sentence at the end of each musical line. Considered in the Alternative Rock and Psychedelic Rock genres, this 24 y/o song is from Coldplay's 2nd album A Rush of Blood to the Head..
Coldplay was:
Chris Martin – lead vocals, piano, keyboards, guitars.
Jonny Buckland – guitars, keyboards, backing vocals.
Guy Berryman – bass guitar, keyboards, backing vocals.
Will Champion – drums, percussion, piano, backing vocals.
* I know it's quite a bit more complicated than that, but I don't care about the financial shenanigans. That's debt.
** There are just over 100 different values in US dollars rolling by on the front page alone, and there's also a menu at the bottom that can steer you to more "clocks". How much time have you got?
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Being John Cleese
Posted On: Thursday - August 27th 2026 9:45PM MST
In Topics: TV, aka Gov't Media Humor Political Correctness Movies ctrl-left Bread and Circuses
This "Being [whomever] deal seems to have originated with the 1999 movie Being John Malkovich. John Malkovich was an actor at the time, maybe still is, and I remembered him from some movies before that one. Oddly enough, I just looked, and I see that John Malkovich did not star in Being John Malkovich. WTH, it was John Cusack, along with... ooohhh, Cameron Diaz! I remember her from some movie in a white bikini, but as for being John Malkovich, who cares? Being an actor? You remember your lines, that's all - it's not rocket surgery. I can't even remember if I've seen Being John Malkovich - it couldn't have been that darn exciting to be him, I guess.. [Updated:] Per The Alarmist, with a scene "linked"-to in the comments, it was a good move. No, I haven't seen it, so disregard all that above.
Alright, but John Cleese, shown above, IS memorable. His olde English Monty Python's Flying Circus, aka, Monty Python, troupe (olde English for "group"?) made some of the funniest skits I've ever seen. From over half a century ago, 57 years in fact, to ~40 years ago, that humor can still be found all over youtube and on Peak Stupidity. That so many people I know enjoy it is pretty impressive considering the American v English cultural differences. The British The Office show was one I got on my Cantonese ripped/burned DVDs for the first season, and even though Ricky Gervais is a funny guy, no, it was not nearly as funny to me as the Steve Carell American show (the rest of the DVDs I bought for $2 total - the girl couldn't tell).
And to think, if anyone in the 6 member troupe was the straight man, it was usually John Cleese. Yet, he was STILL funny.
Pretty prescient, that one, or accidentally prescient, I should put it, as it's not like these comedians thought anyone would ever speak that way seriously, much less 40 years later! That scene must have been seen more than ever in the last 10 years in amazement on youtube.
The Monty Python troupe consisted of 6 funny guys, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, the eventual subject of this post, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin. They'd often play the women's parts too, but occasionally there'd be real women - we can usually tell... very easily! One Sue Jones-Davies played the woman Judith in the above scene... the woman besides Loretta that is. (Eric Idle. Watch as he is about to crack up near the end.)
Monty Python made 3 movies, only 2 of which I know of well. First was Monty Python and the Holy Grail in 1975. I remember going to see their 2nd and most controversial one, The Life of Brian from 1979. However, as much as the great skits can be seen to humorously illustrate points here (Peak Stupidity) and there, I believe I've seen the first one pretty much full through and the second similarly long after the first time. I suppose their movies are just a bunch of skits put together.*
About that controversy, The Life of Brian was a spoof on the Life of Christ, obviously. During the time of its release, that was not quite the laughing matter it is now. I can remember the controversy, yet free speech law reigned in the end. In the meantime, no movie studios were bombed or directors assassinated, as if had been, say, I dunno, The Life of Mohammad.
Yes, Monty Python made fun of everybody, no holds barred, except, yeah, could one talk about The Moslems? There really weren't many in the English speaking word in that era, such as their home, so I can't see holding that against them.
Something you couldn't do today is make fun of stutterers. It'd be a mean thing to do in person of course, but... crimey, I mean, I think Michael Palin here is so funny he might even cure a few people with the problem. This was as late as 1988.
That scene is from the movie A Fish Called Wanda. It's not a Monty Python movie, per se, but 2 of the 4 of the main characters are from the group, Michael Palin and John Cleese (both in this scene). I really, really tried to find my favorite scene, in which Michael Palin tried to tell someone, "It's in the b-b-b-b... It's in the b-b-b... it's in the ... b ... lavatory!"
What Monty Python did though, per a friend of mine, is continually ridicule the Conservative Establishment of their beloved England.** Now, this friend is really into watching old movies and TV shows and picking out the agendas within, and then explaining this to me. Was it all in fun, or was there an agenda being implemented as these funny guys made fun of everything English? (Or, do you just make fun of it particularly because that's what you know best?) Was making fun of an important mythical history, the roots of olde England, a bad thing too?
That's one of my very favorites (it's from The Holy Grail) - Eric Idle is hilarious. I'd say he's making fun of the left quite a bit in this one, to great effect.
I write of being John Cleese in this post because he's one of these 6 funny guys who has been making political statements. Normally, I wouldn't want to hear anything some actor's got to say, but Mr. Cleese's comments against wokeness and the Moslem invasion of Britain or different from what you normally get from them. To be fair, shouldn't it be not worth listening to either way?
You can read his comments anywhere, but here's just one article, from ZeroHedge: John Cleese: "Some Cultures Are Better Than Others". The bolding is by ZH (actually Modernity News) writer Steve Watson, or the editor:
"I am not a racist. I am a culturalist," he stated in a post that now has over ten million views, adding "I believe that some cultures are better than others. I prefer cultures that do not advocate stoning, pederasty, wife beating, female genital mutilation, and beheading opponents. Call me old-fashioned..."I'm too tired to argue about the "I'm not racist" bit. It's great that he supports Restore Party's Rupert Lowe.
Cleese had earlier made plain his preference for Lowe over the rest of the political class, stating he trusts the Great Yarmouth MP "more than any of the other leaders." The Metro reported the comments as Cleese pushed back against the predictable pile-on.
Mr. Cleese is quite the Conservative. At least, NOW he is. He has seen over this century the terrible changes in his home, and he doesn't like it. At least he speaks out. Fine, but my friend has told me numerous times that John Cleese himself was a part of the reason Great Britain has gotten to this point. Oh, maybe it was not a BIG part, but it was a tearing down of the Conservative Establishment that Monty Python did with their skits, shows, and movies. (He brings up their third movie The Meaning of Life as their most "damaging".)
It was just a funny TV show and just 3 funny movies! What difference could that make for the future of Great Britain? Well, media does play a part in changes to a society. Some cultures are better than others, Mr. Cleese accurately says. Being John Cleese, could he reflect a bit on his life and see that maybe his hilarious comedy group played a small part in changing the culture of his home for the worse? That is, even if it wasn't intentional?
The spread of Islam isn't the only cultural change that one might have noticed while being John Cleese. However, that major existential issue is what John Cleese is most concerned about now. Therefore, an interesting thought experiment is to consider whether he and his troupe of comedians would have made some very funny skits regarding Islam during their prime years, had it been anything anyone cared about. Their skits on their Flying Circus TV show were about British life, seeing as that's where they lived as did lots of their viewers, and almost no Moslems did.
I wouldn't have expected a movie about Islam from them, to rival The Life of Brian, as I mentioned above, but is that because nobody cared or because those certain people cared too much, even back then? Nowadays, the 6 Monty Python actor/comedians are very old, and I don't think they'd come off as so funny anyway, but England's too far gone to allow them to as much as make a funny skit. Comedians would probably die, or they'd be arrested before they filmed the first cut. So, Mr. Cleese has been able to speak out at least, but that's about it. Maybe they should have made that movie... MOAR royalties.
I'm just passing this along. Maybe Monty Python's effect on society was truly all just fun and of no consequence. I have a dozen funny scenes I wanted to feature here, but this is just a very short bit from A Fish Called Wanda. John Cleese is the upstanding Barrister, and the other guy in the cell is one of the crooks (working with Michael Palin, Kevin Kline - hilarious in this movie - and Jamie Lee Curtis.)
Maybe that's only funny if you've seen more of the movie...
* Then too, all movies are just a bunch of scenes put together, something that I don't really think about when watching. "Wait, they filmed this part AFTER that part? That seems ... not right ..."
** Wait, Conservative? Sure, economically, the place had been Socialist for a couple of decades already. It was the 1960s and 70's (and a bit of the '80s) too, so you know... However, just as in America, hippies and protesters notwithstanding, the people and the Establishment were still pretty Conservative.
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[UPDATED 08/29:] Commenter Alarmist corrected me about the John Malkovich movie, so that's been noted. Added the 2 paragraphs starting with "The spread of Islam".
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Last South Carolina US Senator Debate - Kang v Kodos
Posted On: Tuesday - August 25th 2026 10:44AM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '26 Immigration Stupidity
South Carolinians will vote today to finish this thing. It's very likely that the winner of this special Primary election will beat Democrat "Dr. Annie" and become one of 100 Senators, but who knows, if this ends up with a woman v woman election in November.
I watched the hour debate embedded here disgustedly last week. I'd had about enough at 48 minutes in when Ralph Norman responded to immigration invasion questions with the usual, BUT LEEEGULLY! Both of these two re-re-re-iterated that they are "with Trump", but they may be thinking of Trump-45, with his "big beautiful wall with a big beautiful wall in it". Trump HAS wised up, probably with lots of help from Steven Miller and others.
I had to finish though, just now. I'm glad, at least, that one of the 3 interrogators came up with a
The big story on this debate last week was Darline*'s having told the audience in response to a question about China/Taiwan that foreign policy is just not her thing so much. I actually appreciated this honesty, as I listened to 20 minutes or whatever of standard NeoCon boilerplate BS from both of them. No, my problem was her having stated that South Carolina has 50 million residents! I thought I'd heard that wrong, until I saw it written elsewhere.** That's off by a whole order of magnitude.
This is no good. Perhaps this Norman guy is bad with numbers too, but if you can't get numbers, the whole immigration question, for one thing, is not something you'll ever be able to understand.
Here you go. I'll have more to say below it.
Speaking of numbers, as things got acrimonious over the last 10 minutes, Darline told the audience how Congressman Norman had been paid $1.7 million by the US taxpayers over 10 years. Well, I have access to a postcard, paid for, now that I know, by the Democrats that Mr. Norman says have supported Darline Graham.*** (I really don't know why they care either way on this one, but it's not a good sign of things that would come with her in office.) Here's the exact wording:
RICHER IN OFFICEOK, well that’s different from your getting SC taxpayer-funded paychecks for only… 18 years. Much different than 22, plus you don’t have a wallet. You have a purse. Ralph Norman’s latest Congressional salary was $174,000. Not bad. Miss Graham was a lowly poor Deep South State government employee only making … $138,000. I quote:
While in office, Ralph Norman has added millions to his personal wealth. South Carolinians deserve a Senator who works the make their lives better – not his own.
CAREER POLITICIAN
Ralph Norman has run for office 14 times over 22 years. Two decades collecting taxpayer-funded checks benefitting his wallet.
MISSED THE JOB
From April to June 2026, Ralph Norman missed nearly one-third of the 125 roll call votes … but still took his taxpayer-funded paycheck!
Darline Graham in 2025 was employed at South Carolina Commission for the Blind and had an annual salary of $138,000, according to public records. This salary was 88 percent higher than the average and 98 percent higher than the median salary in South Carolina Commission for the Blind.I guess the people in the Commission for the Blind payroll department overlooked this. (Sorry!)
I don't know her whole salary schedule over the last decade, but Darline did pretty darned well from the taxpayers' money too. Then, regarding absenteeism (would that every one of them called in sick for a few years!), one wonders how many sick days Miss Graham will have taken during her campaign? Do Congressmen get sick days too?
One point that Congressman Norman made that was pretty clever was to bring up SCrOTUS Justesse Amy Barrett as he touted his support for Judge Kavenaugh. He said words to the effect that Barrett didn't turn out so good. Hmmm, was he hinting that women are simply entitled to change their minds? I think he was, and that was a clever.
Without Mark Lynch,who'd only got a 2nd shot at this due to Linsey Grahamnesty's death, this is another Kang v Kodos election. I'd still like to see the best man win, haha. More importantly, I'd like to see Trump not get his way with his stupidity in backing Darline Graham. We'll find out this evening.
PS: One minor detail I just recalled is: Darline Graham was about to utter "illegal alien", but she must have been told that is NOT OK, as she adjusted it to "immigrant" in mid-word. Perhaps Ralph Norman would have done the same.
* Yes, she used to be Darlene, but, no trannie, Adam Smith and I have both commented that the story is her older brother Lindsey had taught her to spell it differently. Why?
** Speaking of honesty, I honestly don't feel like going back to where this was after a week to give a timestamp. Knock yourself out watching this thing...
*** This was a point he made. Darline did not deny it but claimed to not know anything about the ads. Haha, yeah, sure.
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Feline Substance Abuse is No Laughing Matter
Posted On: Monday - August 24th 2026 7:19PM MST
In Topics: Music The Dead Humor
This post is about catnip. It's not like the average American Domestic Shorthair doesn't already have a myriad social problems without it. The younger generation are prone to freaking out at the slightest movement, will climb trees for the sheer hell of it, and run laps on the hardwood floors, drifting on the corners. This usually ends when they turn 9 months to a year old, but still... Also, cats nowadays will eat anything, mac & cheese, broccoli, bell peppers, you name it.
We also have wondered if these feline companions are not actually Spyware for The State.
We're still not sure about that, but anyway, catnip, from the mint family, has the chemical nepetalactone as an ingredient, a compound that repels insects. Upon reading the wiki page on nepetalactones, I see that I should have paid more attention in Organic Chemistry... I mean had I taken it. (It wasn't required for me, and taking "Organic" as an elective seems downright suicidal.) Somewhere in there is the explanation of how catnip is an olfactory drug for cats.
I have not pushed the feline version of "the wacky weed" on a cat since I was a kid. Last time I found a bag of it, someone, a human being this time, thought it WAS the wacky week and brought it home without asking.
That was then. Things have changed since we've had a change in mailmen. The new regular mailman told me that our cat, call him Mr. Meow for Ops Sec, would freak out when he'd walk up to the mailbox. So, the mailman started giving him some treats and also catnip.
It took me a few weeks to put 2 + 2 together and realize why our cat would hang out in the hottest weather on the porch. It wasn't just the treats, as he gets them from us too. He was waiting for
We considered an intervention. The problem is, we couldn't really gather any feline friends or others together that Mr. Meow had interacted with because he has no feline friends, and he'd eaten the other animals he'd interacted with.
Interventions don't work with cats, just as they don't work with Mafia families:
We considered forcibly subjecting Mr. Meow to one of those 12-Step Programs - maybe the car ride alone would have scared him straight.
"Hello, my name is Mr. Meow, and I am a catnip addict."
"Meowwww! Name's Francis Soyer, but every cat calls me Psycho. Anyone pees on my corner of the jeep bumper, and I'll kill ya'!"
There's been good news though. There's a new mailman. I wasn't sure if he was just substituting, so I asked him to ask the catnip dealer to cease & desist, but it turns out he's got the route permanently now. He claims he don't know nuthin' 'bout no catnip dealing. Good. It took Mr. Meow about a week to figure out that waiting like a sick addicted druggie on the porch was futile. The candy man would no longer be forthcoming. Withdrawal has gone pretty well, as far as I can tell...
... strangely, he seems to have picked up a liking to old Steppenwolf tunes.
I would have NEVER guessed that this old song, famous from the 1969 movie Easy Rider, was written 6 years prior by Hoyt Axton, of all people. (He seems so easy-going and country.) Hoyt Axton sang another song involving a drug dealer. Della and the Dealer is a much brighter song, and it puts cats in a favorable light.
There are better Steppenwolf songs. John Kay seemed he was not having a good time during the 1960s. These next group of guys, drugs and all, seemed to have handled the '60s much better. (This song popped up when I searched for The Pusher.)
This fast version of The Grateful Dead's They Love Each Other is from into the '70s a bit. The youtube info. says that in that June 9th of '73, the Dead played first for 1 hour and 40 minutes, took a break and then played a 2 hour set, and then did an hour encore there at RFK Stadium in Washington, FS. That's 4 hours and 4 minutes! What a hardworking band. Sorry about the lack of video on this one. Jerry starts his solo at 01:53.
The Dead didn't write so many songs ABOUT drugs, but they wrote and played some of the songs WITH the drugs. One that I recall, though, is The Candy Man. It has an OK tune, but it's too slow and dark - not in my top 200 Dead songs.
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We shall fight them on the beaches!
Posted On: Saturday - August 22nd 2026 9:36PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity History
Peak Stupidity commenter Alarmist has his "boots on the ground" in Europe off and on, so he's commented more than most about the invasion of the continent. (I realize that "the continent", as in "continental breakfast", doesn't include the UK, but sorry, it IS on the continent of Europe geographically.) The Alarmist has commented that the "small boats" that have been invading England, along with everywhere else, should be fired at the stop this immigration invasion, such as has been recently seen in the Spanish town of Cuela. (That invasion is NOT on the continent of Europe, for the record.)
We've used the term "invasion" for mass immigration for years (as has the famous VDare site). In the case of legal immigration, it's not the correct literal term, I suppose. In the case of the illegal Mexicans, Guatemalans, etc. that used to come in a steady trickle that still added up, that's another level up, but unarmed men and often families coming this way was not a literal invasion. The term works though, once you tell people you're talking a half million or a million a year. Then during Dark Brandon's and Allie-hondro Mayorkas' treachery, the influx from strangers around the world could be called, yeah, an invasion, an invited invasion, but an invasion, I'd say.
What do you call this?! Spanish Beach Stormed As Ceuta Chaos Spreads. This invasion is of the Spanish mainland*.
Footage from Cala del Barco near the exclusive La Manga Club in Cartagena captured the moment a large vessel packed with predominantly North African males in their late teens and twenties powered close to shore in broad daylight.The police, mind you. These guys came in boats with 4 big outboards (a ZH commenter mentioned Yamaha LF200XB's, but I'm not sure). The boats dropped them off and went back out. For some reason, the Brits keep dubbing these "small boats". I'd call them landing craft. They are what you use in an amphibious assault.
The men jumped into the water, waded or swam the final metres, and charged inland past stunned sunbathers.
Families packed towels and umbrellas and fled.
One woman was overheard saying "It's a f*****g patera" before urging companions to collect their things and call the police.
In normal times, throughout human history, the very purpose of having governments was for defense of the realm using armies and navies. Has this whole concept been forgotten by the West since World War II or at least the end of the Cold War? (I guess that's what Francis Fukuyama meant by the end of history.)
The foreigners that have been flooding into Europe have come by land or in the landing craft, but there have been no armies firing at them across borders and no navies or shore batteries firing on their boats. This kind of behavior would have been incomprehensible at the Fulda Gap in Germany during the Cold War. In June 1944, 160,000 allied troops landed in ONE DAY on the beaches of Normandy in France, and we know how the Germans fired at them.
On April 2nd of 1982, 550 Argentine troops invaded the British Falkland Islands off the Argentine coast in
Well, nowadays, these Africans and whomever aren't armed with rifles and aren't (nearly!) as organized as were the men in Operation Overlord. It shouldn't be hard to shoot enough of them to persuade more invasion craft and end it. It isn't. ZeroHedge commenters:
Twicesilent: I'm just an ignorant American but does Spain have a navy to defend it's shores?Heh, but it's not the lack of equipment or the manpower though. It's the lack of will. People of the West must get back the will to defend their lands from invasion. That will involve firing at invaders. That thought used to be obvious. One more ZH comment:
Fudge Punch: Pretty much dry docked since 1588.
Honey Badger: The question is, "Does Spain/Europe/EU have the will to defend its/their shores?"Yeah, the comments on ZeroHedge can be a hoot.
Islam conquered Spain beginning in 711 AD... (The last time). Few knew what it looked like because there were only 2 networks back then. Today, we can marvel, in real time, on 100s of channels, what cultural invasion looks like.
I wonder how the apathy and cowardice of today would be viewed by the 'knowledgeable' populace of 711 AD Europe.
I had a fun post in mind for today. This is obviously not that post. I was really busy, so that'll have to come Monday. Thanks for reading and writing in, Peakers. Happy Sunday.
* I had to look it up, but this is not the "Spanish Main" from history but mostly my recollection of an Al Stewart song. The Spanish Main is of the American continents.
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Hysteria yesterday, hysteria today, hysteria forever!
Posted On: Friday - August 21st 2026 10:48AM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Feminism Female Stupidity
"It can't be! It can't be!", she cries in Spanish.
Peak Stupidity has been trying to keep away from all the news stories, or "current events", what we called them as youngsters. Commenting on stories that our readers surely already know about takes time away from our remarking on more general stupidity and the spread thereof. However, since Immigration Stupidity is by far our greatest concern, we feel obligated to briefly discuss the invasion of the Spanish city in Africa, Ceuta. As has been the case lately at least, the Female stupidity aspect of this simply MUST be addressed.
First, I have found it hard to figure out the pronunciation of the place! Spanish is not a hard language to pick syllables out of, but everyone involved says it so quickly! The web has blurbs telling me to listen to 10 pronunciations - NO, I can't get it by listening - that's the problem. OK, finally, it's "say-ooh-tuh".
How do these invasions start? When did formerly sane countries decide that one could not defend themselves from invasion?
That might be another post, but that the invasion of Ceuta happened at all, and the much larger invasion of England across the channel by the "small boats" (just call them "landing craft" - that might clear peoples' minds) is due to these "migrants" having known beforehand that they wouldn't be shot climbing a fence or stepping onto the beach. Taking care of that is men's work, but it won't happen when women are running the show, in any capacity.
This week, we've discussed the subsequent taking over of whole communities by the invaders or, often, invitees this week (particularly wrt Moslems, but in America, it's not confined to that particular crowd - there are various and sundry of these crowds). How does that get started?
As we described, one wouldn't get very far telling the whole truth in one of those town council meetings early on. Make one statement about how we don't want to change the country and we don't want any of these people here whatsoever, and you'll be shouted down by hysterical women, with the words bigot, racist, and creep being used to make sure you know to STF down or get out! Hysteria would ensue.
Well, it's little later on in the game, and the women are hysterical again.
In case you're wondering, the Moslem guy there's trying do a William Shatner T.J. Hooker move. He's butchering it.
Oh, It CAN be! It CAN be! What would you possibly expect to happen if your land doesn't repel invaders because, muh deep compassion?
I can't say I blame them for being hysterical NOW. However, had women in general calmed down over the previous years and instead let the men take care of business and defend them and their homes from invasion, they WOULD be able to walk in the streets of Ceuta safely. ("How many of that can sit and judge me, ever walked the streets of Ceuta?")
If you watch more of the short video above, past where I featured the hysteria, you'll see women that STILL hadn't learned, at least a couple of weeks ago. Lest the reader think I'm blaming all of the Population Replacement Programme on the women, I blame men too... for listening to these women.
Peak Stupidity has been known to attempt, occasionally successfully, to link appropriate music to our post content. Hopefully the reader hasn't been worried the entire time reading this post that he would see Def Leppard's Hysteria embedded here. Nope. Not agonna to it. I like some of the music of that '80s - '90s "Hair Band" genre, that one's just not a. great tune, IMO. (Some REO Speedwagon, OTOH, that's another story.)
I had the lyric line above, so why not some Dwight Yoakam today, with little bits of that Bakersfield Sound, with Buck Owens?
Hey, you don't know me, but you don't like me.
You say you care less how I feel.
But how many of you that sit and judge me
ever walked the streets of ... Cueta?
The Bakerfield Sound. That was olde America and still olde California, after just a small olde timey invasion of the Central Valley by, you gotta admit, a somewhat better crowd.
PS: Yeah, that's another Modernity News Paul Joseph Watson report in here. I still don't like the quick edits, but he does a nice job with his heavy coverage of the PPR all over the Western World. The guy who wrote the "Tyler Durden" approved ZeroHedge post linked to a the top must be his brother - it says Steve Watson.
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Are our LEOs getting LARGER?
Posted On: Thursday - August 20th 2026 9:26AM MST
In Topics: Humor US Police State
They're not MY LEOs, though, as I've been against* the expansion of the U.S. Police State since the Waco Texas Massacre in 1993. Also, seeing as how I'm a water sign, I don't particularly get along with Leo's to begin with.
As for our post title, Betteridge's law of headlines** says that the answer should be "no". That's true here too. Guilty as charged. "Our" LEOs are not getting larger - they've BEEN larger.
Yeah, Leon too. Cops have not been an exception to the average big weight gain over the last half century of Americans and people all over the world. They COULD recruit the more in-shape guys, but... nah. It's not just that. Since these outfits have been greatly militarized over arguably the last 3 decades, the officers, including these US Marshalls, have so much PPR (Personal Protective Equiment - remember that from such Panics at the Kung Flu PanicFest?) and also POE, it must add another 20 lb.
When you have 8 of the 11 super-sized cops together, for some reason all needed to make an arrest of one alleged pervert perp, you're talking nearly a ton of mass concentrated on 100 square feet ... on an old residential 2nd floor deck, that might have some rot in the structure... and not particularly well-connected to the house, you get Terrifying Moment Deck COLLAPSES Beneath U.S. Marshals During Missouri Raid on Convicted Sex Offender — Nine Officers Plunge to Ground. This happened in Huntsville, Missouri (Randolph County, in the north-central part of the State).
All that for:
The officers were participating in Operation Adam’s Watch, a nationwide U.S. Marshals initiative targeting fugitive sex offenders and offenders who failed to register their addresses.Yeah, but for one guy who failed to fill out a form on the web portal? That's a lot of concentrated manpower for that small bit of trouble, considering also that:
Munoz was reportedly not inside the apartment when officers arrived.Are stake-outs no longer a thing, or at least a check on the vehicles present?
Note the average weight difference from this time, 46 years ago. (Yeah, I know they're stunt men. Even the stunt men now are probably heavier.)
The harrowing Missouri footage is another reminder of the dangers law enforcement officers face while hunting dangerous fugitives and convicted predators.Or, one could tread more carefully, and a couple of guys could have been sent out instead of 11.
* Peak Stupidity has written quite a lot in support of ICE lately. That may seem a contradiction, but that's only if you see them the way the ctrl-left wants us to. Will ICE get out of hand and be the Police State? I don't know, but right now, things have only gotten violent when they are prevented by Sancitmony Cities from doing their actual non-violent jobs, as in the past - Immigration and Customs Enforcemnt.
** Ian Betteridge, of the journal Tech Crunch, in '09 at least, explained it like this:
This [previous Tech Crunch] story is a great demonstration of my maxim that any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word "no". The reason why journalists use that style of headline is that they know the story is probably bullshit, and don't actually have the sources and facts to back it up, but still want to run it.
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