Side Mirror Reflections
Posted On: Tuesday - May 26th 2026 7:08PM MST
In Topics: Cars Curmudgeonry Peak Stupidity Roadshow
A friend of my mechanic friend "lost", to put it nicely, his RH side mirror on his big late-model American SUV recently due to the lanes are just too narrow there. I don't know what Newton's 3rd had the mirror hit on its way bye-bye, and, from what I'm told, neither does he.
Peak Stupidity first wondered and subsequently confirmed (2 years later) a problem with the modern huge side mirrors. They create turbulence that causes an air resonance when you're driving with the windows down at highway speeds. Don't put yourself in the position of being subject to seizures from the buffeting, but if you do, call our Peak Stupidity legal team FIRST THING.
Besides the bigger and somewhat wider view likely pushed by automobile company lawyers, there's another reason these mirrors have to be huge now. They're full of all manner of mechanical parts and electronics. The innards of the mirror from that story are probably more complicated than what you see above. Think about what the functions are in a modern vehicle side mirror: extra turn signal lights, cameras, 2 motors for adjustment, one more motor for auto-stowage (folding), the defrost element, oh, I almost forgot, and a piece of mirrored glass for something or other...
At least working on one of these is less physically demanding than working under the hood or under the car. There's a lot of stuff in there:
That's not the diagram for this guy's SUV. Nobody had to get into it anyway mostly because the mirror is on the road somewhere, so you just buy another one... about a thousand bucks. Installation is extra.
I'm writing this side mirror reflections post now because I just got done swapping out the 2 side mirrors on a mid-1990s vehicle. They'd already gotten fairly big by then on most cars. However, they contain the 2 adjustment motors and mechanisms and a defrost. It was a quick job, especially on the 2nd mirror/door, as I accounted for all the screws that time and didn't break as much plastic!
As I checked the functioning of the defrost (worked), I had some reflections on mirrors of the cars built a half century ago.
These are said to be for a 1970s Ford Maverick. What do you have, a ball-and-socket joint with one screw to tighten or loosen it up? It's a piece of glass and a mount designed to do one thing, HOLD THE MIRROR!
What's so hard about sticking one's hand out the window, yes, even while driving, and adjusting the thing? Yeah, for the other side, you need a rider, or you did it at home with someone's help. It's especially the case if you don't share the car much that all the motorized adjustment business is overkill, never mind the extra signal lights and the cameras.
As for the defrost, I reflect on a good memory of my rolling down the driver's side window on cold mornings, pulling my the sleeve of my flannel shirt out and drying out the mirror that way. Oh, the other side would have to wait for some air flow ...
Somewhere in between then and now, the late '70s to '90s (?), rather than go electric, the auto makers included mechanical cables to adjust the up/down and left/right with a little joystick on the armrest or somewhere. If you don't take perfect care of the car, and the cable locks up, you just do what I did. The mirror was too loose, so I drilled and tapped a #10 screw hole and put in a nylon socket-head cap screw (all I had on hand) for my up/down adjustment. It wasn't rocket science, and was, in fact, far, far from it! Yes, it positively ruined the streamlining. Yet, I could see fine out the mirror, even on cold mornings. My sleeve could dry out on the way...
PS: The mirrors I just installed still have a problem. Since I didn't do much adjusting since I've owned this one, I hadn't noticed that both of the old ones - same with the new - only moved right, not left, nor up nor down. The problem's in the switch. Another one is on order for 30 bucks and should be in soon.
As I knew would be the case, the new mirrors feel like 2/3 of the weight of the old ones, as the plastic is all thinner. (I meant to weight them on a cooking type scale but forgot.)
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Trump says don't listen to the NeoCons
Posted On: Monday - May 25th 2026 8:18PM MST
In Topics: Trump The Neocons
you got three more fingers pointed at you, yeah...
Whaaaa?? Well, he called them "losers", one of his usual meaningless insults, but, NeoCons are who he means, per The Gateway Pundit, “Don’t Listen to the Losers… They Know Nothing” – Trump Responds to Neocons Spreading Lies About Iran Deal as More Details Come to Light. Oh, I left off "JUST IN:"
See, I keep imagining this guy has some self-awareness, remembers what blather he spouted last month, and maybe can think for himself more... you know, like a normal guy. It's not like that, I guess. The whole reason this politically, economically, and personally destructive Iran War started almost 3 months ago is that Trump listened to some people telling him something. They were NeoCons, and no, he sure shouldn't have listened to them.
Now, 3 months in, Trump is trying to extricate America from this new Middle East screwage somehow without losing face, a worse fate for him than for the most Chinese Chinaman ever. NeoCons Miss Lindsey of South* Carolina and Ted Cruz of Texas want the destruction to continue. Trump knows he's in a bad spot, not that he'd admit even to himself that the f___d up. From his TruthSocial account:
If I make a deal with Iran, it will be a good and proper one, not like the one made by Obama, which gave Iran massive amounts of CASH, and a clear and open path to a Nuclear Weapon. Our deal is the exact opposite, but nobody has seen it, or knows what it is. It isn’t even fully negotiated yet. So don’t listen to the losers, who are critical about something they know nothing about. Unlike those before me who should have solved this problem many years ago, I don’t make bad deals!This is very personal for him. It always is. Donald Trump is the guy who wrote that book, and he is proud to be the best dealmaker. Who told you, though, we had to have any deal to begin with? Who told you that Iran is America's concern? Did I tell you that? I didn't tell you that. [/Seinfeld's Jackie Chiles] Some NeoCon did. That's not MAGA, and it's made YOU out to be a loser, Donald Trump.
PS: The caption at the top is a song lyric from Dire's Straits's Mark Knofler, singing Solid Rock off their Making Movies album. Mark Knofler didn't make that up either.
* The writer of the GP post, one Jordan Conradson, put a "(NC)" by his name. Nope, they've got their own NeoCons and idiots.
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Deep Purple Seattle on a proposed Stupidity Heat Map.
Posted On: Friday - May 22nd 2026 9:33PM MST
In Topics: Genderbenders General Stupidity Music Geography
Weirdly, 3 out of 4 of this post's assigned 3 topic keys are together in alphabetical order. That's doesn't begin to compete with the weirdness enclosed herein though.
On our old "About" page (20th Century web term there!), What is Peek Stoopiditee?, we included just two sentences referencing the Geography of Stupidity. (Sounds like a great interdisciplinary field to major in!):
There are many theories of the origin and modes of transmittal of this stupidity, though, as often is the case, it is speculated that epicenter was the southern and central coasts of California. Other theories point to New York City, Washington, FS, and/or Karl Marx's ass.Over the years, stupidity has spread throughout this land, but there are still some major axes, or trunk arteries of stupidity, if you will.
It might be cool to make one of those "heat maps". Though the colors used often seem to represent the Climate Calamity or something, a heat map is nothing but a thematic map that uses a muted rainbow of colors, often yellow through deep red, rather than circles of varying diameters (remember these?) Base maps for something like this could be a basic States of the Union map, a US map with county lines, whatever.
When you read something like the following article, you can just the imagine the shade of stupidity that it would be represented by on a Stupidity Heat Map. Here goes:Seattle LGBT Commission Demands Taxpayer-Funded Housing and ‘State of Emergency’ for ‘Trans Refugees’ Fleeing Republican States, Socialist Mayor Promises Action Despite $175 Million Budget Deficit. Seattle, Washington is in a beautiful area of the country. The people have ruined it. I can believe it's in a State of Emergency all in there, but ... trans refugees? Trans-continental refugees, do they mean?
The commission claims “tens of thousands” of “trans refugees” have fled to Seattle in order to escape “genocidal and vile legislation” passed in Republican states that restrict sex change procedures for minors.As has been said before, the weirdos, we'll always have with us. Were I one of these particular types of Weirdo, of course I'd flee too from a Republican run State in which I was to be hunted down and exterminated. However, that's not it - I read the fine print, so I'll just translate this into non-weirdo-speak:
In an official statement, the advisory body demanded the city immediately step up with housing “run by trans orgs for trans people,” pay unemployed volunteers who are “fighting full-time against this crisis,” and offer protection from the federal government.
These people have fled to Seattle as refugees from States where the non-weirdos WILL NOT PAY for them to have their dicks or titties removed and to take hormones that will modify their bodies and brains.No, there's more:
There are refugees in Seattle who have escaped States in which children aren't allowed to decide themselves to have their dicks or titties removed and to take hormones that will modify their bodies and brains.
Flee, flee, my pretty!! Does this not deserve, if not a deep purple, at least a very dark burnt orange on any Stupidity Heat Map available? Even 10 years ago, that color might represent, I dunno, a city where a Moslem or Communist could be elected Mayor. That'd be a deep orange anyway, and for a place where a Moslem who is also a Communist, yeah, bright purple, at least.
Stupidity may peak first in Seattle, Washington. If it peaks elsewhere, than that just means I'll be a refugee myself. But, I don't... want... to live like a refugee (don't wanna live like a refugee-ee.
Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have kicked you around some... Yeah, at the very least!
It's not his best song by any means, but Tom Petty's Refugee was at the forefront of the Rock Reconquista of Disco at the very end of the 1970s. There was Disco Demolition Night (what a country!) at the Chicago White Sox game in mid-July of '79, right at the time Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers were recording Damn the Torpedos from which the above song comes.* However, it was a few more decades for Disco to be declared verboten - we can thank the Covid Nineteen for that, a silver lining in a really dark cloud. Disco, however, would only be a mustard yellow (not even dijon but French's) on a 2026 Stupidity Heat Map.
* One of my favorites on that album is Louisiana Rain.
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Primary v General Elections
Posted On: Friday - May 22nd 2026 9:55AM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '26 Artificial Stupidity The Neocons
NOTE: I really would like to give many more details, but Peak Stupidity will still try to keep low-keyed as far as location on other IDing info. This makes this harder to write and probably more boring.
I couldn't find a better image yet for this post. From this pretty good interactive site, I screenshotted just the 10 States seen alphabetically. I'd cropped out the legend, so, the open circles are Primary election turnout*, and the solids are for the General. This site is only about Presidential I spent some time with AI for info for this particular candidate last time around - it did eventually help, if I can trust it.
After discussing Primary Campaign Monkey Business of 4 decades ago in national political history and locally as of this week, I wanted to add this point about Primary elections.
Complaints have abounded ever since I've been reading and listening - it's a choice between the lesser of two evils. The evils usually make it to the top, because that's what these people are good at. The time to pare it down to one evil vs one maybe not so bad a guy is during the Primary elections.
Your vote makes more of a difference in the Primary. From AI and about 2 minutes of nuclear power generation, we get a general range of 18 - 39 % turnout in Presidential Primary elections v 56 - 68 % in the General elections. That was not exactly what I was looking for, but it's not called Artificial Stupidity here for nothing.
I find it hard to believe that anywhere NEAR that percentage come out in the primaries that are in off years, when all Congressman and 1/3 of Senators are elected. I doubt 10% of ordinary Americans know the date, which is why it's put on the signs I've been sticking into the ground. I'd guess 5 or 10%. For this candidate, I finally found, it was just over 12% last time around. Some people really, really don't like him, even though he's NOT a cocaine dealer.
I've been trying to get my friends to vote against this NeoCon I mentioned yesterday, and that's one selling point. Your vote matters 10x as much.
Why not come out and try to oust this guy now, rather than bemoan about the fruitless choice later?
I think I will make up my own signs, aligned just slightly more with my take on the long-term NeoCon and immigration traitor. I'll have more time in the week before this election, so this oughta be fun at least.
* "Turnout" means vote count as a percentage of registered voters. Many people don't bother, and this post is probably a lesson in why - we'll see in a few weeks.
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Primary Campaign Monkey Business
Posted On: Thursday - May 21st 2026 9:37AM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '26 History US Feral Government
What?? Vanna White got married to Linda Evans'fiance? Scandalous!
And, who's Linda Evans?
"Monkey Business" was the name of a boat, well, a yacht really, that was involved with the downfall of favored Democrat Primary election candidate Gary Hart (from Colorado). That picture on the right of the National Enquirer front page is famous, but the scandal of the immorality of Gary Hart caused his downfall a while before that. If you don't trust a 39 year-old Enquirer for the story (wow, for only 69¢!),
After the shenanigans out of Bill Clinton in the 1990s, worries about immorality of a candidate for President seemed pretty old-fashioned. Then there was Trump. By 2016, even Evangelical voters didn't care anymore. If you voted based on extramarital affairs and such, you might get a very moral GOPe candidate (probably not), but it seemed morally more important to try to save the country.
Here at Peak Stupidity's locale, we have a Primary election coming in which the incumbent who would like to stay an additional 20-something years in the FedGov is a NeoCon AND an immigration traitor. We want him gone now, as once the General election comes up, he's normally against someone even worse. It's probably hopeless, but I won't give up.
Therefore when a young guy called me (where DID he get my number?) to come by, talk, and bring some yard signs for the other GOP candidate - very good per his site - I was glad to help. I told the young man, and my wife later told this candidate, that the large postcards we've been getting from the incumbent accuse our guy of being a cocaine dealer with many arrests, maybe a coke user... he's apparently a very, very, bad man...
Therefore, nothing is any different. I was not able to be there that day to talk to the candidate himself, but I'd have told him that I don't care if he's the biggest drug dealer in the State or was seen on a yacht with ... I don't know, a dead Furry. He's an immigration patriot, and he's against the American warmongering, so he's actually MAGA (well, per his site anyway...) We're beyond that scandal stuff now in this country, nearly 4 decades after the Gary Hart and Donna Rice scandal. There's no time to worry about candidate morality, so your large postcards are no good around here, [REDACTED Incumbent].
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The Communist Khmer Rouge takeover, the Intellectuals, and evil Pol Pot
Posted On: Wednesday - May 20th 2026 8:06PM MST
In Topics: Commies History World Political Stupidity
Youtube suggested this 52 minute video for some reason. How'd it know this would be interesting to me? Algorithms, my dear boy, algorithms!
I've been conversing with some commenters who are obviously too young or too ignorant to know what the World went through during the middle of the last century with Communism. Other than it was adjacent to Vietnam and the war spilled over there, what with the Ho Chi Minh trail and that, Americans didn't really care what happened in the country of Cambodia... later renamed Kampuchea, but that didn't take, so back to Cambodia. (Vietnam and Cambodia were at war during part of the time in question here.)
However, on a population proportion basis, the takeover of Cambodia by the Khmer Rouge in 1975 and subsequent killing of somewhere near 1/3 of the entire population, could be right up at Number 1 on the Top 40 Evils of Communism chart. There was a movie I saw at the theater, The Killing Fields, about this horror.
How does this sort of thing, Pol Pot's reset of society to "Year Zero" get started? Intellectuals. Both Cambodia and Vietnam were part of what was dubbed "IndoChina" (makes sense - between India and China), and they were colonies of France going back to the mid and late 1800s, respectively. Ho Chi Minh had tried to get an audience with Woodrow Wilson in Versailles at the end of WWI to plead for French rule to be ended.* He wasn't initially into Communism, but that's the road he took for his goal.
A classroom full of the brightest Cambodian intellectuals that had gone to France in the late 1940s is shown in this video. After a few years, these people joined the French Communist party, and things went downhill from there. The man who was later to take the name Pol Pot was one of them. At 10:20 into the video we see a typical clueless White broad, French woman Laurence Pico, as she explains how excited she had been about following one of these intellectual fools to a whole new life turning Cambodia into a nation of "noble savages", Pol Pot's idea.
I'm skipping a WHOLE LOT, of course, as America was involved in various ways.
About the intellectuals, though: It is said that during the worst of the genocide of so much of the Cambodian population, in the quest for this back to the land utopia, anyone wearing glasses was picked out, because, well, he or she must be intelligent, and the Khmer Rouge at this point had no room for MOAR intellectuals. (It's not like you'd need glasses for anything else but reading books, right?) You didn't need glasses to harvest rice and own nothing and be happy... which sounds... eerily familiar ...
Well, that's just some interesting history now. A commenter on TUR did point out to me that, unlike some, say the Ceausescu tyrants of Romania, who were finally put up against a wall and blasted to hell, Pol Pot was never punished in that manner, at least on this earth. In the summer of 1997 he was put on trial and imprisoned for life by his Khmer Rouge after a falling out. He died in mid-April of 1998 of a heart attack, but the large, detailed wiki page describes a claim about this being a suicide, Pot's being worried that he was going to be handed over to the Americans.
Wiki discussed Pol Pot's change in ideology by the 1980s:
Pol Pot frequently commented that "We chose communism because we wanted to restore our nation. We helped the Vietnamese, who were communist. But now the communists are fighting us. So we have to turn to the West and follow their way."So says the know-it-all change-the-world intellectual. This change in his views was all well and good, but Pol Pot had had millions of his countrymen killed by then.
Why bother with these old stories of the Communists of last century, a reader may rightly ask. I think that when the financial crisis that's bound to come, DOES, America will finally be that low-hanging fruit that modern Communists have been waiting to pick. We should be wary of these types of people - better learn who to be wary of now. If not well, hey, Merrick Garland wears glasses... just sayin'.
* Later on, just as with Vietnam, the Japanese arrived, and the French took power back after the end of WWII.
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Trump, Xi, and that big old tree
Posted On: Tuesday - May 19th 2026 6:00PM MST
In Topics: Music Treehuggers Trump China Bible/Religion
I am not reading or even linking to the New York Times, but I did copy this blurb from a search on the wording of today's post's title:
For Example, Putin;: How Xi Used a Private Garden Walk to Charm TrumpThe New York Times ... Chinatown edition, perhaps? The three New York based (but not so much) Times writers here wee trying to get all poetic and shit... Yes, Pooh Bear Xi might have been making a poetic allusion or he was just talking about these trees there, trying to impress Trump and in some way I sure cannot fathom, embarrass Americans? That's what the reports were a few days ago - it was supposedly some kind of fow paw, a Puke on the Prime Minster moment, if I may, as with Richard Nixon's visit two decades prior - "Only George Bush could go to Japan... and puke on Kiichi Miyazawa".
4 days ago
The Chinese leader points out a tree that is more than 100 years old, noting that it is actually two trees that have merged together, a possible allusion to Mr. Xi's calls for the two countries ...\
Author: Lily Kuo, Jiawei Wang,Pei-Lin Wu
There inside the secret garden of the Zhongnanhai in the land between the "Southern and Central" lakes. Just as with the hype about that big old tree, those are just a couple of ponds in Peking. I remember seeing that area in '23, but we weren't gonna pay no 50 RMB for a ticket to the compound, even if Xi would have let us follow the cute lady with the big floppy hat and the pennant in there.
Trump, to his credit, said things like "Nice place.", "I could get used to this.", and "They live that long?" about the old trees, seen above. That's just small talk, and it's a nice change, IMHO, from his coming up with something like, "Yeah, well, we're gonna make Zhejiang the 57th State." This is under the assumption Donald Trump could pronounce Dzeh' dzaaa... ahhh, forget it, even I can't!
However, Trump is usually pretty quick on his feet, as in with his mouth, actually, so it seems he didn't really want to cause trouble by saying what I might have said:
That’s pretty, Mr. Chairman. Your civilization is amazing – 3,500 years old, and ours is only about a tenth of that in our current land! Thing is, see, we saved millions of big ole Redwoods and Sequoias in beautiful California that are WAY older than these shrubs here, while you all ravaged your forests for firewood while people starved under Communism. Hell, do you still have to pay extra at the restaurant for extra paper napkins? I did a couple of years ago.That's my problem - it'd have been too long for a good soundbite. Would the New York Times Chinese writers have been impressed though? If Donald Trump knew a modicum about China and America (he's about the farthest from a country boy I can imagine), he might have had a good retort about the trees of America.
I think, Mr. Chairman, you should learn from America how to take care of your environment for the Chinamen of the future… just sayin’, but hey, nice sticker bushes. I could get used to this.
I've been everywhere in this here land, and that includes these magnificent forests. It doesn't have to be California either - I'm partial to the Olympic Mountains in Washington State.
Peak Stupidity, in the 5th part of our 6-part series entitled Will America be Looted by China has some pictures of this beautiful wilderness in western Washington. That is one of the three.
Compared to this, China has almost nothing pristine and not anything quite so impressive.* So what, a few old trees. I cut down a tree that I planted years ago and now have some hardwood 2" (ACTUAL, not nominal) x 20s some 10 footers, and some about 14'. stacked up. We had pecan trees cut down that had 74 rings. America knows trees, Mr. Xi, so you can go take that old secret garden crap back out to the commune!
Moving on backwards in time, I did get to see what was claimed to be an 800 y/o, maybe 1,000 y/o tree in a different part of China. It is in a different province, nowhere near these Big Wigs and their compound. You could touch it, and they made a big park out of the thing, with tricycles for rent and all manner of knickknacks for sale.
Back forwards to a few months back we got to see and touch this olive tree, there among a few dozen of them, said to have been around in that same Garden of Gethsemane (not to be confused with Yosemite) when and where Jesus was arrested and detained. That's right at two Millennia** ago, so it's one old tree too.
Some damn Chairman of the CCP is the last guy that ought to be lecturing or putting on the spot an American about trees. I bet nobody in the CCP has ever heard of Enya either! They'd probably crush New Agers as they do the Falun Gong and the Christians.
This is the instrumental title song of The Memory of Trees, Enya's 4th album of New Age music, released 6 months shy of 30 years ago. Two other really good songs on that album are China Roses and On My Way Home.
* The mountains in Guizhou province are impressive. Also, the people of China are starting to protect, or at least change, their environment in some big ways.
** I'm gonna get to this in another post.
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Massie v Trump
Posted On: Monday - May 18th 2026 7:31AM MST
In Topics: Elections '16 - '26 Trump alt-right/MAGA
There's an important GOP Primary election tomorrow. It's more important than the general election for US Representative of Kentucky's 4th District for a number of reasons, the simplest being that a Republican will win that either way, unless he's a complete whack-job. Here are the demographics of the 4th District from '23:
86.6% WhiteThese numbers are important too, as we saw with Marjorie Taylor Greene in her Georgia 14th vs AOC's NY 14th and explained in MTG v AOC.
4.2% Hispanic
4.1% Two or more races
3.4% Black
1.1% Asian
0.5% other
68.2% urbanThat's surprising when you look at a map of KY-4th. It's not nearly as gerrymandered as you'll see a lot. The district sits south of the eastern portion of Kentucky's Ohio River border with Ohio. It doesn't include quite to Ashland* (over by West Virginia), and it stretches to the eastern suburbs of Louisville. It includes the Kentucky suburbs of Cincinnati (not that much there, really), and doesn't include Lexington. "Urban" must include exurbs here.
31.8% rural
The incumbent Thomas Massie is running against a guy whose name I don't even care to look up, because who he is, is not the big point in this election. Thomas Massie is really running against Donald Trump. Not to attempt to sound like Karl Marx here, but this election is both a political and personal struggle.
Here's the political struggle, although the two are intertwined. Both of these men are MAGA, or were, I should say, before Trump went off the plan to put America into a fight for Israel. Contrary to what this Swati Mishra (from I don't know where) says below the photo, Rep. Massie's stance on the immigration invasion has been very good. Like MTG, Thomas Massie differs with Trump on American non-defensive wars, such as in the Ukraine (support $ only) and now Iran.
Trump did not escalate support for the Ukraine war at least, so I don't think a big rift between the two men started there. Because Thomas Massie is a principled man, and Donald Trump is not, the former did not support Mr. Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" for eventual financial SHTF reasons. That was a big deal to Trump. I see both sides on this one.
Trump has been criticized, including right here on this blog, for implementing policies on Job #1 via executive action only. As Trump-45 he DID make some good strides - lower illegal numbers, a gradual, but still drastic, cut in "refugee" numbers, etc. - against the PRP, but as we all wrote, as soon as the next guy gets in, on Day 1 it all goes away. That was indeed the case, and even WE didn't expect it to get to the destructive level it did under Dark Brandon.
It's been the same for Trump-47, so what do you do? As Reagan did, you compromise with the D's to get bills passed, and that BBB did include a WHOLE LOT ($150 Billion) of money for Job #. So, you don't worry about the hundreds of Billions of waste/pork spread around. (Not only that, but I don't think Trump really understands the financial problem anyway.) Trump wanted at least all the Republicans to vote for it, and Massie was a hold out.
Oh, and then, BTW, just as with Reagan, a D compromise actually means a stalling move, as in the case of the BBB, they proceeded with the Schumer Shutdown last Fall to block the anti-PRP part of the budget anyway. Trump only got out of it with his great skills at publicity.
Who was right, the principled Conservative or the "Art of the Deal" guy? I don't know. I can see why President Trump held this against Thomas Massie. Thomas Massie was voting on principle, and I would think the voters in Kentucky District 4 appreciate that. However, now, with criticism of the Iran War, the rift is deeper between Trump and the principled Conservatives.
Going back to the problem with only Executive action on Job # 1, what else do you do besides "compromise' with the traitorous liars of the D-party? Here's what: You try to form coalitions in Congress. Part of that is thinking ahead and getting not GOPe, Inc. types, but real MAGA Conservatives in office for the next big votes. Trump really has an advantage versus Ronald Reagan 4 decades ago, in that Trump has a very loyal active base that will come out and support whom Trump says to support.
We saw this in Indiana with redistricting. For those who still complain about "put it into the law", well this is how you go about this strategically. The redistricting decision is part of this, as decided by a Supreme Court that didn't "go native", not even the worthless John Roberts (he probably saw no point on this one, as he wouldn't be the deciding vote). Trump appointed three of them, maybe giving a slight 2-man advantage over prior SCrOTAE. I am glad to see some strategerizing going on.
Or is some of it not strategy, but just plain Trump's vindictiveness? One of the Indiana reps ousted had voted to impeach Trump at the end of his last term, something involving January 6th insurrections or nonsense like that. Revenge is a dish best served cold, but it helps if you can put in another MAGA guy while you're at it.
This vindictiveness of Trump's may be put to better use in prosecuting the jailers of the J-6ers and the perpetrators of the '20 election cheat-fest. I'd love to see Alley-Hondro Mayorkas be thrown in prison, along with Soros & Singham and others. Instead, here we have a principled Immigration Patriot MAGA Conservative who wasn't going to be simple yes-man for Donald Trump as the target of a primary challenge due to this nasty trait. (It reminds me of Trump's stupidity regarding Jeff Sessions. After Sessions was removed from the A/G position, Trump STILL worked against this A+ Immigration Patriot in the Alabama Senate primary - pure vindictiveness.)
Then, we read, from the this UK Guardian article (thanks, Mr. Anon):
He [Trump, but I you'd have known] has branded Massie a “lowlife”, “moron” and “weak and pathetic”, and even mocked him for remarrying 16 months after the sudden death of his wife of more than 30 years. He told a rally in the district in March: “We’ve got to get rid of this loser. This guy is bad. He’s disloyal to the Republican party. He’s disloyal to the people of Kentucky, and most importantly, he is disloyal to the United States of America. And he’s got to be voted out of office as soon as possible.”Is that "trash talk" or "smack talk", I don't know? It takes a whole lot of hypocrisy too for Trump to talk about Thomas Massie's personal life.
Here's what principled is (also from the Guardian article):
But Massie’s rigid ideological commitment could hurt him at the ballot box. Early in his career, Massie refused to help his constituents access federal programs that he opposed, a hardline stance that permanently alienated local business leaders and officials.[My bolding.] Now, THAT'S principled. Donald Trump couldn't wrap his mind around that. AND, Thomas Massie is a big off-the-grid prepper too!
Tres Watson, a Republican political strategist and host of Kentucky Politics Weekly podcast, said: “It’s not entirely a Trump-Massie battle. There’s probably 30% of the district inclined to vote against Massie because of the way he handles his district office. When he first came into office, he basically said, if I don’t agree with the program , I’m not going to help my constituents access it.
There's also Trump's ego that's involved. You can't be just a supporter of the (original) MAGA goals, apparently. You must be down with everything Trump wants. That's the big battle here, as this election for the GOP nomination in the 4th Congressional District of Kentucky has become a nationwide referendum: Does being MAGA mean you must follow Trump?
I vote no, but then I don't live in the district. I can only hope for a Thomas Massie win. Lots of money has been pouring in from both sides. We'll see tomorrow night how the people of the this one Congressional district think about this question.
* The map on wiki was not so clear, so I went to bing co-pilot, and even it had to crunch hard to get this simple Geographical answer.
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Trump, Xi, the Iran War, and Sucking v Saving Face
Posted On: Saturday - May 16th 2026 8:03PM MST
In Topics: Trump China The Neocons World Political Stupidity
Yes, that is a real automobile make or at least it was in '23, as we reported that summer in Dispatches from the Middle Kingdom: Oh, the cars you'll see!. We even passed a dealer in Peking. The Chinese are believers in luck and superstition, or at least were in '23 - I'm not going back there to keep up - so one could reckon that this Trump-Chi naming was done for that reason back in '17 or so. Good luck to them both.
However, the production of the TrumpChi started in '10, so go figure.
President Trump and Chairman Xi are meeting in The Middle Kingdom as of press time here, and this is Peak Stupidity's opinion on the matter. We'd feel a whole lot better about all that Trump is involved in, ALWAYS leaving his egotistical, narcissistic, Caudillo-like behavior aside as much as we can, were it not for this recent stupid Iran War.
We'd like to believe it's all 5-D Chess or Risk (the game of World Conquest), and the President has the Trump card over Xi's hand of deuces and counterfeit jokers. As much as anyone, bloggers most definitely unexcepted, doesn't like to be proven wrong*, I would not at all mind being wrong about the Iran War. That's not likely. A friend told me that Napoleon (at some point) was said to have been "blundering to glory". Could that be Donald Trump with Iran? I know one thing - he would never admit it, were it the case. Even if it were, I don't agree with the idea of making stupid unthinking moves in the hopes of it "working out for the best" strategically for America and our relationship with China.
Nope, Trump has been suckered. I don't know if was the Israelis directly telling him "it'll be over in a week, no problem!", or perhaps one of his guys. They don't make the old calm rational strategic thinking guys anymore, on either side, so Trump probably got some advice about "Stop with the cope and cringe - my friend said this worked great in 'Call of Duty'".
So there he is spending time with Chairman Xi. There was the big old tree diplomatic faux pax, that I will write about in another post, as it seems a missed opportunity for Trump's brash mouth. #Disappointing.
A couple of dozen Big Biz bigwigs of manufacturing, finance, and "TECH" have come with, to make deals I suppose. (I'm pleased only that Elon Musk was one of them... unless he's come to recruit "talent".) Trump loves him some dealmaking, Constitutionalism and sovereignty issues not at all withstanding. Now, about ...
Sucking Face: That's an old, crude but humorous expression for kissing. It's a different organ that people are often accused of kissing, but that is one thing I like about Trump. He'll say a few nice words about everybody, even murderous illegal aliens, but doesn't feel the need to kiss ass diplomatically. His brash talk is often welcomed.
I especially like that Trump does not feel the need to kiss up to the largest manufacturing power on the planet. China is indeed the economic enemy of America, and it's not all on the up and up, they don't play fair, and the've got plenty of people within America here to help China win this. Trump might be helping himself and his Big Biz buddies, but he's at least working on behalf of America.
Saving Face: Back to that war thing, this is where Trump may as well be "the first Chinese President". That is, not in the way one thinks of Bai Dien and those that won't fight economically, but saving face is a Chinese thing. Generally, Chinese people would rather lie than be embarrassed and admit wrongdoing. Donald Trump is loath to admit he's been wrong.
That is a problem when it comes to our extraction from the Iran war. How will Trump get out of this while still saving face? One can't just admit it publicly that the war has been a stupid mistake right now, as that would be a bad move both diplomatically and militarily. Maybe those bright young advisors who got him into this thing can find a way for Trump to save face and GET! US! OUT!
Until then, Trump's standing up for America against China and the World won't mean as much to me.
* The Global Financial Stupidity topic that we have hundreds of posts about is an example. I WILL feel like an idiot if the financial SHTF or something like it doesn't happen by, let's call it 5 years. If by - make it a round number - the end of '30, we aren't experiencing something one could have read about in Lionel Shriver's The Mandibles (6 part review here), Peak Stupidity will cease and desist writing about this topic. Or else, you all won't be able to read about it, because things will have gotten bad enough to where the whole internet is down!
However, being wrong is one thing, but I'd still be glad my boy can be a young adult in a world that has not gone full Mandible.
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Increased Misery from Globalism and Indian Scammers
Posted On: Thursday - May 14th 2026 11:06AM MST
In Topics: Global Financial Stupidity Globalists Artificial Stupidity Big-Biz Stupidity Scams
I'd been meaning to write this post, and maybe another to go along with it, for some time. Today, Unz Review site iSteve Community commenter Mr. Anon, in this reply to the good point about scammers and old people in this post by Sam Hildbrand, got me going today.
Plus, I am tired of being told to log in again and again into the Outlook email, so I've got not too much to read right now anyway... couldn't be too important...
It's called Multi-Factor Authentication, people, MFA. Learn it. Live it. Screenshot this powerpoint, please. Big Biz has got employees on their various and sundry web "portals" (PS WARNING: We HATE, HATE, HATE web portals!) often with slightly different usernames and slightly different passwords* required.
Big Biz has the IT people making settings such that we are logged out of each of these within 5 to 10 minutes now. Sometimes, you can lengthen this logged-in time by touching, clicking, whatever... When in the entryway of multiple portals, one may need to keep juggling these things to get use out of them.
OK, but life's not that simple anymore. It turns out that this situation is not secure enough. Multi-Factor Identification is required, meaning we must give our phone numbers to people who ought to have no business knowing them. It's that or we can't use the portals we have to use to get things done.
That's due to these people:
It's not about disgruntled employees, possibly scorned lovers [We're trying to pick up more women readers here - Ed.] looking over people's shoulders anymore. Software and electronics technology has "improved" so much during this century that scams not possible before can be done, often nearly at no cost. Globalism has been a part of this. With all the connectivity, enterprised networked planeting we got doing on, physical location doesn't mean so much.
Therefore, I have been asked 3 times in this one day to log back in to read my email, with a code to my phone as part of it. It had been only occasionally, maybe once a week, before though Outlook unhelpfully doesn't tell me when - I just don't get any email for a while and figure it out eventually.
I can't say that Americans wouldn't be doing SOME of this, but, under Globalism, you've got the whole world with billions of not so well-off, but bright enough, people to do the job. That they don't have any integrity is surely a big part of it too. Therefore, Big Biz must keep fighting this, and the employees must put up with more obstacles to getting, like, work, done.
Then there's this same crap in our personal lives. It's more of the same people who are responsible, something you can easily tell when you break down and answer a call from an unknown number. (Remember when they were ALL unknown numbers? It might be HER, calling back... oh, it's not ... yes, my refrigerator IS running! I got the damn joke last time!) It's nice that there's this "sharing economy" sort of thing, in which some of us vote these people off the island by clicking "report spam", or just mash "block".
Then again, I got the "Suspected Spam" warning yesterday for a call, but the area code suggested that this was someone at a (non-IT) help desk group calling me back. He was someone that I WANTED to hear from, and it WAS that guy. We both were wondering why that message appeared.** What do we do next time? Peak Stupidity quickly discussed some telephone etiquette over 8 years ago.
If we don't answer, they could always text or leave voice mail, making it only somewhat easier to figure if we are being scammed by Indians.
Yes, back in the day, we had those annoying kids with their prank calls - I can't remember every single one of them
I never fell for the one below, but Kung Flu PanicFest aside, one time a guy really had me going, starting from a search for a printer driver download. It helps to hang up and THINK. Since the era of heavy texting started, the only time I got suckered enough to call back was in response to a car warranty message. We had just gotten a vehicle that had a warranty on it, the first and only. I don't recall even letting it get to a human before I figured "Wait. Who ARE these people?" Yeah, we know who they are.
Now, what if I call about my email? Do I answer any suspected spam call back, answer a text, or even answer an email that I might yet get? After all, the latest thing is to test that we are not being suckered into "phishing" attacks. Yes, they test us. Not to worry, as I don't want to hear from ANYBODY, when it comes down to it.
What to do? Here's Mr. Anon's quick comment that I linked to above:
Internet and phone scammers are among the lowest forms of life. It would be better for society if they were all publicly flogged.Thank you, Mr. Anon. Providing IT solutions. That's our core competency here at Peak Stupidity.
* See also a previous post Password Proliferation.
** For any IT/electronics/networking type readers, I wonder how much of this screening goes on at the cell phone company and how much on my own phone. I can see having some of each.
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Canadian Cuck Cries Foul, not Fair, after Causing Own Campaign Collapse
Posted On: Wednesday - May 13th 2026 7:59PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Lefty MegaStupidity Music
Alliteration? I tried. I ran myself out of time for anything today than this "Read this!" quick take on "being hoisted by one's own petard."
That's Canadian Nate Erskine-Smith outta Scarborough, on the east side of Toronto, which is actually not so Fair. Mr. Erskine-Smith's hyphenation is already troublesome to me, but that he's been a big mass immigration supporter is the big problem... for him too, it turns out.
Per one C. Douglas Golden of The Western Journal, Canadian Liberal Who Championed Mass Migration Questions Election Results After Losing Race to Immigrant.
Nate Erskine-Smith, a former Canadian Minister of Housing, Infrastructure, and Communities who served under both Prime Ministers Justin Trudeau and Mark Carney, was supposed to be a shoo-in for the nomination for a by-election in Ontario for the left-wing Liberal Party.The guy owns 35 Dominoes stores. He's done more in his life than serving under two Communist Canadian Prime Ministers, but this Toronto man's name is Ahsanul Hafiz. Nate Erskine-Smith has been encouraging lots of Absanul Hafizes and the like to immigrate to the Great White North where they are replacing the Nate Erskine-Smiths and will continue the culture of Bangladesh, Pakistan, Cameroon, the various Congos, and well, they may not ALL believe in honest elections or fairness in general. Here was the ballot count:
Instead, the open-borders advocate got beaten by a Bangladeshi immigrant pizza shop owner...
“After a full day of ranked ballot voting to select the riding’s Liberal candidate in the upcoming provincial byelection, Hafiz emerged victorious with 718 votes, followed by Beaches-East York Liberal MP Nathaniel Erskine-Smith with 699 votes by the third ballot of the ranked count. Other candidates seeking nomination were Qadira Jackson and Mahmuda Nasrin,” Beach Metro reported Saturday.It's tough running against not one but THREE established old-time Torontonians. Still, Mr. Hafiz is not happy either:
“Like many of you, I came here as an immigrant,” he said before the voting. “Ontario is not moving forward. I want to help build the same opportunities that were available to me.”He won, and he wants total replacement. Mr. Erskine-Smith wants a total recall:
However, Erskine-Smith is crying foul. According to the CBC, Hafiz and fellow candidate Qadira Jackson apparently struck a deal to play the ranked-choice system, urging their supporters to put the other candidate as No. 2 so that the guy who used to be in the Trudeau and Carney governments wasn’t back there.That doesn't sound so fair, but what made you think your newcomers were going to play fair?
“At one table, it was 50 per cent of the people that had ID issues, saying they lost driver’s licenses and that they lived in the area, so I don’t know,” Erskine-Smith said. “It’s unfair for me to specifically speculate.”No, it's not fair. How fair have you been to the actual, like, White Canadians, when you pushed for the Population Replacement Programme?
Are you goin' to Scarborough Fair?That was 60 years ago!
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme.
Remember me to one who lives there.
She once was a true love of mine.
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Chinese Christians and America - it's more than a feeling.
Posted On: Tuesday - May 12th 2026 6:19PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Music China Americans Bible/Religion
(File photo - we were outside.)
There were a whole lot of Chinese Christians at the big church gathering outside recently. (Well, it was a Sunday, anyway, if that helps.) The weather was perfect, and we were all glad to be there. A groups of a dozen Chinese kids, from 5 to 12 y/o did some song & dance routine. There was lunch and some activities around and in the pond.
As I watched the people sitting in this old small outdoor amphitheater, I looked at some and figured they are probably glad to be in America. They should be, and after all, they never go home except to visit, so that says something.
To digress slightly here, I'll read commentary everywhere now about how great China is doing. They've got those gleaming cities and trains, and amazing new highways. We've written before, though, that All that glitter ... ... it ain't all gold. They've got their social problems there, as we'll go on about some more in another post.
America has its own problems, and besides the illegals who can't keep up due to being too busy being trafficked and their nil command of English, the Chinese people here can keep up with the bad news along with the Gospel. The new problems in China aside, the "students" at American universities on this visa and the next, forever and ever, the preachers doing jobs American Christians JUST! WON'T! DO!™, the King Buffet Indentured Servant waitresses, ALL of them, end up staying here. They do everything possible to stay. If China is so great now, and America is going down, why does nearly every single one of the Chinese people in America still want to stay here?! I have a LARGE sample size.
We were sitting on the rock steps of the amphitheater, which I know personally was built at least half a century back, and the facilities - boat docks, dining facility, etc (except the zip line) were also built also that long ago, all by the White, and maybe a few black, Americans of last century. Do these newcomers think about this? How about that these common areas for worship and recreation were built, mostly selflessly, by White Americans? Are they grateful for this land?
I thought that they surely must be glad to be in a place with so much room compared to China. One could say that this is just the luck of the draw. No, not really. It took a couple of centuries of hard-working Colonists and Americans to BUILD the country out of savage NOTHINGNESS out in the elements. It took a certain type of people, mostly the English, to develop the never-before-seen (maybe never again) Constitution and limited government that allowed people to be freer here than about anywhere else. Americans created these "commons" that the Churchgoers enjoyed that day. That's what's now allegedly bequeathed to the rest of the whole World.
If nothing else, being Christians, one thing these Chinese people must appreciate is that they can practice it openly with no fear. Right now, in China, that's a big no-no.
At lunch, I talked to a Chinese couple that my wife knows. They had just gotten back from a visit to the old Middle Kingdom, to where the woman's 90 y/o Mom lives, in Yuanan or Guanxi, one. After I got the details of the trip, the lady mentioned that she really is glad to be back. She has a bad "feeling" whenever she is in China. I tried to get her to explain. "Well, you can't be open about everything there..." I prompted. I asked her if it was about the Orwellian business with having to use one's phone for payments and all manner of things. "Here we still have lots of wide-open spaces...". I think she agreed with the latter two, at least. It's a "feeling". It's enough to where everyone wants to stay.
As for me, I know what we still have here (to some degree). It's more than a feeling.
Well, you knew THIS was coming, right? Boston from the Boston album, one I have on a vinyl picture-disk of those electric guitar spaceships. Tom Schultz was in another world, and this song was unworldly to me when I first heard it. More Than a Feeling was created more than a half century ago too, and released to the world right at that long ago, in September of 1976.
Boston was:
Tom Scholz – lead and rhythm guitar, acoustic guitar, special effects guitar, bass, organ, clavinet, percussion, producer, engineer
Brad Delp – vocals, 12-string acoustic guitar, rhythm guitar, percussion
Sib Hashian – drums, percussion
Barry Goudreau – lead and rhythm guitar, guitar solos on "Long Time" and "Let Me Take You Home Tonight"
Fran Sheehan – bass on "Foreplay" and "Let Me Take You Home Tonight"
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Honey Pots, Hot Pots, and working for the CCP
Posted On: Monday - May 11th 2026 7:01PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Music China Southern rock Female Stupidity
Saturday night she was downtown
working for the CCP,
sitting in a nest of bad ren
gotta a little sore on her knee...
Peak Stupidity has been writing about the Chinese industrial and military spying within the US for years. That recent Eric Swalwell story is nothing new to us and nothing new for America. (I just happen to enjoy the name Fang Fang is all - that honey pot's been around for a long while.)
Now, rather than only the engineer/scientist types who have no business working in, much less dominating the work force, in academic research and the national labs, we have Chinese Mayors and other government officials running Chinese, that is CCP, propaganda operations. We call it SinoProp. I can tell the anonymous strangely-American-handled commenters on comment threads, but we've got city Mayors now doing this work too.
ZeroHedge reported today California Mayor Indicted, Will Plead Guilty To Being CCP Agent. The city is Arcadia, one of the hundreds of cities in greater "LA", that is Los Angeles, Orange, and portions of Riverside and other counties that make up the whole shebang. This is a city I have heard of, even back in the 1980s. I knew a Chinese guy from Monterrey Park, just 5 miles east of downtown LA. Even back in those years he told me how the place was a big Chinese haven in the LA basin. I just looked it up, and found it was about 1/3 Chinese then and has leveled out to 2/3 Chinese during this century. Here are the people running the place:
• Mayor Elizabeth YangThey've got one Vietnamese guy, I don't know about Henry Lo, and that token Hispanic on the city council... wait, what? Yes, it's Chinese run.
• Mayor Pro Tem Henry Lo
• City council Vinh T. Ngo
Jose Sanchez
Thomas Wong
• City Manage Inez Alvarez (Interim) [Oh, no - Hispanic women trying to run things - bad deal!] • Assistant City Manager. Diana Garcia (Interim)
Arcadia is 8 miles or so northeast, just to the south of the San Gabriels, and it is also 2/3 "Asian". I really wish they would split up the Oriental and Indian counts, as they are both large contingents of the mass immigration. In this case, I will assume most are Chinese. Here are the people running the place:
• Mayor VacantWTH kinda name is Lazzaretto? "Why, that's City Manager Lazzaretto's name, Sir." [/Catch 22] He might be the only one of them resembling an old-time American.
• Mayor Pro Tem Paul P. Cheng
• City Council
Michael Cao
David Fu
Sharon Kwan
• City Manager. Dominic Lazzaretto
Note the vacancy. Yes, wiki is very current here, as CCP SinoPropista Eileen Wang is no longer Mayor. She won't be able to be Mayor again for 5 to 10 years. From ZH:
In a significant development announced today by the U.S. Department of Justice, Arcadia, California Mayor Eileen Wang has been charged with one count of acting in the United States as an illegal agent of a foreign government - the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Wang, 58, has agreed to plead guilty to the felony, which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in federal prison. She resigned from her position as mayor and Arcadia City Council member this afternoon following the unsealing of the case.Hey, it's not funny. Some people, cough, Ron Unz, cough, cough, fall for his stuff!
According to court filings and the DOJ’s Central District of California announcement, Wang and her former fiancé, Yaoning "Mike" Sun, operated the U.S. News Center, a website that presented itself as a news source for the local Chinese-American community. From late 2020 through 2022, they received and executed directives from PRC government officials - primarily via WeChat - to post pro-PRC propaganda. Examples include publishing pre-written articles denying forced labor or genocide in Xinjiang, editing content at the direction of Chinese officials, and sharing view counts and links in coordinated group chats. PRC officials reportedly praised the speed and effectiveness of the posts, with messages such as "So fast, thank you everyone" and "Great!"
As you can see, Miss Wang is not the Wang of Ted Nugent's Wang Dang, Sweet Poontang fame. She is no Honey Pot, so she must be content to cook a mean Hot Pot and rake in those CCP payments. Kash Patel has done some work here, a drop in the bucket, of course, but to discourage the others? I doubt they're really discouraged yet.
Why let it get this far, such that a city Mayor is working for China? I wonder about Boston Mayor Michelle Wu too. She was kind of cute and could have been a Honey Pot back in her day. Was she? Has she just assimilated to American Communism, or does she have a soft spot for the folks in the old country? Does it matter?
I'm gonna do something odd and reverse the bolding in the excerpt (same ZH article) below:
While we can't imagine there are any American mayors of Chinese cities - U.S. intelligence agencies have long warned that the CCP employs sophisticated, long-term influence operations to shape narratives, gather political intelligence, and cultivate relationships with American elites - especially in states with large Chinese-American populations such as California.A commenter pointed this out too. No, we certainly can't imagine that. That would be stupid of the Chinese people. It's not that there's this one Chinese Mayor of a city of 56,000 people. The stupidity is that you take in so many people that big enclaves of unassimilated foreigners grow, basically, foreign, countries within this nation. Of course they'll elect one of their own. He, or she in this case, won't likely be working for America. Eileen Wang, with help from ex-squeeze Yaoning "Bill" Sun have been working for the CCP.
I've got a lot of posts on deck, and what's trending here on Peak Stupidity is some kind of China week.
We'll have to put some music in here, as there's a battle for Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress, Wang Dang, Sweet Poontang, and (as always!) Everybody Wang Chung Tonight in my head. Nope, they've all been heard before here, so how about Workin' for MCA from the days of Southern Rock?
I had to choose here between showing Lynyrd Skynyrd live or having a better sound off the album (Second Helping or the greatest hits Gold and Platinum). I'll go with the live version so readers can see how the country was a half century ago. All the band had to worry about was those Yankee slickers trying to con them into a contract... well, and sadly, one POS airplane.
Skynyrd in 1974:
Ronnie Van Zant – lead vocals
Gary Rossington – guitar
Allen Collins – guitar
Ed King – guitar, backing vocals
Leon Wilkeson – bass, backing vocals
Bob Burns – drums
Billy Powell – keyboards
This was before Steve and Cassie Gaines and drummer Artimus Pyle. Note that they had 3 guitarists. Playing lots of guitars was part of Southern Rock.
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Helen Andrews: Wokeness is being caused by female domination
Posted On: Saturday - May 9th 2026 7:23PM MST
In Topics: Political Correctness Feminism Pundits ctrl-left Female Stupidity
I don't mean THAT kind of domination. "Beat me, whip me, make me write bad checks" was the funny line some friend used to keep saying... well, I mean it was funny THEN! The headline here was getting too long, but I mean domination of workplaces, universities, all the institutions that half a century ago were still filled with a majority of men. That's what Helen Andrews means.
Peak Stupidity has railed on the great pundit Steve Sailer for thinking Wokeness has been just some fad. Who has making a great effort to squash it all lately? That'd be the current President. Otherwise, wokeness wasn't going to just fade away to oblivion like hula hoops, pet rocks, or My Space, and it will certainly reappear or, better way to put it, BE revived, if we don't strike it through the heart with a stake.
Wokeness didn't start as a fad either. It has grown over the last half century, or I can at least claim 4 decades, first in its more mild form as Political Correctness, but having ramped up to Wokeness during this century. Peak Stupidity has never claimed as a fact that there were all-hands planning meetings and such for this Cultural Revolution 2.0 - what it has become, basically - other than knowing about the Frankfurt School and the like. Mostly, IMO, there are people, in this case Communists, Globalists, whatever, who think alike and push the same agenda somewhat independently.
Wait, who is this Helen Andrews? I first heard her name a few years back as a pundit who said some very nice things about Steve Sailer. She's a fine Conservative pundit* with some integrity and a good head on her shoulders. It's probably been a couple of months since I first watched her discuss her theory of the origin of Wokeness.
Miss** Andrews's theory is pretty simple. Women don't act, work, and think like men, so since they've become dominant, in numbers and otherwise, in various fields of endeavor slowly in some and very quickly in others, these places of employment and other positions in society have changed for the worse. As she puts it, "Wokeness is fundamentally female, as it prioritizes "empathy over rationality, safety over risk, cohesion over competition." That sounds pretty mild, but it's not. Any reader who has worked in a big organization with a serious HR department would have seen this.
I will say that, had a man come out with this theory (and probably many, many men have understood this), even at a Conservative event, I'm not sure he'd get this great a reception. It's an "Only Nixon could go to China" type thing, because Helen Andrews is a woman herself.
I've watched the first 2 of the 3 videos featured here today, and I'll order them from shortest to longest, as they come close to doubling each time. It's pleasant to listen to Helen Andrews, and she's a change from the young cleavage displaying women youtube pundits who distract us from whatever they might be talking about.
Back yet? Yeah, so I'll include my opinion on this theory before the videos, or else the reader may never get to this. Peak Stupidity has long maintained that Wokeness has been pushed - again, not necessarily all via precise planning - on America and the "West" for obvious reasons of cultural ruination. The people behind it, and the useful non-idiots who run this Cultural Revolution WANT to ruin nations. it's not just some boner about which we can explain to them how they've been making some terrible mistakes here.
Call them Communists, whatever, and I will, but either way, these Communists understand at some level that Feminism is a powerful way to ruin the nuclear family. They've been very successful at implementing it and achieving that result. Is the BLT-G+ business, the hard-core anti-White programme, and all the rest of what we call Wokeness just another weapon to go along with Feminism to attain these ends? Or, is it just that the female domination of formerly male endeavors results in support for all these things, because women like to be "inclusive" and caring... of weirdos and anyone NOT normal... well, the reasons that Miss Andrews theorizes very convincingly? In other words, this theory says Feminism has had an unintended affect of changing what was just Political Correctness or even normality into Wokeness due to this pervasiveness of female
Or WAS it unintended? Did these Communists plan out carefully that, besides direct ruination of the nuclear family, the dominance of women in professions would cause this Cultural Rev 2.0? Nah, I just don't see them, or really anybody, being that smart and conspiratorial, that is, both of these together.
What I can see is an interplay between the theory of Wokeness origins Peak Stupidity has supported and that of Miss Andrews. Feminism has been pushed on us for half a century, and the Wokeness has been pushed for somewhat less time by the same crowd. It's a synergism for the the Commies that the preponderance of women in these positions, a result of Feminism, now means Wokeness can spread quickly and be pushed by the useful female idiots with more power than women have ever had before. If this theory is correct, until Feminism is destroyed, something I don't see happening very quickly, it'll be much more difficult to destroy Wokeness. Boys, we're in a tight spot!
After all that, I never really addressed the basic premise of Miss Andrews' theory, that Wokeness is "fundamentally female". Is that the case?
That Cultural Revolution 1.0, the big 'un, in mid-1960s to mid-1970s China was very top-down, from Chairman Mao himself. Some aspects of Feminism had been forced on Chinese Society by the Communists mainly for the one goal of getting more work out of the poor peons, though I guess the same family destruction was a goal too. Were the women the worst instigators of the Red Guard terror and the whole mess? There is something Orwell wrote in 1984 about this sort of thing...
I'll have to think about this more. Or, WWSSS?
* Just a little more biography from wiki:
Andrews is a former senior editor at The American Conservative and the former managing editor of the Washington Examiner. While working at First Things, Andrews began writing Boomers, a book with the thesis that members of the "Baby Boomer" generation harmed American culture. The book chooses as its six examples Steve Jobs, Aaron Sorkin, Jeffrey Sachs, Camille Paglia, Al Sharpton, and Sonia Sotomayor.** The www has let me down on whether she is married or not.
From 2012-2017 she was a think tank researcher at Center for Independent Studies in Australia. She also won a Sydney Award in 2018 for her essay "Shame Storm" which explored online dynamics and cancel culture through a personal lens.
In January 2025 Commonplace magazine announced that they had brought Helen on as "our new features editor." Commonplace is a magazine launched by American Compass and is focused on right-of-center political, economic and cultural issues.
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Neighborliness under Mass Immigration
Posted On: Wednesday - May 6th 2026 4:16PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity Race/Genetics
I've found it hard to get though to one particular Unz Review commenter why exactly the replacement of White people in America with a growing "beige" population a bad thing. He's just fine with it. The guy's a Physicist, someone who shouldn't have a problem with numbers and logic.
We've written plenty about mass immigration over the decade Peak Stupidity has been in business. If you don't already know where we stand, the reader can find a thousand or so posts with the Immigration Stupidity topic key and determine this pretty quicklly.
However, we did put in a disclaimer of sorts, very early on in the post Beans, Beaners, and Political Correctness (at the top of that post) about our problem with mass immigration vs any problems with particular immigrants. As I wrote there, I didn't do this out of fear of offending people - it's way too late for that now! However, I really have gotten along very well with people from a number of places around the world, as friends and more.
The people I am talking about fit into America, back when that was just the thing to do, except for the politically correct part, so that works out great for me. Yeah, I'm really not writing this to cover my ass - it's true and needed to be said. Anyhoo ...Today, I will write starting with those thoughts. "Yes, I know a really nice family of Hispanics, so what's the problem?" (... with America becoming Latin America del Norte.)
On this semi-rural piece of land we have, a couple of pieces of (UPS) mail came to our place by mistake. I noted the Hispanic name of the recipient and had some thoughts along the lines of "Should I bother? Would they do the same for me?" Different peoples are NOT the same in this respect, competence, caring, doing the right thing... This address, though was close by*, and I remembered something about the family there.
I'd only met the one High School girl by the driveway before. She was not only friendly and intelligent sounding, but her English was very good. (There are others around who speak only Spanish in their own Hispanic world nearby.) For a mobile home, this family's residence is decorated very nicely - even the mailbox has a flower pot with fresh flowers. They've got 4 vehicles and a couple of dogs that, while still upset about my walking toward the property don't seem too mean when I get close. That's pretty... well, rural American.
"See?! What have you got against the Hispanics?" is a natural question for someone who doesn't think things through. Sure, we have the news stories and personal stories of thefts, drunk driving deaths, gang killings, molestations of kids, and just bad, bad hombres. We have the stats that, contrary to some who supposedly know better, cough, cough, Ron Unz, cough, show they are a more violent people IN GENERAL.
But, there are loads of good people. Maybe, after some years, they will generally stop littering the roads, just as Americans learned to do a half century back. Maybe they will understand that just because something laying around on my property is not in use, that doesn't make it theirs. Maybe they will drive drunk less. Maybe they will adjust to American norms and criminality will go down.
OTOH, maybe not, for 3 reasons that go together:
1) This is MASS IMMIGRATION we've been undergoing. In large batches, there is no reason for anyone from these origins of mass immigration to learn American ways. I'd be the same, were I bugged out to a village with 1,000 other Americans down in Uruguay. (We WILL get to those posts!)
2) Genetics. Latin Americans have a significant amount of European blood, but the rest comes from the violent savage Aztecs, Incas, Toltecs, you name it. It doesn't just disappear over half a millenium. Were we to get all Conquistador Americans**, some of the traits we see might not show up strongly. However, that's not who's been coming, and, for the political reason that they promote mass immigration of the rest, I don't want them here anyway. (Except that one, really nice guy who got to the VDare castle late because he'd thought it was in Berkeley, California! Oh, and a number of friends, of course.)
3) Culture comes from genetics. What certain people can't get into their heads is that a Latin American population here will make this place run like Latin America. The level of competence and caring will be the same as it is down south. "Import the 3rd World, become the 3rd World."
Let's say it miraculously doesn't work like that here, what with the Magic Dirt and all, and Hispanics DO generally become good, responsible Americans, like the nice neighbors I mentioned. Should we be just OK with that?
The American White people will have been replaced. Is that just OK with people. One possible reason many people don't get upset with that thought is that among all the other mass immigration, compared to Somalians or Pakis or some sand dwellers, these people are pretty normal. They don't look too weird, at least. In this century, especially over last decade, Hispanics are the cleanest dirty shirt***, i.e., the least foreign foreigners.
Sure, that's the case.
However, it STILL wouldn't be OK to accept that and give up, no matter how nice plenty of individuals are. Yes, I brought the packages over. I was hoping to say hello to someone there, but I just had to leave them in/on the nice mailbox with the flowers...
* I really can't blame the UPS guy much for this one. As much as I deride the use of GPS as the final word, in this case it might have helped, as the position of the intended recipient's mailbox could have easily led him astray. The GPS might have shown the yard an house in the correct position.
** H/t, Steve Sailer.
*** I believe that metaphor comes from the Johnny Cash song Sunday Morning Coming Down, but I've gotta look into this some more.
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Spirited Passengers
Posted On: Tuesday - May 5th 2026 8:04PM MST
In Topics: Music The Dead Race/Genetics
They say it was Senators like Squaw Warren not approving that attempted merger with Jet Blue Airlines a few years ago that has resulted in Spirit Airlines going bankrupt. Airlines used to, and will again, go bankrupt quite a lot, but that's been Chapter 11, just a part of their business models. This with Spirit is actual gone-out-'o-bidness bankruptcy.
The problem is the Spirit Airlines passengers. It's a problem for all of us who travel. A ZeroHedge commenter under one of their handful of articles on this story put it nicely: "Spirit Airlines passengers have broken out of containment." Yes, that's worrisome. I trust that Peak Stupidity commenters know of which passengers we refer to here.
It's too late, and I'm much too tired, to post anything serious, such as the question of the cause of wokeness with reference to one Helen Andrews. We'll just post this Grateful Dead song that I'm pretty sure we already embedded long ago one time. We usually feature live Dead. However, I like the studio version of Passenger, from the band's 1977 album Terrapin Station. The whole album is well worth listening to!
This was the era of the Godchauxs, Kieth on keyboard and his wife Donna singing backing vocals and very rarely the lead vocals. Phil Lesh wrote this one, something also a bit unusual. Bob and Donna sang it.
Passenger, don't you hear me?
Destination seen unclearly.
What is a man deep down inside,
but a raging beast with nothing to hide?
Heh! This song applies to our theme better than I'd thought...
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[UPDATED 05/06:] Added image. Thanks for the memes though, Alarmist.
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Golden Qi Holdings - Is legal immigration just one big scam?
Posted On: Monday - May 4th 2026 7:48PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity China
There's a rule named after someone on the internet that says the answer to yes-or-no questions in article titles is "no". Yep, wow, that works. Peak Stupidity doesn't maintain that ALL legal immigration to America, is, or has been, a scam. Yet, the more you learn of the details of the myriad visa types, and the more read stories, and the more you learn in person as you pay more attention, the closer the answer comes, albeit asymptotically, to "yes".
Apparently, scams using children's day care centers as business fronts are really in vogue right now, cause, children, and "PLEASE, PLEASE, think of the children!" That they should be home with their mothers is another story, but maybe a lot more than we think, ARE, as you can see in the video below. There are no kids.
In this story, which I came upon via an Instapundit link to Daycare Fraud, Visa Fraud, Flashy Cars, And Communism on Lawrence Person's Battleswarm blog,, we're dealing with Chinese people rather than Somalians. There is quite a difference between these two "peoples", a hell of a lot. I don't even want to estimate how many IQ points are in question, but then, I'm not sure that's so important - America is being scammed by a very diverse population. Peak Stupidity has more inside information on the Chinese crowd than we do on the Somalians, so we'll note that the information here confirms what we have been learning about certain Chinese people in America.
What these diverse scammers DO have in common is that they, rightly in a sense, view Americans as suckers, and they don't really care a whit about this new country of "theirs" and its people.
Allen, Texas is 20 miles north of downtown Dallas. This is where the video below was taken, I suppose by a friend, of the semi-intrepid youtube-age reporter, one Sara Gonzalas in the parking lot of the Golden Qi Holdings alleged day care center. I took a look at this "corporationwiki" page, and what I get out of it is that Yuan Yao is the active "Governing Person". (WTH? Does that mean something akin to Chairman of the Board?) I don't know for sure if this Mr. Yuan is the hostile Chinaman in the video, because, first of all, his English sucks, badly. That alone is one reason he should not be here, even were he, instead of an immigration visa scammer, the top heart surgeon in all Japan, #1, steady hand. OK, China, whatever...
Yeah, that was fun, but I'll go right back to being fairly pissed off at even seeing this guy. He can hardly communicate with Americans, yet he's here, in Texas, not New York, bilking taxpayers at the same time he's bringing more corruption via more people, into this country. Here's the thing that the Battleswarm blogger brought up about him that I do know about. There are many Chinese immigrants are sons or daughters of low-paid government workers in China that somehow scrape together enough money to buy big old houses in the best neighborhoods in Seattle, San Fransisco, and in university towns all over. Yeah, it's bribery money. They are corrupt, and probably all of them must be at least in the CCP, if not working for them.
To see what this chip off the old block is up to, you can watch the part of the video, before we actually meet our Chinese scammer, that I set as the start point. The blurred figure there looks like some chubby lady, and the voice is distorted, as I imagine she was worried about repercussions from telling all, and she basically told all here. I noted the part about the girls. Most of the H1B imported cheap labor were girls. I imagine they have to perform a few special services besides just their Business Analyst work.
Then, you get to the fun part (06:10 ) in which Miss Gonzalas confronts Mr. Golden Qi* Holdings in the "day care"'s parking lot. What I especially detest is the Statism inherent in this Chinaman seen at 06:50 - he thinks it's a very important point in his favor that Sara Gonzalas is not from "the government" but just some "private" person or company. Oh, that's different - get off of my lawn.
After a few minutes of babbling nonsense and evasion out of this guy, we see him get into his rose colored mirror finish BMW i8 Roadster. Yeah, I'd try to keep a lower profile, but then that's not easy for your average Chinese guy. It's all about status, whether you are a scamming crook or not. However, were I to spend money like this, I would buy something less... gay... possibly a 1st Generation Camaro or Firebird... I'd settle for a 2nd, fine, 3rd generation Camaro, a real chick magnet. I'd like to think Sara Gonzalas would go for a ride with me, all hard feelings about immigration scams aside...
It'd be a good thing if videos like this go viral. That may be all Sara Gonzalas really cares about, with her pretty hair and all, but for America, it's important that people beyond the long-term immigration Patriots see that "legal" immigration of all types is scammed in so many ways by people that have no business having been let in here. I read that this video inspired Texas Governor Abbott to start an investigation, but this is one of thousands and thousands of scams. Nice job, Sara Gonzalas! We need lots more citizen reporters like her. Also, thanks to the blurred out informant, from whom we can see how much America is getting screwed by Mr. Yuan, Mr. many, many yuan.
PS: I hadn't realized that Mr. Persons had named Mr. Yuan until I was about done writing this post. I'm glad I was able to come up with the same name through my own quick web search.
PPS: Peak Stupidity almost forgot to mentions Star Wars Day. Yeah, May the Fourth be with you. Sorry, just passing it on from my kid.
* The many "ch", "s", "sh" sounds in Chinese are difficult, so I don't know if the idea is, it's really Golden Xi Holdings, named after Pooh Bear, the Chairman of Chairmen. The corporate info, though, spells it Qi, which doesn't sound much different from Xi, to me, that is, but does nonetheless.
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Jet Bridge Wokeness: Little Moslem Surfer Girl
Posted On: Saturday - May 2nd 2026 9:17PM MST
In Topics: Music Political Correctness Movies Big-Biz Stupidity World Political Stupidity
(Catch a wave. Catch a wave!)
Little surfer, little one,
made my heart come all undone.
Do you love me, do you, surfer girl?
Surfer girl, my little surfer girl.
The airlines have these posters inside the jet bridges. The marketing folks want to advertise destinations, that credit card, or the comfort of 1st Class, for next time I guess, or they want you to see how happy the other passengers seem with the service. Or, yeah, they want to push an agenda. Peak Stupidity previously posted about Jet Bridge Carol, who just brought back some memories without much of an agenda I could detect... and, nice hair.
This one, yes, is wokeness on display. Why does Big Business do this? Under the Crony Capitalism we've got here, you've got to play along - that's my speculation. If you take the money from The Man, then you jump when he says so. (Remember all that money doled out to the airlines 6 years ago?) Why are they still like this, with Trump & Co. pushing back against this, for a rare change? I don't think these Big Biz type's feel they have to answer to him particularly - he is seen as an anomaly.
Anyway, what IS the deal with the little Moslem surfer girl in the poster? I get one of two not-particularly-good vibes out of this:
1) The marketing people want to show that we are all the same - surfing is not just for White men and some White women in skimpy bikinis. It's for everyone, even Moslem chicks named Ayesha. That's a lie, but, whaddya' gonna do? The poster's right there.
2) There is some new destination this airline now goes to with beautiful beaches and some gnarly waves, dude! Except you don't have to be a dude. Or, maybe, if you are, you might score there with some exotic woman named Ayesha. You probably won't, because the girls and dudes are segregated in Moslem society and, even then, wearing outfits that are not at all like this wetsuit that shows all.
I just don't get an honest "Surf's up!", Beach Boys, good vibration from this woke jet bridge poster. She's not that little surfer girl I imagine when listening to the song.
I get more of a Colonel Kilgore vibe instead. I can look 10 - 20 years ahead and imagine some Western Marine Corps having to make landings on the beaches in France... no, not on the Normandy coast on the Atlantic this time, but on the Mediterranean shoreline, to attempt to take the country back from the Moslem invaders yet again. Maybe it'll be the same place where the Camp of the Saints boats first came in... Colonel Jean Raspail, III comes in low over the water, blasting out Qui saubes dar tant bon conseil denan and other Crusades music* out of his Air Cavalry division 75 y/o UH-1.
"If I say it's safe to surf this beach, it's safe to surf this beach!"
"It's pretty hairy in there, Colonel! That's Mo's point."
"Mo don't surf!"
Though the Beach Boys' Surfer Girl is appropriate for this post, it's not that good of a song. I like Brian Wilson's falsetto singing, but the melody isn't anything special. The lyrics, not that important anyway, are kind of lame. So, here's is a better surf song. I did apply for an artistic license, in case readers wonder about the bogus Geography.
If everybody had an ocean
Across the U.A.E.
Then everybody'd be surfin'
Like folks in Tennessee.
You'd see them wearing their baggies
down at the camel Grand Prix
A bulky bulky brown hijab,
Surfin' U.A.E.
You'd catch 'em surfin' at Dearborn
(Inside, outside, U.A.E.)
Ventura County line
(Inside, outside, U.A.E.)
Santa Cruz and Trestles
(Inside, outside, U.A.E.)
Australia's Narrabeen
(Inside, outside, U.A.E.)
All over Manhattan
(Inside, outside, U.A.E.)
And down Doheny Way
(Inside, outside)
Everybody's gone surfin'.
Surfin' U.A.E.
We'll all be planning on a room
we're gonna take real soon.
We're waxing down our surfboards.
We can't wait for June.
We'll all be gone for the hodge fest.
A pilgrimage to the sea.
Tell the iman we're surfin'
Surfin' U.A.E.
Swaddling Burkas and Swarma
(Inside, outside, U.A.E.)
Pacific Palisades
(Inside, outside, U.A.E.)
San Onofre and Sunset
(Inside, outside, U.A.E.)
Redondo Beach LA
(Inside, outside, U.A.E.)
All over La Jolla
(Inside, outside, U.A.E.)
The Medit'ranian Sea
(Inside, outside)
Everybody's gone surfin'.
Surfin' U.A.E.
My chronic Lyricosis is something else. Until today, I'd though it was "Everybody had a notion..." How would one know, back before the internet? Until I went to California, I wouldn't have been able to name half those places in the song, and what was a "Sananofrian sunset", and what about "way down the beach, LA", "and the Caribbean", and "All over the harbor" that Mike Love was on about?
Full Disclosure: Peak Stupidity bloggers don't surf either. I have a hard enough time on a boogie board - just don't get that catching a wave thing yet. OTOH, only Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys surfed, and he was the one who drowned. (Alcohol was involved but not surfing.)
* What, you didn't know that was a genre? Here.
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Battle of the Climate: Gore v Spock and the coming Ice Age
Posted On: Friday - May 1st 2026 12:29PM MST
In Topics: Humor Global Climate Stupidity
For some background on the first of our combatants today, the humanoid known as the AlGore, the reader will find material in the posts Epic AlGore Climate Calamity™ Rant: Heating up the Atmosphere with A-Bombs - - Epic AlGore Climate Calamity™ Rant: Boiling the Oceans with A-Bombs and AlGore and the Calamity Doomers: The Point of Know Return from 3 years back.
In those first two posts we did some fun calculations to rebut the stupidity of the former Vice President, become Climate know-it-all (he took one class from this one guy in college). The third one had a point that cannot be emphasized enough. We've been told so many times that if we do not save The Planet™ by year N, it's gonna be too late! Year N has passed for many of these predictions, so why don't we just call it? Just get a Climate Coroner, mark The Planet down as dead, and let's get on with our lives.
Next, let us re-introduce Mr. Spock, aka Leonard Nimoy, former Science Officer of the Starfleet Cruiser* Enterprise. With those qualifications, we like to think of him as "America's Science Officer". If a guy who is not a scientist of any sort but still, DOES play one on TV, has something to say about the climate of the whole World, well, I'm here to tell you, people listen.
This still image is from our post linked-to just above, in which we showed two videos, one from Mr. Spock/Nimoy, warning Americans of an Ice Age coming, because the mid-late 1970s had some cold-assed winters. Singer Jimmy Buffett agreed with Mr. Nimoy - on Please Don't Say Manana (if you don't mean it) from his** Son of a Son of a Sailor album - about Buffalo, New York. Mr. Nimoy looks pretty cold in that picture, but keep in mind, coming from the Planet Vulcan and all, any other planet may seem chilly in comparison ... his ears look normal, yes, but that's due to minor surgery after his bout of frostbite up in Buffalo.
Back to the AlGore, as many of his predictions have been proven wrong way past those point-of-know-return deadlines, he has still been a great Climate Calamity stalwart. He has spent a lot of effort, time, and money (some of the Jet-A bills even his own), and inconvenience to teach people the Inconvenient Truth that the Planet has a fever. Dr. Gore has been there to provide the 2 aspirin and listen to its ocean waves in the morning.
What exactly IS his field?
Now, though, "I dunno,...", as ZeroHedge reports that Al Gore Shifts On Global Warming: Time To Watch Out For A New Ice Age? No, wait, it's not what you think. Dr. Gore has not been wrong in his diagnosis. An Ice Age may be imminent BECAUSE the planet has been warming! See?! No? Well, look:
Former Vice President Al Gore warned a Hollywood audience this week that a "Gulf Stream collapse" could occur within 25 years, leading to an abrupt and devastating new Ice Age.Oh, man, an actor from The West Wing. He's just gotta know a lot about fluid mechanics and thermodynamics!
Mr. Gore, now 78, appeared at the inaugural Sustainability in Entertainment Honors event, co-hosted by The Hollywood Reporter and the Sustainable Entertainment Alliance at Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles. He participated in a keynote conversation with actor Bradley Whitford of “The West Wing,” timed to the 20th anniversary of “An Inconvenient Truth.”
Gore invoked the scenario depicted in the 2004 disaster film “The Day After Tomorrow”, saying a shutdown of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, commonly called the Gulf Stream, is “a very real threat within the next 25 years.”
“That movie that I mentioned, ‘The Day After’ about the Gulf Stream shutting down, well, this morning in one of the English newspapers is a whole big article summarizing the recent dire warnings of the scientists who found yet more confirmatory information..."
No matter if there were something to this, if these processes were known well enough to have predicted this, why has the population of the world been told that the "Earth has a fever!", "It's Global Boiling now!", or even just calmly that, "you're not gonna like your at the maximum from our models 2C warmer climate 20 years from now"? (It's not like people move down to Florida for the warmer weather. It's for Governor DeSantis, I'd always assumed... ) Why haven't these experts told us that in the medium run, only 25 years from now, the world will be getting a lot colder?! They coulda' warned us of that, at least, right?
I think the problem for these Climate Doomsayers is that people are getting wise to the worthlessness of their alleged "working" mathematical models. Dire predictions have come and gone, yet, the weather is... bad some days, good other days... generally the same-old same-old. Then worse yet, dirty rat Donald Trump had to come along and call the whole thing "the greatest con-job ever perpetrated on the world".*** How can a guy with absolutely no scientific backg...OK, wait...
At this point, the alarmists are pivoting. I think they could have been more creative, to be honest, something about the core of the earth, maybe it's hollow, so stop drilling for oil, maybe we're affecting the sun itself in a deadly feedback loop, pissing off the aliens... something... No, it sounds like this one man known, or should I say, notorious, for his predictions is going back to the 1970s Global Cooling theme.
No, Spock, see, it's that Vulcan mind of yours again! You're not human, so you just don't undestand! This is not Vulcan. Here we have Globalists and Communists.with real, evil, feelings that you wouldn't know about. They are not worried about the planet, Mr. Spock - these are people who want to destroy SOCIETY on this planet. That is THEIR Prime Directive.
I don't know. He was full of it in the 1970s, but, Spock's cold Vulcan logic beats all hell out of the nonsense out of the humans we got here in the future.
Haha, from the end of that post of ours about "America's Science Officer":
I don't know who to believe anymore about the future of the planet, a former Star Fleet Science Officer or a teenage Swedish girl. If it's still acceptable in this day and age, I would really like to see Spock v Greta.Greta's moved on. So has Leonard Nimoy, in a different way, and is not here to say "I told you so". Al Gore has changed his story, but he hasn't moved on and he will still not leave us alone.
"How dare you speak about logic and blah, blah, blaaaahh... "[Permanent Vulcan Nerve Pinch]
* It's not a cruiser? OK, I warned you people, no geeks.
** By "his", I mean Mr. Buffett's. You really don't want to hear any Leonard Nimoy songs.
*** See also Trump v Gates on the Climate Calamity™: YUGE Trump Knockout! and Excellent Climate Calamity™ News!.
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Start/Stop Tech Stupidity Update
Posted On: Thursday - April 30th 2026 1:03PM MST
In Topics: Humor Cars Artificial Stupidity US Feral Government
Long-term Peak Stupidity readers will have gathered by now that your lead blogger is no early adopter of "TECH"... and a lot of other non-software technology. We write about cars here quite often, and it's the same story there - never bought a new car, don't WANT a new car, don't want any newer stuff than is in the old cars, and they can't MAKE ME adopt, barring passage of the Motor Law.
We give the Trump administration credit where due, for things big and small. A very small thing I do appreciate was EPA Chief Lee Zeldin's move to stop the Feral Gov't from pushing hard the automakers to incorporate the Start/Stop system in new vehicles. Last summer we posted Good news regarding auto artificial stupidity. The touted savings of 5% in gas during city driving from this engine-off-at-stops "feature" is surely lost by the consumer in money spent on maintenance due to the increased complexity.
We had some good car talk in the comments* thereunder. Alarmist noted the battery drain during those engine-off times. I talked about the starters, but I don't think anyone happened to mention just the work on the battery doing so many starts, a lot of current draw each time. There are the safety worries too.
Anyway, the news was good. Besides that you could always disable these, at least on many cars, assuming Trump & Co. followed through, we may see less of this.
Now, let me get to an actual vehicle, the model of which I'm not quite sure of, but one of those huge SUVs. The old lady customer of my car mechanic friend wanted a general check-up on the fluids, belt, and so forth on this '22 monster her son had bought her.
There were codes. How can you NOT have codes claiming this or that problem in modern cars with thousands of sensors and hundreds of computers that are supposed to be working together? I imagine if every little problem could not be worked around, everyone would be like me, never buying a new car again. America would be the new Cuba, but with muted colors. Therefore, there is "limp mode" and such. The vehicle works around the electronically broken systems to get one
For this SUV, it turned out that there is an auxiliary smaller battery running some systems. After lots of work with the scan tool, my mechanic friend came to the conclusion that this small battery was bad, causing the minor problems he'd found. Along with others, one of these minor problems was with the start/stop system, so it was inactivated by the car. Crisis, what crisis? This mechanic had to replace that battery, clear the codes, and get this thing running, as the lady had come from far away to pick up the car that day.
His customer called him from 2 miles away on the way home. OMG, the vehicle is broken now. It shut down at the stop light! "Uhh, yeah, your vehicle has this start/stop system", he explained to her. Haha, she was advanced in age and had forgotten this
* I see that car guy Adam Smith was AWOL under that post. He must have been under a hood somewhere.
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